Science as Kansas sees it

Kansas City Star ^ | 11/6/05 | David Klepper

[LogicWings]

Is scientific materialism merely dialectical materialism.. cross dressed in/as another gender.?..

there is so much couching of terms these days to "spin"

Are you guys and gals practicing your irony? Or just have it down to a fine art?

[Alamo-Girl]

It's an art. Thanks for your post, LogicWings!

[Deadshot Drifter]

Where are the liberals?


under the bed. ;)

[HiTech RedNeck]

Conservatives. Moderates. No liberals?

[Non-Sequitur]

Conservatives. Moderates. No liberals?

None to speak of. Some around Lawrence but not many.

[Gumlegs]

I was one of them myself ... hard to believe, I know. This was when the film was first released.

[VadeRetro]

That's far better than the OCR stuff that came with my scanner some years ago. Cleaning up all the errors was almost as bad as typing it all over.

[js1138]

What I said is true. A good scan of well printed material is nearly perfect, and if you have the patience to respond to the automatic proofreading, it's better than 99.9 percent accurate. It even got the superscript on 18th, and the underlined words. If you want, it will preserve embellishments like bold, italic and font face and font size. Not perfectly, but pretty well, depending on the quality of the original.

My program is about four years old. They've improved since then. But if the original text is unclear or poorly typed, it's a mess.

[RadioAstronomer]

Cole's Law changes daily, at least in good diners.

LOL!!!!

[highball]

It is government funded religion called science

Why is it that when creationists want to disparage evolution they call it "religion"?

That never ceases to amaze me. We see it on these threads all the time. Tells you what they really think, doesn't it?

[Just mythoughts]

Well would you rather it be called a "cult"????

[b_sharp]

Dull?

Hah!

You can go ROR or ROL, your pick.

6502 has 2 registers; x and y
Depending on mode:
Load X: A2, A6, B6, AE, BE
Load Y: A0, A4, B4, AC, BC

(Yes I had to look most of these up)

[highball]

I just think it's interesting, that's all.

Religion is blind and science is enlightened, at least according to so many creationists.

No wonder they're so threatened by real science.

[b_sharp]

As I've said before, Doc Sarcastic, oops, Stochastic is a true artist.


I may not be around much for the next week or so, so try to keep Doc S. on his ToEs.

[furball4paws]

My sons keep telling me some people are born old, just like armadillos that are born dead by the side of the road.

[PatrickHenry]

Placemarker and plug for The List-O-Links.

[bondserv]

Thanks for the quotes.

I still haven't heard what either of their definitions of common descent is. Is it your belief that they are considering it to mean that all living things descend from single celled organisms of which we don't know how they came about?

This typical Darwinian definition seems to fly in the face of Behe's criticisms of the mechanisms being presented by Neo-Darwinists.

[js1138]

The transition from single-celled to multi-celled is lost, but there are many living species that are intermediate, colonies of independent cells.

We, and every other living thing, pass through a single cell phase.

[edweena]

mlc9852 wrote:
"Do the Catholics just rip Genesis out of their Bibles?"

No, they interpret it as a metaphor. Just as they are not required to believe that God really stopped the earth from spinning while the Israelites fought the Amorites (Joshua, Chapter 10, verse 13). Nor are they required to believe that Jonah actually survived in fish's belly for three days and nights.

But I sympathize with your point. Why not judge that the story of the crucifixion and resurrection are equally metaphorical--mythical events representing spiritual truths? That would be my interpretation. However Catholics are famous for their mysteries.

[mlc9852]

I don't understand how anyone reading Genesis would take it as a metaphor. I'm sure God knew evolution would be a big deal and that is why it specifically says "God created" so many times. But then both evolution and creation are accepted by faith I suppose. My faith is in the Bible. And I don't know why God couldn't stop the earth from rotating or anything else He wanted to do. I have a hard time picking and choosing my miracles. Either the Bible is true or it isn't.