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541.
by beojan 9y ago
This is precisely my point. Why would you take this part metaphorically, but insist that God have literally created the world in 7 days? EDIT: I think you misunderstood slightly. I consider Christianity to be defined by the Nicene creed.
542.
by beojan 9y ago
> Except for each describes salvation differently and each describes its method to salvation to be mutually exclusive from the others. Christianity entirely builds upon Judaism, and Judaism doesn't provide a path to salvation that C
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by beojan 9y ago
He was criticizing Catholicism for relying on reason. You certainly can't then generalize and say Catholicism is anti-reason, so you can't say religion is anti-reason. What you call dogma is largely a body of knowledge that has be
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by beojan 9y ago
They all believe in the same God, they just don't believe the same things about Him. The details are important ones, but still, they're details.
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by beojan 9y ago
Statistics isn't a science, it's a mathematical tool. It certainly doesn't tell us that no God exists. I suppose you could argue that the probability that the nature of God is precisely as described in your chosen sacred text
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by beojan 9y ago
> your religion makes some truth claims that are not supportable on scientific grounds. We just have to accept that science isn't the sole arbiter of truth (in fact, science can't tell us what is true and what isn't, it ca
547.
by beojan 9y ago
Atheistic (or better, anti-theistic) fanatics, not science fanatics.
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by beojan 9y ago
We're talking about taking Genesis literally . Genesis 6 uses the phrase "sons of God" which contradicts the Nicene creed which states "We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God".
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by beojan 9y ago
The theological arguments are really much more important than the scientific ones. Genesis 6 conflicts with the basic monotheistic nature of Christianity, and means there's no real way to take Genesis literally while professing the Nic
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by beojan 9y ago
Christians, Muslims and Jews believe in the same God, its the historical details they differ in. Buddhism is more a moral and spiritual framework than a religion (a lot of Buddhists are also Hindus). Ultimately, all that science can tell us
551.
by beojan 9y ago
Luther is pretty much defined by his opposition to the Catholic church. One of his complaints is that the Catholic church applies reason to scripture (in the form of a millienium and a half of philosophical and theological debate within the
552.
by beojan 9y ago
Your comment is basically the entire point of this article. There is no conflict between science and religion. There is a conflict between science and a fundamentalist straw man of religion (biblical literalism, for instance, or the Graeco-
553.
by beojan 9y ago
That we know of. More seriously, the danger is that we move beyond nuclear fission power and eventually forget it was ever used.
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by beojan 9y ago
As far as I am aware, we don't routinely check archeological sites with a Geiger counter before digging.
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by beojan 9y ago
> they would have to find a human judge who would let them, and I imagine those are in short supply in a case like this.) Would it be possible to find any judge who can try this case, since the set of people affected by the breach is bas
556.
by beojan 9y ago
Don't most areas have local loop unbundling, so you're on your ISP's network rather than BT's?
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by beojan 9y ago
ASIO doesn't require boost, there's a stand-alone version.
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by beojan 9y ago
And having failed with that (though I don't know why he had to write his own PKGBUILD) why would you then try FreeBSD and NixOS?
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by beojan 9y ago
> Who will be replacing the States? Europe is weak and is at its bottom, Russia is no better than China. Maybe Australia or Canada. Their population is much too small. In the case of science, if anyone surpasses the US, it'll be Eur
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by beojan 9y ago
> The license specify that you are free to use React as you would use a BSD licensed software, provided that you never sue FB for a patent. Only if something in React is patented. As I read it, only the patent license is revoked if y
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by beojan 9y ago
> Indeed, also EU member nations are subject to European Court of Human Rights. Council of Europe members. Russia is a Council of Europe member, so the UK isn't leaving that. On the other hand, it also isn't as effective as
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by beojan 9y ago
Configure scripts are part of autotools, not make.
563.
by beojan 9y ago
Somehow, I don't think they ship the concrete blocks from China.
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by beojan 9y ago
> If we hadn't known about GR when we built the GPS system, wouldn't we have realised there was an unexpected drift in the clocks and found a way to recalibrate them periodically? And hence have discovered GR in the process. Al
565.
by beojan 9y ago
But if your country doesn't use the Euro (i.e. the UK), domestic Euro transactions can be more expensive than domestic transactions in the home currency.
566.
by beojan 9y ago
> Typical Electron usage is problematic because it is a browser. Electron is a new copy of the browser for every application.
567.
by beojan 9y ago
> Qt Quick is just the layout engine, many important parts of the stack keep being C++. Also, Qt Widgets isn't deprecated , it's just considered pretty much complete.
568.
by beojan 9y ago
In the UK, we use dd-mm-yyyy anyway, and metric for most purposes. Only the decimal comma differs from normal non-American English usage.
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by beojan 9y ago
Yes, that's why an average isn't too meaningful. The times these things are on aren't the same for every house, but they are correlated.
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by beojan 9y ago
Only if it were personal data, while in this case it's mostly experimental data, Monte Carlo simulations, and so on.

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