General Science Discussion Thread!

Chuck Ballymoo said:
I believe creation because for one reason the vast majority of people believe ghosts exist. So if there are spirits, logically that means there is a creator spirit. I have heard the most prominent atheist on YouTube say that he knows from personal experience ghosts are real, but he still thinks God is bullsh!t. And to this I say WTF. I am really puzzled by such a contradiction.

As for ghosts existing, it cannot be proven 100% to all in the world the same way God cannot be. Spirits cannot be recorded on cameras. But sometimes the human eye can see them. Yes, sometimes people can be hoaxed, and sometimes people can mistake something natural for supernatural. But millions upon millions upon millions upon millions of people throughout world history who have claimed to see them do not fall only into those two categories. At least, not logically.
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Millions of people have also claimed to have seen bigfoot, the loch ness monster, el chupacabra and a bunch of other stupid shit that isn't real
 
ladies and gentlemen, meet nessie

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whales frequently wander into loch ness, every couple months some poor whale gets lost and finds its way through the canal into the lake
no monster
 
that was a fraud
the famous photo everyone thinks of, was confirmed a fraud

the accounts of people who really thought they saw a creature, depicted it as serpentine, sometimes with fins or humps, no head sticking out
 
Chuck Ballymoo said:
Is there proof angels and demons exist?
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You could say that someone who is truly suffering from horrible psychosis is causing an object to levitate by tapping into undiscovered parts of the brain
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There is no proof.

Also, the bolded part reminds me of one of the stupidest statements that people believe in, the "we use only 10% of our brain" total male cow fecal matter. We use ALL of our brain, we tap into ALL of our brain, just at different times. Anyone who believes this 10% myth without doing any research probably uses only a small fraction of the brain, anyway.

Just because a lot of people believe in something doesn't mean it is correct. This can be derived from culture, the human tendency to see patterns, and the human brain's tendency to recognize faces on a lot of things.

This is different from a scientific consensus, by the way.
 
for the record i was joking

water bears could go extinct seriously they're so damn terrifying

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that last one's not really a water bear but still
 
Hypochondriac Mario said:
Chuck Ballymoo said:
Is there proof angels and demons exist?
[...]
You could say that someone who is truly suffering from horrible psychosis is causing an object to levitate by tapping into undiscovered parts of the brain
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There is no proof.

Also, the bolded part reminds me of one of the stupidest statements that people believe in, the "we use only 10% of our brain" total male cow fecal matter. We use ALL of our brain, we tap into ALL of our brain, just at different times. Anyone who believes this 10% myth without doing any research probably uses only a small fraction of the brain, anyway.

Just because a lot of people believe in something doesn't mean it is correct. This can be derived from culture, the human tendency to see patterns, and the human brain's tendency to recognize faces on a lot of things.

This is different from a scientific consensus, by the way.
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I had an entire class who thought that was true but if you only used 10% of your brain you couldn't function like at all
 
Refrigerator Kirby said:
Hypochondriac Mario said:
Chuck Ballymoo said:
Is there proof angels and demons exist?
[...]
You could say that someone who is truly suffering from horrible psychosis is causing an object to levitate by tapping into undiscovered parts of the brain
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There is no proof.

Also, the bolded part reminds me of one of the stupidest statements that people believe in, the "we use only 10% of our brain" total male cow fecal matter. We use ALL of our brain, we tap into ALL of our brain, just at different times. Anyone who believes this 10% myth without doing any research probably uses only a small fraction of the brain, anyway.

Just because a lot of people believe in something doesn't mean it is correct. This can be derived from culture, the human tendency to see patterns, and the human brain's tendency to recognize faces on a lot of things.

This is different from a scientific consensus, by the way.
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I had an entire class who thought that was true but if you only used 10% of your brain you couldn't function like at all
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Ok, so today:

"We use only 10% of our brains."

Myth busted.