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@micheal6126 Exactly, if a supermassive object like a brown dwarf were in a highly elliptical orbit with our sun, the planets would have long ago been destroyed after being perturbed from their orbits. You usually cannot have stable planets in a 2 star system unless they orbit around the pair of...

Well done. Very nice apparatus and demonstration of a chaotic system.

The significance of the Ginko tree is not its age, but rather the fact that it is the last known tree that exhibits dichotomous venation in its leaves. This form of leaf formation is thought to have predated the network of veins one sees in all other tree leaves. The significance of the Ginko, ...

@gregrutz I agree completely. I was just suggesting ways to make the estimates more accurate and more of a lower bound to reduce criticisms of the form: "Everest is rising" and so forth. As you can see from the several increasingly conservative assumptions that I make about the land mass and t...

While I agree with you, I would like to note that people (who were very convinced about the geocentric theory) did long ago come up with equations to describe the planetary motion from a geocentric view using polar curves they called epicyles and could, to their credit, use this complicated model...

@ozmoroid Sure, your argument is sound, I'd just like to enhance it. I'm not expecting perfect agreement between the model and reality -- models are imperfect and especially with something like this, one expects exceptions given that the model doesn't account for impacts. What would be nice is ...

It seems that Dr. Craig doesn't understand that the argument he's presented that attacks the premise of the cosmological argument uses a different notion of 'exist' than he uses for his rebuttal. Regardless, though, he's constructed a straw-man to attack rather than look at the real objections t...

How did he add India to his caliphate? Germany? Did he just add every country with any Muslim population and assume that the whole country would just join if they had any Muslims? In that case why include Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan but not Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, or Tajikistan? Personally I...

Quick question--not that I at all agree with Hovind or any of these others, but I am curious if it's possible that the Earth could have had rings (watery or otherwise) at one time (possibly millions of years ago) or if there's any record for or against this?

@grylille I don't need to watch more propaganda, the statistics speak for themselves. Just look at a map of countries that shows the rates of Polio, Measles, Hepatitis, etc and compare that with a map of % of population vaccinated. You can find some of these maps on wikipedia. These are undenia...

This has been observed. There are now bacteria that consume nylon, a substance that did not exist before 1935. To do this, they evolved a new enzyme called nylonase. The bacteria adapted to their environment. Also, extinction is exactly what happens when an organism is unable to adapt to chan...

The moderator is incredibly biased. All he does is challenge the scientist. He doesn't even understand science: "the basic fundamental law of science is cause and effect... basically evolution is saying, 'nothing + time + chance = everything' because there is no cause, there is no explanation,...

"statistically impossible" (besides not being correct) is a phrase that is self-contradictory. Statistics (or more correctly, probability theory) assigns a probability to an event based on a model; if that event has no probability, it is simply "impossible"; otherwise; the event is "improbable"....

While I agree that the creationist video is silly, I disagree that life could exist or function without gravity. First, without gravity, elements like carbon and oxygen would be too scarce. Second, without gravity the necessary chemicals would be too disperse to make life possible. Third, life...