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I don't recall where you stressed the importance of EM waves interacting with matter, but yes, that would be on the right (well evidenced) track! Matt...

I'm actually holding out hope that he's watching the lecture series I linked him to... It's like at the end of Good Will Hunting XD!

Asking why the world isn't like your own personal imagination of how things should rationally be is backwards if you're trying to explore science. Sta...

Putting Michael's input in other words: Look at all known examples of mammals, and if all of them do not lay eggs, then the claim "some mammals lay eg...

Some of the ideas are at least momentarily stimulating on an intellectual level, but it is mostly the dramatic and novel intrigue of being in interest...

I have a suspicion that if your Church friends could get past some of the sex and violence of the show they would actually be fascinated by it. Magica...

I also find this interesting... How can you really relish that much unknown though?. The final two episodes were in your words, nauseating. If I had t...

I binged watched the entire original series and most of the recent season in a few sittings (and the final few episodes as they were released)... It's...

I find the idea of pan-spermia quite fascinating, and I don't see any reason why it would not be plausible. If abiogenesis is as rare an event as they...

Harmonize all aspects of our soul? Aug, that's nonsense. Whatever your idea of harmony and souls and togetherness is, it's not necessarily shared by e...

Assuming that your present teleological distinctions represent complete descriptions is the same inductive leap which you accuse Hume of fumbling... I...

I think it's a bit on the lenient side, which is probably for the best. Perhaps there have been cases of over-censorship, I'm not aware of any. Thank ...

Continued due to character limit... This whole "objectifying" shtick is intellectually bankrupt. At no point when my penis consensually enters the vag...

Teleology such as you wield it can be a kind of strategic assumption which you use to skip over the problem of induction, sure, but it's not actually ...

Agustino's moral views are not predicated on creation myths or pseudo science, and I'm fully confident that we can agree on some standards for evidenc...

I read these objections to traditionalist dialogue as being an expression of fear for the future of Christianity from what it sees as the continual er...

Why exactly is this post inappropriate? Does it break any rules written or unwritten? Have I not to the best of my ability described Agustino's genuin...

I don't exactly see a need to respond to this comment but here goes: If you think taking pains to describe, appraise, and criticize a set of ideas bec...

This kind of unwarranted snobbery is also going to scare people away. You shouldn't say "I'm not educated in physics at all and am hoping to have my e...

But if I leave you alone you won't get any responses... Your strained writing skills and inability to clearly explain anything stop half of your would...

The wet dream of every scientist is an intuitive theory with empirical evidence to back it up. Please provide evidence that shows we can see collimate...

I'm not trying to downplay the importance of any individual issue, and maybe in some ways, a movement of a certain size ought to take place to address...

Radically different, in some ways and in some cases, sure, but in a lot of ways our differences amount to nothing important. Just how different men an...

Occupy Wallstreet, as misguided as it all seemed, was at least asking the right questions. They had no coherent demands but they understood the shrink...

I'm afraid that after taking the time to read and respond (by trying to explain simple proven science to you) you will just bail on the conversation b...

Your slit "experiment" wasn't controlled or well described and defined to any reasonable degree of precision, nor were your interpretations of the res...

How about you respond directly to the dialogues you keep initiating on this forum? I asked you to prove that lasers pointed away from us are visible w...

I asked you to prove that lasers pointed away from us are visible without something to reflect them. This experiment demonstrates nothing as ive alrea...

Prove to me that the beam is visible then. Show me the youtube video. Personally, I do not feel like repeating our long and boring discussion where yo...

I notice that you have failed to address any of my objections yet again by labeling me as religious. you should be aware that this is nothing more tha...

As far as a men's rights movement goes though, we don't actually need one. It would be enough for the women's rights movements to merely get back on s...

Fair enough. I can imagine the popularity of circumcision rising along with the prevalence of HIV if it can or is it thought to reduce the risk... Sti...

The "medium" (like fog or something?) reflects the "beam" in many directions ("diffuses it"). Some of that light enters our eyes, allowing us to perce...

Fewer photons will be entering the camera to be spread out over a given area, so generally, yes..

We've been through this... Space cannot be "bright". If you're referring to the light reflected from particles floating around in space, this is somet...

There are legitimate men's rights issues that tend to get overlooked due to how we view men culturally and legally... The most common "batterer interv...

The difference between faith and science is that science yields to evidence... We currently communicate with satellites orbiting Mars and we understan...

Yes, and entered the realm of quantum physics (which describes itself as strange, but really it's all physics)...

We don't know why moving electrons create large electromagnetic fields and even electromagnetic waves in the form of photons, we just know that they d...

So... If you throw a ball in empty space, why should it slow or stop? If an electromagnetic wave throws a photon into empty space, why should it slow ...

You've already made a mistake though. Photons come out of the torch (zillions of them) and a lot of them are sharing similar directions (they're in a ...

Like this? http://awanaincoloradosprings.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/flashlight.jpeg What you're seeing there are particles (like dust and water va...

You mean a scene like this? : https://d2v9y0dukr6mq2.cloudfront.net/video/thumbnail/dGrWSm1/hand-is-putting-a-few-fire-torches-out-fire-torches-are-ly...

Spotlight's have bulbs, but that's not the point... My point is that a beam consists of many photons which have been prepared to head in the same dire...

1) Photons ARE visible light; they are the thing we use to to see. They are what our mechanical eyes gather and detect to produce and abstract visual ...

You still don't understand: the particles reflect the light, they aren't generating visible light themselves. Particles will diffuse the light in rand...

Read again everything I've written in this thread. You've not addressed a singly solitary point of contention and instead have seen fit to constantly ...

We cannot see beams of light that are directed away from us unless something reflects it toward us (like dust particles or a solid surface).

Photons are created at a given light source, and they bounce off of objects and are altered (thus reflecting aspects of color) or are absorbed by them...

Do you understand how eyeballs work? There is a membrane of photosensitive cells that the lens in your eye projects incoming photons onto. When enough...