The Post Your Thoughts of the Moment Thread 2

[Onionleaf]

Trying to argue science? What? It's not a debate, you sort of need to find something called proof and do something called research. I've heard of people using the Bible for some archaeology and a guess about some scientific event, but usually it's not useful enough to be used in place of a real science book. Like when some Chinese astronomers recorded the first supernova, we have a record of the date, a good observation of the event, where it took place in the sky...and detailed enough for it not to be confused with another event.

I'm sorry if my comment wasn't articulated in the right way. Of course, research is important! All theories are based off of factual information, and the book I read was written by a scientist and included references for all cited research papers, including primary and secondary resources. Nothing to do with believing in the unseen or guesswork, I assure you.
Hmm, I suppose the Bible is more suited as a historical source of world events rather than a scientist's record, though I'll leave it up to the theologians to assess the credibility of these books.

@Tobbeh: Congrats on a good start! ^^ I've never really paid attention to my subscribers number, it changes much too slowly for me to notice a difference, haha.

[SlowPokemon]

Mistake number 1: taking the entire bible as a literal story rather than figurative

[Pianist Da Sootopolis]

Mistake number 1: taking the entire bible as a literal story rather than figurative

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Like by the same logic, the Qu'ran (which has had, in actual fact, far less tampering with the original text than the Bible) should also be considered

I a historical source of world events rather than a scientist's record,

Also, I don't know about you, but I don't really take historical records seriously if they have stories of water being turned into wine, multiplying fish and bread, and walking on water.
Of course, there are all kinds of scriptural explanations for it, but they only came about out of necessity. People had to reinterpret scripture as it was proven wrong.

[mikey]

so to you things can't happen unless they have an explanation that you've been taught.

[FireArrow]

When a church tells you something and you refuse to believe anything that contradicts what that chuch told you, that's an equal if not more pertinent example of "things can't happen unless they have an explanation that you've been taught." The difference is that uses one multiple interpreations derived from a single source and the other uses a single interpretation derived from multiple sources.

[mikey]

The difference is that I'm not claiming something to be certainly false.  I'm not that stupid.

[FireArrow]

The difference is that I'm not claiming something to be certainly false.  I'm not that stupid.

Something not certinaintly being false isn't enough for it to be taught in schools or be in textbooks, which is what this discussion is about iirc.

[Pianist Da Sootopolis]

so to you things can't happen unless they have an explanation that you've been taught.

No, but I don't assume or believe that they have happened if there's literally no evidence for them happening.
Yes, it's possible for there to be some other solution, but until that presents itself, it's impossible to factor in.

The difference is that I'm not claiming something to be certainly false.  I'm not that stupid.

By the same logic, you should also be taking the same stance on the Zeus, Apollo, Allah, and every Amazonian jungle god to ever exist. They should be taken just as seriously under that logic.

[WaluigiTime64]

Let me just break the conversation for a moment.



So close to 2000! Now how many of those are bots I wonder...

[Sebastian]

Pretty sure all the bots were banned and/or deleted.

[WaluigiTime64]

That's good. I'm seriously not sure why someone would fill a sheet music forum with bots.

[BlackDragonSlayer]

Well if it's a forum, one thing that's certain is that somebody will try to fill it with bots!

[InsigTurtle]

Had a physics test today, was briefly confused by a question asking how much work needed to be done to lift an object from the surface of a planet to a distance infinitely far away.

Now we're doing electricity. It is a mystery, since no one has ever observed it or heard it or felt it.
Jokes aside, this really is a new topic for me, so it's quite interesting.

[Altissimo]

Now we're doing electricity. It is a mystery, since no one has ever observed it or heard it or felt it.

I lol'd.

[E. Gadd Industries]

Had a physics test today, was briefly confused by a question asking how much work needed to be done to lift an object from the surface of a planet to a distance infinitely far away.

My chemistry teacher (who apparently is supposed to teach us physics too?) would make a test question like this:
An object has 7 kg of mass. How much work would it take to send it flying into the Sun? And the answer she would expect: It depends on the amount of money you're willing to spend on the rocket.
A. The answer doesn't make sense.
B. The question doesn't make sense.
C. Very little of that even has anything to do with the topic she's been teaching
D. The answer has to be EXACTLY as I wrote it. Even if you forget the punctuation at the end, it's incorrect.