the fact and fiction of "the sixth day"?
84942
Mostly fiction. When cloning technologies advance, humans eventualy will be able to be cloned, but not the way they show it on "the 6th say" - we won't be able to take a human body "template", "clone" it in the matter of minutes and install previous memories of the cloned individual. Normal scientific cloning, as we know it today, would generate a zygote, which would need to be implanted in a uterus and grow as a fetus. The newborn baby would have the same DNA as the cloned individual, so it would be an identical twin in a sense, but it will need to grow as a normal child to become an adult. The clone will have its own memories and probably a different personality, since it will be raised in a different environment than the DNA donor.
368225
who did it? well it wasnt the butler in the hallway wilh a candlestick. how many different arab leaders are there in U.A.E.?i wouldnt know.however, it had to be a terrorist group of the arab world. look at the names listed they were all arabic.as for the official story, what we read and saw on the tube was as official as it gets.information concerning this tragic day possibly was edited just to be on the safe side. what i mean is that the story probably had more to it than what was said ,but with the turmoil in the world today, the increasing price of oil and fingers pointed at everyone, why say anything to start trouble? personally i dont think our country is the most advanced in defense or technology.our computers are made up of japans experts and as far as i know our defense systems are made with the same technology. i think there a a few small nations in the world that have come a long way as we have but secrets must be kept.hopefully im wrong but,i have read and surfed the web,i had found many items of interest that are questionable.im not a trouble maker and i think any information gotten will be sufficient enough to sustain my curiosity. i served during vietnam and i enlisted and would do it again. this country is my home and i was proud to serve.
1153963
... there doesn't seem to really be any facts about it yet... just people talking about the facts... I don't like that... \nEverything you have cited so far is VERY vague... not that it isn't true... I just want more than some quotes about how great it is and a very brief description...
1092192
On June 6th of ....\n1683 The Ashmolean opens\n1833 President Jackson rides the Iron Horse\n1918 Battle of Belleau Wood begins\n1966 James Meredith shot\n1775 New York Patriot Marinus Willet seizes British weapons\n1933 First "drive-in" opens\n1862 Battle of Memphis\n1977 Vance affirms Carter's interest in human rights\n1997 A teenaged mother gives birth and murders her baby at the prom\n1981 Train avoids cow, but kills 600\n1958 Truth or Consequences goes off air\n1949 George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four is published\n1865 William Quantrill killed by Union soldiers\n1944 General Dwight D. Eisenhower launches Operation Overlord\n1972 South Vietnamese forces clear Kontum of communist troops\n1934 FDR signs Securities Exchange Act\n1918 Battle of Belleau Wood begins\n1944 D-Day\n\nThe History Channel has a nice feature called this day in history that is available online.  That is where I recieved most of the above events.
830838
Certainly. Most of it is history that has been recorded elsewhere, just told from a number of perspectives.\n\nIt deals with people known to have existed and things that they are known to have done.\n\nHowever none of the supernatural occurrences have been supported except one. That is the destruction of the Tower of Babel. There is a ruin that fits some of that story in that its destruction shows evidence of the release of a great deal of power of some kind. In Iraq if Saddam didn't tear it apart.
670801
The only way to answer the rumor(s) would be to point you in the direction of several websites that can explain it in detail. You can visit Dan Brown's website here, and answers to the myths about his book at the other website.
525039
Its false. If it is true. It would not have been mysterious.
119246
can't tell you the "real" story ... but I can tell you the movie was rubbish. Very inaccurate, to say the least.\nBy the way, you say not to reply with insults against arabs ... what does the movie have to with arabs???????
623494
Depends what is meant by 'truth'. If by 'truth' unquestionable fact like the answers to maths questions is meant then its just the religious nuts. \nHowever, if 'truth' in the way that oral history is truth then the bible's a pretty good record of that. Its got stories about different groups of people and their question to find God and the meaning to life.\nLike the creation story. Its pretty unlikely that the universe was created in 7 days by God speaking, however, when you read it don't look for facts look at the way its written. Imagine it being told by a bard to a bunch of kids - its prefect, got a good structure and a repeated refain and is relevant to people's lives because its seperated into days.
809523
No, but I do recognize that this work of fiction did incorporate amounts of fact, and largr amounts of supposition.\n\nBTW - By your attitude, calling others ignorant, you do not do your cause any justice, my friend.
457979
It is all open to conjecture. Some of the characters or events are actual historical persons/events e.g. Mary Magdalene did exist..whether she was indeed the "wife" of Jesus is open to debate...the Knight's Templar did exist..whether they were privy to "the great secret of Jesus's marriage and blood descendants" is another story...same goes for Leonardo da Vinci. Dan Brown does not make claim that any of these events are in fact true; they are loosely based on historical facts. Archaeology and in deed biblical history/archaeology has a hard time reconciling events in the bible to factual historical accounts. This is because the bible was borne out of oral traditions. There is little that is "eye witness testimony". It is however safe to say that christian beliefs, rituals and practices are an amalgamation of other religious traditions since nothing is born in a vacuum.
1027224
It's not that it's convincing by itself. It's just that it ties in with what we heard on 9/11 in terms of news (much of which may have been unconfirmed). People make that connection between what they remember seeing in the news that day and what the government is telling us now and assume that because two sources are confirming the story, it must be true.
422322
I think it's rubbish. I think it's a hoax, a clever elaborate hoax. I must applaud the person who created the Titor story for his (or her) ingenuity.\n\nIt seems to me that most people will believe anything, no matter how absurd.\n\nThe John Titor story actually sounds pretty believable when you compare it stories that appear in major religious texts like the Bible, the Koran, or the Gita. People believe those.
625693
uhm hate to burst all your bubbles but if you go to this link you will find out its not at all a big mystery. it makes sense and yes it had a life boat and yes it was used. these other fictions were done by various writers the actual records of event are discussed here\nhttp://www.maryceleste.net/part2.htm
996459
It's "aren't people" -- FYI\nPeople are mostly kidding.  The date today is 6/6/06 - NOT 666 as in six hundred sixty-six.  No one said the world is going to end on 666 anyway.  It's a mark - not a date
532911
People have been circulating a rumor since the late 1800s that scientists have confirmed the “long day” recorded in the Bible's Book of Joshua. (Joshua 10:13)\n\nBible-believing Christians, of course, believe the miracle of the long day because God's Word says it. They don't need anyone to tell them it is true.\n\nThis is absolute non-sense.  It recently started circulating around the internet again, but their is no truth to it.  Just Christian trying to bring fiction to life out of the bible.
656375
I don't think you can believe it at all. It was all made up by L Ron Hubbard. It is a science fiction story . Unfortunately some people will believe anything.