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Okay, the reason that inbreeding causes issues is that when two related people procreate, their DNA is extremely similar, and it is more likely that dangerous recessive genes will match and create problems for the baby. When people with vastly different genes procreate, dangerous recessive genes are less likely to surface.So, you can conclude that Adam and Eve's family were okay for a couple of reasons. God, being all-(insert a good descriptive word here), would have foreseen all of the problems possible and would make Adam and Eve with basically opposite genes. She had brown eyes, he had blue. He was tall, she was short. One was AA, the other aa. Or something like that. I'm not a geneticist. Another reason is that God made humans perfectly. Then we had to go and screw things up. We all know what radiation, cancer, etc. can do to our DNA. Over the years, more genetic diseases could easily have been created by our stupidity. All kinds of things could have happened.

Fletch, I would suggest using "div" tags. Do something like this between your "body" tags: <div style="width: 100%;" align="center"> <div style="width: 900px;"> -content- </div></div> This will center everything. You can change the "900" to whatever width you actually want.

I think that 17 MB is useless. Just setting up a MyBB forum takes more than that. Anyway, what WOULD be cool is if Xisto decided to reward those who have been here for a while with an upgrade from 10 to 17 GB of hosting. Of course, "a while" is pretty ambiguous... I hope it means 6 months or something... my anniversary here is in August.

There is also a newer version of PCI-express, version 2.0. You simply need to look at your motherboard specs.Sometimes you will find AGP 4x on your motherboard. Also you can find PCI-express 8x. Your biggest concern should be finding out if your card will physically fit in your motherboard's graphics slot. Some PCI-express ports/cards are longer than others. A 16x slot is backward-compatible with any PCI-express card, but not vice versa. AGP has only one size slot, as far as I know, and most cards are forward- and backward-compatible.Like everyone has said, the most important thing is to look at your motherboard specs.

Yeah, I don't see how one could think the ages of people had any symbolic significance. I mean, if it did, Adam's 960 years would turn into what? Less than 3 years? And then he had kids?! Or 960 weeks? That's still something like 20 or 25 years... maybe 960... sorry, I can't think of how that would work.Sorry for the sarcasm. I can't help it sometimes.Yeah, good old Methuselah, with his 969 healthy, long years. Too bad the idiots back then had to screw up the human race. Grrr. And then there were idiots after the flood! Ever hear of the tower of Babel? That would be why there are different languages. Goodness.

What you need to do is find a sleep clinic near you. I'm actually in the middle of Tennessee, but within 20 minutes of two clinics. I'm not sure what you're talking about with the "night waking disease". Perhaps you mean insomnia. Anyway, I could give you a few tips that help most people (including me) fall asleep better every night: Exercise daily. You would not believe how much this help. And I'm not just saying 20 push-ups in the morning, either. I'm talking 45 minutes of basketball, running a couple of miles, a good game or two of racquetball, or something else that'll have your heart pumping a little more than usual. Eat less meat and more veggies/fruit. Meat takes FOREVER to digest, and makes it difficult to sleep. At least have your protein/fat in the morning or for lunch, as eating a light supper is also a good way to relieve your stomach so you can sleep better. Drink lots of water. And less non-water liquids. Especially don't drink anything with caffeine. It seriously helps. Get up earlier (7:00 a.m. or earlier--try for 6) and go to bed earlier (11:00 p.m. or earlier--try for 10 [i know, tall order]). It will take time to get used to it, but you will. Especially work on those hours before midnight, as it seems the hours at that time are better for your sleep than anything. Anyway, I basically just rattled off a few things I've been told over and over by psychologists and nutritionists--the simple version. 'Tis the result of going to an Adventist university (Adventists are notoriously health-conscious).

I beg to differ! My church is very good about NOT doing that. In fact, we make it a point to never force ideas on people. Most of our missionaries go to a place, learn the culture, and live with the people for a year or two, helping them in every way possible. The people start forming trust and start asking questions. That is when they start "preaching". Actually, our church (a worldwide church, with over 20 million members and missionaries in every country of the world) has a ministry where they take electric water pumps and drills across Africa (I can't remember the name of the giant aquifer upon which they are situated) and dig wells for people in the desert. The people show so much gratitude and ask why we would do something like that for them. This opens up the great "Jesus is the living water" analogy. Maybe my church is the exception, but I surely hope not. I've had teachers, pastors, friends (even in academy I had friends that went to India), relatives (my cousin went to Africa for a year, my uncle's family went to Thailand for a few years) and others (or did I include just about everyone I know?) that were missionaries. I even went down to Mississippi (18-hour drive) twice for week stretches after hurricane Katrina. In fact, all I did down there was work (demolition, construction, clean-up). Only when someone asked and seemed truly interested did we start to tell them our mission. When people see what we do and how we act, that should be our main testimony. Then they get curious, we start telling Christ's story, and that's when we gain in numbers. I think some people in this thread must have had some sort of bad experience with missionaries or something. I'm kind of disappointed that you have these ideas. I can't imagine what it is.

GRR! People already took "toy boats" and "unique New York", some of my favorites.Nice reference with "Moses Supposes"!Okay, try that one song from "Pirates of Penzance"... whatever it's called where the one dude sings at 2498345 words/minute.

Thanks you guys that posted a long time ago! I just love poking fun at people who use arcane calculations to try and make something seem more fascinating. Okay, radiation does not accumulate over time. It's like light--it doesn't build up. If you turn a light off, it turns off. Also, radiation is pretty constant; radiation will not steadily get worse as you talk on your phone. Another thing: a less powerful source (i.e., a cell phone) will not penetrate as far as a more powerful source (i.e., a microwave oven), no matter how much time is involved, because microwaves do not carve pathways through your skull. So, I don't think that talking for an hour a day on your phone for years is even close to as harmful as sticking your head in a microwave oven for a couple of minutes. If anything, people should be worried about TV radiation....

print ("galexcd, I don't think that has so much to do with your dreams as it does with just being a programmer. It happens. Bits of code make it into your daily life, and then you start thinking more like a computer. It's only time to start worrying if you find yourself turning blue and spouting off hex numbers like a dreaded BSOD.")

Well, it screws up my table. It also leaves errors on the page. I've validated it with W3C and such, but it just doesn't like to work in IE. However, the whole point is rather moot now, as I have decided to go with MyBB rather than Wordpress. I got what I wanted in less time. Thanks anyway.

I've been experimenting in IE hacks (PHP, CSS, and HTML hacks), but I still haven't found anything that works. I wouldn't mind having some sort of hack that disables the search form in IE and instead leaves a link to the search page, or a link to download any browser other than IE. Does anybody have a good idea? Just say "screw IE" and make a valid page that works in everything else and forget about IE?

Truefusion, I'm not saying that God used "ultimate persuasion" on Pharoah. I believe that Pharoah just didn't want God ruining his way of life. Pharoah believed that he was a god himself. He may have been given proof of the existence of God, but he was stuck in his little power struggle, so he completely hated God, hardening his heart. Pharoah didn't like the new competition, so he made a firm stand against God. And ORene, there are some symbolic numbers in the Bible, but they're written a little differently. In Daniel, for instance, it doesn't refer to days, rather "times". If you do the math, you can see how the prophecies were fulfilled. Here are some links to some charts I found on that topic (the first is to a 5MB pdf, just a warning): http://sdapillars.org/media/download_gallery/1850chart.pdf http://www.bibleprophecytruth.com/Biblepro2300dayprophecy Also, think logically for a moment. On day 3 of creation, God created plants. Then on day 4, God created the Sun. If a day equals a year in Genesis, how did all of the vegetation survive for an entire year without photosynthesis? God had already created light, but the Sun is the main food for most plants nowadays. Plus, the Sun makes the right kind of light for plants. The only argument in favor of day-years is that maybe God put up a temporary fix--a light for the plants until he could get around to the Sun. I just don't see God doing something sloppy like that. I believe that people actually did live to be 100s of years old. I also believe that people were generally taller, in better health, and were in many other ways superior to humans today. It kinda makes sense that the human race would degrade like that over the course of a couple thousand years. Imagine if McDonald's was around back than! We'd have a 10-year lifespan or something horribly low like that.

Okay, "hardened his heart" doesn't necessarily mean that God took away Pharoah's/Saul's freedom of choice... it just means that God made them angry and more stubborn when he made it clear they were doing things wrongly. If you "know" you're right, and I try to convince you otherwise, you will just become more stubborn and "harden your heart".And goodness, "completely dry" can mean lots of things. It could mean that all the water had run off of the land that was going to. Say I have 20 acres (our family actually used to) with a creek. It rains 2 feet one day and floods the banks, covering several acres. Over the course of a week, all the water has gone back down to a normal level. I would say that our 20 acres have finally dried up, even though the creek is still flowing, just at a normal level. It's just the way people talk. People in the Bible didn't spell out everything in technical language, nor do we now. Genesis was not written as a science textbook, more as a history book. And for the entire earth to recover from such a flood, it would probably take a year for all the water to dump back into the oceans. I believe that the Grand Canyon is a great example of a "flood river". It's still flowing today, but I doubt that Noah heard from North America that there was still some runoff, seeing as how he landed on a mountain in present-day Turkey.

Why is it so far-fetched that an all-powerful God could tell each animal to start making their way to the ark with enough time for each to get there on the right day? Anyway, in Genesis 6:3 God gives mankind 120 years, much like in the story of Jonah, only much longer. I think that's plenty of ark-building, animal-gathering time. I mean, I can't think of a zoo today that's that old. Just a thought.

I also hate Walt Whitman!Much more than you could think.When you make me read his stuff,It really makes me..........(word please)Argh! I also hate writing poetry.

I'm reading the Qu'ran, and it is much like the Bible, in that it talks of fighting a spiritual war, but also of living a peaceful life with our neighbors. It basically means that we should fight evil (not flesh and bone, but of evil thoughts and impurity) and love peace. I think this is a calling of most religions. Islam calls it jihad, some Christians call it the Great Controversy, but it all has the same idea of loving peace and hating evil.

I do believe in a spiritual world. I am a Christian. Just for context, I'm letting you know this.I do not believe that the board itself has spiritual power. I do, however, believe, that it can be used as a spiritual tool, as anything can be. People that genuinely seek "demons" will find them, and the Ouija board is definitely a common avenue. I also believe that this is not a good idea. I'd rather seek the non-spooky spiritual beings, a.k.a. God & friends.

Okay, I really don't want to take the time and try to read everything in this thread, but I have read enough to get the gist.Firstly, evolution is not really science. Science is the body of all knowledge of our universe. Evolution is just one of many theories to try and explain why things happen. And there's this cool thing about theories: one cannot prove a theory true! One can only prove a theory false. Then people revise the theory to work better. This has happened countless times with evolution. Evolution has never been, nor will be proven true. It has been proven false, then revised several times. Today's theories still cannot explain the first existence of matter in the universe, so I choose to believe in creationism, which has a very clear and logical explanation for the existence of matter. It simply (some think too simply) states that God always was and is and will be. He created everything. Evolution says that "in the beginning was the matter... and it exploded." That makes no sense to me. I ask where the matter came from and all I receive is a blank stare or a shrug.People say that it is blind faith to believe in creation. I say it takes faith, but not blind. I can see the complexity of the universe and I see fingerprints of a Creator. I don't look around and think to myself, "wow, that is some probability!" I also say that it takes faith to believe in evolution. I'm taking a statistics class currently. When something has less than a 5% chance of occurring, it is considered unlikely to have happened. The chance of a universe just coming into being is rather small. Writing the 0.000000 ... 00001% chance with all the zeros replacing the ellipsis would likely make me a few myCENTS dollars. I'm not doubting the possibility of either theory being correct. There is certainly the possibility of many things happening. I just think creation is more probable and likely.As for evidences against evolution, take the Law of Thermodynamics (the one that talks about entropy, etc.). It states that in a closed system, things go from order to disorder. You may think that the universe is not a closed system, but it is, when the entire thing is encapsulated (closed does not mean small). Besides, in the theory of the Big Bang (one of the theories tied to evolution and the origin of the universe), the system was a few atoms, or as some believe, a single atom, thus very small. Another major evidence against evolution is that no scientist EVER has reproduced any part of evolution in a lab. In fact, the definition of the word "mutation" doesn't allow for adding pieces of DNA. Mutation is the loss or switching of DNA, never adding. Which completely contradicts the idea that over billions of years the impossible has happened billions of times.While I see that there are certain evidences that suggest evolution is more likely than creation, there are fatal flaws with evolution. Creationism is just as valid a theory (if not more, as in my mind) as evolution.And Boozker, I'd like to know where in the Bible it mentions that public nudity is okay. I know that nudity was a symbol of shame. There are several mentions of naked people in the Bible, but never in a positive light that I can remember. Also, the Bible isn't that big. I've read almost all of it (I think I'm about 4 books shy of completing it), and it isn't contradictory at all, when taken in the correct context (Biblical time/language, etc.).I like to be educated in all ideas before deciding to believe in any one of them. For instance, I am a Christian, but I am reading the Qu'ran so I know where Muslims are coming from. I have almost read the entire Bible, and it looks pretty solid to me. I read articles and books discussing evolution, so I can see where the majority of Westerners come from. If you could see all the sides, you would more clearly understand the creationists' viewpoints.

I believe in the story of Adam and Eve in a literal sense. I also believe there were dinosaurs. Why wouldn't there be? I've seen dinosaur skeletons. I also believe there were "cavemen", but not primitive humans, as some see cavemen. You see, I also believe in a literal worldwide flood (which completely fits with the way the world is shaped today, it explains Pangeae, the midoceanic ridges, volcanoes, mountains, tectonics, rock layers, fossils, coal, etc.). I believe that the world was rather barren after the water wiped out everything, and people had to rebuild civilization. If North America were to suddenly get washed over, then reinhabited, we wouldn't immediately have electricity and running water. We would have to start by seeking shelter--in a cave. We would have to forage and hunt. Then we would start building huts. Then we would set up civilization as we know it today....Dinosaurs definitely fit in my understanding. They may have been human-bred before the flood, or they may have just died off soon after, when there wasn't enough food to sustain the giants.Oh, and Adam was created on the sixth day, in case anyone is still wondering....

I've been to the same kind of private school myself. I didn't think that banning PDA was so horrible. Most relationships in high school are pretty pathetic, anyway. Now I'm in college, and I think it's a little different. I think the limits you and your girlfriend have made are quite acceptable. As I walk around campus, I really don't appreciate the couples making out while blocking staircases, etc., but there are also couples that are a little more discrete. I agree that responsibility IS the key.

http://www.our-picks.com/ I just found this great article. Also, https://www.google.com%2Fwebmasters%2Ftools%2Fsubmit-url&followup=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fwebmasters%2Ftools%2Fsubmit-url is a great place to start for those that haven't had a visit by Google yet. Depending on your site, you may want to look into DMOZ. If approved, they will submit your site to many search engines.

Doesn't every web designer hate IE?! It's the bane of every web coder's life. All I'm trying to do is make a theme for my Wordpress site, and when I try to add in a nice searchbar at the top, it works wonderfully in Chrome, Firefox, Opera, etc. and is even completely valid on W3C. However, it breaks my top links in Internet Explorer. My site is not finished, so don't expect any content on many pages. If you want to see how the text may fit, you can go to the "about" page of it and I put a few paragraphs in it. I'm not nearly done, so don't expect much. Oh, yeah, I suppose I should provide a link... archpenguin.com Here's the code that breaks IE (or rather, what IE breaks): <td rowspan="2" style="background-image: url('http://archpenguin.com/img/archpenguin2_r3_c8.gif'); background-repeat: no-repeat; width: 248px; margin: 0 0 0 0; padding: 0 0 0 0; vertical-align: top;" align="center" valign="top"> <form method="get" action="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/"> <div align="center" style="padding-top: 6px; margin-top: 0px;"><input type="text" style="padding: 0 0 0 0; margin: 0 0 0 0; width: 170px; height: 16px; display: block; text-align: center; font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial; font-size: 160%;" name="s" value="Search" onfocus="if(this.value==this.defaultValue)this.value='';" onblur="if(this.value=='')this.value=this.defaultValue;" /> </div></form> </td> I will clean up my code and make it more organized later (yes, I use separate stylesheets when I'm done), but you can get the gist of it. I've tried using different padding, margins, wrapping things in divs, wrapping things in spans, getting rid of any wrappings, and it all turns out the same--IE doesn't work. IE 6 and 7 look the same. They both suck!

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I know it sounds counterintuitive, but I'd say that by not continually trying to impress a girl impresses a girl. If you're trying too hard, it'll show. If you try to impress someone all the time, she'll figure it out. Even if she doesn't, you'll soon grow weary of your attempts and stop trying to be someone else. She may not like the different you. Just be yourself. If a girl likes you, don't try to become someone else.And "mayank", you're an idiot. Just read Ecclesiastes. Although, Solomon was a bit more of an idiot. You'll see.