"That's even assuming that the earthquake wasn't actually a good outcome out of all the possible outcomes; for example, what if the earthquake released tectonic pressure that otherwise would've built up and killed millions instead of hundreds of thousands?"
While as a christian I appreciate your effort, I think your example is bad.
To eliminate hunger and poverty is not easy. Even if all American christians are kind and generous, how about people living under Saddam, PRC, Saudi Arabia?
And giving money is not enough. Setting up the local economic system is the solution, but individuals might not be helpful.
We already have OECD. Even they could not solve the world problem.
Big Bang is saying that the universe has a beginning. So I think it is an evidence, but not a proof. Of course you could say the universe is uncaused, or there are infinite number of universes. Or we don't know.
I don't quite understand why you require testable and falsifiable evidences. That's not how we live our life everyday.
Is the bible good evidence? I think so. Of course it is not proof. Again you could say the authors of the bible are liars, superstitious, or the later Church were corrupt and they fabricated evidences.
How about believer testimony? Again you could argue they are mistaken. Or placebo effect.
I believe both theists and atheists are reasonable in their belief, unless you really require us to hold very high standard. But it is hard to have truely open mind.
Unfortunately we are asked to 'spread the gospel' So, I am sorry could not leave the atheists, or any one for that matter, alone.
So what you want us to do, if we truely believe that there would be judgement in the future?
Not sure if you are depressed. If you are, you need help. Do your school offer these type of help?
I don't think I could help you much. I experienced perhaps the opposite -- I want to live as a christian but my dad didn't like it. At the end your life is yours.
"She's my little pride and joy, when she's not acting like a spoiled little snot (which only happens when she's tired or grumpy)."
I am not the first one to say it, but you really should reflect whether your rules are good for her or just make YOU feel happy.
And is she following your guidelines just to please you? You would either produce a hyper rebellion teenager, or a woman who is not assertive enough to pursue her own interests for her life.
Supreme court ruling regarding indecent speech in broadcast media.
"First, the broadcast media have established a uniquely pervasive presence in the lives of all Americans. Patently offensive, indecent material presented over the airwaves confronts the citizen, not only in public, but also in the privacy of the home, where the individual's right to be left alone plainly outweighs the First Amendment rights of an intruder."
Dissenting opinion - "Without question, the privacy interests of an individual in his home are substantial and deserving of significant protection. In finding these interests sufficient to justify the content regulation of protected speech, however, the Court commits two errors. First, it misconceives the nature of the privacy interests involved where an individual voluntarily chooses to admit radio communications into his home. Second, it ignores the constitutionally protected interests of both those who wish to transmit and those who desire to receive broadcasts that many including the FCC and this Court might find offensive"
The fact is, there are many people who would not parent their children.
Your court has rule that FCC control over public tv is constituational, within certain guidelines. Either accept this, or do something. It is a free country afterall.
I think he wants to cast doubt on the wikipedia writing process. He wants to show that frequent edits do not necessarily bring up the quality of an articlel, which is different from the consensus of wikipedia avocates who believe that in general the process would give us good quality articles.
The question is about the process. The lesson is not to put too much trust on wikipedia articles. And you see from slashdot comments that many people trust it very much.
BTW, your order is wronng. The proper order is:
1.The author already knows that some controversy exists about the dates.
2. The author chose the article because of 1.
3. And as he expected there is error about the date and no mention of the controversy.
4. On top of that there are internal inconsistnencies caused by the iterative process.
Slashdot Mirror
I believe in God than in billions other universe.
I wonder why people always question why bad things happen to good peopl, but not appreciate good things happen to bad people.
Perhaps the problem is this?
Theists think atheists are immoral, and atheists think theists are irrational.
While as a christian I appreciate your effort, I think your example is bad.
To eliminate hunger and poverty is not easy. Even if all American christians are kind and generous, how about people living under Saddam, PRC, Saudi Arabia?
And giving money is not enough. Setting up the local economic system is the solution, but individuals might not be helpful.
We already have OECD. Even they could not solve the world problem.
I am not saying I could answer your question, but how about adding UFO to your list?
I think that God and UFO is similar; we should not believe they do not exist, we should at most admit we could never know, aka agnostic.
Who are we to say what is possible and not possible :P
Stupid. Maybe, but the even more stupid thing is to believe in Jesus.
Who knows, maybe we christians are really stupid.
Big Bang is saying that the universe has a beginning. So I think it is an evidence, but not a proof. Of course you could say the universe is uncaused, or there are infinite number of universes. Or we don't know.
I don't quite understand why you require testable and falsifiable evidences. That's not how we live our life everyday.
Is the bible good evidence? I think so. Of course it is not proof. Again you could say the authors of the bible are liars, superstitious, or the later Church were corrupt and they fabricated evidences.
How about believer testimony? Again you could argue they are mistaken. Or placebo effect.
I believe both theists and atheists are reasonable in their belief, unless you really require us to hold very high standard. But it is hard to have truely open mind.
Unfortunately we are asked to 'spread the gospel' So, I am sorry could not leave the atheists, or any one for that matter, alone. So what you want us to do, if we truely believe that there would be judgement in the future?
Well, SR is also useful in developing online games :)
Even as a Chinese, I don't see why.
Too bad you guys let him to be the spokeman of OSI.
There is only one person I trust, Lawrence Lessig . And he is on the side of FSF.
Not sure if you are depressed. If you are, you need help. Do your school offer these type of help?
I don't think I could help you much. I experienced perhaps the opposite -- I want to live as a christian but my dad didn't like it. At the end your life is yours.
I am not the first one to say it, but you really should reflect whether your rules are good for her or just make YOU feel happy.
And is she following your guidelines just to please you? You would either produce a hyper rebellion teenager, or a woman who is not assertive enough to pursue her own interests for her life.
http://www.epic.org/free_speech/fcc_v_pacifica.h tml
Supreme court ruling regarding indecent speech in broadcast media.
"First, the broadcast media have established a uniquely pervasive presence in the lives of all Americans. Patently offensive, indecent material presented over the airwaves confronts the citizen, not only in public, but also in the privacy of the home, where the individual's right to be left alone plainly outweighs the First Amendment rights of an intruder."
Dissenting opinion - "Without question, the privacy interests of an individual in his home are substantial and deserving of significant protection. In finding these interests sufficient to justify the content regulation of protected speech, however, the Court commits two errors. First, it misconceives the nature of the privacy interests involved where an individual voluntarily chooses to admit radio communications into his home. Second, it ignores the constitutionally protected interests of both those who wish to transmit and those who desire to receive broadcasts that many including the FCC and this Court might find offensive"
The fact is, there are many people who would not parent their children.
Your court has rule that FCC control over public tv is constituational, within certain guidelines. Either accept this, or do something. It is a free country afterall.
I think he wants to cast doubt on the wikipedia writing process. He wants to show that frequent edits do not necessarily bring up the quality of an articlel, which is different from the consensus of wikipedia avocates who believe that in general the process would give us good quality articles.
The question is about the process. The lesson is not to put too much trust on wikipedia articles. And you see from slashdot comments that many people trust it very much.
BTW, your order is wronng. The proper order is:
1.The author already knows that some controversy exists about the dates.
2. The author chose the article because of 1.
3. And as he expected there is error about the date and no mention of the controversy.
4. On top of that there are internal inconsistnencies caused by the iterative process.
In other words he gave us a counter example.
Don't underestimate him.
Interesting. What makes you think that average journalist did not take course in statistics and mathematical sciences?
They do have small local elections. All candidates are from one party though.
Don't you think it is funny that many arguments end like this? Either side is convinced (s)he is right and the other side don't get it.
Gtk# and libraries like that are very important to some people who like C# but are reluctant to use Windows.Forms from Microsoft due to patent issue.
Counter Spin?
But I think there are much better books critical of theism and christianity then this one. Anything by Anthony Flew and JL Mackie is a good start.
Hehe, like you I almost failed Linear Algebra in college.
My application stuck on oracle 7 because of server side javascript!!!