> What about the particle theory of light and the wave theory of light, should you not study them, because one theory seems to contradict another?
After studying them we found out that they don't contradict each other because we were merely observing the effects of a new type of particle called photon. This has lead to jaw-dropping theories like QED (BBT: Richard Feynman's book QED explains the theory in all detail in a very accessible way - it was a revelation to me after physics teachers told be "ah we don't know what light's made of" ) which can explain this apparent contradiction.
As to your moral arguments. Good manners, morality etc are not exclusive to religiously brought up people. I don't like seeing this argument every time this discussion comes up because I feel like you're implying I have no moral and do not know how to be kind to people.
> the professors there said God wants us to learn these things, that is why we are here.
To me it always felt better to learn for myself, my own goals, set by just me. Maybe that's a personality kind of thing, but the idea of being good/doing good things because god want's me to does motivate me a lot less than/me/ deciding what I want to do. I guess I'm the entrepreneurial type;)
Just that most people don't care about the technology underneath. They just see "Windows Live!... has Games, Video chat. ROCKS!" Same with Myspace and Skype. To build up such an on open standards based "network" we need a company that spends much money on full time developers and designers so "oh well, but linux just looks ugly" effect doesn't happen.
I guess we all are a bit too much geeks to take SIP before proprietary Skype and think that our new "distributed, opensourced app with Jabber and XML support (sorry for this one)" cannot fail because of these astonishing features.
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> What about the particle theory of light and the wave theory of light, should you not study them, because one theory seems to contradict another?
/me/ deciding what I want to do. I guess I'm the entrepreneurial type ;)
After studying them we found out that they don't contradict each other because we were merely observing the effects of a new type of particle called photon. This has lead to jaw-dropping theories like QED (BBT: Richard Feynman's book QED explains the theory in all detail in a very accessible way - it was a revelation to me after physics teachers told be "ah we don't know what light's made of" ) which can explain this apparent contradiction.
As to your moral arguments. Good manners, morality etc are not exclusive to religiously brought up people. I don't like seeing this argument every time this discussion comes up because I feel like you're implying I have no moral and do not know how to be kind to people.
> the professors there said God wants us to learn these things, that is why we are here.
To me it always felt better to learn for myself, my own goals, set by just me. Maybe that's a personality kind of thing, but the idea of being good/doing good things because god want's me to does motivate me a lot less than
Just that most people don't care about the technology underneath. They just see "Windows Live!... has Games, Video chat. ROCKS!" Same with Myspace and Skype. To build up such an on open standards based "network" we need a company that spends much money on full time developers and designers so "oh well, but linux just looks ugly" effect doesn't happen.
I guess we all are a bit too much geeks to take SIP before proprietary Skype and think that our new "distributed, opensourced app with Jabber and XML support (sorry for this one)" cannot fail because of these astonishing features.