This is why the Church of Scotland is a bit of a joke

No real need to read this, believe me.

To sum it up as quickly as possible, a Church of Scotland elder who also happens to be a supposedly trained biochemist has issued warnings about the human embryo bill that's currently going through
- he wants it to stop humans from impregnating monkeys. For the record, I've never met anybody who would want to impregnate a monkey. There's also the tiny detail that, y'know, IT'S HIGHLY IMPLAUSIBLE! It's not even likely to work, let alone something that's even been considered.
But don't let that get in the way of a good rant. Apparently we're going to see monkeys impregnated, and the monkey-human hybrid offspring used for organ harvesting. And we're going to see that as morally acceptable because monkeys are just animals.

For the record, the cheapest way to harvest organs is to grow them yourself, using stem cells.
Doing so does not require you to create and abort an embryo, it doesn't involve killing things, and it doesn't involve mucking about with genetics. Theoretically you can grow organs from tissue samples. If we're going to see organ harvesting in labs, that's a lot more likely than doing it with humonkeys.

Did you know some Chimera embryos got made a few weeks back? Yeah, while the government was still debating a bill on wether or not to ban them. What interests me is, there's been zip all activity from teh church in protest. I mean, there where folk on the TV all the time complaining about it being so wrong, but once it happens, zilch. Ok, so from what I'm aware it was on the Catholic church and certain sections of the Anglican church that had a problem with it, and that seemed to be based on a complete lack of understanding of how the whole thing works, but even so. What happened to standing up for morality? It doesn't just end when people go get away with it, guys!

Trust the documentation

As most folk are no doubt sick of hearing, I'm a very keen computer programmer.
What can I say? I love code.

Now then, writing something totally from scratch is pretty unusual. Generally you make use of libraries that contain code and functions pre-written by others.
You don't tend to actually edit or even touch said code, you just use it.
You're supplied with documentation written by the original author, which explains how to use the code. What it doesn't do is go into every last detail about how it all works: it says what you need to know. Now, sometimes the documentation can be unclear. Sometimes you need to work it out for yourself. This is where problems arise. You can get things wrong if you're not careful. You can assume things that aren't stated, and that can lead to trouble.
If you try to make it do something it's not designed to, you can find yourself with more errors and glitches than Windows. If you make it work the wrong way, you can find yourself with something totally unexpected. Sometimes the errors can be subtle: you can make a mistake, and nine times out of ten it won't even be a problem. It helps to learn as quickly as possible that you don't want to go doing this. You have to learn to just follow what the documentation says, not what you think it says. Keep it simple.

I'm a bit sadistic, so I'm not going to go any further with this one. It's already a bit convoluted. Think about it, see if you can follow it on to a useful surmising about reading the bible. Have fun!
I have some code to get back to...

Well this should be itneresting

So basically here's another of my slightly less geeky blogs. I've not totally given up on working my way through the parables like, I just honestly don't have time for that at the moment.

This blog's going to be slightly different. Rather than spending the time giving my interpretation of scripture, it's going to be a bit of a pick-n-mix. Random musing, sudden ideas, a bit of
attempted scripture commentary, maybe the odd set of lyrics or audio recording if I'm in a creative mood.

Updates will be as unpredictable as ever, schedule wise. Might go months with nothing then make a thousand posts in a day if I'm in the mood. Should be fun, eh?