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Point taken. Even so, a prominent theories like Newton’s laws of motion, those relating to electricity, fluid motions, thermodynamics and even more speculative physics theories like relativity, gravity, and so on on can be objectively put to test through experimentation using measurement devices and reproducible results can be achieved that validate the accuracy of these theories. And we can utilize these types of theories to achieve things in our everyday life. I don’t see the same level of objectivity or even the possibility of measuring to the same level of objectivity in all sciences though. I am just wanting to point out that not all sciences are equal, some do require a leap of faith. With that being the case, why do they not extend the same level of “easy treatment” to religious explanations? You can have two parallel explanations for the same phenomena in physics and as the theories become further developed they begin to understand how they are actually in agreement and can find some reconciliation between the two competing theories. But when religious claims are made, they are not always given the same fair treatment, the default position tends to be to discard anything that has any tint of religion in it without much consideration.

As I remember from my studies, the scientific method involves, more or less, the following steps: 1. A Question 2. Hypothesis (an educated guess or a theory) 3. An experimental procedure 4. Analysis of the results (did the experiments affirm your guess or disprove it?) Truths discovered through the Scientific method should produce reproducible results that constantly re-affirm the truth proposed by the theory, proving it to be true. Just out of curiosity, what kind of experiments can an evolutionary biologist perform to prove evolution? It would seem to me that any experiments would have to be ongoing for many generations (longer than a single human lifetime) in order to produce any convincing evidence. Maybe in a controlled environment with many iterations of the lifecycle of a particular species we can witness minor adaptations, but would those adaptations really add up to something as significant as an arm transforming into a wing or two legs joining to become a fin.. It’s impossible to say, because the number of iterations required to make significant evolutionary change would make the experiments prohibitively long. So (correct me if I’m wrong) as far as I’m aware, there are no reproducible experiments to affirm the truth in evolutionary theory, that is why evolutionary theory will remain as a theory. Evolutionary theory makes observations about biology in nature and attempts to explain these observations using analogical evidence (we can observe minor adaptations, we can presume they will eventually add up to major adaptations). But that’s not definitive evidence. To play devils advocate here (or maybe Gods advocate in this case) is this not just the same as trying to affirm the ideas purported by religions. Religion is also using many different forms of indirect evidence to attempt to validate ideas in the religion. The only difference is that evolutionary theory has earned more credibility due to consensus of the scientific community that thinks it sounds like a good explanation.. but substance-wise I don’t see much difference between the approach evolution theory takes from the religious approach. One just happens to be more popular with one group, the other happens to be more popular with another group.

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It depends on the type of science. Science just means “the study of” There are sciences of objective measurements and reproducible experiments. There are sciences lacking experimentation and are purely of observation and speculative theories to explain the observations such as evolution. Religious studies can even be classified as “sciences” when you take into account the formalized methodologies used for contributing to the subject. One thing I take issue with is the sciences of observation being given the same level of credibility as reproducible experiments. Maybe I am biased as I am an engineer but I feel that I can objectively believe in physical sciences with objective measurements that can be reproduced by experiments. Other things like people taking guesses to explain things like how the universe was created billions of years ago or by guessing how the continents drifted from Pangea to their current arrangement, or by looking at fossils and guessing how life evolved from single cells into progressively more complicated life forms... ok I am not against it if that’s what really happened, but can someone actually “prove it” to me. At best some sciences can only give us some circumstantial or analogical evidence, but it still requires that leap of faith if you want to believe in it. In that way, some sciences are kind of similar to religion.

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You can control the dog as player 1, so maybe you remembered doing that. If you were playing Secret of Mana around the same time you may have gotten things mixed up. Both very similar types of games

When you say first two do you mean first two Godzilla’s or first two Kongs?

Anyone watched it or planning to watch it?

You’re right, it doesn’t feel the same. But if you’ve already accepted that your not gonna dish out more than $200 for a heavy hitter, then that’s as close of a feeling to the same as you’ll ever experience. I can respect original licensed only collecting. If I had the money, that’s the way I’d do it. But I’m weak

It works for some but not for all

The list of games I’ll never own keeps growing larger

Someone should set up an unofficial server

It has pluses and minuses. Pluses are that you can travel to both countries of citizenship and avoid the entry visa process. There’s no limitations on how long you can stay. You can buy property (some countries only sell real estate to citizens). You have another place you can go in case social/economic/ political condition start to become unbearable in your country of residence. Minuses - some countries make their own citizens pay an exit tax when they leave the country. Some countries (US) tax their citizens on all income regardless of where it was earned. Being an alien traveler in a country, if you are charged with a crime, you can contact your countries state department or consulate office and have your country appeal to the foreign government on your behalf (this could also work against you if there is political tension between your country and the one you are visiting). However if you are a dual citizen, then the country you are charged with a crime in will treat you as one of their own, no help from your country of second citizenship. All of this stuff will rarely matter. Mostly what matters is freedom of travel without visa restrictions (for example right now with covid many countries are only receiving arrivals of their own citizens) and the ability to own property.

Isn’t it that way in Hong Kong (former UK colony). Not for visiting, but for residency

Hi all, My company will buy me a Bluetooth headset for calls. We do a lot of Microsoft teams meetings on pc. The headset should be less than $100. I prefer over the ear rather than the things that go inside the ear. Although I don’t like the giant pads that wrap all the way around you ear. The medium size pads that rest over the ear are nice. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Any chance that could be a poorly placed April Fools?

Just to clarify, that’s not gonna format my whole pc is, right?

Yea I was thinking with less accessibility to vita downloads, it will just increase demand for physical vita that much more

Physical vita games

It’s one of the finest in my opinion

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8. Some parts of the game are epic, like the Technodrome battle, the giant Mouser, the rooftop section

One time I was trying to play my physical version of Zelda: BOTW on Switch while I was away from home. On the particular firmware revision I had at that time, it would not allow me to play without downloading an update. There was no option to continue playing without installing updates. Since I had no internet connection, I could not play. Nintendo Switch is not immune. I hope they never release another firmware revision that prevents you from playing

I agree multi factor is great. Except when my phone battery dies and I can’t find where my wife put the charger