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Herschel Telescope Spots a Star Spewing Powerful Water Jets into Interstellar Space | Popular Science

Researchers looking for signs of life elsewhere in the universe often start by looking for one key ingredient necessary to complex life as we know it: water. And just 750 light-years away, they’ve found quite a bit of it spewing from the poles of a young, sunlike star that is blasting jets of H₂O into interstellar space at 124,000 miles per hour.

This discovery is interesting on a number of levels. For one, it indicates that throughout the universe young protostars could be distributing vast quantities of water, potentially seeding life elsewhere.

via www.popsci.com

One of the key premises of the contemporary design argument is that the conditions required for life to emerge as so improbable that they must have been fine-tuned by a supernatural, intelligent designer.  But findings like the one above as well as here on Earth suggest that the conditions required for life are not as narrow as traditionally thought.

Philosophy Is Useless Because "No Two Philosophers Agree About Anything"

Here's another poorly reasoned, pseudo-intellectual attack on philosophy.

This guy is talking out of his ass.  The idea that no two philosophers agree on anything is simply false.  It's an absurd statement.  So absurd that he cannot possibly mean it literally if he has an informed view of the subject he's talking about.  But, moreover, let's just run his argument the other way.  There's widespread disagreement among religious people over which religion is correct.  Theologians in different religions disagree with one another, but they also tend to have internal disagreements within those religious traditons as well.  So, according to this guy's reasoning, religion is useless too.

Philosophy is "Mental Masturbation"

Check out this video I found on YouTube.com. It presents a common criticism of philosophy.

I'm not going to challenge this guy's expertise in regard to masturbation.  But, his grasp of philosophy is pretty bad.  He should probably consider whether or not his thesis that "philosophy is mental masturbation" can be empirically tested or whatever he means by 'bouncing it off reality.'  If it cannot be tested empirically, then his own view of philosophy would seem to be nothing but mental masturbation.