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Did you guys know the first episode was out already?April 14th my ass.http://www.watchcartoononline.com/the-legend-of-korra-season-1-episode-1Yes it IS in English.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_SteveAlex got the part about his credibility.

Well, there's that little detail about how even though he's a harsh critic of evolution, he refuses to theorize about the origin of life...and he's also a big proponent of the Intelligent Design movement, which states that something must've been consciously making the world as we know it, because if one little detail was off, there would be no life as we know it.This, if looked at closely, is really just creationism without the Big Guy, masquerading as "science". It's pretty much saying that the world was tailor-made for us, as opposed to evolution saying that we were tailor-made for the world. Doesn't seem like a big distinction, but it's there and it's a HUGE one. Also, only one of them really logically makes sense (HINT: It's not creationism).EDIT: Gonna keep playing devil's advocate here, mostly because it's fun. I looked at the list you gave us, Wombat, and I was absolutely astonished to see how many engineers there are on it. In fact, from just a cursory glance, I'd say that the physical scientists/engineers outweigh the biological scientists probably around 3 to 1. And I'd never heard of a single one of those people, sorry.Now, I'm going to name just a few of the most famous and influential people in science in the past 30 or so years: Carl Sagan (Agnostic) Stephen Hawking (Atheist) Douglas Adams (Atheist) Bob Bakker (Ecumenical Christian, but expressly does NOT believe in creationism) Albert Einstein (Agnostic). I'm sorry, but I searched the internet and could not find one well-known scientist (and I consider myself very well-versed in current scientifical events/people) that advocates creationism. It honestly looks like to me that if you want to be famous today in science, you CAN'T believe in creationism. I found a website that listed "Famous creationist scientists". Not one of them was from after the 1920s or so. Sorry, man.

>Thread about stupid stuff you did as a child >Thread turns into Religious/Scientific discussion

Heh, I practically live by this. I'm often surrounded by overly-religious people, and I admit I didn't make that distinction in my post. There are good-natured people everywhere in every demographic, but my main problem is with the overly-religious. Those that commit crimes, hate crimes, and even sin against thier own beliefs, and then hide behind thier religion, asserting that it protects them and allows them to act in such a way. And then there are the overly-religious people that cannot form a coherent thought without considering thier chosen beliefs. There are such people that blatantly ignore science and reasoning and assert that it does not exist if not stated in thier religion. Those you can't form a thoughtful argument with, because they leap back to "My religion says otherwise". I kind of hate arguing with these people because I like arguing (But not like heated arguments, I guess just like debates). Good point. I'll admit I didn't look at your side of this argument, having never been a man of religion. Maybe I shouldn't have used the word "weapon" - its connotations are too grim for what I was going for. Uh, I can't really think of a better word (I was going to use "tool", but that implies you're being used and that's kind of not very nice). And on a less srsargument note (but still related), I'm actually really happy we manged to debate about this in a civil manner. I just like arguing. Yeah, I don't see every point of view, but I'd like to, and that's what arguements are for. I think I can safely walk out of this arguement and know that today, both of us won and I walked out with newfound knowledge. Oh, and ♥♥♥♥, thread derailment. I didn't think my post would spark such an outburst, but I suppose no one was hurt. I... can't say it's very fun. I'm good at shooting people that are standing still/moving in a straight line, but if they start dogding, then I'll lag the crosshair behind them, trying to catch up, and I'll fire and I'll twitch my mouse toward thier head in some inane attempt to catch up and I'll end up shooting like a yard in front of them and then they start shooting me and then I rage-switch to scout.

And by the time you die and respawn, there'll be 3 more sentries up. You're like a hydra that was made specifically to cause stalemates and kill fun.

Well, um, let's see, there's, uh, there's uh, Henry.I killed Henry. He was a neighbour, he was a, uh, he was a classmate of mine, um. The thing is, it was in the woods and I, uh, hit him over and over again with a rock and, er, I killed Henry, um.But it was partly his fault, 'cause he shouldn't have kept teasing me about the size of my ears; they-uh, they found the body, of course, and they gave him a good funeral, he had a nice funeral, pictures in the paper and everything, I mean they kept looking for the person who did it, they never, they never caught that person. Um, that, that's me, heh. But-uh, I want to say I'm sorry Henry and again, I was a kid. I didn't know any better.