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by olavk 10y ago
What people are you talking about? Archaeologist? Bedouins?
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by olavk 10y ago
But it is also easy to fall for pithy contrarian posts on HN! The dead sea scrolls are among the oldest documents. Notable they are the oldest version of books of the Hebrew bible. Many important texts which we think are older (like Plato
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by olavk 10y ago
No scrolls found though.
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That is just a name, decided before Java settled on a consistent terminology. In C# it is NullReferenceException. We get into nitpicking, but I would argue references and pointers are not the same. Pointer are by definition memory addresses
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by olavk 10y ago
Persistent objects does not mean you get rid of the database. It just means the database is a lot harder to query.
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by olavk 10y ago
PowerShell is the recommended shell language. But I don't think it is considered a first-class .net language because Visual Studio does not have built-in support for it.
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by olavk 10y ago
You mention two movies which made their budget back more than 10 times. It is safe to say that if there was a formula for creating movies which made the budget back 10x without the large financial risk the "tentpole"-movies with l
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by olavk 10y ago
Thanks for the LMGTFY link, but since Google customizes results per user, perhaps you can point me directly to the source you intended to direct me to? Note I am talking about original theological discoveries made by Newton, not just his be
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by olavk 10y ago
There is an option beyond Lewis trilemma God/Madman/Fraud which is that Jesus, Paul etc. were sane and genuinely believed the things they say, but they believed it based on worldview build on religion and therefore not connected t
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by olavk 10y ago
I mostly agree with everything you say, just pointing out that it is a religious viewpoint to take some claims of the supernatural at face value and reject others. History shows us many accounts of the supernatural, but we cannot believe th
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by olavk 10y ago
It wasn't a new product, they kept a lot of the assets (notably the characters and the universe) but rewrote the script extensively and had to scrap a lot of animation. I don't think an analogy to software rewrite works very well,
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by olavk 10y ago
> "Theologians" never invent or bring anything to the table, which God has not already made clear. That is a religious viewpoint, a leap of faith. From a rational perspective, there is no reason to think God put anything specia
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by olavk 10y ago
So what are some of the important theological discoveries by Newton?
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If want to use words like childish, ignorant, poor taste, you really need to make your case better. Many scientists does not believe in a creator but still believe the physical world to have order. In any case, whether a creator exist or no
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by olavk 10y ago
Theology is not the study of the historical Jesus. The study of the historical Jesus using the same methods as other historical research is just historical research. Theology on the other hand is the study of God and the Bible from a reli
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by olavk 10y ago
I'm not sure I get this distinction. What definition of "supernatural" do you refer to?
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Then again, God told Mohammad that Jesus wasn't dead at all, so clearly Paul and therefore Ananias are unreliable. Which just goes to show that when you base your chain of reasoning on believing people claiming God spoke to them, you g
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by olavk 10y ago
I think you misunderstood my point about circular reasoning, or maybe I was not clear. I know you quoted Isiah. I am disputing the quote matches Jesus very well, except for the theological justifications which was concocted up after the fac
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by olavk 10y ago
> You can't slip a piece of paper between Paul and Jesus. Jesus himself authenticates Paul as one of his apostles. What does this even mean? Jesus never mentioned Paul, and Jesus and Paul never even met.
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All the parts about atonement for our sins is theological constructions to make Jesus match the prophecy. Why do we know Jesus died for our sins? Because the prophecy said so! How do we know the prophecy describes Jesus? Because Jesus died
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by olavk 10y ago
Paul predicted the end the world to arrive in his lifetime. He was wrong. See: 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17
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This is clearly incorrect since cosmology operates with the distinction between the observable and the unobservable universe. But of course there have to be a reason (based on models which can be verified in observation) to assume the exist
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by olavk 10y ago
Josephus also claims that Vespasian (the Roman emperor) was the prophesied Messiah. I'm sure Vespasian would have been amazed and flattered, but what does this this prove or disprove? According to textual criticism (the branch of resea
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by olavk 10y ago
Also worth mentioning that his knowledge of alchemy got him an important job as Master of the Mint, where he worked to eliminate counterfeit coins. (Metallurgy is a branch of alchemy, and the purity of metals a major research area for alche
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by olavk 10y ago
Yeah, just because they don't say anything about the world does not mean they can not be used. The theology of Luther and Calvin changed the world. Even today you can start your own cult or church and get power over lots of people and
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by olavk 10y ago
The study of the belief in astrology can be an valuable anthropological research. Actually thinking you can predict the future through horoscopes is a waste of time.
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Just because someone believes something does not make it true. The bible predicted the end of the world in the first century. It turned out to be wrong, even though people believed it.
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Well it wasn't really "supernatural" at the time. It was literally a theory about the natural world. It just wasn't correct, and have since been replaced with different theories and models.
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Newton was trying to predict the end of the world by studying the Bible. The people who wrote the Bible did not actually have any privileged information about the end of the world. Therefore his endeavor was a waste of time. As far as I kno
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Alchemy was not about "cheap gold". It was the study of natural elements and transformation and purification of materials. It was a proto-science which later turned into mineralogy, chemistry and medicine. It was part science, par

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