Some of the most profound discoveries have come from experiments verifying established knowledge, yielding unexpected results. Rutherford's discovery of the atomic nucleus resulted from just such an experiment.
Wow, he was experimenting with colds and sleep and he accidentally the atomic bomb?
Parents who let their children stay up late and don't make sure that they get enough sleep (Children need more sleep than adults do.) are just as much at fault, if not more so.
Absolutely agree that children need more sleep than adults. However, they are not necessarily able to fall asleep at the needed time to be ready for school. My parents sure as hell tried to get me to go to bed early, but I all I did after getting to bed is toss and turn for hours. I think a lot more children and adolescents are afflicted with delayed sleep phase disorder than we think.
Maybe, but it helps if you don't let them have TVs, iPads or mobile phones in their rooms when they go to bed...
If schools have early morning starts, you just need to make your kids go to bed early. It's not rocket surgery.
As an adult, I have just had to learn that if I need to be up at 6 to go to work, I can't stay up until 3 and expect to feel anything but knackered all day.
Sorry, that's a common myth. Most people who get caught using heroin are addicted to it, but there are actually a fair number of people who have been regularly but infrequently using it for quite some time.
Some verifiable figures would be genuinely interesting to see.
Whoah there, coach just called and he wants you to move the goal posts back to the N zone where you found them.
The claim was that 4th of July involves drugs and pyrotechnics. Nobody said boo about illicit. Alcohol is a drug, doesn't matter if you don't like that fact, but it is.
You can play with words and say that aspirin is a drug and so pharmacists are drug dealers, it doesn't alter the everyday meaning of the words.
I think the fact that the pages of the Koran do not glow with unearthly swirling lights or set fire to the hands of un-believers is a better indicator it did not come from heaven.
I don't think anyone is saying this is the original Koran.
No, Islam is specifically misogynistic. Sharia law values the testimony of women less than of men. A man can divorce his wife just by uttering words; a woman cannot divorce her husband.
A quote from the Koran: "Men are managers of the affairs of women because Allah has made the one superior to the other."
A quote from the Koran regarding inheritance: "The share of the male shall be twice that of a female."
Islam is also misanthropic, but it reserves special vilification for women. So my comment is the truth and no "lie of omission".
"Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord".
You are seriously telling us that you apply self censorship about telling the truth about any Christian religion for being afraid of being murdered? Really, you seriously telling us that?
I've read about places in the stupider parts of the USA where you need to be a Christian to get anywhere in politics or business, so even if it's not direct fear of being murdered, in that sort of environment you're far from free to criticise Christianity.
Just because it's nowhere near as bad as living in Islamic State or North Korea does not mean that you have perfect intellectual freedom.
I knew there would be some prick changing the subject to Christianity. Like clockwork. At least have some originality and make a different criticism like "the Koran is in its original language while the Bible exists only in translation." Otherwise you're as derivative and cliche as Banksy's Disneyland.
"Scholar" is just a slightly old fashioned way of saying "academic", it does not equate with "scientist" at all.. If you're a professor of Christian Theology, I imagine you're likely to believe in God.
In the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard, workers are offered a Denarius for a days labor in the Vineyard, which we now know through archaeology was a typical days wage in Pre-70AD Judea. No Google, how may people would know the days wage for for unskilled labor 700 miles from where you live now 40 years ago unless you actually lived there?
For hundreds of years in medieval Britain a day's wage was a penny. I doubt things changed any quicker in Jesus's time. It's really not all that extraordinary.
The question of the existence of an historical Jesus seems pretty irrelevant to me. The real issue is the "Son of God" business. If someone suddenly found a series of contemporary witness reports and paintings of Jesus, it wouldn't say anything about whether or not he was divine.
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Some of the most profound discoveries have come from experiments verifying established knowledge, yielding unexpected results. Rutherford's discovery of the atomic nucleus resulted from just such an experiment.
Wow, he was experimenting with colds and sleep and he accidentally the atomic bomb?
I thought the old wives' tale about getting wet/cold and catching a cold had been debunked years ago?
Parents who let their children stay up late and don't make sure that they get enough sleep (Children need more sleep than adults do.) are just as much at fault, if not more so.
Absolutely agree that children need more sleep than adults. However, they are not necessarily able to fall asleep at the needed time to be ready for school. My parents sure as hell tried to get me to go to bed early, but I all I did after getting to bed is toss and turn for hours. I think a lot more children and adolescents are afflicted with delayed sleep phase disorder than we think.
Maybe, but it helps if you don't let them have TVs, iPads or mobile phones in their rooms when they go to bed...
As an adult, I have just had to learn that if I need to be up at 6 to go to work, I can't stay up until 3 and expect to feel anything but knackered all day.
I got sick three, maybe four times a year.
That sounds pretty standard to me if you're just talking about colds.
The laws they're breaking are themselves morally bankrupt, and therefore moral to break.
But you can't just allow everyone to choose which laws they think are moral to break, no doubt hitmen would think the laws against murder are unfair.
If you want a civilised society, laws have to apply to everyone equally. If they are bad laws, they need to be changed.
You don't speed, but you never exceed the limit by 10%. Guess what that extra 10% is... its speeding.
In the UK you're allowed 10% leeway due to the inaccuracy of speedometers.
And did you speed on your way into work this morning?
Even if he did and was caught, it would be a trivial offence compared to dealing smack to schoolkids doncha think?
As an outsider, I find it amusing that you use Donald Trump as a counter-measure to idiocracy, when in fact he is one of the prime contributors to it.
Has free-thinkers and weirdos ever caused an actual revolution?
*cough* 1776 *cough*
Sorry, that's a common myth. Most people who get caught using heroin are addicted to it, but there are actually a fair number of people who have been regularly but infrequently using it for quite some time.
Some verifiable figures would be genuinely interesting to see.
Light to moderate consumption of heroin isn't as bad as people think
Sure, and I only do crystal meth at the weekends.
Whoah there, coach just called and he wants you to move the goal posts back to the N zone where you found them.
The claim was that 4th of July involves drugs and pyrotechnics. Nobody said boo about illicit. Alcohol is a drug, doesn't matter if you don't like that fact, but it is.
You can play with words and say that aspirin is a drug and so pharmacists are drug dealers, it doesn't alter the everyday meaning of the words.
You are doing something wrong, and all I can do is warn you about the punishment to come.
And what exactly is he doing wrong other than refusing to believe in something for which you can provide no evidence?
(If you do have evidence, I'd love to see it).
I think the fact that the pages of the Koran do not glow with unearthly swirling lights or set fire to the hands of un-believers is a better indicator it did not come from heaven.
I don't think anyone is saying this is the original Koran.
No, Islam is specifically misogynistic. Sharia law values the testimony of women less than of men. A man can divorce his wife just by uttering words; a woman cannot divorce her husband.
A quote from the Koran: "Men are managers of the affairs of women because Allah has made the one superior to the other."
A quote from the Koran regarding inheritance: "The share of the male shall be twice that of a female."
Islam is also misanthropic, but it reserves special vilification for women. So my comment is the truth and no "lie of omission".
"Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord".
Oh wait, that was St Paul in the New Terstament.
Lots of Muslim countries mutilate their girls' genitals. And a clitorectomy is a hell of a lot more radical than circumcision.
To be fair, that's a horrible cultural thing rather than a horrible religious thing.
You are seriously telling us that you apply self censorship about telling the truth about any Christian religion for being afraid of being murdered? Really, you seriously telling us that?
I've read about places in the stupider parts of the USA where you need to be a Christian to get anywhere in politics or business, so even if it's not direct fear of being murdered, in that sort of environment you're far from free to criticise Christianity.
Just because it's nowhere near as bad as living in Islamic State or North Korea does not mean that you have perfect intellectual freedom.
I knew there would be some prick changing the subject to Christianity. Like clockwork. At least have some originality and make a different criticism like "the Koran is in its original language while the Bible exists only in translation." Otherwise you're as derivative and cliche as Banksy's Disneyland.
That's Dismaland, you fucking blasphemer.
"Scholar" is just a slightly old fashioned way of saying "academic", it does not equate with "scientist" at all.. If you're a professor of Christian Theology, I imagine you're likely to believe in God.
In the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard, workers are offered a Denarius for a days labor in the Vineyard, which we now know through archaeology was a typical days wage in Pre-70AD Judea. No Google, how may people would know the days wage for for unskilled labor 700 miles from where you live now 40 years ago unless you actually lived there?
For hundreds of years in medieval Britain a day's wage was a penny. I doubt things changed any quicker in Jesus's time. It's really not all that extraordinary.
It's not often you see "Daily Mail" and "reasonable" in the same sentence, especially if it's related to Islam.
the USA's largest Christian demonization, the Southern Baptists
That is too epically wrong to be an accidental typo for "denomination" surely?
No-one knows Jesus's blood type
Type J, surely?
The question of the existence of an historical Jesus seems pretty irrelevant to me. The real issue is the "Son of God" business. If someone suddenly found a series of contemporary witness reports and paintings of Jesus, it wouldn't say anything about whether or not he was divine.