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    Heels more stable with metal tips?

    in For Everybody

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    Noticed a strange thing when I replaced the rubber heel tips of my ankle boots with metal tips. While walking with the rubber tips on, the heel seemed to be a bit loose, flexing when walking down stairs and such, but now when they are replaced with metal tips, they don't seem to flex as much? Anyone know how to explain this?

    Super arch?

    in Your Favourite High Heel Pictures

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    I can't believe how high those are! Amazing. I really want to see anyone try walking in those. Don't think that I would get very far.

    I'd love to give it a shot, but I don't trust Arch Enemy with my money. I'm hoping to find another retailer that sells them...

    Creationism vs Evolution

    in HHPlace Cafe! - General chit chat

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    So, creationists are arguing that evolutionists can't explain where all the matter of the universe were at before the Big Bang, and at the same time agrue that god is beyond time and space and we can't understand her. If god works on a bigger scale than we humans can't grasp, what says the big bang came into being in some way we humans can't fathom? Maybe there was no before, maybe it's been expanding and contracting through eternety. Maybe the universe, at a big enough scale, works in a way we humans can't understand. Personally I "belive" that time and space is curved, that if you travel far enuogh you'll end up were you started.

    Creationism vs Evolution

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    from http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/essays/courtenay1.htm

    The first step in demonstrating the truth of evolution is to make the claim that all living creatures must have a living parent. This point has been overwhelmingly established in the past century and a half, ever since the French scientist Louis Pasteur demonstrated how fermentation took place and thus laid to rest centuries of stories about beetles arising spontaneously out of dung or gut worms being miraculously produced from non-living material. There is absolutely no evidence for this ancient belief. Living creatures must come from other living creatures. It does no damage to this point to claim that life must have had some origin way back in time, perhaps in a chemical reaction of inorganic materials (in some primordial soup) or in some invasion from outer space. That may well be true. But what is clear is that any such origin for living things or living material must result in a very simple organism. There is no evidence whatsoever (except in science fiction like Frankenstein) that inorganic chemical processes can produce complex, multi-cellular living creatures (the recent experiments cloning sheep, of course, are based on living tissue from other sheep).

    The second important point in the case for evolution is that some living creatures are very different from some others. This, I take it, is self-evident. Let me cite a common example: many animals have what we call an internal skeletal structure featuring a backbone and skull. We call these animals vertebrates. Most animals do not have these features (we call them invertebrates). The distinction between vertebrates and invertebrates is something no one who cares to look at samples of both can reasonably deny, and, so far as I am aware, no one hostile to evolution has ever denied a fact so apparent to anyone who observes the world for a few moments.

    The final point in the case for evolution is this: simple animals and plants existed on earth long before more complex ones (invertebrate animals, for example, were around for a very long time before there were any vertebrates). Here again, the evidence from fossils is overwhelming. In the deepest rock layers, there are no signs of life. The first fossil remains are of very simple living things. As the strata get more recent, the variety and complexity of life increase (although not at a uniform rate). In all the countless geological excavations and inspections (for example, of the Grand Canyon), no one has ever come up with a genuine fossil remnant which goes against this general principle (and it would only take one genuine find to overturn this principle).

    Well, if we put these three points together, the case for evolution is air tight. If all living creatures must have a living parent, if living creatures are different, and if simpler forms were around before the more complex forms, then the more complex forms must have come from the simpler forms (e.g., vertebrates from invertebrates). There is simply no other way of dealing reasonably with the evidence we have. Of course, one might deny (as some do) that the layers of the earth represent a succession of very lengthy epochs and claim, for example, that the Grand Canyon was created in a matter of days, but this surely violates scientific observation as much as does the claim that, say, vertebrates just, well, appeared one day out of a spontaneous combination of chemicals.

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