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Since many here are more likely to have read Richard Dawkins book: http://www.arn.org/docs/williams/pw_goddelusionreview2.htm Search for "Dawkins and Natural Theology" and begin reading there. The article rebuts Dawsons treatment of: The Ontological Argument The Cosmological Argument The...

It is important to understand that the study of religion is a field of rigorous academic study. You can not-believe in it but still know about its tenets and and how to make arguments. Religious graduate schools are full of people who want to learn more about religion irrespective of whether...

It is logically and empirically impossible to prove that God doesn't exist. Richard Dawkins doesn't even claim it. In order to logically prove that God doesn't exist you would have to have fundamental knowledge of all things. YOU would be God. Dawkins claims that God's existence is very unlikely.

What? The origins of a thing give a thing authority but are not the contents of a thing. The authority of a thing lends credibility but does not give instruction; that comes from the contents. I don't think I understand your premise. David, are you PUI or maybe PWS (... without sleep)? :D

Congratulations! It looks like there is a hardware component to the Sun Cert. http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/programs/sai/#courses

I've used the software BitPim to talk to my phone. You might want to identify want software you are using.

You are right, the bible has been used in error for centuries to justify horrible behavior. It would certainly be difficult to quantify.

My objective is actually not to convince anyone of my views. My only wish is for people to honestly evaluate what the Bible says. And I do intend to expose logical fallacies in thinking. I would expect anyone to do the same for me.

You have the right to feel about it however you want, of course. Why is it that you despise it so? ----- Mein Kampf was first published in 1925. Hitler first came to power after the end of WWI, in 1918. Although it is not true, let's assume Mein Kampf lost its influence at the end of WWII...

You are an uneducated fanatic about the Bible. Its always amusing watching you emotionally comment about a piece of biblical history or literature. It is not difficult to reconcile the two biblical accounts. Yes, there are two accounts in Genesis 2 but they are not contradictory or even...

I bought this Skagen for myself for Christmas. It's nice, clean and thin http://www.watchzworld.com/skagen_men_s_steel_links_256lsxc.html

I can't imagine my tear ducts getting plugged up by pollution. Yuck.

Violence is the entire point of the movie. Which would be OK if the movie didn't try to take itself so seriously. Let's hope "The Watchmen" is better executed.

You clearly have no inkling of the causes of winning or losing the War Between the States.

Yeah.... You need to clean out your fridge more often. :)

There are four guys living in my house and everybody cooks and cooks generous portions. That's a lot of leftovers.

Usually i clean out my fridge BY eating.

Paugie, Can I just saw its good to know you? -Howell

Were they 250G WDs or.....?

You have been reading too much slashdot. If you must run Vista, run it in a VM. I'm going to have to start running it at some point so I can become familiar with it. Eventually we are going to put our first Vista server into the data center and someone is going to have to support it. David...

Merc, You should look into online backup solutions. Unless he make a lot of changes in a day to big files his connection speed won't matter. You can even sing up as a reseller.

An old college roommate just left Mayo where he was for his fellowships in cardiology and clinical electrophysiology. He did his internship and residency at Johns Hopkins. Can you do your fellowships at the same place you do residency? Seems like everyone always moves.

Hilarious. Lovely art.

I saw it last weekend. My brother and his friend liked it but I thought the plot lacked depth. You just don't care about the characters. It is a beautiful movie though. Every frame seems to have a brass sheen. My favorite character was the female lead. Regardless, It won't hold up to multiple...

That seems like a really bad situation. So is there something wrong with your house that you didn't anticipate or are all of your neighbors with less insulation that much more screwed?

What a shoddy piece of reporting. No parts of the IPCC IV report have been published yet. The only thing that has been published so far is the Working Group 1 - Summary for Policy Makers (SPM). This is a political document. We'd like to think that scientists are completely rational and...

You are right, correlation is no where close to causation. The increase in solar activity since the 1700s also was not caused by industrialization or human activity. We need to be good stewards of where we live. This includes knowing what we can and can not affect. Individually, we have...

I've had another idea. You should look into Winstall (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/257718). I've only used Winstall 7.5 but I think this lite version will get you where you need to go. It is immensely useful on networks with no SMS server.

Back on the original topic: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/02/AR2007030201346.html?referrer=email

The whole point of discussing the issue outside of mudslinging politics and mental masturbation is how does this information change the way I live my life. In order to examine the issue and come to a final understanding we must answer some basic questions: What is happening? Is the earth...

Sad but true.

I made a mistake. As Merc pointed out, Al spent an average of $1,359/month on electricity; more than the average household spends in a year. In total for 2006, Al spent nearly $30,000 on electricity and gas.

Less than 100% of the money Al gives to the company goes toward research. Some of that money goes to overhead. Someone much better than me at reading financial statements could give you a more precise percentage. Giving money for research in renewable energy is good thing. Al is unnecessarily...

1) I really don't care about "M$"'s intercontinental politics. I am sorry you've given MS such control over you. 2)Lookup "OEM Preinstallation Kit". Nevermind, unless you've gotten more patient since 8/05 you won't want to put in the time.

Lawyers love it when they get sued for missing hearings.

Tannin, You really should be using an answer file for your windows installations. And speaking of gluttonous energy consumption, It was revealed this week that Al Gore spends over $3000US in electricity. A month. Just electricity. In case you have been under a rock this is the same Al Gore who...

That picture has caused me to rethink my contribution here at SF. I will not stand for objectification of women. And there is no excuse for tolerating such abusive behaviour. I will not longer be visiting this site.

Good for her! Of course walking into the lion's den wearing a steak is not very wise.

Of course, you could just enable logins as root then you have the best of both. Also, sudo remembers your entered password for a while. I really don't see a legitimate complaint here.

Yeah here too.

It is possible that you grounded the one UPS/surge protector through the cable network as that is the one device that is connected to both networks. However, the grounding mesh in that cable isn't even close to the 12-14 guage wire that is normally used in house wiring. Your current situation...

I could work in that office about 1 month. Can't you at least put some art on the walls? I don't see any plants either, real or fake.<shudder>

Adverbs modify adjectives, verbs and other parts of speech, but not nouns. Adverbs typically answer the questions who, when, where...

More from Wendell Berry: COMMUNITY IN 17 SENSIBLE STEPS Wendell Berry A few practical quidelines on how to sustain a place-based community. How can a sustainable local community (which is to say a sustainable local economy) function? I am going to suggest a set of rules that I think such a...

Is that what you call getting involved? :)

I have used Custom DynDNS for years - I'm using it right now. This is what you need to use your own domain name. Merc is on some serious ATI crack, your DNS name shows up just like it would with any other DNS service. dnydns also seems to be the most widespread. It is preconfigured in smoothwall.

I noticed that I could go to sysinternals.com and use the menu on the left. Their site is slow right now. http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsTools.html

I had no problem letting the install procedure resize my windows installation to make room and using grub to boot with on my X31. Err, except the first time I tried it I didn't pay close enough attention to the install drive and installed to my USB drive where all my ripped music and backups...

Ninja Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdS5lkeN8_8

FWIW, I lather up with Lever2000 bath soap as shaving cream.