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PMSL. Research! You couldn't even spell it. Tell you what Rich, save me some time. You obviously know all about it, like you know all about everything. Why don't you tell me how much money from tourism the inhabitants of resorts get, not bar owners, or tour operators, or hotel chains; tell me...

Spike Milligan came up with the "I told you I was ill" epitaph a long time ago. Mine...

Would you like to clarify that nonsense?

He really needs some better PR people I think ;-)

Go ask the inhabitants of any European holiday resort that one...

Well put Ken. When you get down to the Scientific theories on the begining of the Universe, and partical theories about things we cannot see and never will and can only guess to be there to fit in with other theories, you are simply dealing with another kind of faith...

No it does make sense Kraj, but then if you don't believe in God, then there is no interaction/influence and thus nothing to think of for me personally. I take your point though that as someone with faith, then of course you are coming from a totally different stance. I don't mean to belittle...

LOL. Missed this earlier on today in the flurry of pleasant debate :) My economics teacher used to use a similar example; the rise of both yoghurt comsumption and sexually transmitted diseases... for a while we just thought he had a yoghurt fetish!

I can see what people are saying here. My opinion is that whatever closed source applications exist, an open source application is bound to be written. As open source has a greater potential for people to contribute, eventually closed source simply won't be able to compete, and the open source...

No problem FoFa, I never took it that way, you were perfectly civil and objective :) However, I will explain why I can't really expand on your points. I consider myself to be a religious person, in the William James sense. He said that we all have a religion; it is what we use to answer the...

Of course, anyone who has a "faith" should not be threatened by Science :-) On the program which sparked this thread, there was a notable christian scientist (A Jesuit Priest was also an Astronomer) who said Intelligent Design was damaging to Science and Religion. Ah, well in some ways we...

As usual Kraj I can rely on you to explain all things the other side of the pond clearly and succinctly :)

Indeed :) Where did life come from? Discuss. Maybe not a thread for a Friday afternoon dt ;-) I'll be going home in a while to kill off a few brain cells, not exercise them!

Yes I would believe so Ken, wholeheartedly. Which for me is just wrong. It would also worry me as I would then question why this was happening.

I think this is an extremely wise standpoint taken in American, and one which should be espoused by more countries. I was very pleased when I saw the result of the original case of the Dover school board. A great triumph for American education I thought. However, this begs the question of how...

Good point dt. Darwinian Theory is not watertight; however to then leap from any weaknesses in Darwinian theory to "God must have created the universe" is very dangerous!

Nope. Intelligent Design is a specific theory. It has been put forward as a Scientific theory which states that the designs in nature are too complex to not be created by intelligence, or by design. The main underpinning of this theory was on the flagellum (not sure of the spelling of this) of a...

I'm not sure what you mean by that. I will give an example of what I mean. When I download an open source program, I get that. I get all the code used to create that program, I get what the programmer (or team of programmers) has in front of them when they are developing it. If I was able to, I...

No offence, what you say might spark an interesting debate, but it has nothing to do with Intelligent Design. Too many assumptions in what you are suggesting for me to discuss it.

There are many licences, it is confusing to me and I am an ethusiast! I put it the way I did to try and simplify the matter (not to insult anyone, not everyone understands it, you clearly do :) ). I basically mean on the one hand you have something which anyone can participate in, and on the...