Evolution is incompatible with Communism/Socialism, because those religions ensure survival of the weakest and push the fittest? True
No. Some of the Soviets accepted evolution, at least of the Lamarckian variety. Indeed, this is how Lysenko made his reputation. They did so not so much to aid the strong, but as a means of obtaining better future subjects. As Hegel might have said, they sought to synthesize evolution and intelligent design.
You are assuming that the paying customers (parents) value cognition as much as you do. What if parents want their children taught religious dogma as science? Given the political popularity of not teaching evolution, I suspect that at least some parents would pay to not have it taught.
Science is not simply a set of results, it is a means of obtaining them. When we explore our world we find fossils, we see the development of embryos/fetuses, we compare the features of different animals and plants. None of these, nor all of them combined, is a proof of evolution. But science does not deal with proof in the mathematical sense. It deals with collecting evidence and from that trying to find the best explanation. There may be alternatives that we cannot exclude by logic alone, but that is not how science works.
And by what means do you propose to achieve this "daring and adventurous progress in the sciences"? If humans had to develop quantum mechanics just from what we perceive, with no intervening theory, we would never have developed it. Theories do not merely describe the world, they provide a way of further cognition. Even an incorrect theory may have epistemological value, and not just utilitarian-instrumental value.
You mean Cambridge isn't in Boston? It's in the Boston area, but not Boston itself. Also, no mention of the old(?) Route 128? Wasn't Bletchley Park better known for computerized decryption? Taiwan is only 2,000 miles from US soil? More like 5,000.
But what about the time by not having to scavenge for GNU emacs, C/C++, TeX/LaTeX, python, and other programs? As far as configuration goes, if a piece of hardware is Linux supported, it's easier to install in Linux than in Windows.
Web developers who run Linux need to test their sites on Windows Internet Explorer, a Windows OS component that's still the majority web browser on PCs.
I need to test my site on IE? The hardest part is MathML, which I am not going to fudge for the sake of Microsoft.
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With such a big concept as creation vs. evolution, why can they not just be made to teach that these are the two primary theories in existence
Aside from the number of creationist theories, how scientific is creationism?
Evolution is incompatible with Communism/Socialism, because those religions ensure survival of the weakest and push the fittest? True
No. Some of the Soviets accepted evolution, at least of the Lamarckian variety. Indeed, this is how Lysenko made his reputation. They did so not so much to aid the strong, but as a means of obtaining better future subjects. As Hegel might have said, they sought to synthesize evolution and intelligent design.
Does ID lend itself to decent philosophical discussion?
"Water boils at 100c and freeze at 0c" this is scientific fact.
No, "Water boils at 100c and freezes at 0c." is a statement of (alleged) fact. Also, I guess antifreeze isn't big in your world.
Some rock formations in the western US could have only formed by rapid, high water erosion and not erosion over millions of years.
And which rock formations are they?
You are assuming that the paying customers (parents) value cognition as much as you do. What if parents want their children taught religious dogma as science? Given the political popularity of not teaching evolution, I suspect that at least some parents would pay to not have it taught.
Don't be glib. Division is an integral part of math.
Would that make integration a divisive part of math? Well, maybe between the supporters of Newton and Leibniz.
Science is not simply a set of results, it is a means of obtaining them. When we explore our world we find fossils, we see the development of embryos/fetuses, we compare the features of different animals and plants. None of these, nor all of them combined, is a proof of evolution. But science does not deal with proof in the mathematical sense. It deals with collecting evidence and from that trying to find the best explanation. There may be alternatives that we cannot exclude by logic alone, but that is not how science works.
Who are these creators? How did they come to be?
There were many interracial children on plantations in the antebellum South. Also, why would you call them mutants? How is being biracial a mutation?
And by what means do you propose to achieve this "daring and adventurous progress in the sciences"? If humans had to develop quantum mechanics just from what we perceive, with no intervening theory, we would never have developed it. Theories do not merely describe the world, they provide a way of further cognition. Even an incorrect theory may have epistemological value, and not just utilitarian-instrumental value.
So IIS is low cost? As low as Apache?
You mean Cambridge isn't in Boston? It's in the Boston area, but not Boston itself. Also, no mention of the old(?) Route 128? Wasn't Bletchley Park better known for computerized decryption?
Taiwan is only 2,000 miles from US soil? More like 5,000.
Also, "Alumni" is plural.
And who said anything about it being a business site?
Both Linux and OSX are far worse than Windows on backwards compatibility.
In the case of Linux, is that source or binary backward compatibility?
If they NAT through the 10.*.*.* address space, wouldn't it be closer to 2^24 or approximately 16 million?
Why scrape them off? Just put SuSE stickers over them.
But East Redmond has always been at war with Cupertino-Oceania
God's gift to every person in the world that does not really love Microsoft
Richard Stallman does not really love Microsoft, but I suspect he'd consider GNU/Linux (0r even GNU Hurd) of greater value than Apple.
But what about the time by not having to scavenge for GNU emacs, C/C++, TeX/LaTeX, python, and other programs? As far as configuration goes, if a piece of hardware is Linux supported, it's easier to install in Linux than in Windows.
Web developers who run Linux need to test their sites on Windows Internet Explorer, a Windows OS component that's still the majority web browser on PCs.
I need to test my site on IE? The hardest part is MathML, which I am not going to fudge for the sake of Microsoft.
I am posting this from a five-year old Averatec laptop, which is sitting next to a seven-year old HP desktop.
Where's the outrage by end-users for not being able to load Linux as a replacement OS?
http://www.ubuntu.com/
Hey, let's start Star Fleet Academy in Texas!
Why don't I trust Kent Hovind?
since we cannot prove anything with 100% certainty, then nothing is knowable.
The fault is not entirely theirs, much of Western epistemology would say the same thing.