When the main arguement for Intelligent Design can be summed up as "Evolution is wrong, therefore Intelligent Design is Right" - they can be said to be diametrically opposed.
"The wedge strategy is a political and social action plan authored by the Discovery Institute, the hub of the intelligent design movement. The strategy was put forth in a Discovery Institute manifesto known as the Wedge Document,[1] which describes a broad social, political, and academic agenda whose ultimate goal is to "defeat [scientific] materialism" represented by evolution, "reverse the stifling materialist world view and replace it with a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions"[2] and to "affirm the reality of God."[3] Its goal is to "renew" American culture by shaping public policy to reflect conservative Christian, namely evangelical Protestant, values.[4]"
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This is not an institution that allows for fairness or equality. This is not an institution that cares about or understands the scientific viewpoint. This is an organization that is idealogically opposed to the idea of evolution, and seeks to make that ideology public policy.
Shit, if you believe that screed you're posting, you probably still think Islam is a "religion of peace" too don't you?
You're confusing a rational view of Science and religion with the extreme views held by the Intelligent Design movement. This is why so many people are pissed off at attempts to teach Intelligent Design in our schools, it's a philosophy diametrically opposed to Science.
Make it an obsession. If you're already going, step it up to one more night a week, clear your schedule so you can spend a solid month of working out pretty much every day. Read bodybuilding magazines and follow the workouts in them, grab a friend to make the trip with you.
Don't look for information on the internet, it's all about trying to sell you shit you don't need.
You'll get results inside of a month, and if you keep it up, you'll get even better results after six months to a year. It might take too long for Amy to notice, but you'll get yourself a date at least.
Those are words, english words, quite a few of them in fact. They're arranged in a structurally sound fashion, with verbs and nouns and punctuation and so forth in the right positions, and I can give you a pretty good definition for what all those words mean.
But the specific combination makes absolutely no sense. It's like you created a mad-lib of pseudo-scientific new age nonsense. Please, whatever meds you're on, stop taking them.
Or start taking them, if that happens to be the problem.
That statement applies Intelligent Design \ Creationism advocates, not Christians as a whole.
And yes, if you take what they're saying at face value, they really believe that "God created everything" is a perfectly acceptable substitute for evolutionary theory. As such, there is no need to look in to how the Universe was created, how we got here, why animals behave the way they do, etc. Hell, do away with the entire field of biology while you're at it!
Plant and animal matter require an energy source to grow (Normally the Sun, but I guess others would work) - they're merely a roundabout way of collecting that energy.
I always thought it was a dig on that anti-piracy campaign that went something along the lines of "When you download movies off the internet, you're supporting terrorism."
The most complete article I can google up comes, oddly enough, from Kuro5hin.
Some Guy named Rick McCallum shot off his mouth about how Piracy and Terrorism are the same.
I don't know about the states (I'm living in Germany with the Military, so the only english-language TV we get here is AFN) - but the anti-drug campaign that runs along similar lines is still going strong here, with a bunch of kids talking gravely about how they helped kill police officers and fund criminals when they're doing drugs is still going strong.
There is a (small) amount of support for the arguement, physically pirated discs (as opposed to bittorrent downloads) - are usually pressed by organized crime in Asia. A bit of the money they make off that probably ends up in the hands of one terrorist organization or another.
Same with Drugs, the Poppy fields in Afghanistan provide the vast majority of funds for the insurgency there.
how does one acquire skills? How does one apply learned information to the real world? How do you solve problems, especially ones that you've never seen before? Oh. Right. Intelligence.
If it were just the 2000 election, I might have been willing to credit dumb luck and no small amount of cheating to the victory. In 2004, however, he somehow managed to get elected again despite having one of the lowest (might be THE lowest as I've seen some people claim, never seen that claim backed up though) - approval ratings for an incumbent president in history. That doesn't happen by accident.
The way I see it, either he himself is a genius, or he's surrounded himself by genius advisors, in which case he's at least smart enough to take their advice.
Bush is a political genius. I don't agree with his policies any more than most people on Slashdot, but the way he's going about getting things done is evidence of being extremely intelligent.
The "Bushisms" nonsense is an act he puts on to make Joe Sixpack like him more, and thus vote for him.
Current forms of energy production take energy stored in various forms (coal, oil, etc.) - and release it into the global system.
If you need to produce a given amount of energy, you can do so with stored reserves, and introduce that much energy into the global system, or you can do it with solar power beamed down from the satellite. That same amount of energy is being introduced either way.
I realize the point you're trying to make, but if you introduce more solar energy into the system while simultaniously cutting back the amount of energy produced from your stored reserves, the net result is that no additional energy is introduced!
Unless you want to pretend that keeping oil stored in the ground, or in a tank somewhere is the same as burning it for energy.
The idea behind global warming is the increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere which traps existing energy rather than allowing it to escape out into space. If the decrease in emissions allows more energy to escape than is being introduced into the system, you have a net benefit as far as global warming is concerned.
Secondly, if you produce energy through Solar power like this that you otherwise would have produced using oil, you aren't producing a net increase in energy. The oil is still stored there, not introduced into the global system. Indeed, energy from ANY source, including nuclear, increases the amount of energy introduced into the global system.
The only differences between using solar power as opposed to oil or nuclear are one of these is likely to be more efficient (damned if I know which one) - and Solar power is renewable until the sun runs out, at which point we've got bigger problems to worry about.
biggest employers are Halliburton and KBR. They can usually find a position for you unless you're completely unskilled.
A google search for Jobs in Iraq, or Civilian contractor jobs reveals a whole bunch of sites. If you've got a tech background, you're going to want to have a security clearance (Either pre-existing, or hire on with a company willing to process the paperwork for you) - if you want to get a good job out there.
And if you want to come back in one piece, look for jobs that involve staying on base, maintaining equipment. Anything with the word "Convoy" in the job description is just right out.
No no, he's got a good point. He might not even know it, really, but he's right.
In this case it might be one of those "Stopped clocks right twice a day" scenarios though. I don't know.
Despite the source, This Article is depressingly accurate. Having been over there (A couple months in Baghdad, a couple more on a podunk FOB in Afghanistan) - I can tell you contractors are paid massive amounts of money, and the companies behind those contractors are being paid even more just to ensure people are on the ground. They negotiate a number of slots to fill with the government, and get paid for filling them, regardless of whether the people filling those slots can actually do the job or not.
Some Bureaucrat in the states then sits back and collects the money for it. And if one of those civilians gets blown along the way?
Chances are their boss laughs about it all the way to the bank.
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When the main arguement for Intelligent Design can be summed up as "Evolution is wrong, therefore Intelligent Design is Right" - they can be said to be diametrically opposed.
You will note that the Wedge Strategy of the Discovery Institute which... Well, I'll just quote from the article:
"The wedge strategy is a political and social action plan authored by the Discovery Institute, the hub of the intelligent design movement. The strategy was put forth in a Discovery Institute manifesto known as the Wedge Document,[1] which describes a broad social, political, and academic agenda whose ultimate goal is to "defeat [scientific] materialism" represented by evolution, "reverse the stifling materialist world view and replace it with a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions"[2] and to "affirm the reality of God."[3] Its goal is to "renew" American culture by shaping public policy to reflect conservative Christian, namely evangelical Protestant, values.[4]"
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This is not an institution that allows for fairness or equality. This is not an institution that cares about or understands the scientific viewpoint. This is an organization that is idealogically opposed to the idea of evolution, and seeks to make that ideology public policy.
Shit, if you believe that screed you're posting, you probably still think Islam is a "religion of peace" too don't you?
"God did it, says here in the Bible"
You're confusing a rational view of Science and religion with the extreme views held by the Intelligent Design movement. This is why so many people are pissed off at attempts to teach Intelligent Design in our schools, it's a philosophy diametrically opposed to Science.
I was thinking about that when I posted, but couldn't for the life of me remember who had said it, or what the sentence was.
Hit the Gym dude.
Make it an obsession. If you're already going, step it up to one more night a week, clear your schedule so you can spend a solid month of working out pretty much every day. Read bodybuilding magazines and follow the workouts in them, grab a friend to make the trip with you.
Don't look for information on the internet, it's all about trying to sell you shit you don't need.
You'll get results inside of a month, and if you keep it up, you'll get even better results after six months to a year. It might take too long for Amy to notice, but you'll get yourself a date at least.
Good Luck,
- Mike
Those are words, english words, quite a few of them in fact. They're arranged in a structurally sound fashion, with verbs and nouns and punctuation and so forth in the right positions, and I can give you a pretty good definition for what all those words mean.
But the specific combination makes absolutely no sense. It's like you created a mad-lib of pseudo-scientific new age nonsense. Please, whatever meds you're on, stop taking them.
Or start taking them, if that happens to be the problem.
That statement applies Intelligent Design \ Creationism advocates, not Christians as a whole.
And yes, if you take what they're saying at face value, they really believe that "God created everything" is a perfectly acceptable substitute for evolutionary theory. As such, there is no need to look in to how the Universe was created, how we got here, why animals behave the way they do, etc. Hell, do away with the entire field of biology while you're at it!
In recent days Orwellian novels aren't so much a warning to the masses, as a checklist for those in charge.
Give it time, they'll get to that point.
This would just be so precious if you're from the UK
Under that definition, no resource is renewable.
Plant and animal matter require an energy source to grow (Normally the Sun, but I guess others would work) - they're merely a roundabout way of collecting that energy.
There's a reason geeks haven't made easy-to-use tech to fill every niche yet.
Job Security.
I always thought it was a dig on that anti-piracy campaign that went something along the lines of "When you download movies off the internet, you're supporting terrorism."
The most complete article I can google up comes, oddly enough, from Kuro5hin.
Some Guy named Rick McCallum shot off his mouth about how Piracy and Terrorism are the same.
I don't know about the states (I'm living in Germany with the Military, so the only english-language TV we get here is AFN) - but the anti-drug campaign that runs along similar lines is still going strong here, with a bunch of kids talking gravely about how they helped kill police officers and fund criminals when they're doing drugs is still going strong.
There is a (small) amount of support for the arguement, physically pirated discs (as opposed to bittorrent downloads) - are usually pressed by organized crime in Asia. A bit of the money they make off that probably ends up in the hands of one terrorist organization or another.
Same with Drugs, the Poppy fields in Afghanistan provide the vast majority of funds for the insurgency there.
Death Threats against Bhutto were often public.
Whichever organization killed her probably announced their intention to do so beforehand.
You're either an Idiot or a troll.
Probably both.
Goodnight!
how does one acquire skills? How does one apply learned information to the real world? How do you solve problems, especially ones that you've never seen before? Oh. Right. Intelligence.
If it were just the 2000 election, I might have been willing to credit dumb luck and no small amount of cheating to the victory. In 2004, however, he somehow managed to get elected again despite having one of the lowest (might be THE lowest as I've seen some people claim, never seen that claim backed up though) - approval ratings for an incumbent president in history. That doesn't happen by accident.
The way I see it, either he himself is a genius, or he's surrounded himself by genius advisors, in which case he's at least smart enough to take their advice.
Bush is a political genius. I don't agree with his policies any more than most people on Slashdot, but the way he's going about getting things done is evidence of being extremely intelligent.
The "Bushisms" nonsense is an act he puts on to make Joe Sixpack like him more, and thus vote for him.
Dunno, There are plenty of smart, unsuccessful people, but I've yet to meet a successful, dumb person.
You seem to be confused.
Current forms of energy production take energy stored in various forms (coal, oil, etc.) - and release it into the global system.
If you need to produce a given amount of energy, you can do so with stored reserves, and introduce that much energy into the global system, or you can do it with solar power beamed down from the satellite. That same amount of energy is being introduced either way.
I realize the point you're trying to make, but if you introduce more solar energy into the system while simultaniously cutting back the amount of energy produced from your stored reserves, the net result is that no additional energy is introduced!
Unless you want to pretend that keeping oil stored in the ground, or in a tank somewhere is the same as burning it for energy.
The idea behind global warming is the increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere which traps existing energy rather than allowing it to escape out into space. If the decrease in emissions allows more energy to escape than is being introduced into the system, you have a net benefit as far as global warming is concerned.
Secondly, if you produce energy through Solar power like this that you otherwise would have produced using oil, you aren't producing a net increase in energy. The oil is still stored there, not introduced into the global system. Indeed, energy from ANY source, including nuclear, increases the amount of energy introduced into the global system.
The only differences between using solar power as opposed to oil or nuclear are one of these is likely to be more efficient (damned if I know which one) - and Solar power is renewable until the sun runs out, at which point we've got bigger problems to worry about.
Yeah.
Fuck off.
biggest employers are Halliburton and KBR. They can usually find a position for you unless you're completely unskilled.
A google search for Jobs in Iraq, or Civilian contractor jobs reveals a whole bunch of sites. If you've got a tech background, you're going to want to have a security clearance (Either pre-existing, or hire on with a company willing to process the paperwork for you) - if you want to get a good job out there.
And if you want to come back in one piece, look for jobs that involve staying on base, maintaining equipment. Anything with the word "Convoy" in the job description is just right out.
No no, he's got a good point. He might not even know it, really, but he's right.
In this case it might be one of those "Stopped clocks right twice a day" scenarios though. I don't know.
Despite the source, This Article is depressingly accurate. Having been over there (A couple months in Baghdad, a couple more on a podunk FOB in Afghanistan) - I can tell you contractors are paid massive amounts of money, and the companies behind those contractors are being paid even more just to ensure people are on the ground. They negotiate a number of slots to fill with the government, and get paid for filling them, regardless of whether the people filling those slots can actually do the job or not.
Some Bureaucrat in the states then sits back and collects the money for it. And if one of those civilians gets blown along the way?
Chances are their boss laughs about it all the way to the bank.
Woosh!
Eh, I'm not a lawyer.
My Bad.
Bittorrent.