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Science historian Robert Crease evaluated responses to a 2008 Physics World survey that asked, "Which of the following reflects your views on science and religion?" He found he could place them in this matrix.
First of all, it's a not necessarily a question of science and religion, but science and spirituality. Religions consist of dogma and ideologies wrapped around and therefore obscure the important common spiritual core found within all religions and philosophies. Over the years there have been a number of prominent physicists and members of the spiritual community who have pointed out where science and spirituality can and do co-exist, as well as reinforce one another through the knowledge of quantum physics. From the physicists' perspective, all forms of matter, broken down past the atomic and sub-atomic particles, are simply nothing more than energy. From the spiritual perspective, this energy is intelligent, conscious energy that is also referred to as consciousness or spirit. This somewhat correlates with the Big Bang theory when there was no time or space until the conscious 'I' wished to know itself experientially, and so the statement, 'I am', generated the start of the space/time continuum, which lends to are relative human experience.
Your understanding of science is horrifyingly lacking.
you obviously have not experienced deep compassion and the connection to our creator, energy is the force which can lead us in which ever direction we choose. It is toward our creator, when we dismiss our ego, live in the moment, have compassion for all, you can experience awesome wonders that I can not explain, you have a lot to look forward to and it is science and spirituality coming together as one. Our thoughts have great power, just as Jesus expressed.
What's yours?
Science is not a set of beliefs, as much as its misunderstanding detractors would have us believe. There is no such thing as a scientific fact. Science is a process of investigation.
If religion is treated as a set of beliefs, e.g., blind faith in an afterlife, religion and science can coexist nicely, even if the religious beliefs never change. If the religious beliefs start to be seen as facts, problems can arise. I think religion as process to understand humanity's depth offers potential of growth.
I believe the designations (the colors) in the table should be rotated 90 degrees clockwise.
Not all religions have set beliefs. A similar scientific perspective is promoted by the Buddha. I seems that what you are talking about is specifically a problem related to religion/science split that began with Descartes and the persecution of science at its beginning. Here is an example of how Buddhist approach the world:
"Don't blindly believe what I say. Don't believe me because others convince you of my words. Don't believe anything you see, read, or hear from others, whether of authority, religious teachers or texts. Don't rely on logic alone, nor speculation. Don't infer or be deceived by appearances."
"Do not give up your authority and follow blindly the will of others. This way will lead to only delusion."
"Find out for yourself what is truth, what is real. Discover that there are virtuous things and there are non-virtuous things. Once you have discovered for yourself give up the bad and embrace the good." - The Buddha
Also, Einstein's perspective agreed:
"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism." --Albert Einstein
The matrix is correct. The sad thing is that there are way too many people who not only do not understand science but they also do not understand religion and thus they end up in something other than the bottom left corner.
Belief is one's cache of his/her process. And the process should never stop.
Interesting. I thought it was obvious that EVERYTHING is a process! Evolution continues, in science, in religion, in the cosmos itself. Religions and religious people may TRY to establish and maintain sets of beliefs, but they WILL change as cultures evolve. I agree with Rickbuds that we have too long associated religion and spirituality--these are VERY different parts of life. Atheists have spiritual lives, even if they don't use that term, because they experience profound wonder, joy, connection, and transcendence. These spiritual experiences are universal, regardless of religion or lack thereof. For me, revelations from science are a deep source of spiritual renewal. How could I understand the context and implications of the Ultra Deep Field image and NOT be moved spiritually? How could I appreciate the chemical connections between me and every creature that ever lived on earth and not experience spiritual depth? Spirituality and religion are distant cousins at best, and for me spirituality is more about folding laundry or lying on the ground than it is about religion or the supernatural.
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Hi, I am brand new to Illustrator. I have created the following image and want to apply a few more steps.
I want to do the following:
Can anyone offer advise on how I might achieve these steps?
Many thanks in advance for your answers,
• Effect > Stylize > Round Corners
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• Live Color (Edit > Edit Colors > Recolor Artwork)
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Way to complicated for a logo in my opinion.
On Number 3, If you change your gradient to shades of gray you could then add a new Live Fill over the Gradient and set the Blending Mode to Color.
Thanks Scott. Where is Live Color located??
Uhm.. reread my post. The path is right there.
I cant see where the edit option is to change the gradient to shades of grey. Can you point me in the right direction?
I just want the segment to change colour but keep its gradient - I though I would just be able to drop another color on it!
I cant see where the edit option is to change the gradient to shades of grey. Can you point me in the right direction?
I just want the segment to change colour but keep its gradient - I though I would just be able to drop another color on it!
Not sure if this is the best way to do it but, select your objects and from the EDIT MENU choose EDIT COLORS/CONVERT TO GRAYSCALE.
This way you keep just the luminance from your gradients.
Then one at a time, select an object and give it a new Live Fill. Use the Appearance Panel for this. There's a Add Fill button at the bottom.
Illustrator will add a new fill ontop of the gradient fill so that you will only be able to see the new fill.
Choose a color for the fill, then, in the Appearance Panel again click on the down arrow on the new Fill layer and then click on Opacity to reveal a drop down menu for blending modes. Choose COLOR.
Your new fill color will now colorize the grayscale gradient below it. (The gradient needs to be black and white because using the Color Blend Mode would produce new colors if you blend a color over a color.
You can now change just the Fills to different colors and your gradients will stay put.
Scott's way would work great too but the Edit Colors dialogue can be pretty confusing. I've been using AI for 4 years now and even I avoid it. It would be good to learn it though.
I got it! Now I just cant figure out how to work these palettes!
I just want to simple change the WHOLE color gradient to orange.
The palettes seem only to alow you to edit each individual color of the gradient. It seems a very longwinded way and i would never be able to replicate the exact gradient. Am I missing something?
If you use my suggestion I already explained that.
Sound like you're using Scott's suggestion.
If you are:
• Select an object with a gradient fill.
• goto Edit/Edit Colors/Recolor Artwork.
• click on the EDIT tab. It looks like a button to the left of the ASSIGN tab/button.
• Look for the ChainLink icon at the lower right of the color wheel. Make sure it's selected so that it's locked.
• Now play with the Hue slider.
Hey man, thanks a lot - that did it!
The look of the gradient has now weekend a bit with the new color over it. How can I strengthen the gradiend whilst keeping my new color?! - have tried to edit it with the gradientpanel but it just turns back to grey scale, or green, which was the original colour of the preset gradient I chose.
Might there also be a way to 'copy' pre saved gradients over a flat fill?
Okay, there are a couple ways to tweak the look of the gradient without having to actually touch the stops in it.
Most important would be for you to learn the ways of the Appearance Panel, and of blending modes, but for now:
Right now I'm assuming you have a rectangle with a Gradient Fill applied, and a Color Fill over it with a Color Blend Mode.
Approach 1: Duplicate the Gradient Fill and set the blend mode of the top Gradient to Multiply, or Overlay.
1. Select the rectangle.
2. Select the Gradient Fill in the Appearance Panel.
3. Drag that layer to the New Fill Icon at the bottom of the Panel.
4. You should now have 2 Gradient Fills. One right over the other. And above both of them, the Color Fill with a Color Blend Mode.
5. Take the topmost Gradient Fill, twirl it down to see Opacity, and from there choose Multiply. This will take one gradient and make it blend with the one below to make it appear darker. The color fill is still over both of them and is still doing its coloring job.
You can also try Overlay, this will darken the dark parts of the gradient, and lighten the light parts.
7. Keep in mind, all the while, you can lower the Opacity of the higher gradient to soften the effect.
Approach 2: Move the single Gradient Fill ABOVE the Color Fill
1. Select the rectangle.
2. In the Appearance Panel, select the Gradient Fill and drag it ABOVE the Color Fill.
You should now see only your b/w gradient on the rectangle. The Gradient Fill is now 'covering' the Color Fill.
3. Fix your Color Fill. Set its blend mode to Normal.
4. Back to the Gradient. Now set the Gradient Fill to Muliply or Overlay or whatever. This will now blend the gradient over the Color Fill. (This is probably the best way to do it. It adds luminance values to color, rather than having the color had hue values to luminance. This way makes more sense.)
5. For extra pop, you can duplicate your Gradient Fill again as described in the first approach.
You should def. look into how Live Fills, Live Strokes, the Appearance Panel and Blending modes work out and all this will just come to you naturally.
Hey John, thanks a lot for your advise..
I tried both these options but as you can see below they don't seem to give enough control over the luminance of the gradient (can your see the comparison between the original "Green Gradient" preset and the yellow segments gradient. The color fill always turn a bit dull too.
I am basically trying to take the exact colors from the cropped font below (a jpg), place them on each of the circle segments and make the orange and yellow segments stand out with the same luminance of the "Green Gradient" segement.
Why is it AI only provides that particular gradient preset in green?!
Are there any other options?
See segmented circle below image..
Well it seems like just a matter of tweaking to me.
You seem to know exactly what you're after and the only way to arrive there is to tweak, tweak, tweak.
But by looking at your sample I think the Color Fill set to Color blend mode on the top would work best.
Also have a duplicate of your Gradient Fill above the original Gradient Fill. Have the top Gradient Fill set to OVERLAY.
Then play with the opacity of the higher Gradient level to affect how strong the final gradient look appears.
Just a note... many blend modes have undesired if you are working in CMYK for print (as a logo should be). So using blend modes is often not appriate for print work unless you expand and flatten transparency. Expanding and flattening can often result in raster images to maintain appearance. This presents another issue with print work if you wish to create a scalable vector image.
In reality, you're seeking shortcuts where there really may not be any shortcuts. Often good file construction takes time.
As I posted earlier, using Live Color (Edit > Edit Colors > Recolor Artwork) easily allows you to alter the colors of a gradient and you can maintain values.
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You may use the free script Round Any Corner, available here:
You may create a circle with the desired rounding, Direct Select the corners to round along with it, and apply the script.
What you see seems to be one of the older bugs. Maybe that effect should be named Round some and sharpen some.
Hi Jacob,
Thanks a lot.. I cant seem to find where to download the Script from though?
I figured it was just one .zip with ALL the scipts in but when i downloaded it said the default application was Dreamweaver and will not open with Macs Script Editor.
Am I missing something?
Got it..
You have to unpack and move the .jsx script files to folder: Illustrator/Presets/Scripts
Then load the script from: Illustrator>File>Scripts>Other Scripts.
The preset value "10" works pretty nice to produce subtally rounded coners..
See the other thread you just started.
Edit: Cross posting.
Hi Scott,
Does this animation have a life span? It seems to have stopped playing!
Due to the forum software the animation won't play unless you specifically click the image.


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FORTUNE -- Before Americans are subjected to more election-year caterwauling over high gasoline prices, several truths about the price of oil need to be considered – few of them acknowledged so far by the deep thinkers in Washington, whether Democrat or Republican.
A little-known fact: When oil prices hit $100 a barrel for the first time during the last changing of the presidential guard in 2008, it was the result of price-meddling.
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In Washington, the watchdog agency that's responsible for policing the energy market, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has become more known for dragging its feet. It did not charge the offending trader's employer, ConAgra Trade Group (later sold to the Ospraie Special Opportunities fund and other investors) until late 2010. ConAgra paid a civil monetary penalty of $12 million. The trader walked. The CFTC has never explained why it did not name the trader publicly.
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So what about oil's latest leap to over $100? That was the result of another market game, albeit a legal one. ConocoPhillips (COP) made billions last year when it allowed allow oil barrels to enter – but not exit – the nation's key oil hub of Cushing, Oklahoma, through its portion of the Seaway Pipeline. As oil supplies soared to record levels, the price of oil was pressured far below levels seen elsewhere in the world.
Conoco took full advantage, snapping up the lower-priced barrels for its refineries in the midcontinent and then selling the fuel it made from them to Americans and other buyers at the higher global price -- a move that not only went unchallenged, but was supported by the industry. This past November, after Conoco announced it would sell its portion of Seaway Pipeline to new owners who confirmed they would reverse the pipeline's direction to allow oil to flow out of Cushing again, oil prices promptly popped back above $100 a barrel. Rarely does a single incident so clearly highlight the immense power held by those wielding our nation's strategic pipelines, yet our government continues to wield the kid-glove treatment.
A cursory glance at the historic price chart reveals the seriousness of the situation: oil prices have hit unprecedented highs for sustained periods since 2003, regardless of the latest news in the Middle East or supply and demand data. Ever since energy prices began to run off the rails during the latest Iraq war, our nation's elected officials have either thrown up their hands in resignation or called for more drilling as if it was the ultimate cure-all. Frankly, if supply was truly the panacea, Cushing's record supply highs should have been enough to knock oil far from its $100 pedestal. But they were not.
Meanwhile, demand for oil can't be blamed for keeping prices up either, as global demand growth has been sluggish in light of the protracted economic downturn, supported by data out this week from the Energy Information Administration, the statistics arm of the U.S. Department of Energy.
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The global growth spurt in electronic trading hasn't helped matters. These days, anyone in the world with a caffeinated trigger finger and an Internet hookup can treat the U.S. energy market like a Vegas casino. This is another fact politicians don't like to acknowledge, because now that Pandora's Box is open who's going to shut it?
For those who do not believe electronic trading is susceptible to corruption, think again. A federal appeals court last month reversed a conviction decision against a former Goldman Sachs (GS) programmer who was found guilty of stealing high-frequency trading code from the bank that, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Facciponti, could potentially be used "to manipulate markets."
While it is concerning that such proprietary trading code might be stolen at all, one might also ask why Goldman, which declined to comment, has code that might manipulate markets – including the oil market – in the first place. Perhaps we could just drown it in more oil.
Leah McGrath Goodman is the author of The Asylum: The Renegades Who Hijacked the World's Oil Market.