I think that more geographic features than are generally acknowledged are the result of meteorite/comet impacts. These include the Gulf of Mexico, Hudson Bay, and the Great Lakes.
I believe that the continents were formed well after life developed, when the deposits of sea creatures were subducted into the mantle and the relatively light minerals reemerged via volcanism to form continents that “floated” on the heavier rock.
I sometimes wonder (when high) if the discovery of predicted subatomic particles happens because the predictions themselves made them come into being.
I sometimes ponder about things like that, including that self awareness/free will has something to do with quantum theory where we are deciding at some level if the cat is dead or alive by our actions when we open the box. Not in a way that we can know before hand what the answer is, but in a way that we chose the path we must then walk in.
I believe whole eggs and shellfish are very healthy and their high cholesterol doesn’t contribute to any significant disease in humans. Humans have been eating them for thousands and thousands of years, unlike, say, highly processed foods, so it’s hard to imagine that human evolution wouldn’t have adapted us to use these abundant sources of protein to maintain health.
I believe that garden hoses are possessed by malign spirits, causing them to kink, leak, trip you, wrap onto and injure plants, coil in ungainly ways, freeze onto connections and commit hara-kiri by first lying concealed in the grass and then leaping up at lawn mower blades overhead, causing fatal injury.
Hoses are only a bit tricky. Any musician knows that the real evil lies in guitar and speaker cables which when unplugged spontaneously snarl into a spaghetti-ball. Causing fisticuffs among the band members when it comes to deciding whose turn it is to unravel them…
I believe that Earth is just one of countless planets in the Universe with intelligent life.
I also believe the we will most likely never contact or even discover any of these civilizations.
I believe Billipeaks the YouTube cat who talks with buttons is a genius with an impairment. She could solve global warming, cancer cures, starving children and how to get Trump outta here if she lives long enough and gets more buttons and catnip.
Or doesn’t get too “Mad”!
I suspect that matter and antimatter could not exist without each other. If everything came from nothing there would have to be a negative on one side to match the positive on the other side of nothing.
I am not educated enough on the topic to weigh in about your conclusion, but with regards to this specific line of reasoning I’d point out that if the impact of cholesterol is to kill us at 40+ that doesn’t really impose much selection pressure since reproduction has most likely already happened.
I suppose this is possible. But since, in my understanding, the jury’s still out in the medical community about whether dietary cholesterol contributes to heart disease, I’ll remain skeptical. Especially because of how tasty they are (and cheap compared to other protein sources, at least for eggs).
I believe intelligent life is very very very rare, but life itself is quite common; but this is just what seems most likely to me based on the available evidence so I’m not sure I’d call it a “belief”. Certainly if new evidence came to light, I’d change my mind.
Oh, I absolutely agree - I just wanted to point out that there’s a bit of an ‘alignment problem’ between what we - intelligent beings who quite enjoy our post-reproductive lives - want, and what evolution selects for.
I find the thread title confusing. If something is unsupported, then how is it science? And the scientific search for life beyond earth is quite different from the readily disproven suggestion that the Great Lakes resulted from a meteor impact.
OTOH, when things get really REALLY small or really REALLY large, my brain starts to hurt and I am willing to rely on the fact that other folk who are smarter than I seem to agree as to certain principles, and that those principles have stood up to independent testing. I acknowledge that - to some extent - my acceptance of science that I personally cannot really understand shares SOME similarity to religious belief.
Sometimes I wonder if there were proto-civilizations that existed before the last ice age that had all evidence they existed destroyed by either being covered with ice or rising sea levels flooding them out.
When hiking I always carry corn meal to use as an offering. If I see something of beauty or interest I sprinkle a few grains on the wind as a gesture of thanks. I don’t personally know any Katsinas who might appreciate the gift. Perhaps the only spirit that get’s lifted is mine.
I agree with you. If eggs are good enough to develop a chicken from scratch with no coronary diseases they can’t be bad for our arteries. Who has ever heard of a chick having a heart attack?