Darwin's theory is open at one end since there is no plausible account for the origins of life...The suggestion that Darwin's theory of evolution is like theories in the serious sciences - for example, quantum electrodynamics - is grotesque. Quantum electrodynamics is accurate to 13 unyielding decimal places. Darwin's theory makes no tight quantitative predictions all.
It seems as thought the scientific community is the group digging in and saying No don't try and explain the incongruities, just accept that it's all to hard and difficult for us mere mortals to understand. I understand the backlash against the Religious Right's contortion of ID into a Creationist curriculum, but that is no reason to abandon a line of thought that challenges the current theory.
I did in fact substanciate my rejection, I pointed out that first you sight a process which requires the existance of Time, and then you say that it all happened Before Time. This would seem to be contradictory, and is unprovable since it happened before the birth of time. So you must be taking it on Faith. I'm not judging that faith I am simply pointing out that it is there and thatyou defend it with a similar belligerent zeal that would often be found in a religious fundamentalist.
I agree that the term Intelligent Design has been usurped by the Bible beaters, but it really didn't start out that way. It is just the raising of some questions and offering of possible answers that run contrary to the current accepted belief. Should Newtonian Physics not be taught to school kids just because there are some subtle flaws? Of course not, but that doesn't mean Einstein was wrong to challenge those established ways of thinking. I'm not saying that ID is a sure thing, but it shouldn't be discarded just because some mega-church rednecks tried to warp it to fit their dogma. From:http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/Intelligent +design+creationism
Intelligent Design, theory that some complex biological structures and other aspects of nature show evidence of having been designed by an intelligence. Such biological structures are said to have intricate components that are so highly interdependent and so essential to a particular function or process that the structures could not have developed through Darwinian evolution evolution...... and therefore must have been created or somehow guided in their development. Although intelligent design is distinguished from creationism creationism or creation science, belief in the biblical account of the creation of the world as described in Genesis , a characteristic especially of fundamentalist Protestantism, by not relying on the biblical account of creation, it is compatible with a belief in God and is often explicitly linked with such a belief. Also, unlike creationists, its proponents do not challenge the idea that the earth is billions of years old and that life on earth has evolved to some degree. The theory does, however, necessarily reject standard science's reliance on explaining the natural world only through undirected natural causes, believing that any theory that relies on such causes alone is incapable of explaining how all biological structures and processes arose.
"Charles Thaxton referred to a theory that the presence of DNA in a living cell is evidence of a designing intelligence. We weren't political; we were thinking about molecular biology and information theory. This wasn't stealth creationism. The phrase became the banner that we rallied around throughout the early '90s. We wanted to separate ourselves from the strict Darwinists and the creationists."
Have you read any of the foundations of Intelligent Design? It has nothing to do with motivations of a Creator or advocating Creationism. It is an attempt to address certain aspects of modern science that need some explaining, such as the statistical improbablity of the random accumulation of the right molecules to acciedentlly form even one single celled organism. Add to that the chances of it happening on a life sustaining planet. Those with more book learnin than me have done the math and the chances are slim to the point of absurdity. All real Intelligent Design is saying is that there appears to be an intentional structure to the events between the Big Bang and now. This has unfortunately been jumped on and warped by Fundamentalists in much the same way they warp all good ideas. ID should still be discussed by the scientific community, it was not developed enough,nor intended to be, taught in elementary schools.
The matter was produced as the universe cooled to a point where matter could actually exist.
The universe cooled, as in a proccess or progression, something which would require the existance of time.
Who can realistically even talk about "before" the Big Bang? How can there be a before to Time?
It sounds like you are taking alot of these "facts" on Faith. You are denying the possiablity of something that confilcts with your worldview because you read it in a Big Book. We just don't understand because we aren't one of the annointed,sounds alot like Fundamentalism to me.
That would be fair considering the ideas put forth in the New Testament have never actually been accurately tried by a large group of people for a long enough time to study it's effects on health, quality of life, spiritual growth, etc. Maybe Bush would be willing to federally fund a 20 year study of a small utopian community based on actual New Testament priciples. All in the name of science. Thank you for your suggestion.
Probably not. Those same people would still be fiddling with the radio/talking on their cell phone/yelling at the kids in the backseat/putting on make-up/whatever, but now when they stop to rubberneck at an accident they would have to stop for a longer time so they could zoom in on all the morbid details.
Which is why we need to take control of evolution.
Do you mean like selective breeding? We could do that now and the long term benefits to the human race might be wonderful, if the angry mobs don't kill us first.
In many places Verizon is the only ISP. Any competitors have to lease bandwidth from Verizon. How do people in those areas remain part of the Internet Community and not finiancially support Verizon?
It's just the redistrabution of information, which some people can't seem to accept is now very easy to the point of being almost free. Ya'know like music distrabution. Don't like the fact that your job got taken over by a machine? Tell it to someone in the UAW.
So a guy that makes fun of congress trying to ban internet pr0n is in your opinon "right-wing", interesting. Come on, I think/. is if anything slightly liberal, and I live in NYC.
As I understood it, Google was the *least* conscious of all of them,
This kind of data collection is partially WHY Google has such a good product, tracking users is gonna be useful research if you are trying to make a more intuitive search engine. This is no different than the feds getting your credit card history or going through your trash, it doesn't make the card company or the trashcan EVIL.
Other artists are actually embracing the internet. Artists such as Phish, String Cheese Incident, etc. allow taping of their shows and actually encourage online trading of these live recordings.
These bands have several albums FULL of great songs, and they have been touring for years, it's easy for them to be professional musicians, they have talent. What are the one-hit-wonders supposed to do if everyone just pirates the one decent song they will ever write? How will the studios be able to manufacture the next boyband or pussycatdolls, if only talented musicians can make a profit? This world you envision is a cold dark place.
It's more like Blizzard saying "Fight your battle IRL, not in the middle of our business" Race relations and religious freedom are alot more established than GLBT acceptance, Blizzard doesn't want WoW to be a forum for social change, they want it to be a forum for slaughtering other gamers. Ten years from now when real world homophobia has been cleansed from middle America, the virtual world will reflect that.
It sounds like Blizzard was implementing a "don't ask, don't tell" policy. The guild can be GLBT friendly, advertising it as such could be construed as discussing sexual behaviour. Blizzard doesn't want sexual behaviour discussed on their game.
So yes, it's handled by the same network but it's exactly the same as a cable company's setup.
So is their IPTV gonna freeze up or stutter the way my current digital cable does? Great.
Yes, and an embryo is not a complete person. They aren't even vertabretes until week 3. This too is a slippery slope.
And no you can't do experiments on retards, the Secret Service won't let you.
The "potenial person" arguement could easliy be applied to sperm. Hence Old Testament laws against "spilling seed". We are all mass murders, by your logic.
If he sends these copies to his friends is he actually hurting the child porn industry in the same way that shareing mp3's hurts the music industry? Could his conviction be used as a defense against RIAA suits? Illegal copying of material generates more demand for said material?
Oh the way the Bill of Rights applied to the Native Americans 'cause they lived here. If you think this has changed try talking to someone traveling here with a passport from a former Eastern Block country. A friend of mine from Bulgaria takes three hours longer to pass through customs, body cavity search/luggage disasembled every single time. She has been living here legally for six years. Citizenship has it's privileges (TM) In regards to my original comment, how would the authorities know that you "live here" if you are unwilling to show ID?
The Bill of Rights is an amendment to The Constitution. The Constitution starts out "We the People of The United States of America..." If you aren't a citizen, you aren't part of that "We". No Bill of Rights, no Miranda Rights, no rights except those agreed upon with your nation of origin. Hard but true.
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I did in fact substanciate my rejection, I pointed out that first you sight a process which requires the existance of Time, and then you say that it all happened Before Time. This would seem to be contradictory, and is unprovable since it happened before the birth of time. So you must be taking it on Faith. I'm not judging that faith I am simply pointing out that it is there and thatyou defend it with a similar belligerent zeal that would often be found in a religious fundamentalist.
Have you read any of the foundations of Intelligent Design? It has nothing to do with motivations of a Creator or advocating Creationism. It is an attempt to address certain aspects of modern science that need some explaining, such as the statistical improbablity of the random accumulation of the right molecules to acciedentlly form even one single celled organism. Add to that the chances of it happening on a life sustaining planet. Those with more book learnin than me have done the math and the chances are slim to the point of absurdity. All real Intelligent Design is saying is that there appears to be an intentional structure to the events between the Big Bang and now. This has unfortunately been jumped on and warped by Fundamentalists in much the same way they warp all good ideas. ID should still be discussed by the scientific community, it was not developed enough,nor intended to be, taught in elementary schools.
That would be fair considering the ideas put forth in the New Testament have never actually been accurately tried by a large group of people for a long enough time to study it's effects on health, quality of life, spiritual growth, etc. Maybe Bush would be willing to federally fund a 20 year study of a small utopian community based on actual New Testament priciples. All in the name of science. Thank you for your suggestion.
Probably not. Those same people would still be fiddling with the radio/talking on their cell phone/yelling at the kids in the backseat/putting on make-up/whatever, but now when they stop to rubberneck at an accident they would have to stop for a longer time so they could zoom in on all the morbid details.
Yes, I'm sure if it was in the hands of Pfizer they would just give it away for free.
In many places Verizon is the only ISP. Any competitors have to lease bandwidth from Verizon. How do people in those areas remain part of the Internet Community and not finiancially support Verizon?
you must work for the Post Office.
It's just the redistrabution of information, which some people can't seem to accept is now very easy to the point of being almost free. Ya'know like music distrabution. Don't like the fact that your job got taken over by a machine? Tell it to someone in the UAW.
So a guy that makes fun of congress trying to ban internet pr0n is in your opinon "right-wing", interesting. Come on, I think /. is if anything slightly liberal, and I live in NYC.
It's more like Blizzard saying "Fight your battle IRL, not in the middle of our business" Race relations and religious freedom are alot more established than GLBT acceptance, Blizzard doesn't want WoW to be a forum for social change, they want it to be a forum for slaughtering other gamers. Ten years from now when real world homophobia has been cleansed from middle America, the virtual world will reflect that.
It sounds like Blizzard was implementing a "don't ask, don't tell" policy. The guild can be GLBT friendly, advertising it as such could be construed as discussing sexual behaviour. Blizzard doesn't want sexual behaviour discussed on their game.
So yes, it's handled by the same network but it's exactly the same as a cable company's setup. So is their IPTV gonna freeze up or stutter the way my current digital cable does? Great.
Embryos develop these qualities around week six. http://www.ncrtl.org/LifeLine.htm
Yes, and an embryo is not a complete person. They aren't even vertabretes until week 3. This too is a slippery slope. And no you can't do experiments on retards, the Secret Service won't let you.
The "potenial person" arguement could easliy be applied to sperm. Hence Old Testament laws against "spilling seed". We are all mass murders, by your logic.
If he sends these copies to his friends is he actually hurting the child porn industry in the same way that shareing mp3's hurts the music industry? Could his conviction be used as a defense against RIAA suits? Illegal copying of material generates more demand for said material?
Oh the way the Bill of Rights applied to the Native Americans 'cause they lived here. If you think this has changed try talking to someone traveling here with a passport from a former Eastern Block country. A friend of mine from Bulgaria takes three hours longer to pass through customs, body cavity search/luggage disasembled every single time. She has been living here legally for six years. Citizenship has it's privileges (TM) In regards to my original comment, how would the authorities know that you "live here" if you are unwilling to show ID?
Don't worry, your license will have an RFID tag someday soon. Heck,it might BE an RFID tag.
The Bill of Rights is an amendment to The Constitution. The Constitution starts out "We the People of The United States of America..." If you aren't a citizen, you aren't part of that "We". No Bill of Rights, no Miranda Rights, no rights except those agreed upon with your nation of origin. Hard but true.