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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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May 24, 2016 - 08:22pm PT
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Outstanding image!
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
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May 26, 2016 - 09:14am PT
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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May 27, 2016 - 08:41am PT
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“How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.” -Carl Sagan
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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May 28, 2016 - 11:41am PT
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Saw a bumper sticker:
Pray
Listen
Then obey
For me it's more like:
Observe
Reason
Then decide
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WBraun
climber
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May 28, 2016 - 12:27pm PT
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No ... atheist or theist all have to obey.
There's no escape.
If you don't obey they will capture you and punishment.
Stop sign, stop light, all the laws of society have to be obeyed.
There's no escape .....
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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May 28, 2016 - 12:38pm PT
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Observe
Reason
Decide ... it is ...
... and of course it's different for ducks...
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
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May 28, 2016 - 03:41pm PT
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Observe
Reason
Then decide
Inspecto, ratiocinor, constituo.
That Latin sh#t is so classy.....
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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May 31, 2016 - 07:18pm PT
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my favorite bumper sticker:
"Don't believe everything you think"
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
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May 31, 2016 - 07:32pm PT
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^^^^Always loved that! A good standard to keep in mind for sure!
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Ward Trotter
Trad climber
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Observe
Reason
Then decid
Stop
Look Both Ways
Then cross
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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If you're interested in all this DNA goings-on... like this...
the start of the HGP-Write project...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/03/science/human-genome-project-write-synthetic-dna.html
then I'd say to you you should take a molecular biology course. Imo, it's well worth the investment. But even if you're 70-plus? Yes, even then, because education can be a lifelong pursuit. The world will be hearing a lot more of bioengineering in the coming decades. Truly exciting times ahead.
AGCCACTT
ATCCACTT (Corrected that for you.)
:)
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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the ability to chemically fabricate the complete set of human chromosomes could theoretically allow the creation of babies without biological parents.
The implications being what? Sheesh.
Silly (iron-age thinking) people.
"theological implications" lol
Yes, we've got to get Christio-islamic ethics out of it.
Out of 21st century problem solving. Out of 21st century bio-
ethics committees. Out of 21st century bon vivance. (Others may disagree.)
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Who doesn't think "supercloning" is in our future?
"Fasten your seatbelt, old man"
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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My father was elder in a Congregationalist church in Bridgeton: a poor place now but a worse one then. One time the well-off members subscribed to give the building a new communion table, an organ, and coloured windows. But he was an industrial blacksmith with a big family. He couldnae afford to give money, so he gave ten years of unpaid work as church officer, sweeping and dusting, polishing the brasses, and ringing the bell for services.
At the foundry he was paid less the more he aged, but my mother helped the family by embroidering tablecloths and napkins. Her ambition was to save a hundred pounds. She was a good needlewoman, but she never saved her hundred pounds. A neighbour would fall sick and need a holiday or a friend’s son would need a new suit to apply for a job, and she handed the money over with no fuss or remark, as if it were an ordinary thing to do.
She got a lot of comfort from praying. Every night we all kneeled to pray in the living room before going to bed. There was nothing dramatic in these prayers. My father and mother clearly thought they were talking to a friend in the room with them.
I never felt that, so I believed there was something wrong with me.
Then the 1914 war started and I joined the army and heard a different kind of prayer. The clergy on all sides were praying for victory. They told us God wanted our government to win and was right there behind us, with the generals, shoving us forward.
A lot of us in the trenches let God go at that time.
But Duncan, all these airy-fairy pie-in-the-sky notions are nothing but aids to doing what we want anyway. My parents used Christianity to help them behave decently in a difficult life. Other folk used it to justify war and property.
But Duncan, what men believe isn’t important - it’s our actions which make us right or wrong.
from Lanark by Alasdair Gray
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