Except that it's a proven fact that people can't tell when their eyes have changed. I noticed my brother's glasses weren't working for him before he did. We were watching TV and he couldn't read some small-but-not-tiny text on the screen that the rest of us could read. He thought he was fine until he came over to our house. Then he went to the optometrist and found out that he was way off, so bad that he shouldn't have been driving that way.
Why shouldn't scientific challenges to a scientific theory be studied in science classes. You actually prefer our children to be force-fed a single view without critically thinking about it?
If the creationists are full of it, won't they be as easily dismissed as flat earthers? After all, the flat earth challenges are allowed to be discussed despite being obviously false.
Why is this bad? Science, by definition, studies the natural. The supernatural and miraculous is excluded by science a priori because it's, you know, supernatural.
I've witnessed an exorcism. I can assure you that a thin teenage girl who can throw off 6 youth pastors, speak in a male voice that's way too low for her and foam excessively at the mouth like someone fed her shampoo with her eyes rolled back in her head cannot be explained by most scientists. In fact, most will tell me in doesn't exist, even though it does. The Bible on the other hand has no trouble explaining this phenomena.
And then there are bigots who, without understanding other groups at all, perceive themselves to be experts in all areas because they studied in one of them. They go on to be nanny-state politicians because they clearly know what's best for everyone without doing any research.
I changed my chandelier to dimmable LEDs and they work great. When I told my kids that they were rated to last 47 years, they asked who was getting them in my will.
Nonsense. I used to change light bulbs every 2-3 years. I haven't changed my current set of CFLs in over 8 years. The first one finally died the other day. The other 30 are going strong.
This is simply not true across the board. I bought CFLs when they first came out. I spent $150 on them for all the bulbs in my house, so they were pricey. But I saved $30 PER MONTH in electricity costs (granted, I am in SoCal, where electricity is pretty high), giving me an ROI of 5 months. So even though the first set may have died in a year or two, I already made back my money many times over.
The next set I bought has not burned out at all for about 8 years. Finally, one bulb died and my kids (12 and 14) were literally like that commercial. They were like, "The lamp's broken." I said, "Did you replace the bulb?" They stared at me like they had no idea what I meant. Then they said, "Oh, yeah, we didn't think of that." Why? Because they have never seen someone replace a light bulb in their entire lives.
Normally, in a free society, any interactions with Law Enforcement would be above board and you would be notified. That would be known as due process. This would be called an unreasonable search and seizure by the Founding Fathers of the US.
Moses is closer to 1500 BC. It would be interesting to do a DNA search to see how many mutations he has in his DNA. I think Genetics gives a much more scientific and reliable date than radiometric dates, which are shown to be wrong on materials with known dates.
First, you would have to enslave an entire race that was invited into your country with promises of a nice life. Think more like the Civil War and less like a serial killer. "If you continue to enslave these people, we will be at war."
We had a COBOL programmer that was 74 years old and just didn't show up one day because he died. He was a great guy doing what he loved until the very end. And he was fairly up-to-date with mainframe internet code.
Exactly this. I just got hired for an HTML5/CSS3 position and I'm 42. I could speak intelligently about it in the interview and they appreciated that. But I just got done working with a guy that wished everything was still in C++ and that.NET didn't exist. I was surprised they could still find stuff for him to do (mostly SQL and bug fixes in old stuff). If he ever gets laid off, he's in serious trouble.
And yet MS Office for home only cost me $99 for 3 licenses (and I've installed it more than that as computers have expired without hassle). At $33 per computer, I think I can afford the real thing.
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Except that it's a proven fact that people can't tell when their eyes have changed. I noticed my brother's glasses weren't working for him before he did. We were watching TV and he couldn't read some small-but-not-tiny text on the screen that the rest of us could read. He thought he was fine until he came over to our house. Then he went to the optometrist and found out that he was way off, so bad that he shouldn't have been driving that way.
Why shouldn't scientific challenges to a scientific theory be studied in science classes. You actually prefer our children to be force-fed a single view without critically thinking about it? If the creationists are full of it, won't they be as easily dismissed as flat earthers? After all, the flat earth challenges are allowed to be discussed despite being obviously false.
Why is this bad? Science, by definition, studies the natural. The supernatural and miraculous is excluded by science a priori because it's, you know, supernatural. I've witnessed an exorcism. I can assure you that a thin teenage girl who can throw off 6 youth pastors, speak in a male voice that's way too low for her and foam excessively at the mouth like someone fed her shampoo with her eyes rolled back in her head cannot be explained by most scientists. In fact, most will tell me in doesn't exist, even though it does. The Bible on the other hand has no trouble explaining this phenomena.
And then there are bigots who, without understanding other groups at all, perceive themselves to be experts in all areas because they studied in one of them. They go on to be nanny-state politicians because they clearly know what's best for everyone without doing any research.
I changed my chandelier to dimmable LEDs and they work great. When I told my kids that they were rated to last 47 years, they asked who was getting them in my will.
Nonsense. I used to change light bulbs every 2-3 years. I haven't changed my current set of CFLs in over 8 years. The first one finally died the other day. The other 30 are going strong.
This is simply not true across the board. I bought CFLs when they first came out. I spent $150 on them for all the bulbs in my house, so they were pricey. But I saved $30 PER MONTH in electricity costs (granted, I am in SoCal, where electricity is pretty high), giving me an ROI of 5 months. So even though the first set may have died in a year or two, I already made back my money many times over.
The next set I bought has not burned out at all for about 8 years. Finally, one bulb died and my kids (12 and 14) were literally like that commercial. They were like, "The lamp's broken." I said, "Did you replace the bulb?" They stared at me like they had no idea what I meant. Then they said, "Oh, yeah, we didn't think of that." Why? Because they have never seen someone replace a light bulb in their entire lives.
There were no cameras when they took it. May 1st secretly installed cameras after the original theft (a seizure requires notification).
Actually, the organization is called May 1st. They seized it in late April and returned it after May 1st. Coincidence?
Normally, in a free society, any interactions with Law Enforcement would be above board and you would be notified. That would be known as due process. This would be called an unreasonable search and seizure by the Founding Fathers of the US.
Land of the free, and all that...
Moses is closer to 1500 BC. It would be interesting to do a DNA search to see how many mutations he has in his DNA. I think Genetics gives a much more scientific and reliable date than radiometric dates, which are shown to be wrong on materials with known dates.
MVC makes things way faster and so does LINQ when used judiciously. WPF/XAML does make things difficult at times.
Wait? You mean there are restrooms in NYC?
Because there is so much scientific evidence.
Yes, I suggest that all atheists read the Bible cover to cover.
You could just read the New Testament if your attention span is too short.
That would greatly improve the quality of religious posts around here.
You didn't ask a scientific question. You asked a theological one. And the responder just told you to RTFM. Classic Slashdot, if you ask me.
Yes, all those hospitals that Christians keep starting are really threatening our survival. Wait, no. They are actually ensuring it.
Well, maybe it's all those universities they keep founding and those warlike tribes they keep civilizing.
Wait...what was the question?
Also, remember that the Egyptians had been killing all male Israelite babies systematically for decades except Moses, who was adopted by the princess.
First, you would have to enslave an entire race that was invited into your country with promises of a nice life. Think more like the Civil War and less like a serial killer. "If you continue to enslave these people, we will be at war."
It's supposed to be illegal to feed cows cows in the US.
We had a COBOL programmer that was 74 years old and just didn't show up one day because he died. He was a great guy doing what he loved until the very end. And he was fairly up-to-date with mainframe internet code.
Exactly this. I just got hired for an HTML5/CSS3 position and I'm 42. I could speak intelligently about it in the interview and they appreciated that. But I just got done working with a guy that wished everything was still in C++ and that .NET didn't exist. I was surprised they could still find stuff for him to do (mostly SQL and bug fixes in old stuff). If he ever gets laid off, he's in serious trouble.
And I've rarely seen more than a 3-fold increase in pay.
And yet MS Office for home only cost me $99 for 3 licenses (and I've installed it more than that as computers have expired without hassle). At $33 per computer, I think I can afford the real thing.