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Re: A Thread For The Intelligent. Let's Put Critical Thought To Work by butterflylion: 12:50pm On Sep 12, 2017 |
JackBizzle: Are you trying to tell me you have no answer to your own question? ![]() It's actually about 60 million years ago that what you said happened and not thousands of years ago and it wasn't most of the earth. It was a fluke laser guided pin point accuracy event that targeted the dinosaur population and erased them ![]() 1 Like |
Re: A Thread For The Intelligent. Let's Put Critical Thought To Work by butterflylion: 12:56pm On Sep 12, 2017 |
Martinez19 your day never break? ![]() I thought you said our battle is today 1 Like |
Re: A Thread For The Intelligent. Let's Put Critical Thought To Work by Ranchhoddas: 1:02pm On Sep 12, 2017 |
felixomor:You think this is intellectual talk? I'm not surprised. |
Re: A Thread For The Intelligent. Let's Put Critical Thought To Work by felixomor: 1:04pm On Sep 12, 2017 |
Ranchhoddas:Why should a basket comprehend this? No reason. A basket remains a basket. |
Re: A Thread For The Intelligent. Let's Put Critical Thought To Work by Ranchhoddas: 1:06pm On Sep 12, 2017 |
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Re: A Thread For The Intelligent. Let's Put Critical Thought To Work by butterflylion: 1:11pm On Sep 12, 2017 |
Ranchhoddas: Your nonsensical nature is sickening! It's pretty obvious at this point that the purpose of the thread is beyond your scope of reasoning. Sorry I mentioned your moniker. For lack of anything else you have to sensibly offer Abeg dab your way out. 1 Like |
Re: A Thread For The Intelligent. Let's Put Critical Thought To Work by butterflylion: 1:32pm On Sep 12, 2017 |
Sonofluc1fer I saw you swagger In, peeked and take a bow ![]() |
Re: A Thread For The Intelligent. Let's Put Critical Thought To Work by butterflylion: 1:33pm On Sep 12, 2017 |
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Re: A Thread For The Intelligent. Let's Put Critical Thought To Work by Ranchhoddas: 1:36pm On Sep 12, 2017 |
butterflylion:I don't disagree. The thread is beyond me. Enjoy your party. |
Re: A Thread For The Intelligent. Let's Put Critical Thought To Work by butterflylion: 1:48pm On Sep 12, 2017 |
Re: A Thread For The Intelligent. Let's Put Critical Thought To Work by LiberaDeus: 4:39pm On Sep 12, 2017 |
This is the most dishonest thread ever. Just what i expected from a christard. So now the answer to your question isnt important is to now bring creationist trash about asteroids and origin of water. Enjoy your dishonest party 1 Like |
Re: A Thread For The Intelligent. Let's Put Critical Thought To Work by felixomor: 4:45pm On Sep 12, 2017 |
LiberaDeus: Enjoy your Atheistic idiocy |
Re: A Thread For The Intelligent. Let's Put Critical Thought To Work by AgentOfAllah: 4:47pm On Sep 12, 2017 |
butterflylion:Nothing! It can, and probably will still happen. Of course, when our solar system was still young, there were far more asteroids floating around, so the probability of impact events was higher then than it is now. Back to your talk about dinosaurs and how they got wiped off by some stroke of luck laser guided asteroid that pinpointed their location how come we are yet to experience no such fluke stroke of luck again?It was certainly not the impact itself that wiped them out. The impact had atmospheric as well as terrestrial implications. Please read on [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_extinction_event#Effects_of_impact]effects of the impact here[/url]. You asked how come we have yet to experience such an event. When solid things experience gravitational collapse, they tend to stay bound to their host. The effect is a reduction in density of floating objects as time progresses. We are lucky to live in an epoch where the density of cosmic objects around us has significantly reduced due to said collapse. Make no mistake though, there are still many asteroids that cross our orbit, and will one day, collide with earth. This collision course may even be hastened through their interactions with the gravitational fields of other massive bodies. Some agencies are active in tracking these Near Earth Astroids (NEAs). So don't get too comfortable. From your link the first known asteroid impact was 2 billion years ago. The earth is 4.5billion years old and evolution is said to have begun about 4billion years ago.You weren't paying attention. The article I linked lists the biggest asteroid impact sites known. "Known" is the operative word here. There are definitely older impact sites. One was discovered in Greenland, and dates as far back as 3 billion years ago. But yes, the earth itself, was formed by asteroids so technically, the first impact must be as old as the earth itself. This is odd because most liquids become denser when they freeze. Water, however, expands as it changes to ice. And the result? When lakes freeze, ice does not gather at the bottom, but at the top, trapping a layer of warmer water underneath. This is a very happy "fluke" of nature because it gives fish and other living things a chance to survive.This property isn't unique to water. It happens to a handful of other materials too and it is no fluke! Liquid materials tend to form ordered crystal lattices as they freeze (phase change). In the case of water, the lattice arrangement is hexagonal with tetrahedral bonding angles strictly due to polar (electrostatic) repulsion of the orbiting electrons.This energy minimising tetrahedral bond causes the closely packed liquid molecules to expand due to increased interatomic distance of the constituent atoms in the crystal lattice. You can easily look up these things on google man. ![]() L- Liquid H2O, R - Crystal (ice) H2O Did water also evolve in order to suit life on earth?I don't understand this question. The physical properties of water molecules are pretty simple to grasp. If it is not H2O, it's not water. butterflylion:The sort of asteroids and comets that disintegrate when they approach our atmosphere are small (the size of cars, more or less). If they are massive (>1 km in diameter) and/or dense, they would certainly make it through the atmosphere before they fully burnout. Many such objects still land on earth, even till this day. No one says the water must necessarily be ice. It could also be liquid trapped inside solid structures. butterflylion:As regards the emboldened, no such scientific claim exists. There are hypotheses and speculations, but no claim. The source of life on earth is still unknown. Surely these asteroids would have delivered this same water to other planets and this same water would have also contained the origins of evolutionary life. In fact scientists claim that water is found in 23 places in our solar system. Namely:Do you have evidence that life does not exist on other planets or cosmic objects? Just because we haven't found life elsewhere doesn't mean it doesn't exist there. Even the moon which is one of the most explored objects outside of the earth, we've probably covered far less that 0.01% of its total volume. So I'd be careful about making hasty conclusions about things of which we are still ignorant. 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: A Thread For The Intelligent. Let's Put Critical Thought To Work by LiberaDeus: 4:52pm On Sep 12, 2017 |
felixomor: hahahaha what a fool with his sidekick. Batman and robin ( 4evergod and Felixomor) |
Re: A Thread For The Intelligent. Let's Put Critical Thought To Work by felixomor: 4:58pm On Sep 12, 2017 |
LiberaDeus:Eiya.... Unfortunately popular opinion considers you a fool more.... Even Bible sef... ![]() |
Re: A Thread For The Intelligent. Let's Put Critical Thought To Work by BlueAngel444: 5:04pm On Sep 12, 2017 |
Re: A Thread For The Intelligent. Let's Put Critical Thought To Work by butterflylion: 5:05pm On Sep 12, 2017 |
AgentOfAllah: The end of your entire comment says it all. "so I'd be careful about making hasty conclusions about things of which we are still ignorant". Yet you hastily assumed that the first asteroid must have been much older than the one known (without proof) yet you also were hasty to assume that the earth was a product of asteroids (also without proof) So in essence by another stroke of luck asteroids formed the earth and asteroids also brought water to earth. This water which the asteroids brought also contained the very foundation of evolutionary birth. The strokes of luck are piling up bro. Those asteroids must either be beyond lucky or they were simply on a mission ![]() Chemistry can explain why ice behaves the way it does but it does not explain why it had to also by coincidence be suited to life on earth? How come this water came already prepared for this purpose on earth? How come it came with these properties already established in it for sustaining life on earth? Another coincidence? Another stroke of luck? ![]() Like I said, I can itemise the strokes of luck so far ![]() 1 Like 2 Shares |
Re: A Thread For The Intelligent. Let's Put Critical Thought To Work by AgentOfAllah: 9:37pm On Sep 12, 2017 |
butterflylion:That star orbiting planets are formed by asteroids and other stardust debris is a generally accepted concept in astrophysics and it was not arrived at hastily! There are, in fact, images of new stars which show planets forming as a result of accretion (as in the image below). You're apparently not up to date with Astrophysics concepts, and that's fine. It is however crass to project your ignorance on me, rather than seek clarification. ![]() HL Tauri and its baby planets. Taken with the ALMA radio telescope. So in essence by another stroke of luck asteroids formed the earth and asteroids also brought water to earth. This water which the asteroids brought also contained the very foundation of evolutionary birth. The strokes of luck are piling up bro. Those asteroids must either be beyond lucky or they were simply on a missionI never made the emboldened claim, stop trying to foist imaginary arguments on me. Apart from that, it is not clear why you keep insisting that there was any "stroke of luck" involved anywhere. Can you just take a step back and consider the facts? (1) Water is a fairly common substance carried by asteroids, comets and other space debris. (2) These debris do interact with the gravitational field of other objects nearby, enabling accretion of said debris (3) If this were true, we are likely to find water - steam, liquid or ice - on most things formed by these debris. So, there is nothing particularly special about water existing on any planet or moon, or comet, or asteroid. In fact, it is pretty mundane to find water on such things. See Water on Comet 67P, detected by Rosetta, Water in the Orion nebula, detected by spectroscopy, Water discovered in astroid. You also previously mentioned a few other places bodies with water detected in them. Chemistry can explain why ice behaves the way it does but it does not explain why it had to also by coincidence be suited to life on earth? How come this water came already prepared for this purpose on earth? How come it came with these properties already established in it for sustaining life on earth? Another coincidence? Another stroke of luck?You are wrong! Chemistry certainly can explain why water is suited for life: It is a polar (due to its electronic configuration) solvent that is inert towards non-polar hydrocarbon molecules which make up life. It is not clear why you think the "purpose" of water is to sustain life on earth, or why water has any purpose for that matter? What's the purpose of the water that exists in comets and asteroids? Like I said, I can itemise the strokes of luck so farStop this childish ad nauseam argument. It's making conversing with you difficult, to put it mildly! 7 Likes 1 Share |
Re: A Thread For The Intelligent. Let's Put Critical Thought To Work by butterflylion: 10:16pm On Sep 12, 2017 |
AgentOfAllah: You are obviously the one not up to date if you say that my comment about the evolutionary fragments arriving earth via asteroid is not tenable. The theory holds that either very simple forms of life or the materials necessary for it to form are carried to Earth on comets or fragments of asteroids. These survive their journey through the atmosphere and ultimately evolve into the species we see around us today including the very scientists hypothesising about their origins. Certain amino acids the “building blocks” of life, necessary to build proteins have been found by NASA on comets, and analysis of some meteorites has suggested that amino acids and other organic compounds may have formed in space, rather than being present as a result of contamination of the samples. You need to read up on the Rosettas comet. This now takes me back to the same stroke of luck issue which you so badly wish to dismiss so let me reiterate. You say chemistry can explain why water is suited for the earth? Wow! So water came factory fitted for life sustainability on earth by pure stroke of luck? You have to note that water was here first before evolution began (according to science) so water could not have been adapted to by the creators that evolved from it if those creatures cannot influence the forming of ice or the condensation and evaporation of water or the temperature control quality it holds then it means reverse was the case. Water actually did come factory fitted for the earth. Now you ask what then is the function of water on other planets? I thought in your previous post you said perhaps there could be life on other planets. One minute you say this below which was your direct response to my comment about water being on other planets. Do you have evidence that life does not exist on other planets or cosmic objects? Just because we haven't found life elsewhere doesn't mean it doesn't exist there. Even the moon which is one of the most explored objects outside of the earth, we've probably covered far less that 0.01% of its total volume The very next minute you say this below It is not clear why you think the "purpose" of water is to sustain life on earth, or why water has any purpose for that matter? What's the purpose of the water that exists in comets and asteroids? Why now contradicting yourself? Are you no longer hopeful of life being found elsewhere? Why now talk down on water just to garner points when the same presence of water on other planetary bodies made you have hope that life could be found on those planets? ![]() Stop this vain attempt at hoping from one comment to a directly opposite comment the next second it Shows you are desperate to appear right when all you have been doing has been simply throwing yourself all over the place. Can you deny your own words? If you could quickly change your words with the very next comment then it's disappointing really. |
Re: A Thread For The Intelligent. Let's Put Critical Thought To Work by ModusOperandi(f): 5:21am On Sep 13, 2017 |
butterflylion:ok thanks for clearing that up but I must say, it's funny how in the face of criticisms of flawed logic, you cleverly retreated to subtly changing the topic of conversation ![]() anyway, it's true that the properties of water are remarkably suited for life, I can't give you an answer as to why it is so but my inability to provide one is hardly a convincing argument against one ![]() 1 Like |
Re: A Thread For The Intelligent. Let's Put Critical Thought To Work by butterflylion: 6:09am On Sep 13, 2017 |
ModusOperandi: There was no change to any discussion because there was no set discussion on ground. What I did was to create a free platform for research and thereafter would discussion come. I think you got it wrong. Thanks for admitting that water for some reason came factory fitted for life on earth even though some are desperately trying to explain it away using chemistry as if chemistry foresaw the fact that water would come to earth and prepared it ahead of time so it can perfectly sustain life here. |
Re: A Thread For The Intelligent. Let's Put Critical Thought To Work by AgentOfAllah: 8:35am On Sep 13, 2017 |
butterflylion: You seem not to understand how science works, so instead of engaging you in a futile ping-pong match about the origins of life on earth, I would encourage you to investigate the distinctions between a scientific hypothesis and a scientific theory. It is not trivial, yet you flippantly conflate one with the other. This now takes me back to the same stroke of luck issue which you so badly wish to dismiss so let me reiterate.Oh, FFS!!! ![]() You say chemistry can explain why water is suited for the earth? Wow! So water came factory fitted for life sustainability on earth by pure stroke of luck? You lie! I could never make such a dumb remark. You have to note that water was here first before evolution began (according to science) Peer reviewed article, please? so water could not have been adapted to by the creators that evolved from it if those creatures cannot influence the forming of ice or the condensation and evaporation of water or the temperature control quality it holds then it means reverse was the case. Water actually did come factory fitted for the earth.Huh ![]() Now you ask what then is the function of water on other planets? I thought in your previous post you said perhaps there could be life on other planets. One minute you say this below which was your direct response to my comment about water being on other planets. Where did I ask that? More of your lies! I asked you what the purpose of water is on comets and asteroids? The very next minute you say this below Yes please, my questions weren't intended to be rhetorical, please answer: (1) Why do you think water has any purpose? (2) What's the purpose of the water that exists in comets and asteroids? Why now contradicting yourself? Are you no longer hopeful of life being found elsewhere? Why now talk down on water just to garner points when the same presence of water on other planetary bodies made you have hope that life could be found on those planets? Yet another lie! I do not know where I expressed such a hope to you. I merely questioned whether you have evidence that life doesn't exist on other planets because you made the claim. Again, I reiterate that you don't know how science works. So maybe you should stop grasping desperately at straws and educate yourself. I would normally suggest topics which you should prioritise, in this case, Burden of Proof and Argument from Ignorance, with particular emphasis on the Absence of Evidence section. However, I do think your misconceptions run deeper, so yeah, I encourage you to study Scientific method in general. Can you deny your own words? If you could quickly change your words with the very next comment then it's disappointing really.No, I can't deny my words, nor do I intend to. What I can deny, however, are your shameful fabrications, and I've done just that! 5 Likes |
Re: A Thread For The Intelligent. Let's Put Critical Thought To Work by butterflylion: 9:54am On Sep 13, 2017 |
AgentOfAllah: Goodmorning. You see one of the things i try to do when arguing with anyone is to be as honest as possible but you seem to have fallen short of this. You start off by asking that i look up what the diference is between a hypothesis and a theory but consider this quote of yours earlier It was certainly not the impact itself that wiped them out. The impact had atmospheric as well as terrestrial implications. Please read on effects of the impact here. You asked how come we have yet to experience such an event. When solid things experience gravitational collapse, they tend to stay bound to their host. The effect is a reduction in density of floating objects as time progresses. We are lucky to live in an epoch where the density of cosmic objects around us has significantly reduced due to said collapse. Make no mistake though, there are still many asteroids that cross our orbit, and will one day, collide with earth. This collision course may even be hastened through their interactions with the gravitational fields of other massive bodies. Some agencies are active in tracking these Near Earth Astroids (NEAs). So don't get too comfortable. First of all the Clovis comet nonsense has been disproved and thrown to the trash and is now regarded as a hypothesis and here you were above using its alleged after effects to defend how dinosaurs went extinct. Would there be after effects if such never happened? You can read http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/03/0309_040309_chicxulubdinos.html http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/09/130910-comet-impact-mammoths-climate-younger-dryas-quebec-science/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvarez_hypothesis https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114648 http://blog.smu.edu/research/2014/05/12/dating-of-supposed-extraterrestrial-impact-indicators-unreliable-fails-to-prove-comet-sparked-climate-change-at-the-end-of-the-ice-age-or-killed-clovis-people/ Why would you use a hypothesis in an argument then turn around and accuse me of doing so then asking that i go find out the difference between a hypothesis and a theory? So can you say you are up to date with your science and you know how science works since you are doing exactly what you accuse me of? You also lied when you said you NEVER and CAN NEVER make such a "DUMB" remark as "CHEMISTRY CAN EXPLAIN WHY WATER IS SUITED TO LIFE ON EARTH. Well again you lied. Here is your comment below You are wrong! Chemistry certainly can explain why water is suited for life: It is a polar (due to its electronic configuration) solvent that is inert towards non-polar hydrocarbon molecules which make up life. Are those not your words? Did i fabricate them? You say you cannot deny your words but here you are denying them so brazenly and lying too. ![]() Now regarding the source of evolutionary fragments, i am sure you have read up on the Primordial soup theory but just in case you have but missed something allow me refresh your mind The Primordial Soup Theory suggest that 3.8 billion to 3.55 billion years ago life began in a pond or ocean as a result of the combination of chemicals from the atmosphere and some form of energy to make amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, which would then evolve into the first species on Earth. This seed of evolution known as nucleobases are said to have been found on meteorites and you can read up about the Murchison meteorite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murchison_meteorite https://www.space.com/12569-meteorites-dna-building-blocks-discovery.html Remember you claimed the earth was formed through the bombardment of asteroids (which in itself is immense energy as much as 50 or 100 suns which would explain the energy angle) so why is it hard for you to believe that the origin of life also came here carried by these same asteroids in the water they delivered here to earth since nucleobases have been found and you also said they brought water here and life as science claims began in water, in what is known as the primordial soup? Why do you deny the same science you present? Please try and stay honest when responding next time. Your dishonesty is beginning to tire me out. |
Re: A Thread For The Intelligent. Let's Put Critical Thought To Work by NairalandSARS: 10:47am On Sep 13, 2017 |
How the hell did this thread get to 16 pages? |
Re: A Thread For The Intelligent. Let's Put Critical Thought To Work by AgentOfAllah: 5:54pm On Sep 13, 2017 |
butterflylion:I don't know why you try. It's not particularly difficult to be honest. First of all the Clovis comet nonsense has been disproved and thrown to the trash and is now regarded as a hypothesis and here you were above using its alleged after effects to defend how dinosaurs went extinct. Would there be after effects if such never happened? What has Clovis comet hypothesis got to do with the K-Pg extinction event? These two things address incidents that are separated by 66 million years. So, yeah! Welcome to the party, you're only millions of years late! On the other hand, you did list two articles about a 2009 paper by Gerta Keller, which presents an alternative hypothesis on the cause of the mass extinction. Indeed, Keller's findings suggest that other environmental factors, caused especially by Deccan volcanoes, contributed significantly to the K-Pg mass extinction. I have also now read her subsequent (2014) paper, titled: "Deccan volcanism, the Chicxulub impact, and the end-Cretaceous mass extinction: Coincidence? Cause and effect?", and her argument is compelling enough to make me reassess my original supposition, so I agree that the Deccan volcanoes may very well have contributed far more significantly to the mass extinction than the asteroid impact. I should have been more thorough with my facts. Why would you use a hypothesis in an argument then turn around and accuse me of doing so then asking that i go find out the difference between a hypothesis and a theory? So can you say you are up to date with your science and you know how science works since you are doing exactly what you accuse me of?Note that the operative point in the text you quoted wasn't about the cause of mass extinction, I made that remark just as a side note justifying why you shouldn't wish to witness an asteroid impact event on earth. Nevertheless, the point I really wished to make there is that asteroid impacts are not hypothetical. They are real, and the Yucatan crater is evidence of this, among several others. You also lied when you said you NEVER and CAN NEVER make such a "DUMB" remark as "CHEMISTRY CAN EXPLAIN WHY WATER IS SUITED TO LIFE ON EARTH. Well again you lied. Here is your comment belowWhat I claim I said: AgentOfAllah:What you claimed I said: butterflylion:I don't think those two sentences carry the same meaning, so one of us is clearly lying, and I know it's not me! Remember you claimed the earth was formed through the bombardment of asteroids (which in itself is immense energy as much as 50 or 100 suns which would explain the energy angle)Wait! What do you mean by energy as much as 50 or 100 suns? so why is it hard for you to believe that the origin of life also came here carried by these same asteroids in the water they delivered here to earth since nucleobases have been found and you also said they brought water here and life as science claims began in water, in what is known as the primordial soup?Understand this: I consider every proposition about the origins of life on earth as poorly supported hypotheses. Again, I insist that there is a non-trivial distinction between a theory and a hypothesis in science. If you feel my knowledge is not up to date, please refer me to a peer-reviewed scientific article that substantiates this asteroid panspermia hypothesis, and I will be happy to update myself. You have yet to answer the questions I asked: (1) Why do you think water has any purpose? (2) What's the purpose of the water that exists in comets and asteroids? 6 Likes |
Re: A Thread For The Intelligent. Let's Put Critical Thought To Work by bennyann: 1:03pm On Sep 14, 2017 |
butterflylion: Finally ![]() 1 Like |
Re: A Thread For The Intelligent. Let's Put Critical Thought To Work by francmoda: 5:05pm On Sep 14, 2017 |
NairalandSARS:..... |
Re: A Thread For The Intelligent. Let's Put Critical Thought To Work by CatfishBilly: 1:32pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
Butterflylion, come back naa, I want to see the conclusion of this thread. 2 Likes |
Re: A Thread For The Intelligent. Let's Put Critical Thought To Work by bennyann: 1:55pm On Sep 18, 2017 |
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Re: A Thread For The Intelligent. Let's Put Critical Thought To Work by sonofluc1fer: 12:36am On Sep 19, 2017 |
Troll Thread of the Year.. Great work. |
Re: A Thread For The Intelligent. Let's Put Critical Thought To Work by Queenlovely(f): 1:00am On Sep 19, 2017 |
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Re: A Thread For The Intelligent. Let's Put Critical Thought To Work by sonofluc1fer: 1:27am On Sep 19, 2017 |
Queenlovely:What's the frustration, Ma? Surely, not me. |
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