Evolution is a fact. There is a (at least one) theory about it that is still being developed, as predictions and observations are made.
Creation is a hypothesis that cannot be falsified or produce predictions, and therefore cannot become a scientific theory.
The theory of evolution has no more to do with religion than has Einstein's theory of gravitation.
Therefore, creationism belongs in religion classes, not in science classes. This has nothing at all to do with silencing creationism!
I have tried to make these points as simple as I can, but still, some creationists will be unable to comprehend them -
The isotope used in nuclear weapons is Pu-239, not PU-238. 238 has a MUCH shorter half-life than 239 and gives off a lot of heat (and alpha particles) so it can power thermoelectric generators. 239 just sits there and absorbs an occasional neutron that happens to come near.
Title IV subtitle B, and Title VIII.
When I was younger, I had dark hair and a black beard. In those days there were no green/red lanes in the customs area in our local international airport, and I was ALWAYS stopped and had my baggage searched. According to the said Act, I could as far as I can see be detained indefinitely, instead of merely having my baggage searched. I do not want to visit a country where an immigration officer has that sort of power.
Check out also Battles_of_Narvik on Wikipedia.
Combined British, French, Polish, and Norwegian forces won the first victory of WWII against the Wehrmacht there. We still honor every year those who fought with us and for us.
Hm? ISTR that the actions of the French Resistance do qualify as terrorist acts according to current US law. I'm Norwegian, and when the P.A.T.R.I.O.T act was adopted, an elderly attorney here remarked that now he couldn't go to the US anymore. Back in 1944 he had carried the explosives to blow up a German installation in occupied Norway - which constitutes an act of terrorism for which there is no statute of limitation. I know - he spoke with his tongue firmly planted in his cheek, but this is actually true as I understand it. Has anyone actually read that act and studied the myriad laws changed by it?
Yes. Just bought a second Compal laptop from a Norwegian netshop, this one for SWMBO. Select CPU speed, memory size, disk size and picture for the lid:-) and it was delivered in less than 10 days.
However - I could not buy an OS-less laptop in a brick-and-mortar store/high street store (depending on your locale)
... most of them have very vague ideas about what the laws and intentions of the laws are...
Heh. Like Sir Erlend's remark in Kristin Lavransdatter, set in the late Middle Age: "The devil should be a knight if the horse knew his strength and the peasant knew the true law of the land!"
And with the number sequence, they can pun in Kanji: "nishi moku samurai".
(Google says "nishi muku samurai" but my co-workers said "moku", could be dialect differences. They also said "A samurai bows toward the west", which I guess a samurai would not do:-) )
Do Lions Purr like house cats? Lions do occasionally purr, but they are different from house cats in that purring is not common or important in their social life. Also, lions make a sound only as they exhale instead of continuously the way house cats do.
(hah, for once getting to use my nick properly ^_^ )
The bacteria in question are various strains of Clostridium (and the use in chemical reactors is patented). Most Clostridiums are anaerobic and don't thrive very well under ordinary conditions, but we have all heard of tetanus and botulism, which is caused by two Clostridium species.
See US patent 5173429 for the use of C.ljungdahlii and US patent application #20070275447 for C. carboxidivorans.
pardon me for actually reading TFA and searching for more information on this quite interesting subject...
And thanks to those big capitalist bucks, 90-year-olds can once again pop a woody.
(I was about to send off a scathing reply here, but - this will do:)
Luckily for the elderly gents. You see, that's not at all what those big capitalist bucks were after, they probably couldn't care less about the sex lives of 90-year olds (until they themselves grow old, of course).
Sildenafil was developed to treat hypertension and angina pectoris. I bet Pfizer was very, very happy to discover the unexpected side effect. A lot like Peptide-7 in the Arthur Hailey novel Strong Medicine, developed to improve mental capacity in the elderly and having the nice side effect of improving their sex lives... Serendipity:-)
Mod parent +5 insightful - I suppose I was being a bit flippant.
"can there be concepts that by there very nature cannot be properly expressed full sense on a discurse with a Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score lower than 14?"
Hm. ISTR that messrs Gödel & Wittgenstein had something to say on the matter. But I do believe that laws and regulations should be understandable. I still do not know whether it is legal in my country to watch CSS-protected DVDs on my Linux machine. Such ambiguity should be resolved, IMHO, and if it can't be resolved, the law should be repealed.
Of course there are fields of regulation and legislation that are directed at people with special interests and skills - such as rules for commercial coastal fishing that may contain concepts and words totally alien to, say, a sheep farmer, but if an ordinary coastal fisherman cannot understand the rules, well, how can he obey them?
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Creation is a hypothesis that cannot be falsified or produce predictions, and therefore cannot become a scientific theory.
The theory of evolution has no more to do with religion than has Einstein's theory of gravitation.
Therefore, creationism belongs in religion classes, not in science classes. This has nothing at all to do with silencing creationism!
I have tried to make these points as simple as I can, but still, some creationists will be unable to comprehend them -
alt.sysadmin.recovery, aka scary.devil.monastery Oh well, sysadmins will find a way.
The isotope used in nuclear weapons is Pu-239, not PU-238. 238 has a MUCH shorter half-life than 239 and gives off a lot of heat (and alpha particles) so it can power thermoelectric generators. 239 just sits there and absorbs an occasional neutron that happens to come near.
And "French fries" didn't even originate in France, but in Belgium. Oh, the irony ...
Off by two years. It was 1939. France and the British Empire declared war on Germany on Sept. 3. You're thinking Pearl Harbour, Dec. 7 1941?
I'm making sure I am not wasting money on Mircosoft :-) Can't say the same about my employer, though.
Title IV subtitle B, and Title VIII. When I was younger, I had dark hair and a black beard. In those days there were no green/red lanes in the customs area in our local international airport, and I was ALWAYS stopped and had my baggage searched. According to the said Act, I could as far as I can see be detained indefinitely, instead of merely having my baggage searched. I do not want to visit a country where an immigration officer has that sort of power.
See Wikipedia article Battles_of_Narvik. The French forces acquitted themselves well there.
Check out also Battles_of_Narvik on Wikipedia. Combined British, French, Polish, and Norwegian forces won the first victory of WWII against the Wehrmacht there. We still honor every year those who fought with us and for us.
Hm? ISTR that the actions of the French Resistance do qualify as terrorist acts according to current US law. I'm Norwegian, and when the P.A.T.R.I.O.T act was adopted, an elderly attorney here remarked that now he couldn't go to the US anymore. Back in 1944 he had carried the explosives to blow up a German installation in occupied Norway - which constitutes an act of terrorism for which there is no statute of limitation. I know - he spoke with his tongue firmly planted in his cheek, but this is actually true as I understand it. Has anyone actually read that act and studied the myriad laws changed by it?
Yes. Just bought a second Compal laptop from a Norwegian netshop, this one for SWMBO. Select CPU speed, memory size, disk size and picture for the lid :-) and it was delivered in less than 10 days.
However - I could not buy an OS-less laptop in a brick-and-mortar store/high street store (depending on your locale)
... most of them have very vague ideas about what the laws and intentions of the laws are ...
Heh. Like Sir Erlend's remark in Kristin Lavransdatter, set in the late Middle Age: "The devil should be a knight if the horse knew his strength and the peasant knew the true law of the land!"
And with the number sequence, they can pun in Kanji: "nishi moku samurai".
:-) )
(Google says "nishi muku samurai" but my co-workers said "moku", could be dialect differences. They also said "A samurai bows toward the west",
which I guess a samurai would not do
Mod parent up :-)
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Food_of_the_Gods_(short_story)
Did you actually read Geir Isene's blog? He was present at the meeting, for crying out loud.
Two words: undercooked food.
Check the net.
Our persian-mix female used to lie down close to our crying baby and purr as loudly as she could. Tried to comfort a "kitten" in distress.
And from http://www.lionresearch.org/faq.html :
Do Lions Purr like house cats?
Lions do occasionally purr, but they are different from house cats in that purring is not common or important in their social life. Also, lions make a sound only as they exhale instead of continuously the way house cats do.
(hah, for once getting to use my nick properly ^_^ )
Just in case you are NOT trolling :-) :
Finnish != a slavic language.http://ww w.101languages.net/finnish/
Oh, and Linus Torvalds has Swedish as his first language, like between 5 and 10% of Finns.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/SillySounds/swedish.au
It said, "You are lost in the Swamps of Despair".
Proverb: "A thief believes that everyone steals."
The bacteria in question are various strains of Clostridium (and the use in chemical reactors is patented). Most Clostridiums are
...
anaerobic and don't thrive very well under ordinary conditions, but we have all heard of tetanus and botulism, which is caused by
two Clostridium species.
See US patent 5173429 for the use of C.ljungdahlii and US patent application #20070275447 for C. carboxidivorans.
pardon me for actually reading TFA and searching for more information on this quite interesting subject
So why is it that so many customers stay loyal to such a supplier? My guesses are
(I was about to send off a scathing reply here, but - this will do:)
Luckily for the elderly gents. You see, that's not at all what those big capitalist bucks were after, they probably couldn't care less about the sex lives of 90-year olds (until they themselves grow old, of course). Sildenafil was developed to treat hypertension and angina pectoris. I bet Pfizer was very, very happy to discover the unexpected side effect. A lot like Peptide-7 in the Arthur Hailey novel Strong Medicine, developed to improve mental capacity in the elderly and having the nice side effect of improving their sex lives... Serendipity :-)
Mod parent +5 insightful - I suppose I was being a bit flippant.
"can there be concepts that by there very nature cannot be properly expressed full sense on a discurse with a Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score lower than 14?"
Hm. ISTR that messrs Gödel & Wittgenstein had something to say on the matter. But I do believe that laws and regulations should be understandable. I still do not know whether it is legal in my country to watch CSS-protected DVDs on my Linux machine. Such ambiguity should be resolved, IMHO, and if it can't be resolved, the law should be repealed.
Of course there are fields of regulation and legislation that are directed at people with special interests and skills - such as rules for commercial coastal fishing that may contain concepts and words totally alien to, say, a sheep farmer, but if an ordinary coastal fisherman cannot understand the rules, well, how can he obey them?
It's been suggested by RAH, but this one seems that it might actually be practical: http://ags.freeforumhost.net/lofiversion/topic25458/