Debate: Should mankind invest in the exploration of space?
Side: yes

Your bit on my carI have no qualms with finding the physics of the universe. I actually love it! I'm all for reverse-engineering the parts of the car to find how and why they work. But the answer to the origins of the universe might not be in there, just like the origins of the car aren't actually in the car itself.Under certain conditions equilibrium can be achieved in allele frequencies, thus ending evolution.But then Yellowstone erupts, changing the environment and it throws off the equilibrium. Once a creature stops adapting and changing, it dies. Michael Crichton (yes, a fiction author, but lots of good research) wrote a book on it. It's quite good. It's called The Lost World. You should read it, if only for the amazing plot-line.The bible claims that god exists, then claims its writings as proof (those allegedly historical writings), and THEN claims that it can be trusted because it is the word of godThe OT is an observation of events, most likely passed down word-of-mouth until somebody got around to writing them down (and no, it probably wasn't Moses, despite popular belief). That those events happen to show the existence of God doesn't disprove them anymore than the credibility of a history book would be in danger if it mentioned the Holocaust when the world didn't believe it ever happened. That is, of course, an analogy as I'm sure the Holocaust is still believed.Also, if you have enough wind to push the massive bulk of a sea in half, you have enough wind to tear apart anyone who walks in the path of that divided water.Or you could have a steady (but quite powerful) wind that allows people to walk on a shallow section of a sea. It's conceivable and has been studied. I believe the number was 67 mph, which is much less powerful than, say, a hurricane.A flat earth is not indicated in the geological record, as our highest mountains are millions of years old, not thousands.Honestly, just out of curiosity, how do we know the mountains are millions of years old? Surely they can't use carbon, as the rocks weren't living. Or did they use the same process that dated fresh rocks from Mt. St. Hellens to be a quite old? Or did they assume that the strata layers have been deposited the same rate forever?Wouldn't it be possible that a massive flood set down the layers before the mountains came up?Yes, and it was part of a trend in today's youth to repackage Sci-Fi as syfy for trendiness. Also, I use British spelling which is a different, but correct, system.But there's no harm in saying you watch channel 59, is there? So why is there harm in calling channel 59 by it's name: SyFy?And, semi-honestly, do the British spell 'civilization' with an 's' instead of a 'z'?It is not biologically possible for the dead to resurrect once the brain decomposes past a certain pointIt is also not physically possible to make a bag weighing at least 55 pounds weight 45 pounds, but it happened. It's also not possible to have paint bubble from the ground, and that happened as well. And there's really no point in trying to discredit those stories, as me and my family have witnessed them first-hand.Or my brother-in-law's friend suddenly being cured totally of cancer, with the medical x-rays to confirm it. Here's him with the tumors, and here's him without any. No treatment in between.