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  Looking for a Book on Evolution

  by Saethydd in

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  i am wondering if anyone is aware of a book or series of videos designed to explain evolution to creationists, (specifically the jw strain of creationism if possible) without being patronizing or overly confrontational.

  i would like to have something to recommend to people who challenge evolution, but i know that the sources which convinced me would turn most of them off because of the confrontational and at times condescending tone in which it's presented.. some examples of what i'm looking for would be someone who doesn't claim evolution is a fact until after they have presented all of the evidence that makes it a fact and also have addressed as many counter-arguments as possible..

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  Raymudas Martini,

  I debate this subject with many materialistic atheist PhD scientists,...
  

  First, your patronizing language says something about you. Saying "materialistic scientists" you sound like Donald Trump when he says "The Blacks".
  

  and they cannot give me one positive mutation from any species that caused a positive change for survival.
  

  Second, that knowledge is known by a few experts in biology. I've seen many examples of genetic change given in which the specific mutation is linked to a specific position in chromosome.
  
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  Looking for a Book on Evolution

  by Saethydd in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am wondering if anyone is aware of a book or series of videos designed to explain evolution to creationists, (specifically the jw strain of creationism if possible) without being patronizing or overly confrontational.

  i would like to have something to recommend to people who challenge evolution, but i know that the sources which convinced me would turn most of them off because of the confrontational and at times condescending tone in which it's presented.. some examples of what i'm looking for would be someone who doesn't claim evolution is a fact until after they have presented all of the evidence that makes it a fact and also have addressed as many counter-arguments as possible..

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  Village Idiot

  Saethydd,
  

  I am wondering if anyone is aware of a book or series of videos designed to explain evolution to creationists, (Specifically the JW strain of creationism if possible) without being patronizing or overly confrontational.
  

  This book is about the talking points that Creationists make and the response that science gives. Its 500 pages long in oversize pages. Very well written and worth its price:
  

  Science and Earth History: The Evolution Creation Controversy by Arthur Strahler.

  
  
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  Paul did not belittle women

  by Doug Mason in

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  2. bible

  i note the recent post that quoted 1 timothy 2:11-12 and colossians 1:23 which place women at a level that is lower to men.

  the poster accused paul of this mysoginy, but that is not correct.. 1 timothy, 2 timothy, titus, colossians, ephesians and hebrews were written after paul's death.. paul was not a mysoginist; he made full use of women in leadership roles.

  he wrote that in god's sight there is neither male nor female, for all are one in god's sight.. doug.

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  What, pray tell, was written by Paul?
  
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  Paul did not belittle women

  by Doug Mason in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i note the recent post that quoted 1 timothy 2:11-12 and colossians 1:23 which place women at a level that is lower to men.

  the poster accused paul of this mysoginy, but that is not correct.. 1 timothy, 2 timothy, titus, colossians, ephesians and hebrews were written after paul's death.. paul was not a mysoginist; he made full use of women in leadership roles.

  he wrote that in god's sight there is neither male nor female, for all are one in god's sight.. doug.

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  At least you acknowledge that somebody in the Christian establishment wrote those pathetic verses. It's the Bible that's misogynist. The John Doe who writes these verses reflects the general attitude that his comrades had.
  
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  Occupations that will disappear

  by joker in

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  2. friends

  while growing up in the cult one thing that always bothered me was the way witnesses could forecast jobs/occupations that we're going to vanish in their new world.. for example, we would usually discuss at saturday night wt studies how doctors, nurses, funeral directors, and soldiers would go the way of the dodo.

  i always found discussions like that just so strange.. in hs, i mounted an unsuccessful effort to enter veterinary sciences, the big answer was always "why" it won't be needed after armageddon 😝😜.

  does anyone have their own story about professions that the witnesses believe will not be needed after the big a ?.

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  Firearm manufacturers, unless those petted lions start gobbling up those children.
  
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  Occupations that will disappear

  by joker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  while growing up in the cult one thing that always bothered me was the way witnesses could forecast jobs/occupations that we're going to vanish in their new world.. for example, we would usually discuss at saturday night wt studies how doctors, nurses, funeral directors, and soldiers would go the way of the dodo.

  i always found discussions like that just so strange.. in hs, i mounted an unsuccessful effort to enter veterinary sciences, the big answer was always "why" it won't be needed after armageddon 😝😜.

  does anyone have their own story about professions that the witnesses believe will not be needed after the big a ?.

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  I knew a JW girl in High School who said that her boyfriend's occupation was going to be needed in the "New Order". He was studying to be an architect.
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  Lies, and more lies.

  by biblexaminer in

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  i have seen some discussions related to the "kingdom" book, and the recent studies, but, i didn't see the one pertaining to the second chapter of the "kingdom" book.

  i may have missed it.

  if i have ...mea culpa.. chapter 2, paragraph 29 & 33.

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  Charles Russell was very explicit as to what, when, and how things would happen. He wrote it in explicit detail in his six books Studies in the Scriptures:

  • 1799 - 1914: The time of the end. The last days.
  • 1874 - 1914: The battle of Armageddon. It was supposed to start as a slow motion social Armageddon accelerating to a peak by 1914. Religion would be overthrown; communists and anarchists would be causing disruption; and pure chaos and destruction would culminate by 1914 (No earthquakes, world wars or other pyrotechnics like the JWs current pyrotechnics).
  • 1914: The beginning of the Millennium. All nations would be overthrown by then and Jesus' reign of peace would commence.
    
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  Beardless Jesus. Why?

  by UnshackleTheChains in

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  beardless jesus in watchtower publications between 1930s and 1960s.

  a simple detail 'deliberately' left out.

  the question is why?.

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  It was once believed by the Watchtower that a perfect man would not have a beard. That is how they portrayed Adam.
  
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  Watchtower Publications To Give Away

  by bigmouth in

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  2. bible

  it's now time to clear out my old literature lest it fall into the right hands.. there is a fairly large range of books, volumes, pamphlets and various keepsakes.

  some are unusual, say, part issues of the aid book and a live forever book that has had paragraphs altered in subsequent copies.

  i am in hoppers crossing, melbourne.

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  How far back do they go?
  
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  John Lewis: Trump isn't a legitimate president

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

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  http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/john-lewis-trump-isnt-a-legitimate-president/ar-aalqsqs?li=bbmkt5r&ocid=spartanntp.

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  We'll see how far this gets. It's going to get uglier, that's for sure.