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My response to the closed FSM thread:

the great FSM prophet wrote:

“My hope is that readers won’t know if I’m trying to make a point about pseudoscience or if I’m a complete nut,” says Henderson. “I’ll be really disappointed if it doesn’t spawn a cult.”

In addition, the board rewrote the definition of science, so that it is no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena.

Kansas School Board Casts Doubts on Evolution

Whoever controls the dictionaries, shall control the world...

  Kansas

  Pennsylvania

oatmeal wrote:

The second one is really good news.  The first?  Count me out of Kansas, thanks.  Dorothy can have it.

I bet that that's the first time that a local school board election made international news!

mo' ron wrote:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/09/lichens_space_mars/

This seems kind related to this thread, but it seems that lichen can survive in the vacuum and radiation of space. Cool.

I liken what your post points to.  That stuff amazes me at every turn.  When I go hiking, it is the first green in the spring and the last that is green in the fall.  No wonder why St. Nicks herd thrive on it.  It is often confused for moss.

Edit by brendave:

You thinking about terra forming via moss?  Mars has water (ice).  If we would get photosynthesis going then maybe that would form an atmosphere?

Last edited by brendave (2005-11-09 10:47 pm)

Hey, it worked in red planet.......

brendave wrote:

oatmeal wrote:

mo' ron wrote:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/09/lichens_space_mars/

This seems kind related to this thread, but it seems that lichen can survive in the vacuum and radiation of space. Cool.

Hot damn!  That's got REAL potential for helping to terraform Mars.  Spread a few billion lichen around, wait two hundred years, we might be able to pull enough O2 out of the atmosphere to breathe. 

That's an optimistic statement, not an ironic pessimistic one.

Let us work on not trashing our planet first   Maybe then we can think about moving

You kidding?  That leaves us with no place to go when we smurf this one up too badly to live on it anymore.

Ok, if. 

oatmeal wrote:

JakeTheTall wrote:

My response to the closed FSM thread:

the great FSM prophet wrote:

“My hope is that readers won’t know if I’m trying to make a point about pseudoscience or if I’m a complete nut,” says Henderson. “I’ll be really disappointed if it doesn’t spawn a cult.”

That's awesome.

Hovind? Hovind, is that you?

mo' ron wrote:

http://media5.big-boys.com/content/tradingspouses.wmv

This is what I picture when I think of YECs... hilarious.

Ain't that kind of more psychotic than hilarious?

Is there a way to incorporate Intelligent Design concepts without either:

A. Making it some kind of ultra-Christian crap or

B. Absolutely mocking it in a science textbook

I think there could be room for it in a science class if it's done under "competing theories" or something like that and not even mention one particular religion.  So is something like this possible?

But if we're talking about the origin of the universe, all we have are "best guesses"

If we're talking about evolution, then there is a lot of evidence to support the evolutionary process.  Evolution still doesn't explain the origin of the universe.

1/50th of a second sounds pretty good -- I'll take that one!

mo' ron wrote:

http://media5.big-boys.com/content/tradingspouses.wmv

This is what I picture when I think of YECs... hilarious.

I don't know where this clip came from, but it isn't funny. It's dreadful. It is a graphic show of fear at its worse.

This poor woman is in terror! She's in a hysterical fit with terror! That's what comes with being so terrified of the 'wrath' of god that she's willing to do anything to save herself and her family. This is religion at its awesome, fanatic realization.

It must be akin to what the terrorist feels when pulling the trigger that releases the explosives embracing his/her body. It's insane!