This right here is some willful ignorance. The law was not written by congress. Few in congress even read it. The administration peddled it through several House committees, but in the end, they gave up and just voted on the Senate version (which many Democratic senators admitted they had not read, either).
No details, nothing about transfer of copyrights, proof of who is successor of interest, nothing. I RTFA and found the summary is pretty much all there is to know. Anyone got a more informative link?
Well, I'm hardly a physicist, but it reads like they cut Schrodinger's box in half, pulled a dead kitty out of one and a live kitty out of the other. Is this incorrect?
The Crazy Mrs. Doddard's here are known by name, and you know when they're going to show up. Most people are content to down-mod and move on. Contrary opinions are often (-1, Troll) with nary a response, or, if someone does, they get modded (-1, something-something) just for touching it. There is absolutely groupthink on Slashdot, and there has been for the 15 years I've been here. Hell, I first learned the term in the context of its application to Slashdot.
Interestingly enough, nothing you posted has anything to do with the gospel of Christ. Being right about evolution or the big-bang is of no spiritual benefit to you whatsoever.
Sure, but having God's representative on Earth make the claim is meant to carry a little more weight than the concensus view of a bunch of Cardinals and Bishops, isn't it?
"Well, I didn't vote for you!"</constitutional-peasant>
I would like to tut-tut your church's backward thinking, except it sounds like they do more for their fellow man than I do. TBH, it doesn't sound too tragic; I wish I was less into right-thinking and more into right-doing.
It's not about being allowed; it's about not being a bore. I have vigorous and enthusiastic debates with religious friends, including about evolution, but I know my audience. I only argue with friends and random strangers on the internet.
As a church-goer, I can tell you that, yes, an out-spoken evolutionist will be met with awkward silence. Not because anyone disagrees with him, but because they all are thinking the same thing: "Oh, deal Lord, he's going to get crazy old Mrs. Doddard stated again on fossils again. How can I get out of here politely?" It's the same awkward silence you'd get discussing anything contentious at all. Politics, flu vaccines, or even theology (I'm a Presbyterian, and even still discussing Calvanism is a crap-shoot of accidentally starting an argument). Modern churches, even here in the deep south are pretty diverse places, and the general policy seems to be "if you think this is going to start an argument, and is not vitally important, don't talk about it."
I don't doubt your 30%, though it does not reflect the evangelicals I know (and, like I said, very conservative deep south; perhaps skewed because my acquaintances run in the young adult range).
This has been mainline Christian thought, even among evangelicals, for decades. YEC's get the spot-light because they're zany, but this has already been accepted for a good while now.
But it's already a de facto standard. I think W3C's clout in this area is diminished because the market already decided it was a standard long before they did.
No, people who go on mass murder sprees are the most danger to the rest of society. I'll put up Stalin and Mao against the crusades any day of the week.
Well, even that is being too literal. When we say "in those days", are talking about specific days, or an epoch? We're talking about a prophetic vision, every bit as poetic and metaphorical as Revelation.
I don't know about the background radiation thing, but we do know that the big bang created a whole lot of hot, dense plasma with incredible amounts of energy (like, say, a whole universe's worth), and since ancient people don't understand energy or plasma, calling it light is not as inaccurate as it could be.
And here's Hitler directly: "The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble. All that's left is to prove that in nature there is no frontier between the organic and the inorganic. When understanding of the universe has become widespread, when the majority of men know that the stars are not sources of light but worlds, perhaps inhabited worlds like ours, then the Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity."
Hitler was the head of a deeply religious country, and being a consummate showman, would you expect him the say any differently? Goebbels wrote in his diary: "The Fuhrer is deeply religious, though completely anti-Christian. He views Christianity as a symptom of decay. Rightly so. It is a branch of the Jewish race. This can be seen in the similarity of their religious rites. Both (Judaism and Christianity) have no point of contact to the animal element, and thus, in the end they will be destroyed. The Fuhrer is a convinced vegetarian on principle."
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This right here is some willful ignorance. The law was not written by congress. Few in congress even read it. The administration peddled it through several House committees, but in the end, they gave up and just voted on the Senate version (which many Democratic senators admitted they had not read, either).
Real nerds argue over WHICH first edition is the one edition. See: D&D nerds, music nerds.
No, no, if it sounds like something, it's homophonic.
Sounds like fluffery. "We can do anything; we're the best!"
No details, nothing about transfer of copyrights, proof of who is successor of interest, nothing. I RTFA and found the summary is pretty much all there is to know. Anyone got a more informative link?
"Security through angry projection"? It ain't workin'.
Well, I'm hardly a physicist, but it reads like they cut Schrodinger's box in half, pulled a dead kitty out of one and a live kitty out of the other. Is this incorrect?
The Crazy Mrs. Doddard's here are known by name, and you know when they're going to show up. Most people are content to down-mod and move on. Contrary opinions are often (-1, Troll) with nary a response, or, if someone does, they get modded (-1, something-something) just for touching it. There is absolutely groupthink on Slashdot, and there has been for the 15 years I've been here. Hell, I first learned the term in the context of its application to Slashdot.
To the stake with you, heretic.
In describing my church, you also describe Slashdot.
Interestingly enough, nothing you posted has anything to do with the gospel of Christ. Being right about evolution or the big-bang is of no spiritual benefit to you whatsoever.
Sure, but having God's representative on Earth make the claim is meant to carry a little more weight than the concensus view of a bunch of Cardinals and Bishops, isn't it?
"Well, I didn't vote for you!"</constitutional-peasant>
I would like to tut-tut your church's backward thinking, except it sounds like they do more for their fellow man than I do. TBH, it doesn't sound too tragic; I wish I was less into right-thinking and more into right-doing.
It's not about being allowed; it's about not being a bore. I have vigorous and enthusiastic debates with religious friends, including about evolution, but I know my audience. I only argue with friends and random strangers on the internet.
As a church-goer, I can tell you that, yes, an out-spoken evolutionist will be met with awkward silence. Not because anyone disagrees with him, but because they all are thinking the same thing: "Oh, deal Lord, he's going to get crazy old Mrs. Doddard stated again on fossils again. How can I get out of here politely?" It's the same awkward silence you'd get discussing anything contentious at all. Politics, flu vaccines, or even theology (I'm a Presbyterian, and even still discussing Calvanism is a crap-shoot of accidentally starting an argument). Modern churches, even here in the deep south are pretty diverse places, and the general policy seems to be "if you think this is going to start an argument, and is not vitally important, don't talk about it."
I don't doubt your 30%, though it does not reflect the evangelicals I know (and, like I said, very conservative deep south; perhaps skewed because my acquaintances run in the young adult range).
This has been mainline Christian thought, even among evangelicals, for decades. YEC's get the spot-light because they're zany, but this has already been accepted for a good while now.
Don't forget the conspiracy nuts. They're also in every thread.
So Judaism is UNIX.
Christianity is Microsoft (embrace and extend)
Islam is SCO (copy, claim, and wage holy war the guys you stole it from)
But it's already a de facto standard. I think W3C's clout in this area is diminished because the market already decided it was a standard long before they did.
No, people who go on mass murder sprees are the most danger to the rest of society. I'll put up Stalin and Mao against the crusades any day of the week.
Well, even that is being too literal. When we say "in those days", are talking about specific days, or an epoch? We're talking about a prophetic vision, every bit as poetic and metaphorical as Revelation.
Not so. Dietrich Bohnhoeffer, for instance.
I don't know about the background radiation thing, but we do know that the big bang created a whole lot of hot, dense plasma with incredible amounts of energy (like, say, a whole universe's worth), and since ancient people don't understand energy or plasma, calling it light is not as inaccurate as it could be.
And here's Hitler directly: "The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble. All that's left is to prove that in nature there is no frontier between the organic and the inorganic. When understanding of the universe has become widespread, when the majority of men know that the stars are not sources of light but worlds, perhaps inhabited worlds like ours, then the Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity."
Hitler was the head of a deeply religious country, and being a consummate showman, would you expect him the say any differently? Goebbels wrote in his diary:
"The Fuhrer is deeply religious, though completely anti-Christian. He views Christianity as a symptom of decay. Rightly so. It is a branch of the Jewish race. This can be seen in the similarity of their religious rites. Both (Judaism and Christianity) have no point of contact to the animal element, and thus, in the end they will be destroyed. The Fuhrer is a convinced vegetarian on principle."