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Science versus Religion

Science and Religion have come a long way since the dark ages and Alchemy. But to both I present some challenges in order to get it straight: To Religion: - Without invoking faith or belief, try to come up with a proof of God. To Science: - What causes gravity; What causes magnetism; What causes energy transfer. While both of these very important fields of knowledge get those challenges right, we all ask of you to do it in a humble way, just like we all live all lives and don't pester one another with provocative attitudes. I, myself, am in favor of science. But the amassed knowledge of science is still in its early infancy, so a humbling call is really needed for the science persons who think otherwise. I was brought up in a religious manner but then got through all the dogmatic smoke screen and saw nothing in terms of content. I still think that religion has a place in the world, but in terms of teaching the common ways of being a good person, not the all encompassi

Moving repos and a new project

As anyone that knows me will tell you, I don't quite finish my projects. Binky Boink Never the less, I've started a new one: Binky Boink . It's, yet another BOINC visualizer, the difference being that this one is open-source and comes with a nice ObjectPascal lib you can use on other projects. As usual any help is really welcome to get this project to fruition. New repositories for old projects The other piece of information I wish to convey is that I've decided to re-host the following projects under the Google Code umbrella: StackOverflow Bar: new code hosting . Dweetta: new code hosting . GoRAD: new code hosting . Devony: new code hosting . Thanks.

I, for one, really welcome our alien overlords

The human being has this annoying thing about trying to humanify everything. I have to admit that it makes it pretty easy to understand if it looks human. Or has human like characteristics. It, bloody hell, does not justify the abuse of the practice! For, whatever deity's sake, aren't we Humans!? Aren't we the dominant specie on this Earth!? Aren't we intelligent!? Well, for the most of us, it looks quite the opposite. We still are very, very afraid of the unknown. If we relate that with the common known fact that some adults are still afraid of the dark, we're back into the animal kingdom accepted phobias, all over again. This has been good when we had flesh eating enemies. That is, however, not the case any more. Us Humans have to realize that we have to perceive our animal behaviours, keep them on board, but rationalize them into a place it doesn't make us such a bunch of hypocrites. I have to admit that feelings and art are quite good for the soul,

The louder you lie, the more truthful it becomes...

In my native country, Portugal we have a saying: In a blind's nation, the one eyed man is King. Now, that, is the more accepted version of such an ideal. The one that can see is made the most important in a nation of sight impaired. None the less there is another, twisted, version of this saying that goes: In a blind's nation, the one eyed man is incarcerated... he's just too different. This last interpretation is more likely to be true in terms of the way, us humans, think. When ever someone is different, that person is most of the times shun away from the other more "normal". Well, whatever is "normal" in that group anyway. You can argue that all, if not most, of our heroes were different. Yeap, that has loads of truth to it, but I'll bet a limb that just before they were considered heroes, someone would've called that hero a fool, or something even worse. So it's the outcome of some foolish, or less "normal", way of acting,