Speaking as a Muslim, I don't think that anything in science, including the Big Bang, precludes God's existence, nor does God's existence preclude anything in science. This is the mainstream view among Muslims, don't think that the cherry picked idiots that Fox chooses to interview represent us.
"He does not claim he can prove god doesn't exist he claims that there is no evidence and therefore the RATIONAL course of action is to assume he doesn't."
In the same way that you cannot *prove* that a tree falling in the woods with nobody around to hear it doesn't make a sound, therefore we must assume it doesn't?
That is an example of the petty, shallow and poorly thought out propositions Dawkins makes. I am a Muslim. I enjoy discussing religion with Christians, Jews, atheists etc, but listening to Dawkins is painful. He is to theology what Darl McBride is to business; a dimwit with too much backing.
P.S., I've read many of the works of both Dawkins and Sagan.
The words you are after are: - envisage - decrepit You also abused capitalization by failing to capitalize "Vista", which is a proper noun and the pronoun "I". Furthermore, there should be a comma after the word "fail", which, incidentally, describes your rant nicely.
If life were replicated in a test tube would that disprove the existence of God? Please explain how, as I don't see any logical path of reasoning that leads to that conclusion.
In my experience so far, atheists are more dogmatic, more aggressive and less rational than the average person of religion.
What if I'm really just an amoeba dreaming about being a human and I'm going to wake up and find that I'm living in a puddle of water and about to be shat on by a passing armadillo?!
The second thought that I think would occur to most people is that any nation that is under fire from rockets has the right to invade and crush the offending nation.
The problem with this argument is that you assume that the rocket attacks are totally unprovoked. Israel's blockade of the territories causes great hardship to the Palestinian people, and it is this hardship that creates the environment in which the feelings of powerlessness and resentment can build to the point of belligerence.
Furthermore, there is strong evidence that Israel actually allows the rocket attacks to persist because it provides them with the excuse they need to level the surrounding countries' infrastructure every few years to ensure that they don't get too wealthy. Lebanon was growing at 6% annually before 2006, and Israel does not want to have to deal with any of its neighbors in a competitive playing field, so it ensures that there is an excuse to bomb them back a decade or two whenever it feels necessary.
The Mossad is one of if not the best intelligence organizations in the world. Israel also controls all of the Palestinian territory's tiny borders. I can't see any way a non-trivial number of weapons can make it into Gaza without Israeli being either complacent (unlikely) or complicit (less unlikely).
Furthermore, the rockets that have been fired are short range. If Israel wanted to protect its citizens, the easy way would be to simply not put them in range of the rockets. However, settlement construction is most rapid along the borders. The irony is that the Israelis are complaining that Hamas and Hezbollah are using civilians as human shields, yet they are deliberately moving their citizens' homes into areas they know are dangerous. Yes, they should be free to use their whole country, but this fact reverses any point about the misuse of civilians in battle.
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I don't think it's as much a case of people in Myranma not being able to find things using Google, but a case of Google not being able to find Myranma.
You're aware that in *all* modern operating systems you can switch between use profiles on the OS without logging either out or closing any of their open programs?
I still use Firefox because I need a bit more than a rendering engine.
Any dev work requires validation tools. I need to be able to manipulate CSS on the fly. I need to be able to see and modify headers.
Yes, chrome is good if your use case fits in with the absolute bare necessities (which is probably 3/4 of the web surfing public), but don't be getting all high and mighty about your new "cool club" when there are very good reasons your cool club can't offer the things that many people need in order to just do their job.
Fine, you're just a "web surfer", and chrome works for you. For me and anyone else who needs a bit above just the bare basics, Chrome doesn't cut it, yet.
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Speaking as a Muslim, I don't think that anything in science, including the Big Bang, precludes God's existence, nor does God's existence preclude anything in science. This is the mainstream view among Muslims, don't think that the cherry picked idiots that Fox chooses to interview represent us.
"He does not claim he can prove god doesn't exist he claims that there is no evidence and therefore the RATIONAL course of action is to assume he doesn't."
In the same way that you cannot *prove* that a tree falling in the woods with nobody around to hear it doesn't make a sound, therefore we must assume it doesn't?
That is an example of the petty, shallow and poorly thought out propositions Dawkins makes. I am a Muslim. I enjoy discussing religion with Christians, Jews, atheists etc, but listening to Dawkins is painful. He is to theology what Darl McBride is to business; a dimwit with too much backing.
P.S., I've read many of the works of both Dawkins and Sagan.
Only 10,000? You're one of those crazy creationists, aren't you?!
The words you are after are:
- envisage
- decrepit
You also abused capitalization by failing to capitalize "Vista", which is a proper noun and the pronoun "I". Furthermore, there should be a comma after the word "fail", which, incidentally, describes your rant nicely.
So they're planning a release around 2045? Right about when pocket calculators can play Crysis.
If life were replicated in a test tube would that disprove the existence of God? Please explain how, as I don't see any logical path of reasoning that leads to that conclusion.
In my experience so far, atheists are more dogmatic, more aggressive and less rational than the average person of religion.
WTF? Is that the best you can do? Your Slashdot license please...
What if I'm really just an amoeba dreaming about being a human and I'm going to wake up and find that I'm living in a puddle of water and about to be shat on by a passing armadillo?!
OMG SOMEBODY HELP ME I MUST NOT WAKE UP!!@!
Lambda(red) = 620nm
Lambda(green) = 520nm
f = c / L
f(red) = 4.84*10^14Hz
f(green) = 5.77*10^14Hz
Assuming that he observed the light over a distance of 50m, there are this many waves of light in the red spectrum:
50 / (620*10^-9) = 8.0645*10^7
In order to "greenshift" that, he needs to cause this many waves to incident his retina:
50 / 520*10^-9) = 9.615*10^7
So he needs to travel at a speed such that he only views 8.0645/9.615 oscillations he otherwise would if he were stationary.
The redshift formula is:
f(final) = f(emit) + f(emit) * v/c
So:
f(final) = 5.77*10^14Hz
f(emit) = 4.84*10^14Hz
c = 3*10^8m/s
v = c * ( ( f(f) - f(e) ) / f(e) )
= 3*10^8*((5.77*10^14 - 4.84*10^14)/4.84*10^14)
= 5.76*10^7m/s
= 207,520,611 km/h
That's one HELL of a speeding ticket.
The problem with this argument is that you assume that the rocket attacks are totally unprovoked. Israel's blockade of the territories causes great hardship to the Palestinian people, and it is this hardship that creates the environment in which the feelings of powerlessness and resentment can build to the point of belligerence.
Furthermore, there is strong evidence that Israel actually allows the rocket attacks to persist because it provides them with the excuse they need to level the surrounding countries' infrastructure every few years to ensure that they don't get too wealthy. Lebanon was growing at 6% annually before 2006, and Israel does not want to have to deal with any of its neighbors in a competitive playing field, so it ensures that there is an excuse to bomb them back a decade or two whenever it feels necessary.
The Mossad is one of if not the best intelligence organizations in the world. Israel also controls all of the Palestinian territory's tiny borders. I can't see any way a non-trivial number of weapons can make it into Gaza without Israeli being either complacent (unlikely) or complicit (less unlikely).
Furthermore, the rockets that have been fired are short range. If Israel wanted to protect its citizens, the easy way would be to simply not put them in range of the rockets. However, settlement construction is most rapid along the borders. The irony is that the Israelis are complaining that Hamas and Hezbollah are using civilians as human shields, yet they are deliberately moving their citizens' homes into areas they know are dangerous. Yes, they should be free to use their whole country, but this fact reverses any point about the misuse of civilians in battle.
Pics or it never happened!
I don't think it's as much a case of people in Myranma not being able to find things using Google, but a case of Google not being able to find Myranma.
You're aware that in *all* modern operating systems you can switch between use profiles on the OS without logging either out or closing any of their open programs?
Welcome to 2003!
I still use Firefox because I need a bit more than a rendering engine.
Any dev work requires validation tools. I need to be able to manipulate CSS on the fly. I need to be able to see and modify headers.
Yes, chrome is good if your use case fits in with the absolute bare necessities (which is probably 3/4 of the web surfing public), but don't be getting all high and mighty about your new "cool club" when there are very good reasons your cool club can't offer the things that many people need in order to just do their job.
Fine, you're just a "web surfer", and chrome works for you. For me and anyone else who needs a bit above just the bare basics, Chrome doesn't cut it, yet.
Yea, because that's so much easier than running Adblock.
Screw the flyswatter, I want my cannon!
At the rate things are going, it soon will be.
What, have you been asleep since Sept 10, 2001?
Yea, those Muslims keep getting preferential treatment these days. Damn them and their powerful lobby groups.
You're making an assumption regarding who started it.
This particular fighting outburst began with an Israeli "preemptive strike".
Preemptive strikes are the first blow in a conflict, and calling them "preemptive" does not change that fact.
...*because* he had sex with her.
Tell that to the fat guy who got shot with a rifle round. He has a 600,000% weight advantage, yet he's still in ICU on a respirator.
Fat man 0, Remington 1.
1000 years is no less irrelevant to you than 1 billion years.
No, he's pointing out the pretty basic fact that mass and weight are measures of two different things.
I hope we're insured. Imagine if the other guy sues!
According to my taste in women, I agree that a little waist goes a long way.