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Evolution is God's Plan?
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| JerryMouse 2004-06-13, 8:55 pm |
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"This is the theory that God's method for creating man was to start out
with no plan at all, trying things at random, and keeping the things that
worked and throwing out the things that didn't work without understanding
why.
"I knew God was a programmer."
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| docdwarf@panix.com 2004-06-14, 3:55 pm |
| In article <BKSdnTo-xZUuWFHdRVn-sA@giganews.com>,
JerryMouse <nospam@bisusa.com> wrote:
>(found on another newsgroup)
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>"This is the theory that God's method for creating man was to start out
>with no plan at all, trying things at random, and keeping the things that
>worked and throwing out the things that didn't work without understanding
>why.
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>"I knew God was a programmer."
Ummmmmm... last time I looked many things referred to as God were supposed
to be omniscient.
DD
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| Howard Brazee 2004-06-14, 8:55 pm |
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On 13-Jun-2004, docdwarf@panix.com wrote:
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> Ummmmmm... last time I looked many things referred to as God were supposed
> to be omniscient.
Last I looked programmers were supposed to be omniscient.
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| Donald Tees 2004-06-14, 8:55 pm |
| Howard Brazee wrote:
> On 13-Jun-2004, docdwarf@panix.com wrote:
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> Last I looked programmers were supposed to be omniscient.
In the beginning, man was only god's bootstrap loader. The poor bugger
was looking for a godess.
Donald
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| docdwarf@panix.com 2004-06-14, 8:55 pm |
| In article <caktu4$aug$1@peabody.colorado.edu>,
Howard Brazee <howard@brazee.net> wrote:
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>On 13-Jun-2004, docdwarf@panix.com wrote:
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>Last I looked programmers were supposed to be omniscient.
Really? Where was it that you looked?
DD
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| Robert Wagner 2004-06-15, 3:55 am |
| "JerryMouse" <nospam@bisusa.com> wrote:
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>"This is the theory that God's method for creating man was to start out
>with no plan at all, trying things at random, and keeping the things that
>worked and throwing out the things that didn't work without understanding
>why.
In that case, we've been doing everything wrong. We try to create things of
beauty which predict the future while god uses the Million Monkeys approach.
>"I knew God was a programmer."
Maybe so. She likes to copy-and-paste code from one genotype to another. The
word 'legacy' isn't in her vocabulary. We're running systems that go back a
billion years. She'd be a great Cobol programmer.
Religion was a psychotherapy technique for coping with uncertainty. Then Physics
(QM) shook the rug by discovering the Universe IS inherently unpredictable. Now
we don't have a base, a security blanket. We're all just accidents.
According to the philosopher Frank Zappa, happiness is laughter, kindness,
beauty/grace and truly great pizza. I'd emend the last to truly great food, such
as I enjoy at home at lunch every day. Sometimes it IS pizza with caramelized
onions and four-star Modeno balsamic drizzle, most often it's something else
Mediterranean or Middle Eastern or American Comfort. Whatever, it doesn't
contain meat.
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| Richard 2004-06-15, 8:55 am |
| robert.deletethis@wagner.net (Robert Wagner) wrote
> In that case, we've been doing everything wrong. We try to create things of
> beauty which predict the future while god uses the Million Monkeys approach.
Whether what you create is 'beauty' or not is not determined by you,
but (in this philosophy) by (some hypothetical) 'god'. You are just
one of the million monkeys.
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| Howard Brazee 2004-06-15, 3:55 pm |
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On 14-Jun-2004, docdwarf@panix.com wrote:
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> Really? Where was it that you looked?
Users expect us to read their future minds to give them what they will someday
discover is what they really need.
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| docdwarf@panix.com 2004-06-15, 3:55 pm |
| In article <can033$7dm$1@peabody.colorado.edu>,
Howard Brazee <howard@brazee.net> wrote:
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>On 14-Jun-2004, docdwarf@panix.com wrote:
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>Users expect us to read their future minds to give them what they will someday
>discover is what they really need.
Users? Well, then, might explain a few things.
DD
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| Warren Simmons 2004-06-16, 3:55 am |
| Howard,
You are on the mark with this. In my experience, USERS don't know what
they need, and management is happy with that in some cases. Daily
reading of the Shark will show cases where management is unqualified
to manage. Or to read, give a damn, or what have you.
Warren
Howard Brazee wrote:
> On 14-Jun-2004, docdwarf@panix.com wrote:
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> Users expect us to read their future minds to give them what they will someday
> discover is what they really need.
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| JerryMouse 2004-06-16, 3:55 pm |
| Warren Simmons wrote:
> Howard,
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> You are on the mark with this. In my experience, USERS don't know what
> they need, and management is happy with that in some cases. Daily
> reading of the Shark will show cases where management is unqualified
> to manage. Or to read, give a damn, or what have you.
Years ago I decided that if it was my destiny to work for a fool, that fool
might as well be me.
So I chose the Helvitica font and never looked back.
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| docdwarf@panix.com 2004-06-16, 3:55 pm |
| In article <ibednT3QaboTok3dRVn-jg@giganews.com>,
JerryMouse <nospam@bisusa.com> wrote:
>Warren Simmons wrote:
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>Years ago I decided that if it was my destiny to work for a fool, that fool
>might as well be me.
Ahhhhhh... so you're sleeping with the boss, eh?
(Come to think of it... sleeping with the boss *and* the hired hand(s),
how very democratic!)
DD
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| Howard Brazee 2004-06-16, 3:55 pm |
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On 15-Jun-2004, Warren Simmons <wsimmons5@optonline.net> wrote:
> Howard,
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> You are on the mark with this. In my experience, USERS don't know what
> they need, and management is happy with that in some cases. Daily
> reading of the Shark will show cases where management is unqualified
> to manage. Or to read, give a damn, or what have you.
I've got a Shark Tank T-shirt.
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| Howard Brazee 2004-06-16, 3:55 pm |
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On 16-Jun-2004, "JerryMouse" <nospam@bisusa.com> wrote:
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> Years ago I decided that if it was my destiny to work for a fool, that fool
> might as well be me.
Trouble is - I don't have enough money to pay myself the money I want. If
someone else pays me, then I am working for him.
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