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This article Neutrinos Travel Faster Than Light, According to One Experiment suggests that neutrinos travel faster than light. If this turned out to be true, it would redefine physics as we know it. Einsteins Theory of Relativity would be disproved with this one new fact, for instance. To say that this would be an amazing discovery is an understatement.

This quote is a wonderful demonstration of the difference between religous dogmatism and science.

“I suspect that the bulk of the scientific community will not take this as a definitive result unless it can be reproduced by at least one and preferably several experiments,” says V. Alan Kostelecky, a theorist at Indiana University, Bloomington. He adds, however, “I’d be delighted if it were true.“

Suppose someone said “Hey we found proof that Jesus was just a man and actually not the son of God.” How many Christians would say “Oh wow, that’s amazing, I hope it’s true?”

Science is not dogmatic. It is constantly being updated as we discover new facts. Although it is unlikely that this will turn out to be true, the fact that it excites scientists rather than instil abject fear is a testament to its lack of dogmatism.

These questions are so simple that anyone with half a brain should be able to answer them. I’ve seen much better lists before that were technical enough to require expert knowledge of biology to answer. These are just lame.

1. How Did Nothing Turn Into Something?
   Answer: It didn’t
2. How Did Life Come From Non-Life?
   Answer: The building blocks of life all the way down to atoms are not alive. Life is hard to define even today. The first forms of life would have been simple self-replicating amino acids. Once that existed, evolution took over and after billions of years we have the rich diversity of life that we see every day. Experiments have shown that in the proper environment the proteins will automatically self-assemble. I think it’s also important to note that the study of the origin of life is not part of the Theory of Evolution.
   
3. How Did Millions of Life Forms Evolve With Absolutely No Evidence of Major Change?
   Answer: There is overwhelming evidence of major change. You’d have to be willfully ignorant to not know this. Creationist love to lie and claim that there are no transitional fossils but there are tons and tons of them.
4. How Can A Watch Come Into Existence Without A Watchmaker?
   Answer: A watch, being a man made machine, cannot come into existence without a watchmaker. Furthermore, this has nothing to do with evolution.
5. How Did Thought Come From Non-Thought?
   Answer: This question makes no sense. Thoughts are a result of chemical and electric processes in our brain. Thoughts come from the brain.