Hard-core Christian creationists (the crazy kind that believe God created the universe about 6000 years in 6 days) do not have a problem with anything in this article.
For example, there exist both microevolution and macroevolution. Creationist Christians don't disavow microevolution. Microevolution can be shown in just a dozen or so generations with mammals at least... it has been demonstrated by dog breeders for millenia. However, none of the dog breeders ever reported that the German Shepherd dog they were trying to breed turned into another species. It's still a dog. These bacteria are still E. Coli bacteria tens of thousands of generations later... so it still doesn't knock a leg out from under the creationist argument that macroevolution has never been observed.
Furthermore, the relative complexity of an acquired trait which shows up in a species has nothing to do with whether or not creationists are perturbed. Creationists agree that many traits can be made to appear in many different species: sheep can be bred with shorter legs, cows can be bred to produce more milk, cats can be bred to have very long hair or no hair at all, and dogs can be bred to be more or less fierce. This is microevolution: at the end of the day, sheeps is still sheeps. The argument of creationists is "irreducible complexity," which states that there are pieces of any biological machinery which must all be in place for the machinery to have any evolutionary advantage. Creationists also don't have a problem with the gradual acquisition of an irreducibly complex trait, *except* when the steps leading up to the expression of the irreducibly complex trait would have lethal or otherwise negative effects on the organism. A classic example of this which is commonly used is the bombardier beetle.
So, whether you're a crazy Christian fundamentalist without sufficient evidence to back your belief or a crazy evolutionary biologist/astrophysicist fundamentalist without sufficient evidence to back your belief, you still require a hell of a lot of faith to hold on to your beliefs. Science would like you to think that it's all based on objective reality, the scientific method, etc. But where science cannot determine the objective reality, many scientists who would rather talk than listen will invent what they do not know. They will filter the scientific method through their own biases and preconceived notions. At the end of the day, religion and science are on more or less equal footing. Christians believe the universe was created out of nothing in 6 days by God, and the scientific world believes that the universe was created instantaneously out of nothing BY nothing. Either position takes an extra-large metric asston of faith.
I used to work for MP3.com back in the day, and this sounds a lot like "Da Bomb", the internal code name for the mechanism we had set up for mass ripping of CDs. Granted, this is a single linux box, and we had a cluster of a few hundred devoted to this purpose, but the concept is the same. We hired hourlies to insert new CDs into trays as they popped out, and the ripped data got automatically indexed and shipped off to its appropriate place in the disk farm.
This isn't the first time MR has been interested in appliances. MP3.com sold music appliances to businesses to replace Muzak installations. The boxes needed to be plugged into a phone line, and would download playlists and new MP3s as needed. The store would log into a web interface at MP3.com and set up play lists and schedules. All it was was a cheap PC with a customized Linux distro and mpg123 playing files using cron. A *very* cool setup with a much lower monthly fee than Muzak. At one time all Rubio's restaurants had them.
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Hard-core Christian creationists (the crazy kind that believe God created the universe about 6000 years in 6 days) do not have a problem with anything in this article.
... it has been demonstrated by dog breeders for millenia. However, none of the dog breeders ever reported that the German Shepherd dog they were trying to breed turned into another species. It's still a dog. These bacteria are still E. Coli bacteria tens of thousands of generations later ... so it still doesn't knock a leg out from under the creationist argument that macroevolution has never been observed.
For example, there exist both microevolution and macroevolution. Creationist Christians don't disavow microevolution. Microevolution can be shown in just a dozen or so generations with mammals at least
Furthermore, the relative complexity of an acquired trait which shows up in a species has nothing to do with whether or not creationists are perturbed. Creationists agree that many traits can be made to appear in many different species: sheep can be bred with shorter legs, cows can be bred to produce more milk, cats can be bred to have very long hair or no hair at all, and dogs can be bred to be more or less fierce. This is microevolution: at the end of the day, sheeps is still sheeps. The argument of creationists is "irreducible complexity," which states that there are pieces of any biological machinery which must all be in place for the machinery to have any evolutionary advantage. Creationists also don't have a problem with the gradual acquisition of an irreducibly complex trait, *except* when the steps leading up to the expression of the irreducibly complex trait would have lethal or otherwise negative effects on the organism. A classic example of this which is commonly used is the bombardier beetle.
So, whether you're a crazy Christian fundamentalist without sufficient evidence to back your belief or a crazy evolutionary biologist/astrophysicist fundamentalist without sufficient evidence to back your belief, you still require a hell of a lot of faith to hold on to your beliefs. Science would like you to think that it's all based on objective reality, the scientific method, etc. But where science cannot determine the objective reality, many scientists who would rather talk than listen will invent what they do not know. They will filter the scientific method through their own biases and preconceived notions. At the end of the day, religion and science are on more or less equal footing. Christians believe the universe was created out of nothing in 6 days by God, and the scientific world believes that the universe was created instantaneously out of nothing BY nothing. Either position takes an extra-large metric asston of faith.
I used to work for MP3.com back in the day, and this sounds a lot like "Da Bomb", the internal code name for the mechanism we had set up for mass ripping of CDs. Granted, this is a single linux box, and we had a cluster of a few hundred devoted to this purpose, but the concept is the same. We hired hourlies to insert new CDs into trays as they popped out, and the ripped data got automatically indexed and shipped off to its appropriate place in the disk farm. This isn't the first time MR has been interested in appliances. MP3.com sold music appliances to businesses to replace Muzak installations. The boxes needed to be plugged into a phone line, and would download playlists and new MP3s as needed. The store would log into a web interface at MP3.com and set up play lists and schedules. All it was was a cheap PC with a customized Linux distro and mpg123 playing files using cron. A *very* cool setup with a much lower monthly fee than Muzak. At one time all Rubio's restaurants had them.