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Score: The deal is done and official, Peavy is on the White Sox.

FWIW: The Sox wouldn't mention specific names unless it was a done deal.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 03:28 PM) Poreda, Richard, Russell, Dex Carter Confirmed by the Score, Announced by the White Sox. Seems like Peavy has agreed.

Joel Sherman of the New York Post: White Sox-Padres agreed to let Peavy be traded off of the DL, Post learns

The Score reports about the rumor.

SI_JonHeyman: this is no joke. peavy goes to white sox again. #padres get minor leaguers.

Halladay Maybe to Anaheim... Not LA. Sorry, the Angles are from Anaheim, not LA

huh???

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 02:12 PM) The rumor was that the Dbacks turned down Kenny twice for Haren. ok, thanks

Any truth to the rumor that the Sox are interested in Danny Haren?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 01:11 PM) LOL LINK No one does it better than the Onion

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 12:12 PM) You can't carbon date rock. If you cant carbon date rock, then how did a scientist, not knowing it was dinosaur rock, carbon date it?

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 12:10 PM) This is the part I'm talking about. We do actually know humans have only been around for a few thousand years but how do we know how long God's "days" are? For all I know, God could blink his eyes and my whole life comes and goes. I don't know. Neither does anyone else. And every culture has a different way of measuring "years"

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 12:04 PM) There is actually a real contradiction here; the plates don't just wander aimlessly for no reason, there's actually a driving force, and the driving force takes time to develop. The thing that pulls plates around relates to subduction and 2 temperature related processes. When oceanic crust gets really old (200+ million years old) it gets really cold (compared to the rest of the earth), and cold things are dense (thermal expansion). Thus, there is a driving force for oceanic plates to sink. Once those sinking plates get put under pressure, because of their chemical composition, they convert to phases that are dominated by garnet and pyroxene, which are about 10% more dense on average than the rest of the mantle minerals around them. Thus, as they go down, they stay cold for a time (thus are dense) and they convert to different mineral assemblages (and thus are dense) and they are dragged downwards deeper in to the mantle until they find a level of neutral buoyancy. The reason there's a contradiction there is that the driving force behind plate tectonics requires significant time. The plates don't just saunter around aimlessly; they move specifically because of processes that take time to happen. But if there is a greater, all powerful fouce, who created the earth, he can put those actions into place with the snap of a finger.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 12:08 PM) I'm actually really open to this idea (assuming God exists, there is really no reason for him to explain his actions to us, and it's not a given that we would understand), but where does the idea that God arbitrarily snapped his fingers and created Earth and humanityin like 4000 B.C. come from? Correct me if I'm wrong, but dates are never given. If you track biblical genealogy, supposedly it put the earth at around 6,000 years old. I tend to say it's a few more thousand years older.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 12:04 PM) Not to be an ass, but that plays right into my scientific illiteracy ranting. Modern geology and plate tectonics (not to mention a whole host of other physical and biological phenomenon) just don't work if you shrink the timescale to a few thousand years. See, here is the problem with the argument that comes from the scientific world. They say "science shows this to be true, therefor it is true". But that's assuming development over millions of years. Creationist say "it was made that way". So, the two sides will never reconcile. I say the earth was made that way. Maybe its a test of faith? I dunno. Any ever read about the Allosaurus dinosaur bone that was C-14 dated to 10,000-16,000 years old? They supposedly lived 60 million years ago.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 11:56 AM) Think time scales. If plate tectonics are real but the earth is only a few thousand years old, they wouldn't have been together. Exactly my point.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 11:53 AM) So, you believe plate tectonics just started? There is no positive or negative reason for them to exist. So, God could have created them for whatever reason he saw fit. QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 11:56 AM) Seems contradictory. Not at all. Plate tectonics is the process by which earth's plates move around. Just because they are moving away from each other, doesnt prove they were once connected.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 11:34 AM) 47% of Republicans do not believe in Plate Tectonics. Ok, the poll and your title are a little different. As a creationist, I do not believe they were once connected, HOWEVER I do believe that Plate Tectonic are real.

Well, the Vikings are pushing to implode the dome and build a new stadium on the site in the next few years. So, if they get their wish, this wont last for long.

Dissolving Bikini is the Ultimate Revenge Gift

QUOTE (pcullotta @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 09:06 AM) Beckham currently has a higher OPS then Konerko. Beckham now has the highest batting average on the team. Beckham is behind only Jim Thome in OBP. I like Beckham. 0.335 BA since his 0-13 start.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 31, 2009 -> 08:52 AM) John Titor is another quality site. http://www.johntitor.com/ You cant "quarantine" a blackhole. And this great point was made a while back, the type of collisions going on at LHC go on in our atmosphere EVERY DAY, but we cant monitor and study the results of the impacts. This is just a controlled environment.

I fully believe that Roswell was an alien crash, but not all UFOs are "extraterrestrial". Many are probably highly advanced US aircraft. I dont fully believe this, but I think there is the possibility these "extraterrestrials" are actually the human race visiting from the future.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jul 30, 2009 -> 01:27 PM) Are you saying you believe those? I need clarification about this too. Is this a thread about Conspiracies we believe to be true, or just anything that is out there in the ether?