"It is disingenuous for Biologos to claim no evidence for Adam and Eve for several reasons. First, their conclusions are based on evolutionary assumptions. One cannot legitimately claim something to be proven without testing the assumptions behind that claim. To do otherwise amounts to circular reasoning and question begging, and a rejection of any alternative theory following from this is thus reduced to nothing more than a straw man argument. Second, the majority of data fit nicely into the straightforward biblical model, including a single starting couple a mere 6,000 years ago. While there are several unresolved issues with the biblical model as it relates to the data at hand, the same can be said about every evolutionary model, so one cannot conclude that the Bible has been invalidated by the available evidence. Albert Einstein is rumored to have opined, “A thousand experiments cannot prove me right. A single experiment can prove me wrong.” This is sound logic. Francis Collins and BioLogos would do well to heed his advice."
Carmack's ability to talk non-stop without notes or prompting for 1.5hrs is astounding!!
The relevant part of the video relating to this Slashdot article starts around 1hr 17min 50sec
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zgYG-_ha28#t=4666s
Oh no, I hope they didn't get the source code. Imagine what kind of security exploits and backdoors they may discover by having access to the source!!....oh wait
I live in Australia and last time I tried to use Amazon music was told that is isn't available to my region/country. I know there are proxy services that can get around that, but it's just as easy for me to fire up iTunes on a VM and download from there!
NRO (Number Resource Organization) had a press conference on 3rd Feb where they formally handed out the last 5/8 blocks of IPv4 space to the regional bodies. For anyone who missed the live stream, the recorded video can be viewed here:
meat-flavored sauce? Don't you mean meat-smelling sauce...? After all, *you* are meat flavored - you don't require any special sauce to achieve that.
You're not a vegetarian by any chance are you?
I've got it working *most* of the time under Ubuntu 8.10...does that count?
It irks me how it will work 9 times out of 10 and then fail on the 10th for no apparent reason. Just work or don't work damn it!!
Actually, come to think of it the suspend part always works - at least in so far as it always goes to a power-off state without errors. The resume is another thing though.
I agree. I'm a unix sysadmin, but recently had to do some Windows admin on the side - man it was frustrating and I could just feel my blood pressure rising as I battled to make the damn thing do what it was supposed to do! Weeks of that would certainly drive me insane.
I pity guys I know who have no experience in anything other than the Windows way. I ask them 'why do you put up with systems that you have to restart periodically in order to keep running?' and they just shrug.
This is what I predict:
In the millions of years it will take for Evolution to be observed in any meaningful way civilisations will rise and fall, the theory of Evolution will be forgotten, and new ways to ignore God will have taken it's place
I use Ebay Australia and couldn't agree more! I avoid PayPal, much preferring direct bank deposit.
The last time I tried to use PayPal I was unable to as they had my card number in their database and wouldn't let me transact without logging in first. Problem was, I couldn't remember my login details and my attempts to have them sent to me were totally frustrated by all sorts of hoops I had to jump through!
For anyone who's interested to see more of the older/Amiga demos that may not run on the modern PC, there is a DVD available:
http://www.mindcandydvd.com/
(I'm not associated with the people that made this - I just bought it and enjoyed it:) There's also some great behind the scenes + making of footage
I for one have a moral principle that stops me from copying games/music/videos that are available for sale in shops or online stores. I don't do it because it does *feel* like stealing to me. I don't care what popular opinion says - I have to answer to my conscience.
I must say that copyright infringement in itself is not such a big deal to me, hence why I don't have an issue with downloading/copying old games/music/videos that you can't even buy second-hand, let alone new.
I saw that doco too awhile back. A couple of points they make about Technobrega in the film: - the Technobrega artist usually 'samples' other mainstream artist's music pretty heavily which in itself is a copyright violation - the money made from Technobrega is in the large outdoors concerts they put on, which is a very Brazlian past-time which I think would work so well in western countries
Here's a thought experiment to illustrate my point: Imagine that all medical research and treatment, everywhere in the US from now on, had to adhere to strict supervision by a board of politicians and clergy with fundamentalist views. Now wait 100 years. What do you think the state of US medical technology would be in such a case? Why conduct a thought experiment? Look at history for an analogy. Both UK and US were at one time Christian nations - a fundamentalist Christianity. The rule-of-law, democracy, freedoms, dare I say it - science, that you and I benefit from today are a flow-on from solid foundations laid down in those times.
I'm loving the controversy this whole thing is stirring up - to see the die hard humanistic evolutionists working themselves into a lather over one museum in the middle of nowhere setup by a bunch of 'nobodys'. It reminds me of that scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:28-29 - "He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things--and the things that are not--to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him."
If I sincerely believed that there was no God and that I came about by chance through a series of random mutations over millions of years, then I'd be pretty uncomfortable knowing that there is a rising tide of educated,intelligent, well-equipped 'fundys' beginning to erode the foundation on which I'd built my worldview.
Romans 1:20 - "For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse."
Before I am convinced I need to know a good program under Ubuntu to:
Edit photos I've been using The Gimp and am getting to like it more and more.
Edit music Check this this link
I've used Audacity myself for basic stuff. I've heard Ardour is good too.
Emulate windows Ahh, the holy grail. There are no simple answers here. You may be best off sticking with Windows if you have one critical app that you need to use frequently. Give WINE a try first though.
I recently tried the latest Ubuntu and Fedora Core distros hoping to make the long-anticipated switch, however I still cannot successfully resume from a suspend-to-RAM (or hardisk) with either. It's probably that I've got some weird unsupported hardware in my machine, but needless to say, this works flawlessly under WinXP. It's a real a show stopper for me as I hate waiting for my machine to boot up every time and I'm not going to just leave it running when idle. So...until my hardware is supported or I get new hardware that is supported, I won't be switching to Linux on the desktop. It really bugs me that such a small thing is holding me back, but the reality is that WinXP does everything I need right now. I should mention that I've been using Linux on the server-side for many years and am very happy with it there:)
The aviation industry has long been aware of the reliability issues associated with GPS positioning and, as a consequence, most aviation authorities don't allow pilots to navigate soley by GPS.
Just last year, Australia's aviation authority, CASA, opened the way for airlines to navigate soley by the use of highly accurate GPS systems - GPS coupled with RAIM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAIM) and augmented by WAAS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Area_Augmentati on_System). Even with all that, there must also be alternative nav aids available as a backup.
My understanding of the vaccine in question is that it works by attacking HPV *not* the cancer itself. To call the vaccine a 'cervical cancer vaccine' is simply misleading. It may be that tying it to the word 'cancer' will get better coverage in the media and therefore awareness in the general community, however I think it will also create confusion and ignorance. Also, it may send out a message that 'so long as you've got the vaccine, you're OK!'. The reality is that you can contract HPV and not develop cervical cancer, and vice versa - develop cervical cancer without contracting HPV!
How is this relevant and why does it matter?
The controversy is about whether to make the vaccine mandatory or not. If people are going to make an educated decision on whether they want the vaccine to be mandatory or not, there needs to be no ambiguity about the fact that this is a HPV vaccine. HPV is the horse that pulls the cart (in most cases) - that's what should be focused on here.
I suspect that some proponents of mandatory vaccination would like to blur the distinction between the following questions:
1) Am I at *any* risk of developing cervical cancer?. Answer: Always yes - regardless of lifestyle choices.
2) Am I at *any* risk of contracting HPV?. Answer: Sometimes yes, often no - based directly on lifestyle choices.
Slashdot Mirror
Creation Ministries International have put together this article which rebuts the claims of BioLogos:
http://creation.com/historical-adam-biologos
The conclusion of the article reads:
"It is disingenuous for Biologos to claim no evidence for Adam and Eve for several reasons. First, their conclusions are based on evolutionary assumptions. One cannot legitimately claim something to be proven without testing the assumptions behind that claim. To do otherwise amounts to circular reasoning and question begging, and a rejection of any alternative theory following from this is thus reduced to nothing more than a straw man argument. Second, the majority of data fit nicely into the straightforward biblical model, including a single starting couple a mere 6,000 years ago. While there are several unresolved issues with the biblical model as it relates to the data at hand, the same can be said about every evolutionary model, so one cannot conclude that the Bible has been invalidated by the available evidence. Albert Einstein is rumored to have opined, “A thousand experiments cannot prove me right. A single experiment can prove me wrong.” This is sound logic. Francis Collins and BioLogos would do well to heed his advice."
Carmack's ability to talk non-stop without notes or prompting for 1.5hrs is astounding!! The relevant part of the video relating to this Slashdot article starts around 1hr 17min 50sec http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zgYG-_ha28#t=4666s
Oh no, I hope they didn't get the source code. Imagine what kind of security exploits and backdoors they may discover by having access to the source!!....oh wait
I live in Australia and last time I tried to use Amazon music was told that is isn't available to my region/country. I know there are proxy services that can get around that, but it's just as easy for me to fire up iTunes on a VM and download from there!
The most interesting part was the question & answer time in the second video.Below is list of the questions asked together with the video time:
Questions
NRO (Number Resource Organization) had a press conference on 3rd Feb where they formally handed out the last 5 /8 blocks of IPv4 space to the regional bodies. For anyone who missed the live stream, the recorded video can be viewed here:
http://www.nro.net/media-center/video-archive-3-february-2011
I've never owned any Sony products (not even a walkman) but I must say I'm seriously considering buying a PS3 now!
There's a video up on youtube from BusinessWeek which gives a nice overview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g71ULBQv208
meat-flavored sauce? Don't you mean meat-smelling sauce...? After all, *you* are meat flavored - you don't require any special sauce to achieve that. You're not a vegetarian by any chance are you?
I've got it working *most* of the time under Ubuntu 8.10...does that count? It irks me how it will work 9 times out of 10 and then fail on the 10th for no apparent reason. Just work or don't work damn it!! Actually, come to think of it the suspend part always works - at least in so far as it always goes to a power-off state without errors. The resume is another thing though.
I agree. I'm a unix sysadmin, but recently had to do some Windows admin on the side - man it was frustrating and I could just feel my blood pressure rising as I battled to make the damn thing do what it was supposed to do! Weeks of that would certainly drive me insane.
I pity guys I know who have no experience in anything other than the Windows way. I ask them 'why do you put up with systems that you have to restart periodically in order to keep running?' and they just shrug.
This is what I predict: In the millions of years it will take for Evolution to be observed in any meaningful way civilisations will rise and fall, the theory of Evolution will be forgotten, and new ways to ignore God will have taken it's place
I use Ebay Australia and couldn't agree more! I avoid PayPal, much preferring direct bank deposit.
The last time I tried to use PayPal I was unable to as they had my card number in their database and wouldn't let me transact without logging in first. Problem was, I couldn't remember my login details and my attempts to have them sent to me were totally frustrated by all sorts of hoops I had to jump through!
I don't expect I'll be using Ebay again.
For anyone who's interested to see more of the older/Amiga demos that may not run on the modern PC, there is a DVD available: http://www.mindcandydvd.com/ (I'm not associated with the people that made this - I just bought it and enjoyed it :) There's also some great behind the scenes + making of footage
I for one have a moral principle that stops me from copying games/music/videos that are available for sale in shops or online stores. I don't do it because it does *feel* like stealing to me. I don't care what popular opinion says - I have to answer to my conscience.
I must say that copyright infringement in itself is not such a big deal to me, hence why I don't have an issue with downloading/copying old games/music/videos that you can't even buy second-hand, let alone new.
Samsung U3 plays ogg files, however it doesn't seem to support tags in ogg files.
I saw that doco too awhile back. A couple of points they make about Technobrega in the film:
- the Technobrega artist usually 'samples' other mainstream artist's music pretty heavily which in itself is a copyright violation
- the money made from Technobrega is in the large outdoors concerts they put on, which is a very Brazlian past-time which I think would work so well in western countries
I'm loving the controversy this whole thing is stirring up - to see the die hard humanistic evolutionists working themselves into a lather over one museum in the middle of nowhere setup by a bunch of 'nobodys'. It reminds me of that scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:28-29 - "He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things--and the things that are not--to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him."
If I sincerely believed that there was no God and that I came about by chance through a series of random mutations over millions of years, then I'd be pretty uncomfortable knowing that there is a rising tide of educated,intelligent, well-equipped 'fundys' beginning to erode the foundation on which I'd built my worldview.
Romans 1:20 - "For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse."
Edit photos I've been using The Gimp and am getting to like it more and more.
Edit music Check this this link I've used Audacity myself for basic stuff. I've heard Ardour is good too. Emulate windows Ahh, the holy grail. There are no simple answers here. You may be best off sticking with Windows if you have one critical app that you need to use frequently. Give WINE a try first though.
I recently tried the latest Ubuntu and Fedora Core distros hoping to make the long-anticipated switch, however I still cannot successfully resume from a suspend-to-RAM (or hardisk) with either. It's probably that I've got some weird unsupported hardware in my machine, but needless to say, this works flawlessly under WinXP. It's a real a show stopper for me as I hate waiting for my machine to boot up every time and I'm not going to just leave it running when idle. So...until my hardware is supported or I get new hardware that is supported, I won't be switching to Linux on the desktop. It really bugs me that such a small thing is holding me back, but the reality is that WinXP does everything I need right now. I should mention that I've been using Linux on the server-side for many years and am very happy with it there :)
The aviation industry has long been aware of the reliability issues associated with GPS positioning and, as a consequence, most aviation authorities don't allow pilots to navigate soley by GPS. Just last year, Australia's aviation authority, CASA, opened the way for airlines to navigate soley by the use of highly accurate GPS systems - GPS coupled with RAIM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAIM) and augmented by WAAS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Area_Augmentati on_System). Even with all that, there must also be alternative nav aids available as a backup.
My understanding of the vaccine in question is that it works by attacking HPV *not* the cancer itself. To call the vaccine a 'cervical cancer vaccine' is simply misleading. It may be that tying it to the word 'cancer' will get better coverage in the media and therefore awareness in the general community, however I think it will also create confusion and ignorance. Also, it may send out a message that 'so long as you've got the vaccine, you're OK!'. The reality is that you can contract HPV and not develop cervical cancer, and vice versa - develop cervical cancer without contracting HPV!
How is this relevant and why does it matter?
The controversy is about whether to make the vaccine mandatory or not. If people are going to make an educated decision on whether they want the vaccine to be mandatory or not, there needs to be no ambiguity about the fact that this is a HPV vaccine. HPV is the horse that pulls the cart (in most cases) - that's what should be focused on here.
I suspect that some proponents of mandatory vaccination would like to blur the distinction between the following questions:
1) Am I at *any* risk of developing cervical cancer?. Answer: Always yes - regardless of lifestyle choices.
2) Am I at *any* risk of contracting HPV?. Answer: Sometimes yes, often no - based directly on lifestyle choices.
From the article - "Neuros's open source obsession.." ... would that be open source neurosis? :p