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Never bought anything on black friday, don't plan on starting any time soon.

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28/33 sigh

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I see we are still discussing the bible, and it still has nothing to do with the topic of evolution, so we are still off topic.

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I don't think anyone can participate in a meaningful debate when the bible is used to disprove science.

Once you guys start talking about science again I'll participate in the discussion. But as long as you stay on the topic of religion, I think I'm going to back off.

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My description of the bible may be incorrect, however I do not understand if evolution does not mention the bible how the bible can become a point of argument for or against evolution. Its like describing the rankine cycle and using computer encryption algorithims to make a point. The two are comple...

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I don't know how much of an argument that is. If you take a ball and drop it from a 10 story building, neglecting friction the total energy of the ball remains constant until it hits the ground and the energy is transfered to the ground. The ball is accelerating as it falls, just like the universe m...

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Plants take water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight (chemically simple) and produce carbohydrates (chemcially complex). This is a bad example, because of all of the information needed for the transformation is contained within the plant. I don't understand why its a bad example. Plants just carry out c...

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woodchip wrote:The problem I have if creationist say the universe was created 6000-10000 years ago, would be the speed of light. I'll let you all ponder the implications there-in before I submit my view.

Anything further than 10,000 lightyears away we wouldn't be able to see.

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I have not heard of the term: irreducible complexity. As far as naturally going from simple forms to complex forms there are 2 examples I can cite off the top of my head. Plants take water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight (chemically simple) and produce carbohydrates (chemcially complex). When water li...

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Well I still don't have a grasp of what you mean by information.

If your question relates to mass/energy conservation and how that relates to entropy, well they aren't really related. No one is using entropy to prove/disprove mass/energy conservation.

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I'm not sure I understand your question.

What is \"information\"?
How is information measured, what are it's units?

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And, yes, Chaos, the entropy in the system (the entire freezer, or kitchen if you consider a slightly larger system) may still be increasing. That's exactly the point - local decreases in entropy in an open system can happen, but the overall entropy in a closed system must increase. (Again, note th...

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I have become confused.

Has the argument shifted from evolution to the validity of the bible and its various translations with respect to historical and scientific accuracy?

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dS = dQ/T. So d2S = (d2Q*T - dQdT)/T^2 I agree, thanks for the correction :) Also, after thinking about it a little more it makes even more sense. Since the soup is not producing heat, it makes sense that dQ/T approaches 0 and for dQ/T to change d2S cannot be 0. Now if you math majors would silentl...

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I guess I'm still getting my head around this. My argument is that the soup in the freezer is an example of a decrease in the increase , or the slowing of the increase in entropy, and not the decrease of entropy (which amounts to a reversal, or order from disorder). But now that I think about it th...

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I'm back. Lets look at this problem from an engineering point of view. 1. Draw a picture In this case our picture will consist of a control volume aka system . Everything outside the system will be called the environment . Let's set the control volume to surround our bowl of soup. Therefore the soup...

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Hrm, it doesn't look like I am getting emails for responses to threads.

Off to ME 323 (Mechanics of Materials)

I will try and clarify my points in an hour or so.

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The debug is probably a SMTP error, which means the ACP is configured with the wrong email service.

I bet no one is getting response to thread emails now.

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To decrease the entropy of a bowl of soup put it in a freezer.

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I think it is around $1.50 here, I fill up maybe once every 3 months.

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If you are interested in the truth, research the 2nd law of thermodynamics

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I didnt watch the video but most people that apply principles of thermodynamics to evolution are doing it wrong. Thermodynamics says entropy in the universe increases with time, not entropy of a system. The evolution of humans took place in a system. Essentially for the math to work out if humans we...

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change

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I'm just more progressive than most.

Free beer in my corner of the universe.

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When will the liberals shut up?

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I think he is sticking the finger to PA, OH, KY, NC, and other states dependent on the coal industry.

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Change we can believe in.

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I'm going to bring this up again, because it's really been bothering me lately. While there are a lot of issues being thrown around, there's really one that's deciding my vote- abortion. I think each day I'm more saddened by the way that we, as a society, find a way to justify murder. I don't under...

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38% - Bob Barr (Libertarian) 35% - Chuck Baldwin (Constitution) 28% - John McCain (Republican) Everyone else is 5% or lower Here is why it doesn't make sense for me to vote Obama: He is going around saying the fundamentals of our economy are not sound. Last time I checked, the American economy was f...

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I didn't know Solvency was the project codename for Descent IV

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you mean \"That One\" ?

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Obama was part of a team of attorneys who represented the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) in a lawsuit against the state of Illinois in 1995 for failing to implement a federal law designed to make it easier for the poor and others to register as voters. http://www.barac...

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http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/oct/ ... e-backing/

Why harass a completely legit voter registration organization?

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CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Congress has balked at the Bush administration's proposed $700 billion bailout of Wall Street. Under this plan, the Treasury would have bought the \"troubled assets\" of financial institutions in an attempt to avoid economic meltdown. This bailout was a t...

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I guess it's official

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The problem with that logic is increasing taxes decreases government revenues.

If we want the governemnt to get more money, we need to decrease taxes across the board.

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That looks like Bubbalou's work.

http://www.descent4.org/bubbalou

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Recognize a joke

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I just got a lenovo T61p (the are having a massive sale right now). While the workstation version may be a little overkill for what she is doing, they do offer some nice laptops with discrete graphics for her graphics work. If she does alot of work in excel you would probably want to get a monitor c...

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It's a good thing Obama has so much experience with negotiations that if he does get elected president I'm sure he will be able to handle it and the world will be all gumdrops and lollypops.

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