The last several final fantasy games have been done with realistic graphics though lol

It’s definitely defense. The amount of money spent and the number of people involved is insane, it guarantees incompetence at best, corruption at worst.

Alternative alternative perspective: imagine being lifted up, against your will, and manipulated until you can see nothing but a vast blackness dotted with occasional white pinpricks and glimmers. You’re put back down, but now you have the craziest story to tell Gary at the feeding trough in the morning.

Mate, religious people didn’t fill the museums with dinosaurs without feathers.

Right, religious people fill their museums with justifications for dinosaurs being on the ark with all the other animals, and pseudoscientific “proof” of a 6000 year old earth that directly contradicts any real scientific evidence.

Also the irony of you saying that “religious people don’t fill museums with featherless dinos” and then immediately following it up with

Scientists gather evidence… then fill the gaps.

is insane lol. Like are you even approaching this conversation seriously at this point? I feel like you’re still missing my point, even though I’ve explained it multiple times now. What else can I do to explain it to you in a way you’ll understand?

I still feel like you have a fundamental misunderstanding of science, and that you’re trying to conflate the gap-filling that religious people do with the evidence gathering that science does. Which is a wholly disingenuous thing to do.

Where we don’t have proof, we have theories

Based on this sentence, I don’t think you understand how science works, which might be why we’re still talking past each other.

Also it seems like you’re still hung up on what humanity has done historically, but that’s not relevant at all to what I’m talking about. I’m speaking in a pragmatic sense, about what we should do, not what we have done.

we still have museums filled with dinosaurs without feathers

Because we’re still making discoveries and trying to nail down* the details of dino feathers. Feathers rarely fossilize, so it’s a really difficult thing to study.

there are people that preach the big bang theory as fact

Scientists present the big bang theory as fact because of the vast body of evidence that supports it. Just like germ theory, or evolution.

Shit, we still have people thinking the earth is flat.

Contrary to what the evidence shows, so idk what this has to do with anything.

We’re getting off track though. You originally made a claim basically saying that we don’t know enough to say God didn’t create the universe. I’m just trying to point out that that’s not how critical/scientific thinking works. You don’t invent an untestable conclusion and then say “well nothing disproves this yet, so it’s possible”. Not being able to disprove something says nothing about it’s possibility, and not having evidence of something is neither proof, nor disproof, but simply a gap in knowledge. We should be comfortable leaving those gaps empty until we find solid, evidence-based explanations that fill them. We shouldn’t prematurely fill them with untestable claims.

Tell that to the couple dozen propagations I have currently living in various sized vessels of water

Are we even capable of putting the pieces together that we’re getting?

Yes, absolutely, and more progress is made as more new evidence is found. The thing is, until that happens, scientists are perfectly comfortable with the gaps, and saying “I don’t know”, instead of filling those gaps with an evil sky wizard.

Do you think the astronomers/cosmologists/astrophysicists piecing together the origins of the universe are doing so without evidence?

we’re sure as shit nowhere near understanding anything enough to say a god DIDN’T do it.

But we also have zero solid evidence that a God did do it. Making and believing such an enormous claim without evidence is absolutely bananas

The only way you can come to the conclusion that “acceptance is the goal” of the Bible is by cherry picking from it.

The new testament is full of heinous shit too though. Jesus (who, don’t forget, is still the same vengeful, angry old testament God) condones rape, violence, and killing all throughout it, but says “love thy neighbor” once and everyone thinks he’s gentle as a lamb.

“I come not to bring peace, but a sword” - Matthew 10:34

The kind of “AI advancement” that requires stripping away privacy rights is definitely done by technofascists.

Ah yes, correctly highlighting the megalopolises of Yuma and Mexicali, and excluding backwaters such as Los Angeles and Miami

But we do have evidence that a lot of chemicals in the PFAS family stick around for a long time, and we have evidence that they’re harmful. That’s enough for me to be wary of anything in that group, especially when there are easy alternatives.

It’s hard to rewrite the past if someone’s keeping receipts

That’s not true, there’s definitely ways to render the skin to the point where it’s all crisp, no slime, without burning it. It’s hard to do when oven roasting but possible, but it’s pretty easy to do when pan-searing.

I try to plug it in without closely inspecting the port because I can with just about every other type of port. It’s easy to plug in an HDMI, Display Port, or Ethernet cable on the first try because of the asymmetrical shape, and things that use barrel plugs like headphone jacks just don’t care about orientation. USB-A is one of the few port types that combines the worst of both worlds.

You can also get a roll of like 50 reusable microfiber cloths from any home store for less than ten bucks. They work just as well as any overpriced branded duster wipes, and are washable/reusable as an added bonus.