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Post date: Nov 17, 2010 5:14:42 PM
COMPUTER COMPARISON OF NFL TEAM RECORDS ranks teams by their results (games won and lost, points scored and yielded) and their opponents(ranked by their results and opponents). What makes these
rankings unique are the simple verification procedures shown in samples that follow the rankings. So retrieve your calculator and participate in an experience more descriptive than any narrative.
Computer comparison rankings are an alternate measure of season-long objective results, as defined in the first sentence, not a subjective commentary on how well the teams are playing now. Computer rankings are objective and more inflexible as games are added to the data base. Opinion rankings are subjective and
flexible. The methods are quite different but the results are often surprisingly similar. Because of the accrued inflexibility, computations end with the regular season. A few minutes calculating your own sample verifications will cause a realization, if not fascination, that the rankings, together with each of the data elements that drive them, visibly fit to each other like the pieces of a jig-saw puzzle.
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Science is God's friend, not atheism's lapdog
Personal comments, and quotes, are posted in response to the March 24, 2012, pep rally of atheists who enjoy thinking they follow science on a one-way street to godlessness.
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The Language of God by Francis S. Collins, Head of Human Genome Project, now Director, NIH. Excerpts, pp 66-67:
“The existence of the Big Bang begs the question of what came before that, and who or what was responsible. It certainly demonstrates the limits of science as no other phenomenon has done. The consequences of Big Bang theory for theology are profound. For faith traditions that describe the universe as having been created by God from nothingness (ex nihilo), this is an electrifying outcome. ….caused more than a few agnostic scientists to sound downright theological. ….Astrophysicist Robert Jastrow wrote….’Now we see how the astronomical evidence leads to a biblical view of the origin of the world. The details differ, but the essential elements and the astronomical and biblical accounts of Genesis are the same: the chain of events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy.’ ….The Big Bang cries out for a divine explanation. It forces the conclusion that nature had a defined beginning. I cannot see how nature created itself. Only a supernatural force that is outside of space and time could have done that.”