I teach English at a university in China. I don't want any of my students to fail so I need to adjust exam marks. The exam marks range from 20 to 100. I want to adjust them so that the marks will range from 60 to 100, but I want to retain the proportional relationship between the marks. So for...
May I request assistance for a mathematical problem. The problem arises this way. I’m a litigation lawyer in private practice. In one of my cases the opposing lawyer claims that he “overlooked” a letter that I sent him. However he didn’t overlook any of the other 48 letters that I sent him...
I am very sad to hear that BoulderHead passed away. He is the one person who I remember most fondly from when I spent a lot of time on PF a few years ago. Although I stopped posting here I visited from time to time just to read BoulderHead's posts. It concerned me that I couldn't find any...
I didn't actually join PF to discuss religion. In fact when I joined I didn't even know there was a religion forum. I was just looking for somewhere to discuss general topics and current affairs with intelligent people. But since I have an interest in religion I ended up posting more there than...
Well that's a disappointment. No religion forum. I did participate in other forums like politics, general discussion, philosophy and feedback, but I think most of my posts were in the religion forum. From the number of posts and threads there it is clear that religion was a very popular topic...
I am currently preparing an in depth post on a certain religious topic that will cover this question among others. I don't want to give away more at this stage. Wait a little while Tsunami and I may have an answer for you.
Yes the Bible can sometimes be difficult to understand. When Philip heard an Ethiopian eunuch reading from the book of Isaiah on the road to Gaza he ran alongside the man's chariot and asked him: "Do you understand what you are reading?" The man responded: "How can I, unless someone guides me?"...
Tsunami, the Bible is not written in chronological order. Just because it mentions that Adam and Eve had sons and daughters after it talks about Cain lying with his wife does not mean that Adam's daughters were born after Cain had a wife. There is no presumption of chronological order in the...
As a matter of fact I can prove it. It's an established medical fact that the offspring of a marriage between siblings has a much higher risk of genetic deformity. So man's own laws (quite apart from God's law) prohibits this. As for Cain knowing that his parents would have more children are you...