"like whether or not your weight is proportional to your height"
Of course it's proportional (unless your height is 0, in which case the proportion is undefined).
What changed this? Christianity brining decidedly Roman attitudes.
Actually, not Christianity bringing Roman attitudes, but Romans. For the first few centuries of Christianity in Ireland and northern Great Britain, it had a distinctly Celtic flavor, including a greater degree of gender equality and married clergy. Some even believe that St. Brigid was a bishop (the evidence is not very strong in either direction). The change came when the Celts started sending missionaries to the European mainland and they came into some conflict with Rome because they did things differently. It was at that point that Rome tightened control over the Celtic church and brought them in line with the Roman way of doing things.
I don't know about other places, but in Dallas, TX, USA, 911 is just the regular police phone number. My wife needed to call the police once for a non-emergency and she took the time to look up their phone number. The police officer who answered the phone told her that they could not dispatch an officer, and she should call 911. In another instance, I was trying to find out which city had towed the car I left by the side of the road overnight, close to the border between Dallas and Irving. I called the Dallas PD first (regular phone #), and they didn't have it, but they offered to connect me to Irving PD. I agreed, and the dispatcher came on the line with "911, what's your emergency?"
>So how did they control for unauthorized prayers? Did they have little badges like radiation detectors, to ensure that the control group wasn't getting some unauthorized prayers?
Exactly the problem. I always like to mess with these kinds of studies by praying around the clock for the control group. Take that, science!
Speaker was not originally planned as a sequel to Ender's Game. As the idea was developing, he realized that Ender would fit into the story. In order to make it a sequel without an obnoxious amount of exposition he expanded Ender's Game from a novella into a full-length novel. Speaker for the Dead is the reason that Ender's Game is the novel that it is.
Xenocide was not even part of Card's original intent. His publisher sold the overseas publishing rights for the Ender trilogy, then asked Card if he would be so kind as to make it a trilogy so they would not have to renegotiate. He decided that he would like the chance to explore the concept of Jane and work out what happened to the hive queen, but what we got is probably very different than what Card would have written if he chose to continue the series without prodding.
As has been pointed out repeatedly, Intelligent Design is not science. It is philosophy. Creationism (or more specifically, young-earth creationism) is also not science, but does work within the realm of science.
Science works within the sphere of methodological naturalism; that is, it excludes everything outside the natural world from inquiry. This is not the same as saying that nothing exists outside the natural world, simply that the realm of scientific inquiry is limited. The moment you take the scientific data and try to understand it metaphysically, you have left science and entered philosophy. This is what Intelligent Design does. As such, one philosophy opposed to ID is metaphysical naturalism, which states that there is nothing outside the natural world. Some scientists take this position, but when they do so they are not scientists, they are philosophers. Neither position is incompatible with evolution.
Young-Earth Creationism (YEC) is in the same realm as science, in that it based on evidence in the natural world. It works in the same realm as science, but it is not science. It is very selective about the evidence used and holds evidence to different testing standards depending on whether it supports the predetermined position.
YEC is completely subject to scientific inquiry and criticism, and fails miserably. ID is subject to scientific inquiry only in that it draws conclusions from scientific observations, and these observations are subject to scientific inquiry.
If the Kansas schoolboard wants alternate theories taught, then the teaching of the philosophy of ID would require the teaching of naturalistic philosophy. That would be balance.
IAACT (Christian theologian)
Almost no current scholars accept the JEDP hypothesis in its classic form, popularized by Julius Wellhausen (though most of the literary source criticism had been done by others). The classic theory treats the text as a literary document compiled from four written sources, each from a single author. It also includes the same nineteenth century optimism that things are constantly improving which inspired Charles Darwin and Karl Marx. In addition to the literary source criticism, the Graf-Wellhausen theory traces the development of the Israelite religion from animism to polytheism to henotheism to monotheism and on, getting better all along, reach its highest expression in (naturally) 19th century German Protestant Christianity.
Today much more attention is paid to the considerable oral tradition behind the written texts and how the community and shaped and interacted with the texts and traditions, but scholars still talk about the J, E, D, and P traditions. Wellhausen has this in common with his contemporary Darwin. Scholarship still works with the basic idea, but has moved far beyond the original theory.
God created the world in seven days because it sounded good to put it that way -- the author wasn't trying to say anything deep or important by saying "seven days". This should be clear whether or not you believe the author was inspired by God (or was God).
Actually, I think it is significant. It follows a particular structure:
light
sky and water
land
sun, moon, and stars (bearers of light)
birds and fish (residents of sky and land)
animals (residents of land)
rested
The literary structure indicates that the creation of the world was deliberate and calculated. The first three days were preparation for what was created later. If (as most Bible scholars believe) this was written during the Babylonian captivity, it is likely that it was written with the Babylonian creation story in mind. In the Babylonian story (the Enuma Elish) the world is created as an afterthought using the body of Tiamat (chaos), slain by the hero god Marduk. In contrast, the Hebrew story claims that the creation of the world was premeditated, and that when the creation was finished, it was "very good" (Gen 1.31).
Though there will always be variations in interpretation, the more we know about the original context, the better we are likely to understand the meaning.
I hold the same positions, and I think that makes me pro-life. I have a big problem with people who are pro-war calling themselves pro-life because they oppose abortion.
This is totally different. The Mars Climate Orbiter failed because of an issue converting between lb and N. This is an issue converting between cm and -cm.
next time they call to sell you something, tell them you're out of town and won't be back till next week. See what they do with that.
Before I was on the do-not-call list and got frequent calls from telephone companies, I would listen to their spiel and tell them that I would consider it if I ever got a phone.
8086->80286 Of course, there was an 8088 in there, but that was a step backwards (for compatibility), and there was an 80186 which was not generally available. Then we strip the 80, and have the 286, 386, and 486. Then we drop numbers and call the 586 Pentium, and start the numbering over, but now with Roman numerals.
Perhaps the "smart" behavior could be created by using a distributed bayesian filter against the contents of a file.
If you read this line quickly, it sounds like something Geordi or Data would throw out to fix the computer overload that is preventing the Enterprise from escaping Some Devastating Explosion.
You would have to work in reverse tachyons somehow.
# Tech Support: "Type 'fix' with an 'f'."
# Customer: "Is that 'f' as in 'fix'?"
This is understandable, as it could be heard as 's' as in 'six'. That's why I always used 'f' as in 'Frank'. Then there was the one time the customer asked "'s' as in 'Frank'?"
Pilots and military personnel were the easiest to work with from a command prompt. To pull a directory listing from a Windows/DOS command prompt is as simple as "delta-india-lima".
If you're going to use an ancient text to launch an expedition like this, you should understand what you are reading. The genre of the first 11 chapters of Genesis is myth. It is best read within the context of neo-Babylonian mythology, in which humanity is created as an afterthought and destroyed in a flood because they were making too much noise and annoying the gods. In the Genesis account, however, mankind is the pinnacle of creation and companion of God. When man fails to live up to his potential and is thoroughly evil and violent, creation is uncreated then recreated so humanity has a chance to start again.
Note that calling the story a myth is not the same as calling it fiction. It is the genre of literature. My point is that it does not have to be historical in order to be true. (In fact, an argument about historicity would have been puzzling to the Jewish community living in exile in Babylon that gave us the story in its current form.)
OK, so you've decided that the story of Noah is in fact historical, or at least there is enough of a possibility that it is worth trying to find the ark? Read the text more closely: "the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat (Gen. 8.4). The Hebrew text is definitely plural. When the waters of chaos recede, the ark would naturally come to rest on high ground, such as the mountainous region of Urartu (called Ararat in Hebrew) to the north, rather than the plains of Mesopotamia. Mount Ararat is one mountain in the range, but the ancient text does not specify a particular mountain.
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you finally just gave up and started issuing a 'Basic Dungeoneer's Kit' with all the common stuff in it for 100 gold?
5 Torches (Long Burning)
100' Climbing Rope
30 Days (Freeze Dried/Iron, pick one) Rations
1 Flask of water
1 Flask of oil
1 Tinderbox
10 Flints
10 Sheepskins
No 10 foot pole??!!?!
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"like whether or not your weight is proportional to your height" Of course it's proportional (unless your height is 0, in which case the proportion is undefined).
Actually, not Christianity bringing Roman attitudes, but Romans. For the first few centuries of Christianity in Ireland and northern Great Britain, it had a distinctly Celtic flavor, including a greater degree of gender equality and married clergy. Some even believe that St. Brigid was a bishop (the evidence is not very strong in either direction). The change came when the Celts started sending missionaries to the European mainland and they came into some conflict with Rome because they did things differently. It was at that point that Rome tightened control over the Celtic church and brought them in line with the Roman way of doing things.
I don't know about other places, but in Dallas, TX, USA, 911 is just the regular police phone number. My wife needed to call the police once for a non-emergency and she took the time to look up their phone number. The police officer who answered the phone told her that they could not dispatch an officer, and she should call 911. In another instance, I was trying to find out which city had towed the car I left by the side of the road overnight, close to the border between Dallas and Irving. I called the Dallas PD first (regular phone #), and they didn't have it, but they offered to connect me to Irving PD. I agreed, and the dispatcher came on the line with "911, what's your emergency?"
>So how did they control for unauthorized prayers? Did they have little badges like radiation detectors, to ensure that the control group wasn't getting some unauthorized prayers?
Exactly the problem. I always like to mess with these kinds of studies by praying around the clock for the control group. Take that, science!Speaker was not originally planned as a sequel to Ender's Game. As the idea was developing, he realized that Ender would fit into the story. In order to make it a sequel without an obnoxious amount of exposition he expanded Ender's Game from a novella into a full-length novel. Speaker for the Dead is the reason that Ender's Game is the novel that it is.
Xenocide was not even part of Card's original intent. His publisher sold the overseas publishing rights for the Ender trilogy, then asked Card if he would be so kind as to make it a trilogy so they would not have to renegotiate. He decided that he would like the chance to explore the concept of Jane and work out what happened to the hive queen, but what we got is probably very different than what Card would have written if he chose to continue the series without prodding.
As has been pointed out repeatedly, Intelligent Design is not science. It is philosophy. Creationism (or more specifically, young-earth creationism) is also not science, but does work within the realm of science. Science works within the sphere of methodological naturalism; that is, it excludes everything outside the natural world from inquiry. This is not the same as saying that nothing exists outside the natural world, simply that the realm of scientific inquiry is limited. The moment you take the scientific data and try to understand it metaphysically, you have left science and entered philosophy. This is what Intelligent Design does. As such, one philosophy opposed to ID is metaphysical naturalism, which states that there is nothing outside the natural world. Some scientists take this position, but when they do so they are not scientists, they are philosophers. Neither position is incompatible with evolution. Young-Earth Creationism (YEC) is in the same realm as science, in that it based on evidence in the natural world. It works in the same realm as science, but it is not science. It is very selective about the evidence used and holds evidence to different testing standards depending on whether it supports the predetermined position. YEC is completely subject to scientific inquiry and criticism, and fails miserably. ID is subject to scientific inquiry only in that it draws conclusions from scientific observations, and these observations are subject to scientific inquiry. If the Kansas schoolboard wants alternate theories taught, then the teaching of the philosophy of ID would require the teaching of naturalistic philosophy. That would be balance. IAACT (Christian theologian)
Almost no current scholars accept the JEDP hypothesis in its classic form, popularized by Julius Wellhausen (though most of the literary source criticism had been done by others). The classic theory treats the text as a literary document compiled from four written sources, each from a single author. It also includes the same nineteenth century optimism that things are constantly improving which inspired Charles Darwin and Karl Marx. In addition to the literary source criticism, the Graf-Wellhausen theory traces the development of the Israelite religion from animism to polytheism to henotheism to monotheism and on, getting better all along, reach its highest expression in (naturally) 19th century German Protestant Christianity. Today much more attention is paid to the considerable oral tradition behind the written texts and how the community and shaped and interacted with the texts and traditions, but scholars still talk about the J, E, D, and P traditions. Wellhausen has this in common with his contemporary Darwin. Scholarship still works with the basic idea, but has moved far beyond the original theory.
...when I stopped reading the article after the third paragraph and checked my email.
The literary structure indicates that the creation of the world was deliberate and calculated. The first three days were preparation for what was created later. If (as most Bible scholars believe) this was written during the Babylonian captivity, it is likely that it was written with the Babylonian creation story in mind. In the Babylonian story (the Enuma Elish) the world is created as an afterthought using the body of Tiamat (chaos), slain by the hero god Marduk. In contrast, the Hebrew story claims that the creation of the world was premeditated, and that when the creation was finished, it was "very good" (Gen 1.31).
Though there will always be variations in interpretation, the more we know about the original context, the better we are likely to understand the meaning.
I hold the same positions, and I think that makes me pro-life. I have a big problem with people who are pro-war calling themselves pro-life because they oppose abortion.
CNN's choice for greatest innovation will be "24 hour news coverage."
It was funnier with the buffer overflow.
This is totally different. The Mars Climate Orbiter failed because of an issue converting between lb and N. This is an issue converting between cm and -cm.
8086->80286
Of course, there was an 8088 in there, but that was a step backwards (for compatibility), and there was an 80186 which was not generally available.
Then we strip the 80, and have the 286, 386, and 486.
Then we drop numbers and call the 586 Pentium, and start the numbering over, but now with Roman numerals.
You would have to work in reverse tachyons somehow.
Err...right...
I didn't realize that I would be so affected just by surfing the 'net.
# Customer: "Is that 'f' as in 'fix'?"
This is understandable, as it could be heard as 's' as in 'six'. That's why I always used 'f' as in 'Frank'. Then there was the one time the customer asked "'s' as in 'Frank'?"
Pilots and military personnel were the easiest to work with from a command prompt. To pull a directory listing from a Windows/DOS command prompt is as simple as "delta-india-lima".
The Piri Reis Map was drawn in 1513 by a Turkish admiral.
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This should have been your clue. The map is actually the location of Noah's Ark!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/26/21432
If you're going to use an ancient text to launch an expedition like this, you should understand what you are reading. The genre of the first 11 chapters of Genesis is myth. It is best read within the context of neo-Babylonian mythology, in which humanity is created as an afterthought and destroyed in a flood because they were making too much noise and annoying the gods. In the Genesis account, however, mankind is the pinnacle of creation and companion of God. When man fails to live up to his potential and is thoroughly evil and violent, creation is uncreated then recreated so humanity has a chance to start again.
Note that calling the story a myth is not the same as calling it fiction. It is the genre of literature. My point is that it does not have to be historical in order to be true. (In fact, an argument about historicity would have been puzzling to the Jewish community living in exile in Babylon that gave us the story in its current form.) OK, so you've decided that the story of Noah is in fact historical, or at least there is enough of a possibility that it is worth trying to find the ark? Read the text more closely: "the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat (Gen. 8.4). The Hebrew text is definitely plural. When the waters of chaos recede, the ark would naturally come to rest on high ground, such as the mountainous region of Urartu (called Ararat in Hebrew) to the north, rather than the plains of Mesopotamia. Mount Ararat is one mountain in the range, but the ancient text does not specify a particular mountain.
you finally just gave up and started issuing a 'Basic Dungeoneer's Kit' with all the common stuff in it for 100 gold? 5 Torches (Long Burning) 100' Climbing Rope 30 Days (Freeze Dried/Iron, pick one) Rations 1 Flask of water 1 Flask of oil 1 Tinderbox 10 Flints 10 Sheepskins No 10 foot pole??!!?!