Posts by hibiscusfire

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do JWs believe in dinosaurs?

by tsunami_rid3r in

the bible doesnt mention them at all.

so what the hell?

hibiscusfire

Not enough sodium in the sea The oceans are getting saltier. If they are billions of years old, they would be much saltier than they were now.

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do JWs believe in dinosaurs?

by tsunami_rid3r in

the bible doesnt mention them at all.

so what the hell?

Earth's magnetic field is getting weaker. At the rate of deterioration, no such field would exist if the earth were as old as evolutionists believe. Danny: Also can you give more data about that magnetic change you talking about, and why that is not normal. Well first of all evidence that the earth-sun system was designed by God far outweighs any possibility that it all just happened to come together by mere chance. The core is a ball of iron 6960 kilometres across, at a temperature of more than 5000 °C. The outer 2260 kilometres are liquid, the inner part is squeezed solid. Convection roils the outer portion of the core, as cooler, denser fluid sinks under the pull of gravity, while hotter, less dense liquid rises to take its place. Earth's field has a well-known penchant for reversing its poles every now and then. These reversals are recorded in the magnetism of ancient rocks. And measurements of the field show that its strength is decreasing at the moment. The Earth will be hit by much more radiation than it currently receives. Earth’s magnetic strength has declined 6% in the last 150 years

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do JWs believe in dinosaurs?

by tsunami_rid3r in

the bible doesnt mention them at all.

so what the hell?

hibiscusfire

danny:

The salinity of the sea water:

Sea water is about a 3.49% solution of salt , or about 96.5% freshwater. The more saline, the denser the sea water .

As the range of salt concentration varies from about 3.2 to 3.8%, oceanographers, who refer to salt content as ' salinity ', express salt concentration as parts per thousand, making 34.9 parts-per-thousand (ppt) the average salinity.

Salinity changes the properties of water from that of pure water. As sea water evaporates the salt remains behind , only the freshwater is transferred from the ocean to the atmosphere, hence regions of excess evaporation , such as the subtropics tend to become salty, while the areas of excess rainfall become fresher .

The tropical belt, or Inter Tropical Convergence Zone is such an area. The ocean circulation acts to move lower salinity sea water into evaporative regions, and more saline water into humid regions , this is part of the hydrological cycle . The relative freshness of the Pacific Ocean surface water stands out.

Excess evaporation of the Atlantic and excess precipitation of the Pacific are balanced to some measure by an atmospheric flux of water vapor over Central America, amounting to 0.35 Sv. The Arctic Sea is very fresh, due to the enormous amount of river water that drains into it from the northern continents. The effects of ocean circulation are seen in the transfer of saline surface water into the northern North Atlantic . Cooling of this water leads to sinking and the formation of North Atlantic Deep Water .

In the polar regions sea water freezes . The resulting ice contains only part of the sea water salt, about 0.5% (5 ppt), hence ice formation like evaporation, concentrates salt in the remaining body of sea water. This causes very dense water (cold and salty), which in some regions in the Southern Ocean leads to deep reaching convection (that is spontaneous sinking of heavy water), called Antarctic Bottom water .

The very low salinity of the Arctic prohibits the development of deep reaching convection. Southern ocean ice exhibits lots of seasonal variability, and is generally only 0.5 meters thick. There is evidence of greater amount of vertical overturning (sinking of heavy, dense water and rising of lighter water) in the southern Ocean, as deep water upwells to be replaced by sinking cold polar water.

In sharp contrast is the Arctic sea where the sea ice is usually about 2 to 3 meters thick with a lesser amount of seasonality, and a water column which is very stratified (low density residing above high density).

There is some evidence that global warming is reducing the area of year round sea ice in Arctic, but not (yet?) within the Southern Ocean.

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do JWs believe in dinosaurs?

by tsunami_rid3r in

the bible doesnt mention them at all.

so what the hell?

hibiscusfire

Danny:

About your post about the salinity of the oceans. I know this average figure you give. Can you give some proof that this is wrong. For example estimations of salt int he see, fresh water comming into the sea, salt exiting the sea etc, to back this up?

Well

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Was Jesus Created?

by 9thWonder in

was jesus created?

this question came out of a discussion i was having with a preacher of a no-denominational church.

he was trying to convince me of the truth of the trinity doctrine.

hibiscusfire

Kenneson:

Jesus is not just a son of God. He is the ONLY BEGOTTEN SON which puts Him into another category altogether. (John 1:14)

Simply put - God saw how the earth was deteriorating with sin: crime, violence, hate etc. He decided He would come to earth Himself in flesh to give the people hope. He came as Jesus in the flesh.

If you literally saw God in His natural form would you have believed it is God? God is a Spirit.

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Was Jesus Created?

by 9thWonder in

was jesus created?

this question came out of a discussion i was having with a preacher of a no-denominational church.

he was trying to convince me of the truth of the trinity doctrine.

hibiscusfire

Gumby:

So....Joseph had absolutely no blood ties with Jesus.....yet Matthew Chapter 1: 1-17 goes to great lengths in connecting Jesus to Abraham by giving a geneology from Abraham to Joseph.

I wonder why? What connection does Jesus have with Abrahams blood as far as Joseph is concerned? If there is no connection, why was it recorded and put in the canon?

Matthew lists Jesus' legal lineage through Joseph, who is not His biological father, anyway. But Luke lists Jesus' physical ancestry down to Mary, who literally carried Him in the womb, and thus was His mother. This all shows that Jesus is the legal and literal Son of David, qualified to reign over Israel.

Matthew uses the custom of the day to list genealogy, not always by father and son, or father and grandson, but sometimes the legal father, ignoring the biological father.

Matthew counts in fourteens for easy memorization or easy reference to Jesus' genealogy through Joseph.

Hibiscusfire

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