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  The God Delusion

  by Peppermint in

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  old dawkins is on the rampage again.

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  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/5372458.stm.

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  Skeptic, I say all creation is "evidence" of an Intelligent creator, and yes we can call him God or Our Father. Randi is looking for something that only HE can imagene....I can't provide Randi with anything except the wonderful way in which we are made and ask if he still thinks we came from a one celled ameba or whatever.

  evidence: "the available body of facts or or information indicating whether a belief of proposition is true or valid".

  You don't have any evidence. You have an imagination. If you have evidence, not just "evidence" (whatever that is), go collect your million dollars.

  EDIT: I stand corrected, the million dollar challenge does not accept religious claims.

  The earliest steps involve single-celled organisms exchanging genetic information Where did the single cells come from?

  The sentence you quote is referring to the earliest steps in the development of male/female, not the earliest steps in the evolution of life on earth (in case you didn't know).

  But for more information on where the first cells came from, try here:

  http://www.onelife.com/evolve/cellev.html

  That's just the first result in google when I type in 'evolution first cell', but it should provide a primer on the subject area.
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  The God Delusion

  by Peppermint in

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  old dawkins is on the rampage again.

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  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/5372458.stm.

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  As for a contest?? What has the Paranormal got to do with me interring a contest on Paranormal....and Occult? I think I will pass on that! You misunderstand...I have never seen a spirit.

  TopHat - you say the universe is evidence for God. God is a supernatural being. God creating the universe is a supernatural event. Go to James Randi, present your evidence for God creating the universe, or anything in it, and collect your million dollars.

  But like I said, please remember me.

  Also, you dont seem to have read my link about male/female sex evolution, I'll paste a portion here:

  1. The variety of life cycles is very great. It is not simply a matter of being sexual or asexual. There are many intermediate stages. A gradual origin, with each step favored by natural selection, is possible (Kondrashov 1997). The earliest steps involve single-celled organisms exchanging genetic information; they need not be distinct sexes. Males and females most emphatically would not evolve independently. Sex, by definition, depends on both male and female acting together. As sex evolved, there would have been some incompatibilities causing sterility (just as there are today), but these would affect individuals, not whole populations, and the genes that cause such incompatibility would rapidly be selected against.
  2. Many hypotheses have been proposed for the evolutionary advantage of sex (Barton and Charlesworth 1998). There is good experimental support for some of these, including resistance to deleterious mutation load (Davies et al. 1999) and more rapid adaptation in a rapidly changing environment, especially to acquire resistance to parasites (Sá Martins 2000).
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  Issuing a Challenge to Atheists and Unbelievers

  by The wanderer in

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  Simply, because if paranormal activity can be proven, who is to say that a high- er being does not exist.

  Paranormal activity has never been proven. If you have the proof, go collect your million dollars.

  According to my way of thinking, to deny the possibility that God exists is a closed-minded position.

  I might have an invisible ethereal Pixie sitting on my left shoulder, who tells me what to do and what to say. This cannot be disproved, in the same way that God cannot be disproved. But if you met me, you wouldn't address my shoulder-Pixie, just in case he is there, would you? There are an infinite number of things that might exist. But until some evidence turns up there is no use in considering them.
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  Issuing a Challenge to Atheists and Unbelievers

  by The wanderer in

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  explain the thousands of paranormal phenomena that are well documented in nearly every country in the world?

  ...documented by people who should know to be more skeptical. Show me the incontrovertible evidence for one of these phenomena. As soon as a skeptic studies these phenomena, they prove to be utterly mundane, misperceptions, or a plain hoax.

  http://www.skepticalanalysis.com/
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  The God Delusion

  by Peppermint in

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  old dawkins is on the rampage again.

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  TopHat - I'd also ask you to consider sending the evidence you have to the most appropriate scientific organization, I can assure you it is of the greatest interest to them.

  You might also want to look into the the James Randi Million Dollar Challenge, which is a prize offered to anyone who " can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event" .

  When you win, please remember me.
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  The God Delusion

  by Peppermint in

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  old dawkins is on the rampage again.

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  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/5372458.stm.

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  TopHat, the word theory in science is different from the word theory used by the general public.

  what science calls a...	the general public calls a...
  hypothesis	theory
  theory	well-tested explanation of all known evidence

  As you can see from the table, the word theory in science has a very different meaning from the word theory in the way you are using it.

  At one time the word theory only meant the one thing (the science meaning), but over the last hundred years it has slipped into the general language and the meaning was distorted.
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  Flying Spaghetti Monster Spotted

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  take a look here, see what you make of it!

  all bow down to the fsm!

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  Here:
  
  http://fsmspotted.ytmnd.com/
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  Flying Spaghetti Monster Spotted

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  take a look here, see what you make of it!

  all bow down to the fsm!

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  Take a look here, see what you make of it! All bow down to the FSM!
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  The God Delusion

  by Peppermint in

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  old dawkins is on the rampage again.

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  a morally bankrupt ideology like evolution can offer to this world

  I assume you mean evolutionism. Evolution is not an ideology, any more than the theory of plate tectonics is an ideology.

  Creation by an Intelligent being makes much more sense than evolution ever will! The making of two sexes, male and female, is reason enough

  We can postulate lots of ways in which it can happen, but we may never know which is correct. But each hypothesis is infinitely more likely that 'sky-god made man, sky-god made woman, when? dunno'. The fact that the existence of male and female can be adequately explained by the theory of evolution, is more testament to it's accuracy, not less.

  http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB350.html
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  What is God???

  by BlackSwan of Memphis in

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  is god just a ball of energy hanging around?.

  is god a spirit person as the jw's suggest?.

  ok, so i realize that there are a large number of atheists here, of which group i am ever so slowly counting myself among, who would love to shout down the topic with 'there is no god".

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  Our conscience, the thing that separates us from animals, where does it come from?

  Define conscience? (you'd be suprised at what does and doesn't separate us from 'animals').