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6 hours ago: I loved this talk. I am a first-year high school teacher and teaching in a poor rural school with absolutely no funding for the arts. Here is my question, though. How do we teach kids that in a perfect world would love to become dancers or NBA stars or artists or musicians, but realistically don't have the money or connections to make it that far? How do we teach the nuts and bolts well, while still encouraging the dancers? How do we bring passion and arts into the classroom while teaching high school seniors what nouns and verbs are? (because somehow they missed that for the previous 11 years of their public school education)

2 days ago: Kindly provide the video link for the same.

Thanks

3 days ago: I dont think we need any spiritual speakers on a Technology platform specially Frauds like Shri Shri Ravi Shankar ,who is a Big fraud worldwide, i have visited his offices in Mumbai and seen the stuff he claims to be healing courses , thats all crap and utter nonsense , lets make it a point not to degrade this woderful platform by inviting people who have no credibility apart from being so called spiritual leaders ot gurus whereas they dont even understand basic things..and specially not people like Baba Ramdev and A.R Rahman as well whose credibility is that he is a musician wheras in technology i dont think he can teach anyone about new emerging technologies other than the fact if he has used new technologies while making his music...
So lets refrain from inviting such people who really woudn't matter in technological world..

4 days ago: If I were god, we would all be alot happier!

4 days ago: I totally agree with you. The cut off titles make browsing through talks kind of difficult.

4 days ago: Hey TED, is there any way you can make it so that the titles of the videos are not cut off? Even if there is not enough room you could have the full title/description pop up when you put the mouse over it.

As an example straight from the page i am currently viewing:
"Philip Zimbardo prescribes a ..."

Prescribes a what? I have to click on it to find out, which actually launches the video whether i want to see it or not, and of course that takes up bandwidth and slows load times.

Other than that, love the site and the whole TED concept. Thankyou for making this available to the world!

6 days ago: 1. Had your parents been Muslim, do you think you would also be a Muslim?
2. This makes this a bit more complicated, the purpose of that question was to narrow down your beliefs regarding certain peripheral doctrines (immaculate conception and such). I guess we'll get to those if they pertain to the discussion.
5. I'm not familiar with any Biblical passages claim Jesus to be God, could you point me to some? What about the 'Father why have you forsaken me?" line? I think this will be the source of many questions on my part.
6. The story is immaterial? What does that mean? It occurred outside the material universe?
7. Not if you don't want to, no. There is a point to the question though I assure you.
8. Hurray!

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Nov 14 2009: 1. Fundamentally similar although we do not attend the same church.
2. My church is non-denominational, I subscribe myself to the teachings of Christ and attempt to follow that out as best I can. My church does the same, I am free to question a teaching if I disagree with it.
5. Jesus is God, the Bible is clear on that. Jesus also said He was God.
6. Immaterial really, Genesis does not deal with the "HOW" of creation but the "WHY" and "WHO". The days do not necessarily entail a 24hr time period. I do believe the story to be true though.
7. Francois I dont know where this question is going but assuming there is another alien world, He would have to have I suppose. I hope we not going to discuss aliens though?
8. I will elaborate on this for you in a few hours...

Nov 14 2009: Francois I think you have misunderstood me because I have failed to articulate exactly what I am trying to get across. I will simply answer your questions above to avoid any further confusion on the matter, for simplicity sake I should have done so previously, apologies for that.

The reasons we have discussed up to this point are relevant to my belief in God.
Ultimately yes our conclusion on origin will differ.

Francois I am happy to answer all of those questions, it is just that some are quite substantial for discussion, do you perhaps want to pick out one for us to discuss and I will answer the quick ones on a new post below.

Nov 13 2009: 1. How similar are your religious beliefs to those of your parents?
2. What kind of Christian are you and do your beliefs depart from those of your denomination in any way? If so, how?
3. What do you know about the origins of the Bible?
4. Does your God intervene in the world? If so does he do so directly or indirectly?
5. Is Jesus the Son of your God or is he God or is it something in between?
6. Do you believe the story of Adam and Eve to be true or fictional? If you believe it to be true, whenabouts in historical time did it occur?
7. If we ever encounter alien life, do you think Christ will also have gone to their planet?
8. Finally, (for now), you claim that this God has spoken to you personally. I'd love to hear you expand on this, can you describe the voice? Was it male? How loud was it? Did anyone else hear it? How can you be sure it was in fact a God? What did it say? How can you be sure the origin of that voice is also responsible for creating the universe?

Nov 13 2009: Wesley, I asked you to present the reasons why you believed a God called Yahwheh had created the Universe. If the reasons you stated earlier are irrelevant to your beliefs, why are we discussing them?

And why is it that when you say 'we are in agreement' and I respond by highlighting how we are actually not, you go on to repeat that we do agree? I don't know what, if anything, happened before the Big Bang, furthermore, I claim you couldn't possibly know either, and yet you claim you do. I'd say that's a pretty fundamental disagreement.

Setting that to one side, I'll ask some questions. Now I don't want to make you uncomfortable so don't feel bad if you'd rather not answer a specific question.

Nov 13 2009: Wesley, i'm afraid Morgan is correct, he is under no burden to prove anything for the simple reason that you are the one making the positive claim. The burden of proof is ALWAYS on the person making the claim that something exists. Replace God with any other mythical concept and you will quickly realize why this is so.
You're saying something exists, you demonstrate its existence.

Nov 13 2009: The idea that we have the best answers to a set of questions based on scientific inquiry is not faith. It is knowledge. Not absolute, perfect, all knowing... but enough to get by in this world. Faith is believing where there is no reason to do so. I have no faith. hebrews, schmebrews...

Nov 13 2009: Really...I think if you thought about it carefully you would realise that you do; use Christianities definition in Hebrews 11:1. I would imagine your naturalist approach to life would make you an evolutionist...quite a few aspects of evolutionary theory require faith. I love watching National Geographic, especially when they tell me that at one stage a mammall decided to get into the ocean and developed fins...now I know there are theories to attempt to back that up but nobody was actually there to record such an event; however as a naturalist you have faith that was true don't you? There are still plenty of question marks regarding the evolutionary process...so believing in it requires faith. Personally I just don't have that much faith to believe in such odds, it seems inconceivable to me. So would you agree then, under the Hebrews 11:1 definition, that you do indeed have faith?

Nov 12 2009: Nothiing.

Nov 12 2009: In John Robbins book 'Food Revolution' he says that the biggest ecological impact you have on the planet is through your choices of what you eat. A Prius driving meat eater has more of an environmental footprint than a vegetarian driving a hummer.

"You'd save more water by not eating a pound of California beef than you would by not showering for an entire year"- Soil and Water specialists at the University of California Agricultural Extension

Nov 12 2009: For events and for people who often get take out food and don't have the habit of bringing along their own dishes one incredibly important invention would be take out products made from materials that break down without a commercial composter. If they were marketed with a composter that businesses could easily integrate it would definitely save a lot of trees. Perhaps they could be made from hemp? I don't have the background or technical skills to do this but maybe someone else does?

Nov 12 2009: Morgan if you don't mind me asking...what do you have faith in?

Nov 11 2009: I am hopeful that your faith gives you comfort.