Re: Ockham's razor. God is *not* a simpler explanation for the origin of life and the universe than the big bang. The big bang was a simple event, perhaps caused by the random quantum leap of a single particle. The precise cause is unknown, of course, but that doesn't automatically mean that the god hypothesis is correct simply because it's an alternative theory! What followed the big bang is a *series* of events - expansion, gravitational accretion, evolution, etc, which are all incremental, simple events, dictated by the blind actions of extremely small particles behaving in simple ways that have a larger, more profound effect. To say that Ockham's razor proves God is a ridiculous misreading: because a God would require a more complex explanation for its origins than the universe itself.
I'm not convinced by the idea that the other senses are heightened when one can't see. One would rely on the other sense more, certainly, but the notion that blind people's hearing is better than seeing people's (for example) is a fallacy, constructed to make seeing people not feel so bad for the blind.
"You can clutter up the landscape to force me to look at billboards, you can cluttter up the internet, tv, and newspaper to force me to look at ads. BUT DONT CLUTTER MY SKY."
You've got it backwards. You should be angry that your world is already cluttered with ads. Advertising is graffiti. Giant floating bananas are art.
All these people saying he's had it when he hits puberty don't know what they're talking about. A boy's voice isn't ruined when it breaks, and many boy soprani continue to develop their voices during and after puberty. They will have already received a great deal of training by that time and this keeps their voices strong during the break. I was a treble as a boy, and am now a tenor; though there was no way I could have sung like Robin here when I was his age. It's not his range that's impressive as much as his tone control - there are some very difficult intervals in that piece. Bravo!
Of course, when a scientist posits a theory that is later found to be flawed, he or she abandons it and begins to work on another solution. He didn't make blunders, he was constatly in the process of formulating theory and explanation based on evidence and physics. Don't think that Einstein stopped working for a moment. On the other hand, when religious 'theorists' are proved wrong (world not flat, universe older than 10,000 years) they ignore it and don't change their viewpoints at all!
Sure, but you could still drill the kids in safety: just don't tell them it's a safety saw and you'll always have it as a fallback.
And this is a terrible quality clip.
You've got it backwards. You should be angry that your world is already cluttered with ads. Advertising is graffiti. Giant floating bananas are art.