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Comment Re:Creationism (Score 1) 217

Your source does not actually support your claim.

The Bible was written to be taken literally (to be understood by its literary genre). In other words, poetry is to be understood as poetry, historical narrative is to be understood as historical narrative, etc.

If you don't take it literally, then you're free to treat the psalms as historical narrative or the laws as poetry, etc. In other words, you could make it mean whatever you want it to.

Comment Re:Creationism (Score 2) 217

No, because Theistic-Evolution is self-refuting. If God said he created in 6 days, but actually took billions of years, then that would make him a liar. If he's lying about how he created, then there's a good chance he's not telling the truth about being God either (basically the inverse of John 3:12). It also ignores the premise for Evolution; a way to explain origins without God. Something is very wrong with Evolution if you have to invoke God to get it to work.
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US Grants Home Schooling German Family Political Asylum 1324

A US judge has granted political asylum to a family who said they fled Germany to avoid persecution for home schooling their children. Uwe Romeike and his wife, Hannelore, moved to Tennessee after German authorities fined them for keeping their children out of school and sent police to escort them to classes. Mike Connelly, attorney for the Home School Legal Defence Association, argued the case. He says, "Home schoolers in Germany are a particular social group, which is one of the protected grounds under the asylum law. This judge looked at the evidence, he heard their testimony, and he felt that the way Germany is treating home schoolers is wrong. The rights being violated here are basic human rights."
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Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki 249

sonamchauhan writes "A Londoner helped his wife deliver their baby by Googling 'how to deliver a baby' on his mobile phone. From the article: 'Today proud Mr Smith said: "The midwife had checked Emma earlier in the day but contractions started up again at about 8pm so we called the midwife to come back. But then everything happened so quickly I realized Emma was going to give birth. I wasn't sure what I was going to do so I just looked up the instructions on the internet using my BlackBerry."'"

Comment Re:I am very sceptical... (Score 1) 1093

In principle, I agree, but that doesn't excuse the blanket covering of anyone who doesn't agree with AWG as a denier. And even if they are "deniers", calling them so, certainly won't win them over to your cause. Most of the anti-AGW stuff I've seen has dealt with the science, while most of the pro-AGW stuff I've seen has been fingers-in-the-ears name calling. Maybe we've just been visiting different sites?

Comment Re:I am very sceptical... (Score 1, Insightful) 1093

Totally agree. I like how they've started calling people who don't believe in AGW "deniers" now instead of "sceptics". Is their "science" so flaky that they have to resort to character assassination? And BTW, it's called Climate Change now. Kind of hard to call it Global Warming when past decade has seen a downward trend. Luckily they chose a term that is sufficiently vague that any variation in weather would classify as proof of Climate Change.

Comment Re:IDE Integration (Score 3, Informative) 667

I think you miss the point. In Git (and Bazaar), you're working with your own branches locally. You don't have to tell anyone that you've made them. Once you're happy with your experimentations in one branch and want to merge it into the "trunk", you can then either tell your team leader, "Hey, I've finished this new feature, pull from me", or depending on your rights, push it straight into the main repository. That's the beauty of distributed SCM's. You're the only one who has to juggle those balls. If you're able to juggle 10, then fine. If you're like me and can only deal with 1 or 2, that's fine too. The point is, it's your own repository. You can make as many or few branches as you like and nobody has to know.
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Africa Leads In IPv6 Adoption 122

Ian Lamont writes "The recent news that China will run out of IPv4 addresses in a few years points to slow adoption of IPv6 in some developed countries. Now it turns out that the largest number of networks displaying new IPv6 address blocks are registered through AfriNIC, which services networks in Africa and the Indian Ocean. While AfriNIC has a smaller installed base than other regions, many countries in Africa are showing rapid growth in terms of online connectivity."

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