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I don't think that is the general consensus. The general consensus - right now - is that there were equal amounts of antimatter and matter, but that symmetry is broken between the two - ie. antimatter is not exactly the same as matter, and for some reason, in our universe, decays a little more...

Huh? If the Earth did not spin, then it would have been shaped differently throughout its formation - in short it would be rounder. I don't see why there would be more mountains, though.

And hence war disproves God? Oh puh-leez.

Biology doesn't really have a definition of life. Biology works on a set of objects agreed to be living by a specific set of people with similar senses of intuition, and hides pretty damn well from when opinions differ. The definitions of life used by biology only work for a small and limited...

Isn't that an unprovable assertion, especially since we don't know what perception and consciousness is? What's wrong with saying that physicalness is undefined without a point of view?

Neither can humans without education, instincts encoded in our genetics, and the appearance of problems and stimuli from the natural world. Which are instructions, of a sort.

It's a little dangerous, though, as a definition since some physical events seems to disobey cause-and-effect. But it would be the definition I prefer too, so long as we include influences like altering probabilities, as well as direct stuff.

Alpha Centauri is a star. Me? Jupiter. Or, preferably, one of the moons.

Science is wonder and scepticism. If we define faith as belief without scepticism, then the belief of a scientist for a given idea is not really faith, because he is making an effort to prove it wrong or not-wrong.

A single atom, yes. One single atom. You get more of it breathing.

Pseudoscientific cliches are born, when fact and fiction collide. Joining up the dots of documents which were not intended to be primarily historical, especially their most extraordinary claims, does not make them more, or less true. A meta-fiction is still fiction without hard, objective facts.

Not. Example: The coso artifact looks like a spark plug, because it is a spark plug. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/coso.html This should give you a clue as to why context is frequently misleading in getting a date, especially for singular items.

Einstein isn't God, people. In any case, the article uses a very interesting device of cycling attribution. At anyone point in the article, it is tough to figure out who is saying what. This is what I unravelled it into. 1. A group of US scientists send light pulse FTL - though it depends...

Heat is a type of kinetic energy.

The question is... Why?