BYU, the university run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (the Mormons), incudes evolution in it's biology classes. I had a professor last semester who specifically said "evolution is biological change over time. if you look around, it does happen. that doesn't mean we necessarily descended from monkeys, but it's possible, and a lot of people believe we did." The fact that the school teaches it doesn't mean that the church (or the school) is saying that it's true. What they're saying is "This is a theory that many people believe. You can make your own decision as to whether you believe it or not." As others have mentioned, the people who think that evolution is impossible within the realm of LDS belief are actually incorrect. The church authorities have not made any authoritative statements on the matter, and it is left up to the individual beliefs of the members. As such, some believe it is true, and some believe it isn't. However, some of the ones who believe it isn't true still agree that it's useful to learn, if for no other reason than to understand what other people believe. Personally, I've never understood why some religious people think that things like this should not be taught. Regardless of whether I agree with a scientific theory, I think that it's essential for people to learn what the theory is, and why some people believe it to be true. This is particularly essential, imho, in cases where the majority of people believe the theory to be true.
Trust me, if your daughter ends up becoming interested in programming when she finally gets to play with computers, she will *not* thank you for this. As a girl in CS who did not have any programming, hardware, etc. experience with computers until college, I can promise you that she will find herself far behind the majority of her classmates, and will likely become very frustrated with her lack of previous experience with computers.
I wish that I had been introduced to some of the more low-level parts of computers earlier in life. Starting out in college, trying to learn what many of the guys have known since they were 12 is very hard. It doesn't help that the other girls in the program are in the same position. This is one of the things that makes it hard for girls to go into (and stay in) CS.
Please! Let your daughter have the exposure to computers. If she's interested, let her get more involved and play with them, and explore. Encourage her to get down and dirty like the guys tend to do. It's for her own good!
~Maquis_00
Well, the Navy doesn't get to set up cool missile systems in space, so, they're going to set them up underwater... After all, it'd be hard for another country to see what's going on down there... A little less conspicuous than launching everything into space...:)
~Maquis
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BYU, the university run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (the Mormons), incudes evolution in it's biology classes. I had a professor last semester who specifically said "evolution is biological change over time. if you look around, it does happen. that doesn't mean we necessarily descended from monkeys, but it's possible, and a lot of people believe we did."
The fact that the school teaches it doesn't mean that the church (or the school) is saying that it's true. What they're saying is "This is a theory that many people believe. You can make your own decision as to whether you believe it or not."
As others have mentioned, the people who think that evolution is impossible within the realm of LDS belief are actually incorrect. The church authorities have not made any authoritative statements on the matter, and it is left up to the individual beliefs of the members. As such, some believe it is true, and some believe it isn't. However, some of the ones who believe it isn't true still agree that it's useful to learn, if for no other reason than to understand what other people believe.
Personally, I've never understood why some religious people think that things like this should not be taught. Regardless of whether I agree with a scientific theory, I think that it's essential for people to learn what the theory is, and why some people believe it to be true. This is particularly essential, imho, in cases where the majority of people believe the theory to be true.
did anybody else notice that the article says:
:)
"The Splashpower technology compromises two parts"
shouldn't that say "comprises"?? Minor difference in meaning...
Trust me, if your daughter ends up becoming interested in programming when she finally gets to play with computers, she will *not* thank you for this. As a girl in CS who did not have any programming, hardware, etc. experience with computers until college, I can promise you that she will find herself far behind the majority of her classmates, and will likely become very frustrated with her lack of previous experience with computers.
I wish that I had been introduced to some of the more low-level parts of computers earlier in life. Starting out in college, trying to learn what many of the guys have known since they were 12 is very hard. It doesn't help that the other girls in the program are in the same position. This is one of the things that makes it hard for girls to go into (and stay in) CS.
Please! Let your daughter have the exposure to computers. If she's interested, let her get more involved and play with them, and explore. Encourage her to get down and dirty like the guys tend to do. It's for her own good!
~Maquis_00
Well, the Navy doesn't get to set up cool missile systems in space, so, they're going to set them up underwater... After all, it'd be hard for another country to see what's going on down there... A little less conspicuous than launching everything into space... :)
~Maquis
In response to questions about mirrordot from mirrordot.org: "MirrorDot is not affiliated with Slashdot at all." --> it doesn't say whether or not it's sanctioned by /., but it does say they're not affiliated...
" MirrorDot, Inc. does try to consider the copyright issues with mirroring other sites and content. We look to things like Google's cache, Yahoo's cache, Coral, and the Way Back Machine as similar and "accepted." They all cache/mirror sites and serve them directly. Likewise, MirrorDot's mirrors are specifically transient - a page is automatically mirrored when it is linked from a Slashdot front page story, and the mirror is automatically deleted from MirrorDot a few days later. "
--> so, they're at least being careful about the legal issues...
" MirrorDot tries to be as "friendly" as possible to the sites we mirror. When mirroring images (like a site's banner ads and such), we only mirror images that are served from the same domain name as the site itself. MirrorDot does this specifically to allow content served from ad networks to not get mirrored - the original links in the HTML remain in-tact, so when someone hits our mirror, the ads should still be served by the ad network and the original site owner still gets credit for their ads, impressions, and clicks."
--> hmmm... another site mirroring your site, serving your ads, and giving you the credit for ads, impressions and clicks... i don't know that any sites would be too upset about this while they're suffering for /. effect :)
You need at least 5 to actually have the power to boot. 15 to play pong. :)
Well, he wants a 100$ computer... If he's looking for it to be running Windows, he'd better bump that up a bit! :)
1) pay attention to the pages that users visit on a daily (or almost daily) basis, and load them in tabs the first time that the user turns firefox on for the day 2) if a user consistently goes to a site, and then clicks a particular link on that site, with under a certain amount of time in between their arrival at the site, and the clicking of the link, auto-forward the user through that page, to the next
Don't just look at networking toward those people who are involved in tech companies... There are plenty of non-tech companies out there who need programs written, and networks maintained. Computers have become such a major part of life that just about every company needs computer people, regardless of what they do! Not only will you gain good experience, but you'll learn a lot of new, interesting things that are completely unrelated to computer science. The beauty of computer science is that it can be applied to anything!