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More blog filling, thanks to GrrlScientist.
Really, though, if I belong in any European city at all, I'd have guessed London, but the test says otherwise:
You Belong in Paris
You enjoy all that life has to offer, and you can appreciate the fine tastes and sites of Paris.
You're the perfect person…
Everyone who's taken physics at some point knows about the Right Hand Rule. There are two versions. If you have a wire carrying an electric current, you point your thumb in the direction of the current and your fingers "curl" in the direction of the magnetic field.
The other version is that if you…
Well, you might have noticed I tend to keep things light on Fridays and this one's no exception. I won't be posting again today because I'm holding a roundtable on (you guessed it) Science Communication. I'm in good company with Dietram, Matt, Abel, and a few other leading experts on how messages…
If Your Password Is 123456, Just Make It HackMe:
Back at the dawn of the Web, the most popular account password was "12345."
Today, it's one digit longer but hardly safer: "123456."
Despite all the reports of Internet security breaches over the years, including the recent attacks on Google's e-mail…
I've got to admit, it was a good joke. Of course, I hope the payback next year is equally entertaining.
By the way, this being April 1st, I think the evidence is conclusive that deities evolve. There used to be a lot of them, you know. Nowadays, there's only one. What could be a clearer example of natural selection ruthlessly weeding out the less fit deities?
Nice. I particularly like the eye patch on the .net version and the *mis*information in the banner at the bottom.
Seriously now Paul :-}, even granting you that Yahweh and Allah can be lumped together with the Christian God, there are quite a few others still being prayed to. There are for example, the Hindus who have at least one, possibly hundreds of gods.
Of course some Hindu sects have a neat concept that would surprise most of the Abrahamic types. It seems their god Krishna has been quoted as saying that anyone who worships any god is actually worshipping him! Props to the priest who thought up that resolution to the false gods problem.
The trouble with using evolution to model the decreasing number of gods is that it does not provide a mechanism for going from one god to none. Based on my emotional need to believe that ultimately there can be no god, I reject evolution, at least as it applies to gods.
The trouble with using evolution to model the decreasing number of gods is that it does not provide a mechanism for going from one god to none.
Hey, evolution per se doesn't specify much of anything in the way of mechanism. Extinction is what happens when the population curve crashes into the X-axis. ;-)