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  1. Map of Publicly-Funded Creationism Teaching on Map of Publicly-Funded Creationism Teaching · · Score: 1

    Absent from your 1-sided post is any sense of the multiple errors and outright lies that glut teaching life-by-incremental changes. If you wanna call it "creationism," you wanna slap a "religion" label on it when the real religion is the state religion of atheistic humanism. How about these guys are merely teaching the facts of how things really work?

  2. A Thermodynamics Theory of the Origins of Life on A Thermodynamics Theory of the Origins of Life · · Score: 1

    "key physical attribute associated with life" = silly and deceptive. The KEY attribute of life is complexity, not water nor energy. And you can't fake complexity--you have an intelligence putting that into the system or you have random chaos. Deal with it.

  3. Global-Warming Skepticism Hits 6-Year High on Global-Warming Skepticism Hits 6-Year High · · Score: 1

    How about because these folks have already made so many breathless claims that they have zero credibility . . . no one was believing them 6 years ago, either. Many people are simply tired of hearing half lies so they believe nothing at all--it's safer that way.

  4. Creationism In Texas Public Schools on Creationism In Texas Public Schools · · Score: 1

    There is very much doubt about the age of the earth, solar system., universe, and all the "dating" methods used to obtain these numbers. What you don't want to admit is that this doubt exists because if you do, you have a huge amount of work ahead of you in re-writing everything you believe. Dr. Hugh Ross made an interesting comment about this: let y'all have those 6 or 9 zeroes and say, "So what?" You need HUNDREDS of zeroes to even get your life-by-incremental-changes started. Or do you not know the actual probability of randomly assembling a DNA molecule with ALL laevo-rotary amino acids? If you don't like "creation," who cares? At least it doesn't self-contradict.

  5. Ask Slashdot: How Can I Improve My Memory For Stud on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Improve My Memory For Study? · · Score: 1

    Your brain is like any other muscle: the more you do with it, the more you are able to do with it. Trouble remembering? Start CONSCIOUSLY working on developing your memory by CONSCIOUSLY working on memorizing stuff. It matters not what because it matters not whether you lift 10 pounds of feathers or 10 pounds of lead 50 times. The effort at memorization is what your brain needs. I memorized the Book of Proverbs, 1 chapter at a time. It took me 6-7 years, but there it is. Patient, persistant self-discipline (i.e., self-training) develops the skill.

  6. How Good Are Charter Schools For the Public School on How Good Are Charter Schools For the Public School System? · · Score: 1

    If you want a job done right, do it yourself: home-school.

  7. Target Confirms Point-of-Sale Malware Was Used In on Target Confirms Point-of-Sale Malware Was Used In Attack · · Score: 1

    Only shop at $0.99 stores because even thieves know those customers haven't any money to steal.

  8. Why We Think There's a Multiverse, Not Just Our Un on Why We Think There's a Multiverse, Not Just Our Universe · · Score: 1

    If we accept that Einsteinian universe, we accept that it's limited, finite, and had a beginning. Thus, we accept that it HAS A BEGINNER. Never mind these other places. What do we do about the (obvious) God who began THIS universe? Or do we use this wholly unproven notion as yet another excuse to ignore our Creator?

  9. Why a cure for cancer is so elusive on Why a Cure For Cancer Is So Elusive · · Score: 1

    "Mutations are the engine of evolution. Without them we never would have evolved." Please keep the state religion out of scientific discussions. Yes, DNA replication results in mutations. If these documented mutations really were 100,000,000's of years old, we would not be here: we would have mutated outselves out of existence. Yes, EVERY mutations is harmful. The state religion has no way of showing where a mutations could be beneficial, so much less is there any evidence (the stuff of real science) that it happened. Thus, cancer is incurable because we won't stop throwing carcinogens around our environment for others' bodies to not be able to deal with. There's no "good" to this one; worse, we're doing it to ourselves.

  10. China: The Next Space Superpower on China: The Next Space Superpower · · Score: 1

    Only if the nation doesn't go bankrupt, first. They already are spending beyond their GDP. This moon shot was a PR thing, not a science experiment. The rest is also PR.

  11. The Software Inferno on The Software Inferno · · Score: 1

    Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle did the best take on the classic of European literature; anything else will merely be a pale, insipid imitation that makes the reader wonder why the author bothered.

  12. "Life Could Have Evolved 15 Million Years After t" on Life Could Have Evolved 15 Million Years After the Big Bang, Says Cosmologist · · Score: 1

    Getting a DNA molecule of amino acids that are ALL laevo-rotary AND communicate with enzymes that were also randomly assembled will require much more than the 14,700,000,000 folks here are proposing. Try slapping a few hundred more zeroes on that number. State of the universe after 15,000,000 years means nothing unless one is foolish enough to believe what there's no evidence for. Grasping at straws, again, are you?

  13. Mars Rover Curiosity Finds Ancient Lakebed on Mars Rover Curiosity Finds Ancient Lakebed · · Score: 1

    Only if one can obtain intricately-organized molecules of amino acids, ALL laevo-rotary, to make up a system that can then communicate with concurrently-existing enzymes that are then able to reproduce that molecule. In other words, the "life" you're looking for needs so much more than mere "water" that to say "life" might've been possible is a good way to say, "I wanna seem ridiculous."

  14. Mis-labeling, constantly on App Detects Neo-Nazis Using Their Music · · Score: 1

    "Nazi" = "National SOCIALIST." A Nazi is far LEFT, not right. A Nazi is the uber-liberal, not conservative.

  15. Automated flying on Airline Pilots Rely Too Much On Automation, Says Safety Panel · · Score: 1

    You may not mention Captain Sullenberger in your bemoaining the loss of skill in favor of automation for pilots because Captain Sullenberger EXACTLY landed a powerless plane because his Airbus craft had an autopilot able to feather the controls much more delicately than he or any other human could. The computer is what saved those lives, not the human.

  16. Scientists Are Cracking the Primordial Soup Myster on Scientists Are Cracking the Primordial Soup Mystery · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This only works when someone explains the non-existent mechanism by which ONLY laevo-rotary DNA molecules were selected . . . because any random assembly not only has the molecule as quickly disassembled but also randomly assembles an equal number of laevo-rotary and dextra-rotary DNA molecules. The latter are not only useless but dangerous to life. Thus, these notions about space rocks are only distractions.

  17. Ask Slashdot: Encrypted Digital Camera/Recording D on Ask Slashdot: Encrypted Digital Camera/Recording Devices? · · Score: 1

    Have it upload it's data to a remote location via ethernet.

  18. Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Block Noise In a Dorm? on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Block Noise In a Dorm? · · Score: 1

    Earphones playing white noise.

  19. Ancient Mars Could Have Supported Life on Ancient Mars Could Have Supported Life · · Score: 1

    Earth-based or Mars-originated? Let's know that before we go claiming anything.

  20. Clues of Life's Origins Found In Galactic Cloud on Clues of Life's Origins Found In Galactic Cloud · · Score: 1

    Molecules mean nothing. When y'all figure out how to use random methods to arrange ALL of the amino acids laevo-rotarily, we'll talk.

  21. "discoveries" on Mars on What "Earth-Shaking" Discovery Has Curiosity Made on Mars? · · Score: 1

    Is anyone testing for whether that "find" came from earth in first place?

  22. alternate OS on The Linux Desktop and ISVs/OEMs · · Score: 0

    The real "At-The-End-Of-The-Day" is does the thing even install onto a drive easily? Or must one know the secret code, hidden file, magic mumbo jumbo to make it actually work? Windows is popular because it's USABLE. When these other OS are as usable as Windows, they'll begin replacing it.

  23. Rejection of "Science" on The Motivated Rejection of Science · · Score: 1

    Unsaid here are two related things: many reject "science falsely so-called," the malarkey put forth as "THIS IS SCIENCE!" when it has zero evidence behind it but lots (and lots) of suppositions; then there are the multiple times such "scientists" have outright lied to promote their favorite notions. In summary, these folks who prefer free markets are the folks WHO REMEMBER. Leave aside your insults and merely chew on that fact for a while.

  24. organism emulation on Software Emulates Organism's Entire Lifespan · · Score: 2

    "I find this fact completely fascinating, because I don’t know that anyone has ever asked how much data a living thing truly holds." To posit that information came from ignorance (vacuum, nothing) is astonishing. To posit that it arose with a mere 13,700,000,000 years boggles the mind at the imagination of some people.

  25. juvenile Sci-fi on Ask Slashdot: Best Science-Fiction/Fantasy For Kids? · · Score: 1

    "The Tripods" trilogy by author John Christopher