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There is something very basic that is being lost with all the rhetoric and mudslinging. Close to half of the US of the US population feels so neglected and rejected by the usual breed of politicians that they will forgive any and all shortcomings of President Trump- anything to change the way...

This may be of interest to some here: There's an international project to study the entire Talmud, one double-sided page per day. It takes 7 1/2 years. A new study cycle started about 9 months ago, and I'm doing this with my wife. It's been a good intellectual focus for us during these difficult...

A thought experiment. What if Trump was a Democrat? Would today's Trump supporters a) excuse his eccentric behavior and leadership failures, just as they do today, or b) would they be screaming for him to go as an inappropriate and failing president? I doubt any will admit it, but I expect b)...

This came up in a different thread: Can you prove that Christ was raised from the dead?

There's some indication from Brazil that herd immunity can be reached with less than 20% of the population being infected. I hope it's true.

When people get organized into groups, they set up rules. Rules that interfere with personal freedom. A church, for example, may have membership dues, or expect you to dress a certain way during prayers, or to be quiet at certain times. The biggest penalty that you may run into if you don't...

China is a lousy communist dictatorship. The government suppresses free speech, spies on its own citizens, mistreats minorities, and let's just say that you'd rather not get caught up in their "justice" system. They've taken advantage of the West's hunger for cheap goods to build their economy...

What do you think the top ten accomplishments of President Donald Trump are? This is mostly a question for Trump supporters, but even those who do not support him may find some things that they do agree with.

There is a plague (excuse the expression) of fact-denying. On many controversial topics, we find that people on one side or the other deny facts, as a means of argument. This is not limited to COVID discussions (more on this later). For example: Global warming. The Earth is in fact warming...

China releases clip mocking US response to Coronavirus outbreak using Lego models A video released by a Chinese state-run media outlet uses Legos to mock what it presents as a disastrous US response to the deadly coronavirus outbreak...

As most of us are aware, many bacteria have developed resistance to antibiotics. The usual scientific explanation is an evolutionary one, with selection being the driving force to improved survival (of the bacteria). How do Creationists explain this phenomenon? Yes, the selection here is...

Dave is convinced for religious reasons (apparently) that the Earth is stationary and flat. So he must, at any cost, reject or ignore reality. Add to that his idea that relative motion and relativity (which he confuses) are evil because they use the same term "relative" as is used in "relative...

It's worse. Not only do they not understand why it works, they don't even understand that it happens.

Yes, 50 miles each- relative to the road, in 30 minutes. (50 miles/0.5 hours)= 100 miles per hour, relative to the road. Yet they cover the 100 miles between the two cars in 30 minutes. (100 miles/0.5 hours)= 200 miles per hour, relative to each other.

So the pair of cars between them, cover 100 miles in 30 minutes. That is 100 miles in 30 minutes. The cars are travelling 200 mph relative to each other, though they are going only 100 mph relative to the road. And no, for the umpteenth time, this has nothing to do with Relativity or...

Dave, The cars are moving at 100 mph relative to the road, and 0 mph relative to each other. It's quite simple. Here, try another example: Two cars are on a East-West road, 100 miles apart from each other. One drives 100 mph East, and the other drives 100 mph West, both on the same road. How...

gravity.

Dave, we've gone through this before. Two cars driving 100 mph on the same highway, same direction, are moving at 100 mph relative to the road, and are not moving relative to each other. It's straightforward, and it doesn't turn anybody into an atheist or whatever.

I'm just about ready to apologize to YECs. They are not quite as dense as Dave.

I did and I don't.