Mod parent up please. In contrast to the grandparent he knows what he's talking about (Probably that's why he's not a slashdot member or chose to stay anonymous:P)
I tried to keep the definition of creationits of my parent post, which in hindsight was a bad idea. I thought the original poster defined 'his' crationist as sombody who blieves in creation by god. As you pointed out, this makes every Christian a 'creationist'.
I mainly wanted to make a 'mod parent up' post which had a bit more than 'mod parent up' =)
I'm also always flamebaited when I hear Creationist (now using the 'normal' defintion) craptalk about evolution, espcially when they try to affect how children are educated, and needed to vent my irritation a bit =).
When a biology teacher says:
Evolution is the current theory about the development of species. There are a lot of proofs but also some things which are difficult to explain.
he's doing his job.
If he says:
Evolution is a theory by scientists, but it's wrong, since god created the world.
I've always been wondering how Creationists (the evolution denying bunch of them) could fail to leave space for the workings of God in evolution. If I play advocatus diaboli (from my point as current non-believer) I could even argue 'How could something like evolution happen by pure chance? Doesn't it need the (maybe subtle) actions of God?'.
If you take the time period 'day' in Creation as symbolical (eg replace it by 'a long period of time') you get all in all a pretty accurate recount of the current 'scientific' belief of how earth and finally we came to pass...
As the parent poster said, believing in creation by (a) God and accepting evolution (or any scintific account on earth's history) is not mutually exclusive except in the minds of extremists. So please, biology teachers, it's your job to teach evolution as the current state of research. It the job of religious education teachers to tell about creation and show pupils how evolution makes sense in this context.
Gosh, sometimes I just wish there was a god that could mod extremist creationist talkings -10 flamebait...
Thats not what the quoted article is talking about. Medicense that last 30 years past their Exp.?? Thats not hedging, thats is a lie.
It's not necessarily a lie. The medicine buissness is a very competitive one. Companies simply don't have the time for long tests. Or would you want to wait for a new life-saving medicine 25 years longer just because the company wants to check if its still good after 30 years?
I also want to advise people that you have to be very careful with medicienes. If one medicine was proven to be still ok 30 years after expiration, some others may not. Not only may they loose their beneficial effect, but the may also get adverse effects (Comaparable to the Contergan affair. Not a cause of expiery, but it shows how only a small chemical change can turn a perfectly working medical agent into something completely bad).
Saying all that, I completely cuncur to your statement about the inkjet cartridges. A warning is ok, rendering them useless is not.
As far as I can remember threatening to kill the president or encouraging others to do so is not only not protected, it's a criminal offense punishable by jail in the US (at least if you're not a senator according to one of Michael Moores books).
As far as I understand the ebuild system this won't work (at least without modding portage). The MD5sum is checked before the ebuild is executed and the package could be moddod by it.
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Mod parent up please. In contrast to the grandparent he knows what he's talking about (Probably that's why he's not a slashdot member or chose to stay anonymous :P)
I mainly wanted to make a 'mod parent up' post which had a bit more than 'mod parent up' =)
I'm also always flamebaited when I hear Creationist (now using the 'normal' defintion) craptalk about evolution, espcially when they try to affect how children are educated, and needed to vent my irritation a bit =).
When a biology teacher says: he's doing his job.
If he says: he should be fired.
OK, you're right =) Should have payed more attention in religious education back at school... ;-)
But earth-plants-animals-man is still not bad
Please mod parent up.
I've always been wondering how Creationists (the evolution denying bunch of them) could fail to leave space for the workings of God in evolution. If I play advocatus diaboli (from my point as current non-believer) I could even argue 'How could something like evolution happen by pure chance? Doesn't it need the (maybe subtle) actions of God?'.
If you take the time period 'day' in Creation as symbolical (eg replace it by 'a long period of time') you get all in all a pretty accurate recount of the current 'scientific' belief of how earth and finally we came to pass...
As the parent poster said, believing in creation by (a) God and accepting evolution (or any scintific account on earth's history) is not mutually exclusive except in the minds of extremists. So please, biology teachers, it's your job to teach evolution as the current state of research. It the job of religious education teachers to tell about creation and show pupils how evolution makes sense in this context.
Gosh, sometimes I just wish there was a god that could mod extremist creationist talkings -10 flamebait...
It's not necessarily a lie. The medicine buissness is a very competitive one. Companies simply don't have the time for long tests. Or would you want to wait for a new life-saving medicine 25 years longer just because the company wants to check if its still good after 30 years?
I also want to advise people that you have to be very careful with medicienes. If one medicine was proven to be still ok 30 years after expiration, some others may not. Not only may they loose their beneficial effect, but the may also get adverse effects (Comaparable to the Contergan affair. Not a cause of expiery, but it shows how only a small chemical change can turn a perfectly working medical agent into something completely bad).
Saying all that, I completely cuncur to your statement about the inkjet cartridges. A warning is ok, rendering them useless is not.
As far as I can remember threatening to kill the president or encouraging others to do so is not only not protected, it's a criminal offense punishable by jail in the US (at least if you're not a senator according to one of Michael Moores books).
In Germany such cameras are available from Pearl, though I don't which brand they are.
As far as I understand the ebuild system this won't work (at least without modding portage). The MD5sum is checked before the ebuild is executed and the package could be moddod by it.