An evolutionist critiquing a Creationist for a lack of consistency? Now I've heard it all.
The truth of creation hasn't changed. Evolution ideas seem to change weekly (too bad textbooks don't) with each new re-examination, fraud, new methods, and new technology.
I don't think the grandparent was trying to "get them in." He was likely only trying to show that evolution ideas should not be blindly accepted on faith without looking from a different perspective.
iD has in the past ripped out sound code that was licensed from 3rd parties. Or John has quickly put something else together that will work to replace 3rd party code.
I agree in principle with some of what you are saying, but we are not actually developing and building Nuclear Weapons at this point. At SRS in South Carolina, clean up and maintance is the primary job, but no significant money is spent on Nuclear weapons.
Yes, more money should be spent on troops (primarily increasing pay so people might actually consider the military as an alternative to private enterprise), but throwing more money at Education has never worked. BOE's can waste more money faster than any other org.
Creationist do not deny that species change, but they do deny that new information is added from nothing.
For example: Some Bacteria has always be resistant to current antibiotics. The stuff we can kill w/ drugs today is a dying breed, but "resistent" bacteria as always been around. Bacteria found frozen for a thousands years in Antarctica or sealed in Eygptian tombs was also resistant to antibitics.
Also: Moths have always come in a variety of colors, but when an external stimulus (polution) gives the black moth an advantage, they will live longer. You see, this is actually a loss of information because the previous moth gene pool had information to produce both white and black moths. Now, due to polution, the black moth has taken over in your example.
These examples do not prove (or necesarily disprove evolution). Survival of the fittest is very well understood process but scientists have never explained how new information is created (Mutation being their only attempt).
if they couldn't get over having SCO on their resume.
It would be ok if applied to coporate lawyers and CEO/manager types with real power to make major decisions. I don't think you should brand any low level grunt programmer/admin/etc. for the actions of medium to large corporation.
Perhaps they don't have the means to simply quit everytime their current company does something they don't like. You have to pick your battles. Also, maybe the lower level people do not have any more knowledge than the general public before the cat is out of the bag.
If scientific method cannot "prove" anything why put so much faith in it? Perhaps there is a better way to do things.
The Evolutionary model describes process on earth; however, scientist exist on the earth. You can't correctly observe something from inside of it. That is a major problem with Evolution that cannot be fixed. Understandably, scientist would prefer to have some explaination, so they use what they have in the scientific method to describe life.
Just understand, this is inperfect science, and it involes too many assumtions to be preached in schools simply becasue scientist "accept" it.
The amount of evidence strongly supporting evolution (and only evolution) could fit in my fridge. (and I don't have a fancy walk in model).
However, with each new discovery "scientist" have to invent stranger and stranger explainations to "disprove" the bible despite the obvious solution sitting right in front of their faces.
The fact that some people have blond and others black does not prove (or even support evolution).
Look, the point here is evolution is just as much about faith as a creationist point of view. I'm seriously not trying to start a troll/flame war. Just listen... my only concern is that (in the US anyway) evolution is taught as the only explaination of human existince. I wish it was taught as another possible theory rather than treat most of the time as fact.
Wrong... There is ZERO hard evidence to PROVE evolution. Evolution is all observation and conjecture with zero evidence. No "missing links", no understanding about how life "evolves" at all, no reason at all to preach evolution nonsense to children without any proof. Evolution is religion.
This is personal stuff. It's not like this guy has $20M in data that needs a redundant data center ready to go live within minutes on the other side of the world.
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This is an old game that the name reminded me of instantly. Hopefully the developers will avoid the problems that plagued this game 7 years ago.
Namely nasty bugs, poor character development, and too many loose ends at the end of the game.
how much "tracking" of MS-DOS releases needs to be done now? Did you just upgrade to DOS 6.22 and now you need an update to get doom 2 to work?
I think you misunderstood the purpose of this site.
An evolutionist critiquing a Creationist for a lack of consistency? Now I've heard it all.
The truth of creation hasn't changed. Evolution ideas seem to change weekly (too bad textbooks don't) with each new re-examination, fraud, new methods, and new technology.
I don't think the grandparent was trying to "get them in." He was likely only trying to show that evolution ideas should not be blindly accepted on faith without looking from a different perspective.
iD has in the past ripped out sound code that was licensed from 3rd parties. Or John has quickly put something else together that will work to replace 3rd party code.
This was done w/ Doom.
I agree in principle with some of what you are saying, but we are not actually developing and building Nuclear Weapons at this point. At SRS in South Carolina, clean up and maintance is the primary job, but no significant money is spent on Nuclear weapons.
Yes, more money should be spent on troops (primarily increasing pay so people might actually consider the military as an alternative to private enterprise), but throwing more money at Education has never worked. BOE's can waste more money faster than any other org.
Mod parent up. This is an example showing that the article is wrong.
gpg doesn't run setuid by default, but it does warn you if you are worried about leaving your passwords in swap space.
Of course, the solution is to either keep HD's when you sell old systems, or use shred from a linux live CD.
It's called a loss of information.
Creationist do not deny that species change, but they do deny that new information is added from nothing.
For example: Some Bacteria has always be resistant to current antibiotics. The stuff we can kill w/ drugs today is a dying breed, but "resistent" bacteria as always been around. Bacteria found frozen for a thousands years in Antarctica or sealed in Eygptian tombs was also resistant to antibitics.
Also: Moths have always come in a variety of colors, but when an external stimulus (polution) gives the black moth an advantage, they will live longer. You see, this is actually a loss of information because the previous moth gene pool had information to produce both white and black moths. Now, due to polution, the black moth has taken over in your example.
These examples do not prove (or necesarily disprove evolution). Survival of the fittest is very well understood process but scientists have never explained how new information is created (Mutation being their only attempt).
Suppose your business is the next one the government decides it needs to regulate?
I'm confused. What do you mean by "colloquial"?
This is not a comment I am trained to deal with.
This is an excellent site for problems like realplayer
Probably refers to this
Call Sun.
Perhaps they don't have the means to simply quit everytime their current company does something they don't like. You have to pick your battles.
Also, maybe the lower level people do not have any more knowledge than the general public before the cat is out of the bag.
my $0.02
What is Timothy thinking with linking 2 article to a common slahdot story?
How can the other editors post a dupe?
What has happened to slashdot!
Where will the dupes we all depend on come from now?
A release date that has never been announced cannot (by definition) slip.
The only dates that have slipped have been speculative dates made by publishers, game sites, and fans.
ABS brakes do not (and were not designed to) stop your vehichle faster than standard brakes.
Profitablity?
My username is a joke.
If scientific method cannot "prove" anything why put so much faith in it? Perhaps there is a better way to do things.
The Evolutionary model describes process on earth; however, scientist exist on the earth. You can't correctly observe something from inside of it. That is a major problem with Evolution that cannot be fixed. Understandably, scientist would prefer to have some explaination, so they use what they have in the scientific method to describe life.
Just understand, this is inperfect science, and it involes too many assumtions to be preached in schools simply becasue scientist "accept" it.
The amount of evidence strongly supporting evolution (and only evolution) could fit in my fridge. (and I don't have a fancy walk in model).
However, with each new discovery "scientist" have to invent stranger and stranger explainations to "disprove" the bible despite the obvious solution sitting right in front of their faces.
Thank you for the flame... that really hurt.
Macro vs. Micro
The fact that some people have blond and others black does not prove (or even support evolution).
Look, the point here is evolution is just as much about faith as a creationist point of view. I'm seriously not trying to start a troll/flame war. Just listen... my only concern is that (in the US anyway) evolution is taught as the only explaination of human existince. I wish it was taught as another possible theory rather than treat most of the time as fact.
Wrong... There is ZERO hard evidence to PROVE evolution. Evolution is all observation and conjecture with zero evidence. No "missing links", no understanding about how life "evolves" at all, no reason at all to preach evolution nonsense to children without any proof. Evolution is religion.
This is personal stuff. It's not like this guy has $20M in data that needs a redundant data center ready to go live within minutes on the other side of the world.
Parent's joke stolen from SNL.
As opposed to UI Design for Plumbers?
Where have you been? (or are you a troll?) Ipfwd Ipchains Iptables And yes XP includes a firewall.