Once again, here's someone who obviously has never been outside a city. Have you ever been to Alabama? Much less Iowa, or any other similar place in the Union? Exactly how do you expect someone to ride a bike 50 miles to work or 20 miles to town? How you expect people to move furniture and groceries and other heavy items from place to place?
No, we will never be forced to ride bikes and walk everywhere. There are many alternative fuel solutions out there besides the ones you mentioned.
... the vast majority of Americans don't live in big cities? Dude where I live the nearest gas station is 15 miles away, the nearest city 20. Walk? No thanks, I'll ride there in comfort in my 20 foot long Cadillac with leather interior, power everything, and ice cold A/C blowing.
... oil companies are the monoliths who get blamed for every failed junk science proposal that comes along. If ethanol were such the wonder fuel that you claim, we would be using it right now, oil companies or no.
Here's the facts:
* Ethanol washes down cylinder walls, requiring more frequent oil changes and resulting in higher cylinder wall wear.
* Ethanol has less energy content than gasoline (which is why carburetor jetting adjustments are required- because you have to burn MORE of it to do the same job).
* Ethanol is much more expensive to produce than gasoline, and that's *with* government subsidies. Imagine how much more it will cost when the government starts taxing it like they do gas? That brings me to the next point...
* The ethanol industry is subsidized by the government because the farmers can't profit off it. It costs too much to produce and sells for too little.
* We do not produce enough ethanol domestically for the whole nation to depend on. We would need much more ethanol production, which means more government money going to subsidize farmers and more land being converted to farmland. I'm no environmental zealot, but do we really to cut down more trees for farmland?
Gasoline has it's disadvantages too, don't get me wrong. But the fact is there's no compelling reason to use ethanol over gasoline when gasoline is so abundant and will continue to be for some time. A much better idea would be to put a few oil rigs up in the Alaskan Wastela.. er, National Wildlife Refuge.
A much better alternative fuel would be propane or compressed natural gas. The equipment required to convert to propane is not expensive, it is a much better fuel than either ethanol or gasoline, it is cheap, and it's plentiful. Oh, and it pollutes far less as well.
Good point, but you forget about the demand aspect. If gold prices plummeted as a result of a huge new supply, then suddenly you'd have a bunch more people interested in acquiring the stuff for things like wiring, electronics, etc. That would drive the price back up.
Imagine electricity being carried 100 miles to your house on gold wiring. Imagine the energy savings due to less resistance, higher efficiency, the whole nine yards. There are huge benefits to be had.
Also imagine the benefits to our space industry- suddenly everybody and their brother would be trying to get ships up in space to harvest these asteroids. There would be tons of money spent on space R&D and it could only result in immense benefit.
RTFA. That's one of the main *points* of the LinuxBIOS - to eliminate cruft in existing BIOSes. It initializes the bare essentials, then loads the OS. It's called the "Linux"BIOS because it uses a stripped down, gutted Linux kernel with a few code additions to do all the work.
Sadly, Americans are pretty bad about voting their consciences with their dollars. That's why Wal-Mart does so well to begin with. They know, at least abstractly, that Wal-Mart is Bad and Wrong. But when they they want to buy a shower curtain they'd rather buy it for $7.95 at Wal-Mart than $12.99 at the local design store.
Sorry, I missed the part where you explained exactly what's so "bad and wrong" about Wal-Mart? It's a large store with a lot of stuff. So the little guy is automatically good because he's little, and the big guy is automatically evil? Please, spare me.
Exactly what beef do you have with thrifty spending? Sure, Wal-Mart goods typically aren't the best on the market, and that extra $5 will probably buy you a better, longer lasting shower curtain at the local store. But for a family that pinches every penny and is living on the verge of poverty, Wal-Mart is great.
In addition, many people are of the mind that they're not doing anything wrong, so why not allow yourself to be tracked? They'd rather save a few bucks today than worry about an ill-defined threat in the future.
Typical kneejerk reason: "Oh God, tell me it isn't so, one day 27 years from now this system might be used for 'Evil Purposes(tm)', can't let it happen, boycott boycott boycott!!!!!!!11"
And basically, this is what it boils down to: FUD. The Patriot Act is something to be scared of and to work against. Mandatory V-chips planted in every citizen's brain is something to be scared of. An FBI system that allows them to track the location and activies of any person down to what color toilet paper they use is something to be scared of.
On the other hand, an electronic inventory tracking system that might allow retail stores to (*gasp!*) tailor coupons and ads to specific persons is NOT something to be worried about.
I never said anything about anti-trust laws; I was reponding to the parent who acted as if the point of capitalism is to "benefit humankind" or something like that. That's what socialism is about. The point of capitalism is to make money, plain and simple.
Yes, some laws do need to be in place to restrict competition a bit. Without any such laws, we'd quickly end up with a couple huge companies that control the market so tightly that nobody can compete.
Welcome to slashdot, home of people who are outraged by computer programs that contain spyware, but gladly welcome cars that contain the same.
It's SAD the new and imaginative ways that are being invented to invade childrens' privacy and monitor their every activity. THIS IS NOT THE WAY TO RAISE A CHILD! Attempting to spy on your kid will NOT improve his behavior- it will just improve his abilities to evade your invasiveness. Here's what you need to do- teach him right from wrong from the beginning, and when he does wrong, pull out your belt and wear his ass out. Be honest with your child and expect the same from him. TRUST YOUR CHILD. Show him respect, and treat him like you expect to be treated. If you do all of this consistently then the result will be a child that has RESPECT, wants to do RIGHT, and is HONEST. Trust me, this method of child raising has been used for many thousands of years and it works almost every time it's tried. Sure there's a few bad apples that won't learn from any of it, but hell, do you think spying on them would've changed them at all?
Spying on your kids shows that you don't trust them, pisses them off at you, and shows that you don't respect their privacy. Um, hello? People need to start thinking of teenagers as young adults, not large children. They're not three year olds, and it doesn't help to treat them that way. You might need spyware to help monitor your small child, however, your teen wants and needs some independence, and you are taking it all away from him. If you honestly believe that your teen NEEDS spyware to fix his problems, then it's too late, you screwed up, and no spyware on the planet will save him or you.
well, if this shit ever hits the fan, im definately buying up all the non-DRM hardware I can get my hands on.
hell we've gotten to the point where CPUs have gotten fast enough to do pretty much anything we want to do, and if one isn't fast enough, we cann run two or four of them in parallel. i'm still on a celeron 300a (non-overclocked), with a geforce4 and 40gig HD, and the CPU speed really doesnt get in my way at all. i play unreal tournament, soldier of fortune, alice, etc and never have had a problem with CPU speed. not to say that i wouldn't love to have a new 1 or 2 ghz CPU/mobo, preferably AMD.
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Anybody with the tiniest bit of common sense would not program a robot that could harm, that would eat spinach, that would even have an esophagus whose sole purpose is apparently to deliver damaging edibles into its most valuable circuitry.
Sigh.
You just don't get it, do you? David is not a "robot" "programmed" to do anything. He's an android designed to act like a human.
Looking at it from this perspective, do you now understand why your statement was irrelevant?
If the day ever comes that the Repo Man has to sell off IBM's stuff, maybe I can pose as an employee and buy Big Blue off of him for cheap. Then, I will REALLY have bragging rights on SETI@home:)
Warning: do NOT try the new kernel configurator! Look what happened to me!!
- look
Kernel Core
You are standing in the center of the most magnificent room you have ever seen. The chamber is enormous, with huge data shunts rising up from the floor as far as the eye can see, finally disappearing into the blackness above. Doorways, crawlway entrances, and ladders abound, each labeled with their destination and purpose.
Linus, Savior of Mankind is here. He wields a Text Editor in one hand and a copy of "C Programming for Dummies" in the other.
You see exits leading out, in, north, south, east, west, northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest.
- greet linus
You greet Linus, Savior of Mankind with a sincere smile.
-
Linus sees you and smiles warmly. "Welcome to the Linux kernel! Please note that this is an experimental version, so it's not entirely stable yet."
-
Linus takes a Text Editor from a burlap sack.
-
Linus gives you a Text Editor.
-
"Please feel free to use this tool to add to and/or repair the Kernel. Enjoy your time here!"
-
Bill Gates, Dark Lord of Everything That Is Evil wanders in from the west.
-
Bill Gates greets you with a sincere smile.
-
Bill Gates says, "Just looking for some new code ideas to "innovate" into the new Windows Anti-Christ Edition. Remember, 'ALL YOUR CODE ARE BELONG TO US'!"
-
Bill Gates removes a simple oaken pipe from a burlap sack.
-
Bill Gates removes a tinderbox from a burlap sack.
-
Bill Gates removes some marijuana from a burlap sack.
-
Bill Gates places some marijuana in a simple oaken pipe.
-
Bill Gates lights a simple oaken pipe until it is smoking nicely.
-
Bill Gates takes a long drag off a simple oaken pipe.
-
You see an aura of ultimate destruction appear around Bill Gates.
-
Bill Gates laughs evilly.
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Bill Gates holds up his hand, closes his eyes, and begins to chant strangely.
-
Mystic energies swirl beautifully before your eyes.
-
Without warning, the energies converge into strange apparations, in the shape of flying windows, and float evilly in the air around you.
-
Suddenly, the strange apparitions rush at you with terrifying speed, ripping into your soul and shattering your mind.
-
You bleed 666 health.
-
You have been slain by Bill Gates.
You have played 8 games so far.
Thank you for playing 'make adventure'!
How does this save the company money? It could be argued that this actually COSTS the company money in terms of the power used to power the hard disk as it writes data to disk.
If I create a product that everyone uses, and I become rich off of it, I deserve the wealth and power that comes along.
True, but you do NOT deserve the right to use your wealth and power to prevent others from gaining a foothold in the market. This is the basis of anti-trust laws.
And about the posts above, I do see that people aren't FORCED to use the GPL/GNU, but..If anyone had bothered to read http://www.gnu.org, you can CLEARLY see that it is an anti-corporate communist, license that many sheep seem to follow blindly without actually bothering to see the consequences.
How is the GPL 'anti-corporate'? What 'consequences'? A corporation can easily use the GPL and still make money. Example? The guys who are building games from the GPL'ed Quake engine and retaining the rights to their GAME DATA. At the same time, it's not like these guys are exactly driving other game companies out of business, so in this case the other corporations aren't being hurt by the GPL, either.
So what is GAINED by GPL'ed code? Experience. By playing around with such things as the Quake engine source, that's the kinda stuff you do to learn how to make games. So basically GPL code is a vast resource of knowledge for young programmers to learn and gain experience in writing code.
Of course we do. Whenever nonsense like this is released from another liberal brainwashing centre, then it is the duty of all concerned Christians to fight back, to show to people that the Truth of history is already out there in bookshops, churches and missions across the world!
Or is it really that you itch every time you see your antique ideals, born of fear and ignorance, being slammed and shown for the lies and nonsense that they are?
For any truly rational person, persuing wild theories about hairy elephants and "giant lizards" is a waste of time and energy, and playing directly into the hands of the anti-humanist liberals.
Get your nose out of your precious bible, and take a look around. "hairy elephants and 'giant lizards'" aren't "[w]ild theories", they're fossilized evidence available for anyone to see in the fossil record.
See how you have been brainwashed! You attack me for not having proof (despite it sitting here on my desk at work!) and then go on and claim science doesn't need any. How hypocritical of you! But then again, the Bible does warn about the hypocrites. Thankfully, they will receive their just reward.
Science is observation, not proof. Anyone who knows science knows that theories are not provable., only disprovable. The hypocrites I see are the Christians walking around claiming they know everything because they own a copy of a book written by an unknown group of men, an unknown time ago, for unknown reasons. You know what they call that in the practice of law? An unreliable witness.
As I said before, radio halos found in granite, the decay rate of planetary magentic fields, the amount of interplanetary dust and many more. But you obviously haven't taken the time to find out these things, sure in your smug liberal ideology.
All this information available for the Scientology website. How convenient.
So because we share similar genomes and DNA with certain species & such, Darwin is true and we have a common ancestor? Or is it that we have a common DESIGNER? If you were God (not that any of us are, but just suppose for a second), would it make more sense to design things with common links or have all life and matter be made of totally different atoms, molecules, DNA, genomes, etc, etc? Darwin has not been proven, rather it has gained momentum among so-called scientists who gain power and prestige from it
Don't hide behind that bullshit rhetoric. Every time we, believers in science, attempt to discredit some idiotic idea or design that "God" is responsible for, you immediately jump behind the "uhh... well it's all part of God's plan, it doesn't HAVE to make sense!" stuff. Now, you're utilizing the best tool that religions have at their disposal -- hypocrisy -- to attempt to throw doubt on our well-thought-out ideas. Nice try, but you've been caught.
As far as theories go... not really. Theories are hypothesis with insufficient evidence to be laws... What do I mean? Theories have a few pieces of 'evidence' that support it, but not SUFFICIENT 'evidence' for it to be a law.
You can get off your box now, because you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. See my above post to learn the difference between a theory and a law, then come back when you have a clue.
It may be considered law by some, but that doesn't make it law. A truth table for boolean AND is what I would call a law... You take FALSE AND FALSE and you always get FALSE, you take TRUE AND FALSE you still get FALSE, you take TRUE AND TRUE you get TRUE, and that's it.
What?
And one last item, why do you seem to believe the Bible and science are mutally exclusive? There are biological, geographical, astronomical facts stated in the Bible long before any scientists of the past millenia ever discovered them. And there's nothing to show that Ancient Egyptians or other ancient cultures had such knowledge, so where did this information come from? Certainly not the scientific process among peoples of the time
You're trying to pass off an assertion as a fact, and it's not going to work. First, give specific examples what you're talking about ("biological, geographical, astronomical facts stated in the Bible" that "scientists of the past millenia" couldn't have known).
After that, then you can ask rhetorical questions that are impossible to answer.
In defense of the ancient peoples of any time period, they knew a lot more than your local church's preacher has brainwashed you into believing.
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Once again, here's someone who obviously has never been outside a city. Have you ever been to Alabama? Much less Iowa, or any other similar place in the Union? Exactly how do you expect someone to ride a bike 50 miles to work or 20 miles to town? How you expect people to move furniture and groceries and other heavy items from place to place?
No, we will never be forced to ride bikes and walk everywhere. There are many alternative fuel solutions out there besides the ones you mentioned.
... the vast majority of Americans don't live in big cities? Dude where I live the nearest gas station is 15 miles away, the nearest city 20. Walk? No thanks, I'll ride there in comfort in my 20 foot long Cadillac with leather interior, power everything, and ice cold A/C blowing.
... oil companies are the monoliths who get blamed for every failed junk science proposal that comes along. If ethanol were such the wonder fuel that you claim, we would be using it right now, oil companies or no.
Here's the facts:
* Ethanol washes down cylinder walls, requiring more frequent oil changes and resulting in higher cylinder wall wear.
* Ethanol has less energy content than gasoline (which is why carburetor jetting adjustments are required- because you have to burn MORE of it to do the same job).
* Ethanol is much more expensive to produce than gasoline, and that's *with* government subsidies. Imagine how much more it will cost when the government starts taxing it like they do gas? That brings me to the next point...
* The ethanol industry is subsidized by the government because the farmers can't profit off it. It costs too much to produce and sells for too little.
* We do not produce enough ethanol domestically for the whole nation to depend on. We would need much more ethanol production, which means more government money going to subsidize farmers and more land being converted to farmland. I'm no environmental zealot, but do we really to cut down more trees for farmland?
Gasoline has it's disadvantages too, don't get me wrong. But the fact is there's no compelling reason to use ethanol over gasoline when gasoline is so abundant and will continue to be for some time. A much better idea would be to put a few oil rigs up in the Alaskan Wastela.. er, National Wildlife Refuge.
A much better alternative fuel would be propane or compressed natural gas. The equipment required to convert to propane is not expensive, it is a much better fuel than either ethanol or gasoline, it is cheap, and it's plentiful. Oh, and it pollutes far less as well.
You don't get out much, do you? It's "Texans".
4. PROFIT!!!
Good point, but you forget about the demand aspect. If gold prices plummeted as a result of a huge new supply, then suddenly you'd have a bunch more people interested in acquiring the stuff for things like wiring, electronics, etc. That would drive the price back up.
Imagine electricity being carried 100 miles to your house on gold wiring. Imagine the energy savings due to less resistance, higher efficiency, the whole nine yards. There are huge benefits to be had.
Also imagine the benefits to our space industry- suddenly everybody and their brother would be trying to get ships up in space to harvest these asteroids. There would be tons of money spent on space R&D and it could only result in immense benefit.
"Thar be GOLD in them thar asteroids!"
Actually, there is.
RTFA. That's one of the main *points* of the LinuxBIOS - to eliminate cruft in existing BIOSes. It initializes the bare essentials, then loads the OS. It's called the "Linux"BIOS because it uses a stripped down, gutted Linux kernel with a few code additions to do all the work.
Sorry, I missed the part where you explained exactly what's so "bad and wrong" about Wal-Mart? It's a large store with a lot of stuff. So the little guy is automatically good because he's little, and the big guy is automatically evil? Please, spare me.
Exactly what beef do you have with thrifty spending? Sure, Wal-Mart goods typically aren't the best on the market, and that extra $5 will probably buy you a better, longer lasting shower curtain at the local store. But for a family that pinches every penny and is living on the verge of poverty, Wal-Mart is great.
Typical kneejerk reason: "Oh God, tell me it isn't so, one day 27 years from now this system might be used for 'Evil Purposes(tm)', can't let it happen, boycott boycott boycott!!!!!!!11"
And basically, this is what it boils down to: FUD. The Patriot Act is something to be scared of and to work against. Mandatory V-chips planted in every citizen's brain is something to be scared of. An FBI system that allows them to track the location and activies of any person down to what color toilet paper they use is something to be scared of.
On the other hand, an electronic inventory tracking system that might allow retail stores to (*gasp!*) tailor coupons and ads to specific persons is NOT something to be worried about.
Are you kidding? You would never, ever be able to approach the quality of/mimic a standard PCM-encoded CD.
I never said anything about anti-trust laws; I was reponding to the parent who acted as if the point of capitalism is to "benefit humankind" or something like that. That's what socialism is about. The point of capitalism is to make money, plain and simple.
Yes, some laws do need to be in place to restrict competition a bit. Without any such laws, we'd quickly end up with a couple huge companies that control the market so tightly that nobody can compete.
Next thing you know SCO will be suing the RIAA for theft of their "intellectual property" ..
I thought the whole point of capitalism was to make money, not to "work to the benefit of the people". ..
.. Oh yeah, Soviet Russia.
Hmm, where have I heard that phrase before?
Welcome to slashdot, home of people who are outraged by computer programs that contain spyware, but gladly welcome cars that contain the same.
It's SAD the new and imaginative ways that are being invented to invade childrens' privacy and monitor their every activity. THIS IS NOT THE WAY TO RAISE A CHILD! Attempting to spy on your kid will NOT improve his behavior- it will just improve his abilities to evade your invasiveness. Here's what you need to do- teach him right from wrong from the beginning, and when he does wrong, pull out your belt and wear his ass out. Be honest with your child and expect the same from him. TRUST YOUR CHILD. Show him respect, and treat him like you expect to be treated. If you do all of this consistently then the result will be a child that has RESPECT, wants to do RIGHT, and is HONEST. Trust me, this method of child raising has been used for many thousands of years and it works almost every time it's tried. Sure there's a few bad apples that won't learn from any of it, but hell, do you think spying on them would've changed them at all?
Spying on your kids shows that you don't trust them, pisses them off at you, and shows that you don't respect their privacy. Um, hello? People need to start thinking of teenagers as young adults, not large children. They're not three year olds, and it doesn't help to treat them that way. You might need spyware to help monitor your small child, however, your teen wants and needs some independence, and you are taking it all away from him. If you honestly believe that your teen NEEDS spyware to fix his problems, then it's too late, you screwed up, and no spyware on the planet will save him or you.
well, if this shit ever hits the fan, im definately buying up all the non-DRM hardware I can get my hands on.
hell we've gotten to the point where CPUs have gotten fast enough to do pretty much anything we want to do, and if one isn't fast enough, we cann run two or four of them in parallel. i'm still on a celeron 300a (non-overclocked), with a geforce4 and 40gig HD, and the CPU speed really doesnt get in my way at all. i play unreal tournament, soldier of fortune, alice, etc and never have had a problem with CPU speed. not to say that i wouldn't love to have a new 1 or 2 ghz CPU/mobo, preferably AMD.
Anybody with the tiniest bit of common sense would not program a robot that could harm, that would eat spinach, that would even have an esophagus whose sole purpose is apparently to deliver damaging edibles into its most valuable circuitry.
Sigh.
You just don't get it, do you? David is not a "robot" "programmed" to do anything. He's an android designed to act like a human.
Looking at it from this perspective, do you now understand why your statement was irrelevant?
If the day ever comes that the Repo Man has to sell off IBM's stuff, maybe I can pose as an employee and buy Big Blue off of him for cheap. Then, I will REALLY have bragging rights on SETI@home :)
No, I cannot expand on a GPL'd product and make money off of it.
Tell that to the guys who expanded on the GPL'ed Quake source and wrote Laser Tag, and made money off it.
Warning: do NOT try the new kernel configurator! Look what happened to me!!
- look
Kernel Core
You are standing in the center of the most magnificent room you have ever seen. The chamber is enormous, with huge data shunts rising up from the floor as far as the eye can see, finally disappearing into the blackness above. Doorways, crawlway entrances, and ladders abound, each labeled with their destination and purpose.
Linus, Savior of Mankind is here. He wields a Text Editor in one hand and a copy of "C Programming for Dummies" in the other.
You see exits leading out, in, north, south, east, west, northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest.
- greet linus
You greet Linus, Savior of Mankind with a sincere smile.
-
Linus sees you and smiles warmly. "Welcome to the Linux kernel! Please note that this is an experimental version, so it's not entirely stable yet."
-
Linus takes a Text Editor from a burlap sack.
-
Linus gives you a Text Editor.
-
"Please feel free to use this tool to add to and/or repair the Kernel. Enjoy your time here!"
-
Bill Gates, Dark Lord of Everything That Is Evil wanders in from the west.
-
Bill Gates greets you with a sincere smile.
-
Bill Gates says, "Just looking for some new code ideas to "innovate" into the new Windows Anti-Christ Edition. Remember, 'ALL YOUR CODE ARE BELONG TO US'!"
-
Bill Gates removes a simple oaken pipe from a burlap sack.
-
Bill Gates removes a tinderbox from a burlap sack.
-
Bill Gates removes some marijuana from a burlap sack.
-
Bill Gates places some marijuana in a simple oaken pipe.
-
Bill Gates lights a simple oaken pipe until it is smoking nicely.
-
Bill Gates takes a long drag off a simple oaken pipe.
-
You see an aura of ultimate destruction appear around Bill Gates.
-
Bill Gates laughs evilly.
-
Bill Gates holds up his hand, closes his eyes, and begins to chant strangely.
-
Mystic energies swirl beautifully before your eyes.
-
Without warning, the energies converge into strange apparations, in the shape of flying windows, and float evilly in the air around you.
-
Suddenly, the strange apparitions rush at you with terrifying speed, ripping into your soul and shattering your mind.
-
You bleed 666 health.
-
You have been slain by Bill Gates.
You have played 8 games so far.
Thank you for playing 'make adventure'!
How does this save the company money? It could be argued that this actually COSTS the company money in terms of the power used to power the hard disk as it writes data to disk.
I stand corrected :)
If I create a product that everyone uses, and I become rich off of it, I deserve the wealth and power that comes along.
True, but you do NOT deserve the right to use your wealth and power to prevent others from gaining a foothold in the market. This is the basis of anti-trust laws.
And about the posts above, I do see that people aren't FORCED to use the GPL/GNU, but..If anyone had bothered to read http://www.gnu.org, you can CLEARLY see that it is an anti-corporate communist, license that many sheep seem to follow blindly without actually bothering to see the consequences.
How is the GPL 'anti-corporate'? What 'consequences'? A corporation can easily use the GPL and still make money. Example? The guys who are building games from the GPL'ed Quake engine and retaining the rights to their GAME DATA. At the same time, it's not like these guys are exactly driving other game companies out of business, so in this case the other corporations aren't being hurt by the GPL, either.
So what is GAINED by GPL'ed code? Experience. By playing around with such things as the Quake engine source, that's the kinda stuff you do to learn how to make games. So basically GPL code is a vast resource of knowledge for young programmers to learn and gain experience in writing code.
Of course we do. Whenever nonsense like this is released from another liberal brainwashing centre, then it is the duty of all concerned Christians to fight back, to show to people that the Truth of history is already out there in bookshops, churches and missions across the world!
Or is it really that you itch every time you see your antique ideals, born of fear and ignorance, being slammed and shown for the lies and nonsense that they are?
For any truly rational person, persuing wild theories about hairy elephants and "giant lizards" is a waste of time and energy, and playing directly into the hands of the anti-humanist liberals.
Get your nose out of your precious bible, and take a look around. "hairy elephants and 'giant lizards'" aren't "[w]ild theories", they're fossilized evidence available for anyone to see in the fossil record.
See how you have been brainwashed! You attack me for not having proof (despite it sitting here on my desk at work!) and then go on and claim science doesn't need any. How hypocritical of you! But then again, the Bible does warn about the hypocrites. Thankfully, they will receive their just reward.
Science is observation, not proof. Anyone who knows science knows that theories are not provable., only disprovable. The hypocrites I see are the Christians walking around claiming they know everything because they own a copy of a book written by an unknown group of men, an unknown time ago, for unknown reasons. You know what they call that in the practice of law? An unreliable witness.
As I said before, radio halos found in granite, the decay rate of planetary magentic fields, the amount of interplanetary dust and many more. But you obviously haven't taken the time to find out these things, sure in your smug liberal ideology.
All this information available for the Scientology website. How convenient.
So because we share similar genomes and DNA with certain species & such, Darwin is true and we have a common ancestor? Or is it that we have a common DESIGNER? If you were God (not that any of us are, but just suppose for a second), would it make more sense to design things with common links or have all life and matter be made of totally different atoms, molecules, DNA, genomes, etc, etc? Darwin has not been proven, rather it has gained momentum among so-called scientists who gain power and prestige from it
Don't hide behind that bullshit rhetoric. Every time we, believers in science, attempt to discredit some idiotic idea or design that "God" is responsible for, you immediately jump behind the "uhh... well it's all part of God's plan, it doesn't HAVE to make sense!" stuff. Now, you're utilizing the best tool that religions have at their disposal -- hypocrisy -- to attempt to throw doubt on our well-thought-out ideas. Nice try, but you've been caught.
As far as theories go... not really. Theories are hypothesis with insufficient evidence to be laws... What do I mean? Theories have a few pieces of 'evidence' that support it, but not SUFFICIENT 'evidence' for it to be a law.
You can get off your box now, because you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. See my above post to learn the difference between a theory and a law, then come back when you have a clue.
It may be considered law by some, but that doesn't make it law. A truth table for boolean AND is what I would call a law... You take FALSE AND FALSE and you always get FALSE, you take TRUE AND FALSE you still get FALSE, you take TRUE AND TRUE you get TRUE, and that's it.
What?
And one last item, why do you seem to believe the Bible and science are mutally exclusive? There are biological, geographical, astronomical facts stated in the Bible long before any scientists of the past millenia ever discovered them. And there's nothing to show that Ancient Egyptians or other ancient cultures had such knowledge, so where did this information come from? Certainly not the scientific process among peoples of the time
You're trying to pass off an assertion as a fact, and it's not going to work. First, give specific examples what you're talking about ("biological, geographical, astronomical facts stated in the Bible" that "scientists of the past millenia" couldn't have known).
After that, then you can ask rhetorical questions that are impossible to answer.
In defense of the ancient peoples of any time period, they knew a lot more than your local church's preacher has brainwashed you into believing.