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One thing that genuinely puzzles me about how people frame their belief of the bible. It seems that you can either accept the bible as infallible literal truth in its entirety, or a sort of morality play story that requires interpretation to apply. If the former, how do you answer the...

Hi guys! This is great - since registering here, I can ask all the dumb questions that I was always to embarassed to ask while in school. I appreciate all your help and answers.. thanks! :) This question concerns the methods of energy transfer - convection, conduction and radiation. Am I...

This is probably really simple for you network guys, but I am stumped. Here is the setup: I have a desktop machine I use as my main software development machine. It is not on a network (I am self-employed and I use a dial-up modem for internet access). I do have a NIC which has its IP address...

This is probably really simple for you network guys, but I am stumped. Here is the setup: I have a desktop machine I use as my main software development machine. It is not on a network (I am self-employed and I use a dial-up modem for internet access). I do have a NIC which has its IP...

I heard a quote recently by a young lady, who I imagine, was parroting someone she knew (she's only nine). I can't remember the exact discussion, but it was regarding intelligence. She said, "a simple mind is an honest mind." This young lady is one of the neighborhood kids whose grandparents...

For a lengthy discussion of this question see this post and the ones before it: http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=1871067585#post1871067585 My premise in this argument is that a God that designs a thing (e.g. a square as a simple example) must be at least as...

I want to protect or "lock" (ie read-only) certain cells on a worksheet that have formulas in them so nobody using it can change them. But when I try it says I can't do that unless I protect the entire worksheet....which means ALL the cells are locked. How can I lock only specified cells on a...

To me, 7*5 is 14, 28+7=35 6*6 is 18, 36 I can hear myself say those words in my head. I still picture those groups of dots from grade school sometimes. Anybody else do this?

Do apples cause bananas to go off faster if stored near, next to, or in contact with them? If so, what is the mechanism? thanks, BillyJoe

Hi all, I got sucked into a debate recently with someone who basically made the claim that it is a lie that the Democratic Party does anything for minorities. He actually tried to base this on the members of the Democratic Party who were against civil rights legislation, etc. (I tried to point...

When I was a kid playing around with my Atari 800xl I used to do a lot of programing in Basic. Unfortunately that was the last time I did any. I want to learn how to program again and wondered where I should start. I have a small project that would be a good first step, I think. I work at...

Anybody got any opinions on Kuhnian paradigm shifts? Do you think that it is a valid theory to explain how we do science?

As a unix sysadmin, I have had to setup lots of accounts for foreign workers since American educated workers can't fill most high tech programming positions. When coming up with a username, its usually first initial last name. When you ask Joe H1B what his name is, invariably he starts by...

Study based on fingertip ridges: J.A.Y. Hall and D. Kimura at the University of Western Ontario at London ON Canada found a relationship between the number of fingertip ridges on men and their sexual orientation. 7 They compared the number of ridges on the index finger and thumb of the left hand...

Just a personal question of mine: Is it more desirable to please everyone, or to be correct? Choose wisely...

full text: U.N. Finds 1994 Rwanda Crash Black Box Ok, I am going to go out on a limb and say COVERUP. The U.N. Peacekeeping Department's Air Safety Unit does not recieve new black boxes to be store indefinitely in U.N. filing cabinets. That is just too far fetched to be believed. Why...

There has been some excellent discussion here about the affect that third (and fourth etc.) parties have had on elections, especially in the US. I propose a simple solution which would cost virtuallly nothing and reflect the will of the people even more. In addition, it would encourage the...

I ran across this 'joke' on the internet this morning. I can't figure out what the 'trick' is. At first glance, I thougt it was the old 'division by zero' trick but it doesn't look like that's it. What am I missing? :confused: I know I'll kick myself when I see what it is.

There is an interesting maths question being posed on this Forum as the whether 0.999(recurring)=1 A suggested ‘proof’ is X=0.999(recurring) 10X=9.9999 10X-X = 9X 9X=9X X=1 Hence 0.999(recurring)=1 I don’t like it at all. Although a number of different posters have come up with different...

This one stems from the discussions at "Politics, Current Events and History", but I think it is a general enough issue to put it here instead. Certain people in this forum (you know who I mean) have been generously applying the label "evil" to the people that in their opinion should be fought...

The double life of women Edited to fix dead link.