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Very awesome seats last night at the Blackhawks game! Plus I got a picture with Ozzie.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 19, 2010 -> 01:37 PM) Watching that video makes me want to punch something. She doesn't understand the Constitution (establishment). She doesn't understand court decisions (ID is creationism). She doesn't understand evolution at all (JUST A THEORY!!!!). She's repeating creationist talking points from the 60's. Wow! You picked out all three of the things that I was severely frustrated with as well. By the way StrangeSox, a couple of weeks ago I went to a lecture given by Ken Miller. I think it was you that suggested his books to me. It was awesome and now I have both of his books signed.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 30, 2010 -> 08:54 AM) I sense a trap...

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 28, 2010 -> 07:37 AM) What brand of laptop did you have? I have a Toshiba.

"You're killing me Smalls!"

About a month ago I stepped on my laptop and cracked the screen. After looking at new laptops, I bought a new screen online for about $100 and installed it myself with a little help from my dad and it has been fantastic. It was pretty easy and neither one of us are very handy with computers. Basically all you have to do it unscrew the screen, unplug two things, plug them into the new screen, screw it back in and your done. Took about a half an hour.

QUOTE (chimpy2121 @ Sep 21, 2010 -> 08:45 PM) Just got back from the Canes game. Awesome arena, crappy hockey. Going from parking lot to home in less than 5 minutes is awesome though. Thinking about getting a 12 game plan so I can get All Star tickets. Erik Gudbranson looked really good out there for Florida (1 G, 1 A). Zac Dalpe impressed me from the Canes. I went to that arena for a game last March when I visited my brother at NC State and was really impressed. I was surprised that I had to walk through a metal detector though.

My brother's house down at school in Raleigh got broken into today. He had some money and his laptop stolen and his roommates had their laptops stolen too. No one was home when it happened and the house was locked up but they busted open the backdoor. I'm glad he's ok but it still sucks and I feel just awful for him.

My diploma came in the mail yesterday. Sweet!!! Now I just have to find a real job.

I'll be there. We got tickets in the upper deck on the first base line. My friends want to tailgate, but I want to get my bobblehead and get into the stadium. Maybe I can convince them to try and get one of the bullpen tables.

Working full-time retail and if they let us I would definitely go into overtime most weeks but the bosses are having none of that. They make sure we don't go over and if we're even close they send us home. Which can be nice when you get to leave early on a Friday or Saturday?

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Aug 16, 2010 -> 10:07 PM) First fall in 18 years that i don't have school! Thanks for reminding me. Me too! QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ Aug 16, 2010 -> 10:13 PM) Jerk. Don't be jealous Marcus.

QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ Jul 24, 2010 -> 02:03 AM) I know someone with that on their license plates.... Hahaha

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Jul 22, 2010 -> 10:29 PM) The following aren't what I'd call guitar heroes or virtuousos, but are very solid and underrated, probably due to the commercial success of their bands: Mike Campbell Neal Schon (seriously) Lindsey Buckingham I've been waiting for someone to mention him. TP and the Heartbreakers are definitely one of my favorites and I'll agree that he isn't a guitar legend but he is very underrated if you ask me.

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Jul 21, 2010 -> 05:56 PM) I can wait until it comes out on DVD. Not really super excited to see it even with the glowing reviews. If you change your mind Kev just let me know I want to go see it again.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 20, 2010 -> 09:55 AM) The Traveling Wilbury's Love the Wilbury's. How can you go wrong with Harrison, Dylan, Petty, Orbison and Lynne

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jul 16, 2010 -> 12:43 AM) WWWWLWWWWWWWWWWWLLWLWLWWWWWWWWW Whats great about this run is that even though we have gone 26-5, 4 of those 5 losses came in a 6 game stretch.

I don't know if anyone put this in here but I saw this on a friends' facebook. Fathead.com, an online retailer owned by Cavs owner Dan Gilbert dropped the price of its LeBron Fathead wall decals from $99.99 to $17.41, which happens to be the same year Revolutionary War traitor Benedict Arnold was born. Hahaha, Oh Dan Gilbert HAHAHA

I think something that might be messing some people up in this discussion is the word "creationism." The way I have always used the word or heard the word used is in context to the people that believe that the world was created in 6 literal days, with each living species or "kind" being specially created by a creator in those 6 days and only microevolutionary changes from that point some 6-10 thousand years ago. The way I think Kap is trying to use it (sorry if I'm misinterpreting) is that at some point, something was created, like the first living cell and then evolved from there, but could still be within the "6 days" with regard to the relative nature of time. The word creationism normally isn't used that way in discussions. Evolution doesn't involve the start of life, just what happens after life was here on earth. The theory of abiogenesis is best hypothesis put out by the scientific community. Science probably will never have a good grasp of how life started, but we have lots of good evidence of how it has evolved once it was here. I, personally, am of the same belief of Ken Miller, that the creator started that process out by putting the first living cell/being on Earth and letting it evolve for billions of years until eventually you get to you and me having this conversation. Do I consider myself a creationist? No, not is the sense of how the word is normally used. In the sense that I believe Kap is trying to use it? Yes, I do believe that at least something originally was created by a creator. Is that a scientific thought? No, because there is no way to verify that scientifically and I can see that very clearly. That is a part of my personal faith and has nothing to do with my scientific knowledge that I have learned, read or been taught. Evolution, however, is the fundamental unifying theory in biology that is base on over 150 years of testing, tweaking, retesting, and evidence gathering. The beauty of science though is that we never know everything. Everything is always constantly scrutinized and reworked based on whatever evidence is gathered. That was the class Strange and it was a very interesting one. Sadly though, the teacher who taught it is retiring and he said that he didn't think any on he colleagues would pick it up to keep teaching it. It was based more so for helping someone to try and defend evolution against various challenges that one might face on a school board or in a classroom. Sort of like a buffer for teachers if there were to be a legal battle like there was at Dover.

I have to agree with StrangeSox on Ken Miller. He is a great scientist and writer. Both of his books are great reads on this subject,"Only a Theory" and "Finding Darwin's God." In fact, I think it was Strange that recommended him to me when I took my "Evolution and Creationism" class out at NIU.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 9, 2010 -> 09:17 PM) the 4 HR game on Monday. The Sox haven't lost a game that I've personally been at in just about a decade I think. If DV's career goes anywhere, I was in the audience for his first HR. Me too!!!

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jul 9, 2010 -> 06:12 PM) Not unless you go about redefining words and bastardizing the word "faith" into something meaningless. You come up with a hypothesis and you test it; you don't just write a pretty argument and assume it's true. And scientists are very much aware of the idea of provisional truths and changing paradigms. No one thinks they've got it all figured out; it's all just working models that approximate reality reasonably well, all subject to replacement by something new or modification by some novel, unexplainable aspect of nature. This is not, in any way, comparable to faith. IMO you weaken the idea of faith by trying to tie it to a methodology like science. Faith isn't about hypothesis testing. Very well said.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 8, 2010 -> 10:18 PM) So who wants to start teaching a former basketball fan how to be a hockey fan? No, I'm not kidding. Welcome!!!! Ice Hockey!

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jul 8, 2010 -> 06:03 PM) Anyone feel like facepalming? This link was posted by someone in my Facebook news feed earlier: http://www.tangle.com/view_video?viewkey=e...21f873cc42b9fe9 All well and good but then here's her comment that was the kicker (she is a black, female, hardcore liberal btw): I didn't know where to start so I said "I don't understand this post" and then someone commented this: That wasn't nearly as bad as the first comment, but I realized I wasn't in the mood to argue this so I deleted my comment and gave up. You should tell her not to worry, because she obviously doesn't know anything about the theory of evolution as it has nothing to do with how the world or even life was "created" only what happened after life was here on a planet that already existed. Plus throw this one at her, there are plenty of Christians who agree with the theory of evolution, including myself.

There are a couple that have only been said once that my friends and I always bring up After the Sox scored 8 runs in an inning: "I looooove snowmen!" During a spring training game: "I looooove giant sombreros." and of course "Uribe-licious"