Ego edo infantia cattus: They grow up so fast.

Ha! WRONG!!!

I don't see any elephants or a giant tortoise under that thing, so it's obviously fraudulent.

Pat Robertson: "The Bible is not literally true, and the Earth is more than 6000 years old."

Young Earth Creationists: "Pat Robertson is deceived, and does not speak for God."

I agree with both of these statements.

AAAAAAAGHHHH, I AM IN AGREEMENT WITH PAT ROBERTSON AND YOUNG EARTH CREATIONISTS!

"You know, the world's twelve-thousand years old, and dinosaurs existed in that time, you'd think it would've been mentioned in the farking bible at some point. "And o, Jesus and the disciples walked to Nazareth, but the trail was blocked by a giant brontosaurus with a splinter in his paw. And o, the disciples did run a-shrieking 'What a big farking lizard, Lord.' But Jesus was unafraid, and he took the splinter from the brontosaurus' paw, and the big lizard became his friend. And Jesus sent him to Scotland where he lived in a Loch for oh so many years, inviting thousands of American tourists to bring their fat farking families and their fat dollar bills. And O Scotland did praise the Lord. Thank you, Lord."

/aw, comon Bill

Arkanaut: abb3w: There's an aphorism in computer science, by Brian Kernighan: "Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?" Obviously, the problem becomes even worse when you're trying to debug code written by someone more clever than you are. Less obviously, there's some underlying basis to the observation in mathematical proof theory (although the factor of two is sometimes horribly conservative), which in turn applies to reasoning in general.

In my experience, for every time you double the length of code, the code becomes four times as hard to debug, which I think makes this a geometric relationship.

//my $0.02

seriously off topic (wow, pat robertson, who'd a thunk it), but this seems pertinent to the coding comments:

"Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction - from which, by induction, it is evident that every program can be reduced to one instruction that does not work."

Ken Arnold

eudemonist: rwfan: I was being sarcastic and I thought you were as well. There is a secret science?

There is science we do not yet understand. Perhaps that is what is meant.

It's called mad science. It's inspired by the Manitous.

/Obscure?

eraser8: burndtdan: It's only "god of the gaps" if you insist that something happens "because God, tada!", as if God were the methodology.

I'm not technically addressing the "god of the gaps" argument. I'm posing a very simple question: if any part of the Bible can be taken as anything less than literal (that is, less that true), how can we know that any of it is true? And, who is to decide what's strict and true and what just poetic license?

If only there were people who dedicated their careers to questions like this, who earned PhDs in fields like theology and biblical studies, becoming experts in Greek and Hebrew, examining the culture and literature of the context in which the bible was written to better understand the literary structures and styles of the times. If only these people wrote academic-level books about topics like these, and occasionally wrote popular-level books so that nonspecialists could engage with these kinds of issues. Then you might have somewhere to go for guidance as you ask these questions.

/sarcasm, just in case someone's sarcastrometer is broken

well, looks like somebodies mind controlling anal slug fell out.

MrEricSir: Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Diagonal: No one has invoked Bevets yet?

Wow.

It's been a REALLY long time since I've seen him post. I wonder if he's finally given up preaching to the unwashed masses of Fark.

He doesn't update his site anymore either.

Who knows, maybe his shrink put him on stronger meds.

He was raptured, duh.

djkutch: I've never understood why God needed to rest on the seventh day. You'd think God would be pretty indefatigable--what with being God and all.

Well, sparring with Chuck Norris on days 1 thru 6 will take its toll.. even on God.

Got to hand it to Chuck though.. He's a good guy letting God win.

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Bevets may look something like that right about now.

He's too busy being i drunk what in another thread.

They grow up so fast.