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Creationism as professed by the Christian Bible has certainly been shot down by carbon dating and DNA, but you do know that bigjon is going to counter with "who says the supreme being created the world in 7 days" (or whatever it is), or he may even once again counter with "maybe the supreme...

Exactly. I just saw some Cal congresswoman on TV who stated that we HAVE to have this. When presented with the fact that the market has rallied past few days she said "that's because the market knows we are going to pass this". How could she possibly know that?! fucking politicians.....

I actually believe this will happen. Unless some dirt comes out on Obama in the next few weeks, its looking like he is going to pull out the squeaker. It is possible he won't spend as much, and tax as much as everyone fears, but nothing he has said or voted for so far supports this. A higher tax...

it gets better than that for proving evolution. Scientists can now induce it in real time using bacteria. They use bacteria due to thousands of lifespans in a short period of time. They are simply dumping bacteria into petri dishes, and then radically adjusting the environment without killing...

Well, if we are at the beginning, and there is no Christian god, pagan gods, etc., then we are left at a serious stalemate. No evidence for or against. I have a hard time conceptualizing why a supreme being would bother with evolution; however, and we have discovered soooo much in the last few...

none, gonna wait. Almost got crushed by last vote. Luckily they showed the vote live and I flipped. Would have been ugly otherwise.

Matt Damon is about as far left as they come. I'm surprised he doesn't date Barbara Streisand.

The most classic and often repeated argument of all. Probably the first thing you will learn in philosophy 101 (first thing I studied in that class anyway). This is referring to the Christian version of God BTW. 1) God is all powerful 2) God is all knowing 3) God is supremely good...

oil is a complete non issue at the moment, because as you have noticed, it is simply following the equity markets, and will continue to do so as long as they remain really volatile.

I believe that our debt problem will be such a burden that when the republicans arise again (they are dead now), they will go back to fiscal conservatism, and really practice it this time. If not, a third party with fiscal responsibility, but moderation in taxation as their central platform will...

very good chance for a long term $ rally as well. its all relative to other countries. Europe is screwed, and the UK even worse. I've been a dollar bull for quite some time. A big bailout, IF it happens, will flood the markets with dollars, but I believe it will be a short term drop in the...

Actually, it was really just caused by two things: 1) the FED and artificial interest rates. 2) extremely loose lending, which wasn't even a deregulation issue. It was mainly just lenders changing their risk tolerance cause they believed they couldn't lose. I don't believe Wall St is...

This is a good point, and one reason why these arguments rarely go anywhere. It is very difficult to prove something does not exist. Impossible usually. Sasquatch, UFO's, or as I posed to TZ, prove the Tooth Fairy does not exist (that one really got him riled about my lack of intelligence)...

The human genome is almost identical to that of chimps. Its off by 2% or something like that (an estimate as I'm too lazy to look up the exact figure). This is the fact that seriously riled TZ. He would never reply to this fact, but just go after me instead. If you believe in evolution and God...

Good. He never replied to even one of my arguments. Just attacked me personally. What a whack job!

Trader, People here were happy you left because your posts were so damn obnoxious. You sounded like Kudlow Jr, bullish no matter how bearish the data was, and then you'd keep saying 'told you so' or "I know markets" when the markets went up. When they went down you'd counter with"my stocks...

What the hell is wrong with you? Instead of offering ANY support for your position, you just attack others personally. I can't decide if you are a whack job, or just an asshole. What unfounded statement did I make other than exaggerate that ALL philosophers were atheists? Its still an...

Just out of curiosity, do you trade equities? I only trade futures, and never have any problems with booktrader and stops. The only time I have had problems with stops is trading after hours. I didn't have TWS setup to accept after hours stops. I blamed IB for this because someone should have...

Absolutely agree. 90%+ of politicians are in the industry for themselves, not the good of the country. All they care about is reelection. I say give them one term, but make it kind of long as there is a learning curve, and ya want them competent as a whole. I would recommend 6 year terms...