4 years is a long time, but you missed the part (or you know the entire article) where it is explained that everyone goes to cryo-sleep in the mean time.

Actuallyif those fans took the time to read some, they'd find many, many, many examples of space opera without faster than light spaceships or communications.

Well, you can argue that reality itself is horribly broken in some "obscure corner cases" (quantum tunneling - if finding a solid particle on the other side of a solid friggin wall isn't broken, I don't know what is). So, probably, there is indeed a point where you can say "good enough"... if someone didn't bother to…

Without eye glasses I would have had a much more difficult life starting in 4th grade, in middle school I became diabetic, and today as a 31 year old with CF, I await a lung transplant. So, it's hard to choose just one thing, but since items made of glass are directly or indirectly involved in all three, I will give a…

Close for you to believe it and your brain to completely buy into it. God I hate smartass nitpickers.

Well, I'll just put this right here; http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/truth?s… But beyond that, I could argue about your explanation of multiple truths. Wherein I'd ask you some basic questions of what is real and true, and you'd agree on all of them save for the one the deals with this argument. Which leads me…

Atheism is the proposition that there is inadequate evidence to justify theism. It's not a bag of explanations for scientific questions.

The origin of species by means of natural selection makes no claim on the origin of life, this is true. But there is no evidence that life was specially created by an intelligent…

What you are proposing is lunacy, even if it is framed in a very nice sitting around a campfire singing Kumbayaa super inclusive way.

YECs have a preponderance of factual, peer-reviewed, thoroughly researched evidence disproving their ideas, ideas that I might mention dont even seem to square with the Christianity of…

I kind of disagree when those beliefs are rooted in an astounding willful ignorance - and borne largely of an inflated sense of self and arrogance. These beliefs can actually be quite dangerous and are certainly detrimental to the progress of society as a whole.

Granted, I am not saying we should yell in these people's…

The headline may imply it, but I'll say it outright: there is something wrong with believing in creationism, just as there is something wrong with believing in anything for which there is no evidence, and against which there are mountains of evidence. The word for such a belief is a delusion, and history has shown…

I think you have that backwards. Most young earthers believe that evolution or a universe billions of years old would disprove God by contradicting a literal interpretation of the Bible.

I don't get it.

My answer, and probably many others', is a resounding YES. I was fortunate enough to outgrow the worst of my migraines after going through puberty. However, I would have tried anything during any of my week long hibernation in a dark, quiet room or instead of my two hospital stays being supervised while trying two…

No. The less crap cluttering up my desk, the better. I envision a world without wires and peripherals. Preferably everything would just exist in implants in my brain, so that Facebook could sell my thoughts and Google would serve up porn suited to my tastes and horniness at any given time.

..and don't forget global warming and cat pregnancies.

Just comparing the light gathering power to the Hubble, the Webb is going to revolutionize sooo many areas of astronomy—cosmology, galactography, interferometry, spectroscopy, the list goes on an on—-the applications to xenobiology or SETI are just an incidental.

I think one of the problems is that we've defined 'miracle' as 'something which is outside of the realm of the natural' and God as the 'god of the gaps' - that is, 'we don't understand this, so it must be God'. I think both of these are bad ways to look at these things. Does something cease being miraculous simply…

*heavy sigh* We all die alone and there is no heaven ._.; The rabbit was in the hat the whole time... Science is discovering answers to spiritual things that are not inline with the strings-and-bubble-gum structures of my hope that there is an afterlife.

W-T-F is that G-I-F?

More or less, yeah.