Kent Hovind vs. a Molecular Biologist (The limitations of science)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Saturday, July 09, 2011, 22:37 (4884 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

Tony,
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> > I haven't forgotten your post, I've been trying to find a new job (among MANY other pursuits) and the last few days I've only had time to read David's book and plan on responding to your post here before I fly to MX wednesday. 
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> > Thanks!
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> What kind of work do you do(normally)? Good luck with the job hunt!-The short version is that I'm a Software Engineer. (Hence my familiarity with all things math.) But the kind of work I've done since graduation is mostly automated software Quality Assurance; I write programs that run programs. -Prior to computers I had planned on getting a PhD in Pharmacology, until I decided that I didn't like performing chemistry all that much. (Two summers doing lab work bored me.) -My first love was always music, specifically songwriting. As a kid I had notebooks and notebooks full of lyrics... finding creative ways to express abstract ideas through sound and word. And when I lost touch with that part of myself after starting college... I faltered really badly. It was a class that introduced me to Nietzsche that both taught me how to read as well as started moving my mind again in what I would consider a "spiritual" direction. (To understand an essay from Nietzsche, it almost always requires a "third eye." N's thought was heavily influenced by the Bible, and Emerson. I took the techniques I learned from N and started applying that to all sorts of things, and in the grand scheme I've come off better for it.-I tell you all of that as it gets pretty easy to be written off by humanities folks as a scientist/engineer.

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"