It's time for another visit to the funhouse mirror held up to history by our 10th-grade textbook for homeschoolers, World History and Cultures In Christian Perspective. If the Church of Rome was the textbook's designated Big Bad for the period from Constantine through the Reformation, then history's other greatest monster is Charles Darwin, who along with Karl Marx, provides the heresies against which
Well, the Parliament Acts of 1911 and 1949, quite obviously, postdated Victoria, so the monarchy had yet to be stripped of its last vestiges of real power. (Fun fact: the Christianists shouldn't have laid the blame on Edward VII, but rather George V) It's also worth remembering that as Empress, Victoria had more power over the colonies than she did at home, through the appointment of Viceroys.
Yes yes yes, the decline of the British Empire was all due to Edward VII and those damn godless Fabians, and nothing at all to do with two World Wars separated by a global depression.
<em>Especially</em> the GPS devices. Light travels at 300,000,000 meters a second, to within 0.1%, so an error of 1 microsecond translates to being out by 300 meters, that&#039;s 1,000 feet to you Luddites who don&#039;t know metric yet.
Also too, tree ring dating takes us back 11,000 years. Also too, Sumerian historical records go back 5,000, not 4,000, years. It&#039;s not odd that there&#039;s nothing handed down directly over that period, things are fragile, and 5,000 years is a long-ass time. Can you remember what you had for lunch Wednesday? Besides, we have plenty of artifacts that are reliably dated much older than 5,000 years.
Whoop ti do with your &quot;not of human origin&quot;. So what? It&#039;s obviously ancient. Are you attempting to claim that humans have only existed for 4,000 years or something equally moronic? You do understand that the other great rivers in the US do not traverse geology similar to that crossed by the Colorado, right? It matters that it&#039;s a rocky desert. The Mississippi goes through a vegetated environment, with soil, and thus <a href="http:\/\/greetingsfrommississippi.com\/post\/1107182054\/mississippi-river-meander-belt-from-harold-n" target="_blank">meanders</a> rather than carving a canyon.
Geeze. Basic geography, how does it work?
BTW, what do you think it means that we can observe light from stars (well, galaxy clusters) that are over 10 billion light years distant?
4. Actually last week&#039;s New Scientist had some interesting observations about how the Heisenburg Uncertainty Principle fundamentally alters probability from a subjective limitation on knowledge to an objective set of unknowables. The implications this has for the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics are certainly interesting, and this insight may in provide a pathway to discovering the long sought-after Theory of Everything, or at the very least unifying quantum mechanics with general relativity. Also too, I took a 3rd year course in solid state physics at college, it was devilishly hard, but the fact that you&#039;re able to talk about whether quantum mechanics is real using a computer on the internet is in fact proof that quantum mechanics is real, because silicon-based semiconductors are 100% dependent on quantum effects to function.
Careful where you dig your pit. You don&#039;t want 52,000 <a href="http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/files\/imagecache\/article_image_large\/articles\/ramsey14HR.jpeg" target="_blank">annual layers of sediment</a> staring at you from the walls. <a href="http:\/\/www.aaas.org\/news\/releases\/2012\/1018sp_radiocarbon.shtml" target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2012/1018sp_rad...">http://www.aaas.org/news/re...
The latest meme among the ultra-rich: &quot;I make charitable donations which are the functional and moral equivalent of taxes paid by the Poors. In fact the moral content of charitable contributions is even higher than paying taxes, since it&#039;s voluntary.&quot;
And how, pray tell, did this giant lake come to be dug? I&#039;ve heard a theory that it came from a Scot dropping a ha&#039; penny down a gopher hole, but that&#039;s just silly.
<blockquote>Among the few people chosen to receive communion from the pope himself was Jake Finkbonner, a 12-year-old boy of Native American descent from Washington state in the US. The Vatican determined that Jake had been cured of an infection of flesh-eating bacteria through Kateri&#039;s intercession after his family and community invoked her in their prayers, paving the way for her canonisation.</blockquote> &quot;The Vatican determined...&quot; The truly horrifying thing is that they probably got some bozo with a legitimate medical degree to back them up.
Intellectual rigor, they lack it. Consistency, they shun it.
It wasn&#039;t? Madness!
(And no, it wasn&#039;t Madness either)
Well, the Parliament Acts of 1911 and 1949, quite obviously, postdated Victoria, so the monarchy had yet to be stripped of its last vestiges of real power. (Fun fact: the Christianists shouldn&#039;t have laid the blame on Edward VII, but rather George V) It&#039;s also worth remembering that as Empress, Victoria had more power over the colonies than she did at home, through the appointment of Viceroys.
Yes yes yes, the decline of the British Empire was all due to Edward VII and those damn godless Fabians, and nothing at all to do with two World Wars separated by a global depression.
<em>Especially</em> the GPS devices. Light travels at 300,000,000 meters a second, to within 0.1%, so an error of 1 microsecond translates to being out by 300 meters, that&#039;s 1,000 feet to you Luddites who don&#039;t know metric yet.
Also too, tree ring dating takes us back 11,000 years. Also too, Sumerian historical records go back 5,000, not 4,000, years. It&#039;s not odd that there&#039;s nothing handed down directly over that period, things are fragile, and 5,000 years is a long-ass time. Can you remember what you had for lunch Wednesday? Besides, we have plenty of artifacts that are reliably dated much older than 5,000 years.
Whoop ti do with your &quot;not of human origin&quot;. So what? It&#039;s obviously ancient. Are you attempting to claim that humans have only existed for 4,000 years or something equally moronic? You do understand that the other great rivers in the US do not traverse geology similar to that crossed by the Colorado, right? It matters that it&#039;s a rocky desert. The Mississippi goes through a vegetated environment, with soil, and thus <a href="http:\/\/greetingsfrommississippi.com\/post\/1107182054\/mississippi-river-meander-belt-from-harold-n" target="_blank">meanders</a> rather than carving a canyon.
Geeze. Basic geography, how does it work?
BTW, what do you think it means that we can observe light from stars (well, galaxy clusters) that are over 10 billion light years distant?
4. Actually last week&#039;s New Scientist had some interesting observations about how the Heisenburg Uncertainty Principle fundamentally alters probability from a subjective limitation on knowledge to an objective set of unknowables. The implications this has for the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics are certainly interesting, and this insight may in provide a pathway to discovering the long sought-after Theory of Everything, or at the very least unifying quantum mechanics with general relativity. Also too, I took a 3rd year course in solid state physics at college, it was devilishly hard, but the fact that you&#039;re able to talk about whether quantum mechanics is real using a computer on the internet is in fact proof that quantum mechanics is real, because silicon-based semiconductors are 100% dependent on quantum effects to function.
Schrodinger went to the lab with the cat he had, not the cat he wished he had.
Nah, they&#39;re all known unknowables.
Careful where you dig your pit. You don&#039;t want 52,000 <a href="http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/files\/imagecache\/article_image_large\/articles\/ramsey14HR.jpeg" target="_blank">annual layers of sediment</a> staring at you from the walls. <a href="http:\/\/www.aaas.org\/news\/releases\/2012\/1018sp_radiocarbon.shtml" target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2012/1018sp_rad...">http://www.aaas.org/news/re...
With votes, of course!
The latest meme among the ultra-rich: &quot;I make charitable donations which are the functional and moral equivalent of taxes paid by the Poors. In fact the moral content of charitable contributions is even higher than paying taxes, since it&#039;s voluntary.&quot;
Buckle your chinstrap before reading this one; it&#039;s a rough ride through Entitledville: <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/re..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/10/08/121...">http://www.newyorker.com/re...
<i>The greatest happiness for the greatest number, regardless of the consequences.</i>
Did they happen to provide a short list of the undesirable consequences of happiness?
And how, pray tell, did this giant lake come to be dug? I&#039;ve heard a theory that it came from a Scot dropping a ha&#039; penny down a gopher hole, but that&#039;s just silly.
<a href="http:\/\/endtimeheralds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/holy-Bible.gif" target="_blank">Here</a> ya go.
<blockquote>Among the few people chosen to receive communion from the pope himself was Jake Finkbonner, a 12-year-old boy of Native American descent from Washington state in the US. The Vatican determined that Jake had been cured of an infection of flesh-eating bacteria through Kateri&#039;s intercession after his family and community invoked her in their prayers, paving the way for her canonisation.</blockquote> &quot;The Vatican determined...&quot; The truly horrifying thing is that they probably got some bozo with a legitimate medical degree to back them up.