[quote]I don't see the point of a super weapon if its isnt super.[/quote] I agree 100% It would actually be worse than pre-buff capships (what's the point in flaccid capships and flaccid superweapons?) [quote]Nor do I see the point of having a toggle for them if they arent powerful.[/quote] I think he wants a toggle if they ARE powerful. I think most elements of the game should have been toggleable. This would have saved us the debacle of the non-phas
[quote]Do you know what occams razor is?[/quote] Yes. Evolutionists should try to apply it to their own theory sometime. You see, the real philosophial basis for the theory of evolution was an attempt to avoid the last ditch explanation of "shit happens" to explain life (complex biological machines). You can always try to explain anything by "shit happens" (i.e. random chance), but people didn't find such explanations intellectually satisfying back in Darwin's day.
[quote who="LordNeobic" reply="48" id="2487863"]The problem with useing Subverters to counter Advent is that they fully come together at 6 military labs while the advent have about all they need at 4 or 5.[/quote] Yup. Another problem is that subs are exceedingly frail. I mean, 2 passes of a fighter and the sub is toast. Yet another problem is the extreme level of micromanagement you have to use with them. Honestly, I can't use them correctly. I don't thi
[quote]One has to gauge how much winning an argument on an internet message board is a priority in your life. I worked in science before, too, but if some people don't want to believe it, they can believe I'm really a pimp for all I care. Besides--I never said I wasn't. Right now I've got some moron on the internet of my own demanding that I present evidence that the melting tundra is releasing methane. Like that is really that hard to find online--let alone dig up the white
[quote]Kharma, your argument in the whole thing breaks down into "I'm right, and you'll see that when you find the information that I won't tell you the location of." Very convincing. Seriously, I'm dissapointed to even be in the same career field as you.[/quote] All that aside, I do find your picture quite appropriate to this evolution discussion (a caveman, LOL), so you get points for that in my book, if nothing else.
Damn quotes are broken, so I'm going to have to do this by hand.... > You call this cheese, but what's the difference between the way this plays, and the vanilla version of the game where there are no starbases to protect you from losing the planet to bombardment? I'm not nece
[quote]ol. so kharma is an expert biologist, climate scientist AND engineer. must be really busy being him. until you've published something that completely blows evolution out of the water, the only thing you've done is prove you're full of unsubstantiated bollocks.[/quote] LOL. So you are attacking the fact that I think critically and think for myself, and you are defending appeal to authority, bandwagon jumping, and general support of the establishment and status q
[quote]To disprove a theory, you must be able to prove that it gives a wrong answer in a known situation. If you can provide substantial evidence that the theory takes known starting conditions, predicts an outome based on these conditions, and the predictions are flat out wrong compared to the known real-world outcome based on the same starting conditions, you can say you have disproved it. You aren't even close yet.[/quote] I think evolution is already disproven, but that's of a sec
[quote]Where do you think we're invoking the supernatural?[/quote] Where do you think I am? I think your "rationale" (cough) is 1. They claim there is a designer. 2. If so, who designed the designer? 3. Must be a claim to the supernatural. I can make the same attack on you: 1. They claim life evolved from the first life. 2. If so, how did it get there? 3. Must be a claim to the supernatural. Or, if you prefer: 1. They
If there is a problem with superweapon balance (not saying there is, not saying there isn't), buff the other superweapons instead of nerfing vasari. One idea would be to make the novalith cannon immune to the starbase planet lockdown. In other words, it takes you off of the planet regardless of a starbase with planet lockdown capability. Here's something interesting: we've discussed trying to retune the role of the shield generator, since it comes so high in the tech
[quote]If you ask me, the solution is to buff the other capital ships and carrier cruisers. It's been noted that carrier-cap-spam is counterable, so I'd rather see other caps pushed up to their levels and carrier cruisers improved to better compete rather than knocking them down a notch.[/quote] Agree 100%. The solution is to tweak other ships, not nerf carrier caps. [quote]Oh, and I agree telekinetic push needs a nerf. It's always been a borderline ability, and now th
[quote]Science has just become our cultures new Religion. And the masses follow it just like their ancestors followed the bible and their deities.[/quote] I agree 100%, except it's worse than that. For the most part, they aren't even practicing science. They are practicing something that they claim is science, and believe to be science.
[quote]It it not irrelevent, you are completely sidestepping the fact that if we were created by something, because we are too complex to have arisen by ourselves, the it clearly follows that whatever designed us was also designed, unless you invoke something supernatural.[/quote] I don't sidestep any more or less than you people sidestep (how did the first life form originate? where did the thing that exploded into the "big bang" come from?). I don't invoke the supernat
[quote]Avida is an artificial life software platform to study the evolutionary biology of self-replicating and evolving computer programs (digital organisms). Avida is under active development by Charles Ofria's Digital Evolution Lab at Michigan State University and was originally designed by Ofria, Chris Adami and C. Titus Brown at Caltech in 1993. The software was inspired by the Tierra system. [/quote] LOL. Be sure to let me know when they win the nobel prize for evolving the
[quote]Kharma, I get the impression you're avoiding my discussion. You have not addressed 'who designed the designer', regardless of whether or not that designer is supernatural.[/quote] I haven't addressed it because, first of all, it is an irrelevant question to the discussion. If we dug a time machine out of the earth tomorrow, I wouldn't know who the designer was, and I wouldn't know who designed the designer, but I would know the machine was designed. Funny
[quote]GOD are you intentionally dumb?[/quote] Merry Christmas to you, too. [quote]Have you ever read non ID-sites about evolution? [/quote] I don't read ID sites or evolution sites. I don't get my information from the internet. Have I read about evolution? I already stated that I have. I have read all of Darwin's writings. I pointed you to Stephen J. Gould. I read the book by those evolutionists that won a prize a while back (thei
[quote]Right, so I am expected to provide a detailed diagram of the DNA of a bacteria and explain in detail why each mutation was selected over the standard genome[/quote] For a Ph.D. scientist making his evolutionary claims? Yes. Science requires no less. But for you? As I said, a much simpler "major parts diagram" would suffice. The granularity I would accept would be small major parts that are not themselves machines, i.e. rotor, stator, bearing, u-
[quote]1) A single mutation is unlikely to provide twitch function. [/quote] Dykstra, don't play into what he's saying. The point is, he didn't answer the question. With all this baloney about "twitch function" and "nubs," he specifically ignored (and worse, may not have even understood) the fact that he needs to illustrate each small step in the chain, and then show how each small step provides some sort of benefit for natural selection to "select for." What he prov
[quote]1) Bacterial DNA mutates to provide twitch functions. Natural selection occurs due to these bacteria with this mutation being able to reach food sources slightly quicker than those without. 2)Bacterial DNA mutates to provide nubs on the end of the new strain of "twitchy" bacteria. Again, Selection picks these bacteria over nubless twitchers because they can acquire sources of energy quicker than others. 3) Repeat step 2 ad nauseum with longer nubs at each step. Pr
Ran into these much-hated advent scumbags again last night. Yeah, I totally understand why TEC exiled these FREAKS. One late game advent was beating 3 maxed-out late game TEC fleets at once, all a the same time. His battleball was in the center, he had tons of illums and guardians and bombers and capships. All 3 TEC fleets were being pushed away by repulse and beaten at the same time, even though they outnumbered him 3 to 1. He was killing their capships and le
Another big problem I have with evolution (there are so many) is that there is no mechanical process which can "evolve" an organism into another organism. Let's just use a hypothetical example - a snake-like creature with no arms, and we want to transform it into more of a lizard-like creature with arms and legs. How would this happen according to evolution? Perhaps an appendage such as an arm or a leg would start with a mutation which forms a "bump" at the site of the fut
[quote]I study Computer Science, and in Computer Science you work a lot with information (obviously).[/quote] Ahh, fantastic. A computer program is a good analogy for the information contained in DNA. Tell me how computer programs come into being, please? [quote]OK, I have to bite. I will officially accept all tenents of Darwinian evolution without further thought if you can give me a single reference to an experiment that has successfully created an oligonucleoti
[quote]Agent of Kharma, would you be so kind as to define "evolution" for us? because nearly all of your criticisms so far don't make any sense with the definition most of the world uses.[/quote] I will not define it, you can look it up yourself. But what I said and will continue to say is, evolution is not defined as a filter, never has been, and never will be. Idiots who don't know their own theory confuse evolution with a filter. Evolution is not a filter.
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