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Giving worship to a GOD one must fear. Love cannot come out of fear.
Jesus spoke of it some here in Luke 22:28 "However, YOU are the ones that have stuck with me in my trials; 29 and I make a covenant with YOU, just as my Father has made a covenant with me, for a kingdom, 30 that YOU may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones to judge the twelve tribes of Israel.
If those who go to Heaven with Jesus will be Kings along with him to judge Tribes of Israel, who is the tribes? Kings have subjects to rule over. But if everyone goes to heaven, there would effectively be no one to rule over, as all the bad people are in hell supposedly.
But a simple way to rationally look at it is this way.
God told Adam and Eve that if they ate from the tree, they would postively die. Now what God did not say was even more important, as a person with discernment would clearly see that if Adam and Eve would have never eaten from the tree, they would postively what? LIVE!!!
God did not set an ending to Adam and Eve's lives unless they ate from the tree. So logic has it, had they never eaten, they would have lived forever. Plus, all of God's purposes for Adam and Eve had to do with the earth.
Gen 1:27 And God proceeded to create the man in his image, in God's image he created him; male and female he created them. 28 Further, God blessed them and God said to them: "Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it, and have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and every living creature that is moving upon the earth."
Be fruitful-translation, make babies, enough to fill and even subue the entire EARTH. Notice, earth not HEAVEN. And all animals will be in subjection to humans, and where do animals live? Earth.
So nowhere in the plan for the first parents was heaven in view for them. God also says whatever he utters must come forth. here look.
Isaiah 55:11 so my word that goes forth from my mouth will prove to be. It will not return to me without results, but it will certainly do that in which I have delighted, and it will have certain success in that for which I have sent it.
That implies that whatever God's purpose is he fulfills it. It appears that he purposed for mankind to live on the earth, and nowhere else. In fact, here is another...
Isaiah 45:18 For this is what Jehovah has said, the Creator of the heavens, He the [true] God, the Former of the earth and the Maker of it, He the One who firmly established it, who did not create it simply for nothing, who formed it even to be inhabited: "I am Jehovah, and there is no one else.
It appears that Jehovah created the earth to be inhabited. Gosh darnit, there are people on earth! Even animals! Heck organisms we have not even discovered yet! It appears he purposes life to inhabit the earth!
This begs a serious question then. If all the Good people go to heaven, and all the bad people to hell, who or what then inhabits the earth? Could one argue if what I just mentioned happens, God is a liar since he said he did not create the earth for nothing?
How would one who who hopes in heaven rationally explain why the Psalmist said in 37:29 the righteous themselves will inherit the earth, and reside forever upon it? Would not all righteous people expect a heavenly reward instead?
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That is not true. You can have Godly fear which is not fear in agitation or danger. Look.
from answers.com
This is a healthy fear, a loving fear.
- A feeling of agitation and anxiety caused by the presence or imminence of danger.
- A state or condition marked by this feeling: living in fear.
- A feeling of disquiet or apprehension: a fear of looking foolish.
- Extreme reverence or awe, as toward a supreme power.
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But I always like to consult the scriptures. After God flooded the earth he once made this promise.
Gen 8: 20 And Noah began to build an altar to Jehovah and to take some of all the clean beasts and of all the clean flying creatures and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar. 21 And Jehovah began to smell a restful odor, and so Jehovah said in his heart: Never again shall I call down evil upon the ground on mans account, because the inclination of the heart of man is bad from his youth up; and never again shall I deal every living thing a blow just as I have done.22 For all the days the earth continues, seed sowing and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, will never cease.
Now I don't know about you, but if God destroys the earth, he would certainly appear to be going against his own heart according to that scripture. And he said this after the deluge. How much more damage would be done if he destroyed the Universe? And why would he destroy the Universe on Man's account? What purpose would that serve logically?
So logically, when it says "For all the days the earth continues" that would have to mean the earth will be here forever, because before sin, that seemed to be his plan anyways.
But other scriptures that help.
Psalms 119:90 Your faithfulness is for generation after generation.
You have solidly fixed the earth, that it may keep standing.
Ecc 1: 4 A generation is going, and a generation is coming; but the earth is standing even to time indefinite.
Isa 45:18 For this is what Jehovah has said, the Creator of the heavens, He the [true] God, the Former of the earth and the Maker of it, He the One who firmly established it, who did not create it simply for nothing, who
formed it even to be inhabited: I am Jehovah, and there is no one else.
None of these can apply logically to a NEW EARTH in the sense you mean, because it does not say NEW EARTH for one, and also because it speaks of an earth that is already in existence, not one forthcoming.
However, the bible does speak of a new Heavens and a new earth. But I will just try and clear up the New Earth part. If it is God's plan to have the righteous inherit the earth as he says it is in pslams 37:29, would he not have to rid the earth of WICKEDNESS in order for that to take place? If God rid the earth of wicked people, and only righteous people lived here, could that be constituted as a NEW EARTH in a way? If God fixes all the wrongs ecological wrongs with the world, renews the ozone and such, could it be said that the earth is RENEWED? If you take an older model car, and renew every nuke and cranny from the body to the smallest screw, would your car be considered NEW?
I ask all of that because it appears God plans to do that very same thing concerning the earth.
Psalm 37:
10 And just a little while longer, and the wicked one will be no more;
And you will certainly give attention to his place, and he will not be.
11 But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth,
And they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace.
That sounds like God is evicting certain unruly tenants, but allowing others to stay. And if that's the case, the earth will SURELY be new! There will be abundant peace! THAT'S VERY NEW!
Job 1:6 Now it came to be the day when the sons of the [true] God entered to take their station before Jehovah, and even Satan proceeded to enter right among them.
7 Then Jehovah said to Satan: Where do you come from? At that Satan answered Jehovah and said: From roving about in the earth and from walking about in it. So it is possible for angels to go from heaven to earth.
The Anti Christ is all around you. What do you think the beast is? And when does armegeddon happen?
First argument...Lets first discuss the destruction of the old earth and universe to make a new one.
Isiah 65:17 "I create new heavens and a new earth and the form of things that shall not be remebered or come to mind."
Isiah 66:22 "For just as the new heavens and the new earth which I make will endure before me," declares the Lord.
Peter sums it up quite nicely...you'll read that in a second.
The purpose of this to happen (the destruction) is because evil will be so bad that he will have to come and when he arrives on the Mount of Olive in Israel, the mountain will split and from that point the entire earth and heaven will be cleansed of evil and sin and as the Bible says an evil and adultrous world. A world of sin.
Let's see destory and destruction: 2nd Peter 3:7 "But the present heavens and earth by His word are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgement, and destruction of ungodly men"
In 2nd Peter chapter 3 verse 10; "But the day of the Lord will come like a theaf, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the Earth and it's works will be burned up.
Also in 2nd Peter, FYI, he answers your entire argument Knick4lyfe.
After verse 10, 2nd Peter 3:11-13 says "Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives." 12 then says "as you look forward to the day of God and speed it's coming. That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in heat." Then 13 says: "But keeping with his promise we are lookin forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness."
When he says "Heavens" its plural which is the Universe and it's Galaxies.
2nd argument...I meant that access to both heaven and earth "sounds crazy" to an un-believer since i was talking to an unbeliever in the argument. Because an un-believer would look at that statement as nonsense or "crazy."
3rd argument...the word RAPTURE not in the Bible...the event is still mentioned and will happen.
This arguement was answered by doctors/scholars, H.L Willmington, Valvoord and Dwight Penticost when the same question was asked to them in a letter one day. They said "In answering this letter I agreed that he was indeed correct, inasmuch as the word rapture is nowhere to be found among the 774,747 words in the King James Version of the Bible. But I then pointed out that neither are the words Trinity, demon, Bible, or grandfather mentioned in that version of the Word of God. But there is a Trinity, there are demons, grandfathers do exist, and the rapture is a reality! Actually the word rapture is from rapere, found in the expression "caught up" in the Latin translation of 1 Thessalonians 4:17. However, if on so desires, the rapture could be scripturally referred to as the harpazo, which is the Greek word translated "caught up" in 1 Thessalonians 4:1. The identical phrase found in Acts 8:39, where Phillip was caught away by the Holy Spirit, and in 2 Corinthians 12:2,4, when Paul was caught up into the third heaven. Or, if you'd rather, the rapture could be known as the allasso, from the Greek translated "changed" in 1 Corinthians 15:51,52. Allasso is also used in describing the final renewal and transofrmation of the heavens and the earth(see Hebrews 1:12). So then, use whatever name suits your fancy. Ofcourse, the important thing is not what you name it, but rather, can you claim it? That is, will you participate in it? Thus, the next scheduled event predicted in the Bible will take place when the Savior himself appears in the air to catch up His own!"
4th argument...there is a reward system...not everyone will have the same rewards.....
since my computer was freezing i will send this part now and i will continue this with another post.
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Before i get to the 4th argument, you tried to prove me wrong by saying that logically Isiah never talks about a NEW EARTH. Sir dont stop your reading because in the start of the last post, i mentioned in Isiah chapters 65 and 66 he said that there will be a new Heaven and Earth so to use Isiah against my argument is very unwise. Isiah 45:18, which you mentioned talks about Earth as of this one as it is and as we know it now, in Isiah's time. He then later talks about the future becuase Isiah is a prophetic prophet, in chapters 65 and 66 as i metnioned just read what i wrote you in my last post you'll understand.
Also the first thing you argued to me about, the very first thing, when you said that I'm appearing to say that God made "flawed creations". I said that God knew every thing would happen from DAY ONE you said you disagree because of his "flawed creations". You mentioned Satan as an example?....GOD GAVE LUCIFER FREE WILL. Lucifer wanted to be like god, Ezekial 28:13 and forward....and Isiah 14:12 and forward, discuss Lucifer. God made Lucifer the highest angel, the most beautiful angel, made Lucifer second to God. BUT Lucifer HAD PRIDE which created his downfall.
I am amazed that you can put God in a box.
To show God's fore knowledge, Romans 8:28-31 explains it, just read it. It is the doctrine of fore knowledge and pre-destination. The Bible said it and I believe it.
On to the 4th argument...the reward system...not everyone gets the same rewards.
The Bible is clear that the believers works, since salavation(not his sins), will be judged at the judgement seat of Christ. Which is refered to many times in the Bible; its mainly mentioned in Second Cornthians 5:10. Every member will have to go before the Bemacy for the purpose of examining each person and giving the proper reward to each. That means that me and you might not have the same reward.
Look at 1 Corinthians 3:8-15 it shows that there is a reward system and what i mentioned before, 2 Corinthians 5:10.
Example of the different rewards: There are different crowns which is the incurruptable crown, the crown of rejoicing, the crown of life, crown of righteousness, crown of glory, and many more which you can gain. Also rewards can be taken away which is in, 1 Corinthians 3:15, which i mentioend before.
Another argument...You also mentioned the cutting short of the Tribulation. I will answer your quesion.
you asked :"Why if he plans to just destroy the earth and bring all the holy ones to heaven anyways? Be the point in saving any flesh?" MY ANSWER: Becuase it is God's purpose to rescue Israel. Revelation is the revealing of Jesus as the Messiah to the Jew.
Your other question about who the Beast is and when Armageddon is. MY ANSWER: About Armageddon... The tribulation period is 7 years long and will commense after the rapture. The first 3 1/2 years will be a false peace that the Anti-Christ will make with Israel. During this false peace many or most of the nations surrounding Israel will look to destroy Israel. The Anti-Christ will then come to rescue Israel at the 3 1/2 period of the Tribulation, the half way point. And will proclaim himself as God, the so-called, Abomination of Desolation. And Israel will know they have been betrayed by a false treaty. Then proceeds 3 1/2 years of the Great Tribulation which is manifested by immense horror, destruction and death such as no man has ever seen. This will eventually lead to the armies of Satan, Anti-Christ, and the False Prophet that will gather in Megeddo with the armies from all nations to be gathering against Israel. Then Jesus will come on a white horse and appear with his army. The armies of heaven will follow Jesus also riding on white horses. Out of the mouth of Jesus came a sharp sword which he will defeat all the nations.
The Beasts are many but the one i refered to is the mark of the Beast 666 which will be Satan in the form of a human just like Jesus, this shows that Satan tries to be like God..refer to the Isiah 14, how Satan always tries to be like Jesus.
What you have done on Earth will pass, only what you have done for Jesus will last.
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To be correct, the explanation of these verses must agree with the context and with the rest of the Bible
If these texts (2 Peter 3:7, 10 and Revelation 21:1) mean that the literal planet Earth is to be consumed by fire, then the literal heavens (the stars and other heavenly bodies) are also to be destroyed by fire. Such a literal view, however, conflicts with the assurance contained in such texts as Matthew 6:10-Let your kingdom come. Let your will take place, as in heaven, also upon earth.Note that, in the context, at 2 Peter 3:5, 6 (also 2:5, 9), a parallel is drawn with the Flood of Noahs day, in which wicked human society was destroyed, but Noah and his household, as well as the globe itself, were preserved. Likewise, at 2 Peter 3:7 it says that the ones to be destroyed are "ungodly men." The view that "the earth" here refers to wicked human society fully agrees with the rest of the Bible, as is illustrated by the texts cited above. It is that symbolic "earth," or wicked human society, that is "discovered"; that is, Jehovah will sear away as by fire all disguise, exposing the wickedness of ungodly human society and showing it to be worthy of complete destruction. That wicked society of humans is also "the first earth," referred to at Revelation 21:1 (KJ).
Psalm 37:29 and 104:5 He has founded the earth upon its established places;
It will not be made to totter to time indefinite, or forever.
Proverbs 2:21 For the upright are the ones that will reside in the earth, and the blameless are the ones that will be left over in it. 22 As regards the wicked, they will be cut off from the very earth; and as for the treacherous, they will be torn away from it.
Furthermore, what effect would fire have on the already intensely hot sun and stars?
So the term "earth" in the above-quoted texts must be understood in a different sense.
At Genesis 11:1, we read - Now all the earth continued to be of one language and of one set of words.
First Kings 2:1 and 2 we read,-1 And the days of David gradually drew near for him to die; and he proceeded to command Sol´o·mon his son, saying: 2 I am going in the way of all the earth( he is dying like all men do ), and you must be strong and prove yourself to be a man.
First Chronicles 16:31 reads Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be joyful,
And let them say among the nations, Jehovah himself has become king!
Psalm 96:1, etc., the term "earth" is used in a figurative sense, referring to mankind, to human society. Might that be the case at 2 Peter 3:7, 10 and Revelation 21:1?
Whenthe apostle Paul said that Christians would be "caught up" to be with the Lord, what subject was being discussed?
1 Thess. 4:13-18, RS: "We would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep ["those who sleep in death," NE; "those who have died," TEV, JB], that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, shall not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the archangels call, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first; then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words."
(Evidently some members of the Christian congregation in Thessalonica had died. Paul encouraged the survivors to comfort one another with the resurrection hope. He reminded them that Jesus was resurrected after his death; so, too, at the coming of the Lord, those faithful Christians among them who had died would be raised to be with Christ.)
Whoare the ones that will be caught up in the clouds, as stated at 1 Thessalonians 4:17?
Verse 15 explains that they are faithful ones "who are left until the coming of the Lord," that is, they are still living at the time of Christs coming. Will they ever die? According to Romans 6:3-5 and 1 Corinthians 15:35, 36, 44 they must die before they can gain heavenly life. But there is no need for them to remain in the death state awaiting Christs return. They will instantly be "caught up," "in the twinkling of an eye," to be with the Lord.1 Cor. 15:51, 52, RS; also Revelation 14:13.
WillChrist appear visibly on a cloud and then take away faithful Christians into the heavens while the world looks on?
DidJesus say whether the world would see him again with their physical eyes?
John 14:19, RS: "Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more, but you [his faithful disciples] will see me; because I live, you will live also."(Compare 1 Timothy 6:16.)
Whatis the meaning of the Lords descending from heaven?
Could the Lord "descend from heaven," as stated at 1 Thessalonians 4:16, without being visible to physical eyes? In the days of ancient Sodom and Gomorrah, Jehovah said that he was going to "go down to see" what the people were doing. (Gen. 18:21,) But when Jehovah made that inspection, no human saw him, although they did see the angelic representatives that he sent. (John 1:18) Similarly, without having to return in the flesh, Jesus could turn his attention to his faithful followers on earth to reward them.
Inwhat sense, then, will humans "see" the Lord "coming in a cloud"?
Jesus foretold: "Then they will see the Son of man [Jesus Christ] coming in a cloud with power and great glory." (Luke 21:27, RS) In no way does this statement or similar ones in other texts contradict what Jesus said as recorded at John 14:19. Consider: At Mount Sinai, what occurred when God came to the people in a thick cloud, as stated at Exodus 19:9? (RS) God was invisibly present; the people of Israel saw visible evidence of his presence, but none of them actually saw God with their eyes. So, too, when Jesus said that he would come "in a cloud," he must have meant that he would be invisible to human eyes but that humans would be aware of his presence. They would "see" him with their mental eyes, discerning the fact that he was present. THAT IS THE SOLE REASON HIS DISCIPLES ASKED WHAT THE SIGN OF HIS PRESENCE WOULD BE, BECAUSE THEY KNEW THEY WOULD NOT LITERALLY SEE HIM WITH THEIR PHYSICAL EYES[/quote]
You just shot yourself in the foot with that 1st paragraph of your, pal. "Somehow, Jehovah is different". Let's see you believe GOD created the universe, yet it's impossible for you to believe a second more powerful being created GOD?
So let me get this straight in mathematical terms...
As an atheist I believe in 1 less GOD than you...do..meaning 0. You as a person for faith believe in 1 GOD as the creator of everything...yet the notion of their being just 1 more GOD above the one you call Jehovah is too much to grasp??
This is ****ing classic. The bible negates itself, it's not the truth of any GOD or higher principles. The same book that preaches love, truth, and honesty also preaches violence, rape, slavery, murder, and bans interracial marriage. And you want me to concede that it's been a great building block for society because it's old? So I guess in another 2000 years society's can build on PLAYBOY and HUSTLER magazine right?
You religious fools that have been ruining mankind since the inception of whence we split from cromag's and neaderthal's....have had a strangehold on ideas and thought. Scientific analysis and fact has been your worst enemy to date. Only a dishonest person would claim a books of collaborations and scriptures as proof of anything It would be the equivalent of thinking DC and Marvel comics are actual historical representations.
I'm going to try and explain EVOLUTION to you one last time, after that I quit. Because I've never known stupidity to deserve equal footing as intelligence.
EVOLUTION has more than one meaning. Biologically, it means "a change in allele frequencies over time." By that definition, evolution is an indisputable and observable fact.
Most people(RELIGIOUS FOOLS) seem to associate the word "evolution" mainly with common descent, the theory that all life arose from one common ancestor. Many people believe that there is enough evidence to call this a fact, too.
However, common descent is still not the theory of evolution, but just a fraction of it (and a part of several quite different theories as well). The theory of evolution not only says that life evolved, it also includes mechanisms, like mutations, natural selection, and genetic drift, which go a long way towards explaining how life evolved.
Calling the theory of evolution "only a theory" is, strictly speaking, true, but the idea it tries to convey is completely wrong. There is a confusion between what "theory" means in informal usage, and in a scientific context.
A theory, in the scientific sense, is "a coherent group of general propositions used as principles of explanation for a class of phenomena".
The term does not imply 'tentativeness' or 'lack of certainty'. Generally speaking, scientific theories differ from scientific laws only in that laws can be expressed more compactly. Being a theory implies self-consistency, agreement with observations, and usefulness.
(Creationism fails to be a theory mainly because of the last point; it makes few or no specific claims about what we would expect to find, so it can't be used for predicting anything. When it does make predictions, they prove to be false.)
Lack of proof isn't a weakness, either. On the contrary, claiming that conclusions are infallible is ridiculous, as has been shown by the past several centuries of scientific reasoning. Nothing in the real world has ever been rigorously proved, or ever will be. In the real world, we must deal with levels of certainty based on observed evidence. The more and better evidence we have for something, the more certainty we assign to it; when there is enough evidence, we label the something a fact, even though it still isn't 100% certain, or fully understood.
Many non-scientists(THAT WOULD BE YOU) don't understand this; creationists use it as an argument against the 'theory' of evolution, which is ridiculous ... you might as well argue that gravity is a theory (it is far from being completely understood), and that we can't assume objects will always fall to the ground.
It is a FACT that the earth, with liquid water, is more than 3.6 billion years old. It is a FACT that cellular life has been around for at least half of that period, and that organized multicellular life is at least 800 million years old. It is a FACT that major life forms now on earth were not at all represented in the past. There were no birds or mammals 250 million years ago. It is a FACT that major life forms of the past are no longer living.
There used to be dinosaurs and Pithecanthropus, and there are none now. It is a FACT that all living forms come from previous living forms. Therefore, all present forms of life arose from ancestral forms that were different. Birds arose from non-birds and humans from non-humans. No person who pretends to any understanding of the natural world can deny these facts any more than she or he can deny that the earth is round, rotates on its axis, and revolves around the sun. There is evidence in the ground, and in cave paintings, and in our own DNA.
Since Darwin's time, massive additional evidence has accumulated supporting the fact of evolution - that 'all living organisms present on earth today have arisen from earlier forms in the course of earth's long history'. Indeed, 'all of modern biology is an affirmation of this relatedness of the many species of living things and of their gradual divergence from one another over the course of time'.
Since the publication of The Origin of Species, the important question, scientifically speaking, about evolution, has not been whether it has taken place. That is no longer an issue among modern biologists. Today, the central and still fascinating questions for biologists concern the mechanisms by which evolution occurs.
What evolution has is what any good scientific claim has--evidence, and lots of it. Evolution is supported by a wide range of observations throughout the fields of genetics, anatomy, ecology, animal behavior, paleontology, cellular biology, and others.
There is the agreement among many different dating methods pointing to an old earth and life on earth for a long time; for example: radioactivity, tree rings, ice cores, corals, supernovas - from astronomy, biology, physics, geology, chemistry and archeology. These methods are based on quite distinct fields of inquiry and are quite diverse, yet manage to arrive at quite similar dates.
If you wish to challenge the theory of evolution, you must address that evidence. You must show that the evidence is either wrong or irrelevant, or that it fits another theory better. Of course, to do this, you must know both the theory and the evidence.
Biologists define evolution as a change in the gene pool of a population over time.
One example is insects developing a resistance to pesticides over the period of a few years. Even most creationists recognize that evolution at this level is a fact. What they don't appreciate is that this rate of evolution is all that is required to produce the diversity of all living things from a common ancestor!
Even without these direct observations, it would be wrong to say that evolution hasn't been observed. Evidence isn't limited to seeing something happen before your eyes. Evolution makes predictions about what we would expect to see in the fossil record, comparative anatomy, genetic sequences, geographical distribution of species, etc., and these predictions have been verified many times over. The number of observations supporting evolution is overwhelming.
Consider first how evolutionists interpret similarities between species living today. Present-day humans and chimpanzees, despite obvious external and behavioral differences, have extremely similar internal organs and physiological functions; indeed their genes are more than 98% identical. Just as the resemblance between two siblings suggests a common parentage, resemblance between species suggests common ancestors.
Evolutionists believe that humans, gorillas, and chimpanzees evolved from a common ancestor: an ape-like creature that lived perhaps five to ten million years ago, rather recently on the geological time scale. Species less similar to humans than are apes--mice, for example--are believed to have branched off millions of years earlier from a common primitive mammalian ancestor.
Evolutionary family tree diagrams that express such relationships between species have been constructed by evolutionary biologists by analyzing similarities of present-day organisms. In many cases, fossilized remains of extinct species can be used to support the features of such evolutionary trees.
What hasn't been observed is one animal abruptly changing into a radically different one, such as a frog changing into a cow. This is not a problem for evolution because evolution doesn't propose occurrences even remotely like that. In fact, if we ever observed a frog turn into a cow, it would be very strong evidence against evolution.
Now I am about to terminate all of your major arguments here and now for the last time...let's GO!!!!
The second law of thermodynamics says, "No process is possible in which the sole result is the transfer of energy from a cooler to a hotter body." Now you may be scratching your head wondering what this has to do with evolution. The confusion arises when the 2nd law is phrased in another equivalent way, "The entropy of a closed system cannot decrease." Entropy is an indication of 'unusable' energy, and often (but not always!) corresponds to what we might think of as disorder or randomness.
Creationists thus misinterpret the 2nd law to say that things invariably progress from order to disorder, and never the reverse.However, they neglect the fact that life is not a closed system. The sun provides more than enough energy to drive things. If a mature tomato plant can have more usable energy than the seed it grew from, why should anyone expect that the next generation of tomatoes can't have more usable energy still?
Creationists sometimes try to get around this by claiming that the information carried by living things lets them create order. However, not only is life irrelevant to the 2nd law, but order from disorder is common in nonliving systems, too. Snowflakes, sand dunes, tornadoes, stalactites, graded river beds, and lightning are just a few examples of order coming from disorder in nature; none require an intelligent program to achieve that order.
In any system with lots of energy flowing through it, you are almost certain to find order arising somewhere. If 'order from disorder' is supposed to violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics, why does it happen so often in nature?
The thermodynamics argument against evolution displays a misconception about evolution as well as about thermodynamics, since a clear understanding of how evolution works should reveal major flaws in the argument.
Evolution says that organisms reproduce with only small changes between generations. For example, animals might have appendages which are longer or shorter, thicker or flatter, lighter or darker than their parents. Occasionally, a change might be on the order of having four or six fingers instead of five. Once the differences appear, the theory of evolution calls for 'differential reproductive success'. For example, maybe the animals with longer appendages survive to have more offspring than the others. All of these processes can be observed today. They obviously don't violate any physical laws.
A transitional fossil is one that looks like it's from an organism intermediate between two different creatures. To say there are no transitional fossils is simply false. Paleontology has progressed a bit since Origin of Species was published, uncovering thousands of transitional fossils. The fossil record is still spotty and always will be; erosion and the rarity of conditions favorable to fossilization make that inevitable.
Also, transitions may occur in a small population, in a small area, and/or in a relatively short amount of time; when any of these conditions hold, the chances of finding the transitional fossils millions of years later goes down. Still, there are still many instances where excellent sequences of transitional fossils exist. Some notable examples are the transitions from reptile to mammal, from land animal to early whale, and from early ape to human.
The misconception about the lack of transitional fossils is aggravated by the way we think about species. When people think about a category like "dog" or "ant," they often subconsciously believe that there is a well-defined boundary around the category. Actually, categories are man-made and artificial. Nature is not constrained to follow them, and doesn't.
There is probably no other statement which is a better indication that the arguer doesn't understand evolution. Chance certainly plays a large part in evolution, but this argument completely ignores the fundamental role of natural selection, and selection is the very opposite of chance. Chance, in the form of mutations, provides genetic variation, which is the raw material that natural selection has to work with. From there, natural selection sorts out certain variations. Those variations which give greater reproductive success to their possessors (and chance ensures that such beneficial mutations will be inevitable) are retained, and less successful variations are weeded out.
When the environment changes, or when organisms move to a different environment, different variations are 'selected' (ie: those with the variation succeed in reproducing more often than those without it), leading eventually to different species. Harmful mutations usually die out quickly, so they don't interfere with the process of beneficial mutations accumulating.
Nor was the origin of the very first 'life' due purely to chance. Atoms and molecules arrange themselves not purely randomly, but according to their chemical properties. In the case of carbon atoms especially, this means complex molecules are sure to form spontaneously, and these complex molecules can influence each other to create even more complex molecules. Once a molecule forms that is approximately self-replicating, natural selection will guide the formation of ever more efficient replicators.
The first self-replicating object didn't need to be as complex as a modern cell or even a strand of DNA. Some self-replicating molecules are not really all that complex at all. Moreover, the molecules build on one another; life didn't spring into being overnight, but was the end result of millions of years of chemical bonding that created, one after the other, larger and more complicated molecules.
But I'm ask one short question...
Have you ever read Darwin's Origin of the Species???
Personally, I would describe myself as an agnostic and I very much value the comforting effect religion can have on individual people and a society as a whole. However, trying to compete with scientific theories that have proven helpful again and again, can ultimately only harm Christianity and any other religion trying to castrate free thinking. The only way postmodern Christianity is thinkable is not as an alternative to science but as an alternative -- mythological -- explanation of the same processes. The example of quantum physics given above, and the piece on thermodynamics by KnicksFan4Realz only exemplify the kind of problems any religion has to face in the long run, if offered as an competitive alternative to evolutionary theory and not as a man-made mythological explanation of evolutionary processes which are -- taking into consideration the multiversum-theory -- not unlikely at all.
And just because Darwin is slightly outdated and I find the somewhat dated language slightly annoying, I would very much recommend Stephen Jay Gould's The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould and as far as the relation of science and religion is concerned
"Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister's Pox: Mending and Minding the Misconceived Gap Between Science and the Humanities."
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"Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand."
Kurt Vonnegut
Let me ask you something. It appears that you seem to believe you have a higher sense of ingtelligence than most people on earth, for reasons personal to you, I am not even willing to challenge.
But if I am right, why is it necessary for others to be labled Morons, and fools, and Idiots when you converse with them.
Moron from answers.com
Since I have not proven myself to be under neither of these discriptions, why do you apply this to me, and others who simply disagree with what you believe?
- A stupid person; a dolt.
- Psychology. A person of mild mental retardation having a mental age of from 7 to 12 years and generally having communication and social skills enabling some degree of academic or vocational education. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
If anyone in the whole thread has fit this discription even a little bit, it has been you. Everyone else has seemed to chime in in a forceul, but respectful manner.
Please, if you can just somehow muster the inner strength, grow up a little bit, and join the rest of the mature adults in this discussion without the name calling.
God's book has never preached unrighteousness! So you are way off. Now his book has murder, violence, rape and slavery in it, but it does not PREACH those things. Those things are in their for the specific reason to show contrast of what he actually wants to take place.
- To proclaim or put forth in a sermon: preached the gospel.
- To advocate, especially to urge acceptance of or compliance with: preached tolerance and peaceful coexistence.
Show me in the bible where God bans interacial marriage, and I'll show you the actual footage of the big bang in blu ray high def. Please do, ye of vast knowledge of the word of a God who does not exist to you. I bet you don't even understand what you are reading.
Maybe that is why I stopped reading Comic books. Because I'd rather read about fantasy and science fiction the Bible offers. Men able to climb walls, and deflect bullets with their eyes is old news. I see that everytime I turn on the news! Did you see on CNN the other day, Han**** saved that man stuck in his car from an oncoming train? And professor x came by my house the other day, because he want me to come train at his school for gifted youngsters so I can learn to harness my vast mutant ability of sarcasm!!! SWEET RIGHT!!!
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No Transitional Features
28 Another difficulty for evolution is the fact that nowhere in the fossil record are found partially formed bones or organs that could be taken for the beginning of a new feature. For instance, there are fossils of various types of flying creaturesbirds, bats, extinct pterodactyls. According to evolutionary theory, they must have evolved from transitional ancestors. But none of those transitional forms have been found. There is not a hint of them. Are there any fossils of giraffes with necks two thirds or three quarters as long as at present? Are there any fossils of birds evolving a beak from a reptile jaw? Is there any fossil evidence of fish developing an amphibian pelvis, or of fish fins turning into amphibian legs, feet and toes? The fact is, looking for such developing features in the fossil record has proved to be a fruitless quest.
29 New Scientist noted that evolution predicts that a complete fossil record would consist of lineages of organisms showing gradual change continuously over long periods of time. But it admitted: Unfortunately, the fossil record does not meet this expectation, for individual species of fossils are rarely connected to one another by known intermediate forms. . . . known fossil species do indeed appear not to evolve even over millions of years.31 And geneticist Stebbins writes: No transitional forms are known between any of the major phyla of animals or plants. He speaks of the large gaps which exist between many major categories of organisms.32 In fact, The New Evolutionary Timetable acknowledges, the fossil record does not convincingly document a single transition from one species to another. Furthermore, species lasted for astoundingly long periods of time.33Italics added.
30 This agrees with the extensive study made by the Geological Society of London and the Palaeontological Association of England. Professor of natural science John N. Moore reported on the results: Some 120 scientists, all specialists, prepared 30 chapters in a monumental work of over 800 pages to present the fossil record for plants and animals divided into about 2,500 groups. . . . Each major form or kind of plant and animal is shown to have a separate and distinct history from all the other forms or kinds! Groups of both plants and animals appear suddenly in the fossil record. . . . Whales, bats, horses, primates, elephants, hares, squirrels, etc., all are as distinct at their first appearance as they are now. There is not a trace of a common ancestor, much less a link with any reptile, the supposed progenitor. Moore added: No transitional forms have been found in the fossil record very probably because no transitional forms exist in fossil stage at all. Very likely, transitions between animal kinds and/or transitions between plant kinds have never occurred.34
31 Thus, what was true in Darwins day is just as true today. The evidence of the fossil record is still as zoologist DArcy Thompson said some years ago in his book On Growth and Form: Darwinian evolution has not taught us how birds descend from reptiles, mammals from earlier quadrupeds, quadrupeds from fishes, nor vertebrates from the invertebrate stock. . . . to seek for stepping-stones across the gaps between is to seek in vain, for ever.35
What the Fossil Record Really Says
36 When we let the fossil record speak, its testimony is not evolution-oriented. Instead, the testimony of the fossil record is creation-oriented. It shows that many different kinds of living things suddenly appeared. While there was great variety within each kind, these had no links to evolutionary ancestors before them. Nor did they have any evolutionary links to different kinds of living things that came after them. Various kinds of living things persisted with little change for long periods of time before some of them became extinct, while others survive down to this day.
37 The concept of evolution cannot be considered a strong scientific explanation for the presence of the diverse forms of life, concludes (((((((((((evolutionist)))))))))))) Edmund Samuel in his book Order: In Life. Why not? He adds: No fine analysis of biogeographic distribution or of the fossil record can directly support evolution.40
38 Clearly, the impartial inquirer would be led to conclude that fossils do not support the theory of evolution. On the other hand, fossil evidence does lend strong weight to the arguments for creation. As zoologist Coffin stated: To secular scientists, the fossils, evidences of the life of the past, constitute the ultimate and final court of appeal, because the fossil record is the only authentic history of life available to science. If this fossil history does not agree with evolutionary theoryand we have seen that it does notwhat does it teach? It tells us that plants and animals were created in their basic forms. The basic facts of the fossil record support creation, not evolution.41 Astronomer Carl Sagan candidly acknowledged in his book Cosmos: The fossil evidence could be consistent with the idea of a Great Designer.


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The Hunger Games: See What All the Hype Is About
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Before the movie even began filming there was talk of The Hunger Games all over Twitter, at middle school lunch tables, and on the cover of what seems like a zillion issues of Entertainment Weekly. The first trailer even got a premiere on Good Morning America today. What's the big deal?
Well, with no more gold to mine from lightning-faced-phantom Harry Potter and Twilight ending it's Mormon cult hold over the collective imagination, the young people (and pop culture hounds) of this country need a piece of juvenile literature to fixate on. Hence, The Hunger Games, a trilogy of novels set in a post-Apocalyptic future where teens must fight to the death in an American Idol-esque competition. OK, that actually sounds pretty rad.
Based on the trailer for the first movie, it looks pretty fun: part stark dreariness, part neon-glow futurism, part action adventure, and part Jennifer Lawrence winning our hearts killing things just like she did in Winter's Bone. I sort of wanted to be able to ignore this as more pop fluff but it actually looks like something I would really be into. Damn you, Hunger Games, why do you make me believe the hype.


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Venza Performance in Snow and Ice
I've lived in PA for 25 years and gotten by fine with FWD in the snow. What is the experience Venza owners have had with FWD versions in the snow? I am particularly interested in 6 cyl reports, since it appears they have the better tires. The reports on the 19" tire quality and limited availability, which is the same as that used on the Highlander, scare me, and I was initially interested in a 4 cyl model. It sounds like Highlander owners are downsizing their 19" rims to get access to decent all-weather tires. I realize everyone is driving on new tires, so the problem of what happen as the tires wear is still a mystery, although the Michelins seem to work well enough over time in other vehicles.
two weekends ago, we had 6-8 inches snow along I-64 and I-95. Took us 6 hours from Chesapeake to Washington DC because of the snow storm. We made many stops for bathroom breaks and to get food and gas. Many local roads were covered with snow and Venza V6 FWD performed flawlessly.
Front and back wipers performed great as well.
Overall, it was fun and joyous drive despite the snow storm.
Fun and joyous.......SIX HOURS...
Even without kids that seems a bit of a stretch, even doubling up on the paxil.
Not a stretch, I drove many cars before and I find Venza is fun and joyous ride everytime I in it.
DAGHVAC Posts: 18i am looking to raise the performance and handling to the brakes on the axis show car and between 325 to 400 hp not supercharger but other aproaches the extreme would be turbo and better springs
Hi to all
I would like to know how your Venza's handle on the snow,and ice.
Best Regards
I have a little more than 1000 miles on my 4 cyl. Venza and am very pleased with the car so far. However, I've read too many bad reviews about the standard Bridgestone Dueler 245/55R 19-inch all-season tires to risk driving on them during our harsh Syracuse winters. Have therefore ordered 4 Blizzak DM-V1 Bridgestone Light Truck/SUV Studless Ice and Snow winter tires. Will let you know how I do.
michiganmike1 Posts: 14I have only had my Venza for ten days and have not driven on ice and snow yet. It was reassuring to read the positive report from normvenza09 above.
However, there was a review of the Venza at online.wsj.com which reported:
"The huge wheels made the Venza a handful in the snow, where it often struggled to gain traction. Even mild acceleration would cause the stability-control system to kick in, reducing power and applying single-wheel braking to quell slippage, thus rendering the benefits of all-wheel drive moot. When it comes to winter driving, the Venza is the worst all-wheel-drive vehicle I have ever tested."
Although the review does not state it, I suspect the test car may have had Goodyear RSA tires which are reported in survey results at tirerack.com to not be as capable in snow as the Michelin Latitude tires that are also available OEM on the Venza. I should have first hand experience with snow and ice in another couple months.
Hello Dave,
Thank you for your reply. Yes please let me know. I will be purchasing this car next year. We also have harsh winters in Quebec.
Hello again Michiganmike.
I thank you again for your great comments. I will be taking a look at those sites. On my end i researched the tires for next year. I will be using 18" tires for winter. Please let me know your first hand experience in snow, and ice.
As a general rule the larger diameter wheel means a lower/short tire sidewall. Short sidewall results in less flex, lower CSA contact patch area, slightly improved FE.
Lower CSA results in higher propensity for slippage when roadbed conditions are becoming marginal. It also appears to me that the manufacturers of FWD and F/awd vehicles are becoming more safety conscious and therefore the TRAC firmware is being revised to be somewhat more aggressive.
Turning TRAC off and learning to "feather" the throttle "just so" would be the answer. Especially so if the TC off function doesn't disable the automatic driveline coupling to the rear with low speed acceleration.
Will do, Robert.
I like the look of the Venza, but I'm interested to learn more about its AWD. From the brochure "Active Torque, "adjusts torque (power) to the right wheels at just the right moment".
My experience is that I prefer the predictability of permanent 4 wheel drive as in BMW X, VW 4motion and I think Subaru. I have had poor experience with some other "smart" AWD systems (especially with large low profile tire /wheel combos) changing configuration, particularly when going down hill in snow/ice conditions.
Some AWD drive vehicles allowed you to "lock" the front rear split by a switch or others when you turned off the OD - this seemed to give better driving feel.
As far as I can tell this AWD is fully automatic and I can't control the front/rear ratios for downhill icy or packed snow motorway conditions. If I'm paying for AWD I prefer to be able to control when its operational, at least in bad weather.
Can anyone tell me for sure or have experience in icy conditions?
I have no doubts about acceleration or uphill road performance its what happens going downhill when you take your foot off the the gas that concerns me.
"..going downhill...concerns me..."
As well it should...!!
That is only one of the MAJOR safety short-comings of a FWD or a F/awd vehicle, downhill on a slippery slope. Get off the gas, engine braking at the front results in the rear attempting to LEAD.
Just one of the many good reasons to stay with R/awd or even RWD...SAFETY.
By the way the 2010 RX350 has this very same F/awd system but also has a manual lock control. But that doesn't change the fact that it is virtually ALWAYS front torque biased system and thus patently UNSAFE for wintertime use.
"..learn more about AWD.."
Ford makes heavy use of this design for all of the F/awd product, as does Mazda. Porsche now uses the same electro-mechanical linear control clutch technique, R/awd, for the newest 911 model. It has proved to be quite problematic for Ford, early models allowed manual control but had a temperature sensor to warn the driver that the rear drive coupling was beginning to overheat.
The manual control was dropped as was the temperature sensor and then the next weakest link, the PTO began to fail due to overheating. Mazda solved the problem via cooling of the PTO using engine coolant flow. Apparently Ford chose to detune/derate the F/awd functionality in order to reduce the failure rate.
It will be interesting to see what the failure rate of the RX350's new F/awd system will be.
Sorry but you lost me with F/awd and R/awd .... I understand 4WD and AWD.
Not sure I agree with you on RWD (rear wheel) being safer, you only need to see the RWD limo drivers (and others) pointing the wrong way in minor ice or snow.
The worst one I experienced was my wife's FX45 - sure it was great in the dry or even rain, but show it snow or ice and it was a different story. The AWD designed to launch in AWD and revert to RWD if it sensed no traction issues. However with those big wheels and wide tires, traction was horrible. When all 4 wheels slipped on ice it could decide it liked RWD.
It had a an override for AWD but that would turn off if you went over 25mph - not the best decision.
For sure we can say a competent driver, with RWD will still do better than a fool in AWD especially if its too smart for its own good and has no manual override mode.
I use F/awd to designate that the AWD system is an "add-on" to a base FWD vehicle. Almost all of these either run in FWD only for most of the time, or are front torque biased. Only the SH-AWD system has the ability to bias engine torque primarily to the rear.
R/awd...self explanatory.
RWD and R/awd vehicles have a higher safety factor simply because even if you get to too lead-footed you will still have the front tire traction to maintain control. Get "lead-footed" with a FWD or F/awd and you better hope that TC will be QUICK to intervene, most are.
"..over 25MPH..."
Anyone who has any high level of experience with 4WD or 4X4 vehicle driving on adverse roadbeds will tell you that once underway at a reasonable roadspeed the front drive should be disengaged.
OK thanks terminology now understood.
I have no experience of adverse roadbeds, just 20 odd years of driving on NJ roads in varying conditions including deep snow. I'll take full-time AWD or 4WD any day for the few weeks of the year when I need it.
Thanks for your input.
Great explanation. Here's a question:
My 4cyl AWD Venza has an off button for Trac. Under which circumstances should I turn it off?
To my (meager) knowledge there is no such thing as a "full-time" F/awd system insofar as operation on an adverse condition, low traction, roadbed is concerned. Systems wherein the rear drive capability is always enabled/armed and at the ready, yes.
Most of these systems, inclusive of the Venza, use TC, Traction Control, to automatically apportion engine torque to the rear after, ONLY after, loss of traction at the front is detected. Basically just like 4WD systems that should NEVER be engaged unless operating on a low traction system, except in the case of F/awd automatic engagement rather than manual.
The only exception would be if stuck, cannot get moving, without (non-excessive) wheelspin and/or have the need to rock the car back and forth to get moving initially.
Thanks! Makes sense.
mohlman Posts: 1Question regarding my 2009 Venza, 4 cylinder AWD 19 inch alloy wheels P245/55R19 tires. Specifically does anyone have any expierance with snow chains/snow claws for their Venza. Traveling to California for holidays from Nebraska thought I should have snow chains/snow claws just in case they are needed/required. Any recommendations regarding tire chains or what they call Snow Claws for my Venza? I would welcome your suggestions/comments regarding where I might purchase as well. Thanks in advance any help would be greatly appreciated!
1st time in heavy snow: We're in the midst of a pretty good lake effect storm and the Blizzaks have been well worth the money. Getting great traction on fairly treacherous roads and the trac system rarely kicks in.
I had a very scary experience on both Slush and Ice!
I lost control of the car at 65MPH on the Atlantic City Parkway. I hit a small slush trail left by the front end loaders/plowers and my car's rear swung violently 75degrees from left to right five times before I regained control of the car. Anyone had this experience? I now believe it may be due to the automatic engine breaking system, because the Dealer Wide Mechanic said I should not have kept my foot on the gas petal, despite the fact I never touched the car breaks. I just kept steering into the violent turns and the car finally came under control.
I am a previous Subaru Owner from 1982 and I realized I had to put my 19 year old Subaru back in service, because the Venza's plastic body panels are flimsy and I already have a crack near the front fog light due to stress. My Subaru has foam filled backing and steel behind its bumpers and the lower fairing has many folds which adds strength. The Venza has nice lines but no reinforcing in the design.
I used the Subaru to breakthrough into plowed roads for many years without incident, while the Venza, barely three months old, has a crack in the front and some light interior damage near the window due to my entry and exit from the car.
In slush or wet snow the Venza is poorly balance and it simply can not gain any traction with the 20" tires and V-6 engine.. The Subaru runs on top of the snow compacting it and has only gotten stuck on wet blare ice. So I am rebuilding it again because the Venza is simply too sensitive a vehicle for the weather mentioned in this piece.
Visibility is horrid on the Venza! I have added large rectangular convex mirrors to both side view mirrors, because I will lose a car for about a car length and a half. I highly recommend this approach. The smaller mirrors work well until it rains, then they have too many rain drops distorting their visibility. You can find the same type of mirrors mounted by the Chevy factory on their little panel wagon - go to dealer showroom - this is where I got the idea! adk3
With a FWD or even a F/awd, especially the Venza F/awd, ALL engine compression braking occurs at the FRONT WHEELS, potentially a fairly HAZARDOUS situation as you have just discovered.
With a FWD, and the clear majority of F/awd, vehicles that aspect represents a very clear and certain danger for wintertime use. The best thing to do if you have one of these equipped with an automatic transmission is to follow the advice of the AAA and quickly shift the transaxle into neutral.
VW has just announced a new feature for their FWD cars with manual transaxles in that if too much engine compression braking is used for roadbed conditions resulting from an inappropriate downshift the system will automatically "up-rev" the engine to alleviate the wheelslip.
You might also ask you dealer if there is a C-best option wherein should you fully release the gas pedal and when the OAT is 35F and below the transaxle would shift into neutral automatically. While there may not be a c-best option for this at the moment there may be one soon forth coming.
The downshifting "extension", fuel cut extension, is a fairly new feature so a follow-on revision to defeat it if conditions warrant might be a reasonable decision by the manufacturers.
Thank you for your response. The only problem I would have given that previously described loss of control is that you do not have much time to react! The advantage with the Venza is that the shift lever is very accessible?!
The Toyota Regional Mechanic said to keep my foot on the gas pedal, but that is not a normal reaction when a car goes through a rapid loss of directional control.
I know never to use the brakes, so your directions to shift to neutral may be a more reasonable response, because the electric steering gives you no sense of tire-to-road contact. I did not even know about the engine breaking feature until I read the Owner's Manual cover to cover during Canada vs USA final game. adk3
Oftentimes a very slight, judicious, application of a rear wheel implemented e-brake will be of some help in the situation you describe. Sort of like throwing a "drag" anchor out behind a boat.
And regarding the actual braking, I have long thought that with the modern day commonality of ABS/BA/TC/VSC/etc it would be really easy to have a braking system that used ONLY the rear brakes for light duty braking. Then only enable front braking additionally if a predetermined brake fluid pressure level were reached and/or ABS indicated impending rear wheel lockup.
If you applied the rear brakes, say using the emergency brake, you would really set the car into a skid. There is no weight in the rear end.
Since that skid, and to dampen the jarring of the 20" rims,I actually put 100lbs of steel shot ballast under the front seats and another 100lbs in the rear spare tire well. The ride is much better, but I do not know how this will affect the car in a skid.
I was on rough sheet ice at 70mph.
I rather like the idea of having the front engine brake disabled, so you can steer out of it normally. I hope the better weight distribution will help, but the only way to tell is to get back into a skid?!
kingfans1 Posts: 137hello I don't have a venza awd.. but I can tell you 2009 matrix awd do very well in the snow.
Toyota make good AWD cars.. I am sure Venza AWD well handle snow and ice very easy...
My understanding, having only read blogs on the Venza AWD system, is that Toyota has purchased the rights from Subaru to utilize their patented AWD system and that the current electronically activated AWD by Toyota has not proven to be adequate.
In addition, the Matrix is an extremely small and light vehicle, though quite attractive. I had looked at one for my girlfriend. I will respond to my issues with the Venza by filling out a written Toyota Survey and providing all my supporting information for their review and comment. I love many aspects of the Venza, but then I was an avid 1966 Chevy Corvair enthusiast as well.
Summarizing my Venza 6 cylinder FWD performance, I am restoring my 1992 Subaru Legacy Wagon in the garage as we speak. The AWD system and tough interior and exterior of the car are hard to match, though it is out of style.
Please understand, I believe all these cars have their problems.
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Brewers don't regret giving Marcum key start
Right-hander lasts just one inning in season-ending Game 6
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Roenicke obviously would have gone a different route had he known Marcum was going to allow four runs and last just one inning in Sunday night's 12-6 season-ending loss to the Cardinals in Game 6 of the National League Championship Series.
But as this slugfest unfolded, Roenicke was left to believe rolling the dice with Marcum was a better option than sending Yovani Gallardo to the mound on short rest or asking Chris Narveson to make his first start in three weeks.
"I know it was the right decision," Roenicke said. "I'm not second-guessing anything there. It was the right decision. With the options that we had, these guys pitched well all year. I still thought that they had good starts in them."
After boasting of the depth in his starting rotation throughout much of the season, Roenicke entered this win-or-go-home Game 6 with his fingers crossed and the hope that things would be different for Marcum, who had posted an 8.18 ERA in his previous six starts.
It did not take Marcum long to erase the optimism held by those who believed he would halt his recent struggles and extend the Brewers' season at least one more day. The 30-year-old right-hander entered this start determined to put a greater emphasis on his offspeed pitches.
Over the course of an entire game, this might have been the right way to attack the Cards' lineup. But it didn't seem to be the way to go when third baseman David Freese highlighted the four-run first inning by drilling a first-pitch changeup over the left-field wall for a three-run home run.
That essentially put an end to the season for Marcum. According to STATS, he became just the 21st pitcher since divisional play began in 1969 to allow four runs or more while lasting one inning or less in a postseason start.
"Obviously, pitching one inning, you can't be too happy about that," Marcum said. "You've got to give those guys credit. We'll head into this offseason and pick it up and come into Spring Training ready to go again."
Like Freese might have also homered had Marcum thrown a first-pitch fastball, the Cardinals provided every indication that they might have done just as much first-inning damage had the Brewers opted to give Narveson what would have been his first start since Sept. 25. The left-hander had not thrown more than 31 pitches in any of the five relief outings he had made since then.
Once Marcum had made his unceremonious exit, St. Louis pounded Narveson for five runs during the second and third innings. That Milwaukee fans to wonder if things might have been different had Gallardo been asked to pitch on short rest for the first time in his career.
But had Gallardo managed to help the Brewers win Game 6, Marcum and Narveson would have once again stood as the options to start Game 7.
"Physically, I think I could have done it," Narveson said. "But Marcum was our guy. He was the guy who has been there all year. You ride your horses."
Marcum might have been The Guy for Milwaukee for a portion of this season. But by the end, it was quite apparent he was not the same guy who went 12-5 with a 3.11 ERA in his first 29 starts of the season. Opponents batted .218 against him and homered once every 38.5 at-bats during that stretch.
During the seven starts that followed to close his season, Marcum went 1-5 with a 9.00 ERA. Opponents hit .348 against him and homered once every 17.6 at-bats.
"My body felt great," Marcum said. "My arm felt great. It was just the location on pitches. That's all it comes down to. If you make pitches and keep the ball down in the zone, it's hard for them to hit it out of the ballpark."
As Marcum stood at his locker and attempted to describe what had gone wrong, he talked about the fact that he struggled to command his changeup like he had in the past. But he never once indicated that he felt any kind of fatigue after completing a career-high 200 2/3 innings this year.
"I thought he was going to throw real well today," Brewers catcher Jonathan Lucroy said. "We had all the confidence in the world in him. He just made some mistakes. Obviously he's a little off. That's all I can say. He just hasn't been as sharp as he usually was during the season.
"To his credit, he carried us through the early part of the season. He was our horse. I think it is tough to get on him now, because he threw a lot of innings for us and got a lot of wins for us. He's one of the main reasons we are here."
Mark Bowman is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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== Flash applet ==
== Flash applet ==
== Installing the stand-alone version ==
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Revision as of 06:31, 3 December 2009
ExpressionView is an R package that provides an interactive environment to explore biclusters identified in gene expression data. A sophisticated ordering algorithm is used to present the biclusters in a visually appealing layout. From this overview, the user can select individual biclusters and access all the biologically relevant data associated with it. The package is aimed to facilitate the collaboration between bioinformaticians and life scientists who are not familiar with the R language.
- 1 Launch and download
- 2 Screenshots
- 3 Tutorials
- 4 Additional documentation and downloads
Launch and download
Launch the ExpressionView Flash applet
- Launch ExpressionView
- Launch ExpressionView with adult T-cell acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) data (8 modules)
- Launch ExpressionView with adult T-cell acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) data (108 modules)
Download the R package (includes the Flash applet)
- Windows binary package
- Mac OS X 32 bit binary package, Mac OS X 64 bit binary package
- Source package
Download the stand-alone viewer (adobe AIR)
If you prefer a stand-alone viewer, you can download and install the Adobe AIR build ExpressionView.air (right-click to download file).
To run the program, you need the AIR runtime environment which you can get from Adobe.
ExpressionView creates files associations to .evf files, allowing you to simply double-click on such files to launch the viewer and load the data.
Download sample data
- Gene expression profile of adult T-cell acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) with 8 modules (right-click to download file).
- Gene expression profile of adult T-cell acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) with 108 modules (right-click to download file).
There are several tutorials describing how to use ExpressionView:
R package
Getting started with ExpressionView
Flash applet
Short description of the ExpressionView features (taken from the tutorial above)
Installing the stand-alone version
Additional documentation and downloads
- Ordering algorithm
- [hhttp://www2.unil.ch/cbg/software/expressionview/doc ActionScript source code documentation]
- XML file structure
- ActionScript implementation of the LargeBitmapData class (allows to use bitmaps of arbitrary dimensions)
- ActionScript implementation of the ResizablePanel class (a panel with open, maximize, minimize, close and resize buttons)


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Mourners in the US town of Newtown, Connecticut gathered this afternoon for the first two of 20 funerals of children shot dead in their classroom.
The town's schools remained closed after a weekend of mourning that followed Adam Lanza's attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday.
The 20-year-old killed 27 people in the attack, including his mother at her home, before taking his own life.
Miniature caskets marked the first wave of funerals as Noah Pozner and Jack Pinto, both six years old, were laid to rest this afternoon.
Jack was buried in his hero's New York Giants football jersey in a small white coffin.
Balloons and a teddy bear welcomed mourners to the funeral of his first grade schoolmate Noah, who was the youngest victim. His twin sister, Arielle, escaped unhurt.
The shooting has caused anxiety across the country.
Within hours of the school starting bell this morning, lockdowns were declared in nearby Connecticut and New York towns.
In southern California, Indiana and Tennessee, authorities arrested men yesterday for making threats against schools.
Police and bomb-sniffing dogs conducted a precautionary search of the street lined with white balloons outside the Fairfield, Connecticut, funeral home where Noah's life was remembered.
A teddy bear and bouquet of white flowers lay at the base of an oak tree outside the Jewish service that was packed with mourners, including Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy, US Senator Richard Blumenthal and Senator-elect Chris Murphy.
"Noah was an impish, larger-than-life little boy," his family said in his obituary in the Newtown Bee newspaper.
"Everything he did conveyed action and energy through love. He was the light of our family, a little soul devoid of spite and meanness," wrote his parents, Lenny and Veronique Pozner, and four siblings.
At Jack's funeral in Newtown, about a half dozen children wearing a wrestling's club gold medals took off the awards and gave them to their teammate's parents.
A New York Giants fan, Jack was wearing a red-and-white jersey with receiver Victor Cruz's number 80 as he lay in an open white casket at the service.
During an NFL match yesterday, Cruz wore shoes with "RIP Jack Pinto" written on the side.
"Jack was an incredibly loving and vivacious young boy, appreciated by all who knew him for his lively and giving spirit and steely determination," his parents, Dean and Tricia Pinto, and brother said in his obituary in the Newtown Bee.
Active in sports from football to skiing, he was remembered "for the immeasurable joy he brought to all who had the pleasure of knowing him, a joy whose wide reach belied his six short years".
Their funerals came a day after President Barack Obama visited Newtown to comfort the families, promising action to stop future tragedies.
Mr Obama's remarks were heralded this morning by relatives of teacher Victoria Soto, 27, who was killed as she tried to protect her first-grade students.
"He really made us feel like she really was a hero and that everyone should know it," her younger brother, Carlos Soto, told CBS "This Morning".
A White House spokesman said tonight that Mr Obama's plan for action to curb violence includes gun control "but is far from all of it".
All the dead children were six or seven years old. The school principal of Sandy Hook Elementary, the school psychologist and four teachers were also murdered.
Further details of massacre emerge
A more detailed picture of Lanza's stunning attack has emerged.
After killing his mother, Nancy Lanza, at home, Lanza shot his way into the school.
He had attended Sandy Hook as a child, according to former classmates, but authorities said today he had no current connection with the school.
Police said Lanza was armed with hundreds of bullets in high-capacity magazines of about 30 rounds each for the Bushmaster AR 15 rifle and two handguns he carried into the school.
A fourth weapon, a shotgun, was in his car outside. He killed himself in the school.
In Washington, a growing number of US politicians, including a leading pro-gun senator, called for a look at curbing assault weapons, such as the one used in the massacre, a sign that attitudes toward gun control could be shifting.
"Never before have we seen our babies slaughtered. This never happened in America, that I can recall, ever seeing this kind of carnage," said Senator Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat.
"This has changed where we go from here."


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SBA Reports Third Highest Lending Year
The SBA said Oct. 29 it supported more than $29 billion in lending to small businesses this fiscal year, making 2013 the third highest in lending activity in the agency's history.
During the fiscal year which ended Sept. 30, the SBA said, loan approvals supported $29.6 billion (54,106 loans) to small businesses in its two main loan programs, 7(a) and 504, compared to $30.3 billion (53,848 loans) in FY 2012 and $30.5 billion (61,689 loans) in FY 2011.
The agency said streamlining its Small Loan Advantage program, designed to expand access to loans under $350,000, increased the number of lower-dollar SBA 7(a) loans going to small businesses and entrepreneurs in underserved communities.
In FY 2013, the SBA said, it backed almost 5,000 loans for nearly $745 million through the SLA program.
The agency's CAPlines program, which provides working capital lines of credit designed to help small businesses with their short-term working capital needs, saw a successful year in part because of measures to streamline loan processing, the SBA said.


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There are two methods for recovering node agents and sever instances.
Keep a backup zip file. There are no explicit commands to back up the node agent and server instances. Simply create a zip file with the contents of the node agents directory. After failure, unzip the saved backup on a new machine with same host name and IP address. Use the same install directory location, OS, and so on. A file-based install, package-based install, or restored backup image must be present on the machine.
Manual recovery. You must use a new host with the same IP address.
Install the Enterprise Server with node agent on the machine.
Recreate the node agents. You do not need to create any server instances.
Synchronization will copy and update the configuration and data from the DAS.


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The Australian share market has closed higher in the wake of the European Central Bank's economic stimulus measures and ahead of jobs figures to be released in the United States overnight.
Also, Chinese trade figures are due at the weekend.
"The European Central Bank (ECB) decision to stimulate the economy over there has given a fillip to some stocks," CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner said.
Mr Spooner said banks and other stocks offering good yields on the local bourse had lifted in particular.
Local investors believed that investors in Europe would now be chasing stocks with high yields around the world, in the wake of the ECB's measures to cut interest rates and encourage banks to lend more money.
Mr Spooner said that on the negative side, more downward pressure on iron ore prices was hurting some of the big mining stocks.
The next catalyst for the Australian market would be US non-farm payroll figures for May to be released overnight and data on Chinese exports over the weekend.
However, a long weekend in most Australian states meant that local investors will have to wait until Tuesday to respond to the news from abroad.
Among the major banks, National Australia Bank strengthened 30 cents to $33.53, Westpac improved 35 cents to $34.55, ANZ advanced 44 cents to $33.67, and Commonwealth Bank lifted 82 cents to $81.77.
In the resources sector, global miner BHP Billiton was up four cents at $36.24, Rio Tinto was down 25 cents at $59.40, and Fortescue Metals lost 13 cents at $4.52.
* On Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 27.1 points, or 0.5 per cent, at 5,464.0 points.
* The broader All Ordinaries index was up 23.8 points, or 0.44 per cent, at 5,443.5 points.
* The June share price index futures contract was 19 points higher at 5,461 points, with 23,481 contracts traded.
* National turnover was 1.49 billion securities worth $3.74 billion.
*The price of gold in Sydney at 1700 AEST was $US1,255.00 per fine ounce, up $US11.00 on Thursday's price of $US1,244.00.


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Farrell sifting through rotation candidates
By Gregor Chisholm / MLB.com
Left-hander Brett Cecil was recalled from Triple-A Las Vegas on Friday to take the spot of injured starter Brandon Morrow. Kyle Drabek and Drew Hutchison have since joined Morrow on the disabled list to create an additional two openings.
Triple-A right-hander Jesse Chavez is an early favorite for one of jobs, while long reliever Carlos Villanueva made a case for himself with four scoreless innings of relief on Friday night.
"[Villanueva is] in the mix, yeah," Blue Jays manager John Farrell said. "Yet, we haven't determined who's going to start on Wednesday. I don't have anything more definitive than that for you right now."
Villanueva served in a similar role last season. He began the year in the bullpen, but eventually transitioned to the rotation following a series of injuries and subpar performances by the starters.
The 28-year-old was effective in that role until he began dealing with a right-arm injury. He went on to post a 5.15 ERA in 13 starts. In the past, Villanueva has expressed a desire to return to the starting rotation and believes he is more suited for that job than he was in 2011.
"I pitched two months with a little bit of pain in my elbow, but it was just fatigue," Villanueva said of last season. "I just hadn't prepared for that the season before. I'm coming from a season that I threw 50 innings, and all of a sudden I'm over the 100-inning mark.
"But this offseason, actually, I prepared all the way around. It's better to prepare to start, throw 180 innings and then take it down from there than have to build up during the season. My arm has been treating me well
throughout my career, so I don't expect anything different."
Blue Jays place Hutchison on 15-day DL
TORONTO -- Drew Hutchison became the third Blue Jays casualty this week when he was officially placed on the 15-day disabled list on Saturday morning because of an injured right elbow.
Hutchison was diagnosed with a sprained ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) and is currently in a no-throw situation for the next two weeks. With a vacant spot on the 25-man roster, Toronto recalled right-hander Robert Coello from Triple-A Las Vegas.
The 21-year-old Hutchison will get a second opinion on his elbow to rule out a more serious injury. But at this point, there does not appear to be a significant tear to the ligament.
"It's not ideal, after seeing everything that has gone on," Hutchison said of the club's recent injury woes. "It's tough, the team's in a tough spot. You want to go out and help shoulder that weight any way you can -- and you come up with it yourself.
"But it is what it is. I'm not going to throw a pity party. I'm going to get back and try to help the team."
Hutchison was the third Blue Jays pitcher to go down with an injury in the last four games. He was forced to depart Friday night's start after just nine pitches because of soreness in his right elbow. While Hutchison cannot throw for at least the next 14 days, there is no timetable for his return.
The native of Florida had become one of the Blue Jays' more reliable starters in recent weeks. He posted a 5-3 record with a 4.60 ERA during 11 starts in his rookie campaign before the unfortunate injury.
Pitching can be a dangerous profession at times as Hutchison joined Brandon Morrow (strained left oblique) and Kyle Drabek (torn UCL) on the DL, and manager John Farrell said there really wasn't anything that could be done to avoid the latest setback.
"Four times he threw over 100 pitches -- no more than 112," Farrell said. "To me, the number of pitches inside of a given game, when you might balance in fatigue at some point where an injury might show up later in the game, this is on pitch nine.
"I wish I could have [foreseen] it coming, and would have certainly made a change before it ever happened. Unfortunately, pitching is a game of attrition -- and we're seeing a lot of it right now."
A lot was made of Hutchison throwing with increased velocity in recent starts. Hutchison previously threw in the low 90s, but recently began to top out at 94-95 mph.
According to Hutchison, that had more to do with pitch selection than increased intensity. He doesn't feel like the extra couple of miles per hour on his fastball had anything to do with the sprained UCL.
"I'd say the only difference was I was throwing more four-seamers," said Hutchison, who added this is the first time he has dealt with an elbow injury. "So it's natural that I'd throw the four-seamer harder than the two-seamer. So, I don't think that had anything to do with it.
"I felt normal. The exact same, same routine the whole way."
Coello is a welcome addition to a bullpen that was forced to throw 8 1/3 innings on Friday night. He will serve in long relief and has an outside chance to earn one of the two vacant jobs in Toronto's starting rotation. Coello tossed two shutout innings for the Blue Jays in his one appearance with the big league club earlier this year.
Cecil feels he's ironed out issues in Minors
TORONTO -- Brett Cecil will make his long-awaited return to the Major Leagues on Sunday afternoon against the Phillies.
Cecil was expected to begin the season as Toronto's No. 3 starter, but a subpar spring forced his demotion to the Minor Leagues. He's now back to take the spot of right-hander Brandon Morrow, who is currently on the 15-day disabled list with a strained left oblique muscle.
It's not the way Cecil anticipated making his season debut and, despite the opportunity, there was a lot of sympathy for the injury woes currently facing Toronto's starting rotation.
"I never want to take a guy's spot because he's hurt," Cecil said. "I want to feel like I earned it -- and I do feel like I earned it and I do deserve to be up here. But it's just a terrible thing when a guy goes down with an injury.
"Obviously, I know we need starting pitching. Hopefully, I can get in there and get off to a good start."
Cecil began the season with Double-A New Hampshire and posted a 3-2 record with a 3.38 ERA in nine starts. He was then promoted to Triple-A Las Vegas, where he made just one start before getting the call from Toronto.
The 25-year-old experienced a drop in velocity last season, and the problems continued this spring. He reportedly has added a few miles per hour to his fastball, but said that is something he is no longer concerned about.
The biggest issue Cecil faced earlier this year was keeping the ball down in the zone, and that's a problem he believes was rectified in the Minors.
"The most important thing is how to pitch," Cecil said. "I don't know what my velocity is going to be on Sunday, nor do I care. In 2011, it was a little bit different. I didn't know what it was going to be, but I cared what it was going to be. I wanted it to be back where it was, and now it's just been a season of focusing on keeping the ball down and making my pitches move on both sides of the plate -- and pitching on both sides of the plate.
"That's really the biggest thing I've learned through this year and a half of just straight struggling -- how to pitch. I thought I knew how to pitch before, and I did somewhat. But now, I not only know how to use my pitches, now I know how to use them against certain hitters. I feel like I can read hitters a lot better, know what they're trying to do in certain counts and using that to my advantage."
Gregor Chisholm is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, North of the Border, and follow him on Twitter @gregorMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Janie is writing new material for Healing Keys - The Body Relationship and writing up her latest research with different illnesses, ailments and Metaphor
Here are some of the Healing Keys that Janie works with:
Love is real. Love is not easily daunted, and love cannot be shattered like the dreams and illusions that can lead to illness. Love and bonding help heal pain and illness by resolving hidden conflicts.
Every choice you make for wellness and healing your illness can help. It is especially helpful to choose to resolve any fear, anger, guilt and conflict you may be experiencing, as these feelings can exacerbate the illness.
Ask for the gift of forgiveness to fill you. Now, specifically ask for forgiveness for this person to fill your heart and, when this is complete, feel the energy of forgiveness flowing from your heart to theirs
Under each of our problems, illnesses and pain, there lies a gift we brought in at a soul level that is waiting to be embraced.
Grace makes everything easy, simple and smooth. It is that which enables us to live and love fully, reaping the bounty of a carefree life.
You can always integrate anything dark or negative into your higher mind and the light of your spirit.
Letting Go
Letting go of the attachment causing our problems in health can heal us and move us into the next stage of our life. When our heart refuses to move on, our attachment holds us back in our life.
Choose to know and live your purpose, because you will know yourself and your happiness, as you step up to keep the promises your soul made for this life.
Trust is one of the great healing principles that can resolve any problem, and so it's inner knowing of a positive outcome establishes a new level of confidence in ourselves, the situation and heaven. Trust generates the willingness to allow the situation to unfold easily and truly.
When we understand what is occurring, we naturally join with those we are in conflict with, and regain our feelings of being compassionate and loveable ourselves.
The pain underlying an illness is not the truth, and neither are our hidden, but mistaken, goals. Truth brings clarity and leads us in the direction of good health and freedom from the symptoms of the illness.
Willingness puts us into the flow once again and helps to restore bonding. Every true step forward is a true step in intimacy and health.
A Happy Story
We can change our story. We can choose a new story!
Metaphors are story. Our body is a story teller.
Our body is communicating with us through our senses and mental process. What are we interpreting ? What do we hear?
Full and deep love with our whole self.
Body and mind are just one thing.
Nutrition. Exercise. Environment.
Spiritual care, emotional health, our clear loving mind.


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TSMC goes it alone with 3-D IC process
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BURLINGAME, Calif. TSMC will try to go it alone with an integrated 3-D chip stacking technology as its only offering for future customers. The approach makes commercial sense for TSMC, but some fabless chip designers said it lacks technical merit and limits their options.
3-D chip stacks are seen as a strategic new direction in chip design at a time when progress is becoming more difficult in the traditional scaling of semiconductor process technology. However, foundries, packaging houses and integrated chip makers are still debating how to address the technical challenges making 3-D stacks.
TSMC claims its approach will be simpler, cheaper and more reliable than using multiple foundries, packaging houses and other partners. It is focused on creating so-called through-silicon vias (TSVs) early on in the process, then adding packaging capabilities to its fabs.
The Taiwan chip maker made 3-D test chips for about five companies including Xilinx which used Amkor as a packaging partner. These "first wave" 3-D customers will be able to continue using external partnerships if they choose, "but for new customers we have this one proposal, one [integrated] solution," Doug Chen-Hua Yu, a senior R&D director at TSMC, told EE Times.
"Some, but not all our customers want us to work with other partners, but many customers like our approach very much," Yu said.
Yu pitched the integrated approach in a presentation at a 3-D technical conference here. Using a single foundry, reduces shipping that can crack the thin wafers needed for 3-D ICs and reduces confusion of who is liable for a broken product. TSMC also believes it can lower costs by eliminating unneeded steps at lower capital equipment costs than packaging houses, Yu said.
In a Q&A afterwards, packaging analyst Jan Vardaman asked Yu how TSMC would develop the test, assembly and substrate expertise paclkaging companies have today.
"This new proposal is only two or three quarters old because we worked with many customers in this area and we found out [reliability issues] had become much worse, more risky and complicated," Yu said. "Someone has to come forward to assume the responsibility and take on the challenges--this is a new ball game, and the old way of doing business is out of date, I'm afraid," he said.
Xilinx plans to continue using a mix of foundries and packaging houses such as TSMC and Amkor to make its so-called 2.5-D chips such as the Virtex 2000T announced earlier this year.
"In general, the fabless industry would like more degrees of freedom," Ivo Bolsens, chief technology officer of Xilinx told EE Times. "I dont see any technical reason against any particular design flows," he added.
Analysts noted TSMC will face plenty of competition and may be forced into being more of a team player.
"TSMC said they want to do everything," said Jim Feldhan of Semico Research. "Thats very gallant of them, but we need the rest of the industry to step up so that these processes are well adopted and understood," he said.
"TSMC makes a very compelling case [for going it alone] but others won't lie down or go away--there's a lot of money in play here," said Jeff Perkins, President of Yole Inc.