The111 1 #26 May 24, 2007 QuoteFrom a strictly evolutionary viewpoint that's right. Further, lower intelligence (i.e. the level of intelligence below which one cannot figure out birth control, or how to plan for birth control) is currently being selected _for._ If we keep to our current direction, the future (to me) looks like a lot of somewhat dumber people augmented by machines so they can do what they need to do. Thus far we've been able to function without machines (barely) but that won't be true for much longer. Bill, have you seen the movie Idiocracy? It's a bit silly, but somewhere beneath the surface is a serious message.www.WingsuitPhotos.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,107 #27 May 24, 2007 Yep. Silly movie but there's a grain of truth in there. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pop 0 #28 May 24, 2007 Quote Quote Quote I read about the Inverted Earth theory (LOL!) and how it states that gravity is the resuly of centrifugal force. I'm not sure you get the point of speaker's corner. Someone better call the Thread Topic Police!!! First there was the repost police...now there is the thread topic police.....the self-proclaimed police need to get a hobby or a girlfriend7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pop 0 #29 May 24, 2007 QuoteQuoteYeah, but in the meantime let's just assume it's magic. I don't believe in magic. I do believe in God, however, mainly because the evidence of designed creation screams it. Just like I believe a painter had to exist for there to be a painting or a builder had to exist for there to be a building. You, on the other hand, have to believe that something came from nothing, exploded, and became an organized everything. That seems unreasonable. Psalm 14:1-3 No one has ever prooved there is a God. Of course the bible states that...but the bilbe was written by men who still havent prooved there is a God. I can proove a painter made a painting, but I cant proove that God made nature.7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pirana 0 #30 May 24, 2007 QuoteQuoteYeah, but in the meantime let's just assume it's magic. I don't believe in magic. I do believe in God, however, mainly because the evidence of designed creation screams it. Just like I believe a painter had to exist for there to be a painting or a builder had to exist for there to be a building. You, on the other hand, have to believe that something came from nothing, exploded, and became an organized everything. That seems unreasonable. Psalm 14:1-3 It only takes a beginner's knowledge of logic to see the flaws in that post. I am pretty sure you have that level of understanding. So it begs the issue of your being so blinded by your faith as to not trust your actual knowledge." . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pirana 0 #31 May 24, 2007 I suppose positing anything like the current scientific understanding would be considered off-topic?" . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
