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British Library Puts Oldest Surviving Bible Online
Peace Corps Library writes "BBC reports that about 800 pages of the earliest surviving Christian Bible, the 1,600-year-old Codex Sinaiticus manuscript, have been recovered and put on the Internet. 'The Codex Sinaiticus is one of the world's greatest written treasures,' says Dr. Scot McKendrick, head of Western manuscripts at the British Library. 'This 1,600-year-old manuscript offers a window into the development of early Christianity and first-hand evidence of how the text of the Bible was transmitted from generation to generation.' The New Testament of the Codex Sinaiticus appears in Koine Greek, the original vernacular language, and the Old Testament in the version, known as the Septuagint, that was adopted by early Greek-speaking Christians. For 1,500 years, the Codex Sinaiticus lay undisturbed in a Sinai monastery until it was found in 1844 and split between Egypt, Russia, Germany, and Britain. It is thought to have survived because the desert air was ideal for preservation and because the monastery, on a Christian island in a Muslim sea, remained untouched, its walls unconquered. The British Library is marking the online launch of the manuscript with an exhibition which includes a range of historic items and artifacts linked to the document. 'The availability of the virtual manuscript for study by scholars around the world creates opportunities for collaborative research that would not have been possible just a few years ago.'"
because it's full of curse words. PISSFUCK SHITCOCK MOTHERFUCKER
Linux just isn't ready for the desktop yet. It may be ready for the web servers that you nerds use to distribute your TRON fanzines and personal Dungeons and Dragons web-sights across the world wide web, but the average computer user isn't going to spend months learning how to use a CLI and then hours compiling packages so that they can get a workable graphic interface to check their mail with, especially not when they already have a Windows machine that does its job perfectly well and is backed by a major corporation, as opposed to Linux which is only supported by a few unemployed nerds living in their mother's basement somewhere. The last thing I want is a level 5 dwarf (haha) providing me my OS.
That would just start another Texas war:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/07/25/texas-doomed/
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/26/texas-from-saved-to-doomed-in-just-6-hours/
And maybe Arizona too:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/06/arizona-is-6000-years-old/
In any case, when Phil posts about astronomy (like the name of the blog suggests) it is a great read.
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which is the verb?
Science is not truth, any more than a Hammer "is" carpentry.
To claim otherwise is superstitious "Scienceism" as foolish and ignorant as "Christianism" - the disease that believes documentary evidence for God is either necessary or defensible.
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
How does one become a "former" scientist? By rejecting the scientific method, maybe? I'm not sure I like the sound of this. Hume would be disappointed.
So you were thinking of scientist in the sense of a literal job description, instead of in the sense of being a rational and prudent person. I get you.
If the law says that prostitutes are illegal, does the mere fact of the law stop you from going to one? Or does your moral conscience?
How does your moral conscience let you sleep at night, letting all of those poor prostitutes who can't find another form of gainful employment go without any customers and be harassed and jailed by the police? Aren't you contributing to their starvation and poverty by not allowing them to run their business?
This satire brought to you by the morality-is-relative department.