most Christian denominations don't believe that there was a "worldwide" flood
I'm a southern baptist and I can tell you that any denomination that rejects the worldwide flood are not in line Biblical orthodoxy and are flat out wrong...as for those geologists, has anyone since re-examined the evidence, a lot changes in 200 years...
Can you disprove that the world was created Wednesday, and that all of our memories of the past, etc were also created? You can't.
This is a rather absurd comment, it deals with what we fundamentally percieve as reality, my guide book tells me the earth was completed 4000 years ago, I refer to Dr. Gerald L. Schroeder for one potential explanation of the days prior to completion....But if the world was created wednesday and all our memories also created then I ask who's God did that one..?
No evolution is not a "faith" in the religious sense. The theory of evolution explains the evidence, and makes predictions. Just like any scientific theory. It also is the foundation of biology.
Evolution fails to explain the cambrian explosion, how dinosaurs made the leap to birds, how small mammals became mammoths. It fails to explain, scientifically, the transition periods between species. There are no clear transitional forms and without those evolution can not stand real scientific scrutiny because evolution is supposed to explain those transitions which we have yet to come across.
Why is it that my child has to learn about an ill-proven at an age where they aren't making the distinction between theory and hard scientific fact....teach them the fundamentals first and save the theories until they can make an accurate discernment...and always teach it as theory....
I whole heartedly agree with this post...not because I am a Christian as well but because I want my kids to learn REAL science, not some ivory tower academic's ideas about how we came to be here...explain to me the Cambrian explosion, explain to me why every major faith remembers a world-wide flood. Explain to me how you know those million year old fossils are millions of years old...how do we know the isotopes measured by RadioCarbon dating were not more or less concentrated at different periods of time...if you weren't there then you can't prove it and it becomes a matter of faith, evolution is a faith built on smoke, mirrors or bad ideas and assumptions about how we think things should work...evolution is not good science and you can take God out of schools as soon as we can both agree that there is something there to remove, but since you don't think He's real then what is your beef?
As a Christian I find it funny to think of how it seems that we are lifting the Constitution as a doucment out of its historical context. In all the charters of the 13 colonies that I have read I find 'the spreading of the Gospel of Jesus Christ' to be a central emphasis to a majority of them. Likewise, our founding fathers were not areligious persons, on of the first things built in Washington D.C. was the nations official chapel. Religion, or more appropriately faith, is a key factor in the formation of our great nation. Some of the revisionist historians would like us to think otherwise. Now I know that some of our founding fathers were not Christian and that is not the issue. The issue is that the constitution was written in a context where most people were used to a government and church relationship that resulted in oppression, inadequate education and lots of other horrible things. But the concept of separating church and state is not a constitutional idea, the constitution forbade the government to endorse one religious view over another, that's all, it did not remove religion from government, it simply kept who was controlling what in check. I know the world would be a far better place if we could possibly add some context to these arguments because our nation was founded as one of faith in God the creator. I know I'm probably in the VAST MINORITY but evolution is not fact, it's theory and a lousy one at that, and those who want to force it down my kids throat as fact are no better than a evangelist who doesn't know when to "dust the sand from his feet" and move on.
I'd like something new to play with and this fits the bill and sounds neat, but what is the market for this, seriously, I'd like to know who would use this, I can see in a "thin-client" accessing Application Servers over a LAN/WAN, but outside of that sort of realm, what is the market?
This is how I think...if it's illegal and it occurs on your system you should immediately report it to authorities and inform the people who may be affected. If it is directly linked to a failure on the administrators part to adequately secure the system then why is that person a sysadmin? security should be priority 1 period. To ignor security and not inform those affected is morally wrong, you're harming another individual and I would say you are being negligent and may even be culpable for that negligence...
I can see the use of seeing through stuff in the military/police, medicine and for criminals...I still fail to be able to conjure up what this will do for my recreation life. I'm not a peeping-tom so how will this help me unless I'm getting scanned by one of these by a doctor?
Historical science? You weren't there...the scientific method can not be applied, you can not prove something you didn't yourself see as it relates to weather climate and the like because there were no reliable measurements...science needs to be centered on hard facts backed up by reliable data gathered by trained personal using accurate equippment. The thing with the rain and clouds was an exageration, meteorological science is not a precise science as it stands now, expecially not over protracted periods of time, including global trends, chance plays a huge role, and until you can measure the precise effect of a house fly beating its wings one way as opposed to another on global weather then you can't produce a truly accurate model, because what if every house fly on the planet decides to do the same thing at the same time, that just might throw your model for a loop...trending is well and good, but longterm global trends can not be established from 50 years of data, you need more, and you can't know what the weather was like 200, 2,000 or 2,000,000 years ago cause you weren't there and the rocks sure as hell aren't going to tell you how hot or cold it was...
I don't understand scientists...how long have we been seriously studying global climate? half a century reliably by my best guess, how long do these scientists say the earth has been around...MANY MANY times longer...and they somehow think they can understand what's going on...pretty dumb notion if you ask me, they can't accurately tell me if it's gonna rain or be cloudy 5 minutes, hours, days, weeks from now...so I sure as hell don't take them seriously when they think they can model weather 5 decades from now...
Go back to your test tubes and cancer infected lab rats and find a cure for cancer, if it rains in zimbabwe 5 years from now who cares...
I partially agree with this...I think the question must be asked whether these companies are profitable...if a companies business practices aren't turning a profit then it only makes sense to do whatever it takes to turn a profit and not go out of business...In my area, Orlando, FL we have Time Warner/RoadRunner as our cable provider and prices have maintained the same level for the last year that we've had the service...I think if the companies are failing to make money, then they will eventually fail to provide service. If companies are LEGITAMATELY gouging there customers then the government should step in, just as they do in natural disasters to protect the consumer, but if the companies are trying to make broadband profitable then that should be expected and people who still complain should just shut-up and go back to dial-up....
I don't know much about other countries and their balance of Freedom, Safety and Quality of Life. But I will say that you can't say that companies are simply stiping the public of their rights, corporations aren't odd disassociated entities, they are run by people with ideas and thoughts and agendas. We're not talking about a uncontrollable beast that acts autonomously, we're talking about something guided and directed by people who are hoping to better their quality of life by doing what ever is in the "Companies" best interest...
Many companies are concerned about protecting the materials they produce, although some people are willing to give of themselves without call for compensation, Comapanies are in existence for ONE reason, money, and that means they want to protect what they create from anyone who might disseminate it in a manner that would cost them possible profits. These corporations have rights too, remember that under U.S. laws a corporation is viewed as a legal entitity just like a person, and that means they have the right to protect their property, whether it be actual product or some flavor of intellectual property.
Companies don't want to lose ANY money because that's all they exist for, a company without profits isn't worth anything. So don't go around saying that companies are trying to strip us of our rights, in many cases companies are trying to keep US from infringing upon their rights...
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most Christian denominations don't believe that there was a "worldwide" flood
I'm a southern baptist and I can tell you that any denomination that rejects the worldwide flood are not in line Biblical orthodoxy and are flat out wrong...as for those geologists, has anyone since re-examined the evidence, a lot changes in 200 years...
Can you disprove that the world was created Wednesday, and that all of our memories of the past, etc were also created? You can't.
This is a rather absurd comment, it deals with what we fundamentally percieve as reality, my guide book tells me the earth was completed 4000 years ago, I refer to Dr. Gerald L. Schroeder for one potential explanation of the days prior to completion....But if the world was created wednesday and all our memories also created then I ask who's God did that one..?
No evolution is not a "faith" in the religious sense. The theory of evolution explains the evidence, and makes predictions. Just like any scientific theory. It also is the foundation of biology.
Evolution fails to explain the cambrian explosion, how dinosaurs made the leap to birds, how small mammals became mammoths. It fails to explain, scientifically, the transition periods between species. There are no clear transitional forms and without those evolution can not stand real scientific scrutiny because evolution is supposed to explain those transitions which we have yet to come across.
Why is it that my child has to learn about an ill-proven at an age where they aren't making the distinction between theory and hard scientific fact....teach them the fundamentals first and save the theories until they can make an accurate discernment...and always teach it as theory....
I whole heartedly agree with this post...not because I am a Christian as well but because I want my kids to learn REAL science, not some ivory tower academic's ideas about how we came to be here...explain to me the Cambrian explosion, explain to me why every major faith remembers a world-wide flood. Explain to me how you know those million year old fossils are millions of years old...how do we know the isotopes measured by RadioCarbon dating were not more or less concentrated at different periods of time...if you weren't there then you can't prove it and it becomes a matter of faith, evolution is a faith built on smoke, mirrors or bad ideas and assumptions about how we think things should work...evolution is not good science and you can take God out of schools as soon as we can both agree that there is something there to remove, but since you don't think He's real then what is your beef?
As a Christian I find it funny to think of how it seems that we are lifting the Constitution as a doucment out of its historical context. In all the charters of the 13 colonies that I have read I find 'the spreading of the Gospel of Jesus Christ' to be a central emphasis to a majority of them. Likewise, our founding fathers were not areligious persons, on of the first things built in Washington D.C. was the nations official chapel. Religion, or more appropriately faith, is a key factor in the formation of our great nation. Some of the revisionist historians would like us to think otherwise. Now I know that some of our founding fathers were not Christian and that is not the issue. The issue is that the constitution was written in a context where most people were used to a government and church relationship that resulted in oppression, inadequate education and lots of other horrible things. But the concept of separating church and state is not a constitutional idea, the constitution forbade the government to endorse one religious view over another, that's all, it did not remove religion from government, it simply kept who was controlling what in check. I know the world would be a far better place if we could possibly add some context to these arguments because our nation was founded as one of faith in God the creator. I know I'm probably in the VAST MINORITY but evolution is not fact, it's theory and a lousy one at that, and those who want to force it down my kids throat as fact are no better than a evangelist who doesn't know when to "dust the sand from his feet" and move on.
I'd like something new to play with and this fits the bill and sounds neat, but what is the market for this, seriously, I'd like to know who would use this, I can see in a "thin-client" accessing Application Servers over a LAN/WAN, but outside of that sort of realm, what is the market?
This is how I think...if it's illegal and it occurs on your system you should immediately report it to authorities and inform the people who may be affected. If it is directly linked to a failure on the administrators part to adequately secure the system then why is that person a sysadmin? security should be priority 1 period. To ignor security and not inform those affected is morally wrong, you're harming another individual and I would say you are being negligent and may even be culpable for that negligence...
I can see the use of seeing through stuff in the military/police, medicine and for criminals...I still fail to be able to conjure up what this will do for my recreation life. I'm not a peeping-tom so how will this help me unless I'm getting scanned by one of these by a doctor?
Historical science? You weren't there...the scientific method can not be applied, you can not prove something you didn't yourself see as it relates to weather climate and the like because there were no reliable measurements...science needs to be centered on hard facts backed up by reliable data gathered by trained personal using accurate equippment. The thing with the rain and clouds was an exageration, meteorological science is not a precise science as it stands now, expecially not over protracted periods of time, including global trends, chance plays a huge role, and until you can measure the precise effect of a house fly beating its wings one way as opposed to another on global weather then you can't produce a truly accurate model, because what if every house fly on the planet decides to do the same thing at the same time, that just might throw your model for a loop...trending is well and good, but longterm global trends can not be established from 50 years of data, you need more, and you can't know what the weather was like 200, 2,000 or 2,000,000 years ago cause you weren't there and the rocks sure as hell aren't going to tell you how hot or cold it was...
I don't understand scientists...how long have we been seriously studying global climate? half a century reliably by my best guess, how long do these scientists say the earth has been around...MANY MANY times longer...and they somehow think they can understand what's going on...pretty dumb notion if you ask me, they can't accurately tell me if it's gonna rain or be cloudy 5 minutes, hours, days, weeks from now...so I sure as hell don't take them seriously when they think they can model weather 5 decades from now...
Go back to your test tubes and cancer infected lab rats and find a cure for cancer, if it rains in zimbabwe 5 years from now who cares...
I partially agree with this...I think the question must be asked whether these companies are profitable...if a companies business practices aren't turning a profit then it only makes sense to do whatever it takes to turn a profit and not go out of business...In my area, Orlando, FL we have Time Warner/RoadRunner as our cable provider and prices have maintained the same level for the last year that we've had the service...I think if the companies are failing to make money, then they will eventually fail to provide service. If companies are LEGITAMATELY gouging there customers then the government should step in, just as they do in natural disasters to protect the consumer, but if the companies are trying to make broadband profitable then that should be expected and people who still complain should just shut-up and go back to dial-up....
I don't know much about other countries and their balance of Freedom, Safety and Quality of Life. But I will say that you can't say that companies are simply stiping the public of their rights, corporations aren't odd disassociated entities, they are run by people with ideas and thoughts and agendas. We're not talking about a uncontrollable beast that acts autonomously, we're talking about something guided and directed by people who are hoping to better their quality of life by doing what ever is in the "Companies" best interest...
Many companies are concerned about protecting the materials they produce, although some people are willing to give of themselves without call for compensation, Comapanies are in existence for ONE reason, money, and that means they want to protect what they create from anyone who might disseminate it in a manner that would cost them possible profits. These corporations have rights too, remember that under U.S. laws a corporation is viewed as a legal entitity just like a person, and that means they have the right to protect their property, whether it be actual product or some flavor of intellectual property.
Companies don't want to lose ANY money because that's all they exist for, a company without profits isn't worth anything. So don't go around saying that companies are trying to strip us of our rights, in many cases companies are trying to keep US from infringing upon their rights...