[In discussing the Large Hadron Collider]
I find it strangely humorous, that man will spend billions of dollars to find the starting of life, and all we spent was maybe forty dollars for a bible.
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I don't really think that the LHC is looking for the start of "life" per se, but whatever it finds will be much more then can be foung using a bible.
PS - $40? You were ripped off!
Also, you are a douchebag.
Is this an admission that Fundies are not a part of mankind?
Hell, I could have told you that for nothing.
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kcofohio, please, please, please can I sell you and all your friends and relatives Bibles? I'll give you a special deal of $35.99!
They are searching for a particle whose existence is predicted by Higgs Field theory.
How you got from there to "the starting of life", only Pat Robertson knows.
I find it strangely humorous, that man will spend billions of dollars to find the starting of life, and all we spent was maybe forty dollars for a bible.
Oh, believe me, we think it's just as hilarious - but in a slightly different way.
@953044
"Ok, how does the super collider equate to the beginning of life?"
This is what happens when you try to understand a fundie brain:
My best guess is, that the LHC moves particles at the same speed that God's magic penis must move when it implants souls into fertilized human eggs. This speed was first theorized in Spaceballs by the great theoretician Brooks (the other, smarter Mel), who first called it "Ludicrous Speed" and then simply referred to it as "plaid".
Or it's also possible that they think God will take a flying screw at it, mistaking it for a rolling doughnut.
This is my best guess so far. Don't make the same mistake I did.
It isn't looking for the origins of life, it is looking for the basic building blocks of matter and trying to further our knowlege of their behaviour and characteristics.
Matter/=Life
Perhaps if you want to discuss things at the "grown ups" table you should at least attempt to know the issue first?
The billions of dollars will likely solve several of the greatest questions in physics...
Whereas your 40 dollars will only solve questions like "How can I straighten this wobbly table" and "Oh no, whatever can I whipe my ass with"
@G0d: this reminds me of what I just did when it started to get dark. I said:
"LET THERE BE LIGHT."
THERE WAS LIGHT!
So you spent $40 on a bible? And you're posting on rapture ready. You obviously haven't bothered to, you know, read the bible. If you had, you'd recognize it for the crock of shit that it is.
Hrm... ok, smartypants. How does the bible account for the function of the weak, strong, EM, and gravitational forces? Strong is the force holding the similarly charged protons in an atom together while EM forces make like-charged items push away. Similarly, electrons have opposite charge to protons, yet they never approach them--weak force. What does your Bible tell you about this?
I find it strangely humorous, that man will spend tens of thousands of dollars for a colon resection, radiation and chemo, and all I spent was $9.95 plus shipping and handling for the Magic Kancer-Kuring Krystal! Excuse me - gotta run - there's blood leaking out of my butt again ...
Now add up what your brand of Christianity has pulled in in ,,oh,,just a decade even. And provided no answers to anything
"I find it strangely humorous, that man will spend billions of dollars to find the starting of life, and all we spent was maybe forty dollars for a bible."
If you spent $40 on a Bible you're a rube. Also, I'd like to talk to you about some land in Florida and the possible sale of a bridge I happen to have...
I find it extremely humorous you don't find even a sleight difference in credibility from the price tag alone.
I could buy a news paper to learn about what's going on in the world, or I could listen to a hobo rant about the Illuminati government robotic aliens for free. think about it.
"Haw Haw! Why would that neighbor of ours be trying to invent a 'toilet'? Shitting in a hole in the ground has worked great for us all so far! Why, mine's right next to my well, for the extra, extra convenience! It was worth having to pay the craphole-digger double."
@ Jonny Truant:
That's not what the weak force does. When you say electrons never approach protons, you're probably referring to the fact that the Bohr radius is not zero -- that the electron lives some distance out from the nucleus. That's a consequence of elementary quantum mechanics (the Heisenberg principle, and so on) rather than a property of a specific force.
The weak force is the thing that makes beta decay go -- very roughly speaking, it couples together particles of different sorts, allowing processes like neutron -> proton + electron + antineutrino.
To play Devil's Advocate: There are more expensive bibles, which justify their price tag because they are for example illustrated.
Of course, this does not make their fairytales any more true.
As an atheist, I paid nearly £30 twenty-something years ago for my best Bible.
Mind you, it's well over two hundred years old, over five inches inches thick (in two volumes) and has dozens of illos. If I had the heart I'd take the illos out, frame them and sell them each at more than I paid for the book to make a quick profit.
But I love books to much.
You get what you pay for.
Edit: To those folks saying that $40 is too much to pay for a bible, you're right-if all you're talking about is your basic bible. Those are a lot cheaper than $40. However, then you get into areas like annotated bibles, bibles with indicies in them, maybe small concordances, whatever. Those I can see paying $40 for if I didn't want to bother getting to my computer every time I wanted to look something up.
To use an example from upthread, while a Whopper may be cheaper than a Porterhouse, the Porterhouse is considered to be of more value because of it's cut, preparation, etc.
Yeah... let's go over this, the Bible is the MOST SOLD BOOK OF ALL TIME! Just behind the Bible is The Diary of Ann Frank. Let's put this into perspective, for hundreds of years people have been buying the Bible. Not just that but the number of people who buy the Bible today has increased dramaticly since the olden times. And by increased dramaticly, I mean billions buy this book now (or rather billions of copies are sold). That being said, it is completely probable that more money has been spent on the Bible collectively then on ANY space project.
I suppose that it's a waste of time describing you as a numskull, However, you are a numskull.
You probably cant imagine anything more advanced than a process used to bind pages of text into a cover.
If you run into the Gideons, you can get parts of the Bible for free. Hubby and me have one each, he has a green one, from his military service, I have a red one that I received in school. He also has a complete Bible, which I very much doubt he has voluntary opened, ever.
I guess some people receive a Bible as a gift during Confirmation. I wouldn't know, as I didn't go trough with it. I had no friends during those years, only bullies, and I didn't want to spend a second more than I had to with those people.
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