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  1. Phil Plait (The Bad Astronomer)'s take on it on 14-Year-Old Boy Smote By Meteorite · · Score: 2, Informative
  2. Re:Evidence of atheist's cultural successes, pleas on A Field Trip To the Creation Museum · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You are confusing corralation for causation and making an argument from ignorance. That, for example, Chairman Mao was atheist has not been shown to be the cause of his actions as a dicatator. If such were true, then it could be said that all Seventh Day Adventists are cult leaders because David Koresh was one.

    Additionally, lack of precedent does not indicate impossibility. That you can not imagine how a society, that is not permeated by religion, can be peaceful, joyous, and enlightened does not preclude it from occurring, or having occurred.

    So, unless you are planning on proving that the failures in Hitler's Germany, USSR, and Communist China are a direct result of atheism your argument holds no water.

  3. Re:jet fuel doesn't heat high enough to melt steel on Sci-fi Writers Join War on Terror · · Score: 1
  4. Re:jet fuel doesn't heat high enough to melt steel on Sci-fi Writers Join War on Terror · · Score: 1

    It doesn't have to melt it, it only needs to weaken it to further contribute to structural failure.
    http://www.debunking911.com/moltensteel.htm

    "7a. How could the steel have melted if the fires in the WTC towers weren't hot enough to do so?
    OR
    7b. Since the melting point of steel is about 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit, the temperature of jet fuel fires does not exceed 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit and Underwriters Laboratories (UL) certified the steel in the WTC towers to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit for six hours, how could fires have impacted the steel enough to bring down the WTC towers?

    In no instance did NIST report that steel in the WTC towers melted due to the fires. The melting point of steel is about 1,500 degrees Celsius (2,800 degrees Fahrenheit). Normal building fires and hydrocarbon (e.g., jet fuel) fires generate temperatures up to about 1,100 degrees Celsius (2,000 degrees Fahrenheit). NIST reported maximum upper layer air temperatures of about 1,000 degrees Celsius (1,800 degrees Fahrenheit) in the WTC towers (for example, see NCSTAR 1, Figure 6-36).

    However, when bare steel reaches temperatures of 1,000 degrees Celsius, it softens and its strength reduces to roughly 10 percent of its room temperature value. Steel that is unprotected (e.g., if the fireproofing is dislodged) can reach the air temperature within the time period that the fires burned within the towers. Thus, yielding and buckling of the steel members (floor trusses, beams, and both core and exterior columns) with missing fireproofing were expected under the fire intensity and duration determined by NIST for the WTC towers.

    UL did not certify any steel as suggested. In fact, in U.S. practice, steel is not certified at all; rather structural assemblies are tested for their fire resistance rating in accordance with a standard procedure such as ASTM E 119 (see NCSTAR 1-6B). That the steel was "certified ... to 2000 degrees Fahrenheit for six hours" is simply not true." http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.ht m

    http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/militar y_law/1227842.html?page=4

    "The towers collapsed only after the kerosene fuel fire compromised the integrity of their structural tubes: One WTC lasted for 105 minutes, whereas Two WTC remained standing for 47 minutes. "It was designed for the type of fire you'd expect in an office building--paper, desks, drapes," McNamara said. The aviation fuel fires that broke out burned at a much hotter temperature than the typical contents of an office. "At about 800 degrees Fahrenheit structural steel starts to lose its strength; at 1,500 degrees F, all bets are off as steel members become significantly weakened," he explained" http://www.public-action.com/911/jmcm/sciam/

  5. Re:9-11 could have been prevented with locks ??? on Sci-fi Writers Join War on Terror · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Another Genius Solution... on Sci-fi Writers Join War on Terror · · Score: 1
  7. Re:"Theologians ... no dinosaurs in the Bible" on Creationism Museum To Open Next Summer · · Score: 1

    "the word mammoth is derived from behemoth"

    I don't think so:

    Main Entry: 1mammoth
    Pronunciation: 'ma-m&th
    Function: noun
    Etymology: Russian mamont, mamot

    Main Entry: behemoth
    Pronunciation: bi-'hE-m&th, 'bE-&-m&th, -"mäth, -"moth
    Function: noun
    Usage: often attributive
    Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin, from Hebrew behEmOth

    source: m-w.com

  8. Re:"Theologians ... no dinosaurs in the Bible" on Creationism Museum To Open Next Summer · · Score: 1

    Argumentum ad ignoratium.

    You feel it is evidence for... something. So, you have the onus of backing up the claim. You're using the same flawed logic as IDers; that being, "Can't explain it, so God did it.", only in your case it's, "Can't explain it, it's a dinosaur".