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Comment Re:I believe it (Score 1) 1010

Okay, I appreciate that you've thought about this and I've re-read your original statement and again, I'm asking why you think evolution is untestable?

It may be currently difficult/impossible to perform molecular level tests of evolution, but what makes you think that it is inherently untestable? Or, do you just mean that we haven't yet devised the relevant tests?

Comment Re:Only a metaphor, but... (Score 5, Funny) 392

A master was explaining the nature of Tao to one of his novices. "The Tao is embodied in all software - regardless of how insignificant," said the master.

"Is the Tao in a hand-held calculator?" asked the novice.

"It is," came the reply.

"Is the Tao in a video game?" continued the novice.

"It is even in a video game," said the master.

"And is the Tao also in Windows 8.1?"

The master coughed and shifted his position slightly. "The lesson is over for today," he said.

Comment Re:If it was a religion? (Score 4, Funny) 392

Master Foo Discourses on the Unix-Nature

A student said to Master Foo: "We are told that the firm called SCO holds true dominion over Unix."

Master Foo nodded.

The student continued, "Yet we are also told that the firm called OpenGroup also holds true dominion over Unix."

Master Foo nodded.

"How can this be?" asked the student.

Master Foo replied:

"SCO indeed has dominion over the code of Unix, but the code of Unix is not Unix. OpenGroup indeed has dominion over the name of Unix, but the name of Unix is not Unix."

"What, then, is the Unix-nature?" asked the student.

Master Foo replied:

"Not code. Not name. Not mind. Not things. Always changing, yet never changing."

"The Unix-nature is simple and empty. Because it is simple and empty, it is more powerful than a typhoon."

"Moving in accordance with the law of nature, it unfolds inexorably in the minds of programmers, assimilating designs to its own nature. All software that would compete with it must become like to it; empty, empty, profoundly empty, perfectly void, hail!"

Upon hearing this, the student was enlightened.

Comment Re:BeOS? (Score 1) 392

Master Foo Discourses on the Graphical User Interface

One evening, Master Foo and Nubi attended a gathering of programmers who had met to learn from each other. One of the programmers asked Nubi to what school he and his master belonged. Upon being told they were followers of the Great Way of Unix, the programmer grew scornful.

WThe command-line tools of Unix are crude and backward," he scoffed. "Modern, properly designed operating systems do everything through a graphical user interface."

Master Foo said nothing, but pointed at the moon. A nearby dog began to bark at the master's hand.

"I don't understand you!" said the programmer.

Master Foo remained silent, and pointed at an image of the Buddha. Then he pointed at a window.

"What are you trying to tell me?" asked the programmer.

Master Foo pointed at the programmer's head. Then he pointed at a rock.

"Why can't you make yourself clear?" demanded the programmer.

Master Foo frowned thoughtfully, tapped the programmer twice on the nose, and dropped him in a nearby trashcan.

As the programmer was attempting to extricate himself from the garbage, the dog wandered over and piddled on him.

At that moment, the programmer achieved enlightenment.

Comment Re:I believe it (Score 1) 1010

As an engineer, how can you conclude that god is anything other than a witless buffoon? Vestigial organs; the human appendix; the backwards human eye; termites not being able to digest lignin; bilateral design even where it makes no sense (e.g. snakes).

The list of god's mistakes is embarrassingly huge, but each of those mistakes is obviously a product of evolution. I suspect that you're not much of an engineer if you can't spot the obvious.

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