Cosmos by Carl Sagan is an easy-to-read classic. It's not up to date, per say, but the book is well worth the read. Lonely Planets by David...
Out of interest, I'd highly recommend a book: Lonely Planets by David Grinspoon. I skimmed through many of the elementary parts--basic biology,...
When it comes to exobiology, it is very popular to be unorthadox: life on other planets isn't carbon-, and water-based; DNA is likely relatively...
I have been taught (through books and people) that "infinity" is a huge misconception: it is nothing fancy, nothing mysical, only a convenient way...
If Medicine Women can be so sure about the universe, then so can I ;) I think it's rather obvious that the idea of heaven is human-created....
Siddhartha: The book I read--Prime Obsession--was a great read; it kept my interest throughout and was very informative. The book is written for...
Personally, I think your motives are the worst reason to believe in anything. In fact, I think it'd be pretty low of you to become mormon just...
yeah, he is kinda a crappy role model if you think about it. bob. i trust you more because you don't have the power to send me to eternal hell....
the foundation series by asimov or enders game series by orson scott card booya
The ether theory was hardly debunked. It was simply disproven by use of Occam's Razor; Einstein's relativity provided a better explanation of the...
from what i gathered from the initial post, the though process of a debunker goes like this: "hrmm, i'm in the mood for some theory debunking.. i...
Debunking a currently accepted science theory is not science! Working backwards from the conclusion to the evidence is defined as psuedoscience. So...
sweet, we scared laser eyes away
spuriousmonkey: I agree. A bulk of the problem lies within the nonprofessional science community. I can account for this, for my AP biology class...
Just like similar-themed movies always coming out around the same time, recently a flood of Riemann Hypothesis books have been displayed on the...
I think you misunderstood my point. I was simply trying to say that science would be a lot better of if it had not the oppression of religious...
Religion is ruining science. I'm sure you've heard the opposite statement before, worded some way or another: the facts and figures of science are...
I <3 Evlution. it brought me here and it did you too.
(sorry for only reading the first post, i know it doesn't contribute much to the thread as a whole) first, using fibonacci numbers (and phi) is...
That's kind of implied. Humans aren't that stupid; we would never send a manned spacecraft first, then when they got there think: "oh wait, they...
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