The Scotsman

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  Proof, proof, gimme some proof!!!

  by Slappy in

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  atheists clamor for proof of godas existence.

  give us hard, physical proof they say, and then weall believe.

  if evolution truly happened, how did that one apersona that evolved from monkeys learn to speak and write?

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  inrainbows -

  ""You are worshipping an idol based upon dead people's ideas of god wrapped in pigskin printed on squashed dead trees. ""

  You believe an idea from dead people!!!!!! Did you wake up one day on your own with the conclusions you have? No!!!!

  I admit, it is best to live and let live and not to be to dogmatic about belief etc. The aspect of this that annoys me is that Evolution is taught as if a Fact to millions of people around the globe - I am not saying that all points of evolution are wrong but I do think people should be taught both creation / evolution equally.

  "" Embrace science; it is a friend, not an enemy. And it no more opposes faith than guns oppose life. What it does do is lead you from ignorant erroneous faith to something that is pure and free.""

  Science is wonderful - MOST of the time. But to suggest that anyone that has Belief in a God has an "ignorant erroneous faith" is of the utmost arrogance on your part!

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  Proof, proof, gimme some proof!!!

  by Slappy in

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  atheists clamor for proof of godas existence.

  give us hard, physical proof they say, and then weall believe.

  if evolution truly happened, how did that one apersona that evolved from monkeys learn to speak and write?

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  Slappy

  I stand and applaud your post.

  I agree with your points entirely.

  We will all know someday that God exists.
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  How do you feel now? EVOLUTION OR CREATION??

  by chuckyy in

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  as jws we were no doubt staunch creationists.

  but how do you feel now??

  do you still opt for creation or do you now feel evolution offers the right answer.

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  Life comes from life - it always has.

  Now if you can show me life that came from something lifeless - ah then I will sign up to Evolution.

  We can get into all the little details, evidence for this and that etc etc

  But bottom line - for evolution to be true, life at the very start "must" have come from something without life.

  Now, I am off to eat a banana!
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  Pioneer hours change

  by JWFreak in

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  it's just a label who cares

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  Jehovah is certainly "speeding it up" in his own time.

  Less hours means less studies - less growth - well I hope thats what it means.
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  How do you feel now? EVOLUTION OR CREATION??

  by chuckyy in

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  as jws we were no doubt staunch creationists.

  but how do you feel now??

  do you still opt for creation or do you now feel evolution offers the right answer.

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  All I know is that there is definately a God.
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  im an atheist and i like the idea of being an athiest but its kinda hard

  by Lotus65 in

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  im an atheist and i like the idea that comes with freedom of though and analytical thinking that follows being atheistic vs having a religion im just kinda in a jam because i need to try and find something to completely lose the thoughts in the back of my head that say what if im wrong and i "suffer" because of it.

  i feel that if i can find something to destroy these thoughts i can be alot more comfortable with my views and opinions.

  anyone have any thoughts on what i should do.

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  The Scotsman

  Sounds to me your "not" an atheist!!!

  And if your not, I am glad.
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  Big News or rumor!

  by Burger Time in

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  a friend just informed me that the c/o in his hall will be instructing the elders that anyone with a child in college will be stripped of privileges in the hall.

  i am not sure if this is true this is just what i was told.

  it could be that it is only a campaign directed at him as he has some ties to ex-jw's and some how got found out.

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  This is a bit of a shocker for me.

  I know the org has been negative regarding higher education for many years but this is a "rule"!!

  I personally know of a few elders and MSs who are currently attending Uni.

  They are going to lose more appointed men through this.
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  The Hope For Our Dying Home-Earth...An Inconvenient Truth

  by justhuman in

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  yesterday it was the day of the global inviroment.

  as i walked to the street going to work, the main square of the capitol was filled with small children and their teachers with huge paintings, songs, art work with recycled elements demanding a cleaner plannet.

  when the old generation will pass those little ones that will take in charge with all the inviromental education they had they will go for a better world.i'm sure about it, you could see it in their small eyes.

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  Farkel

  "" The only place where there has been "significant" melting in the Northern Hemisphere is Greenland from what I've read. I've also read that the Polar Bear population is stable and even increasing.""

  Hmm, aint heard this before. Polar Bears are moving habitat because of melting ice - each year they need to travel further and further away to find food. Also, if we are talking about an area half the size of the planet i.e. - "the northern hemisphere", we need to start talking about the "global" problem, an example would be glaciers that are disappearing all over the place. Analysis was performed by National Geographic ( they don't lie ) regarding this.

  http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/08/0821_020821_wireglaciers.html

  To qoute - they have observed an "alarming acceleration in the melting of Glaciers".

  Some of the ice had been frozen for 50000 years. Now people can bring up a few hundreed years ago their was a warm century etc etc. As I have said before this is not denied, tempreture goes up and down. But - this particular warming trend is melting ice from tens of thousands of years ago. This time it is different.

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  "" The South Pole is getting colder, not warmer. The majar areas of temperature increase over the last few decades have been in CITIES which have grown substantially. Duh! More people = more energy use = more heat! Cities which have experienced little or no growth have experienced no increase in temperatures. I've seen the official government charts for dozens of US cities. They don't lie. ""

  It depends what info you read on this. Parts of antartcica have certainly shown a cooling down trend - but it certainly is not all of the South pole. Entire sections have broken off due to ice thinning and then cracking. Hmm, an offical US government document trying to rubbish Global Warming, who would have thought!!!!!!

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  "" Many of the temperature monitoring devices are in places where the environment has changed. Some of them were in fields thirty or forty years ago and because of urban development they are in the middle of commercial real estate developments and surrounded by asphalt, skewing the readings. ""

  Oh please show me the scientific evidence for this!!!!! I am sure some will be affected by this but to suggest that it is a major contributing factor to weather monitors giving a warmer reading smacks of desperation.
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  The Hope For Our Dying Home-Earth...An Inconvenient Truth

  by justhuman in

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  yesterday it was the day of the global inviroment.

  as i walked to the street going to work, the main square of the capitol was filled with small children and their teachers with huge paintings, songs, art work with recycled elements demanding a cleaner plannet.

  when the old generation will pass those little ones that will take in charge with all the inviromental education they had they will go for a better world.i'm sure about it, you could see it in their small eyes.

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  Some strong opinions coming across on this thread.

  In my employment I am deeply involved with Environmental analysis and work alot with environmental scientists.

  So lets cut to the chase and deal with established fact -

  Is the climate changing? YES.

  Has the climate changed before? YES.

  Has the recent climate change accellerated since humans started burning fossil fuels? YES.

  Based on scientific evidence, is it going to get worse before it gets better? YES.

  Did the movie "An inconvenient Truth" have innaccuracies in it? YES.

  But was the basic message of "An Inconvenient Truth" correct? YES.

  The potential problem is that many people refer to the past and say that climate shifts are a natural occurance - and they are correct - to a point....

  The current climate shift is distinctly different from previous ones. Clear cut proof is available from observations in the North and South pole where ice is melting that has been there for 10,000s of years. The average atmospheric tempreture has went up and down for many millenium but current observations show a much higher jump, especially in the polar regions.

  So the end is simply this - the climate is changing and we are at the very least a contributing factor and the current climate shift is one of the most significant shifts in many 1000s of years . If we do not curtail the burning of fossil fuel it will get worse.

  To say that this subject is "hype" is a nonsense, and is generally reffered to in this way by people who simply do not know anything about the subject or cannot be bothered to check.
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  Britains Got Talent

  by digderidoo in

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  for the attention of the rest of the world-.

  tonights final of britains got talent makes me so proud to be british.

  please allow me to showcase.. here's a link to the winner, my personal favourite 14 year old george sampson.

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  I have to agree - it was a great final.

  My money was on andrew johnston to win, but the winner desrved it as well.