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  Why A Divine Being is Possible

  by looter in

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  now we all have heard how the universe is composed of matter and space.

  and we always here of how it had a beginning.

  but really what could have begun it?

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  As mere mortals mankind knows nothing.

  Speak for yourself. I know a lot of things.

  I know that the god of christian theism is impossible.
  
  
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  Debating With Evolution Deniers is Just Like This

  by cofty in

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  arguing with those who reject scientific evidence can be like arguing about football; just as angry and passionate, but the goalposts keep moving, and one team doesn't exist.. read more here....

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  Life comes from existing life. That fact has been proved by science. - Vidqun

  Yes life does comes from existing life but there was a time that earth contained no life.

  Originally life emerged from non-living prebiotic conditions. Exactly how that happened is still an unproven hypothesis. It will be solved.

  Here are the requirements for the origin of life...

  1 - A continuous supply of reactive carbon for synthesising new organics.

  2 - A constant flux of free energy to drive metabolic biochemistry - the formation of new DNA, amino acids & proteins.

  3 - Inorganic catalysts

  4 - Removal of the waste product of chemical reactions

  5 - Compartmentalisation - a cell-like structure to allow the accumulation of products and separate them from the outside environment

  6 - Hereditary material - RNA, DNA or equivalent

  All of these conditions were found in Alkaline hydrothermal vents under the Hadean oceans 4 billion years ago. The details are being investigated by microbiologists and geochemists. It will be solved. Where will god hide then? Cosmology?

  Edited to add - Of course DNA was not "found" in hydrothermal vents 4 billion years ago. Explaining how RNA formed in that environment is one of the challenges.
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  Debating With Evolution Deniers is Just Like This

  by cofty in

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  arguing with those who reject scientific evidence can be like arguing about football; just as angry and passionate, but the goalposts keep moving, and one team doesn't exist.. read more here....

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  Vidqun your behaviour is unacceptable. Why are christians so obnoxious?
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  The Atheist Delusion

  by looter in

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  atheist delusion.

  just want to know what the ex jw community thinks about this video and also offer my pov.

  the video was actually an advertisement on here.

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  Even if a god does not exist it exists as a god - Looter

  Wow I'm convinced. Praise Jeebus!
  
  
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  President Rodrigo Duterte Makes Trump Look Like a Bleeding Heart Liberal

  by cofty in

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  the new president of the philippines, rodrigo duterte has given a green light for police and vigilantes to shoot drug dealers.. since taking office just 7 weeks ago at least 1,800 drug related deaths have been recorded with more killings every night in manilla.

  one vigilante who was interviewed on the bbc says he hopes to have completed his kill list by the end of september.

  president duterte is enjoying unprecedented popularity.

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  The new President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte has given a green light for police and vigilantes to shoot drug dealers.

  Since taking office just 7 weeks ago at least 1,800 drug related deaths have been recorded with more killings every night in Manilla. One vigilante who was interviewed on the BBC says he hopes to have completed his kill list by the end of September.

  President Duterte is enjoying unprecedented popularity.

  Read more at Reuters..
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  Debating With Evolution Deniers is Just Like This

  by cofty in

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  arguing with those who reject scientific evidence can be like arguing about football; just as angry and passionate, but the goalposts keep moving, and one team doesn't exist.. read more here....

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  Eden One - Yes basically that is correct as I understand it. Life arose in an anaerobic world. Oxygen was a toxic waste product of photosynthesis by cyanobacteria. Lucky for us.

  Vidqun - You are not in a position to be insulting anybody.
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  Debating With Evolution Deniers is Just Like This

  by cofty in

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  arguing with those who reject scientific evidence can be like arguing about football; just as angry and passionate, but the goalposts keep moving, and one team doesn't exist.. read more here....

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  Feel free to believe what you want - Vidqun

  That is your problem right there. Choosing your beliefs is dumb.

  Follow the evidence and your "beliefs" will take care of themselves. All of your objections to evolution are based on wilful ignorance.

  You started with your superstitious conclusion.
  
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  Update: Images Now Served in WebP Format

  by Simon in

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  i've pushed an update to the image handling so they are now served using the webp format if the requesting browser supports it.

  currently that is chrome, opera and android mobile but safari is adding support in the next version and there's hope that firefox and edge will get on board soon.. read more about webp.

  webp is a newer image format that can replace jpeg, gif and png but with much better compression rates for the same quality.

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  Thanks for the update!
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  Debating With Evolution Deniers is Just Like This

  by cofty in

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  arguing with those who reject scientific evidence can be like arguing about football; just as angry and passionate, but the goalposts keep moving, and one team doesn't exist.. read more here....

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  Vidqun it is not unreasonable to expect a professional microbiologist to have a basic knowledge of science. On many occasions you have displayed a staggering ignorance of simple facts.
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  Debating With Evolution Deniers is Just Like This

  by cofty in

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  arguing with those who reject scientific evidence can be like arguing about football; just as angry and passionate, but the goalposts keep moving, and one team doesn't exist.. read more here....

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  Eden - The atmosphere of the earth 4 billion years ago contained no oxygen therefore the composition of the oceans was also quite different. Modern vents are also teeming with existing lifeforms.

  Life will not likely arise a second time on earth. However each of the steps to life is being investigated in labs all over the world.

  For almost 2 billion years there were only morphologically simple pokaryotes. If life is discovered on other planets it will probably be bacterial.