Well, it's the year 1436 AH in Islam. I guess in 1436 AD you might have found a lot of Christians acting like that. Yes, I'm effectively calling them medieval and barbaric, on account of how that's what they are.

It does invite the question though - why is it (The OT) still so prevalent. Why is it still being quoted to settle arguments in a modern context? The bits hating on gays are fine, but oh let's ignore that crazy stuff about mixed fabrics? Why? What informs these choices? It isn't the Bible. It takes all of itself equally, pitiably, seriously.

You thought you were being sarcastic, but nope, it happens. Maybe not usually, but often enough for it to be perfectly believable without dark conspiracies.

Perhaps someone paid to lose a game might go about it in a slightly subtler manner?

A game where you have an opponent - too easy? You realise that's a weird thing to say don't you? Is chess too easy? Depends who you're up against, I would have thought most people with a functioning mind would say. Perhaps you should pop over to Europe and show Messi how easy it is.

"They keep trying to foist" - what? Oh you're dismissive of the entire discipline, presumably because you know better. Of course, silly me.

The missing mass looks to be distributed in a large spherical halo much larger than the galaxy itself. So I don't think it helps much. It also doesn't explain observations like the bullet cluster.

They totally should have consulted you, despite your inability to spell buffoon. You realise they won't just stop at the extrapolation and take it for granted, don't you? No? Never mind.

The missing mass in galaxies appears to have a large spherical distribution (galactic rotation curves). So it wouldn't be a good candidate.

They can only gobble what is in their sphere of influence and on/or a decaying orbit. Gravity is the same whether you're a black hole or not. Because galaxies are moving apart as the universe expands, so are these large black holes. So very few of them will merge.

They didn't say that. Apart from that great point.

You really are a delight.

Were they true scotsmen?

Gladdens my heart to see you all having so much fun with your strawmen. Who is saying any of this?

I expect collecting that purified iron off an object screeching through the thick venusian atmosphere at Mach 10 is a minor matter for the boffins to work out... ;)

We could yet have a successor or multiple successors. They could potentially fare better than us, if they are intelligent, for example. Even our current level of intelligence would be decent if we didn't have to keep re-inventing the wheel, and if they didn't have our cognitive biases.