Posts by Caedes

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Debating With Evolution Deniers is Just Like This
by cofty in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
arguing with those who reject scientific evidence can be like arguing about football; just as angry and passionate, but the goalposts keep moving, and one team doesn't exist.. read more here....
Caedes

English is not my mother tongue so I've got to check spelling
So, I ask again, what do you expect a Microbiologist to be?
That would explain the use of an online dictionary but not the use of wikipedia for a definition of your profession.
I would expect a real scientist to have a good understanding of basic scientific principles and in the case of a microbiologist to have an excellent knowledge of the scientific theory that underpins all of biology. I would also expect a scientist to be very invested in the principle of the scientific process and the value of empirical evidence. If you were a real scientist then you wouldn't be declaring on a public forum that abiogenesis and evolution is impossible. After all if that is true why bother doing science?
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Debating With Evolution Deniers is Just Like This
by cofty in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
arguing with those who reject scientific evidence can be like arguing about football; just as angry and passionate, but the goalposts keep moving, and one team doesn't exist.. read more here....
Caedes

Vidqun, You had to go to wikipedia and the free dictionary in order to describe your supposed area of expertise? This is not exactly giving the impression of you being any sort of expert. Are you sure you don't just wash the test slides?
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Debating With Evolution Deniers is Just Like This
by cofty in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
arguing with those who reject scientific evidence can be like arguing about football; just as angry and passionate, but the goalposts keep moving, and one team doesn't exist.. read more here....
Caedes

yes Vidqun claims to be a professional microbiologist!
Wow, It doesn't show!
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Debating With Evolution Deniers is Just Like This
by cofty in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
arguing with those who reject scientific evidence can be like arguing about football; just as angry and passionate, but the goalposts keep moving, and one team doesn't exist.. read more here....
Caedes

I missed most of this thread, can I just confirm Vidqun claims to be a professional microbiologist?
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Just a reminder about voting
by Simon in
1. forum
2. announcements
there appear to be some people who are of the mistaken opinion that endlessly clicking the like or dislike button 20x will mean 20x votes.. it doesn't !!!.

only one vote is ever counted.

1 user, 1 vote, each post.
Caedes

Does this mean I will no longer be able to down-vote every post in a thread in absolute anonymity? Damn-it!
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American democracy in crisis
by slimboyfat in
1. social
2. current
okay cut to the chase.

the united states has got a problem.

hillary clinton is so unpopular that practically any republican who ran against her would probably have beaten her.
Caedes

Anyone who supports that cheeto faced, small fingered cockwomble is an idiot.
If he gets in he is going to nuke someone just because he has small ~~penis~~ hands.
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I believe in Evolution and that God created life
by Crabby in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
anyone else also hold this view or understand it at least, or do you feel the need to argue that both can in no way coexist?.
Caedes

Well an ex Satanist is better that a practicing Satanist. Is this your premise?
No, that wooshing noise was the point sailing right over your head. I don't believe in satan and have no preference regarding your question.
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I believe in Evolution and that God created life
by Crabby in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
anyone else also hold this view or understand it at least, or do you feel the need to argue that both can in no way coexist?.
Caedes

I know that JW's do not study any sort of science, thus they have no rights to comment on such topics. Thus the JW World View is one of purposeful ignorance, but since ignorance is bliss you are quite happy. (sic)
You do realise that it is predominantly ex JWs here and that some of us were never JWs. Some of us have degrees and everything!
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I believe in Evolution and that God created life
by Crabby in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
anyone else also hold this view or understand it at least, or do you feel the need to argue that both can in no way coexist?.
Caedes

Caedes, do not confuse adaptation with evolution. Adaptation is necessary for survival. But in most cases it would pre-programmed. Some view spontaneous mutations as the cause. As mentioned, spontaneous mutations are very seldom beneficial. They kill rather than improve. Some Pseudomonas bacteria digest oil, so I am not surprised that some bacteria might lunch on nylon.
Adaptation is evolution, Pre-programmed? Nylon didn't exist until 1935! Anyway you said earlier that it was impossible for DNA to 'improve on itself' and yet I have given you an example of a bacteria that has evolved a new ability.
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I believe in Evolution and that God created life
by Crabby in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
anyone else also hold this view or understand it at least, or do you feel the need to argue that both can in no way coexist?.
Caedes

the chain of evidence, involving the laws of information and DNA, disproves the "scientific theorum" of evolution. An advanced information system, e.g., DNA, cannot spontaneously generate and improve on itself all the time. Impossible.
So if a bacteria evolved to be able to 'eat' an entirely man made substance like nylon that would be impossible? Well, let's hope nobody finds a bacteria that has evolved that ability!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon-eating_bacteria