As far as evolution goes, I think a God that doesn't take into account changing environmental conditions isn't a very smart God. So evolution and creationism can coexist, at least in my view.
If you redefine the creationist "theory" then yes, you probably can accommodate both. However this is not what creationists claim.
For the record, most christians are not creationists. Even the catholic church accepts evolution as a fact.
I mean, think about it, everything had to originate from something, right?
You cannot postulate that and immediately create an exceptional clause for your god. Either everything had to come from something, therefore time is infinite and the fundamentals of matter and energy have always existed, or you accept that something can arise out of nothing, in which case it's either one or more creator gods or (you can cut out the middle man here) the whole universe.
If you cannot see the problem here, then don't worry. This should not concern your everyday life. But also take this into account: if you were to prove by logic alone that at least one god has to exist (which you did not prove, trust me), that does not say anything about the nature of that god, let alone that it's your god and not one of the hindu gods, greek gods, etc. Also doesn't prove anything about it's morality, it's intent (or even capacity for intent), it's concern with everyday life of humans.
In the everlasting words of Mr. Hitchens, you still got all your work ahead of you.
But then again, why should anyone be concerned with proving a god's existence in a rational, logical matter, when they've got faith to replace that?
Imagining there's some power higher than us just seems obvious.
Imagining the sun goes round the earth just seemed obvious to the pope too. Do you take your obviousness over scientific evidence with all your everyday experiences? Sometimes common sense is not as trustworthy as people take it to be.
It's the believe horoscope predictions become true that is fake. Why you'd think otherwise confuses me.
You're all wrong. Nothing is fake. The belief is real as well. Unfounded by all means, most probably false, but not fake. Very few people fake their belief in horoscopes, most likely the authors (as long as they get their paycheck). But the target audience does genuinely believe there's some truth to the predictions in their horoscopes.
What is the difference between you checking with an IF 'OLD.column1 != NEW.column1' THEN (pseudo code... so don't flame me) or the database engine checks to see if a column was updated?
Well for batch updates it can be a huge thing. The expression can be fed in the query planner, the optimizer can use indexes where available to determine which rows require the trigger and which don't. I'm not saying this happens now (I would doubt it) but the devels have the option to play around with trigger condition expressions whereas procedural code is opaque as far as the query planner's concerned.
HELP!!!! I'm being held prisoner in /usr/games/lib!