Computer generation of random numbers. Pursuing our random theme, numbers this time, here are UK Lottery numbers generated by a very simple script. Anything produced at random seems senseless, except when it is senselessness produced randonly for God, then, by a miracle, it makes sense to Christians. When a lottery selection matches those produced randomly by the lottery companies, then it makes sense to the winner, but not to a million or so losers. Of course, if you win the lottery at odds of a few million to one against, then it seems like a miracle! A computer can pick random numbers quite well. What it cannot purposely do is pick the same random numbers that the machine of the lottery company selects. At least by using fresh random numbers each time you enter, you do not feel trapped by a list of birthdays or lucky numbers. That is what you should never do, but what the owners of casinos and lotteries want you to do. 'Course, if you do win, you could send us your old notes!
Sunday, 01 April 2012 [ 05:45 PM] Festus(Believer) posted:
The question of Religion as a criteria for belief in Jesus Christ has contunued to generate unending debate accross the globe, and so far answers of varied intellects still flows. Our bias should be toward self and it\'s moribound assessment of beliefs.
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Father Jerome Murphy O’Connor denies the historicity of Luke’s birth of Jesus, as well as Matthew’s account concerning the visitations of angels and of wise men from the East. Murphy-OConnor also notes that Jesus was a disciple of John the Baptist, preaching as John’s assistant.
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Throughout the whole of the many centuries the Christian church ruled the world, our lives were no longer than they had been as savages.
In hunter gatherer, pre-agricultural times, the human life expectancy was about 20 to 30 years. That is also what it was in western Europe in late Roman and medieval times. It did not rise to 40 years until around the year 1870. It reached 50 in 1915, 60 in 1930, 70 in 1955, and is today approaching 80.
