Think of all the money it'd make. Plus suddenly socially awkward people would know exactly when and how to enter a conversation, and can thus make themselves more productive. And then we could all stop browsing this site and get something done, like programming software for a social intelligence enhancer. Which is about as social as anyone who visits this site gets.

For certain values of 'external'. It's just a server on the LAN that does a back up of every computer in the network once in a while.

In the original script Obi-Wan was supposed to react skeptically. The first explanation would be that Han was bullshitting him.

But is Time wibbly-wobbly?

So why does god get a free pass to come from nothing?

My personal experience with combining earplugs and things vaguely similar to earmuffs is that the effect didn't seem to stack. I put the earplugs in first, then the earmuffs, and there was no difference between having the earmuffs on and off as far as mitigating the noise of people talking. I do have to wonder if >33dB is considered a normal talking volume for an indoor environment, or if perhaps the rest is just conducting through my skull.

The warning was often the most interesting thing on the box of a new toy for me. Long trips could be shortened entirely by reading the car manual. I guess I have a different sense of fun reading.

But sir, NaCl doesn't contain any carbon at- *head explodes* Wait, I'm not even a professional chemist, do I count?

"I've actually never, ever, met a creationist who would even admit that they might be wrong. And that says it all, really." I admit that I might be wrong. Often enough I am, and it is the ability to learn from being wrong that separates me (and perhaps a few others) from zealots. Others would just make up psuedoscience to get around the fact that they're wrong. Evolution has enough proof for itself that I think it is true. I am willing to accept any answers science can give, as long as they are proven. In the end, I might even go with the Creed: "Nothing is true, everything is permitted."

Arrr, I ought to keelhaul the lot of ye. Not a single post in buccanneer, that`s jus' disappointin'.

I once went there. Of course, that was in a video game, as with a lot of things I've supposedly done or experienced (such as performing a kidney transplant)

Perhaps you'd prefer to just walk around doing good without any control over it, because the solution to most of those questions would involve God controlling everyone. Yes, free will exists, and yes, people will do with it what they feel like. As for the cancer, the five year old is, according to the nearest Mormon, automatically sorted into the highest level of heaven for dying young, and honestly if his wife died a year later the 'why' is looking more like 'it's genetic'. Thousands of starving children die every day because we haven't moved on to hydroponic farming yet. Most of these have to do with people exercising their free will, directly or indirectly. As a rule, God doesn't interfere with that.

Please show us your evidence that God doesn't exist, Herr Prosecutor.