chicagogurl8 asked:


My younger brother has had eczema since he was born. He has never been bitten by a mosquito in his entire life. I have always wondered if there is a connection between these two facts. There doesn’t seem to be anything else about him that would cause this. He could walk through a forest with me (teenage girl), his cousin (adult male), and 5 of his friends (who are male and about the same age, weight, height, etc), and he is the only one who won’t be bitten. To other eczema sufferers: How often are you bitten by mosquitos?

LOIS

sam b asked:


What song is in the Twilight movie that plays as Bella leaves school grounds and walks up to the forest, for the confrontation scene? It’s instrumental and as far as I can tell is NOT on the soundtrack. Help?!
Ziggy had it. Thank you so much!

SHELDON

Illogicology asked:


You pick it up, look at it and you know it was designed and created by an intelligent creator. It’s obvious, you knew as soon as you looked it.

If everything else in the forest was made by an intelligent creator, why should the watch be significant in this analogy? Shouldn’t this analogy work with a complex, intelligently designed rock in place of a watch?

Why do you think it doesn’t?
or perhaps you think it does work, I’d like to hear from you aswell!
I think people are missing my point somewhat. Someone who believed in evolution wouldn’t say the watch evolved, they WOULD say the trees did. The fact that creationists use this analogy shows they make a distinction between something created and something natural and grown. And yet, they argue that the trees and rocks are as obvious as the watch. Why?

LOURDES

rfl23 asked:


What is the twelve stone circle in the Mastbos just south of Breda, Netherlands?
I was walking in the forest and found these twelve boulders in a circle with twelve wood post just on the inside of each boulder, with a wood post in the center of the circle. The name of the forest is the Mastbos, it is just to the south of Breda, Netherlands. What is this twelve stone circle?

SIMONE

worried person asked:


Assuming I have enough space, I’m going to make a mini-forest.

I don’t want it to be too dense, I want people to be able to walk through it.

After a while I want it to be self-sustainable.

Any tips for spacing out the trees, what trees to use or anything else? I also want to use clumping bamboo trees(I’ve got some), how should I plant these?
This forest is for NSW Australia, if that helps

MARCELINO

M-Vid asked:


this is a hypothectical question.

let’s say you were walking through the forest and you see this lake filled with trash and whatnot.

how would u clean it up?

MARGO

Kjelstad asked:


would you believe it had an intelligent designer or that it evolved through a series of random events?

This was someone else’s answer to a skeptic, but I thought I would ask it, as I think it deserves some attention.

The Argument From Design is often stated by analogy, in this analogy we find a computer chip in the forest. I know, who would be looking through the forest. I normal look to see what has washed up on the beach. For the sake of this argument, and since Jim Darwin has alluded to wanting his afterlife to be like spending time at the beach, let’s move the argument to the beach. Hey and while we are at it, who takes a chip to the beach? I’ll use a pocket watch. People are always losing those. If you find this less valid than a chip in the forest, please feel free to point that out as well.

So, imagine that one has found a watch on the beach. Does one assume that it was created by a watchmaker, or that it evolved naturally? Of course one assumes a watchmaker.
Yet like the watch, the universe is intricate and complex; so, the argument goes, the universe too must have a creator.

The Watchmaker analogy suffers from three particular flaws, over and above those common to all Arguments By Design. Firstly, a watchmaker creates watches from pre-existing materials, whereas God is claimed to have created the universe from nothing. These two sorts of creation are clearly fundamentally different, and the analogy is therefore rather weak.

Secondly, a watchmaker makes watches, but there are many other things in the world. If we walked further along the beach and found a nuclear reactor, we wouldn’t assume it was created by the watchmaker. The argument would therefore suggest a multitude of creators, each responsible for a different part of creation (or a different universe, if you allow the possibility that there might be more than one).
Finally, in the first part of the watchmaker argument we conclude that the watch is not part of nature because it is ordered, and therefore stands out from the randomness of nature. Yet in the second part of the argument, we start from the position that the universe is obviously not random, but shows elements of order. The Watchmaker argument is thus internally inconsistent.

Apart from logical inconsistencies in the watchmaker argument, it’s worth pointing out that biological systems and mechanical systems behave very differently. What’s unlikely for a pile of gears (or diode filled silicon) is not necessarily unlikely for a mixture of biological molecules.
OK, I went a little long. I admit I will get slammed ahead of time.

JUANA

Carlos G asked:


Does one need a car to enter the area? Can one just go by bus and explore walking? Do we need a pass or something? etc..
Thanks
-Gil

MYRA

bill w GO FLAMES GO 【ツ】 asked:


…wearing sunglasses, listening to an MP3 player, smoking, and laying in a hammock, what would you do?

LETA

star*of*elo asked:


Which do you prefer and why?

Redwoods for me. Every time I go to the mall I get sensory overload. plus, for some reason people stare. I wonder why…

LYNNE