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  Some Interesting quotes about "Evolution"

  by Blackboo in

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  "not one change of species into another is on record...we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.

  " ---charles darwin----.

  "no has witnessed, in fossil record, in real life, or in in computer life, the exact transitional moments when natural selection pumps its complexity up to the next level.

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  marmot

  Oh give it up already. Trolling won't work anymore since you dropped this beaut' in your last thread:
  
  "I have researched the theory of the EARTH moving..in fact it is the SUN moving not the EARTH! If you standing outside u can literally see the SUN set..if the earth was really moving..we would feel it..try sky diving at the earth going at speeds of 400 miles per hour..and see if u land in the same spot. There is no evidence of the earth moving..that is a lie and is false."
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  Evolutions billion dollar question!

  by Blackboo in

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  how did emotions evolved???

  *grinning* are emotions, thinking, and morals biological?

  please answer this sincere question..i am actually being nice this time.

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  Okay that seals it. It was fun while it lasted but the joke's over, well played Blackboo.
  
  Some of the most convincing trolling I've ever seen up until the whole "the earth is stationary" bit. Pity, you could have probably milked it for longer.
  
  And an interesting tidbit about the earth's rotation, did you know that long-distance snipers in Afghanistan have to correct for the coriolis effect (the spin of the earth)? The bullet's flight path appears to "curve" but it's really the earth moving underneath it.
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  For The Noah Enthusiasts. (Not really.) A brief, humorous read.

  by Open mind in

  1. watchtower
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  i've seen plenty of global-flood bashing websites, but somehow i missed this one:.

  http://www.fsteiger.com/flood-report.html.

  what i like about it is it's light-hearted,easy reading but still deadly to the idea of: .

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  marmot

  I loved this quote from Voltaire:
  
  "We do not see the name of Noah or of Adam in any of the ancient dynasties of Egypt; they are not to be found among the Babylonians and Sumerians. We cannot comprehend how the father of all nations has so long been unknown, not until the time when the Jewish books began to be known in Alexandria and were translated into Greek under one of the Ptolemies. In the natural course of things Adam's name should have been carried from mouth to mouth to the farthest corners of the earth. I will venture to affirm that it has required a miracle thus to shut the eyes and ears of all nations - to destroy every monument, every memorial of their first father. What would the Roman philosopher and orator, Cicero, have thought, if a poor Jew, while selling him balm, had said, We are all descended from one father, named Adam. Cicero would doubtless have inquired about the great monuments, the indisputable testimonies which Noah and his children had left of our common father. After your so-called Deluge, he would have said, the whole world would have resounded with the names of Adam and Noah, one the father, the other the restorer of every race. These names would have been in every mouth as soon as men could speak, on every parchment as soon as they could write, on the door of every house as soon as they could build, on every temple, on every statue. You mean to tell us that you knew so great a secret, yet concealed it from us? Every people has attributed to itself some imaginary origin, yet none has approached the true one." - Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary, entry under Adam
  
  This is also the first time I've read Mark Twain's writings about the flood, I never knew he was a skeptic (maybe a closet atheist even?). I'll have to look up some more of his stuff at the library.
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  What are you drinking right now?

  by stillajwexelder in

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  i am drinking real russian vodka (not stoli) mixed with vermouth on ice

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  marmot

  Nothing right this instant but I just polished off a pint of Guinness with my supper a couple of hours ago.
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  Anyone here that DOES believe we are in the last days of this system?

  by tula in

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  2. friends

  just taking a roll call here.

  no empire lasts forever.

  no system of government will last forever.

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  Quote:
  "However, this is the first time in history where man has the ability to destroy all living things on earth. I believe this frightening ability was born of "the greatest generation" fighting a world war."
  
  
  Not true. Try as humanity might, it will NEVER be able to destroy "all living things on earth".
  
  The most we could hope for is to destroy the particular ecosystem that supports humankind. The actual amount of life that would be around after even the worst nuclear holocaust would be pretty huge. Think of the teeming life at the bottom of the ocean where there isn't even any sunlight. Bacteria flourishes at those depths, fed by mineral-laden thermal vents, who in turn support their own diverse ecosystem of clams, worms, fish and crabs.
  
  A nuclear holocaust would only wipe the slate clean for a new wave of evolution to fill the vacant niches.
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  You can be spied on even when your cellphone is off!!!

  by ohiocowboy in

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  scary.... .

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o61yfvpzgjs.

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  Tula, you're a bit all over the map regarding those black "wires" and I thought I might just straighten a few things out.
  
  Your license plate tags are holographic, fine. You say laser equipment can read this, okay. Those black wires stretched across the road aren't laser equipment, in fact they aren't even wires, they're air-filled hoses like the ones at gas stations that go "ding" when a car drives over it.
  
  Besides, think for a second about how hard it is to get information off of a smudged DVD and then think about your assertion that this device is supposed to read the holograph off of your dirty dusty license plate while your vehicle drives by at 50mph.
  
  Also, I think you mentioned that you were going to run an electromagnet over your tags in order to scramble them, well that does diddly squat to a hologram.
  
  I think you're confusing several different technologies (laser coding, RFID chips, and magnetic storage devices) and mixing it with a splash of paranoia. There are technologies out there to read an RFID tag from a distance on a moving vehicle (such as used in the express lanes on toll roads) but those black hoses stretched across the road aren't the culprits.
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  You can be spied on even when your cellphone is off!!!

  by ohiocowboy in

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  scary.... .

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o61yfvpzgjs.

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  marmot

  Just thought I might clarify something somebody wrote early in this thread about the black "wires" stretched across the streets being sensors that track your personal information by reading your car "tags".
  
  False.
  
  In Quebec we haven't had to buy annual "tags" for our license plates in over ten years but I still see those wires stretched across the road every now and then, especially near pending construction zones, overpasses and bridges.
  
  Those wires are simple traffic counters, sorry to burst your conspiracy bubble.
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  Anyone here that DOES believe we are in the last days of this system?

  by tula in

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  2. friends

  just taking a roll call here.

  no empire lasts forever.

  no system of government will last forever.

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  marmot

  Change is ALWAYS happening.
  
  Think of all the "systems" that have come and gone just since Jesus (supposedly) walked the earth. They've risen and fallen and humanity doesn't seem to be the worse for wear, it just adapts and moves on to the next big thing.
  
  The Roman Empire is kaput and we don't ride around in horse-drawn carriages anymore, just as the United States will not be the dominant force on the world scene forever nor will we always drive around in internal combustion engined vehicles.
  
  As to how far the trend will go until an equilibrium point is reached, who knows?
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  The Brand New 2008 Looking For Love Thread

  by Tired of the Hypocrisy in

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  on another thread i read about someone being denied by eharmony and was wondering if there are any exjw dating sites.

  i wish i knew of one, but thought since someone else mentioned some folks have made a connection here that it would be a good idea to have everyone that is interested raise their hand and say if they are looking for love in all the wrong places or just looking...... i hope this post is not out of line or off topic.. i guess i will start even tho i am married.

  ok, anyone interested in chatting with a fat old married cowboy?.

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  I'll ante up. You lovely single ladies don't go IM'ing me all at once now, ya hear?
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  Kids Still Get Whacked @ Armageddon. Current Light. (With Pix!)

  by Open mind in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  if you've clicked around on other sites, you can find the troubling picture i grew up with from the old orange paradise lost book.

  a big old armageddon earthquake that is swallowing up people, churches, a bicycle, a dog!

  ) and of course, a little girl in a dress that is indelibly planted in my memory chips.

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  The guy behind the little girl looks like Samuel L. Jackson's character from Pulp Fiction. Or it's a mormon wearing a sombrero.