Possibilities are not probabilities. It's possible that I'll climb on top of the Empire State building, jump off and survive with very little damage. Is it probable? No. The odds are against me in that situation, but if you were to go through the list of possible eventualities, I'm sure there's at least one where I survive unharmed.scientistly have recently opened their minds to the possibilities, but ofc these aren't the mainstream ones..
and yea id'e have to go search again to find more info
Matter cannot be created nor destroyed, it can only change form.my memory on this is really fuzzy, but from what i recall our DNA responds to the energy that creates matter.
And I mean potentials such as, restoring an your body to its healthy state by accessing the DNA with the mind
also, upgrading your brain or mind to a state of new abilities that people would call psychic or w/e...
I'de have to go look again to tell u more
He's thinking that humans aren't nearly aware what they're capable of. Might not be the stuff we see in movies or comic books, e.g. X-Men, but it's definitely possible that humans aren't aware of their full potential. And I believe that as well. Humans are a race still in learning, ever since we evolved into sentient beings from non-sentient beings, we've only been using a fraction of what we're capable of. Maybe it takes work to discover what we're truly capable of, hell I'm sure it takes a ****load of effort.Vox Dei said:I'm know you're talking about us becoming the X-Men at some point, but I'm going to ask anyway:
What do you mean by "implied 'HUGE' potential" and "numerous abilities/potential"?
Just to reinforce MC's point: http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970724a.htmlMatter cannot be created nor destroyed, it can only change form.
I may be wrong, but isn't a nuclear reaction the only process we know of to break the laws?Just to reinforce MC's point: http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970724a.html
Hmm.....can nuclear fission be considered the destruction of matter? What happens to the electrons, protons and neutrons after the tearing? I'll have to do some research on that.I may be wrong, but isn't a nuclear reaction the only process we know of to break the laws?
Nope. Nuclear fission is the splitting of atoms, not the destruction of atoms.Hmm.....can nuclear fission be considered the destruction of matter? What happens to the electrons, protons and neutrons after the tearing? I'll have to do some research on that.
They aren't the same thing. Energy can be converted into matter and matter can be converted into energy. Planets for example were formed from energy being converted into matter. The Big Bang was an explosion of energy, not matter. However a good portion of that energy was converted into matter which then formed the planets, stars, etcetera.Energy and matter were once the same thing, in the very, very early stages of the universe.
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I'm not against curing disease. You have to consider that while these diseases are horrible (and I happen to have both an autistic brother, and a cousin who's nearly paralyzed and brain-damaged from falling off a cliff into a riverbed) that you can't say "we must cure this WHATEVER THE COST". The cost, in this case, which is a human life. Curing such a disease using these methods is like knocking out some unsuspecting guy in an alley and harvesting his internal organs so hospitals have more to transplant. You can get stem cells without murder. I never understood why this was even considered. And according to my beliefs, every soul ever to exist, past present or future already exists and is waiting to be given it's chance on Earth.i remember when i went to the south of france, when i was thirteen, to stay with a family for a fortnight. david, the elder son, had some sort of condition, which left him with stubby, useless arms, legs which rarely worked, confined to a wheelchair, his neck was always skewed to one side, and he could only communicate with moans and grunts.
being spoonfed for life, on a gel like substance... that's no way to live, and it certainly isn't his fault. any christian who is against curing that, is a ****ing sadist, in all terms of the word. if they throw the "gods will" argument, then they must conclude that god is in fact, a child playing with a magnifying glass, and we're the ants.
to be honest, anyone even remotely religious, must concede to my earlier point. only god can grant a soul, and therefor, cloning, or creating life, man made, is not the same as a divine spark of creation.
we're simply striving to make life easier on those less fortunate.
Well killing an animal isn't classified as murder. At least not in the United States.I should stop eating, because eating is murder too.