Isn’t religion grand? Just read of the murder suicide of a Michigan family of 4 that were shunned...

Druvius comments on Feb 25, 2018:

Giving people the silent treatment is one of the most potent forms of psychological abuse.

SENTIENT INSECTS? Scientists keep revising their "only humans can do this" boundaries. When I ...

Druvius comments on Feb 25, 2018:

Wasps are a highly evolved animal, and a very beneficial one as well. And generally if one leaves them alone they will live and let live. Generally, we had a nest on rural property one year that anyone who went near would be attacked. I'm sure colonies have different personalities just like people.

This one is for all the pro-life people on here. I have been pregnant 3 times. Each time I CHOSE...

Druvius comments on Feb 25, 2018:

Facts and logic are wasted on people who want to base social policy on ideology or religion. :(

Radiation Hell Hole Discovered in Fukushima – Awareness Act

Druvius comments on Feb 25, 2018:

Another fearmongering crap article. Yes, Fukushima is a horrible and expensive nuclear accident. Unless you live in the immediate vicinity though, it's not going to affect you.

Do you consider yourself a humanist?

Druvius comments on Feb 24, 2018:

No. Psychlogical existentialist.

I recently confronted a family member that tended to give me a look of disgust every time I ...

Druvius comments on Feb 24, 2018:

I'd distance myself from a relative that constantly brought up something that was obviously intended to rub me the wrong way.

Is the love of the Abrahamic God an example of Stockholm syndrome?

Druvius comments on Feb 24, 2018:

No.

So much is happening on the gun control front. I up graded my yard sign (to "This property is gun ...

Druvius comments on Feb 24, 2018:

We'll see. I expect at most symbolic but toothless legislation will get passed.

When someone invites you to a wedding, how do you feel?

Druvius comments on Feb 24, 2018:

Depends on the wedding. Went to one wedding that was painful to watch. Unrehearsed, and never have small children as part of the actual ceremony. Another that turned out to be a blatant and insulting farce to harvest money from co-workers. And to my brother's, where everything about it was epic, especially the feast and party afterwards. I'll play the next one by ear.

How many times have you moved in your life so far?

Druvius comments on Feb 24, 2018:

It's over fifty. Sometimes I think the purpose of human existance is to put things in boxes, drive them somewhere, and take them out of the boxes.

With all the chatter regarding the 2nd amendment, I can see a broad range of interpretations ...

Druvius comments on Feb 23, 2018:

The only people arguing about the interpretation of the second amendment are either ignorant or disengenuous. Heller vs DC 2008, the 2nd amendment is an individual right. So there's no need to change the constitution, and the ammosexuals needn't worry about the government seizing everyone's guns. That being said we can certainly move forward with reasonable gun control, and things like ar-15s can be banned.

There was a deputy at that school in Florida. A trained law enforcement professional with decades of...

Druvius comments on Feb 23, 2018:

And then of course what happens when the SWAT team shows up and teachers are running around with guns?

There was a deputy at that school in Florida. A trained law enforcement professional with decades of...

Druvius comments on Feb 23, 2018:

In the history of idiotic ideas, this one is a gold medal winner.

How safe would it be in classrooms if teachers carried a loaded gun? Might they accidentally hurt ...

Druvius comments on Feb 22, 2018:

It's an idiotic idea. https://www.patreon.com/posts/want-gun-mug-17148563

I really can't justify my own overwhelming personal discomfort at watching my friends embrace ...

Druvius comments on Feb 22, 2018:

I don't judge my friends for their beliefs unless they try to join ISIS or such. They're my friends, not props.

What’s Inside Trump’s Secret War Powers Memo? The answer appears to be a strikingly broad legal ...

Druvius comments on Feb 21, 2018:

Congress abrogated it's war making authority decades ago.

All this seems to be a likely natural occurrence due to the circumstance of existence itself and the...

Druvius comments on Feb 21, 2018:

Intelligence such as ours may be an evolutionary dead end.

I keep hearing about "rape culture" which is defined as a society or environment whose prevailing ...

Druvius comments on Feb 19, 2018:

Snort.

Christian radio host: Male students didn’t take down Florida shooter because they’re too ...

Druvius comments on Feb 19, 2018:

Another sufferer of rectal-cranial inversion.

I want to live forever. Do you want to live forever?

Druvius comments on Feb 18, 2018:

Not bored yet. I look forward to being uploaded into the cloud so I can update Facebook forever. :)

What do you think about Germany's proposal to make public transport free?

Druvius comments on Feb 18, 2018:

Any time you offer a service for free, a small number of people will abuse it to the detriment of everyone else. As long as that is accounted for, great idea.

I searched on the enternet for about thirty to forty five minutes to try and find an explanation for...

Druvius comments on Feb 18, 2018:

People scream and act crazy at music concerts too. Humans, a suggestible and exciteable bunch. Granted if they started pulling this at the Church services I occaisionally attend, I'd be outa there.

I figured out why men don't ask me out. It's not my face, but how old I look as to how old I really ...

Druvius comments on Feb 16, 2018:

Nobody asks me out cause I'm kind of an asshole. I'd ask you out if I was 20 years younger and lived anywhere near you. Thank Fod for small favours, eh?

It's only been one day and I'm getting attacked by people already. I don't give a damn. I mean to ...

Druvius comments on Feb 16, 2018:

Yes, there is plenty that could be done to reduce gun violence in America without taking away anyone's rights. And yes, semi-automatic magazine-fed weapons have no civilian applications, they should be banned just like we ban machine guns and grenade launchers.

Moon Landings?

Druvius comments on Feb 16, 2018:

It's one of the most well documented events in history. There are numerous aspects of it that simply could not have been faked. The Moon rocks for one.

This school shooting scene is happening with alarming regularity. Time for the Australian solution? ...

Druvius comments on Feb 15, 2018:

Or the Canadian solution, or the UK solution. But no, it will be the usual solution, thou ghts and prayers and do nothing.

A new deadly challenge.

Druvius comments on Feb 15, 2018:

I think schools should be required to have basic life safety classes. The most common thing to choke to death on ... toothpicks. Half of people killed by trains walked or drove around lowered barriers. Half of drownings are because people deliberately drove cars into flood waters crossing roads. There are literally countless dumb ways to die, and parents are by no means guaranteed to know them or teach their kids. And yes, swallowing those little hi powered magnets is a really bad idea.

Have you ever had a stalker?

Druvius comments on Feb 14, 2018:

Never had a stalker, but had a mortal enemy once. You haven't really lived until you've had a mortal enemy.

Why do people think you need to believe in a god and read the bible and or go to church to live a ...

Druvius comments on Feb 13, 2018:

Yerp, also gets me when accused of making up my own morality. How is that any different than choosing morality made up by Bronze Age writers?

A probability word problem, it's not a riddle, no trick answer. You have 3 identical boxes. One ...

Druvius comments on Feb 12, 2018:

The answer is actually 2/3rds. It's Bertrand's Box Paradox for those who want tomlook it up.

A probability word problem, it's not a riddle, no trick answer. You have 3 identical boxes. One ...

Druvius comments on Feb 12, 2018:

The answer, counterintuitively enough, is 2/3rds.

Have you ever made a change to your environment that made a noticeable improvement to your sense of ...

Druvius comments on Feb 12, 2018:

Yes, but my lawyer says I shouldn't discuss it in public.

Everything sound so much better in a forgien language.

Druvius comments on Feb 12, 2018:

Except German: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NcxvQI88JRY

I'm going to be absent for a little while. I've been kicked down by my boss and I need time to get ...

Druvius comments on Feb 12, 2018:

Take care of yourself, metaphorical hugs.

10 Reasons Aliens Won't Invade Earth... [youtube.com]

Druvius comments on Feb 11, 2018:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/andyneuenschwander/just-12-pure-and-adorable-tumblr-posts-about-human?utm_term=.eip2mDKox#.fdPdpXYGQ

[youtu.be] Here we see arguments, refined as they are, derived from complexity, incredulity, and ...

Druvius comments on Feb 10, 2018:

Wow, just wow. Only lasted maybe a minute, lies and strawman arguments packed together in an erudite sounding packagd.

Carrol Quigley makes the case that America is a two-party system and it works because we generally ...

Druvius comments on Feb 9, 2018:

No, we have one party, the business party. It just has two factions. Direction hasn't changed a bit.

Am I still single because my face is that hideous?

Druvius comments on Feb 9, 2018:

What they all said. :)

Is sending a child to sunday school child abuse?

Druvius comments on Feb 9, 2018:

Depends on the Sunday school.

The "Something Can't Come From Nothing" Logic I recall having this conversation more times than I...

Druvius comments on Feb 9, 2018:

It's a creationist straw man argument, so nothing to address really. Cosmologists have all sorts of fascinating theories and hypotheses about the origin of the Big Bang, in none of which does the Universe magically appear out of nonexistance.

Is it possible for men and women to have a completely platonic relationship?

Druvius comments on Feb 8, 2018:

I can't see why not, most of my friends have always been women.

So, yesterday a friend’s SO posted a FB “it’s a fact” thing about a skeletal remain inside a...

Druvius comments on Feb 7, 2018:

Apparently these pics have been floating around for a few years in different guises. Just a new hoax with old pics.

Do you remember where you were when the Challenger exploded?

Druvius comments on Feb 7, 2018:

Yes ... I think so. Interestingly enough, at least to science nerds like myself, a psych professor distributed questionaires to all his first year students that day asking them to describe exactly where they were, who they were with, what they were doing etc when they heard the news. Then a couple years later gave them all the exact same questionaire. And it turns out so called "flashbulb" memories are no more accurate than other memories. A little surprising, but memory is memory, so not really.

The Ukraine Conflict... [youtube.com]

Druvius comments on Feb 6, 2018:

I stopped when it said "Russia sent its military into Crimea." Neglected to mention that the US supported neo Nazi coup that overthrew the elected government of Ukraine made its first order of business passing laws making ethnic Russians second class citizens. A minor detail they left out. Something like 95% of the population of Crimea is ethnic Russian. (Crimea was only given to Ukraine in the 1950s.) The government and people of Crimea voted overwhelmingly to ask to be a part of Russia again. Self determination and democracy in action. To claim that Russia seized Crimea is a gross distortion of what happened. This is simply a western propaganda video.

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

Druvius comments on Feb 5, 2018:

Passive aggresive shit like this doesn't help.

African Panafricanism fanatics and their allies in Africa,are trying very harder to make me believe ...

Druvius comments on Feb 4, 2018:

In other words you are utterly willfully ignorant of both history and the contemporary world.

Ancient Roman "Halftime Shows"... [livescience.com]

Druvius comments on Feb 4, 2018:

Tonight's Score: Lions 40 Christians 0

I notice a lot of atheist groups, particularly "New Atheists" tend to side with apartheid Israel ...

Druvius comments on Feb 4, 2018:

Athiests buy into western anti-muslim propaganda just as much as anyone else.

This was on Godless, the page I follow on Facebook. She's the not brightest crayon in the box. Lol.

Druvius comments on Feb 3, 2018:

A few ants shy of a picnic.

I read somewhere that the native peoples living above the arctic circle didn't have words for rape ...

Druvius comments on Feb 2, 2018:

Current Inuit culture has sexual assault rates among the highest in the world. Just because they didn't have a word for it dorsn't mean it didn't exist. People are people sadly.

Do you let your emotions get in the way of rational thinking?

Druvius comments on Feb 2, 2018:

Anyone who claims their emotions don't influence their thinking is a liar or worse, deluding themselves.

Would you be afraid to spend a few nights in the Amityville horror house?

Druvius comments on Feb 2, 2018:

No problem. The whole ghost thing was a hoax. I've lived in a few "haunted" houses and while a few things scared me, I know nothing actually supernatural was going on.

Never make permanent decisions on temporary feelings.

Druvius comments on Feb 2, 2018:

To me this is one of the secrets of life. Don't burn bridges. Don't make permanent decisions when angry or frustrated. Try to make decisions that keep your options open, or will open up new options. Life is all about choices, the more you have, the easier it is to navigate.That being said, there will be times that hard choices have to be made regardless of the circumstances. And in my experence it gets both easier and harder as one grows older. Sigh.

Visualizing Empires Decline (interesting animated graphic)... [youtube.com]

Druvius comments on Feb 2, 2018:

This has to be the laziest graphic ever made. They couldn't be bothered to include the Russian, Ottoman, Japanese, AustroHungarian, German, Italian, Belgium, and American empires?

The Great Filter... [youtube.com]

Druvius comments on Feb 1, 2018:

My suspicion is that intelligience such as ours is an evolutionary dead end.

The State of Black St, The Daily Show... [youtube.com]

Druvius comments on Feb 1, 2018:

Sadly more than half of Americans think whites are a discriminated against minority now, and worse, we have a major political party who panders to that. So we have a long way to go.

I need some intelligent advice and kind words. Here's the situation I'm not understanding: First ...

Druvius comments on Jan 31, 2018:

Others gave good advice. You're a genuinely good person, and you are open to learning, so you'll get better at navigating life. Best wishes.

Have you ever been told you look like someone famous?

Druvius comments on Jan 31, 2018:

The closest I got was someone once told me I look like a Hell's Angel on his day off.

Murky world of 'science' journals a new frontier for climate deniers | Graham Readfearn | ...

Druvius comments on Jan 31, 2018:

9/11 Truthers take advantage of these too. What's really frustrating is that these guys will get a paper published, hold a news conference to announce their "findings," and news services will simply publish the story without bothering to check if the journal was reputable.

How many places have you lived?

Druvius comments on Jan 31, 2018:

Ontario(×3,) New Jersey(x2,) New York, Illinois, Iowa, Oregon, Washington, Texas, CA (×4,) and Nevada. In terms of addresses, quadruple that. :)

Soccer, futbol, whatever, I wouldn't get many of these either!... [youtube.com]

Druvius comments on Jan 31, 2018:

Go sportsball!

As far as I know, there is no geological evidence to support the claim that a global flood occurred....

Druvius comments on Jan 30, 2018:

Correct, by 1830 the very devout Christian scientists of the day had concluded there was no evidence of a global flood and the Earth was at least millions of years old. And they had expected to prove the opposite. Hasn't changed since.

Do you think that humans will go to Mars in our life time?

Druvius comments on Jan 30, 2018:

Maybe 50 50. The problem is radiation exposure and long term health in a weightless or low gravity environment. And getting them back is trickier, the first ones to go might be one way.

Russian state TV just celebrated that "Trump is ours again" after he refused to enforce sanctions

Druvius comments on Jan 30, 2018:

Lol, no agenda in this story, nosiree. The liberal press is no different than Fox News these days.

Do you think sometime in the next 50 years or so, A.I. will be running the world?

Druvius comments on Jan 29, 2018:

Robots and AIs are almost certainly about to usher in a period of history as disruptive as the industrial revolution in the early 19th century. Add that to the fact that global wealth has also reached unheard of levels of disparity, IE a tiny number of people pretty much own the world now, and you have a situation where anything can happen. My prediction, no one today has a clue what the world of 50 years from now will be like, but it will almost certainly be nothing like today. Great movie about an AI trying to take over the world btw: http://123hulu.com/watch/JdAmqYdL-colossus-the-forbin-project.html

I'm currently watching the interview of Trump by Piers Morgan. When asked about US gun laws and the ...

Druvius comments on Jan 28, 2018:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W4jWAwUb63c

Remember Apollo I... [space.com]

Druvius comments on Jan 27, 2018:

It was a huge deal at the time. And, like all 3 of NASA's disasters, stupid and preventable.

This is what I was talking about folks! I did not expect it THIS year, but I knew it was coming....

Druvius comments on Jan 26, 2018:

And this was before Trumps cuts to research in the latest budget. China is also going to spend one trillion dollars upgrading infastructure in Eurasia: roads, ports, railways, and a shipping route through the arctic, all leading to China. And here in the US we are apparently planning on being tbe most well armed third world country on the planet. :(

Irreducible complexity... [youtube.com]

Druvius comments on Jan 26, 2018:

Sad how Evolution deniers just keep recycling long discredited arguments. Even Darwin had trouble explaining the human eye, and in the mid nineteenth century this was an argument against natural selection, by the end of the nineteenth century it was well understood. When you don't have any good arguments, all you have left is recycling old ones. And if these guys really understood Evolution, which they clearly don't, the would bring up the evolution of speech, which is one of the big unexplained problems with evolution.

MO Deacon/Lawmaker’s Bill Would Ban “Marriage” Unless It Takes Place In Church – Friendly ...

Druvius comments on Jan 26, 2018:

Distressed privilege is ugly no matter how it dresses itself.

How many of you feel like the Age of Trump is like a really bad Black Mirror episode?

Druvius comments on Jan 26, 2018:

Well, definitely a Black Mirror episode. Witholding judgement about good or bad until we see how it ends. ;)

Dashcam footage shows dramatic Florida shootout - BBC News

Druvius comments on Jan 26, 2018:

America is like Disneyland with guns.

Me and a friend were chatting last night and got onto the discussion of aliens. I jokingly said ...

Druvius comments on Jan 26, 2018:

Actually, the pinky finger is really important, it provides about fifty percent of your hand's gripping power. It's second only to the thumb in importance. :) Pretty sure that if we ever find aliens they will follow in the same vein as pretty much every other cosmic discovery ... they will be like no one expected. "The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine." JBS Haldane

I dislike living in a highly conservative area. It makes many aspects of my life inconvenient at ...

Druvius comments on Jan 25, 2018:

No, my little Iowa town probably voted 90% Trump, love living here, folks are very friendly. Even when we demonstrated against Trump got almost no negative pushback.

The Trumps asked to borrow a Van Gogh but the Guggenheim offered a solid gold toilet instead. - The ...

Druvius comments on Jan 25, 2018:

Brilliant. Way to make sure Trump does everything he can to cut funding and support for the arts the next 3-7 years.

Does science offer enough evidence to dismiss any plausible god options?

Druvius comments on Jan 24, 2018:

I agree, at this point there does not appear to be any evidence of supernatural agency in the universe, nor is there anything that appears to require a supernatural explanation. Doesn't disprove all definitions of God, it pretty much can't, but does mean there isn't anything to talk about in a scientific sense.

A universe from nothing? Anyone knowledgable about Physics?

Druvius comments on Jan 24, 2018:

Some have called it "the bulk," it's got multiple dimensions (more than our three,) extends infinitely in all of them, and has energy density so high as to be inconceivable. Oh, and it's always existed and always will exist. Call it the fabric of reality I guess, space doesn't begin to describe it. And these things called branes in it sometimes collide and spawn a universe, and may well have spawned an infinite number of universes and will spawn infinite more. All pretty speculative, there are all sorts of other ideas, and people far smarter than I will likely be arguing for generations about the nature of the underlaying whatever that spawned the Big Bang. This was my admittedly possibly very flawed understanding of what I can grasp of brane cosmology.

The religious activists on the rise inside Trump's health department - POLITICO

Druvius comments on Jan 24, 2018:

Evangelical extremists, my religious friends and family are as horrified by this as anyone.

4:30 yesterday in Fort Lauderdale, FL immigration agents boarded a bus and asked to see papers of ...

Druvius comments on Jan 24, 2018:

Been this way a long time, ten years ago was on a train 100 miles from Canada, and not going to cross the border, and border patrol went through the train checking documents. Horrifying what this country has become the past few decades.

The virtual afterlife will transform humanity | Aeon Essays

Druvius comments on Jan 24, 2018:

I look forward to being able to post on Facebook forever.

What is the size and age of the Universe?

Druvius comments on Jan 24, 2018:

The observable Universe is about 28 billion LY accross. The Universe itself is believed to be about 92 billion LY "accross." I put it in quotes because the Universe is believed to be finite but unbounded. There is no edge or outside the Universe. 92 billion LY being how far you can travel in a straight line before you find yourself back in the vicinity of where you started. This by the way is just the best best guess now, it is by no means established fact and there are other theories about the size and the shape of the Universe.

The Trump Tragedy As each day of the Trump tragedy passes I keep thinking of the Hillary haters, ...

Druvius comments on Jan 24, 2018:

First time in history someone lost an election ... and blamed their loss on the people that didn't vote for them! That's about as smug snd self righteous as it gets, and why the dems are going to lose again in 2020 cause they sure didn't learn anything from their loss in 2016.

I heard It said that The Donald, has great political instinct, I think that just means he can shovel...

Druvius comments on Jan 23, 2018:

He beat a field of career politicians to win the GOP primaries, and then went on to win the election. Granted the second was more due to a flawed candidate who ran a flawed campagn against him. Nonetheless the man has a certain gift for politics and self promotion or he wouldn't be sitting in the White House.

The Trump Tragedy As each day of the Trump tragedy passes I keep thinking of the Hillary haters, ...

Druvius comments on Jan 23, 2018:

Thank you for demonstrating EXACTLY the arrogant smug attitude that kept millions of people from voting for HRC. Look in the mirror dude, you made the Trump presidency happen.

Where does the discussion of alien life fit in this forum?

Druvius comments on Jan 23, 2018:

It's possible because we are here. We have found no evidence for life elsewhere, no do we have any understanding of how likely abiogenesis is. Until we find other life, or have a better understanding of abiogenesis, we simply can't say what the odds of other life are. We could be alone.

Intelligent design vs idiotic design

Druvius comments on Jan 23, 2018:

Humans have like 2 dozen vestigial muscles, bones, and organs. It would be like designing a modern car with such things as non-functioning oil lamps, ski runners, and a steam engine. What was the designer thinking? ;)

Why Disney's Coco SUCKS No, not because it glorifies superstitious beliefs. In fact, the ...

Druvius comments on Jan 23, 2018:

And yet, oddly enough, I still enjoyed it. "De gustibus non est disputandum."

Some say that the earth(modern civilization as we know it) has lived and died before. I would love ...

Druvius comments on Jan 23, 2018:

Well, if we are talking about a human, or close to human, civilization, that limits it to about a million years or so ago at most. And such a civilization would have left a host of artifactd even after a million years, gold lasts forever. There would also be unmistakable layers of pollution (including radioactive pollution) in things like icecap, ocean sediment, and lake sediment cores. Scientists who study such things would have noticed. The utter absence of any such evidence effectively rules it out. If we are talking about something pre-human, say intelligent dinosaurs, well, still major problems. There is no evidence anything evolving that was approaching human cranial capacity. And no other evidence. The only way you could make such a case would be several layers of special pleading. Say, something evolved very quickly geologically speaking, their civilzation was limited to the Yucatan penninsula, and all trace of it was wiped out by the Chicxulub impactor 66 million years ago. And even then the geologic boundary at that age has been extensively studied, so their civilization would of had to be remarkably free of anything that would have made pollution. So, interesting thought experiment, but all leads to the same conclusion: Unlikely to the point where it can be ruled out.

Do you see Trump getting re-elected after his time in office is up?

Druvius comments on Jan 22, 2018:

It's certainly possible. Depends a lot on who the Dems run against him. If they manage to pick another candidate with no crossover or populist appeal, could happen.

War must end by the use of nonlethal means ,dead men tell no tales.. in other words the people ...

Druvius comments on Jan 22, 2018:

Not really sure what you're trying to say here. Since the 1960s the most successful way to stop an organisation from using terrorism has been to incorporate them into the political process. That obviously won't work with ideological extremists, but groups that have widespread support and a just cause, it's the best approach. Most of the world's terrorist violence is by governments though, whole nother problem.

President Donald Trump Imposes 30% Tariffs on Solar Panels | Time

Druvius comments on Jan 22, 2018:

And it is almost certainly going to be overturned by the WTO. So no, not surprised, once again Trump shoots from the hip without consulting legal advice, and regardless of the consequences.

Do you stay current on the latest science?

Druvius comments on Jan 21, 2018:

Science nerd myself. Space exploration, archaeology, paleontology in particular. Biology, zoology, cosmology as well. It's all fascinating.

Are we alone?

Druvius comments on Jan 21, 2018:

We might be, we have no idea how likely it is for beings like ourselves to have evolved. If it's as unlikely as a monkey typing Hamlet by chance, yes, were alone.

If you could wipe 3 words from existence, which would you choose?

Druvius comments on Jan 20, 2018:

Oh yeah, feminazi and libtard can go.

If you could wipe 3 words from existence, which would you choose?

Druvius comments on Jan 20, 2018:

chihuahua

Is this the smartest thing Trump has ever said?

Druvius comments on Jan 20, 2018:

Since he didn't say this, no. The closest I can find is this, so he is still hoist by his own petard: "If there is a shutdown I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States. He’s the one that has to get people together."

What do you think of this so called wanna-be know it all?

Druvius comments on Jan 20, 2018:

Couldn't even get past question one it was just such a painful straw man argument. Assume it went downhill from there. When you provide both sides of a debate, you can get any result you want.

It’s amazing to me that people think that this rock we call Earth they believe is only place were ...

Druvius comments on Jan 20, 2018:

Argument by big numbers. We don't know how likely abiogenesis is, so we don't know what the odds are there is other life out there. If it's about as likely as a monkey typing Hamlet by randomly typing, we are indeed almost certainly alone.

If we ever do confirm the existence of life elsewhere in the universe, do you really think it will ...

Druvius comments on Jan 20, 2018:

Nope, not at all. Most religious people have no problem with science, since it is just showing how grand creation really is. And the Young Earth Creationists and their ilk wouldn't change their thinking if Jesus himself came back and told them they were being silly.

Payday Predators... [youtube.com]

Druvius comments on Jan 19, 2018:

States quietly ended their usury laws decades ago, Trump didn't start this.