“I thought you were interested in intellectual exploration of a topic,”
I generally have contempt for academics who never built anything. Whether it’s some fedora reddit atheist like PZ Myers, or the Sarah Stock style tradcon grifter.
Jim of Jim’s Blog gave me a bad taste for them.
“Anyways, Ill see if I can find some of my old favorites with regards to argumentation for God. Not clown town, the intellectual powerhouses, some are even atheists.”
“But it’s been at least a decade since the New Atheists were driving that debate.”
One of the Rules of Acquisition is “What’s in it for me?” I would guess that you’re trying to sell “Salvation” to me. But I already have multiple translations of the Bible.
RE: https://nicecrew.digital/objects/617e778e-07ce-489c-9972-4e82f6f2fc70
Americans have the right temperament for advanced tech innovation. But it's the wrong temperament for a functioning church hierarchy.
"The business of America is business"
It's a reason why the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition works in America, but church sermons do not.
@KingOfWhiteAmerica @EscapeVelo
“Yeah …. I think the earth is concave and we live on the inside.”
Go present that model to SpaceX, and see if they will use it for spacecraft navigation.
:goodfellaslaugh :
"Flight 12: Ship 39 rolls out to Masseys to begin testing"
Article: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2026/02/ship-39-masseys-testing/
Excerpt:
"...and use a set of chopstick simulators to squeeze-test the ship. This testing is a new thing for SpaceX to do on an entire ship, and it could be related to a new drive system for the flaps."
"...SpaceX intends to catch these ships at some point and needs to know how well the ships’ structures withstand the chopsticks’ squeeze during the catch."
The typical tradcon creationist doesn’t respect your time.
That’s why, in typical wordcel fashion, they would try to make you watch hour long videos of a man rambling along. Where actual real information in them could’ve been posted as a single short paragraph.
A decade ago, there was a creationist video where there was a man repeatedly saying “this will blow you away” for 30 straight minutes, with stock footage of demolishing buildings in a loop. Before getting to the point.