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Calling the Los Angeles-based troupe Diavolo a dance company is like calling a monster truck a nice vehicle. But buy into its in-your-face aesthetic and you'll have a wild and thrilling ride.
Billed as performers, not dancers, the 10 company members pushed the limits of movement and daring in two works at the Ferst Center for the Arts on Friday: "Transit Space" and "Fluid Infinities," the final work in their "L'Espace du Temps" ("Space of Time") trilogy. (The second piece in the trilogy, "Fearful Symmetries," was performed at the Ferst in 2010.)
Jacques Heim, Diavolo's French-born artistic director, has created movement for the opening ceremony of the 16th Asian Games in China, an arena show at London's Wembley Stadium and Cirque du Soleil's "Kà." "Fluid Infinities" premiered earlier this month at the Hollywood Bowl, the largest natural amphitheater in the United States, seating close to 18,000. Let's just say Heim thinks big.
His own company's works are developed around huge architectural set pieces. The massive, central structure in "Fluid Infinities" must have looked very different at the Bowl than it did at the Ferst, where it filled the stage, dwarfing the performers. But it worked. Was this a strange planet? A spaceship, with its smooth, silvery surface and Swiss-cheese holes?
The performers emerged from another set piece, a tall plexiglass tube, like creatures rising from the primordial depths before approaching the spaceship-planet the way homo sapiens approached the black monolith in "2001: A Space Odyssey": with cautious curiosity. Suddenly, Leandro Damasco Jr., an electrifying performer, seemed pulled to the surface as if by a magnetic force before being apparently sucked into one of the holes. The other nine performers followed, launching a magnificent journey, brilliantly performed to the rhythmic harmonies of Philip Glass' Symphony No. 3.
The performers climbed over, through, in and around the beautifully lit structure. They were reptilian one moment, ethereal the next. Waves of movement brought to mind particle physics, protons dancing inside an atom. At one point a male dancer lay on top of the globe and locked elbows with his female partner as she slipped through a hole and swung below him, Cirque du Soleil-style: an elegant, choreographed version of a spacewalk.
Diavolo's performers manipulate the set pieces into different configurations, a visually arresting technique that is one component of the company's raw power. But there's a human component too: performers as strong as Olympic athletes. The women's upper-body strength puts them on a par with the men. All of them have solid, muscular bodies that seem able to withstand countless falls and tumbles, although I was always aware of the fragility of bodies against the hard structures.
Choreographed in 2012, "Transit Space" is inspired by the documentary film "Dogtown and Z-Boys," which chronicles Southern California's extreme skateboarding culture of the 1970s. Four large wood-and-metal ramps dominated the stage. What followed was a surprise: instead of skating down the ramps, the dancers moved sections of them to create metal bridges, symbols of connection. Then came a storm of extreme body-boarding. They ran up the ramps and flung themselves into downward slides, sprang into one-armed handstands at precipitous angles or took breathtaking leaps off the top to be caught by others below. Explosive leaps and dynamic floor work were interspersed with sections awash in gentle contact. The performers made full use of their diverse movement backgrounds: gymnastics, breakdancing, acrobatics and circus arts, as well as jazz and modern dance.
Set to the urban angst and rap poetry of Paul Prendergast's driving soundscape, "Transit Space" tells a story of alienated urban youth who find community in the skateboarding subculture. They were brash, feisty, unapologetic. And we, the audience, were definitely outsiders. We could observe, but we were not invited in. "Transit Space" ended with a series of thunderously joyful slides down the ramps. I could have done without the choreographed bows and curtain calls at the end of both pieces, but Heim is a showman — and it shows.
He has been criticized for being too consumed with architectural sets and visual effects and too little concerned with choreography. This was the first Diavolo performance I have seen, but it sure looked like dance to me: solos, duets and unison work were well crafted and grounded in strong technique. It seems that Heim is refining his monster truck by giving it a dancing heart.

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Director Ben Affleck and brother actor Casey Affleck attend a photocall to promote their film Gone Baby Gone at the Mandarin Oriental on Wednesday in London, England.
The film stars Casey and Michelle Monaghan as Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, two private investigators hunting for an abducted four-year-old girl in the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester. Amy Ryan received a Academy Awards nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
Gone Baby Gone, which opened nationwide last fall, has pulled in over $30 million in ticket sales so far. The film is released in the UK on June 6.
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A Palm Desert get-away offers the best in eating, games, culture and shopping. It's in like manner comprehended for its desert rock scene, purported since of local groups that made it to easy street, for example, Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age.
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I think I"m getting old. I say that because I remember hearing old people say things like, "When we were kids, we didn't have color tv and we got along just fine." Or, "When we were kids, we had to walk where ever we went, and we were just fine."
Today, though, as I read all the heat advisory warnings and I glanced at the thermometer, I had to stop and think, "When did 90s become too hot?" And then it happened. I started thinking back to when I was a kid. We didn't have air conditioning back then. (We still don't, although my parents do NOW!) Really, very few people did. Businesses around town weren't climate controlled and walking around town you'd see windows open, people on their porches and kids on their bikes. A drive around the square would bring you to all the Old Timers sitting on the benches and talking up a storm. And we were just fine! Oh, dear.
I remember in the dog days of summer – when it didn't even cool down at night – my brothers and sister and I would sleep out on the back patio – until that pincher bug grabbed Nise, but that's another story. We'd all four lie on cement and sleep under the stars, but not until we had exhausted all conversation. Amazing how siblings can chatter.
So tonight, it's warm. But there is a lovely breeze and looking out across the field, I see the intermittent glowing of lightning bugs, and I am thankful. And I miss Denise, Darin and Matt tonight….cause there are stars, and lightning bugs and I think the DDT got rid of all the pincher bugs.


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Housewives have gotten a bad rap since the postfeminist 1980s evolved into a mind-set that equates child rearing with lost ambition. Popular TV didn't help to defuse the myth by parading stay-at-home mothers as profligate and desperate women. The final straw for Nicole Chaison, a.k.a. the Hausfrau, was hearing someone slander a friend by saying, "She was an intellectual and a really gifted writer, but now she's just a hausfrau." Burn!
So in 2003 Chaison started Hausfrau Muthah-zine, a feisty, pint-sized publication out of Portland, Maine, that fuels the stories in her full-length memoir, The Passion of the Hausfrau: Motherhood, Illuminated Villard, 2009).
The Hausfrau, our tale's epic hero, chronicles the journey that is parenthood, illuminated by hilarious side-panel vignettes of her two children running amok in otherwise quiet public spaces or brandishing driftwood as swords. But daily mothering is only one trial in a very long odyssey; Chaison's recurring challenge is to balance the proverbial self B.C. (before children) and the unfamiliar self A.D. (after dilation)—stealing time to nurture her writerly ambitions, for example. Between steady chaos and affectionate goodnights, Chaison confirms that raising a family is a skill that everyone would stand to benefit from appreciating.
Family is one of the few enduring things that one has. A choice to cultivate that rather than earn money, is a wise one to me. Money spends only once but a family bound together by strong ties will support again and agian. I am a single mom and not the sort of person that could just stay home, but at one point I supported my partner and he stayed home. We both are nostalgic for those days. Having a homemaker really brings a warmth and heart that can't be found in any other way.
History tells us that the only roles for respectable females has always been hearth keepers and nurturers. Those who have chosen not to be hearth keepers (such as queens and other infamous females)are classified as harlots or madonnas. In today's world it is perfectly permissible to choose careers over hearth keeping but many women have both jobs. When you consider the responsibilities that go with both an outside job and a home job combined, there is no wonder that women are on tranquilizers and anti-depressants. It takes courage and intelligence to choose either a career outside the home or a career inside the home and much energy to choose both. All women should be allowed to make that choice on their own without pressures from society. Chaison made her selection to try both and has succeeded probably beyond her wildest dreams. It can be done!


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5 things every Florida fan needs to know today
Good morning, Gators fans. Florida's spring practice continued on Wednesday and a number of big names were in attendance — including an NFL head coach and a Hollywood star.
Here are five things to know:
- Jack Del Rio took in Wednesday's practice to watch his son, redshirt sophomore Luke Del Rio, compete for UF's starting quarterback job. The Oakland Raiders coach even brought along an Oscar-winning actor.
- The younger Del Rio believes the winding road to Florida was meant to be.
- Steve Spurrier was in Gainesville, too.
- The Gators hosted three top recruits on Wednesday.
- Knox Bardeen breaks down the winners and losers from Florida's Pro Day.
Other Florida news from around the Internet
- Jim McElwain plans to scope out Southwest Florida next month, writes the News-Press' Craig Handel.
- Gainesville Sun columnist Pat Dooley sheds some light on Will Grier's decision to transfer.
The best stories around the SEC
- At Tennessee, receptions are up for grabs for a trio of talented receivers.
- Paul Finebaum's greatest SEC quarterback bracket is down to the Final Four, and a former Gator is still in the mix.
- A look at five SEC starters who will have to fight to maintain their positions in 2016.
- Clemson is emerging as a formidable threat to the SEC when it comes to recruiting.


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Girl Trying to Read
I wish I could describe to you the scents that permeate St. Anne's Square right now. Going shopping for the last of my Christmas gifts, I walked through its busy festive market, the rain drizzling and natural light giving way to a constellation of LEDs. There, you are surrounded by fragrant, insistent aromas of vanilla, waffles, chocolate, cinnamon, coffee…as heavenly as any of the expensive perfumes I had tested out at Boots just half an hour before. Now, I say this as someone who loves a good perfume – but I do probably love food more!
Anyway, the reason I headed down that way today was to go and visit the café at Waterstone's Bookshop. My plan was to retreat into that cosy little hideaway among 3 floors of books; to forget all about hunting for the right presents and order a delicious espresso. I had a book along in my bag, ready to draw me in to its company with an engagingly written and plainly laid out analysis of the future of narrative in cyberspace. Sadly, it seemed like everyone else had the same idea about where to go. I was just too late to get a seat. 😦 The sign outside may say that 2nd View is the city's "best kept secret". Well, if that was ever the case, it's certainly not anymore. Too bad because their soup is gorgeous and they serve it with really generous chunks of fresh-baked bread. Sigh. But hey, at least I ended up buying yet another book to threaten the bookcase with! Girl Reading by Katie Ward. Ironic, don'tcha think?
On that theme: I am not sure if Katie Ward explores the relationship of her female portrait-sitters to the books themselves, as well as to the artists who paint them, but I can't help thinking about how books – physical, smellable, wonderful books – have been the one constant source of fascination, discovery, challenge, comfort, escape, and countless other nouns/emotions/properties, ever since I was in my pram and couldn't even read them. I must have had some inkling of that, because (ask my Mum) I clutched them tightly anyway. Being taught how to read and soon after how to interpret is equivalent to being armed with magic. The fact that so many people in Manchester chose to go to the bookshop today to relax is really something special. Even with ebooks and computer games and new forms of narrative gaining popularity and signalling (perhaps) a natural progression, some people will always love leafing through the "old-fashioned" paper kind. I hope so anyway, since at least a few books are among those Christmas presents…
So this is Christmas…
…and while, sadly, War still isn't over, at least I can report that the atmosphere at Manchester's wonderful Christmas Markets, which opened this week, is one of peace, happiness, and genuine "good cheer". Lots of food from around Western Europe; many flavours of delicious mulled wine; artisan glassware; sweets; wooden decorations; and tonight (for one night only) a fabulous vintage clothing and accessories fair, hosted in Manchester's Town Hall.
These markets are fantastic because without any pretension and without any slick PR campaign trying to guide people's perceptions they draw a diverse crowd of people to enjoy an unusual and value-for-money combination of "commerce" (though somehow it doesn't feel like it) and socialising in a makeshift market community.


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Apple joins Google in attack on irritating ads
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At its developers conference this week, Apple announced that its web browser, Safari, would block autoplay adverts and allow users to disable "ad tracking", joining Google in a move against disruptive adverts.
The announcement, made at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California, appears to signal a move to make the web browser more user friendly.
Apple will prevent videos from autoplaying, which will affect pre-roll adverts on autoplay videos, and could also affect media on Facebook and Instagram. Videos adverts are desirable to advertisers, as they are associated with consistently higher engagement than banner adverts.
Apple will also offer to disable "ad tracking"; this normally uses cookies to track users across different websites. For instance, a user may browse toilet brushes on an online marketplace one day, and the next day notice banner adverts for toilet brushes while reading the news online.
The Internet Advertising Bureau reported in 2016 that nearly a quarter of UK adults use ad blocking software, and it has been suggested that many users make the conscious decision to avoid brands that run disruptive online adverts. Approaches to ad blocking include preventing flash files from loading, and filtering content before it is displayed in the browser.
Beyond preventing irritating adverts from being displayed, this can allow pages to load more quickly, look "cleaner", lower data use for smartphone users, and sometimes prevent malware infections.
However, many websites rely on advertising revenue to keep running, and some websites – such as Forbes – do not reveal their content to users unless they "whitelist" the site, allowing adverts to be displayed.
Apple's decision to clamp down on irritating adverts reflects the opinion – shared with Google – that some ads have become too disruptive, and are affecting the user experience.
Other products revealed at Apple's conference include a smart speaker which could rival Amazon Echo and Google Home, and updated versions of iOS, macOC and the Apple Watch's watchOS.
Last week, Google announced a new in-browser ad blocker, which will prevent the most disruptive ads – such as those that autoplay, make noises, or cover the full screen – from loading. However, they will allow some adverts agreed to be "acceptable" to load. Google will work in association with the Coalition for Better Ads in order to determine which adverts will still be allowed to appear.


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ProShip® Achieves Oracle Validated Integration with Oracle E-Business Suite
ProShip deployed at thousands of locations worldwide and handling more than 1 million shipments daily on a single deployment integrates with Oracle E-Business Suite to provide an enterprise-class, multi-carrier shipping software solution.
Over the years our relationships with major ERP solutions, like Oracle E-Business Suite, have simplified the complexities of integration for our customers. ProShip can enable a virtually seamless integration throughout its entire business from distribution centers to customer service. Our customers are shipping internationally, using multiple carriers from many locations worldwide.
Brookfield, WI April 28, 2014 - Systems & Programming Solutions, Inc. (SPSI), a Gold level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), today announced it has achieved Oracle Validated Integration of ProShip shipping software with Oracle E-Business Suite. SPSI gives people the power to compete so they can propel their business to the next level.
To achieve Oracle Validated Integration, Oracle partners are required to meet a stringent set of requirements that are based on the needs and priorities of Oracle customers. Within a customers Oracle E-Business Suite landscape, ProShip performs shipping, rating and supports generation of compliant documents for carriers such as UPS, FedEx, USPS, DHL and many other domestic and global carriers.
We provide shipping software to large global businesses, says John Berg, Principal Partner of SPSI. Over the years our relationships with major ERP solutions, like Oracle E-Business Suite, have simplified the complexities of integration for our customers. ProShip can enable a virtually seamless integration throughout its entire business from distribution centers to customer service. Our customers are shipping internationally, using multiple carriers from many locations worldwide.
Achieving Oracle Validated Integration gives our customers confidence that the integration between ProShip and Oracle E-Business Suite is functionally sound and performs as tested, said Kevin OBrien, senior director, ISV and SaaS Strategy, Oracle. For solutions deployed on-premise, in the cloud, or both, Oracle Validated Integration applies a rigorous technical review and test process that helps to reduce deployment risk and improves the user experience of the partners integrated offering.
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ProShip, developed by Best Way Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Systems & Programming Solutions, Inc., is one of the fastest multi-carrier, global shipping solutions available today. ProShip offers high-volume, multiple-location international and domestic services to meet the needs of both moderate and the most demanding distribution environments. ProShip supports a range of enterprise applications including consumer products, retail distributions, e-commerce, industrial manufacturing, and third-party logistics. For more information about ProShip, please visit http://www.proshipsoftware.com/oracle.
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December 17, 2003
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"Well," said Joe Simpson, on seeing for the first time in 18 years the mountain down which he had crawled for three days with a broken leg, close to death. "The f.....'s still there." And so, one has to point out, is Simpson.
Yet as he discovered while filming a drama-documentary of
Touching the Void
, the harrowing book he wrote in 1988 about his experiences, the little-known 6300m-high Siula Grande mountain in the Peruvian Andes is probably in better shape.
The project did not go smoothly: there were furious rows on the set, which led to Simon Yates - Simpson's original climbing partner from 1985, who had come back too - walking out on the project.
Simpson himself suffered panic attacks, and began thinking that the intervening 18 years had been a dream, that he was once more crawling, stricken, across the moraine of the implacable Siula Grande's glacier towards what he hoped would be help.
The whole experience left director Kevin Macdonald, who admits he had never done anything more strenuous than walking up Ben Lomond, bemused. "I thought making this film would help me understand climbers and why they climbed, but it hasn't. Now I think they're madder than ever."
The film opens next week, and will only add to the enduring mystery which Simpson, quite unintentionally at first but now with a weary familiarity, embodies.
Why do people do things that are dangerous, yet pointless? Why climb mountains? In 1985, Simpson and Yates, then 25 and 21, knew the answer. They were looking for the respect of their Sheffield peers and other mountaineers.
The west face of Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash range was unclimbed. They wanted to conquer that, and other top peaks, and be recognised as people who could do what they set out to do.
Born in 1960, the son of a lieutenant-colonel who told him that men did not cry in public, Simpson completed his education at Edinburgh University where he read English and philosophy.
He had been turned on to climbing by reading Heinrich Harrer's book
The White Spider
, an account of the first ascent in 1938, after many fatalities, of the north face of the Eiger.
So he and Yates went to Peru, and attacked the Siula Grande route, and in the course of three blizzard-racked days managed to reach the summit. To them, the achievement was a crowning glory, yet to the wider public it would have remained an anonymous moment between anonymous men if Simpson had not slipped on the descent, destroying his right knee joint.
Now Yates had a choice: abandon him, or help him down. He chose the latter, lowering Simpson through gathering storms on ropes knotted together for a whole day. They were close, so close, to the final manoeuvre, when abruptly Simpson and the rope slid over an overhang.
Dangling, he couldn't climb the rope, and Yates, sitting on the slope above in powdery snow, couldn't pull him up. Yates agonised over what to do for several hours, while slowly sliding towards the overhang which meant certain death for them both. He decided to cut the rope.
Certain his friend had died in the fall into the crevasse, he headed back to the camp. Simpson was not dead, though; despite his injuries he managed to crawl and struggle back, reaching the base camp just hours before Yates packed up.
"The strange thing is that 90 percent of the people who read the book aren't climbers, so they must get some inspirational message from it," said Simpson this week.
Perhaps it's because, knowing it's a real-life tale, shot through with the fine-grained detail of pain and struggle, where death is the only certainty, it feels like a metaphor for all our lives - and holds out some hope for redemption of sorts at the end without being in the least bit religious.
Back home Simpson endured extensive surgery and lengthy recuperation, while Yates continued climbing, and within weeks had climbed the Eiger's north face.
Simpson began writing about his experience to exonerate Yates.
"When I got home many climbers heard about it and were highly critical of him, and the story went round and round until the only thing people could remember about him was his cutting the rope, completely ignoring the single-handed mountain rescue he had done. Given that I thanked him the moment I saw him again, I think that says what I thought there.
Published in 1988, the book's sales reached millions and won the £25 000 NCR Non-Fiction Award, fighting off Stephen Hawking's
A Brief History of Time
. Now it has been reissued to coincide with the release of the film.
The money Simpson made from the book and his climbing accident tore him away both from the lifestyle of the climbers who abound in Sheffield, and from his ambition to conquer the hard, interesting peaks.
And the respect he wanted for his climbing appeared instead to be for his writing.
But that has had its effects too. "Because I never planned to be an author, I feel continually harassed by the 'impostor syndrome', the feeling that any day now someone is going to find me out, stand up in a crowded room and denounce me as a fraud," he wrote.
"I am always startled and filled with gratitude when readers tell me they like my writing."
It's not just his writing. Simpson gives corporate motivation lectures which build on those experiences, and his other struggles (such as the time he fell down a mountain in Nepal, seriously breaking his ankle, or was avalanched in the Alps).
He relives those days for the audience, recounting an experience they should hope they never have to survive. He is also brutally honest about the pointlessness of climbing. It's a game, as he acknowledges, and a deadly one; hence his second non-fiction book,
This Game of Ghosts
, about his experiences in Nepal, which reflects on how many of his friends have died while pursuing nothing more than a summit.
He has written six books in all. The second was a novel, but the rest have all been climbing-related, including his most recent,
The Beckoning Silence
, about his self-doubt during a failed attempt on the Eiger. (He plans to try again next year.)
Yet having experienced the indifference of the universe to his existence at close quarters, he seems reluctant to believe that humans so frequently have different systems of values from his own.
Another book,
Dark Shadows Falling
, dealt, in part, with his fury at the disorder on the higher slopes of Everest, where people have actually climbed up or down past other stricken climbers without offering help. It's sometimes said that "above 8000m (known as the Death Zone, as your body is dying there) you cannot afford morality".
In a sense, his criticism here is the same as that made by those who knew only that Yates had cut the rope, but not how he had saved Simpson's life previously.
Both climbers are inured to the way that the cutting of the rope has tied them together, and to that mountain.
But while Yates went on to climb and to marry and have children, Simpson has never married, never quite been able to settle down.
"We're intelligent. We knew the risks," he says. "It's not as if we went there and had an accident and thought: 'Ooh, this is dangerous.' "
After Peru, despite the days dragging his shattered leg and ankle over rocks, he was physically still able to climb, even though the doctors insisted he never would.
Simpson joined a long list of climbers with broken bones who have confounded orthopaedic specialists. And he carried on despite the escalating number of close friends and acquaintances who died on the mountains. But he says that after the accident in Peru, "I've never (again) done a route that committing".
It wasn't his body, but his mind which let him down. The prospect of facing a moment when he would again stare into the abyss was too much. That's what being on the ground, staring at Siula Grande, brought back to him again.
With thanks to the London Independent and journalist Charles Arthur.
The US release date for this film is 23 January in LA and NY. Stay tuned for a review of
The Beckoning Silence
here on Camp4 in the next few weeks.
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Young Earth Creation is a Scientifically probable explanation of the Universe.
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BOP is shared: I will try to prove that Young Earth Creation (YEC) is a probable theory using the scientific method. My opponent will attempt to prove that YEC is not probable explanation using the scientific method.
According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary (www.merriam–webster.com) the Scientific Method is:
principles and procedures for the systematic pursuit of knowledge involving the recognition and formulation of a problem, the collection of data through observation and experiment, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses
This debate will not discuss alternate explanations (such as Darwinian Evolution).
(I hope to demonstrate how Evolution is scientifically flawed in a future debate but it would make this debate too vast in scope to adequately cover all the information).
For the purposes of this debate we shall assume Young Earth Creation is described in the Biblical Account. However I believe that there are numerous "flawed" creation accounts such as the Epic of Gilgamesh.
I look forward to an informative and mature debate.
I accept the debate, on the grounds that my opponent shall present no more than ten (10) distinct attempts to justify a young earth. In the words of Einstein: "If I were wrong, then one would have been enough!", but I shall allow my opponent ten attempts to prove creationism. This is to stop "gish galloping", that is, an excessive spamming of arguments, in the hope that I shall be unable to answer the vast array of "proofs", and therefore not fulfil my burden.
Also, I look forwards to the lack of the term "evolution" being used following this round.
However, I state the Burden of Proof is not shared. My opponent has the whole burden. I simply have to show that my opponent has not fulfiled his burden of proof, and refute his claims (he says as much in his post). This means I have the burden of rejoiner, and my opponent has the burden of proof. That is, if I do not adequately refute all my opponent's proofs, then my opponent has won the debate.
I wish to expand on the scientific method slightly, in order to give more clarity for those who do not understand it.
"The scientific method has four steps
1. Observation and description of a phenomenon or group of phenomena.
2. Formulation of an hypothesis to explain the phenomena. In physics, the hypothesis often takes the form of a causal mechanism or a mathematical relation.
3. Use of the hypothesis to predict the existence of other phenomena, or to predict quantitatively the results of new observations.
4. Performance of experimental tests of the predictions by several independent experimenters and properly performed experiments.
If the experiments bear out the hypothesis it may come to be regarded as a theory or law of nature (more on the concepts of hypothesis, model, theory and law below). If the experiments do not bear out the hypothesis, it must be rejected or modified. What is key in the description of the scientific method just given is the predictive power (the ability to get more out of the theory than you put in; see Barrow, 1991) of the hypothesis or theory, as tested by experiment. It is often said in science that theories can never be proved, only disproved. There is always the possibility that a new observation or a new experiment will conflict with a long-standing theory."[1]
I forgot to mention earlier that due to the limitations of this debate I will not try to prove "god" etc. That is a separate debate. The parameters of the debate, as my opponent said are about proving the earth started around 6,000 years ago.
First I would like to clarify that the debate topic here is completely different from trying to prove many other scientific arguments. We shall still use the evidence but it cannot be used the same way.
Let us say that we wanted to prove that ice when heated up would turn into water. It would be easy to show that by a simple experiment.
However historical science is completely different. I am sure my opponent will agree with this point. It is the same whether you are discussing Creation or any other theory.
For example you can't prove that George Washington was president through "science" because his life and presidency are non-repeatable. The same is true with the age of the earth and universe.
Actually this sort of evidence is fairly similar to solving a mystery. Sherlock Holmes (who doesn't love him?) finds one boot on a crime scene, he thinks "aha! I know that the mud on this is from two days ago in the such and such area of london, and so I know who the criminal is". Don't we all wish we were as smart as Sherlock Holmes! The same technique is used here. We look at fossils, for example, and we look at what layer they are in. Then we might say "Oh this fossil is in the pre-cambrian layer thus it is X million years old. The question is whether this method is reliable. We all have the same evidence, but we each interpret it differently based on our worldview.
Finally I would like to state that this debate is critical to a person's understanding of the world. While I will not be dealing with Evolution, or Christianity in this debate it is vital that the reader and voter understand that they are unavoidably tied to this discussion. While this single argument cannot "prove" one or the other, evolution cannot survive without millions (and in some cases billions) of years (at least until a new theory is proposed). Neither can the biblical history be stretched much above 10,000 years. While many have tried to make Christianity fit in millions of years (Day-Age, Gap Theory, Theistic Evolution, et al.) these do not work. The bottom line is the Bible says no death before the Fall (Genesis chp. 3). So we must have one or the other–not both.
In my argument I shall present several clocks. Now, as my opponent said in the comments about not using an semantic traps, or odd meaning of a word to trick the other side, I shall clarify here, so I hope he will forgive me in the understanding that I am not trying to trick him. "Clock" here does not mean that thing on your dresser that tells you to wake up when you'd much rather sleep in. Instead a "clock" is any geophysical or astronomical process that is changing at a constant rate. Clocks may be used to estimate how long a process has been� going� on for.� All clocks (including�radiometric ones) require the use of� at least� three assumptions. These are:
1. The rate of change has remained constant throughout the past.
2. The original conditions are known. 3. The process has not been altered by outside forces.
"Clocks" are used by scientists, whatever their worldview, to determine the age of the earth.
1. Blue stars
All stars get their energy to burn from the fusion of hydrogen deep in their core. But this will eventually burn up (at which point Blue stars turn into Type II and then become a Black Hole, similarly a star like our sun becomes a Red Giant, then a Planetary Nebula, then a white dwarf [1]). Even secular scientists agree that these stars could only last for a "few million years[1]. Since the universe is (necessarily) at least 13 billion years old, my opponent must explain how these stars have been formed (whatever you want to call it) since the beginning of the universe.
2. The Earth's Magnetic Field is decaying too fast to be more than 20,000 years old.
The total energy stored in the earth's magnetic field ("dipole" and "non-dipole") is decreasing with a half-life of 1,465 (� 165) years. [1]
[1] http://www.creationresearch.org...
3. DNA Mutation rates are much too fast. [1]This means that DNA cannot have existed for more that 10,000 years. This is not just in humans but in other creatures such as dinosaurs. [2] [3] [4] [5]
[1] www.dnai.org/teacherguide/pdf/reference_romanovs.pdf
[2] Cherfas, J., Ancient DNA: still busy after death, Science 253:1354–1356 (20
September 1991).
[3] Cano, R. J., H. N. Poinar, N. J. Pieniazek, A. Acra, and G. O. Poinar, Jr. Amplification and sequencing of DNA from a 120-135-million-year-old weevil, Nature 363:536–8 (10 June 1993). http://www.nature.com...
[4] Krings, M., A. Stone, R. W. Schmitz, H. Krainitzki, M. Stoneking, and S. P��bo, Neandertal DNA sequences and the origin of modern humans, Cell 90:19–30 (Jul 11, 1997). 454.com/downloads/news-events/mtDNANeandertalarticle.pdf
[5] Lindahl, T, Unlocking nature's ancient secrets, Nature 413:358–359 (27 September 2001).
4. Not enough mud has accumulated on the ocean floor. While over 25 billion tons of sediment is deposited in the ocean each year. [1] Only about 1 billion tons are removed. While Plate Teutonic Subduction does remove about 1 billion tons per year [2] there is only about 400 meters of sediment on the ocean floor including shelves. [2]. This amount would take a maximum of 12 million years (not the 3 billion claimed by most secular scientists) to accumulate. A similar problem can be found in relation to sodium levels in the oceans. While 450 million tons of sodium are added each year [3] only 27% gets back out. [4] [5] Even the most generous calculations, figuring much smaller inputs of sodium and much larger outputs can only arrive at 62 million years (of the alleged 3 billion years). [5] Other calculations come to an age much closer to the 10,000 to 6,000 year range. [6]
[1] Gordeyev, V.V. et al, 'The average chemical composition of suspensions in the world's rivers and the supply of sediments to the ocean by streams', Dockl. Akad, Nauk. SSSR 238 (1980), p. 150.
[2] Hay, W.W., et al, 'Mass/age distribution and composition of sediments on the ocean floor and the global rate of subduction', Journal of Geophysical Research, 93, No. B12 (10 December 1988), pp. 14,933-14,940.http://www.agu.org...
[3] Maybeck, M., 'Concentrations des eaux fluviales en elements majeurs et apports en solution aux oceans', Rev. de Geol. Dyn. Geogr. Phys. 21 (1979), p. 215.
www.sisyphe.upmc.fr/~meybeck/MM/pdf/7C9res.pdf (sorry you will have to translate this document but I wanted to provide the original).
[4] Sayles, F.L. and Mangelsdorf, P.C., 'Cation-exchange characteristics of Amazon River suspended sediment and its reaction with seawater', Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 41 (1979), p. 767 www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0016703779902606.
[5] Austin, S.A. and Humphreys, D.R., 'The sea's missing salt: a dilemma for evolutionists', Proc. 2nd Internat. Conf. on Creationism, Vol. II, Creation Science Fellowship (1990) pp. 17-31. Address in ref. 12. http://tccsa.tc...
[6] http://www.icr.org...
I have three more arguments to present but I will reserve them for a future round due to running out of space.
I'll address my opponent's argument point for point. Luckily, this won't take too long. I shall firstly ask here that my opponent should double and triple-check his sources from now on, as many of his points seem to be based on misconceptions.
Blue Stars
My opponent's source states that Eta Carinae, not blue stars, have a lifetime of a few million years, which is accurate, given that Eta Carinae is well known for being extremely unstable and a short-lived star for its kind[1]. Most stars surivive for as long as a few hundred million years in this form[2], but even so, a blue star is an incredibly short stage in its life. Also, my opponent states that I necessarily believe that the universe is 13 billion years old. I state this is a strawman to create a dichotomy, so that if the world isn't 13 billion years old, then it is 6000 years old, which my opponent has to prove. Even with this point conceded (which it is not), then my opponent is not proving his case, but actually needs to rebut this for his argument to continue.
Magnetic field of the earth.
I'll be very blunt: my opponent has produced no argument for this, and instead just cited a blatantly bias source. In turn, I'll refer my opponent to the in depth rebuttal of Barnes' "Magnetic Field Argument", which states how the calculations are flawed, the study itself impossible, and the conclusion invalid[3].
DNA Mutations
My opponent needs to rebut his own argument again here: his citation states the average DNA mutation is now thought to be, instead once every 6000 years, once every 1200 possibly. Not certainly, not probably, but only possibly. This is not an argument: this is picking and choosing facts, and my opponent needs to justify why what a minority of scientists thinks is right, rather than avoid defence of the premise.
Ocean Sediment
Again, I feel there is, in fact, little reason to even address this point. It promotes the idea that the earth is at least 62 million years old. My opponent's citation stating the earth is 6000 years old also does not exist: the link is broken. However, the original study by Morris and Parker found the earth to be 260 million years old, even if we disregard the fallacy of their work. I shall quote Cook to conclude this point:
"The validity of the application of total salt in the ocean in the determination of age turned out to have a very simple answer in the fact shown by Goldschmidt (1954) that it is in steady state and therefore useless as a means of determining the age of the oceans."[4]
To conclude my opponent has only made a single argument which comes close to the 6-10 thousand year period he needs to justify his age of the earth, possibly two if he posts a successful link. Almost all the arguments have been fallacious. All the arguments have lacked any real substance to them. I await my opponent to post his final three justifications for a young earth.
1 - http://digitaljournal.com...
2 - http://jumk.de...;
3 - http://www.talkorigins.org...;
4 - Cook, M. A. 1966. Prehistory and earth models. Max Parrish & Co., Ltd., London. 353 pp.
TheApologist forfeited this round.
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TheApologist forfeited this round.
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TheApologist forfeited this round.
Extend all arguments, vote CON.
This fails for the obvious reason that it is impossible to prove a negative. And the fact that science never deals with absolute proofs but rather preponderance of evidence pointing to a "most likely correct hypothesis".
The "Pro" side seems to have set the bar quite low for itself while providing a nearly insummountable level for the "Con" side.
If this were written more in keeping with _how science actually functions_ it would be more appropriate.
If there is a chance of 1 in one million that something is true than it's possible. Change it too probable and I may accept.
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Fresh vegetables and whole grain pasta with savory tomato sauce makes a very colorful and delicious pasta dish. This is a simple pasta dinner. Serve with a side of salad and bread.
Recipe will serve 4 to 6.
- 2 cups whole grain penne pasta (use can use another pasts shape if "penne" is not available)
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 teaspoon Salt
for Vegetables:
- 2 medium sliced carrots
- 1/2 cup chopped green beans
- 1 medium chopped bell pepper
- 1/2 cup chopped cauliflower
- 1 cup sliced mushrooms
- 1 medium sliced zucchini
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon Salt
for Tomato sauce:
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- 1 15 oz can of diced tomato
- 2 tablespoons Olive oil
- 1 tablespoon chopped basil
- 1 teaspoon Italian herb
- 1 teaspoon red chili flakes (adjust to taste)
- 1 teaspoon salt (adjust to taste)
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon sugar (adjust to taste)
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- 2 tablespoons Olive oil
- 1 tablespoon chopped basil
- 1 teaspoon red chili flakes (adjust to taste)
- In a large pot boil the water with salt and oil.
- After water comes to the boil add the pasta.
- Cook the pasta until it is just tender, not too soft. Drain the water and set pasta aside.
making Vegetables:
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- Heat the olive oil in a saucepan and add the basil, Italian herbs, and chili flakes stir and add tomatoes.
- Let the tomatoes cook until they become pasty.
- Next add cornstarch, salt and sugar to the tomato sauce, cornstarch will give thickness to the sauce.
- Next add the sauté vegetables to the sauce and cook for few minutes on medium heat until sauce come to the desirable thickness.
Prepare The Pasta:
- Heat the oil in a saucepan and add basil and chili flakes stir for few seconds.
- Next add the drained pasta and sauté for a minute until pasta is well coated with oil.
- Pour the vegetable sauce over the pasta, serve hot with slice of French bread and salad.
For this recipe you need about 5 cups of vegetable, replace the vegetables to your choice.
Serving suggestion:
Serve pasta with slice of toasted bread and green salad.
Additional Notes:
I like to serve pasta with slice toasted and spiced French bread. Before toasting the bread spread the olive oil and sprinkle basil, chili flakes and salt.


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