I think the frustration over hacking/cracking would be quickly resolved if hackers adopted the label tinkerers (or e-tinkerers or something a little catchier) and let the uninitiated have their way. It's important for technical vocabulary to be pretty rigidly defined, but hacking has migrated a bit towards everyday vocabulary. Since computers have completed the one-time move from obscure to common, I don't think this concession would need to be repeated with "tinkerers." My grandmother would complain about "how the gays took our word and made it something else," and I'm failing to see how that doesn't parallel people's reaction to the misuse of "hacking."
I am a Christian, but I don't reject science at all. I'd consider that an insult to God, thinking we know how the universe works better than he does.
Modern Christians have made the bad mistake of forgetting how the Bible was written. Most of it was written by eyewitnesses, but even those accounts have changed (albeit more slightly) over time. Genesis was supposedly recorded by Moses. Until then, it was a bunch of Jewish fireside stories passed down for generations. The Jews were slaves at the time, and I think there's no better way to explain something complicated (God's character) through stories. We can extract God's character from the stories, enjoy the stories as stories, and then look to science for how the physical works.
Science and religion don't preclude each other. The ONLY thing religion should do to science is say, "and God made it that way." I believe we evolved from dirt (or self-replicating rna), and that life is an inevitability. I personally don't think God had any sort of intervention in our evolution; he simply made the rules by which matter plays, tossed in a massive amount of energy (big bang), and let the universe do its thing!
Please don't let this museum form your opinions of Christians as a whole! There are those who think differently!
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I think the frustration over hacking/cracking would be quickly resolved if hackers adopted the label tinkerers (or e-tinkerers or something a little catchier) and let the uninitiated have their way. It's important for technical vocabulary to be pretty rigidly defined, but hacking has migrated a bit towards everyday vocabulary. Since computers have completed the one-time move from obscure to common, I don't think this concession would need to be repeated with "tinkerers." My grandmother would complain about "how the gays took our word and made it something else," and I'm failing to see how that doesn't parallel people's reaction to the misuse of "hacking."
Why wasn't the Ten Commandments mentioned under his sci fi roles?
I am a Christian, but I don't reject science at all. I'd consider that an insult to God, thinking we know how the universe works better than he does. Modern Christians have made the bad mistake of forgetting how the Bible was written. Most of it was written by eyewitnesses, but even those accounts have changed (albeit more slightly) over time. Genesis was supposedly recorded by Moses. Until then, it was a bunch of Jewish fireside stories passed down for generations. The Jews were slaves at the time, and I think there's no better way to explain something complicated (God's character) through stories. We can extract God's character from the stories, enjoy the stories as stories, and then look to science for how the physical works. Science and religion don't preclude each other. The ONLY thing religion should do to science is say, "and God made it that way." I believe we evolved from dirt (or self-replicating rna), and that life is an inevitability. I personally don't think God had any sort of intervention in our evolution; he simply made the rules by which matter plays, tossed in a massive amount of energy (big bang), and let the universe do its thing! Please don't let this museum form your opinions of Christians as a whole! There are those who think differently!