Grand Canyon Made By Noah's Flood, Book Says (Geologists Skewer Park For Selling Creationism)

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | January 8, 2004 | Julie Cart, Los Angeles Times

[edwin hubble]

Congratulations

Wonderful News.

Last time there was a beautiful sonnet. I was Really impressed.

[CobaltBlue]

Talking about quark made me crave some, so I bought a tub at Whole Food this evening. Think I'll see how it tastes on baked potatoes tomorrow, although it might be tastier on sweet things. (The Austrians call it "topfen".)

I was trying to decipher the meaning - some websites say that "quark" means curd - but the closest German translation of curd is "klumpen." But if you look in a German-English dictionary (I have a medium sized Cassells), it says that "quark" is curds, then it veers off into slime, filth, trifle, rubbish, and trash.

My husband, whose mother was a German war bride, says his grandmother called cottage cheese quark.

Have you ever made cheese? You add rennet (an enzyme) to milk, stir briefly and then let it set (coagulate). It becomes thick, an1 if you stir it, it makes lumps. You separate the lumps (curds) from the whey (thin yellowish clear liquid) and if you drain them, that's farmer's cheese or cottage cheese, and if you press that some more and age it, you have cheese.

So from now on, when I think of quarks, I will think of lumps in the fluids that make up the universe.

[CobaltBlue]

Talking about quark made me crave some, so I bought a tub at Whole Food this evening. Think I'll see how it tastes on baked potatoes tomorrow, although it might be tastier on sweet things. (The Austrians call it "topfen".)

I was trying to decipher the meaning - some websites say that "quark" means curd - but the closest German translation of curd is "klumpen." But if you look in a German-English dictionary (I have a medium sized Cassells), it says that "quark" is curds, then it veers off into slime, filth, trifle, rubbish, and trash.

My husband, whose mother was a German war bride, says his grandmother called cottage cheese quark.

Have you ever made cheese? You add rennet (an enzyme) to milk, stir briefly and then let it set (coagulate). It becomes thick, an1 if you stir it, it makes lumps. You separate the lumps (curds) from the whey (thin yellowish clear liquid) and if you drain them, that's farmer's cheese or cottage cheese, and if you press that some more and age it, you have cheese.

So from now on, when I think of quarks, I will think of lumps in the fluids that make up the universe.

[general_re]

- Three quarks for Muster Mark!
Sure he hasn't got much of a bark
And sure any he has it's all beside the mark.
But O, Wreneagle Almighty, wouldn't un be a sky of a lark
To see that old buzzard whooping about for uns shirt in the dark
And he hunting round for uns speckled trousers around by Palmer-
stown Park?
Hohohoho, moulty Mark!
You're the rummest old rooster ever flopped out of a Noah's ark
And you think you're cock of the wark.
Fowls, up! Tristy's the spry young spark
That'll tread her and wed her and bed her and red her
Without ever winking the tail of a feather
And that's how that chap's going to make his money and mark!

[Alamo-Girl]

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Physicist!

And "welcome to our world" Miss Sophia Rhiannon Sterner!

[general_re]

Congrats to Physicist. Man, three girls. The heck with that - I only have one, and she's a demon on wheels ;)

[RadioAstronomer]

Whooohooo! Physicist will love the replies! :-)

I am honored to be the messenger. :-)

[cookcounty]

" Scientific discourse attempts to be precise and thus uses terms in a specific but often narrow way."

......Unless your name is Richard Dawkins. Wanting to explain how random processes could end up producing wonderfully intricate complexity, he writes a book for the unenlightened and in a fit of irrationality, entitles it "The Blind Watchmaker."

He would have demonstrated a greater seriousness if he had called it "The Big Blind Bag of Sand," but Dawkins required a "Watchmaker," that is,

A person,
intelligent
creative
imaginative
and purposeful.

(albeit, blind).

Dawkins, like quite a few others in science, has no comprehension at all that "Scientific discourse attempts to be precise and thus uses terms in a specific but often narrow way."

[RightWingAtheist]

Rhiannon ---- Welsh Witch! --- Devilution/Evilution ---- Rock Music Worship ----> Wicked Witch of the West --- I'm melting!

Why, even f.christian is happy for you, Physicist :-)

[RightWingAtheist]

My sister was given the middle name Isis by my mother, who thought it was the name of the Egyptian goddess of love. She still kept it even after we told her it was actually the name of the Egyptian goddess of fertility.

[MHGinTN]

Isn't Sophia the Goddess of Wisdom?

[Doctor Stochastic]

Congratulation to you amd Mrs. Physicist.

[RightWingAtheist]

Yes, although the goddess usually associated with knowledge or science is Athena (also known as Minerva).

One of my favorite ironies is that the patron saint of scientists is Saint Albertus Magnus- which in English, means Albert the Great. As if that weren't enough, he was born in the province of Swabia, and Ulm (Einstein's birthplace) is located on edge of its historical border.

[LibWhacker]

Congratulations, Physicist! And thanks for the ping, RA.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Was the Grand Canyon of Mars also produced by a great flood? Did the surviors ride a space ark to colonize Earth?

[MHGinTN]

Thank you! That was fun to find out about Albert.

[CobaltBlue]

Oh, no doubt it's far cooler to be named after something from Finnegans Wake than a German dairy product, and not even an upscale German dairy product, at that.

On the other hand, where did Joyce get the word from? Quark is so popular in Germany that half the cheese eaten in German is quark. And "muster" means sample in German.

You can even get Kosher quark, so that means that Jews eat it, even in Ireland.

In short, it's not a nonsense word.

[MHGinTN]

My favorite Phycisits is/was Richard Feynman.

[RightWingAtheist]

You're welcome!

[RightWingAtheist]

Mine is Michael Faraday...although I'm somewhat partial to the babilicious Lisa Randall :-)