The PhD's are for studying the history and culture around the book, of which there is much. It's had a tremendous impact on humanity, but that doesn't make it true. The only theologians I know are Atheist. They study it as mythology.

The writer didn't just agree with the decision. He gave the scientific reasons why the alternative was not yet a viable option.

Just because something is important and needs to get done, does not mean it is profitable. It's a very good thing the government funds so much early technology, before it reaches the point where it can be used to make profitable products. Otherwise, literally no one else would fund these things, and your beloved…

The reason is that we will then need to start teaching Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, just to make sure all ideas get equal attention, and then our teachers will be there all day, trying to cover far too much material. If they want to hear creationism, they can go to the church, temple, mosque or synagogue of their…

They can bill me.

Slippery slopes are never a sane answer to anything. It takes a reasonable thing and then takes it to the most unreasonable extreme. It's flawed reasoning to exaggerate a good thing to the point where it becomes bad, to justify going against it early.

As I have said so, so many times... Just because something isn't real, that doesn't mean it's not important. Every war in history was fought over things that aren't real. Ideas and their significance to people tend to be pretty heavy stuff.

Yeah, German was a beautifully rigid language in all regards except for the infuriating der, die and das. Then den, dem, and all the other possible combinations. Japanese is also very rigid, except its counting systems and kanji.

I think you're confusing "carbon" with "hydrocarbon." We don't burn carbon. We can't really. It's an atomic element. Matter does not get much smaller than that. We burn hydrocarbon molecules, which break up into hydrogen and carbon. We can make more, too. We'll never run out. Still, it's dirty, and getting too…

Wait... you think the government "asks" for taxes from people? Taxes are not a request, they're a demand, and the government does not need a reason to demand taxes. They'll take them without any justification. They don't need to come up with any big lies to make us hand over our share.

I always wanted to find a way to split CO2 into C and O2 using a device inside the lungs, so you'd never need to take another breath. Your lungs could endlessly recycle one breath for the rest of your life. But then I'm not sure how we'd talk.

Don't give Neal Adams any ideas. He's troubled.

Men would lie and say they have it on when they don't. At least, enough of them to ruin it for the rest of us. Men don't have as much to lose, since it's harder for them to catch diseases and they can't get pregnant.

Wait... that's not Knight Rider?

McShane certainly never got to talk or act like this on Kings, though.

I believe that gentleman pronounced it more like "Swejin."

Should have agreed to save the Princess only to ransom her back.

Exactly. Starting from the level of bacteria or even viruses, and working our way up the chain to humans, it makes sense that chain would keep going, beyond us, to the point where what are essentially living things would appear, from our perspective, to be gods. The same way I always imagine I look to a fish when I…

Sure it is. It's a bold line to cross that means no-one is off limits in the movie. The example I always remember best is the 1980s remake of the Blob. In fact, it was also the kid brother character's jerky friend, like in this one.

Thanks Lauren and Cletus! I just noticed Lauren wrote "telekinesis" in her description, which sounded better. If I was going the mostly-biological/historical route, maybe I would say that the white-skinned branch of humanoids were telekinetic, so they were dominating or even enslaving the Neanderthals and others, but…