Arts & Humanities - 1 December 2007

2007-12-01 09:26:54 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy

"It's not what you know, it's who you know!"

2007-12-01 09:24:27 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy

2007-12-01 09:23:35 · 21 answers · asked by Douglas J 1 in Philosophy

does juliet act like a mature young adult with a mind of her own, or does she act like a 13 year old who acts impulsively at her first love?

2007-12-01 09:23:23 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Theater & Acting

I'm looking for a good idea to use for a Christmas background for a family photo of my girlfriend and I that we could include our cat in. I would like something other than the traditional Christmas tree or fire place. Also I would like to do it with out using editing software like Photoshop.

2007-12-01 09:17:42 · 4 answers · asked by J. G. 1 in Photography

2007-12-01 09:11:20 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy

*pssssst...it's my daughter*

http://phantomwrays.deviantart.com/gallery/

2007-12-01 09:07:27 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Photography

when writing to a acting agent what should i write?

2007-12-01 09:04:27 · 7 answers · asked by ... 2 in Theater & Acting

for foundational principles, etcetera. just a question, not a judgement

2007-12-01 09:03:34 · 3 answers · asked by Book of Changes 3 in Philosophy

Hi all

can you define what the intuition is generally?

thank you

2007-12-01 09:02:50 · 7 answers · asked by YOON JIn 1 in Philosophy

So they are filming saddle club season three soon and will be doing casting calls in toronto. Where would I contact someone about this? What do you do in a casting call?
Do I need an agent,union or lots of fancy connections and cash?
I was just thing it might be fun to try for a little sideline role on one of my favorite tv shows
any information would be great
thanks!

2007-12-01 09:01:56 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Theater & Acting

not new france
but just frace, does anyone know the year it was discovered?

2007-12-01 09:01:26 · 7 answers · asked by ahhitsjenny 2 in History

2007-12-01 08:58:34 · 5 answers · asked by michinoku2001 7 in History

I just need some infomation or a website or something.

2007-12-01 08:50:04 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Theater & Acting

And what should i be on the lookout for as far as scams and stuff like that?

2007-12-01 08:49:14 · 3 answers · asked by True Blue 1 in Theater & Acting

Am amazing guitarist and producer...back in the 50s and 60s...wouldn't you say?
Had that clean sound...

2007-12-01 08:47:20 · 5 answers · asked by Digital Age 6 in Performing Arts

Hey guys and girls whats up? I'm a newbie on the guitar and Im loving it, I picked it up and just been teaching myself so I have a quick question about picks. Is it just a preference of what pick you use or do some picks go with different types of songs? Like Heavy, Light, Medium, thumb pick? Thanks

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2007-12-01 08:38:13 · 5 answers · asked by Dan 1 in Performing Arts

I write a lot, and I have this wonderful idea for a novel based on my own personal experiances. I've been writing down bits and pieces, but I've been neglecting to write the beginning. I have NO clue how to start it! How do you authors do it?

2007-12-01 08:23:27 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Books & Authors

this is for a school theater project.

2007-12-01 08:23:11 · 8 answers · asked by mgcmnky3 2 in Theater & Acting

Ahoy answerers,

I'm looking to buy a clarinet. I'm not sure I would consider myself a beginner (I played trombone for four years before switching to alto saxophone for another three), so I'm not looking for the cheapest clarinet of the spectrum. However, I'm not planning on performing in any symphonies with it. Tone is probably my greatest concern. I'd prefer wood. Any suggestions?

2007-12-01 08:20:50 · 8 answers · asked by Mailleman 2 in Performing Arts

Most leaders of political or religious causes leave an image of themselves for people to remember them. Did Jesus leave an image of himself and why did he or did he not?

2007-12-01 08:18:03 · 7 answers · asked by uglyjesus57 1 in Philosophy

The Scientific World is turning to God.
“As people have certainly been influenced by me, I want to try and correct the enormous damage I may have done.” (Anthony Flew)
The newspapers these days are echoing with these regret-filled words by Antony Flew, in his time a well-known atheist philosopher. The 81-year-old British professor of philosophy Flew chose to become an atheist at the age of 15, and first made a name for himself in the academic field with a paper published in 1950. In the 54 years that followed, he defended atheism as a teacher at the universities of Oxford, Aberdeen, Keele and Reading, at many American and Canadian universities he visited, in debates, books, lecture halls and articles. In recent days, however, Flew has announced that he has abandoned this error and accepts that the universe was created.
The decisive factor in this radical change of view is the clear and definitive evidence revealed by science on the subject of creation. Flew realized, in the face of the information-based complexity of life, that the true origin of life is intelligent design and that the atheism he had espoused for 66 years was a discredited philosophy.
Flew announced the scientific reasons underlying this change in belief in these terms:
“Biologists’ investigation of DNA has shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce [life], that intelligence must have been involved.”[1]
“It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing organism.”[2]
“I have been persuaded that it is simply out of the question that the first living matter evolved out of dead matter and then developed into an extraordinarily complicated creature.”[3]
The DNA research which Flew cites as a fundamental reason for his change of opinion has indeed revealed striking facts about creation. The helix shape of the DNA molecule, its possession of the genetic code, the nucleotide strings that refute blind chance, the storage of encyclopedic quantities of information and many other striking findings have revealed that the structure and functions of this molecule were arranged for life with a special design. Comments by scientists concerned with DNA research bear witness to this fact.
Francis Crick, for instance, one of the scientists who revealed the helix shape of DNA admitted in the face of the findings regarding DNA that the origin of life indicated a miracle:
An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.[4]
Based on his calculations, Led Adleman of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles has stated that one gram of DNA can store as much information as a trillion compact discs.[5] Gene Myers, a scientist employed on the Human Genome Project, has said the following in the face of the miraculous arrangements he witnessed:
“What really astounds me is the architecture of life… The system is extremely complex. It’s like it was designed… There’s a huge intelligence there.”[6]
The most striking fact about DNA is that the existence of the coded genetic information can definitely not be explained in terms of matter and energy or natural laws. Dr. Werner Gitt, a professor at the German Federal Institute of Physics and Technology, has said this on the subject:
A code system is always the result of a mental process… It should be emphasized that matter as such is unable to generate any code. All experiences indicate that a thinking being voluntarily exercising his own free will, cognition, and creativity, is required… There is no known natural law through which matter can give rise to information, neither is any physical process or material phenomenon known that can do this.[7]
Creationist scientists and philosophers played a major role in Flew’s acceptance of intelligent design, backed up by all these findings. In recent times Flew participated in debates with scientists and philosophers who were proponents of creation, and exchanged ideas with them. The final turning point in that process was a discussion organized by the Institute for Metascientific Research in Texas in May, 2003. Professor Flew participated in the discussion together with the author, Roy Abraham Varghese, a physicist, and the molecular biologist, Gerald Schroeder. Flew was impressed by the weight of the scientific evidence in favor of creation and by the convincing nature of his opponents’ arguments and abandoned atheism as an idea in the period following that discussion. In a letter he wrote for the August-September, 2003, edition of the British magazine Philosophy Now, he recommended Schroeder’s book “The Hidden Face of God: Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth” and Varghese’s book “The Wonderful World.”[8] During an interview with the professor of philosophy and theology Gary R. Habermas, who also played a major role in his change of mind,[9] and also on the video “Has Science Discovered God?” he openly stated that he believed in intelligent design.
The “Intelligence Pervading the Universe” and the Collapse of Atheism
In the face of all the scientific developments outlined above, the acceptance of intelligent design by Anthony Flew, famous for defending atheism for many years, reflects a final scene in the process of collapse which atheism is being subjected to Modern science has revealed the existence of an “intelligence pervading the universe,” thus leaving atheism out of the equation.
In his book “The Hidden Face of God,” Gerald Schroeder, one of the creationist scientists who influenced Flew, writes:
A single consciousness, a universal wisdom, pervades the universe. The discoveries of science, those that search the quantum nature of subatomic matter, have moved us to the brink of a startling realization: all existence is the expression of this wisdom. In the laboratories we experience it as information that first physically articulated as energy and then condensed into the form of matter. Every particle, every being, from atom to human, appears to represent a level of information, of wisdom.[10]
Scientific research into both the functioning of the cell and the subatomic particles of matter has revealed this fact in an indisputable manner: Life and the universe were brought into being from nothing by the will of an entity possessed of a superior mind and wisdom. There is no doubt that the possessor of that knowledge and mind that designed the universe at all levels is Almighty God. God reveals these truths in many verses of the Quran.



Footnotes:
[1] Richard N. Ostling, “Lifelong atheist changes mind about divine creator,” The Washington Times 10 December 2004; (http://washingtontimes.com/national/20041209-113212-2782r.htm.)
[2] Antony Flew, “Letter from Antony Flew on Darwinism and Theology,” Philosophy Now; (http://www.philosophynow.org/issue47/47flew.htm.)
[3] Stuart Wavell and Will Iredale, “Sorry, says atheist-in-chief, I do believe in God after all,” The Sunday Times, 12 December 2004; (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1400368,00.html)
[4] Francis Crick, Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981, p. 88
[5] John Whitfield, “Physicists plunder life’s tool chest”, 24 April 2003; (http://www.nature.com/nsu/030421/030421-6.html)
[6] San Francisco Chronicle, 19 February, 2001
[7] Werner Gitt, In the Beginning Was Information, CLV, Bielenfeld, Germany, pp. 64-7, 79
[8] Antony Flew, “Letter from Antony Flew on Darwinism and Theology,” Philosophy Now; (http://www.philosophynow.org/issue47/47flew.htm.)
[9] “Atheist Becomes Theist: Exclusive Interview with Former Atheist Antony Flew;” (http://www.biola.edu/antonyflew/index.cfm.)
[10] Gerald Schroeder, The Hidden Face of God, Touchston

2007-12-01 08:11:43 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy

I'm trying to get my book published but for now I am posting it at ddwp.blogspot.com .

2007-12-01 08:02:10 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Books & Authors

Examples would be welcomed, for example, it may be difficult to prove God exists beyond a shadow of a doubt, but impossible to prove He does not exist.

2007-12-01 07:58:39 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy

My husband and I are having are pictures take tomorrow. I'm 6months pregnant. The manager at the studio where we will be having our pictures taken said that if I wore a black shirt, with a black background it would make my stomach appear smaller. Does anyone know if this is true or what colors really stand out with a black background? Thanks!:)

2007-12-01 07:58:11 · 2 answers · asked by mhk2358 2 in Photography

I'm doing this exercise where I record a note and then I try to sing the major 3rd. I record a bunch of random notes then try to sing the maj 3rd. My question is: What interval should I work on next? Should I work on the minor third? I know the maj 3rd is important in harmony, but I am still new to that kind of stuff.
Thanks.

2007-12-01 07:58:02 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Performing Arts

The Terza Rima

*****
Go! Go! Go!

Wheels on the ground turning round and around,
On boards, on trikes and on red motor bikes,
Take us to places we’d never have found,

Better than sitting or taking a hike,
The sun, the rain and the wind tantalize,
Walking and riding are quite unalike,

Streets sign and curves wind, they do hypnotize,
A map can not show where a road does not go,
The trip is unplanned, to a stop realized.

*****

2007-12-01 07:57:59 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Poetry

Ok, a few years back in forensics a girl did a piece in Dramatic Interp about this girl who died from hitch hiking. The piece is her friends and her family talking about her and how there is a rumor about her being a hooker. Has anyone heard about this piece or know the title?

2007-12-01 07:55:14 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Theater & Acting

*****
Trapping Spree

Escalator ups and downs,
Each platform leads to another,
No sales floor, no exit door,
Just landing after landing after landing,

Elevator door ajar,
Stuck between two floors,
Stairwell locked, barred and blocked
Crimson rope line circles and circles,

Run against cascading steps,
Folding one into the other,
Out at the top, in at the bottom,
Leap entire flights, in flight, alight

Exhausted heap upon the floor,
I cannot climb up or down anymore,
I’ll wither and die, right here in isle five,
Fifth store, fifth floor, fifth door,

*****

2007-12-01 07:53:43 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Poetry

2007-12-01 07:51:43 · 3 answers · asked by J 1 in History