now that you've all met palmer allow me to offer a lesson about life from a this made up scenario.. imagine palmer has the reasoning ability of a human.. palmer has a typewriter by which he types letters to me.
this is his way of communicating with me.
it is analogous to prayer for humans.
Zechariah,
You didn't answer my question. Here it is again:
If your analogy is correct, then you're just another player in the game and have no way of knowing or understanding the programmer's intentions. So why should we pay any attention to you?
I'd like to hear your answer.
Edited by - funkyderek on 16 October 2002 16:57:9
now that you've all met palmer allow me to offer a lesson about life from a this made up scenario.. imagine palmer has the reasoning ability of a human.. palmer has a typewriter by which he types letters to me.
this is his way of communicating with me.
it is analogous to prayer for humans.
Zechariah,
If your analogy is correct, then you're just another player in the game and have no way of knowing or understanding the programmer's intentions. So why should we pay any attention to you?
no teaching in the bible is clearer and more consistent than the one which holds women to be inferior to men.
below i show that it is taught that the woman was created from man, for man, that man--not woman--is the glory of god, and that women are not allowed to teach or control man because the woman, not the man, is the one who was deceived by the serpent.
" (1 corinthians 11:2-9) "for a man...is the image and glory of god: but the woman is the glory of the man.
Silverleaf,
With no men around, how would the women open the jars storing the sperm
now that you've all met palmer allow me to offer a lesson about life from a this made up scenario.. imagine palmer has the reasoning ability of a human.. palmer has a typewriter by which he types letters to me.
this is his way of communicating with me.
it is analogous to prayer for humans.
Zechariah,
As the programmer can't you make sure that Palmer understands you? If you can, why would you choose not to do so?
How do you think Palmer would feel to know that you have complete control over everything he does and yet you choose to make his life short and miserable?
Do you think he would be comforted if you tell him that even though he will die, his next iteration will get a higher score?
no teaching in the bible is clearer and more consistent than the one which holds women to be inferior to men.
below i show that it is taught that the woman was created from man, for man, that man--not woman--is the glory of god, and that women are not allowed to teach or control man because the woman, not the man, is the one who was deceived by the serpent.
" (1 corinthians 11:2-9) "for a man...is the image and glory of god: but the woman is the glory of the man.
Sounds just like my Wife's former Pastor.He felt the same way good ole` Joe felt.Guess what.That Pastor no longer minister's to anyone
So once he realised the Bible was just antiquated mythology, he stopped being a pastor? Sounds like an intelligent and honest guy.
i refer to the post below about women, with which i and many others take great exception.
who is this guy, why is he saying these things, what is he getting at, am i missing something?.
francois
Jan,
I posted the same quote in response to the same claim by Frank yesterday in the thread Does God Deceive Us?#
Evidently, he didn't read my response or chose to ignore it.
i refer to the post below about women, with which i and many others take great exception.
who is this guy, why is he saying these things, what is he getting at, am i missing something?.
francois
I refer to the post below about women, with which I and many others take great exception. Who is this guy, why is he saying these things, what is he getting at, am I missing something?
He's saying that the Bible teaches that women are inferior to men, and supports this assertion by numerous quotes. If you "take great exception" to this, the best thing to do is to demonstrate that the Bible does not teach such a thing. Good luck!
any of you evolutionists ever crunch the numbers?
Life exists. The probability of it having begun is therefore exactly 1. For it to have begun by natural means all that's needed is for a single self-replicating molecule to have spontaneously formed. This is a spectacularly rare event and has never been observed. Fortunately however, we have a lot of time and space to work with, an effectively infinite amount meaning that the formation of such a molecule is inevitable. Once it forms and begins to self-replicate, natural selection takes over and the rest is mere detail.
For life to have a supernatural origin, we need considerably more than a spontaneously-forming self-replicating molecule. We need a spontaneously forming intelligent, omnipotent being. With infinite time and space, such a being is again mathematically inevitable (as long as such a being is possible in principle), but is almost infinitely less likely to spontaneously form than a single self-replicating molecule.
Therefore while both scenarios are possible, only one is remotely likely. We are here, and the most likely explanation for that is that life originated by natural means.
not too long ago someone posted a thread here and it had sound.
i didn't have to click on a link, the sound just played automatically when the post came up.
mike.
Don't embed anything in your posts. Just post links. It's quicker, easier and less annoying. Those who don't want to hear your funny song or be inundated with pop-up ads will have the choice, and those with slow connections will be able to use this site comfortably.
link: http://www.msnbc.com/news/819818.asp.
the duckbill fossil, named leonardo, is laid out for display at the phillips county museum in montana.
the numbers are keyed to information about areas of the 23-foot-long fossil.
Evolution theories are always changing because they don't know what the hell they are talking about and every now and then something tangible comes along to throw a monkey wrench into they past theories.
Examples, please?
