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It is obvious that this is an essential element of the Creation Story that somehow got dropped through the various translations and re-telling of the Pentatuch. Genesis 1.1 should really read "God created the heaven and the earth, and blob's yer uncle".

I predict that scientists will discover that this "blob" is the origin of all the slime in the universe.

Where do you want the "All" to appear? First? Last? Somewhere else?

It really doesn't matter if midnight is represented as 12:00 am, 00:00, 2400 or anything else, if you use Bob Larson's suggestion and use Date/Time instead. Otherwise, you may "fix" your problem with your 3:00 pm to midnight shift, but what do you do if someone works until 1:00 am? Using...

Goodbye and thanks for all of them! The answer is 42. (There, that should pretty much wrap up this thread.)

It's no big mystery. Most cultures without a rich written language had a very good system of oral history. For example, the Celtic cultures had the bardic system, the American Indian had the medicine man. The keepers of the oral history were highly respected and had high status in the...

Not necessarily. You could conceivably have an instance where an ancient built a big boat (for various reasons) and when a local flood threatened, loaded his family and all of his livestock on it and waited out the flood, which gave rise to the legend of the Ark. In such a case the "ark" was...

There are more reasons than what you stated, although at present those are the top two. Climate change (regardless of cause) and natural extinction cycles also contribute to the decline in fish stock.

"The most convincing and most dangerous lies are those that are 99% true" - Dale Carnegie

Yes, Virginia, there IS a Grinch!

Which Queen? There are just so many of them these days, it is difficult to keep track. And very few of them live in castles...

Thanks. Missed that entirely.

Hmmm... did not know that about the 3 clocks in the system tray. I have been using desktop gadgets. How do I set up the clocks there? Thanks!

I know, Bob. Just pulling his chain. I have many friends in Ireland, Scotland, Italy and various other countries. In fact, here on my desktop I have clocks and weather gadgets for 6 different locales, just so I can keep track of it! Happy New Year to everyone, no matter WHERE you are! Hope...

Tonight? It is the morning of December 30th here. Does your location only have 30 days in December? :D:confused::eek::):rolleyes::p

Pre-Big-Bang was the "monopole", whatever that was and however it got there. There is no "viable solution" to that question that we can describe at this point. So I guess a "supreme being" is as good a guess as any. But then, so would a "Gumby Racehorse" be as good a guess as any. In other...

Since we "know" the age of the universe and we are approaching the ability to see that distance and since the speed of expansion of the universe since the explosion of the monopole is governed bythe speed of light, there cannot be an infinite number of galaxies, ergo no infinite number of stars...

Just a small comment. You stated that "there is an infinite number of galaxies". I am pretty sure that there are a finite number of galaxies, even if we don't know the exact number. The "Big Bang" could not have spawned an infinite number. So, it would be more accurate, cosmologically to...

If I download the add-in will it be included in the runtime if I create a distributable application? [/LEFT]