1. Is the Universe Actually Made of Math?

Comment #195586 by zoobiewa on June 18, 2008 at 2:47 pm

Doesn't the world of math seem independent of time? I know that there's something to the speed of light being related to the existence of time, but that doesn't seem to be a law of math. Why can't I break the speed of light in a mathematical equation?

2. Trailer for Religulous

Comment #190908 by zoobiewa on June 9, 2008 at 9:40 pm

Thank you Lucas for defending Maher's stance on animal testing.

I also wanted to write that although I am all for trying to figure out ways for human medicine to progress, I do not like the fact that we torture and injure animals to gain some of these tools. It makes me uneasy and ill.

I got a C in my jr. high biology class because I was so conflicted over the "insect collection" that I turned in three or four that I had found dead. I killed one in the freezer and felt horrible about it and knew I could never do it again.

It's simply a part of science that I have to shut my mind off to and pretend doesn't happen.

MadX: There are always other ways. If we had a perfect understanding of chemistry we could tailor drugs through computer simulations. Hopefully we'll be able to do that in the next hundred or so years and animal testing will not be necessary.

PETA, of course, feels legitimate in their actions because they feel they are battling atrocities. If you, MadX, reframed your definitions and your terms, you could easily arrive at the justification of what they do (which, in reality, is actually pretty tame compared to the torture and murder of living things).

3. Chimps beat humans in memory test

Comment #94335 by zoobiewa on December 5, 2007 at 10:50 am

If they can have these cognitive powers then surely they can know God as well!! We must begin the missionarism at once and get these primate heathens SAVED! The chimps deserve an equal chance at heaven.