The Scopes Monkey Trial happened much differently from what you have read in various books which romanticized the whole event and misrepresented the conditions under which it happened.
Just because something was a "miracle" doesn't mean it was completely impossible. The archaeological and scientific community has made the false assumption for years that if an event can be proven in the context that it can possibly happen then it wasn't of God. This assumes somehow that an omnipotent God is limited by not being able to use physical means to accomplish his will, which therefore, renders him as not being omnipotent. This is the tenet upon which evolution is built. We know that the chances of life springing forth from nothing are, more or less, 0.
However, we say that if there are billions and billions of stars and even more planets and an infinite number of universes, it becomes increasingly likely that somewhere the environment would be correct for life to exist, and, we must be that somewhere since life exists here on Earth.
As a Christian and someone who is interested in science, I believe that God normally does use the physical laws (which are of his creation) to bring about many of the miracles that are documented in the Bible. For example, why couldn't God have used wind to part the waters, or why couldn't God have used a meteorite to destroy Sodom and Gamorrah? Those events occurring are highly unlikely but not completely unlikely. Does that mean God wasn't the utilizing nature as his instrument? Not at all. God does transcend physical law and can do whatever he pleases but that doesn't mean that he doesn't choose to abide by them.
If it wasn't for viruses, all of my company's networking guys would have no clients to service. Faulty software and insecure networks are the bread and butter of the industry.
As a matter of fact, very few people in Africa are truly starving. Malnutrition is by far the worst scourge on the continent and the primary means for eradicating it is education.
It was like watching a Star Wars movie and hearing Yoda say, "Luke! You'll have to learn the ways of the force before THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK!"
Or Darth Vader announcing, "Luke...there will be no RETURN OF THE JEDI!"
You are talking about KIDS. You can teach and "trust" adults, but these are children. Since kids spend most of their day at school and other various activities, the time parents spend with them (even good parents) are very short.
It is definitely natural and perfectly normal that kids will go against what they are told but we are talking about PORNOGRAPHY. If we, as a society, truly want parents to raise their children, we have to give them as much help as possible. Kids cannot successfully raise themselves on the whole. That (single parents, absent fathers, uncaring parents) is the biggest problem our society faces.
There is absolutely no way to consistently determine whether one bug is more severe than another because users needs are different. One bug may be catastrophic to one user while the same bug may be of no consequence to another.
The whole issue is currently nothing more than a race by a bunch of scientists to do it first. To pretend that any of these people are actually doing it in the name of science is quite ridiculous.
They are all doing it for personal gain...after all...it would make quite the news headline wouldn't it?
A situation similar to this could easily be considered an act of war- particularly if the hackers or script-kiddies were targeting.gov sites as opposed to corps [who, given the technology and $ at their disposal, are asking for it if they leave their systems open].
Stealing is still stealing whether or not you lock your front door. Boy I hope you don't vote.
I would guess that the numbers are much higher than 1%. Bulemia alone is far more common than that. I would guess the number is closer to 10%. I would even guess that 25-50% of middle class females subject themselves to it.
It's hard to take the "future" as you see it seriously when it's quite obvious that the present you see shares very little in common with reality.
You are correct that the Chinese haven't sent spyplanes over America (as far as the public knows). They prefer to send people to our nuclear weapons facilities in their global attempt to promote peace and honesty (and to promote their peaceful, utopian communistic ideals).
I'm not sure where you get the spy plane bit either. If the US military has been reduced to using flying elephants (big and slow) over international waters as the best means of spying our Chinese neighbors then we are in alot of trouble (or maybe it wasn't a SPY plane). I thought spying entailed using stealth of some sort and that clearly wasn't the intent. If CNN kept calling it a Reconnaissance Plane then the whole ordeal wouldn't be as much fun I guess.
Typical YEAH BUT AMERICA HAS MURDER AND DRUNKS argument. It just makes me quite sick to see some moron talk about the level of "enlightenment" European nations have because they aren't "tained with Puritan American ideals". It's all really quite silly.
You can pretend that drugs are the answer to all of the world's problems but I assure you, it's the #1 problem the world faces today, period. It is the root of so many other problems, as is alcohol, that the results of drug use can't be properly uantified.
As far as Amsterdam goes, I guess I wouldn't know anything at all about it. Except for the, oh, 7 or 8 times my fiancee and I have (combined) been through there on our way to Africa. KLM is better than British Airways, although that isn't saying much.
Phantasy Star Online
Sega GT
Test Drive Lemans
Metropolis Street Racer
Sonic Adventure
Jet Grind Radio
Crazy Taxi
Resident Evil: Code Veronica
Shenmue
Grandia II
Skies of Arcadia
NFL 2K1
NBA 2K1
Daytona USA 2001
F355 Challenge
Quake III
Unreal Tournament
Soul Calibur
Virtua Tennis
If games like these are the result of bungling a system, we can only hope that PS2 or X-Box can completely goof in their efforts to give us a decent console.
There is no better time to get a Dreamcast. Systems and games are cheap (I found my system and many of my games used), and the Dreamcast has perhaps the best library of games (considering the size of the library) for any system, ever.
Don't forget, we still have Sonic Adventure 2, Crazy Taxi 2, Phantasy Star Online v.2, NFL 2k2, Virtua Tennis 2, Floigan Bros., Headhunter, Shenmue II, Outrigger, Alone in the Dark, and many many more to look forward to.
I don't doubt for a second that there aren't people willing to do it. Just because someone wants to do it doesn't make it right. I think the desirable goal would definitely be the ability to grow just organs. That would be absolutely marvelous.
I never said I had an aversion to cloning. I just think there are many details to work out before we go rushing out into the great unknown. The science of cloning can't be described in any other way at this point in time.
Of course they are atypical of scientists. I like to think that Howard Stern isn't like most human beings either.
How exactly will cloning save your child? Will a clone (another child) just be an organ farm for your child?
Nope those two aren't academic. They are the Howard Stern of science. They are just seeking press and prestige. After all, wouldn't it be quite prestigious to be the first to clone a human?
If a human clone dies will the scientists be held responsible for murder? If a human clone gets experiences other medical problems as a result of the cloning process...would the scientists responsible for the cloning be responsible for abuse?
Just because we have the scientific capability for cloning doesn't necessarily mean we should do it.
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You are right. It's ludicrous for so many people to bother trying to label him a megalomaniac when he does such an effective job by himself.
Scopes was not some poor, oppressed teacher but rather a football coach selected by the ACLU to be their token victim for the cameras.
I was merely presenting the truth, not trying to attack your (now obvious) anti-Christian motives.
You've never been to one but you feel you can take the liberty to concoct a set of lies suggesting some vast scheme.
Let me guess, the CIA is involved too.
The Scopes Monkey Trial happened much differently from what you have read in various books which romanticized the whole event and misrepresented the conditions under which it happened.
I thought Linux belonged to everyone. Linux wouldn't be anything at all if Linus had run the show from top to bottom.
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However, we say that if there are billions and billions of stars and even more planets and an infinite number of universes, it becomes increasingly likely that somewhere the environment would be correct for life to exist, and, we must be that somewhere since life exists here on Earth.
As a Christian and someone who is interested in science, I believe that God normally does use the physical laws (which are of his creation) to bring about many of the miracles that are documented in the Bible. For example, why couldn't God have used wind to part the waters, or why couldn't God have used a meteorite to destroy Sodom and Gamorrah? Those events occurring are highly unlikely but not completely unlikely. Does that mean God wasn't the utilizing nature as his instrument? Not at all. God does transcend physical law and can do whatever he pleases but that doesn't mean that he doesn't choose to abide by them.
If it wasn't for viruses, all of my company's networking guys would have no clients to service. Faulty software and insecure networks are the bread and butter of the industry.
As a matter of fact, very few people in Africa are truly starving. Malnutrition is by far the worst scourge on the continent and the primary means for eradicating it is education.
Actually I got it from a friend on Texags.com if you want to hear the truth. I have never read Ain't It Cool News. What is the url?
It was like watching a Star Wars movie and hearing Yoda say, "Luke! You'll have to learn the ways of the force before THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK!"
Or Darth Vader announcing, "Luke...there will be no RETURN OF THE JEDI!"
It was quite silly.
It is definitely natural and perfectly normal that kids will go against what they are told but we are talking about PORNOGRAPHY. If we, as a society, truly want parents to raise their children, we have to give them as much help as possible. Kids cannot successfully raise themselves on the whole. That (single parents, absent fathers, uncaring parents) is the biggest problem our society faces.
There is absolutely no way to consistently determine whether one bug is more severe than another because users needs are different. One bug may be catastrophic to one user while the same bug may be of no consequence to another.
They are all doing it for personal gain...after all...it would make quite the news headline wouldn't it?
Stealing is still stealing whether or not you lock your front door. Boy I hope you don't vote.
Speaking of fads, the guy who invented the yellow smiley face died today.
No fact here, just my best guesses.
They are a totalitarian state. That's the point I was trying to convey.
You are correct that the Chinese haven't sent spyplanes over America (as far as the public knows). They prefer to send people to our nuclear weapons facilities in their global attempt to promote peace and honesty (and to promote their peaceful, utopian communistic ideals).
I'm not sure where you get the spy plane bit either. If the US military has been reduced to using flying elephants (big and slow) over international waters as the best means of spying our Chinese neighbors then we are in alot of trouble (or maybe it wasn't a SPY plane). I thought spying entailed using stealth of some sort and that clearly wasn't the intent. If CNN kept calling it a Reconnaissance Plane then the whole ordeal wouldn't be as much fun I guess.
You can pretend that drugs are the answer to all of the world's problems but I assure you, it's the #1 problem the world faces today, period. It is the root of so many other problems, as is alcohol, that the results of drug use can't be properly uantified.
As far as Amsterdam goes, I guess I wouldn't know anything at all about it. Except for the, oh, 7 or 8 times my fiancee and I have (combined) been through there on our way to Africa. KLM is better than British Airways, although that isn't saying much.
Sega GT
Test Drive Lemans
Metropolis Street Racer
Sonic Adventure
Jet Grind Radio
Crazy Taxi
Resident Evil: Code Veronica
Shenmue
Grandia II
Skies of Arcadia
NFL 2K1
NBA 2K1
Daytona USA 2001
F355 Challenge
Quake III
Unreal Tournament
Soul Calibur
Virtua Tennis
If games like these are the result of bungling a system, we can only hope that PS2 or X-Box can completely goof in their efforts to give us a decent console.
There is no better time to get a Dreamcast. Systems and games are cheap (I found my system and many of my games used), and the Dreamcast has perhaps the best library of games (considering the size of the library) for any system, ever.
Don't forget, we still have Sonic Adventure 2, Crazy Taxi 2, Phantasy Star Online v.2, NFL 2k2, Virtua Tennis 2, Floigan Bros., Headhunter, Shenmue II, Outrigger, Alone in the Dark, and many many more to look forward to.
I don't doubt for a second that there aren't people willing to do it. Just because someone wants to do it doesn't make it right. I think the desirable goal would definitely be the ability to grow just organs. That would be absolutely marvelous.
Of course they are atypical of scientists. I like to think that Howard Stern isn't like most human beings either.
How exactly will cloning save your child? Will a clone (another child) just be an organ farm for your child?
responsible for abuse - should read: guilty of abuse
I should really preview these things first.
If a human clone dies will the scientists be held responsible for murder? If a human clone gets experiences other medical problems as a result of the cloning process...would the scientists responsible for the cloning be responsible for abuse?
Just because we have the scientific capability for cloning doesn't necessarily mean we should do it.