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So I am certain I understand your response - You are disagreeing with me for agreeing with you Wiki is a wonderful resource, but it is limited, and now we know it has been shepherded by the CIA, so even their material should be taken with a grain of salt. Prometheus was a part of the formal...

Actually, they have found an older Australopith, a juvenile, dated several million years older. I think why Lucy was set apart is bipedalism, and association with the Leakey family name. So "they" have specimens even older than Australopiths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australopithecus

Only in the most oblique and distant manner. Since political discussion has been quelled here, and it is crystal clear that poli sci discussions will only devolve, I would think it prudent to leave the subject alone. Suffice to say, in an oblique and distant manner, politics existed among...

Looking again it would seem Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" is one such retelling of the themes.

You appear to base your atheism on a great deal of unfounded faith. Science, all science, is an attempt at Truth, primarily using logic. Science is a form of Truth. But Science is not the be all and end all sum total of Truth, because parts of the universe are illogical. Love and beauty are...

Here's the path to enlightenment!

Another politics masquerading as religion thread?

Arthur C Clarke. Care to add the 3 Laws of Robotics by Isaac Asimov as well? Very well...prove it. If the subject is logical, it should not be difficult at all. :)

Love Beauty Spooky Action at a Distance What is it about a cooing infant that can turn a strong man into mush?

Oh, evolution is VERY scientific. Science isn't Truth. Science, all science, is an attempt at Truth, primarily using logic. Science is a form of Truth. But Science is not the be all and end all sum total of Truth, because parts of the universe are illogical.

Fair enough.

I don't fear death. Today is a good day to die. Seems to me we've already established your illogic and faith based beliefs many times in the past few weeks.

Conversations have a habit of wandering around here...seems I was forewarned of that ages ago by a certain site administrator... ;)

If you're correct, what do I have to lose? If I'm correct...? ;)

That is called Pascal's Wager

Of Labor Relations, and of Suicide Of Lycantropes and Witches, and how to Turn the Tide Of Alley Cats and Steamships, and Permissive Genocide So Spoke the Ancient Man of Truth as he sat by my side He spoke of Many Things of Old, both Bright Colored and Decayed Of Castles Mighty Kings had Built...

Yes. Aside from the limitations of analogies, a cup of seawater near a discharge may have sewage, hardly exemplary of the whole. Another sample may have more salt than a sample taken elsewhere or at a different time of year (Haline cycle). Thermohaline circulation - Wikipedia Another sample...

If you're a fly, I must be a hornet But I'm still one of G!d's creatures...

Welcome aboard, James Davies!

I'm sorry we came to butting heads, but I still consider RJM a friend