Yet Another evolution article on Slashdot

[NickStone]

I'm a cradle Catholic and believe in God but I also believe that there is such a thing as evolution. In fact, according to the Holy Bible that I have (New International Version), it states that God created the universe in 6 days but it also states later on that to God, a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like a day. So putting the two together isn't it more likely that the universe was created in 6 thousand years rather than 6 24 hour periods that a lot of Christians seem to believe.

[rms]

In fact, according to the Holy Bible that I have (New International Version), it states that God created the universe in 6 days but it also states later on that to God, a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like a day. So putting the two together isn't it more likely that the universe was created in 6 thousand years rather than 6 24 hour periods that a lot of Christians seem to believe.

Yes, precisely, but the number may be arbitrary. Important and interesting is the idea implied that time flows differently on different levels. What is whole lifetime for us may be just a breath on a higher level.

I've read someplace that one day of Brahma equals 4.3 billion years which means that His one breath lasts ~8.9 million years. 8)

[NickStone]

I've just had to look up what or who Brahma is, couldn't you have just typed God? lol

[rms]

I've just had to look up what or who Brahma is, couldn't you have just typed God? lol

I just thought that what you quoted from Holly Bible means "so long, you cannot imagine(or we can't write that number )", so I used the figure from Hindu religion as a better illustration.

[woodsmoke]

We must remember the Great Spaghetti Monster in the Sky!!

The Great Spaghetti Monster in the Sky has seen fit to vouchsafe to we mere mortals knowledge of the next great step in evolution and it is:



AND only 200 calories so I, personally, think that I'll eat at least one a week and skip the two and a half cups of tofu ( 2.7 * 75 cal per cup )

woodsmoke

[rms]

Hey, Mr. Woodsmoke,

If you really take on that diet, you'll soon become a *power* surfer.

[woodsmoke]

now, now, now.

The human body is designed for approximately 1800 calories per day.

One taco, of any sort, every few days will not make one fat.

However, eating about 24 cups of tofu, if one does not drink the recommended 7 or 8 glasses of water a day tofu has a lot of water in it ) or the obligatory multiple cups of yogurt, and green tea ( UN sweetened of course) and about a pound of Quinos sprouts, then one could probably become quite portly.

BTW I love Quinoa sprouts!

Amazing how a thread on Evolution ended up discussing taco bell! don't 'cha just love Kubuntu Forums!

woodsmoke

[SteveRiley]

You know, I could have lived the remainder of my years in blissful ignorance of any unholy alliance between Doritos and Taco Bell. But no -- now I have persist with the knowledge that Tacorito Bell isn't just a figment of someone's imagination but an actual creation. I'm going to go throw up now.

[SecretCode]

I've just had to look up what or who Brahma is, couldn't you have just typed God? lol

#!/bin/bash
god="Brahma"
if [ $god -ne "God" ]; then echo "Salvation not attained"

lower case variable name because it's definitely not a constant ...

[SteveRiley]

Now there's a T-shirt slogan!

[rms]

now, now, now.

The human body is designed for approximately 1800 calories per day.

One taco, of any sort, every few days will not make one fat.

However, eating about 24 cups of tofu, if one does not drink the recommended 7 or 8 glasses of water a day tofu has a lot of water in it ) or the obligatory multiple cups of yogurt, and green tea ( UN sweetened of course) and about a pound of Quinos sprouts, then one could probably become quite portly.

BTW I love Quinoa sprouts!


woodsmoke

Yeah, if one is an old school (no chainsaw) woodcutter than even more is permissible.

In all honesty, where I live, Taco Bell and Doritos are strangers just like Brahma is so I wouldn't know in fact. Judging the book by the cover. Anything fancy looking is a sugary suspect.

[SteveRiley]

In all honesty, where I live,

Well, when a nation decides that the word robot is a suitable moniker for what everyone else on $DEITY's green Earth calls a traffic light, any reasonable expectation for cross-cultural understanding simply evaporates

[SecretCode]

Wait, rms, do you live in such a nation??


It's short for "robot policemen", I have always assumed. But definitely a source of cross-cultural misunderstanding. Once when we were in London, Mrs SecretCode (who is SA born and bred) was asked by someone for directions. "You go up this way about a mile and turn right at the big robots," she said. They looked surprised though thankful, and drove off. Then she realised they might not have completely understood ...

[rms]

@Steve, SecretCode

Wait, what have I said? What's with this robot thing? I don't get it either.

[SecretCode]

What country do you live in rms?