"scientific credentials" are highly overrated as they are just as stupid and prone to folly, bs and self deception as anyone else.

Tell me how a "universe" with an apparent radius of 14.5 billion light years, which supposedly "big banged" to expand and be created, could be only 14.5 billion years old, yet that is what MORONS with "scientific credentials" say with great authority and certainty?

How about the guy with the Nobel Prize who thinks that Africans are genetically not as smart as white folks who has just found out that he has African genetic material in his genome?

How about every "expert" in the war on drugs or the psychiatric profession?

The big problem is that those who rule do so by deception and when that doesn't work violence and not trusting the authorities concerning anything is now a prudent thing.

I think that global warming is real, but I also believed that Saddam Hussein might have had some WMD to use against our invading troops and guess what - the credentialed authorites lied to us.

The also lie about all the high school, workplace, church and mall shootings because they know exactly what is causing these incidents but they would rather make money selling those drugs than telling the truth.

No one can be certain about the future, but we can all be certain that they will lie to us.

Then they will put the blame on us.

"Show me...

...one fucking high value detainee."

Somehow I doubt that Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney are going to be detained.

That is a damned shame.

Let's just make them all illegal and that way the pharamas could make at least a 100 times the profit for each drug they hawk.

I'd be willing to go on the black market and buy some cough syrup if that is what it takes to make America drug free.

I'd even pay a hundred dollars for a bottle of aspirin just so school kids couldn't have their lives ruined - even if i had to go down to LaFayette Park in the middle of the night toscore some.

I still think they should go after the hard drugs like antibiotics and cancer drugs because those are contrary to natural selection and evolution. Those folks who "need" then would probably be better off dying rather than being responsible for upestting the course and balance of nature.

After we solve the drug problem, I think there is something else that we could target and by eliminating improve our society. Let's get rid of make-up. It is just too damned deceptive. The Obama's supporters could wag their fingers at Hillary.

That would be sweet.

I have worked with a friend who is an astrophysicist and planetarium director on programs for teaching teachers how to teach astronomy. I have chatted with more than few notables.

"Well, to start, that's not the correct numbers. The universe is around 13.7 billion years old and has a diameter of around 94 billion light years."

Well that is even more absurd as the expansion rate would have had to be at the very least 6.81 times the speed of light itself and that, my dear Lynx, is breaking the law.

Some peopple will believe anything, especially if the authorities keep changing their minds frequently enough to discount knowledge for belief.

I don't believe evolution either, just natural selection and variation.

Most of what you believe is just a belief.

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/971124x.html

the trailer park:

http://irupert.com/mars/index.html

the face repaired:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9gXEV8DRbpk

trees on mars:

http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/e07_e12/full_gif_non_map/E07/E0701717.gif

trees and water:

http://mmmgroup.altervista.org/e-trees.html

vegetation(?) at the poles:

http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/M/Marsveg.html

water at the bottom right:

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/p/307/1P155450047EFF38EVP2557L4M1.JPG

water in the ruts from the rover:

http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn12026-mars-rover-finds-puddles-on-the-planets-surface.html

and just so you know that the "Crazies" have been seeing water on mars long before it became acceptable to discuss such notions, i prsent you with lake steadman:

http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/steadlake.html

Now sure, most of it is just wishful thinking and much of it is nonsense and lacks any critical thinking whatsoever, but that takes care of both sides. Until there is enough evidence the fat lady has not sung and the debate and discussion and hare brained theories are perfectly reasonable to be in play.

Unless it comes from Richard Hoagland who just makes things up.

I debunk both sides so don't even try . . .

. . . speaking of the "face" - did Troy look like a city or an old eroded hill and don't the majority of Egyptian pyramids look just like mounds of dirt and rock?