At the risk of this becoming a regluar serious day I've been reading some stuff by creationist and computer scientist Werner Gitt recently and found this interesting (I'm not sure what I think of his theories as a whole yet):
"Whilts information may be stored on matter and transferred by means of physical systems, it in no way originates in purely material processes, but always through an ideas-giver, that is, through employment of intelligence and will. In the materialistic theories this fact is ignored, because information is assumed to be a purely physical phenonmenon."
Hmmm....
Anyhoo... tomorrow we'll definitely be back to our regularly scheduled stupidity.
Update: Looks like some "experts and athourities" are backing off some claims. How long are we going to keep listening to the "experts"?
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So it was close to Easter, and some big discovery was made that was supposed to disprove Jesus, but was later debunked? Odd, that seems to happen every Easter. Remember the Gospel of Judas last year? Newsweek sells a ton of copies though. Someone ought to document these annual Easter discoveries.
Maybe I'll have a comment on Computer Scientist Gitt and his information theory. I am, after all, a computer engineer and an "Information Technologist."
In the meantime, regarding listening to "experts", here is some non-denominational, non-partisan advice. My credentials stem from my occupation: I spend a LOT of time dealing with SPAM.
All of these "news" stories like Jesus' Tomb, etc. THEY ARE SPAM. You can pretty much spot SPAM just looking at it, but there is so much of it, it's hard to filter out.
I recommend the following "real-life SPAM filter" for "news":
Ignore all "self-proclaimed" experts.
If this person has discovered a "new field of research" or has a "new unverified discovery" or are making comments in a field that they have not researched for years or is otherwise tooting their own horn TRASH THE MESSAGE. If it's important, it will catch on and it will gain a reputation and credentials.
My second real-life SPAM filter is "follow the money" whenever a news story comes out (i.e. who pays the speaker). But that's a secondary rule.
Peace out,
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