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Very nice!

Congratulations!

Then the usable range is somewhere out to 300 - 400m?

Are to talking about the range as it pertains to subsonic? Does this hold true if you were just shooting a supersonic round? The reason I ask is that I've been getting told that the 300blk had the range of a 5.56 and maybe even better. I have no direct experience, but have been thinking of building one.

Somehow I missed this post. Very nice.

I read the first quarter of this and got side tracked and now I'm too tire for it also. I'm familiar with the Gap theory, but this looks well put together, so I will read it for better understanding. Thanks!

This sounds interesting. I bookmarked it for further reading. Too tired now to have anything soak in.

That is hilarious!

There is no reason to rush to offense. A good rational debate is what we are looking for here. There are many different views and lively discussion is the best way to listen to them and also hear what is coming out of our own brain.

I don't really know what you mean. This has nothing to do with Christianity. The question was what is science. I see nowhere an attempt to discredit Christianity. The scientific method has been shown a very powerful tool for discovery. That is what I answered.

Just to reiterate, in case I haven't already said it. God could still be the originator of the universe and life on earth. Nothing in evolution says otherwise. It doesn't answer the question of how life started, just how it progresses. Comparatively, our theories of the Big Bang or other similar theories do not answer the question of how the universe started, they try to give explanatory light onto what happened after it started. You still are left with the question of how a complex being such as God began, but that is entirely a deeper discussion. Could God have started it all? Certainly so.

Ok, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to come off like a jerk. I've had that question and similar asked many times before, and it is normally a setup by the questioner to say, "Ah ha! Then it's man made, and who made man?". It turns into a circular argument. So I'm a little suspicious of the motivation behind the question. First, science is the method that we use to discover the universe that surrounds us. It isn't some tangible thing, it is a method that we apply to our environment. We humans are notoriously susceptible to errors in gathering and understanding information presented to us by our built in senses. Things like pareidolia, poor memory recollection, false memory reinforcement, confirmation bias, etc. make it necessary to carefully examine the data in a controlled and methodical way. Enter the scientific method. For the sake of being brief I will have to cut and paste. It's taken two hours to write this much, as my day has become insanely busy. A linearized, pragmatic scheme of the four points above is sometimes offered as a guideline for proceeding:[44] Define a question Gather information and resources (observe) Form an explanatory hypothesis Test the hypothesis by performing an experiment and collecting data in a reproducible manner Analyze the data Interpret the data and draw conclusions that serve as a starting point for new hypothesis Publish results Retest (frequently done by other scientists) The iterative cycle inherent in this step-by-step methodology goes from point 3 to 6 back to 3 again. For a better understanding, please see the entire article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method Unfortunately, I have to stop here and get back to work. Please give me your feedback and I will try to give a more complete answer later.

A rhetorical question? If it is a genuine question, then I will happily answer. If I am just being baited in, then let's not really waste time. Let me know.

You should have went directly to Unobtanium!

I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens. :0)

Yes there is. Take it from the Paleontological Society. http://www.paleosoc....ioncomplete.htm A snippet: The fossil record is the primary factual evidence for evolution in times past, and evolution is well documented by further evidence from other scientific disciplines, including comparative anatomy, biogeography, genetics, molecular biology, and studies of viral and bacterial diseases. Evolution is also a theory – an explanation for the observed changes in life through Earth history that has been tested numerous times and repeatedly confirmed. Evolution is an elegant theory that explains the history of life through geologic time; the diversity of living organisms, including their genetic, molecular, and physical similarities and differences; and the geographic distribution of organisms. Evolutionary principles are the foundation of all basic and applied biology and paleontology, from biodiversity studies to studies on the control of emerging diseases.

Awesome! Happy Birthday!!

All bullets began as a .22 short.

I'm not sure the bible speaks to heaven's location other than when referencing "the heavens" and inferring the sky or up. But it is supposed to be where God is. Hell conversely is down or in the pit, also could be the absence of God. Hell is a idea that solidified as the bible developed over time, specifically brought to bear in the New Testament.

Simply stating that evolution cannot be proven with no basis for the statement doesn't make an argument. It does not answer the origin of life, nor the origin of the universe. It is not meant to give those answers. It is an explanation of the diversity of life on this planet. It is supported by multiple lines of evidence through multiple disciplines of science. The evidence is truly staggering, especially once we discovered genetics and DNA.

In your mind.

I'm currently on my second pass through "The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality" by Brian Greene (Unabridged). Very interesting stuff, truly the bleeding edge of scientific thought.

Cheers!

I'd love to see a 69 day too! Oh, I read that wrong. :0)

There are fossils from the Precambrian era. How can you say things like this without spending a second or two investigating what you are saying?