How is this insightful? It's ignorantly simplistic and really just plain wrong as it completely ignores unicellular and/or asexual life. Why stop the tracing at 100 million years? Why not keep going back farther all the way to the first cells? Or the first protocells? Or even the first time two chemicals mixed to produce the first self-replicating molecule?
At the core of my old philosophy was the belief that all events are reducible to physical laws, which is perfectly sound when we are talking about the Universe in general, but fails to explain what we call "consciousness". Is consciousness an illusion, an emergent property of a sufficiently complex system? I don't think so, because it doesn't feel like it.
Well, I guess you just ruled out Relativity Theory. Looks like Newton was right after all.
But I don't think that includes people.
Why not? Aren't we physical beings? Our brains aren't some magic black box that we can never peer inside of and figure out how it works. Jeff Hawkings ideas on how the brain produces consciousness and intelligence, what he refers to as Hierarchical Temporal Memory, seem to do a pretty interesting job of beginning to explain why we experience the world as we do. Just because something is complicated and we don't understand it now doesn't mean we never will.
Claiming that the scientific basis of atheism is weak is just humorous. Religion is based not only on the lack of evidence, but in spite of it. I have no evidence of invisible pink unicorns that tapdance right behind me at all times, why should I believe in them? Because I can't disprove that they are there? I think atheism is the logical conclusion of lack of evidence for extraordinary claims.
What key questions about existance do you believe atheism can't answer? And how does it help to just say "Well, I don't know so it must've been God"?
Makes me wonder how the hell opera can be considered such a great artform then. Even the ones in English, I still can't ever understand what the hell they're singing. o.O
If they are so screwed up they can't keep track of their own paperwork, call your credit card company and get a chargeback on the card for the order you didn't want and sell the extra camera on Ebay. If they want that camera back, I'm sure that'll put a fire under their asses to get their stuff straight. Or, you end up with an extra camera to put up on Ebay. After all, if they say it never shipped, how can you send it back to them?
If there's one thing that humans are good at, it's adapting to new environments and situations. That's what that big thing we evolved called a neocortex helps us do. If the Earth changes enough, I'm sure we'll adapt. There are people living in environments ranging from the arctic to the desert and everywhere in between. Not that it's any excuse to go around purposely fucking things up, but if it happens, we'll deal.
Why should it disturb people that things be secular rather than religious? In what way is this a mistake? You mean it should disturb religious people. Which apparently it does because not everyone needs to believe in an invisible sky fairy without - nay, in spite of - any evidence, and they just can't fathom that there are people who don't.
How have these contributors to science limited their vision by choosing not to accept supernatural explanations for reality? To use God or the supernatural as an answer to natural questions answers nothing at all. It certainly doesn't answer the "why", for even IF a supernatural creator existed, how could we even presume to know the reasons?
Why do you consider someone who believes in something without or in spite of evidence to be enlightened? How is it forward thinking to say "God did it" and leave that as an explanation that requires no further thought or research and that answers nothing?
Viewing the website for the exhibit, I'm hard-pressed to find any examples of anti-Christian/anti-religious "attacks", unless you're talking about where the article mentions as a matter of history the religious beliefs as the state of biology before Darwin's theory came along. If you're talking about where the article states that Creationism and ID are not science, the article is simply stating a fact.
Where are these attacks? Facts of the article? Of course, Creationists have never been big on facts when it suits them...
Well hell, you can do even better than that. Since we already have a friggin' laser barcode scanner, you KNOW that there's a shark around there somewhere, so just have the conveyor belt drop them into the tank. This way, you save energy on not having to up the power of the laser, AND you're feeding the sharks. Anti-terrorist AND green friendly!
Nowhere there does it say that it sends that information back to Google. It just says that it mixes it into your websearches. I'm sure this is all done by the app on your local computer with none of that private info going back up the stream. It indexes all the stuff on your computer that you let it, not just Google-related products. That's kinda the point.
LHX Attack Helicopter? Wow, I remember that game for my old PC, quite a blast. If all those 5 1/4" floppies haven't been thrown out, I may have that lying around somewhere. As far as finding a drive to read it, that would be a little more difficult for me.
Actually, I believe your almost right. It shows that no matter where you go, there's bound to be an overabunance of redneck hicks whose "social life" consists of drinking until gut content rejection and life goals equating to seeing how pimp they can get their cars by adding on lots of useless shit. I would imagine people like these really don't give a fuck about politics. Hence, for example, the 49.3% voter turnout of 2000 in the US. Correlation = causation? You decide.
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How is this insightful? It's ignorantly simplistic and really just plain wrong as it completely ignores unicellular and/or asexual life. Why stop the tracing at 100 million years? Why not keep going back farther all the way to the first cells? Or the first protocells? Or even the first time two chemicals mixed to produce the first self-replicating molecule?
Well, I guess you just ruled out Relativity Theory. Looks like Newton was right after all.
But I don't think that includes people.
Why not? Aren't we physical beings? Our brains aren't some magic black box that we can never peer inside of and figure out how it works. Jeff Hawkings ideas on how the brain produces consciousness and intelligence, what he refers to as Hierarchical Temporal Memory, seem to do a pretty interesting job of beginning to explain why we experience the world as we do. Just because something is complicated and we don't understand it now doesn't mean we never will.
Claiming that the scientific basis of atheism is weak is just humorous. Religion is based not only on the lack of evidence, but in spite of it. I have no evidence of invisible pink unicorns that tapdance right behind me at all times, why should I believe in them? Because I can't disprove that they are there? I think atheism is the logical conclusion of lack of evidence for extraordinary claims.
What key questions about existance do you believe atheism can't answer? And how does it help to just say "Well, I don't know so it must've been God"?
Makes me wonder how the hell opera can be considered such a great artform then. Even the ones in English, I still can't ever understand what the hell they're singing. o.O
I guess now we know the reason for all those alien abductions.... they're probing our asses, not for experimental purposes, but as a fuel source!
Yeah, who needs all those port cities anyway? What were those stupid settlers thinking?!
Sadly, when I saw the lava fountain, the first thing that came to mind was TubGaia. :(
Get over your jealousy, retard AC. Not every post has to be an informative essay. Lighten up.
Fix their OS and (mostly) negate the need for yet another piece of seperate security software?
When the laugh track starts then the fun starts!
If they are so screwed up they can't keep track of their own paperwork, call your credit card company and get a chargeback on the card for the order you didn't want and sell the extra camera on Ebay. If they want that camera back, I'm sure that'll put a fire under their asses to get their stuff straight. Or, you end up with an extra camera to put up on Ebay. After all, if they say it never shipped, how can you send it back to them?
If there's one thing that humans are good at, it's adapting to new environments and situations. That's what that big thing we evolved called a neocortex helps us do. If the Earth changes enough, I'm sure we'll adapt. There are people living in environments ranging from the arctic to the desert and everywhere in between. Not that it's any excuse to go around purposely fucking things up, but if it happens, we'll deal.
How have these contributors to science limited their vision by choosing not to accept supernatural explanations for reality? To use God or the supernatural as an answer to natural questions answers nothing at all. It certainly doesn't answer the "why", for even IF a supernatural creator existed, how could we even presume to know the reasons?
Why do you consider someone who believes in something without or in spite of evidence to be enlightened? How is it forward thinking to say "God did it" and leave that as an explanation that requires no further thought or research and that answers nothing?
Where are these attacks? Facts of the article? Of course, Creationists have never been big on facts when it suits them...
Sure, got a billion years?
Well hell, you can do even better than that. Since we already have a friggin' laser barcode scanner, you KNOW that there's a shark around there somewhere, so just have the conveyor belt drop them into the tank. This way, you save energy on not having to up the power of the laser, AND you're feeding the sharks. Anti-terrorist AND green friendly!
I've come to the conclusion that all women are whackjobs, it's just a matter of degrees...
If your kid learned about it after reading Slashdot, can we sue Slashdot for posting the story? Can we sue multiple times for dupes?!
Correct. It's called a "piece". Song = lyrics. Scatting != lyrics.
Morpheus: Your mind makes it real. Neo: Whoohoo! Mouse, bring on the Woman In The Red Dress!
What happens if you just turn your computer off? Ping stops, here come the lawyers. Better keep that computer on!
Nowhere there does it say that it sends that information back to Google. It just says that it mixes it into your websearches. I'm sure this is all done by the app on your local computer with none of that private info going back up the stream. It indexes all the stuff on your computer that you let it, not just Google-related products. That's kinda the point.
I hadn't done a search on it yet, but you are still my new hero. :D
LHX Attack Helicopter? Wow, I remember that game for my old PC, quite a blast. If all those 5 1/4" floppies haven't been thrown out, I may have that lying around somewhere. As far as finding a drive to read it, that would be a little more difficult for me.
Actually, I believe your almost right. It shows that no matter where you go, there's bound to be an overabunance of redneck hicks whose "social life" consists of drinking until gut content rejection and life goals equating to seeing how pimp they can get their cars by adding on lots of useless shit. I would imagine people like these really don't give a fuck about politics. Hence, for example, the 49.3% voter turnout of 2000 in the US. Correlation = causation? You decide.
10 years? By that time, we should have free fusion power to run these computers too!