A friend asked me about the Church's position on evolution.
友人が教会の進化論に対しての立場について伺っています。
Actually, he asked me about shin-ka ron, 進化論、 which could be "The Theory of Evolution" or just "evolution theory". And I don't think he was any more specific than the Japanese expression.
もうちょっと詳しく言えば、「進化論」と言う言葉だけで聞かれると、科学理論の有名ものの一つである「進化論」のことか、それとも一般的に、進化することについての考え方か、どちらかがわからないのです。本人も特にどちらを考えていたかは多分自分でもはっきりしていなかったと思います。
There is an article in the Deseret News, here, from 2006, that asserts "No definitive LDS stance on evolution". It references a "BYU Evolution Packet", apparently, this. The headline isn't quite correct, but that's normal for headlines.
2006年から「末日聖徒は進化論に対して立場を特定しない」と主張する新聞記事が「デゼレトニュース」という新聞のここに掲載された。この記事は「BYU進化論知恵袋」を参照しています。おそらくこれです。ヘッドラインはちょっとハズレですが、ヘッドラインはそんなものでしょう。ちょっと外れるのは普通です。
As I type this, wikipedia has a good article, here. The trouble with wikipedia is that it changes regularly. What may be clear, succinct, and accurate today is sometimes not so clear, accurate, or succinct tomorrow.
打ち込んでいる現在の時点ではウィキペディアにはまあまあいい記事があります。ここです。ウィキペディアの短所ですが、コロコロ変わるのです。今日、明解簡潔で確実な記事は今日あっても、明日には約束がないのです。
Also, FARMS has a review of a book, here, by the two men who prepared the BYU packet, William E. Evenson and Duane E. Jeffery. (The book itself does not appear to be on-line.) And searching through Google, etc., for "BYU evolution packet" produces more interesting links, some of not much value.
またもう一つですが、 FARMS には、BYU進化論知恵袋を編集した二人のウィリアムＥエヴェンソン氏とドエインＥジェフリー氏が著作した本の評論文をここに掲載されている。（書物そのものは残念ながらネット上に公開していなさそう。）また、グーグルなどで「BYU evolution packet」を検索すると他の面白いリンクが出てきます。あまり価値のないのもありますけど。
The debate is interesting, and may be instructional if you avoid getting caught up in the arguments of either side.
その討論が面白くて、それぞれの議論に夢中にならなければ勉強になるかも知りません。
I need to focus on the job hunt, so I don't have time to post more than this. Even translating it is a stretch of my time. So I should summarize.
就職活動がに専念しないといけないのでこれ以上投稿できません。訳すだけでやり過ぎかも知れません。まとめておきます。
The best summary I can give is that the prophet says none of the sides in the debate has all the truth.
最も正確にまとめようと、預言者の言っていることは討論のどちら側も誰もすべての真実を占めているわけにはいけません。
And the prophets and the apostles keep telling us, let's quit arguing and keep learning truth from wherever God teaches it to us, whether through science or scripture study or friends with different opinions from ourselves. Or direct inspiration. Let's all keep learning.
その上、預言者たちも使徒たちも教えてくれているのは、論争を止めて、真理を、神様がどんなところで教えてくださるにしても、神様から学びましょう。理化学経由にしても、成分研究にしても、自分と違う意見を持つ友達によってもそうです。直接の霊感でも。学び続けましょう。
And, most importantly to this topic, whatever methods of creation were used, man is created in the image of God. We are literally God's children.
そして、この課題に一番大切なのは、どういう創造法に由るのだったとしても、人間は神様に象って作られているモノです。文字通りの神の子で在ります。
And we can repent, learn from our mistakes, turn ourselves towards God's ways, and become much better people than we have been -- We can personally evolve, so to speak.
そして、我々は悔い改めて、間違いから学んで、神の道へ向けて、以前よりはマシな人間になれるでしょう。言えば、個人的に進化できるのです。
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Monday, September 9, 2013
What should we do about the NSA?
More revelations about the NSA, Bruce Schneier talks about them here.
Someone asked about it on the debian mailing list, and my knee-jerk reaction was a quote from someone at one of the British counterparts to the US intellegence agencies:
The best security is to not have anything worth attacking.
Technology can only go so far. It's always a war of attrition, which is the gaping hole in the NSA's logic in going from theory to practice, en-masse. So we can only keep them at bay for a little bit longer at any particular point in time. If you can't keep up, you're exposed.
That's the reason for going "religious".
War is always a game of going one better against the other guy until someone runs out of the will to do it again, or until someone runs out of resources. It doesn't end until somebody gives in. (That's actually one of the underlying messages of the Book of Mormon, by the way.)
New technology only adds new ways of going one better.
People who want you to pay them for making new technological weapons will argue that their technology can "beat the bad guys".
Funding development of new technology is usually a win-win, but this particular reason is all wrong, for all sorts of reasons.
In the first place, we have met the enemy and (Hi, Pogo) discovered we were looking in the mirror.
There are no bad guys, no good guys. (There's only you and I and a bunch of other people and sometimes we just disagree about something. Hi, Jim, Hi, Dave.)
Beating the bad guy is always a bad reason.
And if you admit that you may be just as bad, beating the other guy becomes an even worse reason, unless you know how to stop before someone gets seriously hurt.
In the second place, weapons are not the only or even the best use of technology. Neither is war. It's the easy use, in many cases, but that's no excuse, because of the first reason and the third, the reason I have already mentioned: It ain't gonna end until someone gives up or gives in.
In the third place, it's usually the bigger guy who gives in first. You see, the bigger you are, the more you get accustomed to the idea that there is always someone bigger than you are. You beat one enemy, and there's always going to be another. In video games, there's always the final enemy, the big boss. But there's always another video game.
In real life, there's always another bigger guy to beat.
Abraham was shown this, thousands of years ago, if you believe the LDS scripture. It's just as true now.
That brings up the fourth reason and I'll stop with reasons here: God is greater than all of us.
The only way to achieve real security is to develop a good relationship with the Ultimate Entity, as I said above.
I have to acknowledge that humans invent a lot of false gods, because they can't seem to wangle the real God. I'll also acknowledge that there is an influence, a lying influence, that runs around swaggering and claiming to be God, but is not. These are two issues you have to get around before you can start developing a relationship with the real Ultimate Entity.
But if you can get around those (and around your own desire to manipulate reality), you find that God is actually your friend.
Once you can understand that God is your friend, once you can see that God is your ultimate friend, you are no longer vulnerable to the NSA or any other artifact of man's greed.
So, what should we do about the NSA?
First things first, get your own computer in order. Then get your own house, your own life in order.
Wipe Microsofts or Apple's stuff off of it and load a free-as-in-freedom OS.
If you insist on Microsoft or Apple's stuff, think about the free-as-in-beer 3rd-party stuff you've downloaded. Any of those is one too many.
If the source code is not available for you and/or a skilled friend to look at, and if the license doesn't say you and/or your friend can modify the code, it's free-as-in-beer, not free-as-in-freedom.
Understand the difference between free beer and freedom. Okay, that should be the first thing:
Understand the difference between free drugs and freedom.
Well, I can't tell you all the things about repentance you need to know. If you don't have a religion, or a guiding philosophy, find one. You have to start somewhere.
(I'd like to tell you about the so-called "Mormon" brand of Christianity, but you have to take your own course. You're welcome, of course, to check us out, but if that's not your first place to start, start at your own first place to start.)
Be willing to change your ideas about religion, because you are only human, and humans can get wrong ideas. (That goes for any religion or philosophy, including atheism and Mormonism and Shintoism and anything else. No magic incantations that make you suddenly "right".) We all have some wrong ideas now and then. But try to change your ideas for the better, not for the worse.
And don't assume that you have to suddenly throw it all away just because maybe you didn't understand a few things quite right before. A few steps at a time will get you further than one giant step you're too afraid to take.
Once you get connected (or reconnected) with your conscience, learn how to talk with God. Understand that there are deceiving spirits and try to avoid them, but learn how to commune with your conscience. It can tell you right and wrong.
And it can also help you know about strategic things, like whether it's really time to throw away your non-free OS and try debian or openbsd or one of the more popular ones, or one of the more freedom-oriented ones.
And it can motivate you to learn how to use passwords and user names properly. And other things about using the things you have wisely.
So, what to do about all the people who want to steal your privacy?
Don't get too excited.
Get in touch with your conscience first. Once you're in touch with your conscience, the rest comes along, a bit at a time.
Someone asked about it on the debian mailing list, and my knee-jerk reaction was a quote from someone at one of the British counterparts to the US intellegence agencies:
"Those that didn't know about it were gobsmacked."(Not sure I got that accurate.) To which I added
If any of that surprises you, you haven't been paying attention.
Technology, we can work on a few things to hold them at bay for a little longer.
But keep your nose clean. Don't be a target.
Anything that must be private, keep it off the internet.
Have as few things that have to be kept private as you can.
Develop a good relationship with God, by whatever name you call That
Ultimate Entity, because that's going to be your only help in the end.
The best security is to not have anything worth attacking.
Technology can only go so far. It's always a war of attrition, which is the gaping hole in the NSA's logic in going from theory to practice, en-masse. So we can only keep them at bay for a little bit longer at any particular point in time. If you can't keep up, you're exposed.
That's the reason for going "religious".
War is always a game of going one better against the other guy until someone runs out of the will to do it again, or until someone runs out of resources. It doesn't end until somebody gives in. (That's actually one of the underlying messages of the Book of Mormon, by the way.)
New technology only adds new ways of going one better.
People who want you to pay them for making new technological weapons will argue that their technology can "beat the bad guys".
Funding development of new technology is usually a win-win, but this particular reason is all wrong, for all sorts of reasons.
In the first place, we have met the enemy and (Hi, Pogo) discovered we were looking in the mirror.
There are no bad guys, no good guys. (There's only you and I and a bunch of other people and sometimes we just disagree about something. Hi, Jim, Hi, Dave.)
Beating the bad guy is always a bad reason.
And if you admit that you may be just as bad, beating the other guy becomes an even worse reason, unless you know how to stop before someone gets seriously hurt.
In the second place, weapons are not the only or even the best use of technology. Neither is war. It's the easy use, in many cases, but that's no excuse, because of the first reason and the third, the reason I have already mentioned: It ain't gonna end until someone gives up or gives in.
In the third place, it's usually the bigger guy who gives in first. You see, the bigger you are, the more you get accustomed to the idea that there is always someone bigger than you are. You beat one enemy, and there's always going to be another. In video games, there's always the final enemy, the big boss. But there's always another video game.
In real life, there's always another bigger guy to beat.
Abraham was shown this, thousands of years ago, if you believe the LDS scripture. It's just as true now.
That brings up the fourth reason and I'll stop with reasons here: God is greater than all of us.
The only way to achieve real security is to develop a good relationship with the Ultimate Entity, as I said above.
I have to acknowledge that humans invent a lot of false gods, because they can't seem to wangle the real God. I'll also acknowledge that there is an influence, a lying influence, that runs around swaggering and claiming to be God, but is not. These are two issues you have to get around before you can start developing a relationship with the real Ultimate Entity.
But if you can get around those (and around your own desire to manipulate reality), you find that God is actually your friend.
Once you can understand that God is your friend, once you can see that God is your ultimate friend, you are no longer vulnerable to the NSA or any other artifact of man's greed.
So, what should we do about the NSA?
First things first, get your own computer in order. Then get your own house, your own life in order.
Wipe Microsofts or Apple's stuff off of it and load a free-as-in-freedom OS.
If you insist on Microsoft or Apple's stuff, think about the free-as-in-beer 3rd-party stuff you've downloaded. Any of those is one too many.
If the source code is not available for you and/or a skilled friend to look at, and if the license doesn't say you and/or your friend can modify the code, it's free-as-in-beer, not free-as-in-freedom.
Understand the difference between free beer and freedom. Okay, that should be the first thing:
Understand the difference between free drugs and freedom.
Well, I can't tell you all the things about repentance you need to know. If you don't have a religion, or a guiding philosophy, find one. You have to start somewhere.
(I'd like to tell you about the so-called "Mormon" brand of Christianity, but you have to take your own course. You're welcome, of course, to check us out, but if that's not your first place to start, start at your own first place to start.)
Be willing to change your ideas about religion, because you are only human, and humans can get wrong ideas. (That goes for any religion or philosophy, including atheism and Mormonism and Shintoism and anything else. No magic incantations that make you suddenly "right".) We all have some wrong ideas now and then. But try to change your ideas for the better, not for the worse.
And don't assume that you have to suddenly throw it all away just because maybe you didn't understand a few things quite right before. A few steps at a time will get you further than one giant step you're too afraid to take.
Once you get connected (or reconnected) with your conscience, learn how to talk with God. Understand that there are deceiving spirits and try to avoid them, but learn how to commune with your conscience. It can tell you right and wrong.
And it can also help you know about strategic things, like whether it's really time to throw away your non-free OS and try debian or openbsd or one of the more popular ones, or one of the more freedom-oriented ones.
And it can motivate you to learn how to use passwords and user names properly. And other things about using the things you have wisely.
So, what to do about all the people who want to steal your privacy?
Don't get too excited.
Get in touch with your conscience first. Once you're in touch with your conscience, the rest comes along, a bit at a time.
Saturday, September 7, 2013
decentralization -- 集中排除
Up until last Monday, I had been using my free-loader account at dyn.com to publish my personal web server at the domain name reiisi.homedns.org. They've been changing the lineup in their free product line, which is perfectly within their rights. But, right now, I can't afford to pay even the small yearly fee for basic dynamic dns, so my personal web server is now off-line.
先週の月曜日までは、 dyn.com のボクの無料アカウントを使って reiisi.homedns.org のドメイン名で自家用のサーバーを公開していました。 dyn.com の方は、オマケの製品を調節しています。その責任と権限は当然彼らのものです。しかし、ボクは、その基本動的 dns のわずかな料金にしても、今は財布から出せないのです。そのため、ボクの個人ウェブサーバーが繋がらないままです。
For various technical reasons, I had wanted to move to a paying account years ago. But I have to feed my family.
技術上のいろんな理由で有料のアカウントに変えたかったんですが、家族は皆食べないといけません。
Why do I think it's important to have my own domain name?
どうして、自分のドメイン名が大事なのでしょう？
Decentralization.
ディセントラリゼーションです。集中排除。
A decentralized network is a more robust network. (This principle needs further discussion, but not here.)
集中排除分散化ネットワークは頑丈です。（この原則を議論したいけど、ここの今ではない。）
In the original plan for the internet, every terminal computer attached to the network was supposed to have its own host (sub-domain) name. (And its own permanent IP address, but that's another topic for another day.)
インターネットの元々の計画では、ネットワークに接続する端末コンピュータは固有のホスト名（下位ドメイン名）を割り当てられているはずです。（さらに、IP アドレスも持っているはずですが、それはまた違う日の課題です。）
So, if my provider were yahoo (It isn't.), yahoo might set me up with reiisi.yahoo-f.jp, and that would be the name of my router (and perhaps a primary computer behind my router). Other computers inside my router might be named clown.reiisi.yahoo-f.jp, merciless.reiisi.yahoo-f.jp, and nohat.reiisi.yahoo-f.jp. And I could set up mail addresses of my own, say, littleguy@reiisi.yahoo-f.jp.
（ヤフーではないけど）仮にプロバイダーがヤフーだとすると、ヤフーからは reiisi.yahoo-f.jp のドメイン名を割り当ててくれるとします。それが家のルーターのアドレスになる。（またルーターのこちら側の主コンピュータのドメイン名かも知れません。）内側のほかのコンピュータは例えば clown.reiisi.yahoo-f.jp や merciless.reiisi.yahoo-f.jp 及び nohat.reiisi.yahoo-f.jp. そして自分でEメールアドレスを割り当てるのです。例えば littleguy@reiisi.yahoo-f.jp.
This solves a whole lot of security-related problems, all by itself. If, for instance, littleguy@reiisi.yahoo-f.jp becomes a spam magnet because I gave it to an unscrupulous salesman, I no longer have to ask my ISP for a new address.
これだけでいろんなセキュリティの問題を解決します。例えば、 littleguy@reiisi.yahoo-f.jp を良心の無い営業マンに渡してしまって、要求無し営利的Eメールがどっさりと入ってくる場合は、わざわざ新しいEメールアドレスを ISP に頼む必要がない。
That's just a small example of how the current centralized mode of control makes a mess of the internet.
これはただ一つの小さい例えですが、現在のインターネットが集中型管理によってどれほど管理できなくなっているかが見えてくると思います。
It's time to change.
改革の時期です。
先週の月曜日までは、 dyn.com のボクの無料アカウントを使って reiisi.homedns.org のドメイン名で自家用のサーバーを公開していました。 dyn.com の方は、オマケの製品を調節しています。その責任と権限は当然彼らのものです。しかし、ボクは、その基本動的 dns のわずかな料金にしても、今は財布から出せないのです。そのため、ボクの個人ウェブサーバーが繋がらないままです。
For various technical reasons, I had wanted to move to a paying account years ago. But I have to feed my family.
技術上のいろんな理由で有料のアカウントに変えたかったんですが、家族は皆食べないといけません。
Why do I think it's important to have my own domain name?
どうして、自分のドメイン名が大事なのでしょう？
Decentralization.
ディセントラリゼーションです。集中排除。
A decentralized network is a more robust network. (This principle needs further discussion, but not here.)
集中排除分散化ネットワークは頑丈です。（この原則を議論したいけど、ここの今ではない。）
In the original plan for the internet, every terminal computer attached to the network was supposed to have its own host (sub-domain) name. (And its own permanent IP address, but that's another topic for another day.)
インターネットの元々の計画では、ネットワークに接続する端末コンピュータは固有のホスト名（下位ドメイン名）を割り当てられているはずです。（さらに、IP アドレスも持っているはずですが、それはまた違う日の課題です。）
So, if my provider were yahoo (It isn't.), yahoo might set me up with reiisi.yahoo-f.jp, and that would be the name of my router (and perhaps a primary computer behind my router). Other computers inside my router might be named clown.reiisi.yahoo-f.jp, merciless.reiisi.yahoo-f.jp, and nohat.reiisi.yahoo-f.jp. And I could set up mail addresses of my own, say, littleguy@reiisi.yahoo-f.jp.
（ヤフーではないけど）仮にプロバイダーがヤフーだとすると、ヤフーからは reiisi.yahoo-f.jp のドメイン名を割り当ててくれるとします。それが家のルーターのアドレスになる。（またルーターのこちら側の主コンピュータのドメイン名かも知れません。）内側のほかのコンピュータは例えば clown.reiisi.yahoo-f.jp や merciless.reiisi.yahoo-f.jp 及び nohat.reiisi.yahoo-f.jp. そして自分でEメールアドレスを割り当てるのです。例えば littleguy@reiisi.yahoo-f.jp.
This solves a whole lot of security-related problems, all by itself. If, for instance, littleguy@reiisi.yahoo-f.jp becomes a spam magnet because I gave it to an unscrupulous salesman, I no longer have to ask my ISP for a new address.
これだけでいろんなセキュリティの問題を解決します。例えば、 littleguy@reiisi.yahoo-f.jp を良心の無い営業マンに渡してしまって、要求無し営利的Eメールがどっさりと入ってくる場合は、わざわざ新しいEメールアドレスを ISP に頼む必要がない。
That's just a small example of how the current centralized mode of control makes a mess of the internet.
これはただ一つの小さい例えですが、現在のインターネットが集中型管理によってどれほど管理できなくなっているかが見えてくると思います。
It's time to change.
改革の時期です。
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