Evolution is the attempt to explain how this world came to be and tries interpret the facts of science without God.
That's right.
Also, physics is an attempt to explain why stuff moves the way it moves and tries to interpret the facts of science without god moving shit around.
Also, chemistry is an attempt to explain why stuff behaves the way it behaves and tries to interpret the facts of science without god blowing shit up.
Also, the part of biology that deals with human reproduction is an attempt to explain where babies come from and tries to interpret the facts of science without god going around and planting babies in women's bellies.
Yet all evolutionists deny that the DESIGNER and builder of such things is also the product of a supreme mind, a product of intelligent design.
Evolution explains how the simple can evolve into the complex based on reproduction, variation and selection (IMO thats so thoroughly simple and logical, it is more mathematics and logic than biology). It doesn't explain where the simple came from. It also doesn't explain where the laws of nature came from.
But since you seem so sure that the simple can't evolve into the complex, and that therefore all things complex must have been designed, I ask you: who designed the designer that you postulate? We can only assume that it must have been a designer of similar or higher complexity. Obviously, that designer must have been designed by an even more complex designer, ad infinitum.
Yeah, I don't understand either why some ignorants prefer a simple, concise and logical explanation over an infinite tower of increasingly complex designers.
For the [non-believers], they will get what they deserve from a perfectly just and righteous God.
I wouldn't call an omnipotent entity using its powers to hide from us until we don't believe in its existance anymore, and then punishing us for falling for its little joke, "perfectly just and righteous".
But then, wihle I actually believed in God, I've always pictured her/him/it to be more like a mixture of Gandhi, Mother Theresa and Alanis Morissette, and less like a crossover of Hitler, Osama Bin Laden and a grumpy old man chasing kids off his lawn.
I want a date in my program, oh no i cant just use an array of ints
Why can't you? What's preventing you?
int[] date = new int[] {2006, 8, 16};
That's not particularly OO, but even then, what's preventing you from writing your own Date class? Of course, that would be pretty stupid unless org.slashdot.lucratius.Date does something that java.util.Date and java.util.Calendar don't do.
The world sure feels safer if I assume that even murderers are motivated by the same things I am (money, power).
Coping with the fact that there are people out there that would risk (or even outright sacrifice) their lives for goals that to me seem nothing but absurd might feel a bit awkward.
0. Assume that everything that has ever happened in the universe is attributable exclusively to natural causes.
"God's hand is absolutely never involved and never has been"
Those two staements aren't equivalent. If "God's hand" influences this universe, it (or its effects) is part of this universe, and therefore are natural causes.
Obviouosly, huge monolithic ads are way more visible (and hence have bigger impact) than micro-ads (which tend to be hard to see with the naked eye). Linus beats Andrew once again!
I don't know why most Canadians would use dd/mm/yy when it is spoken mm/dd/yy.
In germany, the number 23 is spoken as, literally, "three-and-twenty". Accordingly, the number 123 is spoken as "one-hundred-three-and-twenty"; 1234 is "one-thousand-two-hundred-four-and-thirty". Imagine the insanity that would ensue if germans wrote those numbers as 32, 132 and 1243 just to make them fit the way they say those numbers. [1]
Dates are similar, in that the position of the number determines its order of magnitude. In d/m/y and y/m/d, the magnitudes are ordered. In m/d/y, they aren't.
[1] On an unrelated note, if you need even more insanity, imagine if the french did a similar thing, so instead of 99 they wrote 420109 ("quatre-vingt-dix-neuf").
Just my two cents: d/m/y or y/m/d seems much more logical than m/d/y. As in, the numbers are ordered by their significance. y/m/d with leading zeores is practical because it makes alphabetical order the same as chronological order.
This devious little term, causal piracy, actually refers to what should be our legally protected rights to fair use, and our rights under the AHRA for reproduction on recording devices.
No, "casual piracy" refers to "widespread small-scale copyright infringement by average users", like making half a dozen copies of a copyrighted audio cassette (remember those?) for your friends.
Which is (AFAIK - IANAL) perfectly legal (at least here in Austria), unless the music has been sprayed with magical uncopyable bits.
A friend of mine did this (not sure exactly how long it took him, but it was basically non-stop from Los Angeles to Boston), sustaining himself solely on Jolt (sic) soda, clove cigarettes, and an old Bob Segar tape. And oh yeah, he's a non-stop talker who just waits for you to finish so he can start talking again, about whatever it is that interests him.
I imagined being in the car with him for the trip. If that's not hell on earth, I don't know what is..
Yeah, if he fell asleep at the wheel, you'd probably just try to die very silently, just so he doesn't wake up.
what of the Indian peasant who, thanks to his cellphone, now has more up to date market information and, because of this, is better able to provide for his family? Should he be "liberated" from that technology because it is proprietary, non free, non gratis, owned by the evil corporate horde?
No, he should be "liberated" so that he has the choice between proprietary and free cell phones.
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That's right.
Also, physics is an attempt to explain why stuff moves the way it moves and tries to interpret the facts of science without god moving shit around.
Also, chemistry is an attempt to explain why stuff behaves the way it behaves and tries to interpret the facts of science without god blowing shit up.
Also, the part of biology that deals with human reproduction is an attempt to explain where babies come from and tries to interpret the facts of science without god going around and planting babies in women's bellies.
Evolution explains how the simple can evolve into the complex based on reproduction, variation and selection (IMO thats so thoroughly simple and logical, it is more mathematics and logic than biology). It doesn't explain where the simple came from. It also doesn't explain where the laws of nature came from.
But since you seem so sure that the simple can't evolve into the complex, and that therefore all things complex must have been designed, I ask you: who designed the designer that you postulate? We can only assume that it must have been a designer of similar or higher complexity. Obviously, that designer must have been designed by an even more complex designer, ad infinitum.
Yeah, I don't understand either why some ignorants prefer a simple, concise and logical explanation over an infinite tower of increasingly complex designers.
Relax, Steve. Of course you could teach it to fling chairs instead.
Regards,
Bill
I was not aware that evolution made any predictions about the number of deities in existance. Please explain.
I wouldn't call an omnipotent entity using its powers to hide from us until we don't believe in its existance anymore, and then punishing us for falling for its little joke, "perfectly just and righteous".
But then, wihle I actually believed in God, I've always pictured her/him/it to be more like a mixture of Gandhi, Mother Theresa and Alanis Morissette, and less like a crossover of Hitler, Osama Bin Laden and a grumpy old man chasing kids off his lawn.
Why can't you? What's preventing you?
int[] date = new int[] {2006, 8, 16};
That's not particularly OO, but even then, what's preventing you from writing your own Date class?
Of course, that would be pretty stupid unless org.slashdot.lucratius.Date does something that java.util.Date and java.util.Calendar don't do.
The world sure feels safer if I assume that even murderers are motivated by the same things I am (money, power).
Coping with the fact that there are people out there that would risk (or even outright sacrifice) their lives for goals that to me seem nothing but absurd might feel a bit awkward.
(1) Fortran and C and a metric shitload of other languages all compile to machine code.
(2) All
Are you sure that (1) means that the languages can have different capabilities while (2) means those languages all have the same capabilities?
Even more surprising, there's actually a city called Chicago, too (albeit not in Germany).
Those two staements aren't equivalent. If "God's hand" influences this universe, it (or its effects) is part of this universe, and therefore are natural causes.
Where do I look if I wonder what Africa would be like today if it had never been colonized?
Obviouosly, huge monolithic ads are way more visible (and hence have bigger impact) than micro-ads (which tend to be hard to see with the naked eye). Linus beats Andrew once again!
In soviet russia, a beowulf cluster of leap years would have shown korean old people another example.
In germany, the number 23 is spoken as, literally, "three-and-twenty". Accordingly, the number 123 is spoken as "one-hundred-three-and-twenty"; 1234 is "one-thousand-two-hundred-four-and-thirty". Imagine the insanity that would ensue if germans wrote those numbers as 32, 132 and 1243 just to make them fit the way they say those numbers. [1]
Dates are similar, in that the position of the number determines its order of magnitude. In d/m/y and y/m/d, the magnitudes are ordered. In m/d/y, they aren't.
[1] On an unrelated note, if you need even more insanity, imagine if the french did a similar thing, so instead of 99 they wrote 420109 ("quatre-vingt-dix-neuf").
Just my two cents: d/m/y or y/m/d seems much more logical than m/d/y. As in, the numbers are ordered by their significance. y/m/d with leading zeores is practical because it makes alphabetical order the same as chronological order.
Which is (AFAIK - IANAL) perfectly legal (at least here in Austria), unless the music has been sprayed with magical uncopyable bits.
Looking at your homepage I actually wonder why you're allowed to have an account at all. I've never seen such an horrendous abomin... oh wait...
Exactly. Reverse engineering is theft! And Skype should have patented not only their protocol but also talking itself!
No, that's communioimagognarusturmaphilia, or "JPEG collector's disease", as it is commonly called.
Yeah, if he fell asleep at the wheel, you'd probably just try to die very silently, just so he doesn't wake up.
fridges will become illegal circumvention devices
just imagine the savings if you need fewer prisons!
This hasn't stopped evolution. It's just that the selection criteria have changed.
I call bullshit on that chicken-and-egg stuff. It is obvious that this energy is the dot in ".com".
It will if you use your Advanced Xonnection Equipment.
No, he should be "liberated" so that he has the choice between proprietary and free cell phones.