A point which virtually every JW will miss in this week's book study (page 3)

DuvanMuvan

tried to point this out to my mum and a brother once. My mum decided to "wait on jehovah" and the brother completely ignored it

All this happened after 2370BC. It's scary that people can honestly believe all of the modern species developed in that tiny amount of time. They are the most optimistic evolotionists in the world. Me and my wife just visited the royal Ontario museum. we were looking at the ancient Egypt section. Thou could clearly see that there was unbroken Egyptian society dating years before the date for the flood on until after thRoman Empire. Did she catch it? No. But I will bring it up in the future.

Vidiot

BU2B - "It's scary that people can honestly believe all of the modern species developed in that tiny amount of time. They are the most optimistic evolotionists in the world."

Honestly, I'm pretty sure most of 'em haven't given it that degree of conscious thought. The cog-dis kicks in, and they think about something else, instead (like how much Jesus loves them, or something).

Vidiot

Outlaw, quoting from Draw Close to Jehovah - "That the great variety of animal life known today could have come from inbreeding within so few 'kinds' following the Flood is proved by the endless variety of human kind - short, tall, fat, thin, with countless variations in the color of hair, eyes, and skin - all of whom sprang from the one family of Noah."

Variety came from inbreeding? Seriously?

How the hairy blue f**k did a statement that facepalm-worthy get past the editors?

EDIT: I had to check this myself; I downloaded that book from JWorg and did a search for the word "inbreeding" in Chapter 5.

I couldn't find it. Maybe it was changed after someone realized just how pants-shittingly insane it sounded.

sir82

I downloaded that book from JWorg and did a search for the word "inbreeding" in Chapter 5. I couldn't find it.

Outlaw got his references mixed up. The "inbreeding" comment comes from the Insight-I volume under the topic "Ark".

Vidiot

Ah, got it. Thanks.

You're slipping, Outlaw.

KateWild

because they won't listen to you long enough to let you disprove it.-Apogs

Neve say never, I firmly believe there are many trapped in the BOrg that have their doubts. IMO it's not just what you try and teach them it's how you teach them, and searching for truly doubting ones.

My daughter was approached by a JW that had the Evolution brochure, he was apathetic about what he was doing, and just trying to place brochures for the sake of it to write them on his report.

Apogs, if you were in my daughters shoes, this would have been a perfect oportunity to talk about macro and micro evolution with this JW. I think he would have listened to you because his whole attitude towards evangelising was poor.

Kate xx

Vidiot

KateWild - "My daughter was approached by a JW that had the Evolution brochure, he was apathetic about what he was doing, and just trying to place brochures for the sake of it to write them on his report."

I'm beginning to suspect that more and more creationists are quietly conceding victory (either subconsciously or otherwise); it's just gotten way too difficult to refute the evidence in favor of evolution without resorting to rhetoric, semantics, or plain old intellectual dishonesty.

It's interesting...

...historically, whenever there's been a contention between verifiable fact and ideology, the latter often seems to win in the short term, but in the long run, the former has always prevailed over the latter.

Terry

Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species

Science is really all about just two very simple things, really: MEASUREMENT (quantifying with specificity) and testing PREDICTABILITY.

Religion is really all about just one thing: GENERALITY spoken with AUTHORITY.

A "kind" is like the Sesame Street song, "One of these things is not like the others, one these things just doesn't belong . ."

Teaching things in a religious organization requires a large number of GENERAL untestable statements delivered with great conviction and authority.

Jon Preston

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A point which virtually every JW will miss in this week's book study

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