"The rate of cancer survival in the medical industry is pretty bad ~ shouldn't the entire industry be criticized more?" Isn't that like saying 'the rate of head gunshot wound survival is pretty bad, shouldn't the entire medical industry be criticized more?', or about Alzheimer's, or decapitation, etc. They're working on it. It is just that some things are easier to solve than others.

'Bio-cotton?' As opposed to what? Is that a way of saying organic cotton in other cultures? Also, what advantage does organic cotton have over regular cotton when used for shoes? The feel good factor, I suppose. Anyway, wouldn't the seeds in the tongue be a problem when they start sprouting from the moisture/sweat from your feet?

This is exactly the opposite of what God wanted.

You're anthropomorphizing god and he doesn't like it!

I really hope I just missed a joke. You aren't serious are you? Actually, looking at some of your other posts, you are serious... This is why RNJs (religious nut-jobs) are so frightening. They don't understand most of the things they talk about and jump to conclusions prematurely.

As the parent suggests there have been plenty of instances that man thought he had the answer only to discover that he wasn't just a little wrong, but flat out completely incorrect (see flat earth).

You do know that the bible implies that the earth is flat (ends of the earth? That doesn't work on a sphere very well.). The religious people were the last to give up the flat earth beliefs.

Carbon dating the same artifact can return results that vary by 100,000's of years. That's not exactly a solid science, and if we're going to use those methods to say things like the earth is billions of years old

Ok, so the finding of the article is that radio decay is slightly variable. So instead of an artifact being 3 million years old plus or minus 100,000 years, it is 3 million years old plus or minus 150,000 years. That's not nearly as drastic a change to any dating as you seem to imply. The earth is still more than 4 billion years old, sorry if that goes against what may be suggested in some books (Bible anyone?).

ergo the Bible is factually incorrect I'm going to stand up and call bs.

See: biblical contradictions

Biblical truth has been handed down for over 2000 years.

You are begging the question

In the last 2000 years how many times have scientists changed their mind about what they know to be true?

If analyzing our claims, admitting when we have a better claim because of new proof (for or against the previous claim), and learning is a fault; then so be it. Scientists are faulty because the learn instead of clinging unwaveringly to unfounded beliefs. (that was sarcasm)

But then I don't have a vested interest in disproving His existence.

Neither do scientists. Scientists do not try to prove or disprove god. They try to stick to verifiable claims. You do seem to have a vested interest in proving god's existence though. Why is that?

Just to nitpick:

these radiation cones are highly directional so only occasionally do unlucky gas clouds get caught in the crossfire.

So, if it is getting caught in the crossfire what is shooting it on the other side? Oh, you meant it was just caught in the line of fire.

I'll add some anecdotal evidence: Whenever I quite drinking coffee, I usually double or triple my total intake of fluids by way of tap water. I will always get a splitting headache for an entire day after quitting the caffeine cold turkey (bad Idea I know) The withdrawal effects are very real for me. Also, for what it is worth, I usually drink 6 cups of coffee spaced out over a day

I can't speak for others, but I would qualify under you having nothing but fully paid or free software and music. I still strongly agree with the posters pointing out the bad ethics of this company and its employees. I also would argue that stealing music is not very comparable to what IMU was doing. Have you ever had your ID stolen? Have you ever had your music passed around free on the internet? They are not nearly the same.

I thought it was pretty obvious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastafarian#Holiday

So to you, death and the void is your god.

Wait, how did you arrive at that? I'm having trouble finding a line of rational reasoning that results in your conclusion.

Yeah, because the USSR and PRC governments and cultures are equivalent to the USA. Capitalism has created it fair share of problems, including TMI, even when compared to communism.

Trust me, volunteering can help your your emotional/physical/mental well being more than a simple vacation.

Geologic time?

Why yes, it actually is. Reading glasses not only work on computer screens, but also on: newspapers, magazines, phones, and reports!

I'm assuming you saw the line 'nuclear fusion as an energy source is even less probable than large-scale breeder reactors' and thought they were confusing fusion with fission. That is not actually the case, go and re-read the summary closely again. They are not confusing the two, they are comparing them.

It can be rephrased as: don't do something unless you believe everyone can do that thing without the world falling apart. So don't steal unless you think everyone would be able to steal without society collapsing.