During the few years after its foundation the British Museum received several further gifts, including the Thomason Collection of Civil War Tracts and David Garrick's library of 1, 000 printed plays, but yet contained few ancient relics recognisable to visitors of the modern museum.

For example, Daniel Dennett and Douglas Hofstadter argue that anything capable of passing the Turing test is necessarily conscious, while David Chalmers argues that a philosophical zombie could pass the test, yet fail to be conscious.

Therefore, the David Bowman in each book is a different, yet similar, incarnation of the same character.

On June 13, 2012, National Basketball Association ( NBA ) commissioner David Stern asked radio personality Jim Rome the loaded question, " Have you stopped beating your wife yet?

After standing unmatched for 28 years, this record has been equaled by Jason Elam in 1998, Sebastian Janikowski in 2011, and David Akers in 2012, but has yet to be broken.

David cuts off a piece of Saul's robe ; yet David restrains himself and his associates from going further, due to a taboo against killing an anointed king ... and also due to the risk of rationalizing Saul's jealousy and paranoia.

Author David Mitchell described himself as being " magnetised " by the book from its start when he read it as an undergraduate, but on rereading it, felt it had aged and that he didn't find it " breathtakingly inventive " as he had the first time, yet does stress that " however breathtakingly inventive a book is, it is only breathtakingly inventive once "-with once being better than never.

In the 8th episode of Season 5 of Curb Your Enthusiasm David states that he " can't draw to save my life but yet I'm a very good doodler.

In 1964, the play enjoyed yet another incarnation when David Merrick, who had produced the 1955 Broadway production, mounted a hugely successful, Tony Award-winning musical version entitled Hello, Dolly !, with a score by Jerry Herman and starring Carol Channing.

David W. Chen of The New York Times said that " perhaps one of the reasons Hillcrest has managed to evolve so significantly yet anonymously " is the community's hamlet status ; he added that " even within Ramapo, Hillcrest is often overlooked.

David Jones also first published in the late 1930s, yet he too belongs more to the post-war era.

*" David Norris failed, yet the ' nothing new ' system failed too ", The Guardian

Another longtime associate was David Rockefeller ( yet another Bilderberg regular ), who appointed him to the International Advisory Committee ( IAC ) of Chase Manhattan Bank, of which Rockefeller was chairman ; Agnelli sat on this committee for thirty years.

Some philosophers believe that the " no-free-lunch in search and optimization theorem " of David Wolpert and William G. Macready is a probability-based extension of induction, yet this is misleading, as inductive logic accustomed to probabilistic arguments and the No free lunch theorem ( NFL ) is more a variation of economic rational choice theory.

Alternatively, research by David A. Goss in the United States, shows they may have originated independently in the late 13th century in Italy as stated in a manuscript from 1305 where a monk from Pisa named Rivalto stated " It is not yet 20 years since there was discovered the art of making eyeglasses ".

It was said by them to originate from a mythical " Bishop Golias ", a mediæval Latin form of the name Goliath, the giant who fought King David in the Bible, suggestive of their posing as heavy drinking yet learned students who lampooned the ecclesiastical and political establishment.

Three new generals came to power at Pelican Bay, yet two were demoted, leaving only David " DC " Cervantes as the highest-ranking member of the gang in California.

By contrast, it is thought by many mind-body dualists ( e. g. René Descartes, David Chalmers ) that subjective conscious experience constitutes a separate effect that demands another cause, a cause that is either outside the physical world ( dualism ) or due to an as yet unknown physical phenomenon ( see for instance Quantum mind, Indirect realism ).

Handing out yet more flyers and teaming with the existing sales staff that included Nancy Smith, David Klein, and David Gardner, Probst built the largest sales force of any American game publisher.

David Lee Roth did not attend the ceremony and the event was considered yet another public embarrassment for the band.

Among the positive reviews, David Denby of New York, wrote that the film was a " deranged fable of the New West " which turned " sarcasm into a rude yet affectionate mode of comedy ".

Morales came to an agreement with David Añez Pedraza, the leader of a defunct yet still registered party named the Movement for Socialism ( MAS ); under this agreement, Morales and the Six Federaciónes could take over the party name, with Pendraza stipulating the condition that they must maintain its own acronym, name and colors.

On hearing that God had blessed Obed-edom because of the presence of the Ark in his house, David had the Ark brought to Zion by the Levites, while he himself, " girded with a linen ephod ," " danced before the Lord with all his might " and in the sight of all the public gathered in Jerusalem — a performance that caused him to be scornfully rebuked by his first wife, Saul's daughter Michal ( 2 Sam.

After several hundred years of Tabernacle worship without instrumental music, King David introduced musical instruments into Temple worship based upon a commandment from God.

Modern opponents of instruments do not make the same assessment of instruments as these writers, who argued that God had allowed David the “ evil ” of using musical instruments in praise.

# The beginning of 1 Chronicles ( chapters 1 – 10 ) mostly contains genealogical lists, including the House of Saul and Saul's rejection by God, which sets the stage for the rise of David.

David A. Clines, in his influential The Themes of the Pentateuch ( 1978 ), identified the overarching theme of the five books as the partial fulfilment of a promise to made by God to the patriarchs, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

God then promises David and his successors an eternal dynasty.

David commits adultery with Bathsheba and plots the death of her husband ; for this God punishes him, saying that the sword shall never depart from his house.

As God's chosen king over Israel David is also the son of God (" I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me ..."-2 Samuel 7: 14 ).

God enters into an eternal covenant ( treaty ) with David and his line, promising divine protection of the dynasty and of Jerusalem through all time.

God used Satan to try King David (; ), who then numbered the people out of pride.

* Two and a Half Men ( 2009 ) – Melissa's mom, Shelly, in the episodes " David Copperfield Slipped Me a Roofie " and " Thank God for Scoliosis.

The Christian view of Jesus as Messiah goes beyond such claims and is the fulfillment and union of three anointed offices ; a prophet like Moses who delivers God's commands and covenant and frees people from bondage, a High Priest in the order of Melchizedek overshadowing the Levite priesthood and a king like King David ruling over Jews, and like God ruling over the whole world and coming from the line of David.

Christadelphians believe that he will return to the earth in person to set up the Kingdom of God in fulfilment of the promises made to Abraham and David.

God sends an evil spirit to torment Saul () and his attendants suggest he send for David, a young warrior famed for his bravery and for his skill with the harp.

Saul does so and makes David one of his armor-bearers and " whenever the spirit from God came upon Saul, David would take his harp and play.

" David brings the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem, intending to build a temple, but God, speaking to the prophet Nathan, is pleased, saying the temple will be built.

God makes a covenant with David, promising that he will establish the house of David: " Your throne shall be established forever.

" The prophet Nathan confronts David, saying: " Why have you despised the word of God, to do what is evil in his sight?

This was the background to the concept of Messiahship in early Christianity, which interpreted the career of Jesus " by means of the titles and functions assigned to David in the mysticism of the Zion cult, in which he served as priest-king and in which he was the mediator between God and man.

The Doctrine and Covenants of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints cites David as one directed by God to practice polygamy, but who sinned in committing adultery with Bathsheba and having Uriah killed.

Second, the message begins with " Thus says YHVH, God of your father David ..." rather than the more usual "... in the name of YHVH the God of Israel.