I don't have to explain anything. I only have to point out that the theory of evolution isn't explaining anything either. Both are matters of faith.
And I haven't stopped asking questions. I am only questioning that evolution is a viable explanation. The atheist's position that "it must be, because we reject any alternative explanation" is not science, it's religion. The agnostic's position that "God may exist but I don't that he does, so I rule that out" is also not science, because it excludes a possible explanation without justification.
Evolutionists want to claim their theory is "settled science". It's not. It's not even a testable theory. That makes it dogma.
As an engineer and computer scientist, I can tell you that there will always be mysteries to understand, and to which the scientific method can be applied. But the mystery of the origin of life has, so far, resisted that method. In fact, we are getting further from a satisfactory materialistic explanation all the time. When cells were considered simple blobs of jelly, the complexity of life was barely conceivable as deriving from evolution. When DNA was discovered, and the existence of multiple digitally-encoded databases and programmed machines (my field) became apparent, the complexity was overwhelming for evolutionists. Epigentics -- the mathematical layering of information streams in DNA -- is completely unexplainable through evolution.
Atheists want to preclude the existence of God, as a prerequisite to the scientific method. But science is failing to explain the origin of life, and it's failing harder as time passes.
Are you trying to claim that life was created like watches are and although seemingly endlessly complex, all we have to do is understand the same physics the creator used?
No, I'm saying that the theory of evolution is being called upon to explain increasingly complex layers of life's intricacies that are more simply explained by the existence of a creator.
"One of the great puzzles of timepieces is how the clockwork machinery is so finely coordinated. Even the simplest wristwatches are complex three dimensional assemblies in which a dazzling array of gears, springs, bearings and escapements spin, oscillate, tick and tock in a dance of extraordinarily detailed complexity. Indeed, it is hard to imagine how the ordinary processes of Newtonian mechanics allow this complexity to self-emerge from random bits of metal, glass and stone given the losses that arise in much simpler machines."
These rules have such unbelievable broad statements as:
"Accessibility and usability must be assessed for individual products and services. Accessibility features that can be incorporated into the design of products or services with very little or no difficulty or expense must be put in each and every product or service."
"...require network architecture to be designed in a way that does not hinder access by people with disabilities. Network architecture covers the public switched telephone network, and includes hardware or software databases associated with routing telecommunications services."
"Telecommunications service providers and equipment manufacturers must provide the FCC with the name and contact information of the person (or persons) in their companies who are authorized to resolve accessibility complaints."
"Each common carrier providing telephone voice transmission services shall, not later than 3 years after July 26, 1990, provide in compliance with the regulations prescribed under this section, throughout the area in which it offers service, telecommunications relay services"
"The term "telecommunications relay services" means telephone transmission services that provide the ability for an individual who has a hearing impairment or speech impairment to engage in communication by wire or radio with a hearing individual in a manner that is functionally equivalent to the ability of an individual who does not have a hearing impairment or speech impairment to communicate using voice communication services by wire or radio. Such term includes services that enable two-way communication between an individual who uses a TDD or other nonvoice terminal device and an individual who does not use such a device."
Many news stories have been published about how ADA was exploited by scammers to extort money out of bricks-and-mortar businesses. Now these scams are coming to the ISP biz.
damn lazy people. Took me 2 seconds.... It absolutely kills me that there are so many people raging at each other when no one has read the damn thing. I don't support the current situation because NO ONE HAS READ IT.
WebCrapper, to prove your assertion that we are all lazy, unlike industrious you, please post a link to the actual Order.
Nobody has read it because nobody can. Which I guess means you haven't read it either.
The FCC has constructively gagged the order, by simply not releasing it. This is contrary to normal NPRM processes, where new orders are disclosed in advance and open to public discussion. Here is the response I got from the FCC:
On Feb 27, 2015, at 11:08 AM, Will Wiquist
wrote:
Good afternoon,
Thank you for writing. The Order will be released to the public on the FCC website as soon as possible, following final edits, which will likely take a few weeks. The order is then sent to the Federal Register. This is the typical process for a final rule and order passed by the Commission. If you are reporting on this, you can attribute that statement to an FCC spokesperson.
Very best regards,
Will Wiquist
Deputy Press Secretary
Federal Communications Commission
David Berlinski does some very useful math, and he doesn't need to know the sequence of events. He only needs to know that the proposed mechanism is beneficial mutations. His quite lucid illustration shows that the age of the univers is not remotely old enough to accomplish any constructive evolution, and that it's virtually impossible to make any forward progress with increasing complexity owing to the much higher probability of destructive mutations. This applies to chemical synthesis as well as to the never-observed increase in complexity of living things. All observed mutations create a less-complex outcome.
Who said anything about a creation myth? Only you. The validity of abiogenesis has nothing to do with any other theories, it either stands on its own evidence, or it doesn't. Given that there is zero evidence that billions of years accomplishes anything, this is what I would call a "hard vacuum" theory: it has no substance.
There in no basis for assuming that these conditions would ever occur. It's not statistics, it's wishful thinking. But thanks for pointing out the reason abiogenesists demand an incalculable (and unreproducible) time span of billions of years for their theories to work. An interesting treatise on the mathematics of abiogenesis is atheist David Berlinski's talk "Problems with Evolution."
The experiment was discredited by numerous researchers for (a) being a tautology and (b) excluding data that argued against its conclusions that spontaneous generation of life is indicated. It is tautological because Urey-Miller chose atmospheric composition that provided just the elements necessary to obtain amino acids when no empirical evidence of early atmosphere existed (nor exists today -- it's all conjecture until we perfect the time machine). It excluded contradictory data by ignoring the fact that the generated "precursors" required a tightly controlled environment and the intellect and technical skill of dedicated experts throughout the process.
Finally, the "precursors" themselves are such a minor part of the processes of life as to be inconsequential. It's like finding a sheen of dust on a rock and claiming that the Empire State Building arose spontaneously from just such dust, complete with working elevators and tenant invoicing.
Researches proved that carefully selected precursor chemical compounds, placed on a cold substrate in a chamber with space-like conditions, irradiated with high-energy ultraviolet photons, and surrounded continuously by doting scientists and elaborate test apparatus, produces these essential ingredients of life.
Because the logically equivalent Urey-Miller apparatus was discredited decades ago, so should this sideshow be.
I've worked on a lot of software projects that delivered the original specified product on time. Sometimes the target changes, and the stakeholders need to be willing to give developers the extra time they request to meet the new objectives. Too often I hear, usually from upper managers, "We are still shipping on schedule. Tell the developers to work harder." Of course, that's not realistic, and the result is a predictable "failure to deliver." Alas, the developers get blamed, when it's really management's fault.
On the flip side we have so-called "agile" development teams who simply define a deliverable as whatever they've completed on delivery day. These developers rarely tell management until the 11th hour that what they're going to deliver is below spec. Agile development has its strengths, but this aspect is a giant weakness. The solution is not to eliminate schedules. It's to adapt them to changing conditions and be proactive about slippages.
The law never even mentions the words "password" or "login". The schools are lying when they say this law requires students to divulge passwords on administration demand. No person can ever be forced to reveal incriminating information, under the fifth amendment, and the SCOTUS has already notes that his applies to passwords.
1. While fixed-frequency laser pens are popular now, tunable dye lasers can operate at any wavelength. They're widely available on the surplus market from medical devices, and you can readily buy larger laser modules of hundreds of miliwatts. And even pen lasers now operate in shades of yellow, purple, blue and orange, in addition to green and red. Filters must be tuned to a small wavelength range, and each color range would require several filter layers. Blocking all would result in opacity.
Filtering is not an option. If we don't want to see wholesale banning of laser sales, we'd better get started with education.
2. Eyes of both pilots and drivers have been damaged many times. Laser exposure to the rest of the public is already part of the problem.
Naval Lt. Cmdr. Jack Daly and Canadian helicopter pilot Capt. Pat Barnes suffered eye injuries hours after an aerial surveillance mission to photograph a Russian merchant ship that had been shadowing the ballistic-missile submarine USS Ohio in Washington state’s Strait of Juan de Fuca.
The Navy recently turned down an appeal from the Defense Department inspector general to award Cmdr. Daly a Purple Heart for the incident. Cmdr. Daly, who retired from the service last year, continues to suffer eye pain and deteriorating vision.
There are many reports of SERIOUS, career-ending eye damage to pilots due to lasers. Here's just one, why not google your heart out until you're convinced the threat is real.
http://www.washingtontimes.com...
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I don't have to explain anything. I only have to point out that the theory of evolution isn't explaining anything either. Both are matters of faith.
And I haven't stopped asking questions. I am only questioning that evolution is a viable explanation. The atheist's position that "it must be, because we reject any alternative explanation" is not science, it's religion. The agnostic's position that "God may exist but I don't that he does, so I rule that out" is also not science, because it excludes a possible explanation without justification.
Evolutionists want to claim their theory is "settled science". It's not. It's not even a testable theory. That makes it dogma.
As an engineer and computer scientist, I can tell you that there will always be mysteries to understand, and to which the scientific method can be applied. But the mystery of the origin of life has, so far, resisted that method. In fact, we are getting further from a satisfactory materialistic explanation all the time. When cells were considered simple blobs of jelly, the complexity of life was barely conceivable as deriving from evolution. When DNA was discovered, and the existence of multiple digitally-encoded databases and programmed machines (my field) became apparent, the complexity was overwhelming for evolutionists. Epigentics -- the mathematical layering of information streams in DNA -- is completely unexplainable through evolution.
Atheists want to preclude the existence of God, as a prerequisite to the scientific method. But science is failing to explain the origin of life, and it's failing harder as time passes.
Or acknowledge His infinite nature.
Are you trying to claim that life was created like watches are and although seemingly endlessly complex, all we have to do is understand the same physics the creator used?
No, I'm saying that the theory of evolution is being called upon to explain increasingly complex layers of life's intricacies that are more simply explained by the existence of a creator.
"One of the great puzzles of timepieces is how the clockwork machinery is so finely coordinated. Even the simplest wristwatches are complex three dimensional assemblies in which a dazzling array of gears, springs, bearings and escapements spin, oscillate, tick and tock in a dance of extraordinarily detailed complexity. Indeed, it is hard to imagine how the ordinary processes of Newtonian mechanics allow this complexity to self-emerge from random bits of metal, glass and stone given the losses that arise in much simpler machines."
Section 255 of Title II applies to Internet providers now, as does section 225 of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA):
http://www.fcc.gov/guides/tele...
http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedi...
These rules have such unbelievable broad statements as:
"Accessibility and usability must be assessed for individual products and services. Accessibility features that can be incorporated into the design of products or services with very little or no difficulty or expense must be put in each and every product or service."
"...require network architecture to be designed in a way that does not hinder access by people with disabilities. Network architecture covers the public switched telephone network, and includes hardware or software databases associated with routing telecommunications services."
"Telecommunications service providers and equipment manufacturers must provide the FCC with the name and contact information of the person (or persons) in their companies who are authorized to resolve accessibility complaints."
"Each common carrier providing telephone voice transmission services shall, not later than 3 years after July 26, 1990, provide in compliance with the regulations prescribed under this section, throughout the area in which it offers service, telecommunications relay services"
"The term "telecommunications relay services" means telephone transmission services that provide the ability for an individual who has a hearing impairment or speech impairment to engage in communication by wire or radio with a hearing individual in a manner that is functionally equivalent to the ability of an individual who does not have a hearing impairment or speech impairment to communicate using voice communication services by wire or radio. Such term includes services that enable two-way communication between an individual who uses a TDD or other nonvoice terminal device and an individual who does not use such a device."
Many news stories have been published about how ADA was exploited by scammers to extort money out of bricks-and-mortar businesses. Now these scams are coming to the ISP biz.
http://www.adaabuse.com/
http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...
damn lazy people. Took me 2 seconds. ... It absolutely kills me that there are so many people raging at each other when no one has read the damn thing. I don't support the current situation because NO ONE HAS READ IT.
WebCrapper, to prove your assertion that we are all lazy, unlike industrious you, please post a link to the actual Order.
Nobody has read it because nobody can. Which I guess means you haven't read it either.
On Feb 27, 2015, at 11:08 AM, Will Wiquist wrote:
Good afternoon,
Thank you for writing. The Order will be released to the public on the FCC website as soon as possible, following final edits, which will likely take a few weeks. The order is then sent to the Federal Register. This is the typical process for a final rule and order passed by the Commission. If you are reporting on this, you can attribute that statement to an FCC spokesperson.
Very best regards,
Will Wiquist
Deputy Press Secretary
Federal Communications Commission
Not not.
Nobody has observed these processes occurring naturally. Only with carefully crafted conditions and aparatus.
David Berlinski does some very useful math, and he doesn't need to know the sequence of events. He only needs to know that the proposed mechanism is beneficial mutations. His quite lucid illustration shows that the age of the univers is not remotely old enough to accomplish any constructive evolution, and that it's virtually impossible to make any forward progress with increasing complexity owing to the much higher probability of destructive mutations. This applies to chemical synthesis as well as to the never-observed increase in complexity of living things. All observed mutations create a less-complex outcome.
The steps that are problematic are the missing ones.
Who said anything about a creation myth? Only you. The validity of abiogenesis has nothing to do with any other theories, it either stands on its own evidence, or it doesn't. Given that there is zero evidence that billions of years accomplishes anything, this is what I would call a "hard vacuum" theory: it has no substance.
There in no basis for assuming that these conditions would ever occur. It's not statistics, it's wishful thinking. But thanks for pointing out the reason abiogenesists demand an incalculable (and unreproducible) time span of billions of years for their theories to work. An interesting treatise on the mathematics of abiogenesis is atheist David Berlinski's talk "Problems with Evolution."
The experiment was discredited by numerous researchers for (a) being a tautology and (b) excluding data that argued against its conclusions that spontaneous generation of life is indicated. It is tautological because Urey-Miller chose atmospheric composition that provided just the elements necessary to obtain amino acids when no empirical evidence of early atmosphere existed (nor exists today -- it's all conjecture until we perfect the time machine). It excluded contradictory data by ignoring the fact that the generated "precursors" required a tightly controlled environment and the intellect and technical skill of dedicated experts throughout the process.
Finally, the "precursors" themselves are such a minor part of the processes of life as to be inconsequential. It's like finding a sheen of dust on a rock and claiming that the Empire State Building arose spontaneously from just such dust, complete with working elevators and tenant invoicing.
The absence of logic is not logic.
The absence of data is not data.
Why, you get the pyramidine from a chemical supply house. So life = wildly conjectured primordial environment + chemical supply house.
Researches proved that carefully selected precursor chemical compounds, placed on a cold substrate in a chamber with space-like conditions, irradiated with high-energy ultraviolet photons, and surrounded continuously by doting scientists and elaborate test apparatus, produces these essential ingredients of life.
Because the logically equivalent Urey-Miller apparatus was discredited decades ago, so should this sideshow be.
I've worked on a lot of software projects that delivered the original specified product on time. Sometimes the target changes, and the stakeholders need to be willing to give developers the extra time they request to meet the new objectives. Too often I hear, usually from upper managers, "We are still shipping on schedule. Tell the developers to work harder." Of course, that's not realistic, and the result is a predictable "failure to deliver." Alas, the developers get blamed, when it's really management's fault.
On the flip side we have so-called "agile" development teams who simply define a deliverable as whatever they've completed on delivery day. These developers rarely tell management until the 11th hour that what they're going to deliver is below spec. Agile development has its strengths, but this aspect is a giant weakness. The solution is not to eliminate schedules. It's to adapt them to changing conditions and be proactive about slippages.
The law never even mentions the words "password" or "login". The schools are lying when they say this law requires students to divulge passwords on administration demand. No person can ever be forced to reveal incriminating information, under the fifth amendment, and the SCOTUS has already notes that his applies to passwords.
Let me get this right: Ryan wasn't detained, but after being interviewed he was "then released."
Perhaps the Finnish language is to blame here, but by this translation he was clearly detained.
1. While fixed-frequency laser pens are popular now, tunable dye lasers can operate at any wavelength. They're widely available on the surplus market from medical devices, and you can readily buy larger laser modules of hundreds of miliwatts. And even pen lasers now operate in shades of yellow, purple, blue and orange, in addition to green and red. Filters must be tuned to a small wavelength range, and each color range would require several filter layers. Blocking all would result in opacity.
Filtering is not an option. If we don't want to see wholesale banning of laser sales, we'd better get started with education.
2. Eyes of both pilots and drivers have been damaged many times. Laser exposure to the rest of the public is already part of the problem.
Naval Lt. Cmdr. Jack Daly and Canadian helicopter pilot Capt. Pat Barnes suffered eye injuries hours after an aerial surveillance mission to photograph a Russian merchant ship that had been shadowing the ballistic-missile submarine USS Ohio in Washington state’s Strait of Juan de Fuca. The Navy recently turned down an appeal from the Defense Department inspector general to award Cmdr. Daly a Purple Heart for the incident. Cmdr. Daly, who retired from the service last year, continues to suffer eye pain and deteriorating vision.
There are many reports of SERIOUS, career-ending eye damage to pilots due to lasers. Here's just one, why not google your heart out until you're convinced the threat is real. http://www.washingtontimes.com...