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Edited, Dec 8th 2014 7:13pm by TirithRR

I guess the good thing is of those that agree with Evolution, fewer are believing in the whole "Intelligent Design" thing.

I spent a turn once with Gbaji frantically insisting that a poll showing 44% of people saying "The Earth was formed in six days as described in Genesis" meant anything BUT a belief in literal Six Day creationism.

I know right. Who ever thought packaging up our reproductive organs with our waste removal was a good idea?

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Edited, Dec 9th 2014 5:22pm by Elinda

Then why broadly speak about "those that are religious" if you really meant just a small subset of those people?



There's a whole heck of a lot of science other than evolution. You get that, right? Presumably all of religious folks of the past that Omega was talking about, and how they were able to get past their religious views and do good science probably would have answered the same way to that question. Yet, amazingly, it didn't make them non-scientific in their respective fields. Perhaps you should think about why that is, and it might just dawn on you why obsessing over creation vs evolution is a really crappy way to determine how smart or scientific a group of people actually are.

I can't imagine why people would lie about their religious belief during an era that tortured and set fire to people for their beliefs.

You actually believe this? What a sad small world you must live in.

Rosetta has found that its comet has about three times more "heavy" water than Earth (water with deuterium instead of hydrogen). Another Kuiper Belt comet was found to match Earth's percentage of heavy water about perfectly. If you were to average the two, you'd say that Earth's water couldn't have come from Kuiper Belt comets because we'd have more heavy water than we do. In fact, Rosetta's comet would have to be in a distinct minority to still allow the math to work.

Really, we're working with a very small sample size of Kuiper Belt comets so we don't know what the average composition is yet. Or the bulk of the ice was provided by some other means such as asteroids. Or it came from a small number of comets overall that fit the composition. Or something else. It doesn't change the basic idea that water on earth came from extra-terrestrial sources, just keeps the door open on what the source was.

The world looks much bigger when most of it is make-believe, huh?