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Permalink Reply by onyango makagutu on March 3, 2013 at 8:31am

We are together on Leonardo Da Vinci, inventor, painter, architect, engineer. I would love a beer with him

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Permalink Reply by SteveInCO on March 3, 2013 at 7:55pm

I've always wanted to bring DaVinci into the future, and show him a multi-ton Jumbo Jet, flying!

He'd love to see a helicopter, too; he drew something at least once with a giant auger pointing straight up.

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Permalink Reply by Amy L. Cook on March 2, 2013 at 2:35pm

I agree with you, Gregg. Science is not like religion, with a rigid set of unbending rules. It ebbs and flows with every new discovery, every new study, and every new breakthrough. If you don't uinderstand the scientific method, it might get confusing. Science itself is an evolutionary process.

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Permalink Reply by Gregg R Thomas on March 4, 2013 at 6:20am

I like that:

Science itself is an evolutionary process.

I may steal it. :)

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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on March 1, 2013 at 11:17am

If the study of evolution piques your interest, I can't think of a more all-inclusive book to read than Richard Dawkins' The Ancestor's Tale. Although Dawkins is certainly an atheist, this book is not an attempt to contrast theistic beliefs with Darwinian principles, just a very thorough explanation of where everything living came from.

If you truly want to learn, I know of no better place to start.

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Permalink Reply by Matthew on March 1, 2013 at 12:00pm

There's a fantastic youtuber by the name of "Philhellenes". You should check him out and listen to him for a while. There's also Thunderf00t, but he's a bit more technical with his wording. Lawrence Krauss' "A Universe From Nothing" is an amazing book that should give quite a bit of insight on cosmology. Lisa Randall's "Knocking on Heavens Door" is about how scientific thinking makes the world much more worthwhile and delves lightly into particle physics. Dawkins is a good read for insight into biology and plain old ripping theists a new one, Hitchens is also exceptionally good at that. Learn and be free!

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Permalink Reply by Jason on March 1, 2013 at 12:14pm

"Questionable"?  Is there anything "questionable" about the study of electricity?  Is there anything “questionable” about the study of earth science?  Is there anything “questionable” about biology?  No there isn’t.   Evolution is nothing more than biology my friend.  Nothing “questionable” about it. 

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Permalink Reply by Thom on March 1, 2013 at 12:27pm

Thanks Jason, but I think you missed the sarcasm. I was saying that's what I thought when I was still a christian, not that those sciences are actually "questionable".

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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on March 1, 2013 at 1:09pm

I think Jason missed the significance of the quotation marks --

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Permalink Reply by Reg The Fronkey Farmer on March 1, 2013 at 2:15pm

This video is a good explanation of Evolution (and what it is not).

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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on March 1, 2013 at 2:27pm

Or if you only have a few seconds --

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Permalink Reply by Sagacious Hawk on March 3, 2013 at 2:31am

From Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" series.

I went to my local library which had the full collection and I burned the discs on to my computer. Too good not to pass up!

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