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No. It is about belief, but the "not doubt" is irrelevant and has nothing to do with faith in the context you've used it. All faith is based on belief. Not all belief is based on faith. It is a similar relationship to that between squares and rectangles. All squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares. Tell us, what exactly did Jesus say about the scientific method or about the earth revolving around the sun? If he didn't address either of these two issues, why are you bringing him up? True, the original hypothesis offers a starting point to look for evidence or form experiments that could disprove said hypothesis, and offer insight into how the hypothesis needed to be modified to accurately explain the evidence & phenomena, or why it needs to be completely discarded. No, it was based on evidence and observed phenomena. Sure it was. It was a valid example of belief based on understanding, and not faith. Yes, in an attempt to disprove the hypothesis. No, the evidence is not gathered with intent to support the hypothesis. Evidence is gathered with intent to test the hypothesis. Yes we do. I recognize the fact that faith is useless when seeking answers to explain the world and universe around us or other topics better left to science, such as the origin of of life. More specifically, science is about finding answers in such a manner that different people in different places will obtain the same answer, every time, without any need for faith. No. Do you believe it can be? No, the definitions of the words are too different. That's significantly different from saying "truth is a feeling." If I have an idea, I can express that idea in text, but that text is not the idea. Even the Golden Rule has its problems. I once new a female with a fantasy of being raped and murdered. I certainly hope she does not practice the Golden Rule. She would be a serial killer, probably dubbed black widow or something similar by the press. Or, perhaps well meaning Christians, following the Golden Rule, start talking about Jesus and Christianity with everyone they meet. This may be what they would like to have done unto themselves, but it results in annoying (or worse) a large portion of those with whom they start such conversations. Personally, I prefer Do not do unto others what you would not want them to do unto you. But while its passive approach reduces the potential for problems, it does not eliminate the potential. What if a shy introvert notices a great accomplishment of an extravert that feeds off of attention. The introvert would not want a big deal made of the accomplishment if it was his own, yet the extrovert might feel slighted if the accomplishment is not acknowledged. In the end, I think Richard Bachman offered the most realistic rule. [I]Do unto others as you want to do unto others. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Corrections researchers at the Arizona State University: Arpaio spent over $10,000 to have Arizona State University study recidivism in his jail system. The 1998 ASU study tracked 4,800 released Maricopa County inmates and showed no evidence that harsh treatment reduced recidivism. Arpaio discounted this study as false and continues to claim that his jail program has reduced crime in the valley. … Has the crime rate reduced as a result of all this activity? Not at all. As of December 2006, Phoenix is strapped with a crime rate that, according to FBI statistics, now tops that of New York, Los Angeles or Baltimore. Source Original study available here. Book cited in Wikipedia article Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Sometimes, sometimes not. There are a lot of variables that need to be considered. If the SUV is only needed once per week, then it's likely that a second small car for the other six days will be cost effective. OTOH, if the SUV is needed six days per week, then it's probably not going to be cost effective to get a second, smaller car. For most people, the biggest considerations will be the additional insurance costs, the amount of decreased depreciation of the SUV, cost of second smaller car, difference in fuel economy and number of miles driven in the smaller car instead of the SUV. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

How about asking a yes or no question if you want a yes or no answer. Probably. You're wrong about the belief being weak due to not relying on faith. You're right about it being from understanding rather than faith. Rarely will a hypothesis ever be proven true. Science proves very few things. One of the defining characteristics of a scientific hypothesis is that it is disprovable. If you want proof, study mathematics. If it was, it would not be a guess, but a fact. All the evidence is not in to prove it yet, showing that evidence is not always required before a guess is made (to be proven true), either educated or not. I agree, they have. Plato's Allegory Of The Cave is one of my favorites. The difference is that most metaphors and parables are chosen or created due to be analogous in many ways. Whoa. Back up. Scientists don't deny possibilities of something other than their own explanation. There are currently, in fact, several competing theories of the "end" of the universe. Generally speaking, they all explain the observed phenomena/evidence equally well. As more phenomena/evidence is observed, some will be discarded or adapted. That's not faith. That's science. No. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

I think GWB's selection of Dick Cheney as a running mate is a more recent example. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

That seems to be inconsistent with the drug laws that they ceased enforcing. Nor does it change my opinion. But just because you and I don't agree with Iran's government is not an indication that they are irrational actors. I agree. However, I think the worst thing we can do is to give a fundamentalist government the means to a successful propaganda campaign against the US among the Iranian people. I also don't have any problem with Iran having a civilian nuclear power program. You're welcome. That was exactly why I posted it. I think it could be more accurately described as the most effective known strategy in non-cooperative game theory. The important aspect of it in this situation is being quick to give a second chance without adopting a permanent naïvety (i.e. if the adversary refuses to cooperate, being willing to revert back to a competitive posture). Social sciences may well have a correlating theory, but tit for tat was drawn from the most concrete of sciences, mathematics. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

TV, is it a reflector or the director? Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

I found it interesting that Iran has, in recent past, proven themselves to adopt realist policies over idealist theocratic policies when necessary. From July 5, 2005 Washington Post's AIDS Crisis Brings Radical Change In Iran's Response to Heroin Use: Fearing an AIDS epidemic, Iran's theocratic government has dropped a zero-tolerance policy against increasingly common heroin use and now offers addicts low-cost needles, methadone and a measure of social acceptance. … Supporters of the government's new approach laud it as practical and devoid of the wishful thinking and moralism that they contend hampers policies on drug abuse and AIDS in some other countries, including the United States. "I have to pay tribute to Iran on this," said Roberto Arbitrio, head of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime in Tehran. … Ayatollah Mohammad Esmail Shoshtari, the justice minister who has shut more than 100 newspapers and imprisoned political opponents, instructed prosecutors in a Jan. 24 letter to ignore laws on the books and defer to Iran's Health Ministry to counter the spread of AIDS and hepatitis C. … The policy demonstrates the complexities of Iran a quarter-century after the Islamic revolution and U.S. Embassy takeover that still defines its theocratic government for many Americans. Though power remains concentrated in unelected clerics who brook little political dissent, the government has demonstrated flexibility on a variety of subjects, including birth control and sex-change operations, which the clerics recently authorized. After the revolution, Iran treated drug users as criminals, throwing hundreds of thousands of them in jail. Now it has joined the ranks of countries that acknowledge the difficulty of eradicating drug addiction and focus instead on curbing the most immediate dangerous behaviors that go with it. … Robert Newman, director of the Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, said Iranian policies are "in very dramatic contrast to what has been happening with increasing frequency in America, where the judiciary and the criminal justice system in general . . . does not let the patients receive the treatment that the physician says is necessary." Newman, who has traveled twice to Iran in the last five years to consult on addiction programs, said only a quarter of an estimated 900,000 heroin addicts in the United States receive treatment. He attributes that in large part to laws that restrict methadone to large-scale treatment facilities. "In other words, the AIDS epidemic has done nothing to open the way for treatment with methadone or any other treatment for heroin addiction" in the United States, Newman said. While such an example says little about Iran's foreign policy or their policy regarding terrorism, it does offer some insight regarding how the leaders prioritize theocratic idealism with the well being of the population. We need to keep in mind that, while Iran's leaders may not share the same ideals of Western leaders, we cannot assume Iran's leaders are irrational or absolutely idealist to the complete exclusion of realism. As long as we treat Iran as an "evil" (to quote Bush) country, there is little hope for improvement of our mutual relationship, including their active or tacit support of insurgents fighting our military in the region. We need to show Iran the respect we want to receive, even if we have to swallow our pride a little bit to accomplish that. In the long term, that is the superior strategy. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

I'm working on the link. The attached files are PDFs from the page, so the info is still there. Also here. The CBO also shows a surplus for 2001. Check out the files attached to my post, which you apparently haven't read, since they show, as does your own source, that there was a budget surplus in FY2001. The CBO shows the same thing. And if you read the data, you would see that there was still a budget surplus in 2001, even after GWB added significant supplemental spending to the budget. If you read the data. Your own source doesn't support that claim. Did you even read it? They show a $128.2 billion surplus (i.e. $1,991.4 Billion receipts minus $1,863.2 billion outlays) for 2001, just like the PDFs from the OMB from my previous post. Sure, it was down from the surplus from the previous year, but GWB also requested supplemental funding from Congress, since he couldn't seem operate within the same budget constraints within which President Clinton was able to operate. Patron and budget analysis don't mix well. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Yes, you are. Yes, it is. You created an arbitrary difference. No. Her actions manifested in good works. It took much more than faith. Only because you refuse to see. What are you talking about, now? I believe the sun will appear over the easter horizon in the morning. It's a strong belief. It is not a faith based belief. The belief is based on my understanding of the earth's rotation on its axis. There's nothing like a good contradiction. Or are you just claiming my belief that the sun will rise in the morning a weak belief? No, that's how religious faith works. A crime scene investigator would gather evidence, and form a hypothesis based on that evidence. The hypothesis fits the evidence, not vice versa. Again, the evidence comes first. The hypothesis is then formed to rationally explain the evidence. That's not similar at all. That would make as much sense as claiming that a career in law is just like a skateboard. The two have nothing to do with each other. Yes, I'm funny that way. A vague emotion isn't evidence of anything, except maybe a vague emotion. It's easy. Cosmologists aren't lacking evidence to support their hypotheses. They just are not in denial about there being unanswered questions thus far in science. That's a very different situation from having no evidence at all. Do you need evidence of a belief? Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

What you seem to not understand is that in the example you provided, what was believed to be impossible was, in fact, possible (i.e. it was not known to be impossible). Twist it however you like, but that is the unavoidable fact of your example. There you go again, assigning qualitative characteristics when you have no facts with which to back up your argument. Please, give us a concrete example of how "faith manifests itself through reality." Once again, you are failing to grasp the difference between understanding something is possible but not knowing how to do it, and taking something on faith. And now you create your own definition of evidence. There is a very small amount of historical evidence of questionable credibility that there was an historical Jesus, There is no credible evidence of his divinity. The way your belief makes you feel is not credible evidence. Let me get this straight. You are claiming I'm not capable of reason? Okay, sure, whatever. No. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Is this where you got your information about President Clinton's fiscal irresponsibility? Here in reality, the facts do not support your claim that Clinton proposed and signed a deficit budget for 2001. Source (see attachments from OMB) Alternate Source Of the last nine presidents, the average federal deficit (including interest payments) as a percentage of GDP was lowest under the Clinton Administration. Source Of the last eight presidents, only under the Johnson, Carter, and Clinton administrations did federal revenue grow faster than federal spending.The difference was greatest under Clinton. Source Clearly, your claims are unfounded in reality. By any reasonable measurement, President Clinton was the most fiscally responsible President in recent history, taking office with a budget deficit of 4.5% passed by his predecessor, decreasing the federal deficit steadily while he was in office, culminating in three years of post interest payment budget surplus, leaving his successor with a first year budget that offered a surplus even after the supplemental spending requested by President Bush. Welcome to reality, Vinny. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

What an arbitrary distinction you provide. One person's doubt is another person's belief. In your example, it was the person who thought something was impossible whose belief was not founded factually. I can see why, since no one claimed that except you. No, they merely have to acknowledge that it won't require violation of natural laws and figure out how to do it. That's not to say it will be easy, but it doesn't require the faith you refer to. It is true to the extent that it is just as probable that the Flying Spaghetti Monster is the Supreme Being as it is probable that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. And, due to lack of historical evidence to support such claims of Jesus' existence and feats, it must be taken on faith. You're doing a poor job of showing me. I don't buy your claim. Perhaps you're trying to convince yourself? Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

I can't find either of my sources this morning, although they are consistent with other sources I've read. I doubt English is spoken as a first language in as many countries as Spanish. At any rate, I would hate to see the US adopt an official language. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

Did he? Or did he just sign the budget Congress wanted? Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

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It appears that the ones who claimed it was impossible were the ones who made their claim on faith, or, more accurately, made their claim based on incorrect conclusions drawn from data analysis. Reality It is true to the extent that it is just as probable that the Flying Spaghetti Monster is the Supreme Being as it is probable that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. I think you are confusing faith in a supernatural being, for which there is no evidence, and the belief that something never before accomplished can be accomplished because there is no reason that it can't (i.e. it doesn't require violation of any natural laws). Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

If it can be accomplished, it is not impossible, is it? What? Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

It's a little late to start being specific, now! Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

I don't really have an opinion. I voted for him because he was runner-up in the election won by the indicted sheriff. I agree with Quade, though. It's a local issue and should be treated as such. Those who don't live in Orange county shouldn't be voting. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

I only listened to the first one also. I didn't think it was half bad, except for the lead vocalist, who sounded like he was singing while undergoing a vasectomy with dull, rusty instruments and no anesthesia. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

I agree. The greater Orlando area encompasses more than just Orange county (although I am within Orange county by at least fifty feet). I cast my vote (for Hunt). Thanks for bringing the poll to the attention of all of us who live in Orange county.

Some might come surprisingly close to the original. . I don't either. They're both enjoyable for different reasons. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

She was WAY after your time. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!

In other words, no one acted altruistically. Everyone acted according to their own political best interests. Obama set himself up to be able to argue that Michigan should not be counted because he wasn't even on the ballot (a fair argument), and Clinton set herself up to be able to argue that it's not fair to her, as the winner, or the voters to not count Michigan's primary (also a fair argument). Had Obama been likely to win instead of Clinton, we we would be seeing the opposite, Obama would have been on the ballot, Clinton would have had her name removed, and Obama would be arguing to count the Michigan primary. Politics as usual. It is only by chance that the best interest of the voters of Florida and Michigan is consistent with the best interest of Clinton. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!