Yeah, I've heard something along the lines of anyone who believes in higher spending or higher taxes should send the government their paycheck so we don't have to have collective contribution. Not only do I not think the math would work but this would result in a race to the bottom because people could assert their taxes ought to be 1% and everybody who feels differently should have to make up the difference.
we have common ground. It’s like Newsom closing all the restaurants and adopting mask mandates, then being caught at a fancy dinner with friends where they are all maskless. Everyone knew at that point that the shutdowns were a sham.
So if there were no shutdowns, at all, your assertion is that hospitalizations and deaths would been about the same? Or they would be higher, and that’s OK?
What did we evolve from? One day were twin humans born (male/female) completely different from the primate mating? Did a human mate with another primate (I suppose any living thing) and with luck create another human? Did we have some crossover mating? Why have we never witnessed any such event?
Dude, that’s just stupid. To think that during a pandemic if you proceed normally that it wouldn’t spread more rapidly is just being willfully stupid. New York was getting destroyed, then they locked down and got it under control. That happened in New York. In Sweden or Switzerland, I forget which, they decided initially to avoid shutdowns, and they had worse results than European neighbors and reversed course. Boris Johnson initially decided the UK would let Covid run its course and after getting their ass kicked they reversed course. China has real and severe lockdowns - and when they eventually reversed course at the beginning of 2023 its estimate that 2 million died in 2 months. Now you can certainly debate what is the correct balance - what is the balance of prevention vs economics/freedoms. Also, over the course of a multiple year pandemic early lockdowns May just defer the pain to a degree - as was true in China. Ultimately what it came down to was what could our health care system handle. If we did nothing our health care system became overwhelmed. At a minimum we tried to space it out enough to keep our hospitals from collapsing and avoid what happened early in NYC with corpses being stored in refrigerated trailers.
do you know what is stupid? Your post. Do you know anyone who has not had Covid? Most people I know have had it two or three times. Wife and I have had it three times. My oldest son has had it four times. My other two kids have had it twice. every person that you think was saved by being locked down during Covid, there are probably two other people who died due to suicide I know so many entrepreneurs who lost everything. Their business, their homes, their life savings. All gone because of lockdowns if the lockdown truly worked, then, how is it that the pandemic lasted several years? maybe it’s about time that you think for yourself, and trust your own eyes, rather than repeating nonsense that you hear on CNBC.
The idea that a species comes into existence “one day” is a common misconception. There is no day at all. All offspring look basically just like their parents, so therefore if you walked down a lineup of every person with their parents going back millions of years, you’d never notice any change. These changes are only noticeable over many many generations. Think about raising kids. Everyday they look the same as the day before, and then you are shocked when you see picture of them from a couple years ago. What happened to my baby? This animation does a pretty good job illustrating the effect:
So the Al Gore's and Obama's of the world are addicted to living in a waterfront mansion and having private jets?
I am no authority on what exactly is an addiction, but that is beside my point. Clearly, owning mansions and nice cars must feel good with the way so many clamor for that life.
Maybe so, but then everyone always thinks it’s the other guy that is operating on faith. Regardless of how humans actually got here, what I can say is your conception of our evolutionary explanation was mistaken.
I don’t think so. Your video starts off with what appears to be a gorilla. Which is not the best way to try and make the point you were making. But we certainly have a different belief in where/how man/woman became…
I am not sure why the video’s starting place matters. The point is that in the standard model of evolution, changes are gradual. Your description of evolution was not: “One day were twin humans born (male/female) completely different from the primate mating?” On this question, you and evolutionary biologists are actually in complete agreement: No, that is certainly not what happened. And I’m ok us having different views on the origins of species. Everyone is their own person, who has traveled their own path, and lives in their own environment. I would not dream of trying to change you into me. Plus, what does a person’s views on 5 million years ago matter anyway?
Agree with a lot of this. It is going to take some form of faith regardless of where we fall on how things came about. I don’t think it matters much whether one believes the world appeared 5 million years ago or a billion years ago. From a Christian perspective though it is important to stand for unapologetically the Gospel and Good News. Now no Christian can make anyone believe what they believe. But I think it takes a lot less faith to be on the side of creation. Science shows this if you ask me.
Indeed, even the most rigorous mathematical analysis must rest upon foundational assumptions, which by their nature cannot be justified by external means. Just so. Yet if we query scientists, they will usually respond that the evolutionary explanation is is more rational. Each group employs such different methods that it’s hard to compare them, but one aspect that I personally appreciate about science is democratic nature, allowing all citizens to test ideas and contribute new ones.
Well said! For me it is hard to get to Earth orbiting around the sun in perfect harmony/spinning and moving to the summer and winter solstices in perfect harmony/solar system working in perfect harmony around the sun and see it happening by chance. Throw in Entropy and we should be headed for disorder. Not the order we see. But good discussion.
The question of why the universe is orderly is most fascinating. In addition to why is it here to begin with. I think science is our best tool to answer many smaller questions, but I don’t currently see how it can address either one of these grander endeavors. I also have trouble fathoming why this order might exist, but this might be more a problem with my small brain than the expansive universe.
