the i dont care about politics anymore thread

[Basanos]

Originally Posted by Homesteaded [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Is Elizondo's non-dinosaur idea based on the incredibly sparse fossil record we have on almost all creatures of the past? Or is this something more magical than that?

How old is the Earth, Homesteaded?

[Homesteaded]

Originally Posted by Basanos [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

How old is the Earth, Homesteaded?

I believe the latest dating methods put it at like 4.68B years?

[Basanos]

Originally Posted by Homesteaded [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I believe the latest dating methods put it at like 4.68B years?

Hehe just checking. See how easy that was, Elizondo?

Like, what specific parts of, uh, "dinosaur theory" do you take issue with? What makes it BS?

[Elizondo]

Originally Posted by Basanos [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Hehe just checking. See how easy that was, Elizondo?

Like, what specific parts of, uh, "dinosaur theory" do you take issue with? What makes it BS?

What came first

The theory of Dinosaurs or the 'discovery' of Dinosaurs

Originally Posted by Homesteaded [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I believe the latest dating methods put it at like 4.68B years?

Clever girl

[Reiwa]

Just for the hell of it: how do we even know half life is constant? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Lune]

Originally Posted by Reiwa [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Just for the hell of it: how do we even know half life is constant? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

That's a can of worms that actually gets to some of the most profound questions that underlie our universe. Does randomness exist or is the entire universe deterministic? But the short answer at this point is, because it's all we've ever observed.

So it's like asking, "How do we know gravity is always F = G(m1m2/r^2)".

[Homesteaded]

Originally Posted by Lune [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

That's a can of worms that actually gets to some of the most profound questions that underlie our universe. Does randomness exist or is the entire universe deterministic? But the short answer at this point is, because it's all we've ever observed.

So it's like asking, "How do we know gravity is always F = G(m1m2/r^2)".

The idea of random is pretty tough to defend.

[Homesteaded]

Originally Posted by Elizondo [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What came first

The theory of Dinosaurs or the 'discovery' of Dinosaurs

So your theory is that the idea of Dinosaurs preceded the evidence, and we just backfilled our own idea once we found large bones.

I'm pretty interested in Geology, even though I'm a CS Major I had to take a bunch of other science related courses and I've focused on Geology. What is your theory for large bones that are found?

[Lune]

Originally Posted by Homesteaded [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The idea of random is pretty tough to defend.

I believe this too. The universe seems deterministic. This was also Einstein's position: "God does not play dice".

However, best evidence since Einstein's times says randomness, or something that looks like randomness, definitely exists at the quantum level. As well as in nuclear decay.

[Homesteaded]

It seems obvious that anything perceived as random is more often than not a lack of mechanical understanding. I certainly don't know enough about quantum mechanics to say it isn't random but I think you know what I'm saying.