Recent content by Drachnon

Well the wikipedia page you referred to claims its for life so lets look at that. How much life is there in the universe? I personally believe there's other planets then earth that have life (intelligent or not) but if we look at the number of planets in total I think we can conclude that if...

Actually its not exactly true that things always become less complex if we look at the elemental table and our understanding of the universe we started of with just hydrogen and through nuclear fusion we got the other, more 'complex', stuff. Also entropy is very reliant on the second law of...

The problem with this whole idea is that there is no evidence to support it. It seems like pointless speculation no different from any other of the similar ideas I've seen. The proper way to do things is first you go look if there is a 'soul' (through tests that are objective on the subject)...

I'm an atheist, having never been converted to religion, I might take on a religion if any of them could show some evidence, not counting the easily debuinked stuff I normally see coming from them. Also to comment on the reason previous posters have given for their believes. Getting a dog every...

"Two hands working can do more then a thousand clasped in prayer" That pretty sums up my position on prayer, it doesn't achieve anything. Still I don't really mind people praying, I'm okay with freedom of religion and people can spend their own time however they want. I do take issue when...

Lily's classes will be: Monday Morning Horatio Nelson Charles The Third - Study and cultivation of conventional abilities Wednesday Morning Horatio Nelson Charles The Third - Study and cultivation of conventional abilities Afternoon Ecthelion Anwamane - Magic Theory and...

Alrighty, btw do we have to signup for classes in character?

So now we got that out of the way lets go back to the topic at hand of creationism in the classroom. Now I have been taught religion in school but only because my basic school (dutch school system is probably a bit different from most countries) was christian however this consisted of one hour...

While recombination can be seen as a change and therefore called a mutation in the english language it doesn't carry the same definition within the field of genetics. Depending on the context words can have different meanings in varying degrees, in genetics I haven't seen the word used much for...

I think it should be made more clear that there's a difference between the evolution and the theory of evolution. Evolution is pretty much a fact through the large amounts of evidence pointing towards it. The theory of evolution describes this process of evolution allowing us to make future...

Already did and never encountered this hypothetical problem of yours. Mod Edit - Please could you expand. This is a debate section and we would wish to avoid one-liners.

If you don't cite your source to me I'll have to assume that this whole problem of "beneficial mutation not happening fast enough and therefore disproving evolution" is something you came up with yourself. I tried googling for it but couldn't find any reliable sources.

Interesting I never heard about that research. Would you be so kind to link me the science journal in which this was published? And no atheist don't think religion is some sort of demon, we don't think the existence of demons has been proven after all. I just think that religion has a...

I think teaching creationism and other religious stuff can be taught as long as its explicitly stated that it doesn't contain any factual basis and equal time is given to all for different types of religions, of course not in science class. What bothers me the most about when people try to push...

If you find stories of a single flood in multiple civilizations it could also just be that the flood was common folklore before it entered the bible and its tale found its way into different civilizations and considering we know how stories change when retold often enough, we can expect that...