EB Brain goes from thread to thread no matter the topic spewing his nasty venom and sometimes you just get sick of it.:barf:

Me too. So did the NASA astronauts who risked their lives and successful careers, with family back at home to undercover scientific truths. These guys knew all about "faith". Faith in science and engineering. Faith in each other. As well as faith in God. I don't think they would have made it to the moon without all that faith.

And what if the tools of science confirm that "god made it that way". Must science and religion be mutually exclusive of one another? Certainly the NASA astronauts did not feel that way. Do you think those American heros are stupid like me?

Hey pea brain
 

You are the butt of all jokes and you think your science book has all the answers well buddy boy you are the one that can piss off. You insult everybody and then when it comes back your way you talk about wanting to debate other people. You are a moron. I am just calling a spade a spade and that is pointing out the facts you are a lunatic. I think the rep points what people on this board think of your foul mouth and attitude. You do not bother me buddy you are just another one of satans minions :nono: legion for they are many evil spirits in this world and this is a case of one of them.
Isaac

Faith didn't get them to the moon. Science and technology did. Proof? Pray for your god to to deliver you to the moon.

What, that's absurd?


If science were to prove that "god made it that way", then your god would not be omnipotent AND quite tangible. In fact, he'd being nothing more than an alien being who tricked you into believing he was something that he is not....AND I would have undeniable proof because he would be able to replicate the experiment with like or similar results every time.

Basically what I've been telling you all along, genius, that religion is a hoax designed specifically to control the ignorant masses.

Never claimed science had all the answer....science is the search for answers.

Does the bible teach you to lie like that or did you just pick it up following the teachings of your "savior"?

Explanation: Better known as M106, bright spiral galaxy NGC 4258 is about 30 thousand light years across and 21 million light years away toward the northern constellation Canes Venatici. The yellow and red hues in this composite image show the galaxy's sweeping spiral arms as seen in visible and infrared light. But x-ray and radio data (blue and purple) reveal two extra spiral arms -- arms that don't align with the more familiar tracers of stars, gas, and dust. In fact, an analysis of the x-ray and radio data suggests that the anamolous arms are composed of material heated by shock waves. Detected at radio wavelengths, powerful jets originating in the galaxy's core likely drive the shocks into the disk of NGC 4258.

Tomorrow's picture: pixels in space

So you think I am egging him on
 

You can hand me some more of your negative points matter of fact give me all you got no problem here. You think I am egging Abby on well he is a egg and a bad egg at that. So who ever sent me that comment well you must be one of the cut bait and run type so just keep cutting and running and I will stand and hold the ground that you can't :clap: Maybe you live in a trailer sorry about that part but the rest is what it is. Facts ! Unlike others on this board I consider what you did a complement and it shows your lack of back bone :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Isaac

I REALLY hate to ask you of all people for advice, but exactly where do you check the comments or am I to assume I've accumulated negative 343 without one single comment?

Click on "My SBLive" and scroll down
 

That is where you will find comments.
Isaac

Dang, only 1 today.....I must be slipping.

The points do not mean much
 

They are just a indicator of how your post are received by the people on the board. Want to lay down the sword and have adult conversation ? I have tried and will offer again but I will not take your insults with out returning fire and I see others will not either. Once again back to the question of "choice" and the ball is in your court. I would rather take the high road but if you choose other then that is how I will reply. I will not cut bait and run :rolleyes:
Isaac

Regardless of your ability to understand this simple concept or not, I'm going to explain it to you. When I ask any type of serious question and your response consists of myth and imaginary beings.....I FIND THAT HIGHLY OFFENSIVE. All you have to say is I don't know

When you take my comments out of context or just outright lie about something I've said.....I FIND THAT HIGHLY OFFENSIVE. All you have to do is speak (type) the truth, NOT the truth as you see it.

So you can take the high road all day long, but as long as you are intolerant of my thoughts and opinions and lack the basic skills one needs to exist within a modern society, then expect 10 fold in return.

I dunno about that. If someone (no names specified) wants to make a jack@$$ of himself (or herself) by flaming me without a good reason, I'd just let it go. I don't even try to return fire because I really don't care about the opinions of a person who just wants to get a rise out of me.

"When you argue with an idiot, others can't tell which one the idiot is."

Have it your way brain
 

You insult me with your rude comments so ten fold it will be. One question does everyone on this board get ten fold too or am I the lucky one on the board ?
Isaac

Mentality is easy to waste
 

I don't think braindead knows how to lay down sword,, that's all he knows and can keep warm at night in the hole which he lives. He has a new game on his website, smack th rabbit. I think he has smacking his rabbit to much,,, try smacking yourself with a REALITY CHECK. You must have a night job that shields you from reality, society, and challenging that brain of yours. get some help.

maybe SBLIVE can start a donation thread to aid in your mental rehab!
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Exactly my point. You enjoy telling me how "tolerant" the christians are of your beliefs yet readily admit to not defending your beliefs when they are called into question (second time you've made that statement that I know of)

If that's what you call tolerance....kid, you've got a lot to learn about the world....

I don't see anyone else calling me a Socialist because I support separation of church and state.....get a clue.

You're absolutely right....giving up is a Christian trait.

Notice no other religion has a "savior" who was beaten, tortured, and then crucified by mere mortals.....

I'm not sure he was "crucified" per say, but Mithra was a sacrificed for mankind much the way Jesus was. In fact, Mithra has a LOT in common with Jesus.

Rev. Derrek Younger spoke in one of his sermons all about Mithra. He said, "Mithra is one of your Pagan deities. Mithra's birthday was Dec 25. He had 12 disciples. He was sacrificed to redeem mankind. Before his death, he had a last supper with his 12 disciples of bread and wine. And upon his death, he prophesized that he would once again return to redeem mankind."

Other than him, the Buddhist monks reach Nirvana (oneness with the divine) by fasting and meditating straight until the moment of their death. They literally starve themselves to death in order to reach their equivalent of Heaven.

They are out there, believe me. Christians are not as alone in this respect as you my think.

Anywho, we're off-topic. Let's get back to the Astronomy discussion and leave religion in its proper topics.

Some would say Christanity was copied directly from Mithra and that the two are basically one in the same.

Buddah was not an omnipotent being allowing himself to be sacrificed by mere mortals and neither are his followers.

That may be true, but you certainly haven't proven it.
I can agree, but I doubt it's going to happen.

Explanation: Hurtling through a cosmic dust cloud a mere 400 light-years away, the lovely Pleiades or Seven Sisters star cluster is well-known in astronomical images for its striking blue reflection nebulae. At visible wavelengths, the starlight is scattered and reflected by the dust, but in this portrait in infrared light by the Spitzer Space Telescope, the dust itself glows. The false color image spans about 1 degree or seven light-years at the distance of the Pleiades, with the densest regions of the dust cloud shown in yellow and red hues. Exploring this young nearby cluster, the Spitzer data have revealed many cool low mass stars, brown dwarfs or failed stars, and possible planetary debris disks. Want to see the Pleiades tonight? Look near Venus, the brilliant evening star in the west just after sunset.

Tomorrow's picture: Venus by the Lake

Explanation: Star clusters appear constant because photographs of them are frozen in time. In reality, though, cluster stars swarm the center and frequently fluctuate in brightness. Although the time it takes for stars to cross a cluster is about 100,000 years, the time it takes for a star to fluctuate noticeably can be less than one night. In fact, the above time lapse movie of bright globular cluster M3 was taken over a single night. Most of the variable stars visible above are RR Lyrae stars, stars that can quickly double their brightness while becoming noticeably bluer. Furthermore, RR Lyrae stars vary their light in a distinctive pattern that allows unique identification. Lastly, since RR Lyrae stars all have the same intrinsic brightness, identifying them and measuring how dim they appear tells how far they are, since faintness means farness. These distances, in turn, help calibrate the scale of the entire universe.

Tomorrow's picture: sky square

This one's really bitchin'
 

What could cause a nebula to appear square? No one is quite sure. The hot star system known as MWC 922, however, appears to be imbedded in a nebula with just such a shape. The above image combines infrared exposures from the Hale Telescope on Mt. Palomar in California, and the Keck-2 Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. A leading progenitor hypothesis for the square nebula is that the central star or stars somehow expelled cones of gas during a late developmental stage. For MWC 922, these cones happen to incorporate nearly right angles and be visible from the sides. Supporting evidence for the cone hypothesis includes radial spokes in the image that might run along the cone walls. Researchers speculate that the cones viewed from another angle would appear similar to the gigantic rings of supernova 1987A, possibly indicating that a star in MWC 922 might one day itself explode in a similar supernova.

Explanation: Planet HD 209458b is evaporating. It is so close to its parent star that its heated atmosphere is simply expanding away into space. Some astronomers studying this distant planetary system now believe they have detected water vapor among the gases being liberated. This controversial claim, if true, would mark the first instance of planetary water beyond our Solar System, and indicate anew that life might be sustainable elsewhere in the universe. HD 209458b is known as a hot Jupiter type system because it involves a Jupiter-type planet in a Mercury-type orbit. Although spectroscopic observations from the Hubble Space Telescope are the basis for the water detection claim, the planetary system is too small and faint to image. Therefore, an artist's impression of the HD 209458b system is shown above. Research into the atmospheric composition of HD 209458b and other extrasolar planets is continuing.

Explanation: How do we know that dark matter isn't just normal matter exhibiting strange gravity? A new observation of gravitationally magnified faint galaxies far in the distance behind a massive cluster of galaxies is shedding new dark on the subject. The above detailed image from the Hubble Space Telescope indicates that a huge ring of dark matter likely exists surrounding the center of CL0024+17 that has no normal matter counterpart. What is visible in the above image, first and foremost, are many spectacular galaxies that are part of CL0024+17 itself, typically appearing tan in color. Next, a close inspection of the cluster center shows several unusual and repeated galaxy shapes, typically more blue. These are multiple images of a few distant galaxies, showing that the cluster is a strong gravitational lens. It is the relatively weak distortions of the many distant faint blue galaxies all over the image, however, that indicates the existence of the dark matter ring. The computationally modeled dark matter ring spans about five million light years and been digitally superimposed to the image in diffuse blue. A hypothesis for the formation of the huge dark matter ring holds that it is a transient feature formed when galaxy cluster CL0024+17 collided with another cluster of galaxies about one billion years ago, leaving a ring similar to when a rock is thrown in a pond.