Unlike other theories that you give examples of, it is not one that is born of ignorance, is not contradicted by facts, and does not require non-science (IE- faith) to find probable or possible.
You think that a forum whose members' favorite TV shows are all about life from other planets wouldn't be open to seeing the possibility that life on this planet came from somewhere else.
Vestigal organs - that's the best argument I can see of DE. Common DNA? That's just as likely to occur when you have a common designer using a working template (like a car platform). But leaving things behind is the sign of a sloppy designer - unless they weren't actually left behind and really do have medical purpose we haven't discovered yet.
This is not an example of actual evolution - there was no change to the gene pool. This is, however, like the industrial era moths, an excellent example of natural selection.
As mentioned in the article, the existence of silent moths was not new - but the circumstances that allowed the to dominant is.
It's a cheap smear to look at Intelligent Design arguments and then try to smear and associates their advocates with Biblical Literalists/Mystics. Thinking little of Darwinian Evolution and having some respect for ID theory is not something off limits to athiests, agnostics, or non-dogmatic spiritualists.
As a matter of probability, as a matter of history, as a matter of precidence, ID is emminantly more probably than a Darwinian Evolution.
Consider probability. Knowing the age of the earth and the probability of evolution to have occured - whether gradually or through the punctuated equalbrium method - is near impossible. To suggest that somehow there is a hand of God guiding evolution despite mathematical improbability is directly contrary to the extreme anti-faith positions of DE's advocates.
Consider history. The more ignorant among followers of DE will try to point to the process of 'natural selection' as evidence of DE and try to confuse the two very theories (though NS is clearly beyond the realm of theory.) There is no record of DE occuring. No observable examples. No fossils or DNA showing actual evidence of evolution occuring.
Consider precidence. As of now, humans have used their own 'intelligent design' to create new species and variations of plants and animals - such as crops that are immune to insects. Here we have a real, witnessed example of ID actually occuring, including all of the mechanisms involved in it. Can you say the same for DE?
What is so very sad is you attempting to smear a valid scientific theory. The same nonesense occured during the enlightenment when someone suggested that the Earth revolved around the sun. But the truth will out.
I would say that DE may have occured, in some fashion - but not on this planet and not in the 10 or so billion years this planet has been in existence. Elsewhere, maybe, over a much, much longer period of time.
No, it doesn't. You can't buy character. Districts that pay the most money have the worse results and where in the same area there are private/parochial schools with similar demographics (black, poor, fatherless) that succeed with a fraction of the money per student. DC is the best example - two thirds of all PUBLIC school teachers send their children to private schools.
There are a lot of reasons why schools - public and private - fail. They usually get the least intelligent people, on average, as teachers as demonstrated by teaching school admittance examinations. And the public schools are actually a functionary not of education in most municipalities but as a jobs program for the Democrat party which run the city and school district in every single major urban area.
But underlying all of this is most parent's genuine disinterest in their children's education and their misplaced trust in the education system. If they paid attention to it like they did to, I don't know, their favorite professional sports team or their favorite TV show, they might recognize the inherently anti-human, anti-individual design of the modern, mass-production education method and instead take personal responsibility for their children's education and work with other parents with similar interests to help cover subject matter where they lack expertise.
It's a radical idea to most but it is also the most natural and now - due to the number of parents with college degrees and the ability to leverage technology like the internet to custom design programs to a child's individual needs - increasingly feasable.
I bought one for myself around March of 06. I bought two more as gifts for my siblings in December. One of those two has just been sent back but seems to be getting managed well. There may have been airflow issues with it, too.
Right, but the nerds in the RNC basement have been deleting emails more than 4 or 6 months old off their exchange server for YEARS. That has always been the policy there. There's nothing nefarious here. Look, if you want to honestly talk about what happen, I'm being straight with you. If you want to make an issue of this to try and just throw extrement at the Administration or to raise money, we can't really discuss this, can we?
The problem here, in part, is the law because hiring/firing of US attorneys IS a political matter. Those are POLITICAL jobs, like it or not. They are not civil service positions and they serve at the pleasure of the president for the purpose of carrying out the president's priorities. They are like his 'junior' attorney generals.
You can whine about how bad the prez is, whine about how bad his attys are, whine about the war, whatever. But it's just pathetic to whine about the 'process' and how one side uses it to their advantage just as much as the other does. I don't whine about fillabusters - I whine about the Democrats opposing excellent judges. You can whine about W replacing awesome Clinton Attys with awful W attys, but it's quiet pathetic to whine about the process by which he did it.
This isn't corruption, just some ignorance. RNC automatically deletes all emails on it's system. Top officials who also have political duties were given RNC blackberries SPECIFICALLY so they weren't using government emails for political purposes - to avoid breaking the law.
And having a blackberry handy, they went ahead and sent some business stuff, too. Who here - including those in the government - haven't ever used government for personal or personal (which in this case is political) use?
I know you guys really are looking hard to make this into some big Cheney/Halliburtan/Bush-lied-troops-died kinda thing but it really isn't.
Just like one of the respondents here posts a reply supposidly refuting you by posting a link to some site. But I am confident you can't do any better in trying to refute the smartest woman in the history of earth, Ann Coulter.
Er. Maybe if you weren't a moron you might recognize that this is looks like a loss-leader but probably isn't. They recoup that with the sale of 2.5 million downloads at $10 each. Or they may charge even more for the content - like $15 - and break even after selling 1.6 million downloads.
Why anyone would think anything unusual about a Console Maker paying to develop content for ITS OWN console is mindboggling.
But thanks for trying to run the People's Court right here on Slashdot, Judge Whopner.
He is lying about the pricing of the PCs. You can get the same machines for the same or better prices for Dell.
Further, guess what happens if you are trying to start the Venezuelan equivilant of Dell in your garage and you start cutting in on the government's new monopoly.
Most morons here are not going to recognize this but their failure to recognize the disaster of this policy does not change that the policy is a disaster that will be realized.
It's like Chavez and Lula are in a race to be the South American Hitl.... (GODWIN TRIGGERED! DEBATE OVER!)
I'd reckon they'd be better off not working a menial job that contributes nothing to themselves or society in general except to perpetuate a system of victimization. It's true they could starve but at least then they wouldn't be making the problem worse. One would hope instead that they'd do something productive and help change the system.
The farming job is the one they choose and the one that THEY Decided was the best choice for them.
FYI - I use to work at one of these 'victim' jobs and so have many others like me who went on and started successful businesses and have attained relatively great levels of prosperity. You must be one of those 'college know it all' hippies.
They live in mud and have no money. A foreign company comes in and offers them jobs with no skills - which are the only kind of jobs they can do. And you want to take those jobs away?
Besides, suggesting that they are just as well of starving doesn't help your arguement.
I have an HP 6945. The main use besides phone and email (I require a qwerty) is that I can use TomTom with it (something this thread tells me I can't do with the iphone, which sucks because TomTom is the best GPS nav).
So - are there any pocketPC browsers that can work like the IPhone's, which I admit is nice.
The reason that Clinton was allowed to be asked those questions was because in 1994 he fought very hard for and signed the Crime Bill (100k cops on the streets lie, etc.) that changed the law to allowed sexual history to be introduced - consensual or not. Because for you and your ilk, history begins this morning and you don't remember that you clowns use to try to turn 'sexual harasment' into a political issue and thought it would be a good idea to allow a guy's sexual history to be brought into a case.
This wireless thing is a phony issue, just like the incompetent attorneys that were fired for 'not prosecuting Democrats' (not prosecuting voter fraud).
Enjoy the next two years. It's my hope that between the whackjob bloggers, stories about Haliburtan, and Fox News Channel will wip all of you guys into a suicidal rage that ends in an orgy of self-immolation. Suck it, liberals.
Actually, no, I wouldn't say it's wildly successful in terms of being popular. 70 million people in the UK, thereabouts. And how many packs does the average player buy?
Yes - and part of that marketing was the form factor combined with it being either free or $70 or so.
The clientele for this phone, however, is more of the Treo/Pocket PC crowd. The lack of a tactile keyboard is the biggest problem, and for me the lack of an internal GPS receiver and not being able to run a bunch of cool apps (Agile Messenger) on the network of my choice.
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Unlike other theories that you give examples of, it is not one that is born of ignorance, is not contradicted by facts, and does not require non-science (IE- faith) to find probable or possible.
You think that a forum whose members' favorite TV shows are all about life from other planets wouldn't be open to seeing the possibility that life on this planet came from somewhere else.
Vestigal organs - that's the best argument I can see of DE. Common DNA? That's just as likely to occur when you have a common designer using a working template (like a car platform). But leaving things behind is the sign of a sloppy designer - unless they weren't actually left behind and really do have medical purpose we haven't discovered yet.
Good point. Happy to refute it.
This is not an example of actual evolution - there was no change to the gene pool. This is, however, like the industrial era moths, an excellent example of natural selection.
As mentioned in the article, the existence of silent moths was not new - but the circumstances that allowed the to dominant is.
As a matter of probability, as a matter of history, as a matter of precidence, ID is emminantly more probably than a Darwinian Evolution.
Consider probability. Knowing the age of the earth and the probability of evolution to have occured - whether gradually or through the punctuated equalbrium method - is near impossible. To suggest that somehow there is a hand of God guiding evolution despite mathematical improbability is directly contrary to the extreme anti-faith positions of DE's advocates.
Consider history. The more ignorant among followers of DE will try to point to the process of 'natural selection' as evidence of DE and try to confuse the two very theories (though NS is clearly beyond the realm of theory.) There is no record of DE occuring. No observable examples. No fossils or DNA showing actual evidence of evolution occuring.
Consider precidence. As of now, humans have used their own 'intelligent design' to create new species and variations of plants and animals - such as crops that are immune to insects. Here we have a real, witnessed example of ID actually occuring, including all of the mechanisms involved in it. Can you say the same for DE?
What is so very sad is you attempting to smear a valid scientific theory. The same nonesense occured during the enlightenment when someone suggested that the Earth revolved around the sun. But the truth will out.
I would say that DE may have occured, in some fashion - but not on this planet and not in the 10 or so billion years this planet has been in existence. Elsewhere, maybe, over a much, much longer period of time.
Many, many are. And many that are have digital substations so in the past where they might have had just one 'channel' they now have three or four.
There are a lot of reasons why schools - public and private - fail. They usually get the least intelligent people, on average, as teachers as demonstrated by teaching school admittance examinations. And the public schools are actually a functionary not of education in most municipalities but as a jobs program for the Democrat party which run the city and school district in every single major urban area.
But underlying all of this is most parent's genuine disinterest in their children's education and their misplaced trust in the education system. If they paid attention to it like they did to, I don't know, their favorite professional sports team or their favorite TV show, they might recognize the inherently anti-human, anti-individual design of the modern, mass-production education method and instead take personal responsibility for their children's education and work with other parents with similar interests to help cover subject matter where they lack expertise.
It's a radical idea to most but it is also the most natural and now - due to the number of parents with college degrees and the ability to leverage technology like the internet to custom design programs to a child's individual needs - increasingly feasable.
I bought one for myself around March of 06. I bought two more as gifts for my siblings in December. One of those two has just been sent back but seems to be getting managed well. There may have been airflow issues with it, too.
This was a feature on most games on the Xbox. I'm not sure if it's available on the 360. Very few people used it, however.
The problem here, in part, is the law because hiring/firing of US attorneys IS a political matter. Those are POLITICAL jobs, like it or not. They are not civil service positions and they serve at the pleasure of the president for the purpose of carrying out the president's priorities. They are like his 'junior' attorney generals.
You can whine about how bad the prez is, whine about how bad his attys are, whine about the war, whatever. But it's just pathetic to whine about the 'process' and how one side uses it to their advantage just as much as the other does. I don't whine about fillabusters - I whine about the Democrats opposing excellent judges. You can whine about W replacing awesome Clinton Attys with awful W attys, but it's quiet pathetic to whine about the process by which he did it.
And having a blackberry handy, they went ahead and sent some business stuff, too. Who here - including those in the government - haven't ever used government for personal or personal (which in this case is political) use?
I know you guys really are looking hard to make this into some big Cheney/Halliburtan/Bush-lied-troops-died kinda thing but it really isn't.
Just like one of the respondents here posts a reply supposidly refuting you by posting a link to some site. But I am confident you can't do any better in trying to refute the smartest woman in the history of earth, Ann Coulter.
Yes, of course it is morally wrong to be able to defend yourself. How very wrong indeed.
Why anyone would think anything unusual about a Console Maker paying to develop content for ITS OWN console is mindboggling.
But thanks for trying to run the People's Court right here on Slashdot, Judge Whopner.
Further, guess what happens if you are trying to start the Venezuelan equivilant of Dell in your garage and you start cutting in on the government's new monopoly.
Most morons here are not going to recognize this but their failure to recognize the disaster of this policy does not change that the policy is a disaster that will be realized.
It's like Chavez and Lula are in a race to be the South American Hitl.... (GODWIN TRIGGERED! DEBATE OVER!)
Perhaps he should learn the lesson that his actions have consequences - even if those actions are writing words on the internet.
Yeah, what he said. Flamebait? Someone with mod points surely has sand in their vagina.
The farming job is the one they choose and the one that THEY Decided was the best choice for them.
FYI - I use to work at one of these 'victim' jobs and so have many others like me who went on and started successful businesses and have attained relatively great levels of prosperity. You must be one of those 'college know it all' hippies.
They live in mud and have no money. A foreign company comes in and offers them jobs with no skills - which are the only kind of jobs they can do. And you want to take those jobs away?
Besides, suggesting that they are just as well of starving doesn't help your arguement.
So if the farms closed up shop, the now-out of work people would be much better off?
So - are there any pocketPC browsers that can work like the IPhone's, which I admit is nice.
Patience, hombre. I'll get it back in 2 at least in the house - maybe within 4 in the Senate.
But please continue to loose your mind.
This wireless thing is a phony issue, just like the incompetent attorneys that were fired for 'not prosecuting Democrats' (not prosecuting voter fraud).
Enjoy the next two years. It's my hope that between the whackjob bloggers, stories about Haliburtan, and Fox News Channel will wip all of you guys into a suicidal rage that ends in an orgy of self-immolation. Suck it, liberals.
Actually, no, I wouldn't say it's wildly successful in terms of being popular. 70 million people in the UK, thereabouts. And how many packs does the average player buy?
Then how come I've never heard of it?
The clientele for this phone, however, is more of the Treo/Pocket PC crowd. The lack of a tactile keyboard is the biggest problem, and for me the lack of an internal GPS receiver and not being able to run a bunch of cool apps (Agile Messenger) on the network of my choice.
And the lack of a platform that people can develop for freely. And the inability to swap cards so you can use whatever provider you want.
And then we withdrew... from Detriot and Washington DC, leaving it to the gangs that make it more dangerous than living in Iraq.