Sure, it's a bit dry compared to, say, Herodotus, what with all the lineages, but the New Testament isn't too bad, if lacking in some of the fun Greco-Roman god style smiting that you get in the Old Testament.
I've been meaning to get around to reading some of the Bhagavad Gita but haven't so far. Any other religious texts you'd recommend?
Gaia, the Earth, was birthed of Chaos, if I recall correctly. No one made out her dimensions, save perhaps herself. That covers most of all that up through 11.
Most of the animal's traits were given out by Epimetheus, who forgot to leave any for Man, so Prometheus helped them out and gave them fire. He wasn't crucified, but he was bound to a rock by chains and an eagle tore out his entrails every day for quite some time.
Zeus and Poseidon handle most of the weather effects mentioned.
That's a summary of a few of my favorite myths, anyway. Thanks for sharing yours.
It is probably less of a security concern to use satellite, since it is beyond most people's means to pirate a satellite signal, whereas sneaking into official torrents of movies would be far easier.
I don't know about elementary schools, but in high school when we started learning to use graphing calculators, we used TI models that have BASIC for writing your own programs. It was easy enough for me to teach myself, and many of my friends also benefitted from a much more streamlined way of going about doing classwork.
I know they made an attachment that sat on an overhead projector to display the calculator's screen, so that might be useful for demonstrating programming, too. If the elementary doesn't have any, perhaps the local high school does.
I would expect that initially things will be like Quake 2 where you could choose between hardware rendering in OpenGL or software rendering using your processor.
Then eventually games will require PPUs like they require GPUs now.
You can still use the middle mouse click to bring up the autoscroller like you mention.
Having the autoscroller, the Cruise Control buttons, and the wheel is something I find quite handy on my MX510. It allows faster imprecise scrolling of varying degrees while still giving you a wheel for more precise slow scrolling.
That is S-Video and Composite, but not Component output.
Thanks for the link, though; I'll keep it in mind if I give up on looking for inexpensive way to get component to the TV.
Where did you find a VGA to Video converter for that price? The ones I've seen around are around $199, and its been holding me back from putting a HTPC together...
A lot of that is explained in the miniseries that preceeds the first episode of the season. That's why it seems straightforward to those of us that saw the miniseries, and not straightforward to you.
There has never been a definition for information provided by creationists that cannot be demonstrated to arise via naturalistic evolution.
The Myxococcus evolved novel fibrils to facilitate cooperative behavior when the gene for the standard pilus used in the wild type species was deleted.
This would require not only generating novel fibril structures, but tying them into the existing pathways used for behavior and quorum sensing.
The nested hierarchies are molecular phylogenies. It is the same principle used in paternity testing. The place of bats using traditional phylogeny was difficult, sure, but you're ignoring the molecular phylogenies. Descent need not be guesswork based solely upon phenotype.
The reason that we would not expect nested hierarchies of the type we see under an ex nihilo creation model is that we see the same hierarchies from different targets, such as the ribosome or cytochrome. These would not be expected to nest together if common descent were not true. Instead of a tree of life, we'd expect an orchard if creation ex nihilo was true.
Since the DNA code is degenerate, you can have a completely different sequence code for the same protein. Positing that a creator would use the same sequence, with the amount of drift expected naturalistically, between the species also poses philosophical problems along the lines that Descartes tried to solve.
The 'no new information' argument will continue to be teethless until the creationists come up with a definition that hasn't already been shown to arise naturalistically. We've had several discussions on this at TheologyWeb in the past year.
The type III secretion system uses many of the same parts as a flagellum.
You should note that the type III ss is probably derived from the flagellum and not its progenitor, but it nicely shows that the flagellum is not irreducibly complex in any way that precludes evolutionary pathways since it is more or less a flagellum without all of its parts that still is beneficial.
Just as a 'half evolved' eye can be a useful light sensing spot, a 'half evolved' flagellum could be quite useful to a microorganism, so a stepwise indirect pathway is capable of generating what would be irreducibly complex.
In general, TalkOrigins.org is a good resource. They have a sister site TalkDesign.org, but I am not as familiar with it. Most of my knowledge of the Type III ss comes from coursework.
If you have access to Nature, the article "Evolution of novel cooperative swarming in the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus" is an easily accessible article showing how evolution can yield new characteristics.
Ring species, like with the finches, have been studied extensively with Salamanders as others have mentioned.
Sarfati frequently makes errors in biology, his PhD is in Chemistry, specifically in semiconductors.
For example, the first bullet point under Scientific Issues in his article is oversimplified. The genetic code is not entirely universal, but the divergences are in a nested hierarchy supporting common descent. This can be verified using your molecular phylogeny of choice.
I'd read AiG's statement of faith before I started looking for anything objective there. They're fideistic young earth creationists, which puts them at odds with quite a lot of modern science.
The molecular phylogenies have been another nail in the coffin for creationism. If creationism had been true we would have not seen reconcilable nested hierarchies with different traces. With advances in genomics, we can even identify and account for lateral transfer of genes falisiably.
Even diversification within 'created kinds' would require the same sort of changes one would need for macroevolution, which hurts their arguments against evolutionary mechanics.
At least you didn't spout off something about irreducibly complex flagella... that one used to be quite popular despite being instantly put in its place.
It may depend on who you get to talk to over there, as I've had positive experiences and most people seem to, while at the same time there are stories like yours about. I expect this is the same everywhere, with the important aspect being the ratio of good to bad.
An RMA for a motherboard that went bad on me was entirely painless, for example.
For a less straightforward situation, I ordered a video card, some RAM, and processor not too long ago and when I loaded up their webpage that same day later on to see if my things had shipped (they had) I noticed that they had lowered the prices on all three items and all had also been changed to either free shipping or less than they had been listed at when I placed my order.
I sent them an email explaining that the change in price and shipping cost had occured later on the same day as I placed my order, and requested that they refund the difference. They did without me needing to complain and sent me a cordial email in response.
AIDS specifically destroys the immune cells that assist in clearing viruses. An extraterrestrial disease vector would almost have to be cellular, since viruses are very specific to receptors on target cells. Many viruses are only capable of infecting specific sorts of cells in your body, for example.
Such a cellular disease, like a bacterial or protozoan infection, would be dangerous only if it killed you faster than your immune system could react. It wouldn't have the specialized defenses against immune systems like our own, which diseases here on earth use to cause trouble.
A lot of theists believe that evolution is the creative method of God.
The Young Earth Creationists reject this because evolution requires suffering and death of competing life forms, and their doctrine holds that there was no death before the fall of man.
The debates between YECs and Theistic Evolutionists over Biblical interpretation can be as high tempered as a campus preacher and some atheists.
Sure, but you get a different common ancestor depending on what gene cluster you pick, which is to be expected.
It is an easy thing to misunderstand genetics and think that, say, Mitochondrial Eve could have been Eve of the Bible, but thinking so would betray a lack of understanding about what these mathematical common ancestors mean.
Mathematically you can back-calculate that since you have two parents, and 4 grandparents and so on, that pretty soon you'd outnumber the past population, meaning everyone is inter-related. Picking different genes you can find out how long ago the common ancestor for that gene was, but it does not tell you that the common ancestor was the only human at that time.
You and your siblings share common ancestry through your parents, but there are plenty of the rest of us around.
Well, yes, they are currently enjoying the benefits of modern warfare, as he explained already. Older methods would have probably involved razing the entire place.
If you read over at nforcershq.com, their nVidia sources claim that lake of interest by the Taiwanese mobo manufacturers in Soundstorm is the reason it has been discontinued. Apparently the sound team has been disbanded and moved onto other projects. I agree that it is a shame.
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Sure, it's a bit dry compared to, say, Herodotus, what with all the lineages, but the New Testament isn't too bad, if lacking in some of the fun Greco-Roman god style smiting that you get in the Old Testament. I've been meaning to get around to reading some of the Bhagavad Gita but haven't so far. Any other religious texts you'd recommend?
Gaia, the Earth, was birthed of Chaos, if I recall correctly. No one made out her dimensions, save perhaps herself. That covers most of all that up through 11.
Most of the animal's traits were given out by Epimetheus, who forgot to leave any for Man, so Prometheus helped them out and gave them fire. He wasn't crucified, but he was bound to a rock by chains and an eagle tore out his entrails every day for quite some time.
Zeus and Poseidon handle most of the weather effects mentioned.
That's a summary of a few of my favorite myths, anyway. Thanks for sharing yours.
You're thinking of the new dollar coin, the older silver colored ones with Susan on them are fairly easy to confuse with quarters superficially.
You're sidestepping the issue. The concern isn't about prohibiting collection of DNA, it is about concern over archiving DNA samples of the innocent.
It is probably less of a security concern to use satellite, since it is beyond most people's means to pirate a satellite signal, whereas sneaking into official torrents of movies would be far easier.
I don't know about elementary schools, but in high school when we started learning to use graphing calculators, we used TI models that have BASIC for writing your own programs. It was easy enough for me to teach myself, and many of my friends also benefitted from a much more streamlined way of going about doing classwork.
I know they made an attachment that sat on an overhead projector to display the calculator's screen, so that might be useful for demonstrating programming, too. If the elementary doesn't have any, perhaps the local high school does.
I would expect that initially things will be like Quake 2 where you could choose between hardware rendering in OpenGL or software rendering using your processor. Then eventually games will require PPUs like they require GPUs now.
Well, they're either inherent OR they're granted; both at the same time would be semantically messy.
You can still use the middle mouse click to bring up the autoscroller like you mention.
Having the autoscroller, the Cruise Control buttons, and the wheel is something I find quite handy on my MX510. It allows faster imprecise scrolling of varying degrees while still giving you a wheel for more precise slow scrolling.
That is S-Video and Composite, but not Component output. Thanks for the link, though; I'll keep it in mind if I give up on looking for inexpensive way to get component to the TV.
Where did you find a VGA to Video converter for that price? The ones I've seen around are around $199, and its been holding me back from putting a HTPC together...
That phrase reminded me of Fight Club where Jack is trying to decide what sort of coffee table defines him as a person.
A lot of that is explained in the miniseries that preceeds the first episode of the season. That's why it seems straightforward to those of us that saw the miniseries, and not straightforward to you.
The rest not covered by your discription are mostly 64 bit NX problems, from the looks of things.
There has never been a definition for information provided by creationists that cannot be demonstrated to arise via naturalistic evolution.
The Myxococcus evolved novel fibrils to facilitate cooperative behavior when the gene for the standard pilus used in the wild type species was deleted.
This would require not only generating novel fibril structures, but tying them into the existing pathways used for behavior and quorum sensing.
The nested hierarchies are molecular phylogenies. It is the same principle used in paternity testing. The place of bats using traditional phylogeny was difficult, sure, but you're ignoring the molecular phylogenies. Descent need not be guesswork based solely upon phenotype.
The reason that we would not expect nested hierarchies of the type we see under an ex nihilo creation model is that we see the same hierarchies from different targets, such as the ribosome or cytochrome. These would not be expected to nest together if common descent were not true. Instead of a tree of life, we'd expect an orchard if creation ex nihilo was true.
Since the DNA code is degenerate, you can have a completely different sequence code for the same protein. Positing that a creator would use the same sequence, with the amount of drift expected naturalistically, between the species also poses philosophical problems along the lines that Descartes tried to solve.
The 'no new information' argument will continue to be teethless until the creationists come up with a definition that hasn't already been shown to arise naturalistically. We've had several discussions on this at TheologyWeb in the past year.
That would prevent cross polination problems, although it certainly is an inconvenience for the farmers.
The type III secretion system uses many of the same parts as a flagellum.
You should note that the type III ss is probably derived from the flagellum and not its progenitor, but it nicely shows that the flagellum is not irreducibly complex in any way that precludes evolutionary pathways since it is more or less a flagellum without all of its parts that still is beneficial.
Just as a 'half evolved' eye can be a useful light sensing spot, a 'half evolved' flagellum could be quite useful to a microorganism, so a stepwise indirect pathway is capable of generating what would be irreducibly complex.
In general, TalkOrigins.org is a good resource. They have a sister site TalkDesign.org, but I am not as familiar with it. Most of my knowledge of the Type III ss comes from coursework.
If you have access to Nature, the article "Evolution of novel cooperative swarming in the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus" is an easily accessible article showing how evolution can yield new characteristics.
Ring species, like with the finches, have been studied extensively with Salamanders as others have mentioned.
Sarfati frequently makes errors in biology, his PhD is in Chemistry, specifically in semiconductors.
For example, the first bullet point under Scientific Issues in his article is oversimplified. The genetic code is not entirely universal, but the divergences are in a nested hierarchy supporting common descent. This can be verified using your molecular phylogeny of choice.
I'd read AiG's statement of faith before I started looking for anything objective there. They're fideistic young earth creationists, which puts them at odds with quite a lot of modern science.
The molecular phylogenies have been another nail in the coffin for creationism. If creationism had been true we would have not seen reconcilable nested hierarchies with different traces. With advances in genomics, we can even identify and account for lateral transfer of genes falisiably.
Even diversification within 'created kinds' would require the same sort of changes one would need for macroevolution, which hurts their arguments against evolutionary mechanics.
At least you didn't spout off something about irreducibly complex flagella... that one used to be quite popular despite being instantly put in its place.
It may depend on who you get to talk to over there, as I've had positive experiences and most people seem to, while at the same time there are stories like yours about. I expect this is the same everywhere, with the important aspect being the ratio of good to bad. An RMA for a motherboard that went bad on me was entirely painless, for example. For a less straightforward situation, I ordered a video card, some RAM, and processor not too long ago and when I loaded up their webpage that same day later on to see if my things had shipped (they had) I noticed that they had lowered the prices on all three items and all had also been changed to either free shipping or less than they had been listed at when I placed my order. I sent them an email explaining that the change in price and shipping cost had occured later on the same day as I placed my order, and requested that they refund the difference. They did without me needing to complain and sent me a cordial email in response.
AIDS specifically destroys the immune cells that assist in clearing viruses. An extraterrestrial disease vector would almost have to be cellular, since viruses are very specific to receptors on target cells. Many viruses are only capable of infecting specific sorts of cells in your body, for example.
Such a cellular disease, like a bacterial or protozoan infection, would be dangerous only if it killed you faster than your immune system could react. It wouldn't have the specialized defenses against immune systems like our own, which diseases here on earth use to cause trouble.
I'm sure we could find many examples for any arbitrary time span.
What do you think happens once we start looking into highly conserved regions like ribosomal RNA?
A lot of theists believe that evolution is the creative method of God.
The Young Earth Creationists reject this because evolution requires suffering and death of competing life forms, and their doctrine holds that there was no death before the fall of man.
The debates between YECs and Theistic Evolutionists over Biblical interpretation can be as high tempered as a campus preacher and some atheists.
Sure, but you get a different common ancestor depending on what gene cluster you pick, which is to be expected.
It is an easy thing to misunderstand genetics and think that, say, Mitochondrial Eve could have been Eve of the Bible, but thinking so would betray a lack of understanding about what these mathematical common ancestors mean.
Mathematically you can back-calculate that since you have two parents, and 4 grandparents and so on, that pretty soon you'd outnumber the past population, meaning everyone is inter-related. Picking different genes you can find out how long ago the common ancestor for that gene was, but it does not tell you that the common ancestor was the only human at that time.
You and your siblings share common ancestry through your parents, but there are plenty of the rest of us around.
Well, yes, they are currently enjoying the benefits of modern warfare, as he explained already. Older methods would have probably involved razing the entire place.
If you read over at nforcershq.com, their nVidia sources claim that lake of interest by the Taiwanese mobo manufacturers in Soundstorm is the reason it has been discontinued. Apparently the sound team has been disbanded and moved onto other projects. I agree that it is a shame.