Well not really, but I would consider going back to dial-up. DSL is sort of expensive in my area (Both when I live in Austin, and now in Houston). And cable modem requires you to buy cable. I dont mind shedding $40 for cable modem, but then I have to buy cable for $20-30 extra, costing total almost the same as DSL. Of course depending on your lifestyle, but for me, I just dont watch much TV. I dont want to spend more money on cable just to have the internet. I can get $10 dial-up monthly. Compare that with the $50 - $80 I could be paying for cable modem or DSL!
As for the second phone-line, I dont plan on using the internet much. Having broadband currently, I know I end up spending a lot of time on the internet. Almost too much time! (One reason I dont watch TV) But I think I can spend my time better than surfing on the web all day. It can be addictive. I could read a book, learn a skill, or even go outside. I dont need a second phone line so I can spend my life in a virtual world.
Why do I still have broadband? Because I do live in a virtual world =) My work IS the Internet, and so I need broadband at home for when I need to work from home. But I would consider cutting my internet broadband if I was to work in a different field.
Sure it's correct, but it depends on what your definition of simple is. There are countless examples of when the complicated answer is the right answer to explain something. But either it is actually simple according to someone else's perspective, or we have a contradiction to Occam's Razor. Oh, indeed it is a razor.
I dont believe the existence of aliens would contradict the Bible. Just because the Bible doesnt mention other life forms doesnt mean God couldnt have create other life forms on other planet, even intelligent life forms. I do believe we are His only creations that are created in His "image," and so we are indeed the only ones in this universe. However, I am open to the idea that He could have created others.
What would be interesting though is that if we indeed have contact with other life forms someday, and they have the same religion we do. That is, their god is the same god that created us, and he spoke to them the same message he gave to us. Wouldnt that be interesting to have two totally different aliens culture, but the same message from their creator. Of course, specifically I am talking about the message of Christ in the Bible, but theoretically, the argument of the same god between the two life forms can apply to other faiths. Note, I am not saying all faiths are the same.
On another note, about Occam's Razor, evolution, I dont think, is the simplest answer. Evolution IS NOT a fact, but still theory, and takes just as much faith to believe in it as any other faiths with validity. Science can only explain what it observes, and not the supernatural, so that is why it can not accept creation, because it cant be observe. But that doesnt mean it cant happen.
Back to Occam's Razor, which is simpler to believe in? That there was a Big Bang, galaxy evolves, planet earth formed, life spontaneously existed, we evolved through millions of years from one cell amoebas through complicated formulas and lots of random chance....or to say a Creator just created us?
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Well not really, but I would consider going back to dial-up. DSL is sort of expensive in my area (Both when I live in Austin, and now in Houston). And cable modem requires you to buy cable. I dont mind shedding $40 for cable modem, but then I have to buy cable for $20-30 extra, costing total almost the same as DSL. Of course depending on your lifestyle, but for me, I just dont watch much TV. I dont want to spend more money on cable just to have the internet.
I can get $10 dial-up monthly. Compare that with the $50 - $80 I could be paying for cable modem or DSL!
As for the second phone-line, I dont plan on using the internet much. Having broadband currently, I know I end up spending a lot of time on the internet. Almost too much time! (One reason I dont watch TV) But I think I can spend my time better than surfing on the web all day. It can be addictive. I could read a book, learn a skill, or even go outside. I dont need a second phone line so I can spend my life in a virtual world.
Why do I still have broadband? Because I do live in a virtual world =) My work IS the Internet, and so I need broadband at home for when I need to work from home. But I would consider cutting my internet broadband if I was to work in a different field.
Sure it's correct, but it depends on what your definition of simple is. There are countless examples of when the complicated answer is the right answer to explain something. But either it is actually simple according to someone else's perspective, or we have a contradiction to Occam's Razor. Oh, indeed it is a razor.
I dont believe the existence of aliens would contradict the Bible. Just because the Bible doesnt mention other life forms doesnt mean God couldnt have create other life forms on other planet, even intelligent life forms. I do believe we are His only creations that are created in His "image," and so we are indeed the only ones in this universe. However, I am open to the idea that He could have created others.
What would be interesting though is that if we indeed have contact with other life forms someday, and they have the same religion we do. That is, their god is the same god that created us, and he spoke to them the same message he gave to us. Wouldnt that be interesting to have two totally different aliens culture, but the same message from their creator. Of course, specifically I am talking about the message of Christ in the Bible, but theoretically, the argument of the same god between the two life forms can apply to other faiths. Note, I am not saying all faiths are the same.
On another note, about Occam's Razor, evolution, I dont think, is the simplest answer. Evolution IS NOT a fact, but still theory, and takes just as much faith to believe in it as any other faiths with validity. Science can only explain what it observes, and not the supernatural, so that is why it can not accept creation, because it cant be observe. But that doesnt mean it cant happen.
Back to Occam's Razor, which is simpler to believe in? That there was a Big Bang, galaxy evolves, planet earth formed, life spontaneously existed, we evolved through millions of years from one cell amoebas through complicated formulas and lots of random chance....or to say a Creator just created us?