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Originally Posted by Detector
If they had their way smoking would be baned period. Land of the free my ass. |
Stop using ambiguous terms like "they" and grouping people together into categories such as "they", things are not that simple in reality. If they refers to anti-smoking nazi's then maybe you're right however we're not really talking about "them", we're talking about people in general and in many cities the majority of voters display what the majority wants whether it's what you think is right or not. I guess the majority of people are probably wacky anti-smoking nazi's in Detector Land*.
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Originally Posted by Detector It's the same with religion. These people want to control the actions of others regardless of what the majority want. |
The majority represents people in general, and people in general are afraid of health problems-so they vote for smoking bans. People in general are also afraid of gay people being married - so they ban gay marriage. You are right in that respect, religious people DO try to control other people's lives, even in ways that do not affect their own which is much different than smoking for obvious reasons (smoke invites itself over, lesbians don't...well in Detector's case anyway).
Moving along,
Detector, you should be happy to know that gravity is a theory just like evolution, it is a scientific theory. Scientific theories are not hypthoses (i.e. Biblical creation). PLEASE learn the difference. Read on...
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In science, a theory is a proposed description, explanation, or model of the manner of interaction of a set of natural phenomena, capable of predicting future occurrences or observations of the same kind, and capable of being tested through experiment or otherwise falsified through empirical observation. It follows from this that for scientists "theory" and "fact" do not necessarily stand in opposition. For example, it is a fact that an apple dropped on earth has been observed to fall towards the center of the planet, and the theory which explains why the apple behaves so is the current theory of gravitation."
History has been connected to the Bible, I think it's pretty obvious that people wrote the Bible during the times connected with these historical events. But let's say I wrote some letters to some duderino I know and said that a pink unicorn created the universe by taking a magical crap (because things like this are still accepted in this age (hypothetically)) - and then included some stuff about say the United States and Korea and Kim Jong Il and whoever else. Then a few thousand years from now some gullible schmuck picks this stuff and thinks it's real because I placed some stuff in there that's historically accurate.
Just because the things in the Bible are connected to real events does-in no way shape or form- give ANY credibilty to creationism, and if you think it does you need to check into the mental institution or go back to 3rd grade to learn a few things from the kids who are, by comparison, geniuses.
*Not a theme park.