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Bottom line is the teacher is teaching opinion science/politics outside of the approved curriculum of which they are not allowed. Teachers exist to support me in the education of my children and in this she is failing. I do not exist to support teachers. Just because most of the world holds a certain view doesn't not necessarily make it right. Truth is truth and stands on its own merit. It is only lies and ignorance that needs consensus and mass indoctrination to survive. That goes for erroneous science as well as erroneous religion. Just because there is ignorance in both does not negate their truth values and compatibility Thank God that Plato, Aristotle, Newton, Einstein, De Vinci, Edison, Tesla, NASA, SKUNK Works, and Christopher Columbus didn't bow to the whims of the accepted limitations of "modern science". We'd still be trying to figure out how to keep the sun from running into the side of the earth.

Haha, actually they do (fish to bird thing that is). As far as definitions, do your own work and quite trying to cheat off mine!

Also, just to get into another wonderful topic. MIke how are fossils formed? It takes a fairly sudden catastrophic event to bury, protect, and islolate and organism for us to find intact thousands of years later. I've yet to see a fossilized white tail deer.

They aren't unrecognizable. Never have been. Just good about lying about it.

Interbreeding, size, features, etc. are all part of micro-evolution. The fact that the elephant of today does not look like the Woolly mammoth of yesterday is not proof of macro evolution. In fact it is more likely proof against macro-evolution. The Woolly mammoth didn't become a fish. It adapted to changing environments (micro-evolution). Some species died off due to these changes some adapted, but not one of them has become something entirely different and unique from it's original design.

You also can't assume that a world created in a big bang or by God would be aged at year zero any more than it could be assumed aged 50 billion years. In other words how old was Adam when he was created? A full grown man that was 1 day old or was he 100 yrs old (biologically aged)? Maybe the earth at creation was aged 50 billion years. Maybe it was aged 1 day but that is a lot of assumption either way. It also assumes "time" based on an earth rotation around the sun. We do not know what aging properties takes place in the absence of a solar system on a planet like ours. Either way physical properties of aging (whether by creation or a bang) can not be accurately chronicled because we have no idea how the initial system started and to what maturity the solar system was developed . Secondly, the term "formless and void" (Biblically) is a poor English translation of the Hebrew context. It does not imply "not in existence" but rather that it was without structure or "form". Much like say Mars is presently. It has some building blocks of life, but they are not organized or structured in such a way as to allow life of even micro-evolution of life.

There are no link fossils. The only fossils we have are species that are individual and unique, but nothing that shows species development to an entirely different unique species. There are micro-evolved fossils but not one single macro-evolved fossil ... ever.

Not arguing. Clarifying. No one disputes micro-evolution. That we can/have observed and happens within cells, while not changing the cells original fundamental design or purpose. Macro-evolution is a theory that makes assumptions based on micro-evolution that says cell can change their fundamental design and purpose and essentially create something from nothing. I absolutely dispute macro-evolution based on scientific theory, biology, physics, philosophy, and what we know to be true and verified through the scientific model. The fact that it lines up with my religious beliefs confirms to me my philosophical world view. Not the other way around and some like to contend. It's kinda like when you want to know what the Democrats are up to, you simply listen to what they accuse the Republicans of doing.

Funny Daniel. So Nye's logic is that biblical creationism holds us back technologically and in building yet as non biblical ideology has taken dominance the US, who used to lead in technological and educationall advances under a strong Judeo-Christian perspective in education, is now continually falling behind in nearly every educational and technological advance. Interesting logical journey there Bill Nye. He sounds more like a religious fanatic than the so called scientist/engineer he claims.

Probably the same principle that makes everything "black" ... tactical. A way of making a normal product seem like it is far better than it really is.

This is an assumption, but I think this is why the bullet in soviet ammo is actually a tad undersized to mitigate the case thickness. The only problem with steel cased ammo is that steel isn't as soft as brass and sometimes if you chamber (mainly rifles) has any variances then the case doesn't always expand evenly and sealed the chamber from leakage. The leakage will eventually build up and "weld" the case to the chamber and that is why extractors can break trying to pull them out. That being said this is mainly in rifles where more powder and higher pressures are more likely and more rounds being fired. In a handgun that at the range it shouldn't be a problem. I wouldn't use steel cased stuff in a class or anything where lots of ammo and little cleaning is taking place, but for the casual range trip I've never had an issue and I've run it in numerous AR's pistols, and AK's and have never broken an extractor or had a case stick.

Long time internet rumor. I've yet to see any actual evidence outside of conjecture and speculation by the arf.com guys. The Russians have been running steel cased ammo through their pistols and rifles for as long as they have had them. Mosins are in abundance with good chambers and the AK47 builds have been around since 1947 with most of the current offerings being from the 70's. That being said I've never heard of AK's having wear issues in their chambers from steel cased ammo.

Absolutely love my Rossi (Puma) '92 in .357. Proud to say it's my 9yr old daughters favorite to shoot as well.

I have no issue with earth cycles. That is about the only know fact about global temperature changes. Since accurate data was not kept until the failry modern times there is a vast amount of reading between the lines and assumptions that are not scientific fact and many are proven errant nearly as soon as they are thrown out there as fact. that is not science. Also, little is said about the 70's when many of these same scientist wanted to put ash on the polar caps to melt them because we were cooling too much. Study the middle ages and one of the biggest factors that drove the rise of the Roman and European dominance was the fact that temperatures in Europe were considerably warmer than they are today. Agriculture and population movement was able to thrive and spread like never before. Towards the end of the Roman decline and the beginning of medieval Europe many people were driven into towns and the feudal system because temperatures had begun to drop to modern levels making it near impossible to provide crops to help them survive. Wheat and other temperate climate crops no longer grew in abundance and the people began to have to live off legumes and potatoes etc.Europe has not been able to overcome many of those obstacles to this day. Warming may not be a completely horrible cycle anyway.

Thanks guys. that's essentially what i told her. I told here what she needed to know. The fact that she told me she wanted to believe it was true because she liked her teacher, reinforced the idea in my mind that liberals like using group pressure and personality persuasion to validate their ideology. Truth stands on it's own solid foundation. Lies have to be constantly reinforced.

So, I get home tonight to my 4th grader who is excited to tell me about this new study they are about to start at school about Global Warming and how it is detrimentally affecting the world. It's one thing when I have to deal with it. I'm comfortable with that, but how do you explain to a 9 yr old that science isn't as absolute as she is told and that some people she trust aren't telling her the whole truth. I think her teacher means well and don't want my daughter to think poorly of her, but that's where it's at. This is rhetorical, as we've discussed about assumptions and looking at all the data before we make decisions. It was just a sad day for me to realize that the ugliness I feared when my wife and I talked about having kids is now beginning.

I'm not the tin-foil type, but I can seem to think of a real reason for those departments to be armed agencies.

I use "GunSafe" and have it updates to an offsite server. It keeps a really good record in an easy to use format. Also allows you to add pictures. I don't think you can get it anymore but I'm sure there are some others out there like it. here is where it used to be http://somanyroads.org/gunsafe/

Some will not do a private sale WITHOUT a BOS and some will not do a private sale WITH a BOS. I personally won't have my information recorded by anyone for the very reason you mentioned. One it's unnecessary, two it can only work as a negative in my favor down the road (IMO), and I don't trust people with my info. Now, I will gladly show my HCP and/or license if I don't know the person and will ask the same. It's always good to ask what the other person expects as it can get heated at times on this subject of a BOS. Just my thoughts.

Ace, Red Jacket, Carolina Shooters Supply, or Stormwerkz work well. They all require cutting the tang off the receiver and using the internal receiver adapter. You might also find one of the Beryl style Tantal stocks and you won't have to cut the tang or use an internal adapter. http://store.carolinashooterssupply.com/servlet/-strse-STOCKS-dsh-SAIGA-CONVERSIONS/Categories has just about everything you need. http://www.stormwerkz.com/StormWerkz_Stock_Adapters.html link for Stormwerkz. http://www.robertrtg.com/berylfolder.html only place I know of to get Beryl stocks when they are available.

Why not just do away with the rep points altogether? There is no possible way in a community this large it will end well. Kinda like the SME, it serves no real purpose. After all this is an internet forum. Not an expert answer question service that needs validity. Maybe we can have Letterman jackets so we can know who the cool kids are instead of rep points? I appreciate David's attempt to add new and cool features but it will/has just ended up with more work for him and more ignorant internet drama.

Start here http://www.kmaerospace.com/M17s.html

There is a reason it is called a "practice". It is not absolute and finite.

It very well could be that the gun was clean until after the auction. It it isn't reported by the owner then there is no "hit" then it would have come back clean through the ckecks.

Here's the Draco as she sits now. It's begging to be SBR'd and with the extra ACE stock and folding mech sitting in the closet ... it'll probably get there Here's a Saiga 12 I did for a guy. Pretty cool ... feel like I should have a game avatar holding that thing.