***************** i'm sorry to come into play as grammar nazi i know, my english is bad. it is my fourth language - learned as an adult.
i have two - maybe three - native languages: romanian and hungarian
as endre ady wrote: My mother was Cumanian, my father Half-Szekler, half-Rumanian or whole. From my mother’s lips sweet was every morsel, And from my father’s lips the truth was gold.
the third one may be german; learned by transylvanian saxon classmates
east europe is working this way! without spelling contests in high schools - which are called middle schools down here...
Choyo Chagas is Chairman of the Big Four, the ruler of the planet from "The Bull's Hour" ( Russian: Час Быка), a social science fiction novel written by Soviet author and paleontologist Ivan Yefremov in 1968. Six months after its publication Soviet authorities banned the book and attempted to remove it from libraries and bookshops.
LN wrote: the creation through design such as the Fibonacci spiral
A search of the internet, or your local library, will convince you that the Fibonacci series has attracted a lunatic fringe of Fibonacci fanatics who look for mysticism in numbers and in nature. ... One can hardly escape the observation that the Fibonacci fanatics display an almost religious conviction that all of nature is somhow based on or guided by the numbers of the Fibonacci sequence and the golden mean. They reinforce this belief by seeking examples that "fit" their conviction, and ignoring all that don't.
Here's an example of a flim-flam artist at work. Fred Wilson, Extension Specialist in Science Education at the Institute for Creation Research (ICR), wrote a paper titled "Shapes, Numbers, Patterns, and the Divine Proportion in God's Creation." (Impact #354, December 2002). It's full of specious religious drivel, which we will spare you. [2]
Let me ask you a dumb question. Do you play the lottery? And I thought that only the fanatical fringe played the numbers game... I can honestly say I do not buy lottery tickets nor play games of chance. However, I do see that what some view as coincidence, serendipity, and "lady luck" is strangely not entirely unfounded.
i did understand ln's blahblah intent by the way i flunked during my first german language exam: "mark one of abcd as the correct sentence" (test) for me all four options were correct - my primary classmates used to use them all, they were my german teacher
The CCC wrote:Science by definition must be Agnostic.
i know that there is a lot i don't know?
grammar is not the same category as rocket science the former is known by fifth graders - at least most of... the second is known only by littlenippers - after proper prayer...
Choyo Chagas is Chairman of the Big Four, the ruler of the planet from "The Bull's Hour" ( Russian: Час Быка), a social science fiction novel written by Soviet author and paleontologist Ivan Yefremov in 1968. Six months after its publication Soviet authorities banned the book and attempted to remove it from libraries and bookshops.
Science is a tool for making rational accurate predictions of how the universe works. It doesn't care what if any God or Godlike force you believe, or don't believe in.
The CCC wrote:I'm pretty forgiving when it comes to English grammar. As long as I can reasonably make out the intent I'm good with it.
Science by definition must be Agnostic.
Science is a tool to be used for inquisitive investigation and not for selective arrogance --- either religious or irreligious or secular opinion!
That's why we aren't relying on the Bible for scientific information. The Bible is a bundle of stories, opinions and guesses, much of it demonstrably wrong. But if you have a presupposition of Biblical inerrancy, you will never be open to anything else. And I think that's really where you're at. You don't understand science, don't care, and you can quite hypocritically live off its fruits while deriding it and those who make it work. If ignorance is essential to maintaining your identity, that's your psychological burden. But don't be surprised if you don't become a role model. Christianity has a broad and deep heritage that you're basically throwing away because of your own deficiencies. Dumbing it down as you're doing is playing into the Jack Chick stereotype of Christian intolerance and determined stupidity. If you want to be that kind of Christian, congratulations, you're already there.
The CCC wrote:When LittleNipper says something even remotely based on science I'll give him some credit. Until then not so much.
Maksutov wrote:I think it comes down to how big your God really is. Nipper and Hovind are happy with the garden gnome model.
LittleNipper wrote:My God can create an entire Universe to His glory and represent His eternal existence, and He can easily create it in 6 days (or less), and confound even learned scientists who believe they have it all figured out. What can your god do? Oh, that's right ---- YOU don't believe that God exists!
Your God took 6 days to do that? Pishaw, mine did the whole thing in about a billionth of a second and not only did he confound all the scientist, he also confounded all the religious believers too.
Puny god you have there.
"Any over-ritualized religion since the dawn of time can make its priests say yes, we know, it is rotten, and hard luck, but just do as we say, keep at the ritual, stick it out, give us your money and you'll end up with the angels in heaven for evermore."
Nipper and Hovind are happy with the garden gnome model. 
