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#3-When the lunar lander was designed by NASA they gave it huge foot pads that were designed to cushion the lander as it sat down on the moon's surface. They had expected many feet of dust on the lunar surface due to the accumulation of particles on the surface, the amount of debris in deep space, the gravity of the moon, and the lack of atmosphere.All their calculations, combined with their assumption that the moon was many millions of years old guarranteed many feet of dust accumulated on the surface.

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Originally posted by Bwana Bunduki:
Does the Pope stating that God was behind the "Big Bang" influence this conversation any?

Jeff

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I do not wish to offend anyone! I simply do my best to speak the truth, and sometimes the truth hurts...

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So, now that both "sides" have explained themselves, perhaps it would be recomendable to get back to the main topic.


Personaly I think the idea of cloning a mammoth is really neat. After a decade or 2 of being kept in private or in zoos, I hope they will let us hunt them.
I wouldn't have any problem with hunting a "canned" mammoth. I wonder if they will have tuskless cow and non-trophy bull permits...

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I have found that many GOD fearing people compromise their Biblical beliefs because they want to hold hands with every body. They might be doing it for good reasons, but compromising Biblical teaching for whatever reason is wrong.

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Originally posted by Express_Rifles:
433,000,000 Mohammedans believe that the Koran was brought by an angel from heaven; 335,000,000 Hindus believe one of their gods, Siva, has six arms; 153,000,000 Buddhists believe they will be reincarnated; 904,000,000 Christians believe a god made the world in six days, Joshua stopped the sun by yelling at it, and Jesus was born of a virgin and nullified natural laws to perform miracles.

There is absolutely no scientific proof of any of these claims. Science has shown them to be contrary to all known facts. It is more intelligent to classify them as false. Religions are all based upon the primitive superstitions of ignorant, stone-age men who had no knowledge of science and thought the world was flat. The Catholic Church imprisoned Galileo for life and burned Bruno at the stake because they disagreed with these superstitious beliefs.

These primitive beliefs have been kept alive by a vast army of priests, preachers, and rabbis because it is to their great profit to promote them, first, by imposing them on the helpless brains of children, and second, by saturating the air, TV, press, and schools with their childish superstitions and unreasonable claims. They fool the ignorant and make the gullible and the intelligent alike pay tribute to them. Their multi-billion-dollar properties and incomes are exempt from taxes; they get half-fare on trains, busses, and planes; and receive billions of dollars in grants of taxpayers' money to help build up their political power, wealth, and luxurious living. Taxes could be cut 10 percent if churches paid their just share. That would mean a probable saving of 20 billion dollars a year to the people of the U.S. every year of their lives. Some priests also indoctrinated with superstition from childhood probably believe what they preach. It pays them handsomely to do so.

Religious beliefs are against common sense. There is no god, just because priests say so. There are no angels, devils, heavens, hells, ghosts, witches, nor miracles. These superstitious beliefs are promoted for the purpose of making the gullible believe that by paying money to the priest-class, they will be favored by one of the gods. There is nothing supernatural -- nothing contrary to natural law.

Religion has caused untold ignorance, murder, torture, fear, poverty, unhappiness, wars, and has kept the world 10,000 years behind the times. It still does, while the millions support the priestly loafers in comfort and ease. For ages the independent thinkers have been murdered, ostracized, tortured, and suppressed and their writings destroyed. Only in recent years have a few courageous thinkers been free to criticize religions.

Great thinkers and scientists -- Voltaire, Thomas Paine, Charles Bradlaugh, Luther Burbank, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Edison, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Henry L. Mencken, Charles Smith, Joseph Lewis, Rupert Hughes, Bertrand Russell, H.G. Wells, Mark Twain, Herbert Spencer, Thomas Huxley, Clarence Darrow, Chapman Cohen, George McDonald, George Bernard Shaw, and hundreds of others -- have discarded all or most of the religious beliefs.

This will be shocking to the unfortunate victim brain-whipped by religious indoctrination from childhood. But those who have a spark of intelligence will examine the facts, will stop paying tribute to the religious profiteers, and lose their fear of a mythical god and mythical hell.

If the gods which foolish people pray to were decent beings they would not permit innocent children to die of cancer, be blind, suffer from polio, muscular dystrophy, syphilis. A good god would not have manufactured fleas, bedbugs, chiggers, lice, rattlesnakes, sharks, deadly germs, sickness, diseased brains, idiots, and insanity. All these things are the result of blind, natural evolution. A just god would not cause some innocent people to die or be disabled for life in airplane, train, and ship disasters while others survived.

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Religious beliefs are against common sense. There is no god, just because priests say so.

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God & politics.... two things worth avoiding while discussing Mammoths.

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Originally posted by jdollar:
since the world is ending in May 2012, it's all a moot point- the end of days is almost upon us. better get in a good hunt while you can.

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Originally posted by eezridr:
Curious what a Mammoth feasted upon in its environment. I have been up on the tundra a few times. It does not seem like enough food to nourish such an animal; perhaps alders??. They may have actually been pretty rare to begin with. Never witnessed herbivores munching on evergreens but I suppose nature adapts.

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Originally posted by jdollar:
since the world is ending in May 2012, it's

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Originally posted by Frostbit:

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Originally posted by jdollar:
since the world is ending in May 2012, it's all a moot point- the end of days is almost upon us. better get in a good hunt while you can.

Ah crap!! I'm booked for June 2012. That sucks.

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Originally posted by jdollar:

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Originally posted by Frostbit:

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Originally posted by jdollar:
since the world is ending in May 2012, it's all a moot point- the end of days is almost upon us. better get in a good hunt while you can.

Ah crap!! I'm booked for June 2012. That sucks.

don't sweat it. end of days has been pushed back to Dec. 2012 to let us have 1 more hunting season-MAKE IT A GOOD ONE!!!!!!!