The guys at Frictional Games tried something really hard, in telling a story that reflects
good old science fiction.
Not exact matches
Well, if it comes down to holy books, the
oldest of the scriptures — the Rigveda of India has a take which is very different and much more in accordance with what
science is finding:
The universe is 13.7 billion years
old (cosmology:
best estimate based on available data)- nothing to do with Atheism The earth is 4.5 billion years
old (cosmology:
best estimate based on available data)- nothing to do with Atheism Life emerged from non-life (Biogenesis theory... cause and process unknown)- nothing to do with Atheism Life spread and diversified through evolution (
best available explanation)- nothing to do with Atheism Man evolved from common ape ancestor (evolution
science)- nothing to do with Atheism Consciousness is an emergent property of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Emotions, memories and intelligence are functions of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Morals are emergent qualities of social animals (natural
science)- nothing to do with Atheism
Being LGBT is not a choice (regardless of what the 2000 year
old book states,
science says different and it is what
science states that matters in the real world), there is no cure for it and there are plenty of people who are LGBT that are
better christians than you could ever wish to be.
Vic
Well if you believe the earth is 6,000 to 10,000 years old then don't bother going to a reputable science site stick with apologetic sites, they will bolster your vast knowledge of well, noth
Well if you believe the earth is 6,000 to 10,000 years
old then don't bother going to a reputable
science site stick with apologetic sites, they will bolster your vast knowledge of
well, noth
well, nothing.
Then light was liberated, and then gravity created the first stars and galaxies, then billions of years later, a local star went supernova and seeded the local nebula with heavier elements, elements necessary for life, elements that were not created during the Big Bang, then the sun was born, then the planets coalesced, and billions of years later some primate wrote a story about how the Earth was created at the same time as the rest of the universe, getting it wrong because that primate did not have the
science nor technology to really understand what happened, so he gave it his
best guess, most likely an iteration of an
older story told prior to the advent of the Judeo Christian religion.
There may be apparent anachronisms in certain aspects of the Book of Mormon, but the same could also be said of any book of scripture and many
old science books as
well.
Be a
good little christard and keep off of the Atheist invented machine or maybe register for a grade 5
science class - an education outside of the out dated 2000 year
old debunked crap you believe in, would do you
good... maybe watch some COSMOS - short and easy to comprehend if you have an open - mind.
Much of the
science they are trying to debunk is VERY
OLD science, not the updated more accurate
sciences, such as their attack on carbon dating... you do realize that we have updated the
science well past the AiG website representation of the
science, right?
Best of all, this book closed with several chapters on pertinent theological questions for today, such as how to reconcile the Bible and
science, how to understand the violence of God in the
Old Testament, and how to make sense of what the Bible teaches about women, homosexuality, and the fate of those who have never heard the gospel.
It would be
well to conclude this brief survey of some of the most significant recent theories in source analysis with the judgment of Aage Bentzen.6 It is of first importance, he states, that we understand the «import of tile «
old school,» so that continuity in
science can be seen and the new points of view get their true background.
Well, it comes from a 2000 year
old book, contradicted by other 2000 year
old books, no updates, can be interpreted in so many different ways depending on how the reader perceives his world (and how
science has progressed... I'm sure if you were alive before galileo told you the earth did not revolve around the sun and had only the bible as your reference you would come to the same conclusion as the Vatican who said the sun revolved around the earth....
If you think
science can't answer how
old the earth is because YOU don't understand how scientists date things, that doesn't mean you can automatically assume primitive nomads from the Bronze Age had any
better idea.
Well, if you believe 2000 year
old speculation over modern, evidence based, repeatable, testable
science, then how would you react as President if some tragic event occurs and evangelicals are telling you it's the end of days?
The last of the
old style of
science boys created the personal computer, and after them came»
well, something new, something different.
«We had
old R22 compressors and there is a lot of
science around those that isn't
good so we upgraded to ammonia,» Neri explains.
According to the notes from that recipe, Lemon Posset is an
old British pudding that once used wine instead of lemon as its acid, but the food
science is the same: the acidic addition basically curdles the cream, but because the fat content of cream is so high you end up with a thickened cream instead of,
well, ricotta.
My sister is the new (er) modern - day farmer, mixing some
science and
good old passed me down wisdom from
older generation farming techniques.
«Giuliani and Bloomberg were elected in part by that
old coalition losing its strength and losing its cohesiveness and de Blasio was able to stitch that together
better than it had been for over 20 years and he also was able to bring in new constituencies, people of color, immigrants,» said Ken Sherrill, a professor emeritus of political
science at Hunter College.
Science begins to unlock the secrets of
older people with brains that age
well as advances continue to add years to the average lifespan.
Therefore, present an
old poster and spend the time reading those papers that will help you understand your field and do
better science.
The study, published in Psychological
Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological
Science, shows that
older adults were actually
better than young adults at correcting their mistakes on a general information quiz.
Then neuroscience will be in a much
better position to answer the age -
old questions that have fascinated everyone from oracles and shamans to Freud and, more recently,
science - fiction enthusiasts: Why do we dream, and what do dreams mean?
Regardless of the implications of that
old quip «close enough for government work,» the standards of
science and work ethic compare
well with those of academia and industry.
Children as young as 4 years
old may reap
better health from altruistic giving, a behavior that tends to be less common among kids from high - income families, according to new research on the nature and nurture of altruism published in Psychological
Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological
Science.
Get your
science news at our website, www.ScientificAmerican.com where you can check out the article on environmental concerns about connecting the Red Sea to the Dead Sea which could revive the
old axiom
better dead than red.
BYU health
sciences professor Lori Spruance studies the impact of salad bars in public schools and has found one helpful tip: teens are more likely to use salad bars if they're exposed to
good,
old - fashioned marketing.
No more: Bounceur, a 30 - year -
old mathematician from Algeria who is also a member of Algeria's Berber cultural minority, renounced such trivial pursuits when he came to France as a master's graduate in operations research — a discipline that blends mathematics and statistics with computer
science to pursue optimal solutions to complex problems — seeking
better opportunities.
The DRI values may be
better grounded in
science than the
older, simpler RDAs were, but the newer standards are a lot more confusing.
How is it, then, that the
best science show on TV turns out to be a low - budget and in many ways deeply stupid offering about two Roto - Rooter plumbers who spend their weekends shuffling around
old buildings in the dark, interpreting every distant thump as a «footstep» and every draft - powered swish of a curtain as a lonely dead child whispering «Chrisss»?
In 2006, Dobrzyn learned that the Nencki Institute was running a competition to hire Poland's
best young biologists — demonstrating, Dobrzyn says, that it's «one of the very few Polish institutes trying to change this very
old - fashioned way that
science is organized.»
As Murray grew
older, he questioned whether saving someone's life and sending him back into the desert, still vomiting and sick, was the
best science could do.
Collectively, the team applied decades of combined experience in materials
science to explain the fundamental reasons why this new type of vanadium pentoxide is superior to the
old version as
well as to Li - ion batteries.
In the resignation letter obtained by ScienceInsider, Gilman explained that the 3 - year -
old CPRIT is now
well established and no longer needs him as a full - time
science officer.
The idea of a telephone that displays pictures as
well as relaying sound is as
old as
science fiction.
Science is supposed to shed its
old habits when
better ways of doing things come along.
«The thoughts of travel that have long tormented me make me take a greater interest in the
sciences with each passing day,» wrote 16 - year -
old Albert to his «dear Papa» in 1864, «and I can not wait to surrender myself entirely to my nautical tastes...» Thanks to the Grimaldi bank account, he was able to combine both passions on a series of four
well - appointed yachts.
There's a marvelous quote from Carl Sagan: «In
science it often happens that scientists say, «You know, that's a really
good argument; my position is mistaken,» and then they would actually change their minds, and you never hear that
old view from them again.
Formally known as The State University of New York Health
Science Center at Brooklyn - but
better known to our patients and Brooklyn neighbors as SUNY Downstate Medical Center - we are
older than the Brooklyn Bridge.
In the summer of 2014, with the support of the Irish Reseach Council (IRC) and
Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), the team collected thousands of zircons from the Sudbury impact crater, Ontario, Canada - the
best preserved large impact crater on Earth and the planet's second
oldest confirmed crater at almost two billion years
old.
My only fear there is that Chinese culture is so
old, so huge, and so self - sufficient, plus the language barrier, that not all the
best Chinese
science will reach the international community, in time.
One
older Canadian scientist,
well - known in the field for his decades of patient measurements, still felt the
science of permafrost would not be relevant until later this century.
It was that
old school, bro
science that educated me and taught me how to get
better.
Dr. Lipman founded the Eleven Eleven Wellness Center in 1992, where he combines the
best of Western medicine and cutting edge nutritional
science with age -
old healing techniques from the East.
From understanding how growing
older impacts various bodily systems to the biological differences in the way aging effects men and women; the latest
science on telomeres and slowing the rate of cognitive decline to how meditation heals us and why love, friendship, and laughter matter for health, The Longevity Book offers an all - encompassing, holistic look at how the female body ages — and what we can all do to age
better.
Teenagers are
old enough to understand the «
science»
good and bad.
Like the five thousand - year -
old science of acupuncture, it works on stimulating
well - established energy meridian points to ease energy blockage, which manifests in physical and mental problems.
New Recommendations from the National Sleep Foundation - The Atlantic January 2015 - Poor Sleep in Adolescence Predicts Future Problems, Study Says - Los Angeles Times January 2015 - How Sleep Keeps You Healthy, Helps You Heal - Discovery News September 2014 - Lack of Sleep Increases Risk of Failure in School Among Teens -
Science World Report, from Sleep Medicine August 2014 - Sleep Woes in
Old Age May Be Linked to Brain Cell Loss - Health magazine August 2014 — University of Chicago Study: Getting More Sleep Could Cut Junk Food Cravings in Half — CBS News August 2014 — University of Montreal Study Shows Learning Is
Best Enhanced During Sleep - Jewish Business News February 2014 - Link Found between Sleep Duration and Depression - Psych Central February 2014 - Less Sleep, More Time Online, Raises Risk for Teen Depression — National Public Radio
The 5000 - year
old science of yoga is a gift of peace,
well - being, vitality, and self - confidence for the body, mind, and soul.
Well, while that
old wives» tale has some basis in
science, the tryptophan in turkey is not the reason for sleepiness after Thanksgiving dinner.