I don't care what the effects of ID are, it sure as hell isn't worth 40,000 bucks to study it. Canadian taxpayers have better things to spend money on.
Clearly whoever at PBS wrote this has read nothing of what Intelligent Design proponents have said about the human eye. In his book Darwin's Black Box, Michael Behe argues that it is the light sensitive cell itself which is irreducably complex. Therefore, the evolution of the eye as described in the PBS article (and in Darwin's Origin of Species) could not be correct. He diagrams the complex biochemical structure of a single light sensitive structure and argues that even it could not have evolved by chance. I encourage everyone to read his book, even if you disagree with it, it is an interesting education on biochemistry.
If people want to debate ID, fine. But I just wish they would read the ID arguments before attacking them.
The Open Document standard is basically zipped XML files, so they were already ahead of Microsoft Office as far as that goes (just another incorrect assertion from the article). The stuff about Open Office being 100 times slower sounds like pure lies designed to influence people who have never used Open Office. Granted the early versions of Open Office were slower, but not by anything like 100 times. And the newer versions are improving on this.
I have both Open Office and MS Office open right now and neither is using significant memory.
This is an OPINION piece!!! Every news organization includes editorials. In this case the opinion happens to be wrong, but then again, the NY Times has wrong opinions on its editorial page every day.
Not very scientific. Just because you have 3 accounts doesn't mean that everyone does. Just because you posted 2421 comments doesn't mean that that is the average.
I followed the link and looked over the data. I don't know exactly how they compiled that, but it doesn't look right to me. I am a former resident of Massachusetts, and of the 5 states I have lived in it was by far the most expensive in terms of taxes. The yearly car tax they have there is especially painful.
Why would anyone blame the federal government? Why didn't the state or the city take care of this themselves if it was so critical? Both Louisiana and New Orleans have the authority to tax and to spend the money as they see fit. It is absurd that Americans look to the federal government for everything. Whether the President is a Republican or Democrat, he is not going to be able to take care of all of us.
I don't think this should have been modded flamebait. I love linux as much as the next guy on slashdot, but there are some legit complaints here. But the myth about having to recompile the kernel everytime you install a driver is just that, a myth. You only have to do that if the driver is not a shared object. But I have to admit, even I get frustrated when compiling an application on linux on finding out I don't have such and such library installed. I wish the people who distributed the app would just give me everything I need up front. But maybe there are reasons that they don't, I just don't know what they are. The problem, though, is that Windows isn't perfect either. I have spent many frustrating hours trying to get stuff working on Windows, not to mention their horrible security makes me more vulnerable to viruses and spyware.
I guess the implication of your post is that ID is not scientific while evolution is. In that case, is there an experiment that can prove/disprove the evolution of species of animals?
The biblical gospels were written by men who were alive when Jesus was.
I read the original article and there are a number of problems with it, too many to go into here. One example though, while writing about the early Church, the author states: "The Church had such power over people, that to question the Church could result in death". This is completely wrong. Up until 315 AD, Christianity was illegal and being a Christian could result in death. Despite this, Christianity still spread greatly in those early days.
"If you go get an MRI or an X-ray you're benefitting from some of the same technology and body of knowledge that allows us to date fossils. How can a person stand up and denounce evolution in one minute, and in the next go get a chest X-ray?"
Intelligent Design makes no claims on the age of the earth. I would call myself a proponent of ID, but I don't claim that the earth is only 6000 years old. Do you have any criticisms of ID itself or do you only have a problem with those who believe in a "young" earth? By the way, X-rays and radioactivity are not exactly the same thing, but I understand the point you are making.
From the article:
Behe believes that the vertebrate eye, along with several other biological functions, is irreducibly complex. He tries to show that this is a fatal flaw in evolution because there would be no selection pressure for the intermediate steps in the construction of an irreducibly complex function. While this may seem reasonable, there is a clear way around this problem. Behe completely neglects the possibility that the eye, and other irreducibly complex systems evolved in steps in which the function of the system changed. In fact, Darwin anticipated this challenge in Origin of Species and gave a reasonable explanation of how this very thing could have happened with the eye (217).
A problem I have seen regarding the ID discussion is that many people writing/commenting on the debate don't know either side very well. The above quote is quite misleading. Darwin's explanation of how an eye evolved presumed that a light-sensitive structure already existed, and then the eye evolved from that. This idea is perhaps not unreasonable. But Behe starts with the light-sensitive structure and demonstates that it in itself is so complex that it could not have evolved on its own, ie. it is "irreducibly complex". Now of course, this claim has been debated, but I think Behe makes a pretty convincing argument in his book "Darwin's Black Box". It would be nice to see people read the book and give it a chance before attacking all of the ID proponents.
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"...and have to hook up complicated hardware..."
Its just a router, its really not that complicated. Vonage works just fine.
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Furthermore, since Massachusetts pay $1.21 to the USA in income taxes for every $1 the USA spends in Massachusetts, I feel as if the other 49 states "owed" us the Big Dig.
There are very few states that get as much or more from the Federal government as they pay in taxes. There is a huge bureaucracy in Washington to support after all, so there is no way all of the money can come back. I feel the Big Dig was very wasteful, however, one could argue that every state has its own wasteful projects. The Big Dig just takes it to a new level.
Furthermore, since Massachusetts pay $1.21 to the USA in income taxes for every $1 the USA spends in Massachusetts, I feel as if the other 49 states "owed" us the Big Dig.
There are very few states that get as much or more from the Federal government as they pay in taxes. There is a huge bureaucracy in Washington to support after all, so there is no way all of the money can come back.
I feel the Big Dig was very wasteful, however, one could argue that every state has its own wasteful projects. The Big Dig just takes it to a new level.
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I don't care what the effects of ID are, it sure as hell isn't worth 40,000 bucks to study it. Canadian taxpayers have better things to spend money on.
Keep in mind this is a missile DEFENSE system, ie. its purpose is not to kill but to prevent people from being killed.
Clearly whoever at PBS wrote this has read nothing of what Intelligent Design proponents have said about the human eye. In his book Darwin's Black Box, Michael Behe argues that it is the light sensitive cell itself which is irreducably complex. Therefore, the evolution of the eye as described in the PBS article (and in Darwin's Origin of Species) could not be correct. He diagrams the complex biochemical structure of a single light sensitive structure and argues that even it could not have evolved by chance. I encourage everyone to read his book, even if you disagree with it, it is an interesting education on biochemistry. If people want to debate ID, fine. But I just wish they would read the ID arguments before attacking them.
What is PDC?
Yes, because as everyone knows, all of the world's major religions prohibit space exploration.
I could have sworn I read somewhere that the ILM guys used Linux machines to do their CGI for Star Wars. Maybe I am wrong though.
The Open Document standard is basically zipped XML files, so they were already ahead of Microsoft Office as far as that goes (just another incorrect assertion from the article). The stuff about Open Office being 100 times slower sounds like pure lies designed to influence people who have never used Open Office. Granted the early versions of Open Office were slower, but not by anything like 100 times. And the newer versions are improving on this. I have both Open Office and MS Office open right now and neither is using significant memory.
This is an OPINION piece!!! Every news organization includes editorials. In this case the opinion happens to be wrong, but then again, the NY Times has wrong opinions on its editorial page every day.
Not very scientific. Just because you have 3 accounts doesn't mean that everyone does. Just because you posted 2421 comments doesn't mean that that is the average.
I followed the link and looked over the data. I don't know exactly how they compiled that, but it doesn't look right to me. I am a former resident of Massachusetts, and of the 5 states I have lived in it was by far the most expensive in terms of taxes. The yearly car tax they have there is especially painful.
Why would anyone blame the federal government? Why didn't the state or the city take care of this themselves if it was so critical? Both Louisiana and New Orleans have the authority to tax and to spend the money as they see fit. It is absurd that Americans look to the federal government for everything. Whether the President is a Republican or Democrat, he is not going to be able to take care of all of us.
I don't think this should have been modded flamebait. I love linux as much as the next guy on slashdot, but there are some legit complaints here. But the myth about having to recompile the kernel everytime you install a driver is just that, a myth. You only have to do that if the driver is not a shared object. But I have to admit, even I get frustrated when compiling an application on linux on finding out I don't have such and such library installed. I wish the people who distributed the app would just give me everything I need up front. But maybe there are reasons that they don't, I just don't know what they are. The problem, though, is that Windows isn't perfect either. I have spent many frustrating hours trying to get stuff working on Windows, not to mention their horrible security makes me more vulnerable to viruses and spyware.
That was just kind of a half-joke on my part, you know how lawyers like to file extremely frivolous lawsuits.
Of course not, so why should they be held responsible for what people do over their Internet connection?
You are obviously not thinking like a lawyer.
I guess the implication of your post is that ID is not scientific while evolution is. In that case, is there an experiment that can prove/disprove the evolution of species of animals?
Dumbass - You not only spelled Karl Rove's name wrong, but you spelled favorable wrong. Why are liberals so stupid?
Skylab was the US space station, I think you mean Mir.
The biblical gospels were written by men who were alive when Jesus was. I read the original article and there are a number of problems with it, too many to go into here. One example though, while writing about the early Church, the author states: "The Church had such power over people, that to question the Church could result in death". This is completely wrong. Up until 315 AD, Christianity was illegal and being a Christian could result in death. Despite this, Christianity still spread greatly in those early days.
"If you go get an MRI or an X-ray you're benefitting from some of the same technology and body of knowledge that allows us to date fossils. How can a person stand up and denounce evolution in one minute, and in the next go get a chest X-ray?"
Intelligent Design makes no claims on the age of the earth. I would call myself a proponent of ID, but I don't claim that the earth is only 6000 years old. Do you have any criticisms of ID itself or do you only have a problem with those who believe in a "young" earth? By the way, X-rays and radioactivity are not exactly the same thing, but I understand the point you are making.
From the article: Behe believes that the vertebrate eye, along with several other biological functions, is irreducibly complex. He tries to show that this is a fatal flaw in evolution because there would be no selection pressure for the intermediate steps in the construction of an irreducibly complex function. While this may seem reasonable, there is a clear way around this problem. Behe completely neglects the possibility that the eye, and other irreducibly complex systems evolved in steps in which the function of the system changed. In fact, Darwin anticipated this challenge in Origin of Species and gave a reasonable explanation of how this very thing could have happened with the eye (217).
A problem I have seen regarding the ID discussion is that many people writing/commenting on the debate don't know either side very well. The above quote is quite misleading. Darwin's explanation of how an eye evolved presumed that a light-sensitive structure already existed, and then the eye evolved from that. This idea is perhaps not unreasonable. But Behe starts with the light-sensitive structure and demonstates that it in itself is so complex that it could not have evolved on its own, ie. it is "irreducibly complex". Now of course, this claim has been debated, but I think Behe makes a pretty convincing argument in his book "Darwin's Black Box". It would be nice to see people read the book and give it a chance before attacking all of the ID proponents.
"...and have to hook up complicated hardware..."
Its just a router, its really not that complicated. Vonage works just fine.
I never thought I would say this, but I couldn't agree more with Hillary Clinton.
OK, I screwed up my Html tags, here is what I meant to post:
Furthermore, since Massachusetts pay $1.21 to the USA in income taxes for every $1 the USA spends in Massachusetts, I feel as if the other 49 states "owed" us the Big Dig.
There are very few states that get as much or more from the Federal government as they pay in taxes. There is a huge bureaucracy in Washington to support after all, so there is no way all of the money can come back. I feel the Big Dig was very wasteful, however, one could argue that every state has its own wasteful projects. The Big Dig just takes it to a new level.
Furthermore, since Massachusetts pay $1.21 to the USA in income taxes for every $1 the USA spends in Massachusetts, I feel as if the other 49 states "owed" us the Big Dig. There are very few states that get as much or more from the Federal government as they pay in taxes. There is a huge bureaucracy in Washington to support after all, so there is no way all of the money can come back. I feel the Big Dig was very wasteful, however, one could argue that every state has its own wasteful projects. The Big Dig just takes it to a new level.
Good point! I suppose we should just kill everyone in the world and then no one will ever be sick again.