[quote]Serious question here. Why is it acceptable for you to vote for a horrible candidate just because you consider the other candidate worse? Isn't it time we started expecting REAL leadership?[/quote] When was the last time this wasn't the norm?
[quote]Well, as the saying goes...if the shoe fits....[/quote] And apparently even if it doesn't. ;p
[quote]can enlighten me as to how Evolution Theory explains gravity.[/quote] It doesn't, why should it? Does the bible tell me temperature at 1.325 atmospheric pressure at which water boils? Does it tell me how to search through an ordered set in log(n) steps? Why is it you think evolutionary theory should have an answer for everything, when it makes no claims to do so? Quit fighting a strawman. [quote]Perhaps it's time for you to give your definition of ET.[/quote] life+time=ne
[quote]Just wondering....did you learn something about Karl Marx today?[/quote] That you'll grasp at any sort of straw to link him to evolution? [quote]I've summarised many of the issues raised in these comments in this article here and tried to answer what lula has said as best as my scientific knowledge allows me to. Feel free to check it out HERE!.[/quote] No offense meant and none really felt on my part, but I am just wondering the reason(s) why you keep "summarizing" pr
[quote]Much of the "generous" aid contributed by G8 countries came with requirements...[/quote] I am aware that many forms of aid come with strings attached. The tsunami aid you talk about. Did it really come from the countries or did it come from their businesses/private organizations? I myself was speaking of governmental or charitable aid. [quote]Many of these countries do have enough arable land and agriculture techniques (or aquaculture) to feed their people. The thing is, m
[quote]Oh did I write that out loud?[/quote] I could think of worse things. :SURPRISED: My friends and I (in high school) used to think up the best(most agonizing) ways to punish sex offenders. I think the best involved a rusty butter knife, a vice, and a burning building; and another involved sandpaper and salt water.
I probably wouldn't do it. I may lose my job if not, but I would wonder if the person was trying to set me up to take a fall in which case I might lose hireability. A job can be replaced, reputations can't always be repaired. If I was losing my job anyway, what's the point in risking future employment with other companies that might hear about this. That and I know the only people that would really suffer would be the poor guys replacing me, not the execs that made the decision to do so.
[quote]I can guarantee you there are a lot more than '10 or so PC gamers' who aren't permanently connected to the internet.[/quote] Especially when the paranoid among us disconnect in single player games so we can turn off our security programs for better performance.
[quote]I've helped people personally and seen the hate it engenders.[/quote] I hope it was only help they wanted. ;) I can understand the negative reactions to aid done mainly for foreign policy reasons and definitely the religiously motivated aid; but people complaining about disaster/medical/food relief is just plain looking a gift horse in the mouth. Oh, sure it might drive the local growers out of business, but (as you mentioned) the alternative is letting people starve. Maybe
As much as I feel for them, I have to agree with Texas Wahine. At least it sounds like, unlike what the first sentence of the original post almost seems to imply, that most of the villagers (also Muslim) didn't agree or condone the assault.
[quote]Obama believes the US govt invented AIDs to kill blacks and all that other malarky that Rev Wright exposed, either that or he's a total idiot. [/quote] People listen to a lot of marlarky in church that they don't necessarily believe 100%, what's new.
[quote]Apparently, you seem to think your categorization/definition of evolutionary theory is the only one that counts.[/quote]
[quote]I never said it was. But when you do give people fish, they're not always going to be as appreciative as you would like.[/quote] Hell, I can live without us appreciated, it would just be nice if we weren't hated for it.
[quote]So, in other words, there is no potential fossil evidence that you would consider proof. I'll ask again, what would constitute evidence of species change to you? I don't want to seem rude or disrespectful, but the question is really moot.[/quote] The question isn't moot, you just can't or don't want to answer it. Either you don't know what you would consider proof, or there is nothing that could possibly be discovered that you would consider proof. The way you avoid the quest
[quote] And if the fossil was found, would you accept it as such or claim it "was not human" or just a "short hunched over human"? What kind of fossil would be evidence to you? It happens that all the fossils that have been found so far are either 100% human DNA or 100% ape DNA. As for DNA evidence between ape and man...there's an extra chromosome in apes, we have one less. If you take a look at one of our chromosomes (the second, I believe) you'll see that it's actually 2
[quote]It requires belief in a book before belief in a creator though. Not really. Belief in the Creator God came by way of oral traditions passed down by Jewish people that would date back to Abraham and Moses. I think starting around 900 BC. and extending over a long period of time these traditions were put into writings which would form the first five books of the Old Testament. The Church which was formed in 33AD and belief in the Creator God came by way o
[quote]What was the species man was before he was a man for example and where is the fossil evidence of such a creature? [/quote] And if the fossil was found, would you accept it as such or claim it "was not human" or just a "short hunched over human"? What kind of fossil would be evidence to you? [quote]the origin of the world, the generation of living cells from non-living cells[/quote] You do realize these have little to nothing to do with evolutionary theory, don't you? I am
[quote]I've been the crank...you know what get me? When I go to the grocery store, or anywhere there is limited space for moving and many other people....never fails, some isle hogger will stand in the middle of the isle, thinking, looking at coupons, whatever. MOVE IT! I can't stand that. It's like they have totally forgotten they aren't alone in the world. Even at a fair or something, you will see people stop right in the middle of the boardwalk and just start chatting
[quote]I do believe [gaming] has its own culture at least as strong as Mexican culture[/quote] Ok, I'm just gonna have to walk away from this thread now.
[quote]What if Religion had admitted it was wrong?[/quote] Hmm, actually, would it still be religion? I mean most religions center around supposedly eternal, absolute, "objective", "perfect" truths. Admitting they were wrong would run counter to this.
[quote]Actually, it's still on-topic, for all I care. I believe gaming is a culture, and I was pretty much raised in it.[/quote] So does this gaming culture have a music, style of dress, menu of food items, or anything else unique to or originating from it? (MtDew and Doritos do not count, they predate it...and you'll have to come up with more than soundtracks to satisfy the music requirement.) I'm not saying gaming doesn't have a culture of sorts. Heck, Star Trek fandom has a c
It requires belief in a book before belief in a creator though.
[quote]It's definitely a literal account of creation; it's just that there is still some differences as to the interpretation of the Hebrew word "Yom" or day, the 24 hour period of time.[/quote] So until those interpretation issues are resolved, isn't it [I]effectively[/I] symbolic anyway.
[quote]open endedness couples with replay value, uniqueness and a great story.[/quote] Why don't you just ask for world peace while you're at it? ;) Seriously though, check out Homeworld (RTS), it is a classic. If you want a game with personality, see if you can hunt down a copy of Startopia (Sim?). Both are old, but I haven't found any new game that can measure up to them in their genres.
[quote]The word for day in Genesis 1 which is qualified by a number, the phrase, "evening and morning", and for day one the words, "light and darkness", obviously means an ordinary 24 hour day. I just can't see how anyone who is honest can get the idea of millions of years from that. ... It was on the fourth day that God made the sun, to be the giver of light to the earth.[/quote] Umm, how can you have "evening and morning" without the sun? [quote]Again, as to the real space
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