Look carefully at the horizon in the photo - it's proof that the Earth is not round, but 'concave' (shaped like the inside of a bowl).

lol. And it's not even April 1st.

man, i hope you're being sarcastic or something. They're using a fish eye wide angle lens to get everything in the shot. It makes everything look like that.

Because dirt is hard to see through.

Chris from Yucaipa "Because dirt is hard to see through."

Not for Superman. I'll bet you have great night viewing in Yucaipa.

You're smoking crack if you think we can actually see the stars in southern California.

Chris I live in Southern California and some nights the stars look like diamonds!!!!! Yucaipa, not so much!

That would be the moon. Sunlight reflects off of it and prevents you from seeing the surface. Instead you see it as a ball of light...until the position is such as such to no longer have the sun glaring off the moon.

Awww Thaddeus, now you've gone and wrecked the only hope for the future I had left.

Looks like you brought God and politics into this. Seeing as how God is the eternal fountainhead of all truth, God is inseperable from all things, political or otherwise.

To a believer saying you do not believe in God is like saying you do not believe the sky is blue. We say just look up and see, and you say you don't need to because you already know the sky is not blue. Then you wait till it's darkest before you look and then you say, see I told you it wasn't blue! Or you lie to yourself and play a semantical game to convince yourself that because the colors we see are only the ones reflected, the sky is actually every color but blue...(You can find the analogy in that on your own.)

But if you really cannot find God within yourself, then try looking up again when the sky isn't blue. Really look and open your mind. If you cannot see God out there then you are trying too hard to see what is already right in front of you.

I see literally billions and billions and billions of stars (paraphrase Carl Sagan). I see that given enough time random chance could create anything. I do not see anything that would indicate the existence of any of the fairy stories from Red Riding Hood to the invisible p**ck in the sky. However reading newsvine displays ample empirical evidence for regression.

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." And this is proof just how awesome that creation is!!!

A radicial idea

I see literally billions and billions and billions of stars (paraphrase Carl Sagan). I see that given enough time random chance could create anything. I do not see anything that would indicate the existence of any of the fairy stories from Red Riding Hood to the invisible p**ck in the sky. However reading newsvine displays ample empirical evidence for regression.

Ridiculous radical, enough time that random chance could create ? What a very invalid statement. Random chance is nothing. Random chance is not a tangible thing. Random chance is nothing more then a number figure.. It is nothing. So to say random chance can create something , is quite silly.

"Ridiculous radical, enough time that random chance could create ? What a very invalid statement. Random chance is nothing. Random chance is not a tangible thing. Random chance is nothing more then a number figure.. It is nothing. So to say random chance can create something , is quite silly."

How did God become God? Was it random chance? evolution?

President Galt

"Ridiculous radical, enough time that random chance could create ? What a very invalid statement. Random chance is nothing. Random chance is not a tangible thing. Random chance is nothing more then a number figure.. It is nothing. So to say random chance can create something , is quite silly."

How did God become God? Was it random chance? evolution?

Sorry Prez.. trying to redirect the point ? Did I even mention God any where in my statement ? I didnt have to , I just showed flaw in the statement made.

The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare. The Infinite Monkey Theorem look it up. Evolution is dependent on time and random chance. Given enough time say 1 billion years would be plenty of time form organic molecules to create life. Organic molecules have an affinity for each other. They combine in all sorts of fashion and considering a one celled organism is composed with as little as eight amino acids. Given the right ingredients and time they can create a simple one celled organism. A billion years and the presence of basic carbon molecules (amino acids) Life was generated. You do not need a god to design life you just need the ingredients and time to produce the recipe of life.

Ridiculous radical, enough time that random chance could create ? What a very invalid statement. Random chance is nothing. Random chance is not a tangible thing. Random chance is nothing more then a number figure.. It is nothing. So to say random chance can create something , is quite silly.

You have to understand the true vastness of the universe to understand why random chance plays such a pivotal role. The universe is at least 13 billion light years across, home to 100 billion galaxies, all home to 100 billion stars. Even seemingly impossible probabilities (like say, life, for example) come into existence in this vastness.

What is your problem with numerical expressions?

Ridiculous radical, enough time that random chance could create ? What a very invalid statement. Random chance is nothing. Random chance is not a tangible thing. Random chance is nothing more then a number figure.. It is nothing. So to say random chance can create something , is quite silly.

Random chance, the presence of organic compounds (ones that contain carbon) and the time for the molecules to try all different kinds of configurations and you ended up with the eight molecules of life. If you are looking for eight amino acids (They are compounds containing an amino group, -NH2, and a carboxylic acid group, -COOH). You have twenty four hours a day seven days a week 365 day per year and 1,000.000.000 years that eighty seven trillion, 6million hours and considering it only takes eight amino acids coming into contact with each other to create the bare essentials for life there is plenty of time to come up with an impossibly large numbers of attempts to fill the order of the stuff life is made of. Why miust there be a god. The story of life is a magnificent one that is diminished by something that refuses to show himself, Runs a rigged game, and is such an insane entity that he sends his only son to be murdered by an inferior from of life. You keep your god. The elegance of chemistry, biology and evolution are enough for me.

A reply to Radical Idea,

I respect your point of view and the random theory. However, I believe in a Master Creator (if I can appreciate Michael Angelo why not a "master" creator who can create this ever so beautiful and amazing universe?). I think the problem here is your "christian god". That god is from where?

I believe in the Muslim Master Designer of the Universe. It is specifically written in Wise Quran that this "creator" is NOT a human nor a man neither a woman. Just enjoy your life by caring for your neighbors, stop killing my Arab brothers and Muslims. The designer of this universe has asked us to call Him (not a male..) "Allah" - I was told the Hebrew language has a similar word.

So who "coined" the ENGLISH word "god"? This is the FIRST problem that I want to look into. I think the Evil Slave Master's "god" is indeed something very sinister - It perhaps is the Devil or Satan. Thus the "Radical" has avoided being a victim of the Devil or Satan but has not yet found the TRUTH - as Allah address self in Wise Quran - "I am the TRUTH".

Look into it - I mean the Wise Qur'an - Learn it without anyone brainwashing you. Study it like your Physics, Chemistry and Calculus book- No Tutors - You will find the TRUTH about our life and the reason for being born - TO HELP ONE ANOTHER!! not to steal oil, coffee, sugar or banana. Well.. If one has ever been an OPPRESSED "slave" , falsely accused new slave = "terrorist" or lost land like Native Americans .. then it is easy to see the TRUTH... like a sick man with fever/nausea appreciates HEALTH.

Obstinate, self-righteous only as long as not HUMBLED. Would have never known it if my great-grandparents were not treated like animals by Southern Slave Trading BEASTS.

A radicial idea

What is your problem with numerical expressions?

Ridiculous radical, enough time that random chance could create ? What a very invalid statement. Random chance is nothing. Random chance is not a tangible thing. Random chance is nothing more then a number figure.. It is nothing. So to say random chance can create something , is quite silly.

Random chance, the presence of organic compounds (ones that contain carbon) and the time for the molecules to try all different kinds of configurations and you ended up with the eight molecules of life. If you are looking for eight amino acids (They are compounds containing an amino group, -NH2, and a carboxylic acid group, -COOH). You have twenty four hours a day seven days a week 365 day per year and 1,000.000.000 years that eighty seven trillion, 6million hours and considering it only takes eight amino acids coming into contact with each other to create the bare essentials for life there is plenty of time to come up with an impossibly large numbers of attempts to fill the order of the stuff life is made of. Why miust there be a god. The story of life is a magnificent one that is diminished by something that refuses to show himself, Runs a rigged game, and is such an insane entity that he sends his only son to be murdered by an inferior from of life. You keep your god. The elegance of chemistry, biology and evolution are enough for me.

And yet they magically appear one day.. With design and intelligence, but yet nothing made them. They are the effect with out the cause. Brilliant deduction.

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Your need for a being to direct nature is both childish and short sighted. You can be happy with ID but I will direct you to Pope John Paul II statement on evolution to the Vatican Academy of Sciences. These are a group of priest and scientist who work under the funding of the Catholic Church. I am well acquainted with one priest who is chasing bosons (The God Particle) and as of my last communication with him he was as he put it coming extremely close. Religion and science do not need to be at odds with each other but you have to give each its own ground. Religion answers the questions science can't. That list is getting smaller and smaller with each new discovery.

http://www.ewtn.com/library/papaldoc/jp961022.htm

I realize that you will probably poof this off because you are probably a christian fundamentalist with no brain as you seem to enjoy letting others think for you and would give no thought to the statements of a Pope but he does direct the spirituality of one billion people

I have shown you where there is a 4.8 million year old outcropping of rock is.

I took you on a guided tour of the Big Bang.

I shown you where and causality began and where it limits are.

I showed where and why time began

You sir are a fools fool. I highly recommend some education. A couple of courses in chemistry to include organic chemistry, a couple of geology courses to include historical geology, a couple physics courses (introductory to physics I and II is sufficient, and an astronomy class. If you do this you can quit playing scientist and actually have some idea of what you are talking about. I sincerely hope you take my advice as you have a quick and bright mind and your mind is a terrible thing to waste. And, I know education is expensive but ignorance is even more so.

How is the need for a creator childish ? Something made it, it surely just didnt happen out of nothing. Unless your a magician. And even if you were the magician existed to make the magic. Who is John Paul to make any statement ? He is not qualified, he wasnt there to witness creation. If he accepts evolution, then he rejects the bible. You cant pick and choose what you like from the bible and toss the rest out. I dont support the catholic views anyway. 4.8 million years old rock still isnt explaining the whole creation goo to man. A guided tour of the big bang, an event you all claim, but no one was there to see it happen, or how it happened. Why is there something instead of nothing. I am not the fool, I accept God as my creator, I am a believer in science that shows God can and did make the universe. I also believe in the science that shows how bad science is for old world views, and Goo to man. I have been in college, and I still didnt accept world view. I had many debates there as well. Keep on dreaming those dreams of mans views. Ill keep with mine and my creator God thank you.

How is the need for a creator childish ? Something made it, it surely just didnt happen out of nothing. Unless your a magician. And even if you were the magician existed to make the magic. Who is John Paul to make any statement ? He is not qualified, he wasnt there to witness creation. If he accepts evolution, then he rejects the bible. You cant pick and choose what you like from the bible and toss the rest out. I dont support the catholic views anyway. 4.8 million years old rock still isnt explaining the whole creation goo to man. A guided tour of the big bang, an event you all claim, but no one was there to see it happen, or how it happened. Why is there something instead of nothing. I am not the fool, I accept God as my creator, I am a believer in science that shows God can and did make the universe. I also believe in the science that shows how bad science is for old world views, and Goo to man. I have been in college, and I still didnt accept world view. I had many debates there as well. Keep on dreaming those dreams of mans views. Ill keep with mine and my creator God thank you.

You do a very good job of grossly over-simplifying scientific ideas which does nothing less than show a deep founded misunderstanding of the processes at hand. Things "happen out of nothing" all of the time, literally. Particles pop in and out of existence even in the complete vacuum of space. This is so well documented it must be taken into account during experiments with sub atomic particles.

We aren't sure why there was more matter than anti-matter at the beginning (and thus why we are here today) but we are searching, which in my opinion is much better than claiming to already know how it happened. Simply writing it off as the product of a supernatural being is lazy at best.

And even if you were the magician existed to make the magic.

That is a version of the watch maker argument, I find this version more compelling (it was linked by a fellow viner before).

Things "happen out of nothing" all of the time, literally. Particles pop in and out of existence even in the complete vacuum of space

Im well aware of the cashmir effect , but once again there is an issue with the particles. We observe they phase in and out, but when one does phase out, does it truly no longer exist , or is it the same thing that has moved some where else. Also , how could you obtain the data to know from the first point of the prticles phasing in and out. Were they always existent, or did they just appear from no where. Their beginning, did they have one ? Could science prove any of that ? No it can not.

Well the absence of anti matter is an issue, dark matter. Even when things become some what explainable, its still never something anyone can be sure about, because once again it will never be something that can be observational science for that era , point in time.

Even when we mess with Uranium decay, carbon dating, as time goes on science is finding and changing things about it. There are certain factors to know that things do affect the rate of decay. And there is no way to know for sure how much of what was present over X amount of time. You can assume based of what you can observe now, but you cant from time so long ago. Look at speed of light and its decay being looked at. Or things traveling faster then light. Yes were finding out newer things all the time, but this type of science is too much guessing and assuming for me to ever beleive in because it always changes. I believe in a God who never changes. Science that shows the possibilities of a creation point of view. It fits , it works, I accept it. I wont change that.

ah yeah Jesusiswatching....we heard that for 2000 yrs....but some of us need fear in our life....we understand you now.

He might not come for 2000 more years and thats ok, most of us get that...its the doomsayers and hell and brimstone born agains that are a little off center.

Jesus was born of Mary or addressed in the Wise Quran as MARIAM. Allah (The Most Beneficient and Merciful) says in the Noble Quran that Mariam is the "Best Of Best" woman that Allah has created for she SILENTLY and FIRMLY believed in Allah while others accused her of defective chastity. More Muslim women have this name than so called hypocritical money grabbing "christian" who use the Noble Messenger of Allah "Isah" (Jesus) as a COMMODITY or PR to increase S&P Stock Market Index. Shameless and fake "religion" and unjust to a great Prophet of Allah. I left the "bible" for this very reason and found the Quran at the library. BTW- Saddam Hussein never behaved like a real Muslim- he was a hypocrite in my opinion. Let Allah decide who is FAKE Hypocrite Muslim and who is a Real Muslim.

First I had to contend with christains now it Muslims. I seemed to have attracked an unsavory element. Let us see if I can get this right. World come in world Attention EXCUSE ME. God does not exist. Allah does not exist. There is no such thing as a god in any shape way or form. Gods are an invention of man. God did not invent man. The sooner people get past this infantile notion the sooner baby can walk. How can I say it any plainer. There is no god.

That is so stupid. It is common through out history that new superior beliefs systems incorporate certain asthetic aspects of obsolete inferior beliefs systems. Just like evolution, it is built on what came before but with improvements in all the most critical areas. Christianity is by far the most superior belief system, cultural, religious or simply philosophically, the proof is in the fruit it has yeilded. The whole civilized world counts the years since his death. Christianity is at the root of the founding of America and the advancement of all European nations. Christianity is NOT to blame for the conflicts of cultures or any violence or otherwise immoral actions of individuals or any groups of individuals. The simple obvious reason is because there is not one single teaching of Jesus that condones, promotes, or encourages any act of violence, intolerance or subversion. That is simply a fact. Causality is the Will of God, and Causality has made it clear, Christianity is superior in all ways. Causality is never wrong.

Brian-

I was going to take apart your post line by line, however after consideration, this isn't the place for that. Also, it seems you have never actually read the bible (or if you did you skipped vast expanses of it). It's the only logical conclusion I can come to after reading your post. If you have read it, take a few classes on reading comprehension, reread it and get back to me.

Oh and stay on topic, what this has to do with a comet I'll never know. If you want to further discuss your beliefs do it on a different article, something relative.

YES, "Truth Will Be Known" and I found it in the Wise Quran (not the fake "one million" printed and distributed by the "christian Vatican" to the Kuwaiti School Kids with "abnormal pathological inserts"- How evil is that. The Satan HATES the TRUTH.

Brian Comstock - Brings the "superiority" of the MISSIONARY Christians who pillaged and robbed every BLESSED Nation. Coming from Plague and Rat filled "great" Britain - it must have made them very Jealous to see the green and fruit laden tropics with CALM and Stable minded people.

Brian please - It is the POWER hungry Greedy for Hold Vatican and Church that DESTROYED the peace of the world and increased the population to an unhealthy SEVEN Billion - which will cause again starvation and death. Your "development" is mindless and lack WISDOM - like your WEAPONS and Only For The Rich Jets. Talk TRUTH. Stop brainwashing self - your parents are NOT right like mine were too to forgive SLAVERY.

Actually, we do know. The Earth will not turn into a comet or a meteor shower. Here is the Earth Future:

+ 1 Billion years: The surface temperature will be about 250 degrees F. The oceans will have boiled away by then. We better move before then.

+ 2 Billion years: If we can still be here, we'll be able to see the Andromeda galaxy colliding with our Milky Way galaxy. Interestingly, the Earth and Sun will not be impacted. the spaces between stars is too great.

+ 5 Billion years: Our Sun will swell into a red giant due to the depletion of hydrogen fuel. At that time the Sun's radius will come just inside or pas the Earth orbit. In either case, the Earth will just boil away.

+ 10 Trillion years: All the stars in the universe will have burned out. Only black holes will exist.

+ 60th cosmological decade: The black holes will have evaporated.

After this, the universe will be utterly cold, dark and without any features.

- Feel kinda small now? Well don't feel small. We have brain that enable us to figure this out. That's amazing.

The MONEY is needed to feed the PEOPLE in the Earth Planet and to cleanup the Trinkets, Plastics and REUSE the wood from the trees that were cut. The oil that we use from Middle East took "how many years" to form? Are we paying them Arabs their FAIR Share of $$ for the OIL or are we STEALING it in Day Light while they starve? and are Bombed by the Demonic Israeli Satan?

No TAX MONEY for the Israeli Comet Seekers (Fake Comet Program) who funnel money for WEAPONS Industry. The Universe will do what ever it does without our Children's and Grandparents Social Security and Education/Shelter money. NO AGAIN TO BE DUPED (by Regan The Brainless Low IQ "actor" become "president" )

Egad, Jackie Fecalpate-Hansel-Smith-Jirkwad, you are such a terdbukkit! Just exactly, barring their accidental residence over the dead dinosaur juice, did the Arabs do for the $? Nonetheless, do have a loverly day, "speshul" one... :-)