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"Anything is possible" isn't easy so easy to dispose of when we're dealing with that in the realm of the unknown which may or may not be. We can't know what's impossible in the unknown or even if anything is impossible in the unknown and so we must consider The Impossible as a subset of The...

Or.. it can be called having to make remarkably minor adjustments to an astoundingly improbable situation. _____ If you were playing poker and a computerized device ostensibly programmed to deal randomly dealt a royal flush a hundred times in a row to the same player would you find it...

The mass extinction of giant reptiles made way for the evolution of mammals. Mammals, tiny though they were, already had a more complex brain than the dinosaurs and were therefore better candidates for evolution to the status of thinking beings. If you look at it from the teleological POV...

Certainly true if you are rewriting to improve efficacy re the same function. Not necessarily true if you're rewriting to address a different function which might even be of a lower order than the initial function.

I'm not absolutely sure whether you're being nice here. It is your thread so I think you should have some control over it.. I'll assume that you're being polite and take your post literally. Speaking generally, I think these discussions would be more productive if we posters stuck to the...

It's your thread, SS, but you did open it with the words "If there is some intelligent designer..." .

Apologies if my last response seemed a little abrupt. Go to www.thinkexist.com and look up Einstein; you'll find 26 pages of Einstein quotes many of which refer affirmatively to God although I don't think he was referring to the any of the Gods worshipped in standard religions.

How about Einstein's famous "God doesn't play dice." . It seems Einstein was strangely inconsistent in his references to God but in any case what Einstein said or didn't say is a side issue here; I made reference to his quote not as an appeal to authority but merely as a means of presenting a...

For the purposes of this thread God = Designer with no further definition.

Einstein wondered whether or not God had a choice in the way 'he' set up the Universe. Maybe the Designer had no alternatives ( consider the 'fine tuning' necessary for sophisticated life ) and thus The Design may not be differentiable from Intelligent Design. In any case the trend has been...

Not to worry. No chance.

What does it matter how eccentric he is or how he voted on what? He'll never win, but if he brings the nation's attention to the fact that the Constitution is not respected by establishment politicians he's justified his political existence.

Yup. I smelled a rat with this one and the chart was screaming "Buy Me!" but I balked. My fault. As a side issue though, the game is as rigged as it ever was. It's like playing poker with somebody who can see your hand; you can still win but you have to be awfully smart in the way you...

I don't know whether you're being facetious or not but this obviously was a scam. RIM mgmnt timed the earnings report to maximally exploit options expiry day. Knowing that it's a scam doesn't necessarily help because the premiums are usually set so that even straddling can leave you screwed...

Thirty years ago some Soviet scientists were considering the possibility that every atom is a universe as complete as our own. In any of these atom-universes our Universe would appear as just another atom. Paradoxical, of course, but when you think of the 'size' of the Universe it's all...

Some scientists, in particular those of the 'Rare Earth' school have worked ot the 'Anthropic Coincidences' probability to be > 10^(-120); that's a mighty slim chance derived from consideration of a needed chain of cosmological, chemical, and physical coincidences. Other scientists suggest...

Good point.

Your Mom nailed it. Concentration of wealth is a cardinal sign of impending depression.

No way. Never. No need for sorry ass excuses at this end. The ET dog did eat my homework. I'm not sufficiently experienced with ET code to know how to deal with " Your post is too long. Please reduce your post to less than 10,000 characters." ( or words very much to that effect )...