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Report designer
Following images shows the TprReport designer:
Following images shows the TprTxReport designer:
As you see designers of the TprReport and TprTxReport are very similar. The
following table contains description of the toolbar buttons and main menu.
| Standard toolbar |
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Creates new report template. |
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Load existing report template into designer. |
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Saves edited report template. |
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Generates and preview the report. At design time you can receive
exception, Because in many cases not all datasets can be opened at
design time. |
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Generates and print the report. At design time you can receive exception,
Because in many cases not all datasets can be opened at design time. |
| Object toolbar |
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Cut selected objects to clipboard (bands and pages can
not be copied, only objects within bands). |
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Copy selected objects to clipboard (bands and pages can not be copied,
only objects within bands). |
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Paste object from clipboard into the currently selected band. |
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Shows a popup window that allows editing links from the currently
selected object.
Object can has links of the four types:
- From left side, these links change X coordinate of object.
- From top side, these links change Y coordinate of object.
- From right side, these links change width of object.
- From bottom side, these links change height of object.
To define link from object do the following:
- Move mouse to the needed side of the object.
- Press left mouse button and move mouse to the other object (to
which link must be defined)
- Leave mouse button.
- Link must be created and shows as black line from one object
to other.
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Shows a popup window that allows editing sizes of the currently
selected objects. |
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Shows a popup window that allows editing properties of the currently
selected objects. |
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Starts the inplace editing of the selected object. |
| Text toolbar |
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Select background color of the object. |
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Select font color of the object. |
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Center text horizontally. |
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Align text left. |
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Align text right. |
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Align text center. |
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Align text top. |
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Align text bottom. |
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This button shows a popup menu that allows selecting font options
for TprTxMemoObj. |
| Borders toolbar |
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Show / hide top border. |
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Hide all borders. |
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Show all borders. |
| Align toolbar |
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Align left edges. |
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Center horizontally in band. |
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Align horizontal centers. |
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Space equally. |
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Align right edges. |
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Align top edges. |
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Center vertically in band. |
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Align vertical centers. |
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Space equally. |
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Align bottom edges. |
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Set width as width of smallest object. |
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Set width as width of largest object. |
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Set height as height of smallest object. |
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Set height as height of largest object. |
| Nudge toolbar |
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Methods for analysis of compositional data including robust methods, imputation, methods to replace rounded zeros, (robust) outlier detection for compositional data, (robust) principal component analysis for compositional data, (robust) factor analysis for compositional data, (robust) discriminant analysis for compositional data (Fisher rule), robust regression with compositional predictors and (robust) Anderson-Darling normality tests for compositional data as well as popular log-ratio transformations (addLR, cenLR, isomLR, and their inverse transformations). In addition, visualisation and diagnostic tools are implemented as well as high and low-level plot functions for the ternary diagram.
| Version: | 2.0.9 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.0.0), robustbase, ggplot2, data.table, e1071, pls |
| Imports: | car, cvTools, rrcov, cluster, fpc, GGally, kernlab, MASS, mclust, Rcpp, sROC, VIM, zCompositions |
| LinkingTo: | Rcpp |
| Suggests: | knitr |
| Published: | 2018-11-08 |
| Author: | Matthias Templ [aut, cre], Karel Hron [aut], Peter Filzmoser [aut], Petra Kynclova [ctb], Jan Walach [ctb], Veronika Pintar [ctb], Jiajia Chen [ctb], Dominika Miksova [ctb] |
| Maintainer: | Matthias Templ <matthias.templ at gmail.com> |
| License: | GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)] |
| NeedsCompilation: | yes |
| Citation: | robCompositions citation info |
| Materials: | README NEWS |
| In views: | MissingData, OfficialStatistics |
| CRAN checks: | robCompositions results |
| Reference manual: | robCompositions.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
Imputation Methods in robCompositions Overview of the robCompostions package |
| Package source: | robCompositions_2.0.9.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: robCompositions_2.0.9.zip, r-release: robCompositions_2.0.9.zip, r-oldrel: robCompositions_2.0.9.zip |
| OS X binaries: | r-release: robCompositions_2.0.9.tgz, r-oldrel: robCompositions_2.0.9.tgz |
| Old sources: | robCompositions archive |
| Reverse imports: | mvoutlier |
| Reverse suggests: | balance, simFrame |
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Minimal, light-weight jQuery ratings.
jQuery Bar Rating Plugin works by transforming a standard select field into a rating widget. The rating widget can be flexibly styled with CSS. Take a look at a few examples.
Get the plugin from GitHub or install with Bower or NPM:
bower install jquery-bar-rating
npm install jquery-bar-rating
Create a select field:
<select id="example">
<option value="1">1</option>
<option value="2">2</option>
<option value="3">3</option>
<option value="4">4</option>
<option value="5">5</option>
</select>
If you would like to use one of the provided themes include the theme in the head section of the page. Adjust the path to the CSS file and make sure it points to the correct theme file. In this example we are also pulling Font Awesome icons from a CDN.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/latest/css/font-awesome.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="fontawesome-stars.css">
Include and call the plugin (after jQuery v1.7.2+)
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.12.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="jquery.barrating.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
$('#example').barrating({
theme: 'fontawesome-stars'
});
});
</script>


First War
The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme Offensive, was one of the largest battles of the First World War. Fought between July 1 and November 1, 1916, near the Somme River in France, it was also one of the bloodiest military battles in history. On the first day alone, the British suffered more than 57,000 casualties, and by the end of the campaign the Allies and Central Powers would lose more than 1.5 million men.
The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme Offensive, was one of the largest battles of the First World War.
Second War
The Somme campaign in 1916 was the first great offensive of World War I for the British, and it produced a more critical British attitude toward the war. During and after the Somme, the British army started a real improvement in tactics. Also, the French attacked at the Somme and achieved greater advances on July 1 than the British did, with far fewer casualties.
Also, the French attacked at the Somme and achieved greater advances on July 1 than the British did, with far fewer casualties.


GIT-RECEIVE-PACK(1) Git Manual GIT-RECEIVE-PACK(1) NAME git-receive-pack - Receive what is pushed into the repository SYNOPSIS git-receive-pack <directory> DESCRIPTION Invoked by git send-pack and updates the repository with the information fed from the remote end. This command is usually not invoked directly by the end user. The UI for the protocol is on the git send-pack side, and the program pair is meant to be used to push updates to remote repository. For pull operations, see git-fetch-pack(1). The command allows for creation and fast-forwarding of sha1 refs (heads/tags) on the remote end (strictly speaking, it is the local end git-receive-pack runs, but to the user who is sitting at the send-pack end, it is updating the remote. Confused?) There are other real-world examples of using update and post-update hooks found in the Documentation/howto directory. git-receive-pack honours the receive.denyNonFastForwards config option, which tells it if updates to a ref should be denied if they are not fast-forwards. OPTIONS <directory> The repository to sync into. PRE-RECEIVE HOOK Before any ref is updated, if $GIT_DIR/hooks/pre-receive file exists and is executable, it will be invoked once with no parameters. The standard input of the hook will be one line per ref to be updated: sha1-old SP sha1-new SP refname LF The refname value is relative to $GIT_DIR; e.g. for the master head this is "refs/heads/master". The two sha1 values before each refname are the object names for the refname before and after the update. Refs to be created will have sha1-old equal to 0{40}, while refs to be deleted will have sha1-new equal to 0{40}, otherwise sha1-old and sha1-new should be valid objects in the repository. This hook is called before any refname is updated and before any fast-forward checks are performed. If the pre-receive hook exits with a non-zero exit status no updates will be performed, and the update, post-receive and post-update hooks will not be invoked either. This can be useful to quickly bail out if the update is not to be supported. UPDATE HOOK Before each ref is updated, if $GIT_DIR/hooks/update file exists and is executable, it is invoked once per ref, with three parameters: $GIT_DIR/hooks/update refname sha1-old sha1-new The refname parameter is relative to $GIT_DIR; e.g. for the master head this is "refs/heads/master". The two sha1 arguments are the object names for the refname before and after the update. Note that the hook is called before the refname is updated, so either sha1-old is 0{40} (meaning there is no such ref yet), or it should match what is recorded in refname. The hook should exit with non-zero status if it wants to disallow updating the named ref. Otherwise it should exit with zero. Successful execution (a zero exit status) of this hook does not ensure the ref will actually be updated, it is only a prerequisite. As such it is not a good idea to send notices (e.g. email) from this hook. Consider using the post-receive hook instead. POST-RECEIVE HOOK After all refs were updated (or attempted to be updated), if any ref update was successful, and if $GIT_DIR/hooks/post-receive file exists and is executable, it will be invoked once with no parameters. The standard input of the hook will be one line for each successfully updated ref: sha1-old SP sha1-new SP refname LF The refname value is relative to $GIT_DIR; e.g. for the master head this is "refs/heads/master". The two sha1 values before each refname are the object names for the refname before and after the update. Refs that were created will have sha1-old equal to 0{40}, while refs that were deleted will have sha1-new equal to 0{40}, otherwise sha1-old and sha1-new should be valid objects in the repository. Using this hook, it is easy to generate mails describing the updates to the repository. This example script sends one mail message per ref listing the commits pushed to the repository: #!/bin/sh # mail out commit update information. while read oval nval ref do if expr "$oval" : '0*$' >/dev/null then echo "Created a new ref, with the following commits:" git rev-list --pretty "$nval" else echo "New commits:" git rev-list --pretty "$nval" "^$oval" fi | mail -s "Changes to ref $ref" commit-list@mydomain done exit 0 The exit code from this hook invocation is ignored, however a non-zero exit code will generate an error message. Note that it is possible for refname to not have sha1-new when this hook runs. This can easily occur if another user modifies the ref after it was updated by git-receive-pack, but before the hook was able to evaluate it. It is recommended that hooks rely on sha1-new rather than the current value of refname. POST-UPDATE HOOK After all other processing, if at least one ref was updated, and if $GIT_DIR/hooks/post-update file exists and is executable, then post-update will be called with the list of refs that have been updated. This can be used to implement any repository wide cleanup tasks. The exit code from this hook invocation is ignored; the only thing left for git-receive-pack to do at that point is to exit itself anyway. This hook can be used, for example, to run git update-server-info if the repository is packed and is served via a dumb transport. #!/bin/sh exec git update-server-info SEE ALSO git-send-pack(1), gitnamespaces(7) GIT Part of the git(1) suite Git <IP_ADDRESS> 11/24/2012 GIT-RECEIVE-PACK(1)


Fig. S1 (Supporting information, Moor et al. 2017). Interactive summary graph of (nodes, left to right) regional and local drivers (blue), plant traits (orange), ecosystem properties and processes (green) and ecosystem services (red) in three wetland types (bogs, fens and marshes), as well as suggested relationships between them (links). Red links are negative relationships, blue links are positive, and grey links are context dependent. Link thickness indicates the strength of the relationship (in 3 qualitative levels: weak, intermediate, strong). Holding the mouse over a node or link will display a description, direction of the interaction (positive, negative, undetermined), estimated degree of scientific consensus about the interaction, explanation and selected bibliographic references. Double click on a node to highlight its dependencies. Click again on the node to cancel the dependencies of that node.


Mark
Plumbley is Director of the Centre for Digital Music
(C4DM) at Queen Mary, University of London, and leads
the SoundSoftware.ac.uk
project. His work in audio signal analysis includes beat tracking,
music transcription, source separation and object coding, using
techniques such as neural networks, independent component
analysis, sparse representations and Bayesian modeling.
Advisory Council


Git and GitHub
11/28/2014
What are the benefits of version control? Version control is very useful and helpful for computer developer. Many developers can work with one project more effective within it. And it can help to record changes to a file or set of files over time so that you can recall specific versions later.
How does git help you keep track of changes? We can clone the web in local computer and do any changes. Then we git add, git commit, git push to keep the track of changes. This is awesome because it allows many people to do some changes at the same time.
Why use GitHub to store your code? We use Git just in local computer, but GitHub helps to store anything online. What we changed using Git will be pushed to GitHub online so that online information will be changed.


Controls: Sections of a True Pyramid (opacity)
Stages/Inclined layers
:
Packing limestone
:
Tura (casing) Limestone Finish
:
Inner chambers
:
Controls: Viewing
Rotation speed (low=faster)
:
Zoom
:
Close


Hypermesh Tutorial¶
Rectilinear mesh generation using HyperMesh (Douglas Dumont)
Set Global Properties to LS Dyna¶
- Click on the global button in the lower-right.
- Click the load button beside the template file. Select latest version of LS Dyna key.
- Click return.
Define the Part and Set Material Properties¶
- Goto the Collectors Menu.
- Click on the up arrow beside collector type.
- Select Mat to define the collector as a material.
- Enter a name to describe the part
- Click on card image. Select the desired material card. Use MATL-TH1 for a thermally isotropic material.
- Click Create/Edit
- Enter the properties for the material. For thermal properties, TRO is the material density, TGRLC and TGMULT should be zero, HC is the heat capacity, and TC is the thermal conductivity for a given material.
- Return to the main menus.
Uniform Mesh Generation¶
- Click on Perf rather than Std besides GFX. This will make mesh generation much faster.
- Goto Geometry, then Create Nodes.Enter four nodes to define one face of your mesh. For uniform meshes without biasing, it is suggested to define nodes along the x-y plane
- Goto 2-D and select Planes.
- Select Nodes in the left drop down menu. Click on Nodes and highlight the nodes you are interested in defining a plane for.
- Select surface-only in the right drop down menu.
- Select trimmed and then click on Create.
- Go back to the 2-D menu and select Automesh.
- Click on the surface. It should turn from red to white.
- Click on mesh, making sure interactive mesh is highlighted.
- Numbers will now appear along the sides of the surface. Selecting these allow defining the number of elements along that edge.Alternatively, enter the desired element density into elem density and click Set Edge To.
- Define element densities for all four edges.
- Click Mesh to generate the mesh. Click Reject to reject a generated mesh.
- Return to the main menu once a suitable mesh has been generated.
- The two-dimenional mesh now needs to be dragged to generate a 3-D volume. For example, a planar mesh can be generated at the face of the transducer and then grown along the z axis to make the model volume.
- Goto 3-D. Goto Drag.
- Click drag elems.
- Click elements. Select all.
- Click on the arrow button beside N1 N2 N3.
- Select the direction to drag the mesh in under to create a volume. For a mesh defined in the x-y plane, the z direction should be specified.
- Enter the distance to drag the mesh.
- On Drag defines the element density in the dragged direction. Enter the desired element density.
- Select Drag+ to drag elements in the + direction. Select Drag - for the reverse.
- To view the mesh, click on View, then select Iso1.
- Click return.
- Sections with different densities can be generated in a similar fashion. First create a plane divided into subsections depending on the number of desired densities. Use Automesh to specify the desired number of edge elements for each section. Create the planar mesh and drag this new mesh to create a volume.
Removing unneeded nodes and surfaces¶
- The volume is almost finished. Now the nodes and surfaces created earlier should be deleted. To do this, click on Display and turn Elems off. Only the initial nodes and surfaces will now be displayed.
- Goto Geom
- Goto Temp Nodes
- Click nodes and select all.
- Select clear.
- To remove the surface, goto Tools and then Delete.
- Select Surfs and click on the surfaces to delete. Select Delete entity.
- To check the number of elements and nodes, goto Tools and then Count. Select all.
- Your mesh is almost finished. To write to a ls-dyna file, goto Files and then select Export.
- Make sure the dyna key is selected and click write as. Enter a file name and click Save.
- Open the saved .dyn file in your favorite text editor. Search for Shell. This section of the dyna deck defines shell elements generated from the 2-D automesh command. We only want solid elements. Delete all the nodes under Shell elements.
- Enter the desired control cards into deck.
- Drink a beer. Watch a movie. Work from home. Your mesh is now finished.
HyperMesh Alternatives¶
Commercial HyperMesh is not cheap, so there are some other considerations:
- HyperMesh Student Edition (restricted to 1 computer; no direct ls-dyna export)
- LS-PREPOST
- http://geuz.org/gmsh/
- http://www.vmtk.org/
- http://febio.org/preview/
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/netgen-mesher/
- http://wias-berlin.de/software/tetgen/
Keep in mind that tetrahedral elements are not well conditioned for nearly-incompressible materials, so most of these are not ideal options.


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Adam J Sullivan
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Brown University
ggplot2
Appropriate graphical analysis may make the conclusions so clearcut that detailed specific analysis is unnecessary
-- David Cox (1978)
ggplot2
ggplot2
. ggplot2
do?ggplot2
cannot do:
ggvis
igraph
ggplot2
componentsggplot2
is built off the grammar of graphics with a very intuitive structure. ggplot2
will be more fluid and the more you learn about it the more amazing of graphics you can create. ggplot2
componentsggplot2
object:
geom_foo()
function. ggplot()
Basicslibrary(ggplot2)
library(fivethirtyeight)
ggplot(data=comic_characters, aes(x=align, y=appearances))
ggplot()
Basicsggplot()
Statementgeom_foo()
to make a proper graph. geom_point()
Statementgeom_point()
to this:ggplot(data=comic_characters, aes(x=align, y=appearances)) +
geom_point()
geom_point()
Statementggplot(data=comic_characters, aes(x=align, y=appearances)) +
geom_boxplot()
comic_characters <- comic_characters %>%
mutate(log_app = log(appearances))
ggplot(data=comic_characters, aes(x=align)) +
geom_bar()
ggplot(data= <DATA>, aes(x=<X-VARIABLE>, y=<Y-VARIABLE>)) +
<GEOM_FUNCTION>()
alpha
: makes points transparent to see overlaps betterfill
: Fills objects with color color
: Changes color of points or lines.shape
: Changes spape of pointsalpha
ggplot(data=comic_characters, aes(x=align, y=log_app)) +
geom_point(aes(alpha=1/100))
alpha
alpha
alpha=year
Your end result should be:
color
color
ggplot(data=comic_characters, aes(x=align, y=log_app)) +
geom_point(aes(color=publisher))
color
color="blue"
shapes
ggplot(data=comic_characters, aes(x=align, y=log_app)) +
geom_point(aes(shape=publisher))
shapes
fill
ggplot(data=comic_characters, aes(x=align)) +
geom_bar(aes(fill="blue"))
fill
color
fill
ggplot(data=comic_characters, aes(x=align)) +
geom_bar(aes(fill=publisher))
fill
geom_foo()
functions we can use. ggplot()
is a good place to start for more. ggplot(data=comic_characters, aes(x=log_app)) +
geom_density()
ggplot(data=comic_characters, aes(x=log_app)) +
geom_density(aes(color=publisher))
ggplot(data=comic_characters, aes(x=log_app)) +
geom_histogram(aes(fill=publisher))
gender_year <- comic_characters %>%
group_by(year, gender, publisher) %>%
tally()
gender_year
## # A tibble: 457 x 4
## # Groups: year, gender [?]
## year gender publisher n
## <int> <chr> <chr> <int>
## 1 1935 Male Characters DC 1
## 2 1936 Female Characters DC 2
## 3 1936 Male Characters DC 7
## 4 1937 Female Characters DC 1
## 5 1937 Male Characters DC 3
## 6 1938 Female Characters DC 1
## 7 1938 Male Characters DC 9
## 8 1939 Female Characters DC 5
## 9 1939 Female Characters Marvel 10
## 10 1939 Male Characters DC 13
## # ... with 447 more rows
ggplot(gender_year, aes(x=year, y=n, color=gender)) +
geom_line()
ggplot(gender_year, aes(x=year, y=n, color=gender)) +
geom_line() +
facet_wrap(~publisher)
NA
. gender_year_subset <- comic_characters %>%
group_by(year, gender, publisher) %>%
filter(gender != "Female Characters" & gender != "Male Characters") %>%
tally()
ggplot(gender_year_subset, aes(x=year, y=n, color=gender)) +
geom_line() +
facet_wrap(~publisher)


The Genesis 1 creation account conflicts with the order of events that are known to science. In
Genesis, the earth is created before light and stars, birds and whales before reptiles and insects,
and flowering plants before any animals. The order of events known from science is just the
opposite. 1:1-2:3
God creates light and separates light from darkness, and day from night, on the first day.
Yet he didn't make the light producing objects (the sun and the stars) until the fourth day
(1:14-19). And how could there be "the evening and the morning" on the
first day if there was no sun to mark them? 1:3-5
God spends one-sixth of his entire creative effort (the second day)
working on a solid firmament. This strange structure, which God calls heaven, is
intended to separate the higher waters from the lower waters. 1:6-8
Plants are made on the third day before there was a sun to drive their photosynthetic
processes (1:14-19). 1:11
God lets "the earth bring forth" the plants, rather than creating them directly.
Maybe Genesis is not so anti-evolution after all. 1:11
In an apparent endorsement of astrology, God places the sun, moon, and stars in the firmament so that they can be used
"for signs". This, of course, is exactly what astrologers do: read "the signs" in the Zodiac in an effort to predict what
will happen on Earth. 1:14
God makes two lights: "the greater light [the sun] to rule the day, and the lesser light [the moon] to rule the night." But
the moon is not a light, but only reflects light from the sun. And why, if God made the moon to "rule the night", does it spend
half of its time moving through the daytime sky? 1:16
"He made the stars also." God spends a day making light (before making the stars) and separating light
from darkness; then, at the end of a hard day's work, and almost as an afterthought, he makes
the trillions of stars. 1:16
"And God set them [the stars] in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the
earth." 1:17
In verse 11, God "let the earth bring forth" the plants. Now he has the earth "bring forth" the animals as well. So maybe
the creationists have it all wrong. Maybe God created livings things through the process of evolution.
1:24
God gave humans dominion over every other living thing on earth. 1:26
God commands us to "be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have
dominion over ... every living thing that moveth upon the earth." 1:28
"I have given you every herb ... and every tree ... for meat."
Since many plants have evolved poisons to protect against animals that would like to eat them, God's advice is more than a little reckless.
Would you tell your children to go out in the garden and eat whatever plants they encounter? Of course not. But then, you are much nicer
and smarter than God. 1:29
All animals were originally herbivores. Tapeworms, vampire bats,
mosquitoes, and barracudas -- all were strict vegetarians, as they were created
by God. 1:30
"God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." He purposefully designed a system
that ensures the suffering and death of all his creatures, parasite and host, predator and prey. 1:31
In Genesis 1 the entire creation takes 6 days, but the
universe is 13.7 billion years old, with new stars constantly being formed. 1:31
Humans were not created instantaneously from dust and breath, but
evolved over millions of years from simpler life forms. 2:7
After making the animals, God has
Adam name them all. The naming of several million species must have kept Adam busy for a
while. 2:18-22
God fashions a woman out of one of Adam's ribs.
Because of this story, it was commonly believed (and sometimes it is still said today) that males have one less
rib than females. When Vesalius showed in 1543 that the number of ribs was the same in males and females, it created a storm
of controversy. 2:19
God curses the serpent. From now on the serpent will crawl on his belly and eat dust.
One wonders how he got around before -- by hopping on his tail, perhaps? But snakes don't
eat dust, do they? 3:14
Because Adam listened to Eve, God cursed the ground and causes thorns and thistles to grow. Before this,
according to the (false) Genesis story, plants had no natural defenses. The rose had no thorn, cacti were spineless, holly
leaves were smooth, and the nettle had no sting. Foxgloves, oleander, and
milkweeds were all perfectly safe to eat. 3:17-18
Enoch doesn't die he just ascends into heaven. 5:21-24
Enoch lived 365 years before he was taken (alive?) by God.
5:23
When Lamech was born, nine generations were alive at once. Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, and Lamech were all alive at
the time of Lamech's birth. Adam lived to see his great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson. 5:25
Methuselah lived 969 years. (World record holder.) 5:27
"There were giants in the earth in those days." 6:4
God tells Noah to make one small window (18 inches square) in the 450
foot ark for ventilation. 6:14-16
Whether by twos or by sevens, Noah takes male and female representatives from each
species of "every thing that creepeth upon the earth." 7:8
God opens the "windows of heaven." He does this every time it rains.
7:11
All of the animals boarded the ark "in the selfsame day." 7:13-14
The flood covered the highest mountain tops (Mount Everest?) with fifteen cubits to
spare. 7:20
"The windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained." This
happens whenever it stops raining. 8:2
Noah sends a dove out to see if there was any dry land. But the dove returns without
finding any. Then, just seven days later, the dove goes out again and returns with an olive leaf.
But how could an olive tree survive the flood? And if any seeds happened to survive, they
certainly wouldn't germinate and grow leaves within a seven day period.
8:8-11
When the animals left the ark, what would they have eaten? There would have been no
plants after the ground had been submerged for nearly a year. What would the carnivores have
eaten? Whatever prey they ate would have gone extinct. And how did the New World
primates or the Australian marsupials find their way back after the flood
subsided? 8:19
"And the Lord smelled a sweet savor."
Noah kills the "clean beasts" and burns their dead bodies for God. According to
7:8 this would have caused the extinction of all "clean" animals since only two of each were
taken onto the ark. 8:20-21
"Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth." Although this would have been good advice for the mythical Noah, it
is deadly advice for humankind as a whole. Overpopulation is one of our greatest problems, yet there is nothing in the bible to address it.
9:1
According to this verse, all animals fear humans. Although it is true that many do, it is also
true that some do not. Sharks and grizzly bears, for example, are generally much
less afraid of us than we are of them. 9:2
"Into your hand are they (the animals) delivered." God gave the animals to humans, and they can do whatever
they please with them. This verse has been used by bible believers to justify all kinds of cruelty to
animals and environmental destruction. 9:2
"I do set my bow in the cloud."
 He makes a deal with the animals, promising never to drown
them all again. He even puts the rainbow in the sky so that whenever he sees it,
it will remind him of his promise so that he won't be tempted to do it again.
(Every time God sees the rainbow he says to himself: "Oh, yeah.... That's right.
I promised not to drown the animals again. I guess I'll have to find something
else to do.").
But rainbows are caused by the nature of light, the refractive index of water, and the shape of raindrops. There were rainbows
billions of years before humans existed. 9:13
"Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided."
Some creationists believe that this verse refers to continental drift, which, they say,
began to occur during the days of Pelag (which means "division"), about 100 or so years after the flood. But many
other creationists disagree. 10:25
"The whole earth was of one language." But this could not be true, since by this time (around 2400 BCE)
there were already many languages, each unintelligible to the others. 11:1, 6
"Now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do."
God worries that the people will succeed in building a tower high enough to reach him (them?) in heaven, and that by
so doing they will become omnipotent. 11:4-6
According to the Tower of Babel story, the many human languages were created
instantaneously by God. But actually the various languages evolved gradually over long periods of
time. 11:9
The ridiculously long lives of the patriarchs. 11:10-32
And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years. 11:32
"Abram ... pursued them unto Dan."
This is an obvious anachronism, since the city of Dan was not named "Dan" until the time of the Judges
(see Judges 18:29). In fact, Dan (for whom the city
was named) was not even born yet (see Genesis 30:6). 14:14
"And they returned to the land of the Philistines."
But the Philistines didn't arrive in the region of Canaan until around 1200 BCE --
800 years after Abraham's supposed migration from Ur. 21:32,
26:1
Laban learns "by experience" that God has blessed him for Jacob's sake. "By experience"
means "by divination", at least that is how
most other versions translate this verse.
30:27
Jacob displays his (and God's) knowledge of biology by having goats copulate while
looking at streaked rods. The result is streaked baby goats. 30:37-39
God (or an angel) praises Jacob for his fancy genetic work in 30:37-39.
31:11-12
The birth story of Moses is suspiciously similar to that of the birth of Sargon, an
Akkadian monarch from the 3rd millennium BCE.
(BBC: The tale of the
basket) 2:3
The Israelite population went from 70 (or 75) to several million in a few hundred years.
1:5,7, 12:37, 38:26
Why are some people born with disabilities?
But otherwise.... 15:26
"The manna referred to in the Bible, in Exodus 16:14, seems to have been
the dried excrement of Trabutina mannipara, a scale insect that feeds
on tamarisk trees." Benjamin B. Normark, The
Sex Lives of Scales, Natural History, Sept. 2004. 16:14-15
It took the Israelites 40 years to travel from Egypt to Canaan, yet such a journey, even at that time,
would have taken no more than a few weeks. 16:35
A magical trumpet played loud while God came down in smoke, fire, and earthquakes onto Mt. Sinai. 19:16-18
"In six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them."
Believers often say that the "days" of creation should be taken allegorically, but this verse is quite clear. God created the
universe in six 24 hour days. 20:11
The Bible says that hares and coneys are unclean because they "chew the cud" but do
not part the hoof. But hares and coneys are not ruminants and they do not "chew the cud."
11:5-6
Be sure to watch out for those "other flying creeping things which have four feet." (I wish
God wouldn't get so technical!) I guess he must mean four-legged insects. You'd think that since
God made the insects, and so many of them (at least several million species), that he would know
how many legs they have! 11:23
God's law for lepers: Get two birds. Kill one. Dip the live bird in the blood of the
dead one.
Next find a lamb and kill it. Wipe some of its blood on the patient's right ear, thumb, and big toe.
Sprinkle seven times with oil and wipe some of the oil on his right ear, thumb and big toe.
Repeat. Finally kill a couple doves and offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt
offering. 14:2-52
The Israelite population went from seventy (Exodus 1:5) to
several million (over 600,000 adult males) in 400 years. 1:45-46,
26:51
When the tabernacle was set up, it was covered by a cloud during the day and by fire all night. 9:15
God led the Israelites from one camp to the other with a cloud. When the cloud stopped and rested someplace, the Israelites pitched their
tents. When the cloud started moving again, the Israelites followed it. 9:16-23
God sends quails to feed his people until they were "two cubits [about a meter] high upon the face of the earth." Taking
the "face of the earth" to be a circle with a radius of say 30 kilometers (an approximate day's journey), this would amount to 3
trillion (3x1012) liters of quails. At 2 quails per liter, this would provide a couple million quails for each of several million
people.
Although this story is obviously exaggerated, it may have grown from a grain of truth. Common Quail
(Cotumix cotumix) migrate twice a year between Africa and Eurasia, and occasional
storm-induced "fallout" could make quail appear to rain from the sky. 11:31
God strikes Miriam with leprosy. (In the Bible, leprosy is caused by the wrath of God or the malice of Satan.
12:10
"They ... cut down ... a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff."
A single cluster of grapes was so heavy that it took two men to carry it. I guess that's what you'd expect, though,
since they were in the land of giants. (See verses 32-33.) 13:23
"And there we saw the giants
... And we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their
sight." This statement may have been figurative, hyperbole, typical biblical
exaggeration, or an actual description of the sons of Anak, in which case they must have been
about 100 meters tall. These are the same giants (the Nephilium) that resulted
when the "sons of God" mated with "the daughters of men in
Genesis 6:4 Of course, these superhuman god-men should have been
destroyed in the flood. So what are they doing still alive? 13:33
Moses hits a rock with his rod and Presto! -- water comes out. 20:11
God sends "fiery serpents" to bite his chosen people, and many of them die. 21:6
God's cure for snakebite: a brass serpent on a pole. 21:8
God has "the strength of a unicorn." Oh heck, I bet he's even stronger than a unicorn.
23:22, 24:8
"He made them wander in the wilderness forty years."
It took the Israelites 40 years to travel from Egypt to Canaan, yet such a journey, even at that time, would have taken no more than a few weeks.
32:13
"The people is greater and taller than we ... we have seen the sons of the Anakims there."
More giants in the promised land. 1:28
It took the Israelites 40 years to travel from Egypt to Canaan, yet such a journey, even at that time,
would have taken no more than a few weeks. 2:7, 8:2,
29:5
"A land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time."
(They must have been much more common back then.) 2:10-11,
20-21
Og, the king of the giants, was a tall man, even by NBA standards. His bed measured 9 by 4 cubits (13.5 feet long and
6 feet wide). 3:11
God promises to cast out seven nations including the Amorites, Canaanites, and the Jebusites. But he was unable to
fulfill his promise. These nations were "greater and mightier" than the Israelites, who according to
Exodus 12:37 and Numbers 1:45-46 already had numbered
several million. So the region, according to the bible, must have had a population of
more than twenty million! 7:1
"Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were
fiery serpents? ... Who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint?" 8:15
"A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims."
More giants! 9:2
"When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone ... I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water." 9:9
This verse mistakenly says that the hare chews its cud. 14:7-8
To the biblical God, a bat is just an another unclean bird. 14:11, 18
"And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall
be iron." 28:23
"The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed."
28:24
"An eagle ... beareth them on her wings."
Do eagles carry their young on their wings? I know of no evidence (except for the single anecdote
provided here) that they do.
32:11
"Their wine is the poison of dragons." I wonder what genus and species the bible is referring to when it mentions
dragons. 32:33
Joseph's "horns are like the horns of a unicorn." 33:17
It took the Israelites 40 years to travel from Egypt to Canaan, yet such a journey, even at that time,
would have taken no more than a few weeks. 5:6
Joshua says that those who try to rebuild Jericho will be accursed by God, and will have to sacrifice both their oldest
and their youngest sons in its construction. But Jericho still exists today, and is often considered to be the world's oldest,
continuously occupied city. 6:26
This verse says that Ai was never again occupied after it was destroyed by Joshua. But Nehemiah (7:32) lists it among the cities of Israel at the
time of the Babylonian captivity. 8:28
In a divine type of daylight savings time, God makes the sun stand still so that Joshua can get all his killing done
before dark. 10:12-13
"And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which as of the remnant of the giants." 12:4, 13:12
"The stars in their courses fought against Sisera." Unless astrology is true, how can the
stars affect the outcome of a battle? 5:20
"As the sun ... goeth forth in his might." The sun, according to the bible, goes around the earth.
5:31
Samson rips up a young lion when "the spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him." Later, when going to "take"
his Philistine wife he notices a swarm of bees and honey in the lion's carcass (a Divine miracle -- or just rotting flesh, flies,
and maggots?). 14:5-8
There ... was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes,
four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant." 21:20
"These four were born to the giant in Gath." 21:22
"The earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth." 22:8
"The foundations of the world were discovered ... at the blast of the breath of his nostrils." 22:16
Israel had 1,300,000 fighting men in this battle. Of course, this is a ridiculously high number for a
battle between two tribal armies in 1000 BCE. (The United States had about
1.46 million active duty soldiers in 2010.) 24:9
When Solomon was annointed king the people sang and shouted so loudly that it caused an earthquake! 1:39-40
This verse implies that the value of π is 3. (The actual value is
approximately 3.14159.) 7:23
God creates droughts by causing "heaven to shut up" as a punishment for sin.
8:35
"And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up ... And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king's
hand was restored him again."
   Finally, the child responds by sneezing seven
times.
Was this a miraculous healing or artificial respiration? 4:32-35
Elisha can do all the tricks of Jesus (raise the dead, heal the sick, etc.). Here he cures a leper, but only after the
leper dips himself seven times in the Jordan. 5:14
Elisha not only can cure leprosy, he can also dish it out. Here he makes his servant (Gehazi) and all his descendants
lepers forever. 5:27
Elisha makes an iron ax head swim. Neat trick, not even Jesus did that one!
6:6
"Elisha ... telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber."
Elisha is clairaudient (acquires psychic knowledge
by auditory means). 6:12
A dead body is brought to life when it accidentally touches the bones of Elisha.
13:21
"Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered." 20:7
Isaiah, with a little help from God, makes the sun move backwards ten degrees. Now that's quite a trick. All at
once, the earth stopped spinning and then reversed its direction of rotation. Or maybe the sun traveled around the
earth in those days! 20:11
Some creationists believe that this verse (and Genesis 10:25) refers to
continental drift, which, they say, began to occur during the days of Pelag (which means "division"),
about 100 or so years after the flood. 1:19
"The earth ... shall be stable, that it be not moved." It doesn't spin on its axis or
travel about the sun. 16:30
According to this verse David's army had 1,100,000 men from Israel and 470,000 men from Judah,
Of course, this numbers is ridiculously high for a battle between two tribal armies in 1000 BCE.
(The United States had about 1.37
million active duty soldiers in 2001.) 21:5
David provides Solomon with a fantastically large amount of gold and
silver with which to build the temple: 100,000 talents of gold and 1,000,000 talents of silver. Since a
talent was about 60 pounds, this would be about 3,000 tons of gold and 30,000 tons of silver.
22:14
King David collects ten thousand drams (or
darics) for the construction of the temple in Jerusalem. This is especially interesting since darics
were coins named after King Darius I who lived some five hundred years after David.
29:7
As usual, the reported amounts of gold, silver, and iron are grossly exaggerated. (5000 talents
of gold, for example, would be about 150,000 kilograms, which would be worth about 4.2 billion US dollars in today's market.)
29:7
Since the molten sea was round with a diameter
of ten cubits and a circumference of thirty cubits, we know that the biblical
value of π is 3. (The actual value isapproximately 3.14159.) 4:2
Abijah spoke to 1,200,000 soldiers at one time. (He had a really loud voice.)
13:3-4
A half million soldiers die in a single God-assisted slaughter. 13:16-17
In the largest single God-assisted massacre in the Bible, Asa, with God's help, kills one million Ethiopians.
14:8-14
Asa, when he had a foot disease, went to physicians instead of seeking the Lord. (God disapproves
of those who seek medical help rather than "seeking the Lord.") 16:12
God makes Uzziah a leper for burning incense without a license. 26:19-21
God gave "all the kingdoms of the earth" to King Cyrus. (OK, that might be a bit of an exaggeration.) 36:22-23
"In the house of the rolls ... in Babylon"
This is the only library building mentioned in the Bible. The author mistakenly thought that Media was a
part of Babylon. 6:1-2
"Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble."
The earth rests upon pillars and doesn't move (unless God gets angry or something). 9:6
"Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not."
The earth is fixed and the sun travels about it. 9:7
"The measure thereof is longer than the earth."
What is the length of a sphere? 11:9
Heaven is set upon pillars that tremble when God gets mad. 26:11
God spread out the sky, which is a solid structure, hard and strong like a mirror. 37:18
The earth is set on foundations and it does not move. 38:4-6
God could (if he wanted to) pick up the earth by its ends and shake all the wicked people off of it. 38:13
God has snow and hail stored up to use later in time of trouble and war. 38:22
"Out of whose womb came the ice?"
Gosh, I don't know. Was it Glinda, the Good Witch of the North? 38:29
"Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion?"
God seems pleased to have created prey for lions and ravens to eat. 38:39-41
"Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee?"  They are, in fact, careful and attentive parents. The male scoops out a hollow for the eggs,
which are incubated by the female during the day and the male at night. After the eggs are hatched,
they are cared for by the mother for over a month, at which time the chicks can keep up with running
adults. 39:13-16
"The eagle ... seeketh the prey....
God is pleased with the way that predators kill and devour their prey. 39:27-30
Bible believers have identified the behemoth as a hippopotamus, dinosaur, wildebeest, or
crocodile. But my favorite is the way these verses are
translated
by Stephen Mitchell: "Look now: the Beast that I
made: he eats grass like a bull. Look: the power in his thighs, the pulsing
sinews of his belly.  40:15-16
"Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord?" 41:1
"His [the leviathan's] teeth are terrible round about."
God has equipped predators with teeth that tear the flesh of their prey. 41:14
"My reins also instruct me in the night seasons."
The Psalmist's kidneys (reins) instruct him at night. 16:7
The earth shakes whenever God really gets mad. 18:7
"The foundations of the world were
discovered ... at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils." (The earth is set on firm foundations
and does not move -- unless God blows his nose.) 18:15
"He maketh them also to skip ... like a young unicorn." 29:6
From his seat in heaven, God can see the whole earth and all its inhabitants. (He sits directly
above the earth, which is a flat disc below him.) 33:14-15
"I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field
are mine. ... The world is mine, and the fulness thereof."
God takes credit for the entire creation. Preadators, prey, parasite, and host: God purposefully
designed them all. 50:11-12
According to the psalmist, snails melt. But they don't, of course, they simply leave a slimy trail as they move
along. 58:8
"The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even
Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God." 68:8
"I was pricked in my reins."
("Reins" means kidneys in the Bible.) 73:21
God is so strong that he can break the head of dragons and of leviathan.
74:13-14
"Thou has set all the borders of the earth"
A spherical earth has no borders. 74:17
"He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea."
See Numbers 11:20-32, where God sends quails to feed the Israelites until it literally came out their
noses. 78:27
Another reference to "the foundations of the earth", implying that the earth is fixed and
does not move. 82:5
"I will make mention of Rahab"
Rahab is a sea-demon or dragon from ancient Jewish folklore. 87:4
"Thou hast broken Rahab [the sea monster] in pieces." 89:10
"The world also is established, that it cannot be moved." 93:1
"The world also shall be established that it shall not be moved." 96:10
"The Lord ... who healeth all thy diseases." God heals all diseases. Medical science is
unnecessary. 103:2-3
"God ... who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain"
(The earth is stationary and does not orbit the sun.) 104:5
"The waters stood above the mountains."
Noah's flood covered the highest mountains, just like it says in Genesis 7:20. 104:6-7
God gives the lions their meat. The cruelty and brutality of nature are all part of God's plan.
104:21
"In wisdom hast thou made them all." (God purposely designed the brutality and cruelty of nature.)
104:24
God is offended by those who make things with their hands or invent things with their minds.
106:39
"God ... turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters." 114:7-8
"The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works." Then why do nearly
all animals die painful deaths from starvation, predation, or disease long before they reach adulthood?
145:9
God "satisfiest the desire of every living thing." But in nature few needs are met
and few desires are satisfied. Life is short, hard, cruel, and painful for nearly every living
thing. 145:17
"He calleth them all by their names."
God knows how many stars there are and knows them all by name. That's pretty impressive since there are 100 billion or so galaxies,
each containing about 100 billion stars. 147:7
"Lean not unto thine own understanding." Don't try to understand things; just accept whatever
the bible and your religious leaders tell you. 3:5
"Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding."
A special anthem was composed from these words for Darwin's funeral at Westminster Abbey. 3:13
"How can a man ... understand his own way?"
 ("Reins" is the Bible's word for kidneys.) 23:16
"The sun also ariseth"
Although this verse is interpreted figuratively today, it was taken literally by virtually all
Christians until the Copernican revolution, and was used by the Church to condemn Galileo for
teaching the heliocentric heresy. 1:5
"The place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again."
Good description of the water cycle. 1:7
"He hath made every thing beautiful."
Everything is beautiful in its own way. Parasitic worms, cancer cells, bubonic plague. You just have to look at it from God's eyes.
3:11
"No man can find out the work that God maketh."
Science is impossible. We can learn nothing at all about the natural world. 3:11
"That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?"
Who can find out? We can by using science! The earth, ocean, solar system, galaxy, and universe -- nothing is too deep or far away for
science to discover and explore. 7:24
"Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work
that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet
he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet
shall he not be able to find it."
Oh, I think science has done a pretty good job of finding things out over the last four centuries or so. 8:16
"Thou knowest not ... how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child."
Actually, this is pretty well understood by modern embryology. 11:5
"When he ariseth to shake terribly the earth."
(Earthquakes happen when God gets angry.) 2:19, 21
"He has stretched forth his hand against them ... and the hills did tremble." (God makes earthquakes when he gets angry.)
5:25
"He [God] ... will hiss unto them from the end of the earth."(The earth is flat and has an end.) 5:26
"Neither doth his heart think so"
In the Bible, people think with their hearts not their heads. 10:7
"The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb...." I wonder what will become of the spiders.
Will they be more friendly toward flies? And will the parasitic wasps find another way to feed their larvae? Or will they
continue to feed off the living bodies of caterpillars? 11:6,
65:25
"And the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den."  They are rare nowadays.
11:8
God will gather up the people of Judea "from the four corners of the earth." In the Bible's view, the earth is flat with four
corners. 11:12
The moon produces its own light and the earth does not move (except
when God gets angry and shakes the heavens). 13:10-13
When God gets really angry, he causes earthquakes. 13:13
Dragons will live in Babylonian palaces and satyrs will dance there.
13:21-22
Out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent." What ever happened
to these fascinating biblical creatures? 14:29
"The foundations of the earth do shake ... The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard."
(Earthquakes are all a part of God's wondrous plan.) 24:18-20
God will punish the leviathan ("that crooked serpent") with his own sword and will kill the sea dragon.
27:1
Natural disasters (earthquakes, storms, fires, tsunamis) are caused by, and are a sign
of, God's wrath. 29:7
Among the many strange creatures mentioned in the Bible that no longer seem to exist is the "fiery flying serpent."
30:6
"The light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be
sevenfold." Well, this is one prophecy that will never come true. Since the moon has no light of its own, but only
reflects that of the sun, it could never shine like the sun. And the sun will not, at least not while there are humans to see
it, shine 7 times as bright as it does now. 30:26
"The LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew
the lighting down of his armwith the indignation of his anger, and with
the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones." 30:30
"The host of heaven shall be dissolved ... and ... shall fall down."
The stars will dissolve and fall from the sky. 34:4
"And the unicorns shall come down with them." 34:7
Dragons and satyrs may not seem real to you, but they did to the author of these verses.
34:13-14
God makes the sun move backwards 10 degrees. Now that's a neat trick! 38:8
The earth is a flat disc that God looks down upon from his throne in
heaven. 40:22
God made the stars, presumably all at once on day four of creation, and "not one faileth." But new stars are being
formed today and old stars are dying, just as they have been doing for the last 13 billion years or so. 40:26
Dragons and owls will thank God for irrigation. 43:20
God set the earth on foundations so it doesn't move, his hand is as big as the universe,
and the stars stand up straight when he calls them. 48:13
God cut Rahab (the sea
monster) to pieces, wounded the dragon, and dried up the sea. 51:9-10
Bad people hatch poisonous cockatrice eggs. Whoever eats the eggs will die, and
when the eggs are crushed a viper hatches out of them. 59:5
"Neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee." Of course the moon doesn't give off
light, but only reflects the light from the sun. 60:19
"The showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain."
Droughts are punishments from God. 3:3
"The stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle [dove] and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming." One of the earliest references to bird migration.
(Many stork, dove, crane, and swallow species are migratory.) 8:7
"I will send serpents,cockatrices among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you."
 They are rare nowadays. 8:17
When God gets angry, the earth trembles. (That's what causes earthquakes.)
10:10
"O LORD of hosts ... that triest the reins [kidneys] and the heart." 11:20
The wild asses "snuffed up the wind like dragons." 14:6
"O LORD of hosts, that ... seest the reins [kidneys]." 20:12
The earth is set on foundations and does not move. 31:37
Jeremiah predicts that humans will never again live in Hazor, but will be replaced by dragons.
But people still live there and dragons have never been seen. 49:33
"Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an
hissing, without an inhabitant. They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps." 51:37
"The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the
waves thereof." 51:42
"I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her
rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not
wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts."
God will force the Babylonians to get so drunk that they die from alcohol poisoning. 51:57
Ostriches are not cruel and inattentive parents, as this verse implies. They are, in fact, careful and
attentive parents. The male scoops out a hollow for the eggs, which are incubated by the female during the day
and the male at night. After the eggs are hatched, they are
cared for by the mother for over a month, at which time the chicks can keep up with running adults. 4:3
"The firmament ... the terrible crystal, stretched
forth over their heads above." 1:22
Ezekiel proclaims that the world (which is flat and has four corners) is ending.
7:2, 6
The firmament is over the heads of the cherubim.
10:1
God "will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light." To Ezekiel, the
sun is just a little light that can be covered with a cloud, and the moon produces its own
light. 32:7-8
God will get so angry that his fury will come up in his face so that even the fish, birds, beasts, and bugs will shake when they see him.
God will throw a tantrum, toppling every wall and mountain. 38:18-20
The third year of the reign of Jehoiakim would be 606 BCE, at which time Nebuchadnezzar was not yet king of Babylon. It was 597 BCE that Nebuchadnezzar invaded Jerusalem for the first time (without actually
destroying it). By that time Jehohiakim was dead and his son, Jehoiachin, was
ruling. 1:1
The stone became "a great mountain" that "filled the whole earth." This could only be possible on a flat, disc-shaped earth.
2:35
Daniel's tree is tall enough to be seen from "the end of all the earth." Only on a flat earth would this be possible.
4:10-11, 20
"Belshazzar the king"
Apparently, the author of Daniel knew of only two Babylonian kings during the period of the
exile: Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar, who he wrongly thought was the son of Nebuchadnezzar. But
Nebuchadnezzar died in 562 BCE and was succeeded by his son, Awil-Marduk (referred to in the bible
as "Evilmerodach" [see 2 Kg 25:27 and
Jer 52:31]). In 560 BCE, Amel-Marduk was
assassinated by his brother-in-law, Nergal-shar-usur. The next and last king of Babylon was
Nabonidus who reigned from 556 to 539, when Babylon was conquered by Cyrus. It was Nabonidus, and not
Belshazzar, who was the last of the Babylonian kings. Belshazzar was a the son and viceroy of
Nabonidus. But he was not a king, and was not the son (or any other relation) of
Nebuchadnezzar. 5:1-2,11,18,22
Darius the Median is a fictitious character whom the author perhaps confused with
Darius I of Persia, who came to the throne in 521 BCE, 17 years after the fall of Babylon. The author of Daniel
incorrectly makes him the successor of Belshazzar instead of Cyrus. 5:31
To Daniel, the stars are small objects that can fall from the sky and then be "stamped upon." 8:10
On "the day of the Lord" there will be earthquakes, the sun and the moon will be dark, and the stars will no longer shine.
2:10
"The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood."
These "signs" were a lot more impressive before the causes of solar and lunar eclipses
were understood. 2:31
"The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining." 3:15
The Lord will roar and the heavens and earth will shake. 3:16
God destroyed the Amorites who were a race of giants as tall
as cedars and as strong as oaks. 2:9
"Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion."
Other translations have "Pleiades" instead of "seven stars." In any case, the Pleiades is an open star cluster
that contains thousands of stars, not just the "seven stars" that are easily visible from earth without a telescope.
And the constellation Orion is a collection of stars that happens to form an interesting, but temporary, pattern when
viewed from earth. It was not purposefully designed by anyone or anything. 5:8
"Shall not the land tremble for this?"
(Earthquakes are a punishment from God.) 8:8
"I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day." 8:9
God will "cut them in the head" and "slay the last of them with the sword." Any that try to escape by diving to the bottom of the sea will be bitten,
at God's command, by a sea-serpent. God will set his "eyes upon them for evil, not for good." 9:1-4
Whirlwinds, tornadoes, earthquakes, and fires are caused by God and are signs of his anger. He dries up oceans and rivers, melts mountains, and throws stones. 1:3-6
A whole lot of shaking going on.
God will shake the heavens, the earth, sea, and dry land. He'll shake until "the desire of the nations" comes and his house is filled with glory.
2:6-7, 21
According to the horses of different colors, "the earth sitteth still, and is at rest." 1:11
"The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth."
God set the earth on firm foundations. (So it doesn't move.) 12:1
On the day of the Lord, the mount of Olives will be split in two and half the mountain will be removed. 14:4
Someday there will be a day that will have neither day nor night with a bright sunny evening. 14:7
"The star ... went before them."
If the star "went before them," leading them to Bethlehem, then it couldn't have been a star or any
other astronomical object or event. But Matthew couldn't have known that. Everyone at the time
thought that stars were just little points of light a short distance above the earth. It'd be no
problem to have one hover above a particular place for a while. 2:9
Herod kills all boys in and around Bethlehem that are two years old and under. Such a massacre would certainly have
been noted by contemporary historians. Yet not even Josephus, who documented Herod's life in detail, mentioned this
event. 2:16
The devil kidnaps Jesus and takes him up to the top of the temple, and then to the top of "an exceedingly high
mountain," high enough to see "all the kingdoms of the world." I guess the earth was flat in those days.
4:8
"Behold the fowls of the air...." Jesus says that God feeds them. But, if so, he does one hell of a lousy job at it.
If God is caring for them, pray that he stays away from you. 6:26
Speaking of the birds, Jesus asks: "Are ye not much better than they?" This is meant as a rhetorical
question, but the answer is far from obvious to me. I guess to Jesus, though, birds are not worth much compared to humans.  Jesus healed her by touching her hand, so she could get back to serving them.
(Peter's mother-in-law? The first pope was married?) 8:14-15
Jesus and his disciples were crossing a lake in a boat when a storm came. Jesus was asleep, so his
chicken-shit disciples woke him up. Jesus rebuked them for having little faith and then calmed the winds and the waves. All of which was to show,
what? That weather is sent by God and can be controlled by faith? 8:24-26
Jesus heals a paralytic man by forgiving his sins. (Paralysis is caused by sinful behavior.) 9:2-6
"Thy faith hath made thee whole."
If you have enough faith, you will never get sick. (Illness is caused by sin and lack of faith.
Medical science is unnecessary.) 9:22
Jesus heals two blind men. (Or was it their blind faith that healed them?) 9:27-29
Jesus heals a "dumb man possessed by a devil." (Those who cannot speak are possessed by a devil.) 9:32-33
"Jesus went about all the cities and villages ... healing every sickness and every disease." 9:35
Jesus gives his disciples "power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness."
10:1
Jesus tells his disciples to perform all the usual tricks: "heal the sick, cleanse the lepers,
raise the dead, and cast out devils." 10:8
"Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all." 12:15
God is involved in the death of every sparrow. He sees to it that they each die
painful deaths of starvation, predation, or disease. But don't worry. God will do the same for you. (He thinks that humans
are worth much more than sparrows.) 10:29. 31
Jesus casts out a devil from a man who was
blind and dumb. (Those who are unable to see or hear are possessed by devils.) 12:22
"Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly." 12:40
"An enemy hath done this." Some Christians believe that the natural
evil in the world (predators, parasites, pain, death) is due to Satan, not God. 13:28
Jesus is incorrect when he says that the mustard seed is the smallest seed. And since there are no trees in the
mustard family, mustard seeds do not grow into "the greatest of all trees." 13:31-32
"Jesus ... saw a great multitude ... and he healed their sick." 14:14
"They sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased ... and as
many as touched were made perfectly whole." 14:35-37
Jesus cures an epileptic "lunatic" by "rebuking the devil." (Epilepsy is caused by devils.)
17:15-18
"The blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them." 21:14
The end of the world will be signaled by wars, famines, disease, and earthquakes (6-7). And that's just
"the beginning of sorrows" (8).  But hey, if you make through all that, you'll be saved (13).
Only one more thing will happen before the end comes: the gospel will be preached throughout the world (14). Well, that and the abomination
of desolations will stand in the holy place (15), many false Christs and false prophets will show great signs and wonders (24), the sun and moon
will be darkened and the stars will fall (29), the sign of the son of Man will appear in the sky, everyone on earth will mourn, and then,
finally, the great and powerful son of Man will come in all his glory (30).
Oh, and all these things will happen within the lifespan of Jesus' contemporaries (34).
Or maybe not. Jesus was talking about things he knew nothing about (36). (See Mark 13:32.)
24:3-51
"The moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven." Apparently, Jesus believed that the moon
produces its own light, and that the stars are lights held in place by a firmament only a few miles above our heads.
24:29
Jesus believed that Noah's flood actually happened. 24:37
When Jesus was crucified, there was three hours of complete darkness "over all the land." And when he
died, there was a great earthquake with many corpses walking the streets of Jerusalem. It is strange
that there is no record of any of these extraordinary events outside of the gospels.
27:45, 51-53
Peter's mother-in-law was sick with a fever. Jesus healed her by touching her hand, so she could get back to serving them. 1:30-31
Jesus heals "all that were diseased" by casting out devils. 1:32-34
Jesus heals a paralytic man by forgiving his sins. (Paralysis is caused by sinful behavior.) Notice that Jesus didn't just heal him,
he forgave his sins, which is something only God is supposed to be able to do. 2:3-12
"He [Jesus] ordained twelve, that they should ... have power to heal sicknesses,
and to cast out devils." 3:14-15
Jesus is incorrect when he says that the mustard seed is the smallest seed.
(The smallest seeds are found among
the tropical, epiphytic orchids.) 4:31
"He arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm."
4:39
"A certain woman ... had an issue of blood twelve years...."
So this is where all those phony faith-healing stories came from! Notice that the doctors made her condition worse, but she was instantly cured
by faith. 5:25-29
"Thy faith hath made thee whole." If you have enough faith, you will never get sick.
(Illness is caused by sin and lack of faith. Medical science is unnecessary.) 5:34
"And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them."
6:13
"Whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that
they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole." 6:56
Jesus puts his fingers in a deaf man's ears, then spits and touches his tongue.  So Jesus tried again. He put his hands on the man's
eyes and, this time, the blind man "saw every man clearly."  (Sounds like a script from Monty Python,
doesn't it?) But how could a deaf spirit hear the words
spoken to it?
Jesus believed that sex and Adam and Eve were created
"from the beginning." But the universe is about 13.7 billion years old,
the earth 4.6 billion, sex a billion years or so, and humans (depending
on how you define "human") for a couple million years. 10:6
"Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole. And
immediately he received his sight." 10:52
"The beginnings of sorrows."
The end of the world will be marked with wars, famines, and earthquakes. (Thank God for that helpful hint!) 13:8
"In those days ... the moon shall not give her light, and
the stars of heaven shall fall." Of course this is nonsense. The billions of stars will never
fall to earth and the moon does not produce its own light. 13:24-25
When Jesus was crucified, there was three hours of complete darkness "over the whole land." It is
strange that there is no record of this extraordinary event outside of the gospels.
15:33
Jesus cures a paralytic by forgiving his sins, thereby proving that he is God
(since only God can forgive sins) and paralysis is caused by sin. 5:18-25
"And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak."  It's the usual story: none of
the doctors could cure her, but the faith hearer (Jesus, in this case) could. 8:43-44
"Thy faith hath made thee whole." If you have enough faith, you will never get sick. (Illness is caused by sin and lack of faith.
Medical science is unnecessary.) 8:48
Jesus brings Jarius' dead daughter back to life. 8:49-55
Jesus gave his disciples authority of all devils and to cure diseases. 9:1-2
"He [Jesus] ... healed them that had need of healing." 9:11
Jesus cures an epiletic child by rebuking an unclean spirit. 9:42
Jesus tells his disciples to do two things: heal the sick and say the
kingdom of heaven has come upon you. 10:9
People who cannot speak are possessed with devils. 11:14
"Some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief
of the devils ... and others ... sought of him a sign from heaven."
A reasonable hypothesis (assuming devils exist) and a fair request (assuming a god exists). 11:15-16
"If I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out?"
Jesus believed the Pharisees could cast out demons, too! 11:19
Jesus says it is impossible to get rid of unclean spirits. If you manage to evict one, he'll soon return with
seven others "more wicked than himself" and you'll be worse off than you were before. So just learn to live with
whatever unclean spirits that are currently possessing you. 11:24-26
Jesus believed the story of Noah's ark. He thought it really happened and had no problem with
the idea of God drowning everything and everybody. 17:26-27
Jesus also believes the story about Sodom's destruction. He says, "even thus shall it be in
the day the son of man is revealed." This tells us
about Jesus' knowledge of science and history. 17:29-32
"And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars." 21:25
When Jesus was crucified, there was three hours of complete darkness "over all the earth." It is
strange that there is no record of this extraordinary event outside of the gospels.
23:44-45
"The wind bloeth where it listeth."
Jesus says that no one knows which way the wind is blowing. But, of course, he was wrong about that. The
direction and speed of the wind are easily measured. 3:8
"If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye
believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?" Good question, Jesus!
He was wrong about creation in Mk 10:6, wrong about the flood in
Lk 17:26-27, and wrong about the smallest seed in Mt 13:31-32.
So why would anyone believe him when he talks about heaven in Jn 3:16?
3:12
Jesus believes people are crippled by God as a punishment for sin. He tells a crippled man, after healing him, to
"sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." 5:14
The disciples ask Jesus about the cause of a man's blindness. Was it because he or his parents sinned? Jesus said neither
had sinned. The man was born blind so that Jesus could show off his powers by curing him of his blindness.
9:1-3
Jesus spits on the ground, mixes his spit with the dirt, and rubs the muddy spit on (or in?) a blind man's eyes.
Then he told him to wash in the pool of Siloam. After that, the blind man could see again.
The Bible doesn't say whether it was the holy spit, holy mud, or holy water that did the trick. 9:6-7
"Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit."
Jesus was wrong about seeds. If a seed dies, it dies. It only produces a new plant if it stays alive (in a dormant stage) until
it germinates. Dead seeds bring forth no fruit. 12:24
"Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?"
This verse was used by a Dominican friar to discourage the use of Galileo's telescope. (Notice the
pun on Galileo's name in "men of Galilee".) 1:11
"The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood."
It happens with every solar or lunar eclipse. 2:20
"Spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began"
The prophets have spoken "since the world began," which means that humans have been around since the creation of the world.
3:20
"When they had prayed, the place was shaken."
The first prayer-caused earthquake. 4:31
The sick were healed just by touching the shadow of Peter. 5:15-16
After only two years of preaching, everyone in Asia had heard the word of the Lord!
19:10
Sick people were cured by touching the handkerchief or apron of Paul. And the evil spirits when out of them."
19:12
Paul is bitten by a poisonous snake and yet
lives. The "barbarians" who were shipwrecked with him thought he must
be a murderer since he was bitten; but then they changed their minds and thought
him to be a god since he didn't die. (The snake story is especially interesting since there
are no poisonous snakes on Malta, and there is no evidence of their existence in the past.)
28:3-6
By praying and touching the sick people of Malta, Paul cures them of their diseases.
28:8-9
The existence and nature of God are self-evident; thus, unbelievers are "without
excuse." 1:20
The Religious Right often uses Romans 1:21-25 to condemn environmentalists. 1:21-25
Paul claims that before Adam sinned death did not exist. But, of course, death didn't enter the world
a few thousand years ago because of Adam's sin. Death has been a part of life since life first arose
(on this planet, at least) a few billion years ago. 5:12
"The whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now."
Some Christians use this verse to show that we live in a
sin cursed world. (But
others disagree.) 8:22
Paul says that everyone, even in his day, had the gospel preached to them.  (And then go to hell.) 11:30
"In Adam all die."
Nothing died before Adam sinned. 15:22
Paul shows his ignorance (and God's) of biology by saying that only dead seeds will germinate. Actually, a seed
must be alive to germinate. 15:36
"All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another of beasts."
This verse is used by Creationists to argue against both evolution and any attempt to create "human-animal hybrids" or
"chimeras." 15:39
"The first man Adam"
Young Earth Creationists use this verse to support
a literal reading of Genesis. "If we cannot believe in the First Adam, why believe in the Last [Christ]?"
15:45
"And afterward that which is spiritual."
Asa Gray, the foremost American botanist in the 19th century and close friend of Charles Darwin,
used this verse to support the idea that the Bible is not inconsistent with human evolution.
15:46
"For by him were all things created.... All things were created by him, and for him.... And by
him all things consist." Including guinea worms? 1:16-17
"For Adam was first formed, then Eve." Young Earth Creationists use this verse to show that Paul believed the creation story in
Gen 2:18-22. 2:13
"Science falsely so called"
Avoid science, especially that which disagrees with Paul.
This verse is often used by believers to justify the rejection of any idea, scientific or otherwise, that contradicts the bible.
6:20
God set the earth on a foundation; therefore, it does not move. 1:10
"Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying ... I shake not the earth only, but also heaven."
When God speaks there are earthquakes (and heavenquakes). 12:26
James says that, even in his day, all beasts, birds, serpents, and sea creatures had been tamed by humans.
3:7
If you are sick, rely on the power of prayer. It works every time. 5:14-15
By praying, Elias was able to keep it from raining for three and a half years. 5:17
"Eight souls were saved by water."
God drowned everyone on earth except for Noah and his family. This verse is used by young-earth Creationists to show that New Testament
writers believed the Old Testament stories. 3:20
"God ... spared not the old world, but saved Noah."
Young Earth Creationists use this verse to show that the New Testament authors believed in the flood story. (So you should too.)
2:4-5
"Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him." This could only happen on a
flat earth. 1:7
"Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created." God created parasites,
pathogens, and predators for his very own pleasure. One of his favorite species is
guinea worms. 4:11
The sixth seal is opened and there is a great earthquake, the sun becomes black, and the moon red,
the stars fall from heaven, and mountains and islands move around. 6:12-14
"And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth...." To John, the stars are just little lights a few miles away that can
easily fall to the earth. 6:13
John "saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth." Well, I guess that settles it: the earth is flat and
square-shaped, or at least quadrilateral in shape. 7:1
An angel threw the censer down to earth, causing thunder, lightning, and earthquakes.
8:5
"And there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers,
and upon the fountains of waters." In the Bible, stars are just little lights that can fall to the
ground from the sky. 8:10
The fourth trumpet smites one third of the sun, moon, and stars. 8:12
"I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth." 9:1
"There were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail." 11:19
The dragon's tail smacks down to earth one third of the stars. To the author of Revelation,
the stars are just little lights that can fall to the ground from the sky. 12:4
The seventh vial: voices, thunders, lightnings, earthquakes, hail. 16:17-21
"And there was no more sea."
For an old sailor like me, this verse, if it were true, would
be one of the saddest verses in the Bible. 21:1


Implementation in the density framework of the non-combinatorial algorithm and its greedy version, introduced by Magalhães and Rozenholc (2014), for T-estimation Hold-Out proposed in Birgé (2006, Section 9). The package provide an implementation which uses several families of estimators (regular and irregular histograms, kernel estimators) which may be used alone or combined. As a complement, provides also a comparison with other Held-Out derived from least-squares and maximum-likelihood. This package implements also the T-estimation Hold-Out derived from the test introduced in Baraud (2011).
| Version: | 2.00 |
| Imports: | histogram |
| Published: | 2014-09-20 |
| Author: | Nelo Magalhães (Univ. Paris Sud 11 - INRIA team Select) and Yves Rozenholc (Univ. Paris Descartes - INRIA team Select) |
| Maintainer: | Nelo Magalhães <nelo.moltermagalhaes at gmail.com> |
| License: | GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)] |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
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| Reference manual: | Density.T.HoldOut.pdf |
| Package source: | Density.T.HoldOut_2.00.tar.gz |
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ReVersion
Do you know where the repository for project X is?A WPF desktop application to assist managing working copies of SVN repositories spread out over multiple SVN servers.
ReVersion allows developers working on many different projects, often on multiple servers, the ability to search a single location for the repository they require with the ability to checkout a number of repositories at once to assist setting up new PC's.
Supported Svn servers
- Visual Svn
- Submin
- Uber Svn
- WebSvn


FortyFest
At last year's CodeCabin, (our Umbraco community developer retreat), I was chatting with Lucy Brailsford and Lotte Pitcher about having just moved house, and I had access to a jointly-owned field at the back of the house. Very quickly the suggestion of having a "festival" in the field came up, and along with my unavoidable 40th birthday, someone muttered the words... FortyFest™.
(I can't recall if it was Lucy or Lotte, but anyway, an idea was born.)
I didn't really think much more about it until after Christmas. Although 6 months felt like a long time away, I knew I wanted a giant tipi as the centerpiece of the festival, so I contacted Luke (of Tipi Events) to come do a recce of my field and book it in. Then it was case of aligning the other big tasks... food, drinks, live bands.
Luckily, it turns out that we had some great contacts to call on, within a month or so, the hot food was scheduled in; live music sorted, courtesy of my talented friends from our local open-mic night - including my own band... and a few special guests!
It wasn't all plain sailing, FortyFest was drawing closer, we hit a showstopper - it's a long story - but the gist is that we were unable to secure vehicle access to our field. Which meant we couldn't get the tipi or portaloos into the field. (There's more to it, but like I say, it's a long story.)
Fortunately, Lucy's brother-in-law, Steve, came to the rescue by offering to host FortyFest in one of his fields, (at the dairy farm where I lived for a while, over 10 years ago). The only downside being the farm was a few miles away, so people would need to figure out transport or camping. The upside, the farm field was massive, a much better venue.
In the week running up to FortyFest, everything started to come together. I kept thinking, something has to go wrong - if that one thing goes wrong, then everything else will be okay. Then I saw the weather forecast... rain and heavy winds, urgh!

In hindsight, I may have overcomitted myself in the music department. I was part of two bands, one 30 minute set with Paul Hagan, (my old Tremor bandmate), in our newly formed band / never rehearsed The Kecks; and then an hour set with my covers band The Dysfunctions!
Thank you everyone involved in making FortyFest happen! It was a great night!
Roll on Forty-First-Fest™ ;-)


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dateformat.i18n = require('./lang/' + l)
return true;
}
```ruby
GitHubPages::Dependencies.gems.each do |gem, version| s.add_dependency(gem, "= #{version}") end ```
| head1 | head two | three |
|:-------------|:------------------|:------|
| ok | good swedish fish | nice |
| out of stock | good and plenty | nice |
| ok | good oreos
| hmm |
| ok | good zoute
drop | yumm |
Long, single-line code blocks should not wrap. They should horizontally scroll if they are too long. This line should be long enough to demonstrate this.
The final element.


Unit 1 - The Basics of the Web and HTML
Content:
- The web - HTMLWorld Wide Web (WWW)
- a collection of HTML documents
HTML => HyperText Markup Language
- it is what glues everything together
- invented in earlies 1990's
- over 30 billion pages
File types found on the web:
- plain text
- HTML
- images
- videos
- music
Major pieces
A Person using a Computer/Browser, connecting to the internet through HTTP protocol requests the Server information.
HTML
- heart of the web
- made up of: text content, markup, references to other documents and links to other pages
HTML Markup
- made of tags
REMINDERS
* Computers are sensitive to typos and small mistakes
* When we forget to close tags, everything coming after the opening tag get the characterist described in that tag


Revision information:
Metrics :
File name:
Sum of nested levels
Total statements
Sum of V(g)
Total lines
Comments lines


| PaymentAdditionalInfoBarcodeRequest |
PaymentAdditionalInfoBarcodeRequest class.
|
| PaymentAdditionalInfoBarcodeRequest.PaymentAdditionalInfoBarcodeRequestBuilder |
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| PaymentAdditionalInfoPayerRequest |
PaymentAdditionalInfoPayerRequest class.
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| PaymentAdditionalInfoPayerRequest.PaymentAdditionalInfoPayerRequestBuilder |
|
| PaymentAdditionalInfoRequest |
PaymentAdditionalInfoRequest class.
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| PaymentAdditionalInfoRequest.PaymentAdditionalInfoRequestBuilder |
|
| PaymentCancelRequest |
PaymentCancelRequest class.
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| PaymentCancelRequest.PaymentCancelRequestBuilder |
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| PaymentCaptureRequest |
PaymentCaptureRequest class.
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| PaymentCaptureRequest.PaymentCaptureRequestBuilder |
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| PaymentCategoryDescriptorRequest |
PaymentCategoryDescriptorRequest class.
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| PaymentCategoryDescriptorRequest.PaymentCategoryDescriptorRequestBuilder |
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| PaymentClient |
Client responsible for performing payment actions.
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| PaymentCreateRequest |
PaymentCreateRequest class.
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| PaymentCreateRequest.PaymentCreateRequestBuilder |
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| PaymentItemRequest |
PaymentItemRequest class.
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| PaymentItemRequest.PaymentItemRequestBuilder |
|
| PaymentMerchantServicesRequest |
PaymentMerchantServicesRequest class.
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| PaymentMerchantServicesRequest.PaymentMerchantServicesRequestBuilder |
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| PaymentOrderRequest |
PaymentOrderRequest class.
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| PaymentOrderRequest.PaymentOrderRequestBuilder |
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| PaymentPassengerRequest |
PaymentPassengerRequest class.
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| PaymentPassengerRequest.PaymentPassengerRequestBuilder |
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| PaymentPayerRequest |
PaymentPayerRequest class.
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| PaymentPayerRequest.PaymentPayerRequestBuilder |
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| PaymentReceiverAddressRequest |
PaymentReceiverAddressRequest class.
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| PaymentReceiverAddressRequest.PaymentReceiverAddressRequestBuilder |
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| PaymentRefundClient |
Client that use the Payment Refunds APIs.
|
| PaymentRefundCreateRequest |
Refund creation request data.
|
| PaymentRefundCreateRequest.PaymentRefundCreateRequestBuilder |
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| PaymentRouteRequest |
PaymentRouteRequest class.
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| PaymentRouteRequest.PaymentRouteRequestBuilder |
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| PaymentShipmentsRequest |
PaymentShipmentsRequest class.
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| PaymentShipmentsRequest.PaymentShipmentsRequestBuilder |
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| PaymentTransactionDetailsRequest |
PaymentTransactionDetailsRequest class.
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| PaymentTransactionDetailsRequest.PaymentTransactionDetailsRequestBuilder |
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Web Component Examples - Bug Testing
Handlebar Errors
Handlebars throws JavaScript errors that are uncaught, and cause the page to crash.
Broken Template
{{#each}}
{{contents}}
{{/mistmatched each}}
Empty tags Terminate Execution
Nothing renders after the first self closing tag.
Resolution
Can't fix, self-closing tags are not advised, nor supported by most major browsers:
* http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.3.3
* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3558119/are-self-closing-tags-valid-in-html5
* http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec-author-view/syntax.html#syntax-start-tag
They're known as void elements, and include:
* area, base, br, col, embed, hr, img, input, keygen, link, menuitem, meta, param, source, track, wbr
* http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/single-page.html#void-elements
> Void elements can't have any contents (since there's no end tag, no content can be put between the start tag and the end tag).
Web Component JS doesn't perform any direct interactions with these elements, instead, the DOM of the browser strips them out before any JavaScript can kick in.


Sometimes, it's tough to get to your "Happy Place". What's a "Happy Place"? Well, it's a euphemism to allow yourself to not worry about the things that are mentally bothering you. It can really be anything or even anyone.


Roll the described combination of dice, returning a number and description of the
roll. The dice expr is a combination of terms of one of three forms joined by +
:
- {n}d{s}: roll n s-sided dice (3d6)
- {n}x{s}: roll n s-sided exploding dice (2x8)
- {n}: an increment.
The number of sides supported are 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 20, or 100. Exploding dice
work much like normal, except when a die rolls the maximum value for the die,
then it is re-rolled to generate a value to add to the original roll. This may
happen more than once.
The Value is the sum of all of the rolls. The Roll is a string representing the
individual rolls.
Normal dice are represented by the expression, followed by the results of the
individual die rolls in parens: 3d6(3+5+1)
.
Exploding dice are represented by the dice expression followed by an expression
in angle brackets. The expression is made of the results of each individual die
in parens, with any die that exploded being followed by an !
, and the re-roll
added as needed: 3x6<(1)+(6!+5)+(2)>
.
The Save Expression button saves the current dice expression under a name
you supply.
The menu at the bottom provides access to any expressions you've saved, plus a few
default ones. The default expressions are named starting with a *
and will
always be at the end of the list. The Load Expression button populates the expression
with the value you saved. The Remove Expression button deletes the specified
saved expression.


dumpgame —
extract rom set information from ckmame
database
| dumpgame |
{-b | --brief}
[{-D
dbfile |
--db
dbfile}]
[game] |
| dumpgame |
-c | -d |
--checksum |
--disk
[{-D
dbfile |
--db
dbfile}]
checksum
[...] |
| dumpgame |
[-hV]
[--help]
[--version] |
dumpgame extracts rom set information from a
ckmame(1) database.
dumpgame can also find roms matching a particular
checksum.
dumpgame supports the following options:
-
-
- -b,
--brief
- Use brief mode: don't output ROM and disk information.
-
-
- -c,
--checksum
- Look for a ROM by checksum (instead of the default
behaviour to look for a game by name).
-
-
- -D
dbfile, --db
dbfile
- Use database dbfile
instead of the default
“mame.db”.
-
-
- -d,
--disk
- Look for a disk by checksum (instead of the default
behaviour to look for a game by name).
-
-
- -h,
--help
- Display a short help message.
-
-
- -V,
--version
- Display program name and version number.
The
game argument can also be one of the
following special keywords:
-
-
- /dat
- Names of the datfiles used for creating the database, and
their descriptions.
-
-
- /detector
- Name and version of the CMPro XML header skip detector used
(if any).
-
-
- /hashtypes
- Types of checksums used (crc, md5, sha1). One line each for
roms and disks.
-
-
- /list
- Same as /list/game.
-
-
- /list/disk
- List names of all disks in the database.
-
-
- /list/game
- List names of all games in the database.
-
-
- /list/sample
- List names of all games with samples in the database.
-
-
- /stats
- List some statistics about the contents of the
database.
-
-
MAMEDB
- Location for the database file. Can be overridden with the
-D option. Defaults to
“mame.db”.
Display rom information for the game “pacman”:
dumpgame
pacman
Display all roms matching the checksum “c1e6ab10”:
dumpgame -c
c1e6ab10
ckmame(1),
mkmamedb(1)
dumpgame was written by
Dieter Baron<EMAIL_ADDRESS>and
Thomas Klausner
<
tk@giga.or.at>.


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http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/murdockint.html
Seems like a great article on the importance of strong leadership in "getting things done" with software projects.


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