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1. 1 day ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Healthcare in Canada is administered at the provincial level. It can be quite different from province to province. If the people you have talked to are mostly from one province, then it might not be representative of the country as a whole. My father lives in New Brunswick and he is very happy with the healthcare system there. If you are in AZ, the snowbirds you are meeting are likely from the west (eastern snowbirds tend to go to Florida).

2. 5 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   There are 49 other states in the US

3. 8 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Deep Thought said that the answer was 42

4. 10 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Interesting note on miracles, they seem to have stopped happening once the general public started getting educated.

5. 11 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Was his name Calvin?

6. 11 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   You seem adept at creating and defeating straw-man arguments. I never said that abiogenesis was scientific reality or proven, only that I thought it the most likely theory. I do not equate improbable with impossible as you seem to.

   Furthermore, I did not say that creationism has been disproven, it is a theory which has no evidence, much like abiogenesis. However, creationism leads to a different paradox such as where did the being come from who created everything and how where they themselves created? The bible is not evidence of creationism. Every culture has their own creation myths simply because many people feel a need to have a simple explanation for such things. Each of these creation myths are different so who is to say which one of them is true, if any.

   Feel free to believe whatever you want, I was purely interested in the claim that there was disproof for abiogenesis (which boils down to equating disparate terms and proofs which boil down to “we don’t fully understand it yet”) and proof for creationism (which boils down to “look how complex things are, that could not possibly have evolved”). I don’t believe in creationism but I accept that I could be wrong.

7. 11 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Agreed, people can believe what they want. My issue is that Snoots was claiming that there is proof for his belief and that there is disproof for the alternative belief. I just wanted to know what proof and disproof exists since he was claiming that it does definitively exist.

8. 12 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Spot on prediction, I had not heard that line before, they equate impossible with improbable but that does not a disproof make.

9. 12 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   So, your proof that abiogenesis is impossible boils down to a math equation that does not equal zero. That is not proof of impossibility but improbability. The two are not the same.

   Furthermore, where is the extreme amount of evidence supporting the intentional formation of biological life? I was not aware that there was any evidence for that. You can’t use the same math equation and call the inverse of it an extreme amount of evidence.

   If you look at how many planets there are in the universe and multiply that by the small chance of life starting on one of them, then the odds start becoming more likely. The actual odds don’t really matter, a non-zero chance is a chance nonetheless and no one has been able to provide a more plausible theory.

10. 12 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

    Who disproved abiogenesis? If this has been done, it would be interesting to see how it was done. In order to do this, you would need to recreate the earth’s environment 3.5 billion years ago and then observe. Failure to get a positive result is not a negative result, it is an inconclusive result. Until I see some proof that it is impossible or that some other method actually happened (or is at least more likely), abiogenesis seems to be the most likely possibility. The only other plausible explanation would require abiogenesis happening on some other planet and ending up here via a collision with an asteroid or meteor.