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  Snakes on a Plane...for or against?

  by jgnat in

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  i admit it, i'm not cool.

  i miss the trends.

  i don't notice a new fashion until half the women in this city are draped in it.

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  I think you're missing the point, it's supposed to be extremely OTT and very tongue-in-cheek... that's what makes it enjoyable to watch.
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  The Ghost Car

  by Yizuman in

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  guys, ya gotta see this....... .

  click this link .

  wth???

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  I think it's most likely the driver being chased employs local knowledge.

  After turning onto the side road, the driver accelerates before breaking hard and turning slightly (looking for something maybe?), carrying on forward for a moment, then turning off hard left (see something he was looking for?).

  Watch it frame by frame from 17 seconds to 24 seconds (if you save it to your hard-drive you can enlarge it).

  This is my guess for what happens between 17s and 24s (a rough plan, likely the road is not straight etc):

  Note also that, after meeting the fence, the police would have driven along to see where the guy got around/through it - but that of course didn't make it into this video... (reminds me of the UFO over New York, where the inital video clip showed a 'UFO', but when later sections of the same video were posted it could clearly seen to be a blimp)
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  The Bible is NOT the word of God

  by sinis in

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  after reflecting on the article i have come to the conclusion of the author as well, in that the bible is not the word of almighty god.

  perhaps some tribal demi-god but not god almighty.

  good read:.

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  Trying to invent a story to fill that gap, the bible, is just that, a man made story with a man made God, with man made weaknesses.

  Reminds me of a line from a song: "Man wrote the Bible, God wrote the rock".
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  JW official website promoting Jesus?

  by agapa37 in

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  i have heard from many people when i would go out in the ministry that "we" witness do not believe in jesus.

  when my mother first heard about me becoming interested in the witness that is what she said.

  ive seen some make that same statement here.

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  Promoting Jesus or not, with the JWs there's whole load of people standing between you and him.
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  Evidence for evolution, Installment 4: Atavisms and vitamin C

  by seattleniceguy in

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  retroviral sequences: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/86797/1.ashx.

  cytochrome c: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/87238/1.ashx.

  this week's primary source: .

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  seattleniceguy - thanks for taking the time to write these articles, they are greatly appreciated.
  Have you written about duplication of hox genes as an evolutionary mechanism? I'm sure people would appreciate the picture of the fruit fly with a leg where it's antenna would normally be.
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  if an atheist does something good...

  by DannyBloem in

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  if an atheist leads good life with high moral standards, because he choice to do so and thinks for logic it is a good thing, does it not mean much more then when a theist does the same, because his gods tells him to do it?

  what's your thoughs on this?

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  DD: The concepts of right/wrong... are quite simple...

  Can you define them?
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  Special Issue - September, 2006 Awake! - All 32 Pages Scanned

  by daniel-p in

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  i've wanted to scan this issue as soon as i could get my hands on it, so here it is.

  some of the pictures are little screwed up because of the scan resolution, but it's all readable.

  hope you enjoy.. .

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  It is interesting that they interviewed a scientist that they identified as Catholic

  Pseudo-scientist would be more apt. The judge of the Dover case on Behe:

  "Consider, to illustrate, that Professor Behe remarkably and unmistakably claims that the plausibility of the argument for ID depends upon the extent to which one believes in the existence of God."

  If there were real evidence for ID, the plausibility of ID would not rest on belief in God.

  "We therefore find that Professor Behe's claim for irreducible complexity has been refuted in peer-reviewed research papers and has been rejected by the scientific community at large."

  "Professor Behe’s concept of irreducible complexity depends on ignoring ways in which evolution is known to occur. Although Professor Behe is adamant in his definition of irreducible complexity when he says a precursor “missing a part is by definition nonfunctional,” what he obviously means is that it will not function in the same way the system functions when all the parts are present. For example in the case of the bacterial flagellum, removal of a part may prevent it from acting as a rotary motor. However, Professor Behe excludes, by definition, the possibility that a precursor to the bacterial flagellum functioned not as a rotary motor, but in some other way, for example as a secretory system."
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  if an atheist does something good...

  by DannyBloem in

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  if an atheist leads good life with high moral standards, because he choice to do so and thinks for logic it is a good thing, does it not mean much more then when a theist does the same, because his gods tells him to do it?

  what's your thoughs on this?

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  DD - May I ask, by what mechanism does your god implant the concepts of right and wrong into a human? In your view, does every human have an absolute sense of right and wrong from birth (contravening all evidence)? Do you believe it is impossible for humans to learn concepts as they mature? If not, how are you so sure that humans do not learn moral concepts as they mature?
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  if an atheist does something good...

  by DannyBloem in

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  if an atheist leads good life with high moral standards, because he choice to do so and thinks for logic it is a good thing, does it not mean much more then when a theist does the same, because his gods tells him to do it?

  what's your thoughs on this?

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  I'm not interested in 'moral development'. I'm interested in moral origin.

  You're being disingenuous now. They are the same thing.

  If something does not exist (young children do not understand the concept of right and wrong), and is then later seen to exist (many older children/adults understand the concept of right and wrong), we must assume that at some point between the two extremes the something originated (relative to it's environment), and that the movement from one extreme to the other can fairly be described as development, especially when the inbetween states are evident.
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  if an atheist does something good...

  by DannyBloem in

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  if an atheist leads good life with high moral standards, because he choice to do so and thinks for logic it is a good thing, does it not mean much more then when a theist does the same, because his gods tells him to do it?

  what's your thoughs on this?

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  So you don't think respect for authority is a moral virtue? Yes, this is very telling!

  That's moving away from the point, you were incorrectly equating respect for authority with an understanding of the concepts of right and wrong, not stating it merely as a 'moral virtue'