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    weird phenomenon, looking for confirmation

    Thanks. It seems it's possibly due to low blood pressure, as my nearly fruitless googling would have me believe. It doesn't stop (it's even going a little bit as I'm sitting in this chair), so I don't think it's due to changing blood pressure (unless you mean three times a second--I'm a bit...
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    weird phenomenon, looking for confirmation

    I've noticed this over the last 5 years or so and was wondering if others have the same experience or have an explanation of it. I lie down in bed, completely still, but the bed starts gently rocking a few millimeters this way, then that, at a high frequency--or so it seems. It's sort of like...
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    Intelligent Design vs Evolution

    On the whole, you're right, but there are some aspects from ID (which usually just refers to the design of life, not the universe) which I would say are scientific. For example, the idea of irreducible complexity. If a thing cannot be broken up into parts which have functions of their own...
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    Math Problem

    I don't understand your answer. How does it answer the question? Anyway... The answer should depend on (x,y), shouldn't it? That is, you figure out the two gradient vectors, then see when their span has dimension 0. Then, see when their span has dimension 1. Then, the remainder of the time...
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    Math Problem

    What is the gradient of f at (x,y)? What is the gradient of g at (x,y)? What is the dimension of the span of these two vectors? Seems straightforward to me.
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    For those what are good at math

    I added parentheses, but it's correct.
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    Dawkins' "The God Delusion": One of the best books I've read in a while.

    I find this hard to believe. I would guess that the majority of atheists came from at least a moderately religious background. At some point they realized that the claims of their religion didn't match up with reality, so they abandoned it. They became atheists exactly because there was no data...
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    IND, 2006 AFC Champs, SUPERBOWL XLI, congrats!

    Hmm. From here: Therefore, Manning's representation in our database at a salary of $668,520 discounts the $34.5 million signing bonus given him in 2004 when he signed a seven-year deal worth $98 million. The low base in the second year was to benefit the Colts' cap.
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    Dawkins' "The God Delusion": One of the best books I've read in a while.

    First, I love how you continue to attack and misrepresent Dawkins, even though you have yet to read his book. It's hilarious. Where are you getting your information? But as to the quoted remarks, I'll let Dawkins explain himself (from a recent interview): Well, it's not about "proof", but...
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    Dawkins' "The God Delusion": One of the best books I've read in a while.

    Well, it's not quite the same faith, since many of the characters in the Bible actually saw and talked with God or Angels (so it wouldn't qualify as "faith" under jjzelinski's definition). God doesn't talk to most people. I'm not saying faith isn't a part of religion, only that it's grown to an...
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    Dawkins' "The God Delusion": One of the best books I've read in a while.

    No, no--I read too much into your comments. I do want to say that religion used to be respectable. It explained, say, why it rains. It was some god...we danced and sometimes it rained and we forgot when it didn't. But now science explains that phenomenon much better. Of course all reasonable...
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    Dawkins' "The God Delusion": One of the best books I've read in a while.

    Wow. Where have you seen people "treating his word as dogma"? I don't. I don't know of anyone who does. Don't you think there's a difference between reading his arguments and agreeing with (most of) them and "treating his word as dogma"? I'm really interested in why you jump to this...
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    Dawkins' "The God Delusion": One of the best books I've read in a while.

    Oh snap! Dawkins addresses that in the first chapter... But you'd rather call someone without actually understanding anything at all. Try stop constructing strawmen for every atheist you come across! Faith in spite of evidence?! Don't fall for the con! Wake up! To the OP: glad you liked...
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    Deny God and win a free DVD

    What? Were you being sarcastic in your original post?--because I didn't pick that up. I was being sarcastic, if that wasn't clear. Obviously I believe there's a great bit of difference between how people justify their beliefs. Most atheists are almost certain there is no God for good reasons...
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    Deny God and win a free DVD

    And of course it doesn't matter how they justify their beliefs, by faith or by evidence. Where is that emoticon.. Ah, yes: :roll: