[G Larry]

I will have to congratulate Mark at tomorrow nights GOP County meeting.

We have a great opportunity to continue the trend set this weekend in Colorado, by installing Liberty minded Conservatives.

[raybbr]

I showed slides of the lifeless conditions everywhere, with the exception of our home planet. Not surprisingly, there is no self-actualizing taking place on Mars, nor anywhere else as far as can be credibly conjectured.

"Everywhere"? Is he saying there is no life other than earth in the entire universe? Are we to apply the same standards to his seeming assertion of "settled science" that we do to the global warming alarmists or does he get a pass?

Isn't his statement akin to "We've recorded higher temperatures on twenty thermometers over the last ten years. We can't read the ones further away so we'll just go with what can see."

[Rebel_Ace]

"...After laying out the hostile conditions of Big Bang debris, I showed slides of the lifeless conditions everywhere, with the exception of our home planet. Not surprisingly, there is no self-actualizing taking place on Mars, nor anywhere else as far as can be credibly conjectured..."

I live in a modest 1000 sq ft home with a 2 car garage, all sitting on a 60 x 200 foot lot. One day, I wondered if there was an intruder on my property. I looked inside the card holder of my wallet, and did not see anyone, so I reasonably concluded there was no possibility of anyone else being on my property.

[Nifster]

silly title because the laws of physics supports the idea of creation....

[longtermmemmory]

isn’t this more appropriate for the religion thread under ecumenical?

[Senator_Blutarski]

Bump for later reading

[TexasGator]

“We are symmetrical.”

Some are beautiful, some are ugly. Go figure.

[Zathras]

I respectfully say this person knows little of science.
The GOP already has plenty of dumb leaders in it.

Science is not a tool for validating where we came from. It is a forum for theories to be tested, refined for the purpose of understanding how the many facets of Universe works.

Christianity is based on faith which is removed from the scientific method. There is no test for G_D or lack of G_D. We can use science to investigate historical facts but really not much more than that.

To try to use science to validate a particular belief, other than historical injects into the argument the same issues which invalidate traditional Global Warming theory.

You end up chasing for facts to support your theory and then ignore those
theories which call your “facts” into question. Even worse, you begin to manipulate the data to make it appear one position is stronger than another. This is not how true science works.

When Madam Curie discovered that the rock Pitchblende was more radioactive than the known metals it contained, she theorized that possibly a new element might be in Pitchblende.

Before she managed to extract Radium and Polonium after years of tireless work, she was accused of being a poor scientist and careless in her readings by other scientists who should have known better.

It is EASY to create a theory which can never be challenged. With any foreseeable technology, it is impossible to discover life outside of our solar system. There is some value in debating it but it is rather pointless do to the time required to travel between stars.

Please GOP, you are loosing brilliant minds daily as many of them think the GOP is filled with idiots. I know about 50 engineers, many leaders in the Reagan GOP who have moved to the RATS for just this reason.

Ted Cruz DOES seem to understand technology but he needs help from technical people. The concepts being discussed in Silicon Valley right now are very complex and hard to grasp. Our next President will need the best technical advisors he can find.