A Civil Discussion: Evolution, Science, Theology, Atheism, Climate

Mott the Hoople said:
No. It may have excaped your notice but humans are animals and, to state the obvious, it’s highly unlikely that intelligent life outside our planet is human-like.
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what do you mean by "human-like".......apparently you think the only difference between us and other creatures are opposable thumbs.....perhaps the intelligent life listening to our messages are refusing to reply because we aren't human enough, having no opposable big toes......
 
Darth Omar said:
But their intelligence has to be on par with humans or there’s no point in looking for it.
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I think that if they resemble human in any way they will be in touch only if they can control and exploit us. Keep quiet, do!
 
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PoliTalker said:
Hello Micawber,



No, that's ridiculous. There are plenty of people who deny evolution and are also able to have very civil discussions. Such stereotyping lowers your argument and raises theirs.

Everybody: You have to respect the other side.

Americans: We have to remember that ultimately we are all on the same side. Stop treating other Americans as some kind of enemy. Remember: United we stand, divided we fall.

Cheap shot digs on the other side hurt America.

Contributing to polarization hurts America.

When you polarize, you are doing Putin's dirty work.
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I guess it's better to say nothing at all then, because I have nothing nice to say about them.
If you do not understand evolution you are poorly educated and it is you who should shut up, however.
If you believe in any superstitious theory of cosmology or species origins you are also uneducated and
brainwashed and wholly irrational, without a speck of science to support your beliefs. And if you are
these things, you likely voted for the orange asshole who is exploiting your ignorance and doubling
down on dumb by removing "evidence based" from the lexicon, trampling the EPA on climate
science, trying to stop funding for the arts and sciences and making the rich richer and the poor poorer in every possible way.

Our differences transcend Putin's petty intrigues, they are indigenous to this country, and have been lain
bare by right wing media lie machines since the first day Rush Limbaugh co-opted the shock jock DJ
ratings formula across rural America.

The left has the truth on science, the right is a fucking joke and there is nothing good about what it
has become. I say that as a former Reagan, Bush, and Bush II voter. It took a shitload of
dumbass to break my tribal bond with that party inculcated from my parents. But break it they did, and then some.
Education is the cure, and so that dumbass party attacks public education spending too.
 
I dont know where this discussion is because I have so many chumps blocked, but the reason radio telescopes are used is because
they can detect electromagnetic radiation from the most remote distances and therefore back in time the farthest, and by using interferometry
can detect slight differences in signal with an effective reach of the earth's diameter "baseline"
 
Darth Omar said:
Link lol?

You know what a radio telescope is, right? Is there another means of looking for *intelligent life* besides searching for radio signals from another planet?
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Um - they're looking for other civilizations that put out radio signals. That doesn't = concluding that radio signals are the only criteria for intelligence.

Man, Darth; you're falling apart on this thread.
 
If we are trying to detect intelligent life in deep space, we are trying to detect the life that existed billions of light years ago.
 
Frankly I hope we don't get discovered, it is likely any alien life would exploit us.
Let's hide in plain sight and evolve for a million years or so before we send probes out.
That's just asking for trouble. We need to go stealth, displace our galactic aspect, throw shapes,
appear to be a lifeless ice rock like Neptune for as long as possible.
 
Micawber said:
I dont know where this discussion is because I have so many chumps blocked, but the reason radio telescopes are used is because
they can detect electromagnetic radiation from the most remote distances and therefore back in time the farthest, and by using interferometry
can detect slight differences in signal with an effective reach of the earth's diameter "baseline"
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I took a 101 level astronomy course in college, just for giggles, so you’re not going to enlighten me on the subject lol.

Your buddies can use some help regarding the uniqueness of our species [they bristle at the word ‘special’ so I refrain from using the term] so maybe you should jump in.
 
Hello Darth,

Darth Omar said:
It’s not a belief lol.

It’s a fact. We dominate the planet not because we’re lucky or whatever—it’s because we aren’t confined to acting on instinct. Amongst a host of other things.
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Is what we have done with the planet smart? All the pollution and poisons we have created, the beneficial species we have wiped out, the resources we have depleted, arguing whether or not it is profitable as we over-populate ourselves into ever-more reduced personal rights and freedoms?
 
Darth Omar said:
I took a 101 level astronomy course in college, just for giggles, so you’re not going to enlighten me on the subject lol.

Your buddies can use some help regarding the uniqueness of our species [they bristle at the word ‘special’ so I refrain from using the term] so maybe you should jump in.
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If you were a dolphin, and you were smarter than a Trump supporter - what decisions would you make to "get out of the ocean" and build stuff?
 
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