It's an outstanding achievement.
It has all changed for the better since Sport England began targeting funding towards elite athletes. Most schools also got over their ridiculous "everybody is a winner - non-competitive sports" foolishness.
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37Second in the Medal Table - Well Done TeamGB
by konceptual99 incan't believe it - gb is currently second in the medal table, with more golds and silvers combined than even china.
given the size of the nation it's an incredible achievement and we have won in some sports where other countries typically dominate.
i can't imagine we will stay in second but i am happy to enjoy the moment.. well done to the whole of team gb!.
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Sun,moon, earth and mathematics .
by atomant injust thought id let you all in on some info i found on northeasttruth.com.
that magical moment where the moon blocks out the sun!
but only just enough to perfectly cover the suns disc, whilst still allowing us to see the corona of light and other electromagnetic forces radiating from it.. this only happens because the moon diameter is exactly 1/400th the size of the suns and is positioned at exactly 1/400th of the distance between earth and the sun!so, when we see it from the surface of earth, we are in the only place this can ever be seen, at the only time it could ever happen.
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cofty
At first glance I thought that link was MARK COCK RING.
How appropriate that would be since the OP is a load of bollocks.
You're looking at a collection of numbers and seeing faces in them. Invisible, imaginary faces - Nathan Natas
This is exactly the sort of silliness that got Russell fixated on the length of the corridors in the great pyramid of Egypt. When Rutherford has to change the dates to 1925 he magically added some inches to corridor.
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I believe in Evolution and that God created life
by Crabby inanyone else also hold this view or understand it at least, or do you feel the need to argue that both can in no way coexist?.
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cofty
Vidqun - Of course that will be your response and you will be wrong.
Bioenergetics is about setting up the conditions that existed in the ancient environment of an alkaline vent and passively observing life emerge.
It will prove that life is a process and not a "thing". It will show that your god is not the source of life.
When it happens you and other theists will continue to sing "we can't hear you"
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New to this. But not the life.
by Irocz ini just joined this sight today.
i'm hoping to find people here with similar experiences or have experience with similar situations or just any advise or feedback.. first.
my quick life story.. i was born into jw.
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cofty
Welcome to the forum and thanks for sharing your story.
So much is happening in WT world right now and this is a good place to keep up with the latest news. Well done on going to see your dad. I hope you can continue to build a friendship with him. Only you know about your situation but please take it easy regarding sharing bad news about the JWs with your dad if there is an opportunity to get some sort of relationship with him.
Look forward to your posts.
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There is science that prove God exists
by HopeEverLasting injehovahs witnesses think that just the bible is proof that god exists but they are wrong.
there is another mode for how he exists.
now we all know many scientists who are creationists now weren’t creationists until they examined the evidence for themselves.
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cofty
93% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences are atheist.
Knowledge is toxic to faith.
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Why disbelieving in God is foolish
by HopeEverLasting inlook, now before i speak, i want to say that it is very okay for someone to not believe.
are they hurting anyone?
killing anyone?
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cofty
@cofty always gotta get a shot in..."being superstitious" Simply saying "nobody hates you" would suffice. - Hadriel
Theism is indistinguishable from other superstitions.
1 - If you walk under a ladder/see a black cat/break a mirror/spill salt etc. bad things will happen to you.
2 - If you don't assent to certain irrational propositions about a dead Jewish carpenter bad things will happen to you.
What is the difference?
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There is science that prove God exists
by HopeEverLasting injehovahs witnesses think that just the bible is proof that god exists but they are wrong.
there is another mode for how he exists.
now we all know many scientists who are creationists now weren’t creationists until they examined the evidence for themselves.
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cofty
No scientist believes in god for scientific reasons.
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Why are the atheists on this site so hateful?
by HopeEverLasting inall us creationists try to do is offer true evidence that the one and only god is out there watching and looking down on us.
we present that certain scientists know the truth about god and that he is everything that we see from trees, life, weather, the air we breath, and even the most simple molecules.
but of course you atheists reject it because it is your nature to not be humble and see god because you want to rule your own life.
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cofty
Personally I have no objection to theists preaching. Even if they don't engage in conversation it provides an opportunity to demonstrate how vacuous faith is.
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I believe in Evolution and that God created life
by Crabby inanyone else also hold this view or understand it at least, or do you feel the need to argue that both can in no way coexist?.
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cofty
Yes we don't know how the first cell formed but don't worry about that Evolution is FACT. - Hadriel
Actually a group of scientists who specialise in the field of bioenergetics have laid out the entire process in detail and are working on proving each step in the laboratory. I am sure it will be resolved in our lifetime.
Your god-of-the-gaps will then get even smaller.
Evolution is a fact that is totally independent of the answer to abiogenesis.
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I believe in Evolution and that God created life
by Crabby inanyone else also hold this view or understand it at least, or do you feel the need to argue that both can in no way coexist?.
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cofty
hydrothemal vents are very inhospitable places, perhaps some of the most inhospitable places on earth - Vidqun
Actually they are teeming with life. But I'm not talking about black smokers with their extremes of temperature where thermophilic archaea and giant worms live. I'm talking about alkaline vents where the temperature is perfect for life.
A hydrothermal vent with all its chemical components (devoid of living organisms) could then be replicated in a laboratory environment.
Actually that is really difficult. The bottom of the ocean is a strange world with extreme pressures. The labyrinth of micro pores inside an alkaline vent with cells just fractions of a micron across is not easy to replicate. Remember too that the early oceans had no oxygen. But there are a number of labs working on it right now and the results are very promising. I will describe some of the chemical reactions that have been achieved in another thread.
I guarantee a similar result as with the "primordial soup" experiments. After manipulating their soupy concoction in all kinds of ways, they would send lightning bolts through it. However, it remained dead.
I totally agree. Organic soup is a non-starter. It is a thermodynamic dead-end. The early experiments failed to explain where the energy flux was coming from. Alkaline vents explains this perfectly and in fastidious detail. No lightning bolts required - no lightning bolts available at the bottom of the ocean!
still a long way from living cells
Yes there is a very long journey to the first cell but every step is being investigated. Nick Lane lays out the whole pathway in his latest book and shows how it could arise from nothing but carbon, hydrogen and rock in a hydrothermal vent.
I cannot go along with such a theory,
Fortunately the scientific community don't waste too much time worrying whether or not Vidqun will buy it. They are doing the hard work in labs all around the world. When it happens all you will want to talk about is cosmology.