Parent deserves to be modded up for pointing out what most people will likely miss. Psycho-acoustic simulation is the process by which audio compression techniques remove bits of audio recordings in ways that the human brain is likely not to notice. It's part of the reason MP3 files can be compressed at all.
Considering that the FBI reviewed the case for the polygraph's validity (back when it was first made), and concluded that it was a sham, you are wrong.
It is not an ad-hominem to point out that a non-expert suddenly invented a seemingly miraculous device that is eerily similar to a magical device used by a comic book heroine he also invented.
Polygraphs are faith-based devices. They serve no scientific purpose.
Yeah, because you're TOTALLY JUSTIFIED to say that your dad WOULD NOT have lived those extra five years WITHOUT wasting money on bullshit.
Which is more likely:
1. A treatment that, under rigorous testing, fails to produce any results better than placebo deserves 100% of the credit for the extra five years.
2. His doctor gave a bad prognosis.
"An assumption is accepting something as true without proof."
And we can stop right there, in the first sentence, because you're already wrong. We still only ASSUME that gravity will continue to function the way it has in the past. We have plenty of REASONS to believe that it will, based on its track record.
The assumptions are VALID, and therefore are NOT beliefs. If an assumption's validity was not KNOWN, THEN you could argue that it was just a belief. But the assumptions are validated by the fact that multiple disparate lines of evidence BASED on those assumptions CONVERGE ON THE SAME RESULT.
It's absolutely different from Buddhism in every way. Do try to learn something about it. They teach that interracial children are the result of moral degeneration, that homosexuality is degenerate behavior, that illnesses are caused by possession of interdimensional beings, that you can heal yourself with some sort of mystical Qi energy, that you can walk through solid walls with proper training, and that there are numerous aliens living on Earth in human disguises.
If you allow for supernatural explanations, it is impossible to predict anything that will happen or to conclusively say anything about the past. Science HAS to be naturalistic, or nothing can ever be concluded.
atheists generally subscribe to some flavor of a evolutionary command theory of ethics and believe that they are carrying out evolution, which logically implies that they do not believe that they are carrying out a morally wrong action.
is a patently fucking ridiculous thing to say. The idea that evolution can GUIDE our actions is NOT SCIENCE. It's nonsensical philosophy built on a misunderstanding of science. Evolution itself is a scientific concept.
If using a word like evolution were all it took to make a religion or philosophy into a science...
Which isn't anything even REMOTELY FUCKING CLOSE to what I said. Seriously, you whiny shit, eat my dick.
I repeat: There is nothing in evolution that "commands" anything, in PRECISELY the same way that there is nothing in gravity that "commands" anything. It is a natural process, not a guiding principle.
Except that evolution is science, not philosophy, and atheism is disbelief, not philosophy. There is nothing in atheism that "commands" anything, and there is nothing in evolution that "commands" anything.
Nope. You're a liar.
"The earliest substantial New Testament manuscript known to exist is a slightly mutilated codex of Paul's epistles from about the year 200."
http://www.bible-researcher.com/papy46.html
There are NOT "fragments" that contain parts of the letters. The EARLIEST copies - even PARTIAL copies - we have of ANY of the Pauline letters are HUNDREDS of years younger than any originals would've been.
That's right, dipshit, keep talking about scientists determining "the letters" to be authentic. KEEP IGNORING THE FACT THAT THE FIRST COMPLETE COPIES OF THE LETTERS WE HAVE ARE FROM THE THIRD AND FOURTH CENTURIES. They're not ORIGINALS. You're a lying shitstain of a troll.
1. WE DO NOT HAVE ANY FUCKING ORIGINALS. Claiming that you know the letters are authentic because they've been dated is a FUCKING LIE. THERE ARE NO ORIGINALS THAT WE CAN DATE.
2. Paleography identifies the ERA when something was written, NOT THE YEAR. You're a FUCKING LYING TROLL.
For you to say that the letters in the Bible are the same as the letters Paul wrote is to claim that we have originals. We DON'T. For you to claim that the gospels were NOT written a generation later is BULLSHIT. The EARLIEST gospel was written around 70AD - 37 years after Jesus supposedly died. That's a full generation.
You are FULL OF SHIT.
It is a little annoying, isn't it? Reporters love to depict anything for which we currently don't have an explanation as "baffling," as if there's absolutely no ideas whatsoever.
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Parent deserves to be modded up for pointing out what most people will likely miss. Psycho-acoustic simulation is the process by which audio compression techniques remove bits of audio recordings in ways that the human brain is likely not to notice. It's part of the reason MP3 files can be compressed at all.
Wow, you mean that 1 out of the 6,700,0000,000+ people on the planet managed to guess correctly where she would be? AMAZING.
Considering that the FBI reviewed the case for the polygraph's validity (back when it was first made), and concluded that it was a sham, you are wrong.
It is not an ad-hominem to point out that a non-expert suddenly invented a seemingly miraculous device that is eerily similar to a magical device used by a comic book heroine he also invented.
Polygraphs are faith-based devices. They serve no scientific purpose.
Yeah, because you're TOTALLY JUSTIFIED to say that your dad WOULD NOT have lived those extra five years WITHOUT wasting money on bullshit. Which is more likely: 1. A treatment that, under rigorous testing, fails to produce any results better than placebo deserves 100% of the credit for the extra five years. 2. His doctor gave a bad prognosis.
"An assumption is accepting something as true without proof."
And we can stop right there, in the first sentence, because you're already wrong. We still only ASSUME that gravity will continue to function the way it has in the past. We have plenty of REASONS to believe that it will, based on its track record.
The assumptions are VALID, and therefore are NOT beliefs. If an assumption's validity was not KNOWN, THEN you could argue that it was just a belief. But the assumptions are validated by the fact that multiple disparate lines of evidence BASED on those assumptions CONVERGE ON THE SAME RESULT.
It's absolutely different from Buddhism in every way. Do try to learn something about it. They teach that interracial children are the result of moral degeneration, that homosexuality is degenerate behavior, that illnesses are caused by possession of interdimensional beings, that you can heal yourself with some sort of mystical Qi energy, that you can walk through solid walls with proper training, and that there are numerous aliens living on Earth in human disguises.
If you allow for supernatural explanations, it is impossible to predict anything that will happen or to conclusively say anything about the past. Science HAS to be naturalistic, or nothing can ever be concluded.
is a patently fucking ridiculous thing to say. The idea that evolution can GUIDE our actions is NOT SCIENCE. It's nonsensical philosophy built on a misunderstanding of science. Evolution itself is a scientific concept.
Which isn't anything even REMOTELY FUCKING CLOSE to what I said. Seriously, you whiny shit, eat my dick.
I repeat: There is nothing in evolution that "commands" anything, in PRECISELY the same way that there is nothing in gravity that "commands" anything. It is a natural process, not a guiding principle.
Evolution is not a thing you believe IN. Neither is atheism.
Except that evolution is science, not philosophy, and atheism is disbelief, not philosophy. There is nothing in atheism that "commands" anything, and there is nothing in evolution that "commands" anything.
Nope. You're a liar. "The earliest substantial New Testament manuscript known to exist is a slightly mutilated codex of Paul's epistles from about the year 200." http://www.bible-researcher.com/papy46.html
There are NOT "fragments" that contain parts of the letters. The EARLIEST copies - even PARTIAL copies - we have of ANY of the Pauline letters are HUNDREDS of years younger than any originals would've been.
You're a lying troll. Get fucked.
That's right, dipshit, keep talking about scientists determining "the letters" to be authentic. KEEP IGNORING THE FACT THAT THE FIRST COMPLETE COPIES OF THE LETTERS WE HAVE ARE FROM THE THIRD AND FOURTH CENTURIES. They're not ORIGINALS. You're a lying shitstain of a troll.
Two things.
1. WE DO NOT HAVE ANY FUCKING ORIGINALS. Claiming that you know the letters are authentic because they've been dated is a FUCKING LIE. THERE ARE NO ORIGINALS THAT WE CAN DATE.
2. Paleography identifies the ERA when something was written, NOT THE YEAR. You're a FUCKING LYING TROLL.
For you to say that the letters in the Bible are the same as the letters Paul wrote is to claim that we have originals. We DON'T. For you to claim that the gospels were NOT written a generation later is BULLSHIT. The EARLIEST gospel was written around 70AD - 37 years after Jesus supposedly died. That's a full generation. You are FULL OF SHIT.
You are ENTIRELY full of shit.
It is a little annoying, isn't it? Reporters love to depict anything for which we currently don't have an explanation as "baffling," as if there's absolutely no ideas whatsoever.
That'd be HAARP, not DARPA.
They're coming...
You've already missed it, a couple days ago. If you'd like a course in recognizing satire, I can recommend a few. It does take a bit of wit to do it.
If you misunderstand good satire, the fault does not lie with the satirist.
Next time realize that satire can go both ways.
Unfortunately, the nuts will just say the photos are doctored, of course.