MM I have a question for you. I was reading about the "Lost Tomb of Jesus" at Science Daily and it states that scholars of 1st century Judaism say that to preach in the synagogue a person had to be married. What do you know about preaching in the synagogues during Jesus's time period? What were the reqirements? What gave Jesus the right to preach in the synagogue? How were religious leaders identified?

Now, here is an hamburger!!!!!

According to this articule we should not be here, we should be dead. Global cooling. Man is not the cause of global warming, I am not going to pay any global carbon tax, and I am going to keep on driving my car. In case you are wondering "The Sun" is the cause of warming the earth.

We have CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and other new organizations. Public opinion is shaped somewhat by the news media: TV, print, and the internet news outlets. What would have happened in WWII if there would have been continious new coverage of D-Day, or the Battle of the Bulge. D-Day: 11,000 (approx) people died that day; how would that been reported? Would the news media declaired that the war was lost? That America has suffered a casualty rate that we could not recover from?

Then there was the "Battle of the Bulge." Would that have been reported as a turning point of the war? Outsmarted by the Germans? What would have been the headlines?

The news is produced, it has a producer. That means someone decides what is important, and what is not; as news. That is why when I watch the news and there is news about Brittney Spears, someone(smarter then me) decided that Brittney is important, and I need to know. I am glad as a nation we are in such good hands and so well informed.

The book that I am reading now is: "The Fourth Crusade -- and the Sack of Constantinople," by Jonathan Phillips.

The Physics of Stuff

When you start understanding what is happening with everyday stuff in a person life from a physics perspective I think it is amazing.

Cooking

When a person starts cooking food, then you smell it -- simple task that happens in everyday life-- physically what is happening is that the substance is absorbing heat( an endothermic reaction) at the molecular level the molecules are moving faster and faster until there is a phase change, and then molecules are liberated from whatever is being cooked. Then for a person to smell the food that means that the molecules are traveling through the air, bumping into the air molecules, but still making it into a person’s nose. The odyssey does not end there. The smell is ( I think) changed into electrical impulses that then must be interpreted by the brain as a smell, then classify what kind of smell. I think that is awesome.

A Whiteboard

A Whiteboard is a board you can write on with a marker, not a permanent marker. Anyways; the marker writes on the board, and then with brush( like a chalk brush) a person erases the whiteboard. What is happening though is the molecules from the marker are bonding to the whiteboard, but the bonds between the molecules on the whiteboard and the marker are not permanent. The molecules from the marker are forming bonds with the whiteboard, so what a person writes on the whiteboard stay there until the bonds are broken a person erases the whiteboard. There is a transference of energy( kinetic energy) supplied by the brush to the molecules of the marker(which is on the whiteboard), it is this energy that breaks the bonds between the marker and whiteboard, and then the marker that is on the whiteboard is absorbed by the dry eraser.

When I think of what happens at the molecular level (how energy is transfered to accomplish whatever task) for whatever process to happen in the world I think it is truely amazing.

You say that you were offended at my post what I commented on the DNA makeup of Jesus. Then you tell me what was the genetic make up of Jesus. It is said that Jesus was divine, but still human in His nature. From a DNA, genetic viewpoint I do not understand how that can be true. DNA (chromosomes) has to male and female parts to the DNA makeup of man. There two parts to male and female DNA:

1. female --mitochondrial DNA : the DNA sequence is so small that it has virually remain unchain and had not undergoing mutations

2. male -- the y-chromosome has gone through mutations because it is much larger then the mitochonrial dna that comes from a woman's dna. The mutations( or the changes that the chromosome undergoes by being copied) in the y-chomosome is called "polymorphisms."

My point is Jesus did not have a y-chromosome since it was an virgin birth. I have heard preached in the various churches that I have been that Jesus was conceived by the "Holy Spirit" and that Jesus was a purfect human being, but He was God. Since human male y-chromosomes which has undergoing polymorphism was not in His body(which is human); what does that mean?

I was watching a show on the History Channel today, and it was about how the Bible was written. They were interviewing a number of Rabbis from different universities and one Rabbis made an inertesting statement. He said that about 25 percent of words in the Old Testement, the orginal meaning of the word is lost. So that means that the scholars who translated the Bible were making their best guess at what the word meant.

Here is the notebook computer that I bought at Circuit City.

This is where I am taking Lily for Valentine's Day, well I guess you could say a Valentine weekend. Getway from the little birdies -- "get your own worms." Anyways, we will have a fun time.

We are in the process of remodeling our love nest. We decided that we wanted colorfull dishes, this is what we bought.

I rebuilt J computer this week. I gave him a new motherboard, with a screaming AGP graphics card( 8X, it had 512 megs of onboard ram) , 2 gigs of ram, 400 watt power supply, and a 20 inch monitor. I thought that Win XP ran fast with 1 gig of ram, and that there would be no difference, but I was wrong. There is a noticable difference, windows reponds faster, so I am thinking about adding another gig to my laptop, which means if I add, I have to add to Lily's laptop too.

I remember when I bought my Vic 20 a number if years ago. I remember the salesman telling me that 8k of memory was all I was every going to need. He was wrong. I then bought a Tandy TL/2 that had 640k, and then I bought a 40 meg hard drive to go with it. I was then told, no matter what that was all I was every going to need. He was wrong too.

The first thing I did when I brought my Tandy home was take it apart( now when I look back, that was really stupid because I could have killed my computer) and examine everything inside the CPU. And my Tandy had an 8086 processor,"OOOOOOOOOOOO" I was smoking. I guess I am going from 8k of ram to 2 gigs of ram, that is all I will ever need!!!????

I was reading a few weeks ago at Space.com that they have determined the rotation of two Black Holes. One was spinning at a rate of 960 revolutions per second, and the other was revolving at a rate of 1,110 rps. That is fast. I then wondered what the rotation of the Sun was in relation to the Black Holes. Well, the rotation of the sun is 26 to 28 days, the rotation period depends on which part of the Sun you are analysing.

This brings me to another thought. When you look at the sun( never look at the sun directly) you are seeing the sun as it was 8 & 1/2 min ago. That always amazes me. When you look up at the night sky, you are seeing photons(light) that have traveled millions of light years, and the photons could be 13 billion years old that are colliding with your cornea as you look up.

If God, Mohammed, or Allah is offended, why do they need lawyers, or people to defend their honor? They can just send down lighting bolts (since they are all powerfull)and destroy the infidel's. Simple and to the point.

Dad would be happy, the Indianapolis Colts won the Superbowl.