Your opinion no matter how ignorant is still your opinion, and therefore has value. Also, since you actually posted using your account rather than hiding behind AC status more the kudos to you.
The problem is that creationism is pseudo-science
The people that try to claim that the earth is young and claim that is provable now, either are lying, are ignorant or couldn't pass a decent set of college science and math classes such as calculus, statistics, geology and second-year chemistry,
Creation based science is still science just like evolution based science is still science. I for one would argue a young earth and creation and most likely I have a far greater science background than you (based on statistics not you personally, you could hold 17 post grad degrees for all I know) In my own case I have done grad work in both physics and chemistry (specifically ceramics and materials sciences with specific research in to the laminar flow of water at high pressures (30,000+ PSI typically 60 - 100k PSI though) I have S Levels in both Physics and Chemistry (for those of you who know what that means) A levels in Biology and Mathematics (both Pure and Applied) and so on and so forth (all this rambling just means that 1) I am most definitely able to pass decent classes in uni and am in fact qualified to teach many of them also) I certainly could point out as many fallacies/issues with old earth studies and evolution as you could conceive of with creationism.
For one, one does not read a book intended for spiritual enlightenment as a history book
As for you seeming implication that the Bible (not stated merely implied) is a book for spiritual enlightenment, I am sorry you feel that way you could of course try actually doing a critical read of it, and if you so wanted to I would gladly go through things verse by verse (I am not an expert but I am certainly willing to discuss it)
there are at least two accounts in the Hebrew Torah. Both are conflicting accounts, if you take them literally.
As for your comments about the creation accounts I see no disparity between them there is a certain set of granularity that has to be taken into account but that is the case whenever you have 2 accounts of the same event written for different purposes.
I personally believe it is far more likely and logical that this is a point for Creationism. After all look at the God that designed the monkey with the ability to adapt in such a manner to this illness. Evolution could only be given a point if this trait was passed down to offspring in such a manner that it improved their survivability and ability to breed themselves. Plague responsiveness on a small subset would typically lead to inbreeding if it was a genetic trait and we have all seen what happens when you inbreedmonkeys
edit:: my mistake I meant to add a closing quote on the first link so as to say Orrin Hatch and his croneys AND Kerry / Edwards were inbred monkeys I could have sworn I was clicking on the preview button.. oh well editing ones own posts sure would be nice....
I personally believe it is far more likely and logical that this is a point for Creationism. After all look at the God that designed the monkey with the ability to adapt in such a manner to this illness. Evolution could only be given a point if this trait was passed down to offspring in such a manner that it improved their survivability and ability to breed themselves. Plague responsiveness on a small subset would typically lead to inbreeding if it was a genetic trait and we have all seen what happens when you inbreed monkeys
1) Call me Quixote 2) you basically prove my point about legislating "morality" 3) Enslaved by cats? How could we be enslaved by those most gracious rulers of our world?:)
I disagree with the patches on the universe (I understand that my viewpoint is not one shard by the vast majority of/. readers), but if you notice my original posting I am for the modified BSD rather than GNU. Of course you can submit all the patches on creation that you want so long as they are well documented and show the bug they are patching...:)
Or one can rightly believe that the universe was created in an orderly fashion and for a good reason, and that one of the reasons it was done so is so we could recognise its order and thus see the creator. God hasn't hidden things from us to make the universe closed as some mystic religions would claim, in fact He gave us the minds, tools and desire to discover it.
I don't really understand why RMS wanting something to be "free" and open is news. RMS wants the doors to the building he works in to be free and open (literally, it was posted/. but I am not going to take the time to look it up.) If RMS was a creationist he would argue with God that creation should be open and free (anyone should be able to create the universe but if you do use his model you have to release the source code).
Note I personally prefer the modified BSD license and think GNU is trying to mandate "morality".
"exclusivity agreement with Apple prevents them from releasing Linux for the Nvidia 6800 Ultra DDL Graphics Card."
I mean I personally have linuc running on enough devices as it is now if they wanted to post netbsd to the card that would be different. Oh wait, did you mean to say that it prevents them from releasing linux drivers for the card? Or, did you really want to run linux on the card itself?
I have often thought of doing somethng similar to this myself and to be honest I have my eye on a full colour one of these for a while with similar intent.
Depends on what you mean by land I suppose. If there was a sufficiently long sufficiently flat stretch of land (or other surface) directly in front of and at the correct height then yes. I imagine the pilot would eject however w/o actually trying to land the plane.
Theoretically an F-14 could fly with the loss of both its wings (assuming the loss didn't seriously destabilise it) IIRC the body provides somewhere in the range of 26% of the lift I would imagine though I do not know that it is similar for other air craft
The photographer is being silly. Tradition has been to sell the negatives in a situation like yours. Now he doesn't have negatives so there is no issue there but just have them quote it as such and provide a hi res media backup. In fact they should not be able to use the photos for themselves w/o your permission any-ways. Its all in the contract in any case, if tey won;t give you the originals or copy privs shop somewhere else.
Evolution vs Creation is a Faith vs Faith issue or a Science vs Science depending on outlook. To presume otherwise is to make an initial bias which is virtually unrecoverable.
Take a look again the 150 mrem comment is made in a later paragraph where he questions how much he really got. to quote the article
One question, if anyone out there can help: during the shots, we wore film badges and direct reading dosimeters. However, as our backs were turned at the time of the shot, the badges and DRDs were shielded by our bodies, the equivalent of 8-10" of water. This may have affected the absolute readings of the badges, as I only received 150 mrem according to my military records. I'm not talking about fallout or contamination, I'm talking about the prompt gamma and neutrons released at the time of detonation.
And this makes them any less valuable because? The skin cells I shed are dead and were only a temporary part of my being. Designed, implemented and affected to live for some amount of time die and be removed. This is very much different from a child who needs to move 6 inches to be given actual legal rights in this country.
I dunno FroMan, the whole idea of a child being a lump of tissue so lets scrape it out / chop it up etc is pretty darned vile to begin with if you ask me. Anything that encourages people to not slaughter their children is pretty good in my book so on that we also agree.
Whoa! its not all tritium. According to these lecture notes from the University of Washington's Oceanographic Institute and estimate there was only 3.5 Kg of the stuff in existence before nuclear testing. Nowadays there is only about 200 Kg of the stuff on the planet. Remember tritium concentrations are not measured in PPM (Parts Per Million), PPB (Parts Per Billion) or even PPT (Parts Per Trillion) but rather TUs (Tritium Units) which is something like 10^-18 or something silly like that
I was trying to find the article to back up my statement, however I cant seem to find it. My understanding then, is that dvi-> vga uses more power than vga -> vga so power wise it is cheaper to add a vga -> dvi connector than to run dvi -> vga. I could of course be way off the mark and it may just be a cash issue as 15 pin vga d-subs are cheaper than dvi...
I thought it was on one of the embedded lists I read, I will check there after some sleep.
Would you rather he be hosted in Maryland? Then there would be no issue right? Fact is, he is not abusing his position with this when he certainly could be and then you would never know.
(for those who know Ft. Meade is what I am referring to. If you don't get it , don't worry about it.)
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I personally believe it is far more likely and logical that this is a point for Creationism. After all look at the God that designed the monkey with the ability to adapt in such a manner to this illness. Evolution could only be given a point if this trait was passed down to offspring in such a manner that it improved their survivability and ability to breed themselves. Plague responsiveness on a small subset would typically lead to inbreeding if it was a genetic trait and we have all seen what happens when you inbreed monkeys
:: my mistake I meant to add a closing quote on the first link so as to say Orrin Hatch and his croneys AND Kerry / Edwards were inbred monkeys I could have sworn I was clicking on the preview button .. oh well editing ones own posts sure would be nice ....
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I personally believe it is far more likely and logical that this is a point for Creationism. After all look at the God that designed the monkey with the ability to adapt in such a manner to this illness. Evolution could only be given a point if this trait was passed down to offspring in such a manner that it improved their survivability and ability to breed themselves. Plague responsiveness on a small subset would typically lead to inbreeding if it was a genetic trait and we have all seen what happens when you inbreed monkeys
1) Call me Quixote :)
2) you basically prove my point about legislating "morality"
3) Enslaved by cats? How could we be enslaved by those most gracious rulers of our world?
I disagree with the patches on the universe (I understand that my viewpoint is not one shard by the vast majority of /. readers), but if you notice my original posting I am for the modified BSD rather than GNU. Of course you can submit all the patches on creation that you want so long as they are well documented and show the bug they are patching ... :)
Or one can rightly believe that the universe was created in an orderly fashion and for a good reason, and that one of the reasons it was done so is so we could recognise its order and thus see the creator. God hasn't hidden things from us to make the universe closed as some mystic religions would claim, in fact He gave us the minds, tools and desire to discover it.
I don't really understand why RMS wanting something to be "free" and open is news. RMS wants the doors to the building he works in to be free and open (literally, it was posted /. but I am not going to take the time to look it up.) If RMS was a creationist he would argue with God that creation should be open and free (anyone should be able to create the universe but if you do use his model you have to release the source code).
Note I personally prefer the modified BSD license and think GNU is trying to mandate "morality".
Dvorack always make me think of that candy commericial parody "sometimes you sound like a nut... most times you are one."
I have often thought of doing somethng similar to this myself and to be honest I have my eye on a full colour one of these for a while with similar intent.
Depends on what you mean by land I suppose. If there was a sufficiently long sufficiently flat stretch of land (or other surface) directly in front of and at the correct height then yes. I imagine the pilot would eject however w/o actually trying to land the plane.
Theoretically an F-14 could fly with the loss of both its wings (assuming the loss didn't seriously destabilise it) IIRC the body provides somewhere in the range of 26% of the lift I would imagine though I do not know that it is similar for other air craft
The photographer is being silly. Tradition has been to sell the negatives in a situation like yours. Now he doesn't have negatives so there is no issue there but just have them quote it as such and provide a hi res media backup. In fact they should not be able to use the photos for themselves w/o your permission any-ways. Its all in the contract in any case, if tey won;t give you the originals or copy privs shop somewhere else.
Evolution vs Creation is a Faith vs Faith issue or a Science vs Science depending on outlook. To presume otherwise is to make an initial bias which is virtually unrecoverable.
Yeah, to bad the researcher who would have solved it died before s/he could leave the birth canal. And all for the cake of convenience.
And this makes them any less valuable because?
The skin cells I shed are dead and were only a temporary part of my being. Designed, implemented and affected to live for some amount of time die and be removed. This is very much different from a child who needs to move 6 inches to be given actual legal rights in this country.
Life is life. People are people. I personally was a bit upset when I found out I had 12 brothers and sisters sitting around frozen.
I dunno FroMan, the whole idea of a child being a lump of tissue so lets scrape it out / chop it up etc is pretty darned vile to begin with if you ask me. Anything that encourages people to not slaughter their children is pretty good in my book so on that we also agree.
Email me at my listed address and I will send you the address where you can send the shovel.
You realise that 200Kg of anything spread out to 10^-18 is going to be a lot of mass in total right but still only 200Kg of the actual substance.
Whoa! its not all tritium.
According to these lecture notes from the University of Washington's Oceanographic Institute and estimate there was only 3.5 Kg of the stuff in existence before nuclear testing. Nowadays there is only about 200 Kg of the stuff on the planet. Remember tritium concentrations are not measured in PPM (Parts Per Million), PPB (Parts Per Billion) or even PPT (Parts Per Trillion) but rather TUs (Tritium Units) which is something like 10^-18 or something silly like that
I was trying to find the article to back up my statement, however I cant seem to find it. My understanding then, is that dvi-> vga uses more power than vga -> vga so power wise it is cheaper to add a vga -> dvi connector than to run dvi -> vga. I could of course be way off the mark and it may just be a cash issue as 15 pin vga d-subs are cheaper than dvi ...
I thought it was on one of the embedded lists I read, I will check there after some sleep.
Would you rather he be hosted in Maryland? Then there would be no issue right? Fact is, he is not abusing his position with this when he certainly could be and then you would never know.
(for those who know Ft. Meade is what I am referring to. If you don't get it , don't worry about it.)