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[Profpat]

I don't know that I can help ... I can only suggest a good dose a science, a good long lay down and relax .. and hope that the insanity passes ......

(rotflmao ... )

cool bananas ... greg

OMG you don't believe in tea parties and tea pots. No wonder you don't believe in God.

Do you believe in tea parties and tea pots Austin? If not I think I may have discovered the blockage the two of you share.

Best to both of you,

Pat

[Graybeard]

I may have been a bit premature

I may have discovered

And while you are having that lay-down, read a good book on comprehension ... or at least read this again, ten times, out loud .... lol

In a 1981 interview with U.S. Catholic, Sagan said: "I have some discomfort with both believers and with nonbelievers when their opinions are not based on facts ... If we don't know the answer, why are we under so much pressure to make up our minds, to declare our allegiance to one hypothesis or the other?"

cool bananas ... greg

[austintorn@aol.com]

Yes, tea and pot go well together.

[austintorn@aol.com]

They just started up the LHC a few minutes ago:

http://news.aol.com/article/big-bang...-starts/608080

[Profpat]

And while you are having that lay-down, read a good book on comprehension ... or at least read this again, ten times, out loud .... lol

In a 1981 interview with U.S. Catholic, Sagan said: "I have some discomfort with both believers and with nonbelievers when their opinions are not based on facts ... If we don't know the answer, why are we under so much pressure to make up our minds, to declare our allegiance to one hypothesis or the other?"

cool bananas ... greg

I'm the first to admit my belief is based on faith Greg. For the longest time I too was an agnostic, but only through God's Grace and enlightenment did I get my faith.

Now where are your facts dealing with atheism Greg?

Best,

Pat

[Profpat]

They just started up the LHC a few minutes ago:

http://news.aol.com/article/big-bang...-starts/608080

Well what do you think is it going to work this time and maybe find the Higgs Boson?

Best,

Pat

[Graybeard]

I'm the first to admit my belief is based on faith Greg.

How could you deny it ??

Now where are your facts dealing with atheism Greg?

Since when were we dealing in facts ??

You use god as an ambiguous reference to an unspecified 'Intelligent Designer', this leaves open any conceivable entity to fulfill that role, even a Tea Pot.

I replace the word God, with Tea-Pot ... nothing changes ... so whatever facts you have, I also have ??? My faith is as likely as yours ?

I thank thee, TeaPot, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes; yea, TeaPot, for such was thy gracious will.

You obviously didn't read my earlier post .. here it is again ...

If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes.

But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is an intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense.

If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time

cool bananas ... greg

[Profpat]

Well it's a free world Greg and you can pray to a teapot if you want to.

Whatever floats your boat is OK with me mate.

Best,

Pat

P.S. I think you were the one who reposted this:

nonbelievers when their opinions are not based on facts

[austintorn@aol.com]

Well what do you think is it going to work this time and maybe find the Higgs Boson?

Well, I don't know, but they are sure whizzing your proton around and around. You'll be lucky to get it back in one piece. Hope you have some spares.

If they find the Higgs boson, they'll say, "OK, we expected that. We can shut the thing down now."

[SteveA]

Sorry, ignore this. I replied to a very outdated post and realized my comment was no longer relevant (as usual? )

Here, I'll it into a joke instead so it seems relevent:

They just started up the LHC a few minutes ago:

http://news.aol.com/article/big-bang...-starts/608080

CERN, as it is known, had hoped by 7 a.m. Saturday to get the beams to travel the 17-mile circular tunnel under the Swiss-French border, but things went so well Friday evening that they had achieved the operation seven hours earlier.
Praise from scientists around the world was quick. "First beam through the Atlas!" whooped an Internet message from Adam Yurkewicz, an American scientist working on the massive Atlas detector on the machine.
"I congratulate the scientists and engineers that have worked to get the LHC back up and running," said Dennis Kovar of the U.S. Department of Energy, which participates in the project.
He called the machine "unprecedented in size, in complexity, and in the scope of the international collaboration that has built it over the last 15 years."
Later Saturday the organizers decided to test all the protection equipment while there still is a very low intensity proton beam circulating in the collider at 11,000 times a second. The tests will take 10 days, Gillies said.

Hey, they broke the speed of light:

17 miles/cycle * 11,000 cycles/second = 187,000 miles/second

http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question790.html

Supposedly the speed of light is ~186,300 miles/second.

Congrats on faster than light operation.