It must just be your school, because I went to a public high school (in a very secular town) and learned all about not only pagan mythology, but Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as well. Of course, you could always complain that they never taught us much about Hinduism, and nothing at all about Baha'i.
The parent is right. When I went to school, we didn't learn about astrology, or the geocentric model of the Earth, or alchemy. Clearly those dogmatic "scientists" want to impose their theories of astronomy and heliocentrism and chemistry as fact!
There are no facts when it comes to how the universe was created.
Well, we're talking about evolution here, not cosmology; even if that weren't the case, while we obviously don't know how the universe started, empirical observations which can give us insight into the beginning of the universe, such as the cosmic background radiation, are facts.
Why can't a teacher tell his students that many people believe God created the universe?
Because it isn't a scientific belief. This isn't a matter of teaching about how people believed in geocentrism, or phlogiston, or the ether; it is a non-falsifiable claim.
This is not like telling students some new theory that someone thought up 5 minutes ago. People have believed in Christ for over 2000 years. It seems like it should be mentioned in the biology class.
You're right; it isn't some new theory. It isn't even a theory at all; it's an untestable model.
Many people believe God created everything, and as people, we're doing our best to describe and measure what he created. I'm not advocating replacing science text books with the bible. But to leave out something that a majority of people in the USA believe is wrong.
What people believe is a subject for an anthropology class, not a science class.
Intelligent Design really is a modern religious movement to get Creationism taught in schools, but the concept of teleology is certain appropriate material for a philosophy class; in fact, I did take philosophy in high school, and we did hear about Paley's watchmaker argument.
Does anyone still make sure their sites work in Mac IE 5? I mean, it has fewer users than Firefox or Safari or Opera; hell, probably more people use Lynx.
It's pretty well accepted that the ancestor of modern chess, chaturanga, originated in India. A small minority disputes this, claiming that it originated in China, which is plausible if not as likely. But I've never heard of any evidence that chess originated in any form in the Middle East.
I'm sorry if this sounds like flamebait, but for the amount of time and money people would spend to do this, why not just rip the damn CDs yourself? I mean, I understand that time is valuable, but if you have enough CDs that it would take a long time to rip them all, it would also cost a lot to use this service. I know for iTunes at least, you can have it automatically rip a CD when you insert it, and automatically eject when it's finished; you hardly have to pay attention at all. The tags might be a mess for less popular music, but that can easily be fixed up afterwards.
They even filmed scenes that were shown as cutscenes for Enter the Matrix that weren't shown in any of the movies. The idea was cool; it's too bad that the sequels and Enter the Matrix all sucked.
The Camel Book does talk a bit about optimization: it is documented behavior that DEBUG in this case will be inlined, and that the right-hand side of "0 and" will not be evaluated.
vi keybindings are indeed hard to learn; however, their advantage over emacs keybindings is that they were considerately designed with two-handed, ten-fingered typists in mind:)
I doubt there's any federal law against smoking at 16, because it's legal in my state (Illinois) to smoke at 16; however, it is illegal to buy cigarettes until one is 18. I know this because the town adjacent to where I live has outlawed smoking before 18.
I suppose you wouldn't mind if someone pushed you off a tall building then, not being biased in favor of the theory of gravity? After all, we have seen natural selection in the laboratory, but we have yet to actually observe any Higgs Bosons.
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Right; we only trust private agencies to do menial tasks like control the supply of money :)
No, no--it's coming through a door and she has to use the computer to lock it.
"This is a [Linux] system! I know this!"
Greenpeace is prone to terrorism? So was the World Trade Center, if by "prone to terrorism" you mean "the target of intentional attack against civilians."
It must just be your school, because I went to a public high school (in a very secular town) and learned all about not only pagan mythology, but Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as well. Of course, you could always complain that they never taught us much about Hinduism, and nothing at all about Baha'i.
The parent is right. When I went to school, we didn't learn about astrology, or the geocentric model of the Earth, or alchemy. Clearly those dogmatic "scientists" want to impose their theories of astronomy and heliocentrism and chemistry as fact!
Indeed it is.
There are no facts when it comes to how the universe was created.
Well, we're talking about evolution here, not cosmology; even if that weren't the case, while we obviously don't know how the universe started, empirical observations which can give us insight into the beginning of the universe, such as the cosmic background radiation, are facts.
Why can't a teacher tell his students that many people believe God created the universe?
Because it isn't a scientific belief. This isn't a matter of teaching about how people believed in geocentrism, or phlogiston, or the ether; it is a non-falsifiable claim.
This is not like telling students some new theory that someone thought up 5 minutes ago. People have believed in Christ for over 2000 years. It seems like it should be mentioned in the biology class.
You're right; it isn't some new theory. It isn't even a theory at all; it's an untestable model.
Many people believe God created everything, and as people, we're doing our best to describe and measure what he created. I'm not advocating replacing science text books with the bible. But to leave out something that a majority of people in the USA believe is wrong.
What people believe is a subject for an anthropology class, not a science class.
Intelligent Design really is a modern religious movement to get Creationism taught in schools, but the concept of teleology is certain appropriate material for a philosophy class; in fact, I did take philosophy in high school, and we did hear about Paley's watchmaker argument.
Does anyone still make sure their sites work in Mac IE 5? I mean, it has fewer users than Firefox or Safari or Opera; hell, probably more people use Lynx.
It's pretty well accepted that the ancestor of modern chess, chaturanga, originated in India. A small minority disputes this, claiming that it originated in China, which is plausible if not as likely. But I've never heard of any evidence that chess originated in any form in the Middle East.
Games also aren't very realistic, either. Though to be fair, maybe the League of Polygon-Deficient Americans has cause for concern.
I'm sorry if this sounds like flamebait, but for the amount of time and money people would spend to do this, why not just rip the damn CDs yourself? I mean, I understand that time is valuable, but if you have enough CDs that it would take a long time to rip them all, it would also cost a lot to use this service. I know for iTunes at least, you can have it automatically rip a CD when you insert it, and automatically eject when it's finished; you hardly have to pay attention at all. The tags might be a mess for less popular music, but that can easily be fixed up afterwards.
Actually, new Macs ship with Mighty Mouses, though by default they behave as one-button mice.
I think troll tuesday is supposed to be a little more subtle than that, you motherfucker.
They even filmed scenes that were shown as cutscenes for Enter the Matrix that weren't shown in any of the movies. The idea was cool; it's too bad that the sequels and Enter the Matrix all sucked.
Worth mentioning (though it has already been covered here on /.) is that this is the first closed-source version.
Obviously perl -de42 is superior.
The Camel Book does talk a bit about optimization: it is documented behavior that DEBUG in this case will be inlined, and that the right-hand side of "0 and" will not be evaluated.
vi keybindings are indeed hard to learn; however, their advantage over emacs keybindings is that they were considerately designed with two-handed, ten-fingered typists in mind :)
The law is merely a temporal instrument of Man, but St. IGNUcius is ordained by $DEITY.
We're not talking about the guys who built the web here, Walter; this guy used ActiveX on my website.
RTFL. "Proceed" in that sense is intransitive.
Don't worry--all of a poster's links have rel="nofollow" unless they have a karma bonus.
I doubt there's any federal law against smoking at 16, because it's legal in my state (Illinois) to smoke at 16; however, it is illegal to buy cigarettes until one is 18. I know this because the town adjacent to where I live has outlawed smoking before 18.
I suppose you wouldn't mind if someone pushed you off a tall building then, not being biased in favor of the theory of gravity? After all, we have seen natural selection in the laboratory, but we have yet to actually observe any Higgs Bosons.