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  Evolution Gap - Where's the Fur?

  by shadow in

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  evolution paints human ancestors covered with fur.

  fur has several benefits as stated by britannica "the pelts of fur-bearing animals are called true furs when they consist of two elements: a dense undercoat, called ground hair, and longer hairs, extending beyond that layer, called guard hair.

  the principal function of ground hair is to maintain the animal’s body temperature; that of guard hair is to protect the underlying fur and skin and to shed rain or snow.".

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  Goosebumps are the evidence of your hairy ancestry...
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  Evolution vs Creation.

  by The Rebel in

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  looking at the board, i see so many long threads on " evoultion vs creation " ect, ect.. therefore if " your" qualifications are only those of " an" uneducated j.w, may i ask one question?.

  q) what makes you feel you are now qualified to comment with absolute ,authority on any discussion?.

  i ask the above question because for most of us " ex-witnesses " logic is still words written in the pages of an awake" magazine.

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  both are susceptible to being represented by a Godlike deus de machina - Ruby

  Do you mean Deus ex machina?

  If so I don't understand what you mean by that in this context.

  
  
  
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  Evolution vs Creation.

  by The Rebel in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  looking at the board, i see so many long threads on " evoultion vs creation " ect, ect.. therefore if " your" qualifications are only those of " an" uneducated j.w, may i ask one question?.

  q) what makes you feel you are now qualified to comment with absolute ,authority on any discussion?.

  i ask the above question because for most of us " ex-witnesses " logic is still words written in the pages of an awake" magazine.

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  It is a feature of our world that people think their opinion is of equal value to other people's facts.

  The veracity of a position isn't measured by it's popularity or by how passionately somebody believes it to be true.

  As long as somebody is discussing verifiable evidence I don't care about their qualifications. Recent threads have demonstrated a disconnect between qualifications and understanding of science.
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  The problem of sex (or why I'm not an atheist)

  by EdenOne in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as i write this under the shadow of the walls of saint jorge's castle in lisbon, two very bored jws are standing just five metres away from me with a literature cart .... in my journey away from jwism i accepted evolution as a fact.

  i also became anti-religion, agnostic and apatheist.

  and, while i lean towards the persuasion of the atheist arguments, there are a few reasons that make it difficult for me to completely discard the notion of an intelligent origin of life.

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  it doesn't quite explain how very complex organisms developed fully distinct yet necessarily complementary reproductive apparel

  That is the really easy bit. I'm sure a bit of research will turn up a lot of info and extant examples of external fertilisation ----> internal gestation. Just last week I read an article on the evolution of the placenta.

  The origin of sex was the real hurdle and I have explained that in some detail above.
  
  
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  Latest Metal Detecting Find

  by cofty in

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  now the harvest is underway up north i can get out for a walk with the metal detector in the evening.

  i am lucky to live on a historic rural estate and i have permission from the landowner to detect.. this is a coin that popped up last night.

  it was only about 2 inches deep and had been tumbling around in the plough soil for the last 750 years.. it is a silver penny of king henry iii.

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  That is very cool Dunedain.

  Its exciting when you can link a find to known events. Battle sites in the UK have mostly been declared "Scheduled Ancient Monuments" which makes it illegal to detect there. I get a lot of lead musket balls around here. Some of them are squashed flat from hitting something - somebody!
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  Latest Metal Detecting Find

  by cofty in

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  2. physical

  now the harvest is underway up north i can get out for a walk with the metal detector in the evening.

  i am lucky to live on a historic rural estate and i have permission from the landowner to detect.. this is a coin that popped up last night.

  it was only about 2 inches deep and had been tumbling around in the plough soil for the last 750 years.. it is a silver penny of king henry iii.

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  Here are a couple more I found recently.

  Elizabeth I Shilling 1569. Notice the moneyer who hammered the die got a slight bounce and double-struck the bust.

  

  This one was a very unexpected find. It is a 3 Groshen coin minted in Gdansk in 1539. The king is Sigismund I also known as Sigismund the Old. He was also Grand Duke of Lithuania and ruler of Bohemia. I found it just 50 yards from where I am typing now. One possible explanation is that ships sailed from Gdansk to Leith near Edinburgh in the 16th century. You just never know what will turn up!

  
  
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  The problem of sex (or why I'm not an atheist)

  by EdenOne in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as i write this under the shadow of the walls of saint jorge's castle in lisbon, two very bored jws are standing just five metres away from me with a literature cart .... in my journey away from jwism i accepted evolution as a fact.

  i also became anti-religion, agnostic and apatheist.

  and, while i lean towards the persuasion of the atheist arguments, there are a few reasons that make it difficult for me to completely discard the notion of an intelligent origin of life.

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  I'm yet to read evidence of HOW organisms went from asexual reproduction to sexual. - Eden

  So Eden what say you now?
  
  
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  There is no such thing as Agnosticism. Agnostics do not exist!

  by nicolaou in

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  2. beliefs

  many here seem to believe that the position of agnosticism is somehow more reasonable than theism or atheism.

  nonsense!

  it is a misconception to believe that belief or non-belief in the existence of god/s are the two extremes which glare at each other over the fence of agnosticism.

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  "the conscious intelligence that engineered life on Earth"

  "Sire, je n'ai pas eu besoin de cette hypothèse." - Pierre-Simon Laplace
  
  
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  There is no such thing as Agnosticism. Agnostics do not exist!

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  many here seem to believe that the position of agnosticism is somehow more reasonable than theism or atheism.

  nonsense!

  it is a misconception to believe that belief or non-belief in the existence of god/s are the two extremes which glare at each other over the fence of agnosticism.

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  A humanistic rational approach cannot disprove apophatic conceptions of God

  You define god as something that does exist AND also doesn't exist and then expect intelligent people to take you seriously.

  It is literally ridiculous.
  
  
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  There is no such thing as Agnosticism. Agnostics do not exist!

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  many here seem to believe that the position of agnosticism is somehow more reasonable than theism or atheism.

  nonsense!

  it is a misconception to believe that belief or non-belief in the existence of god/s are the two extremes which glare at each other over the fence of agnosticism.

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  You are absolutely wrong. Take Cofty for example, he is 100% convinced no god or no intelligent life or creator for our origins of life. For him all by chance, no chance of anything behind it. He is atheist. - EOM

  Yes I am an atheist but I don't much care for the word. Why should not believing in something deserve a label?

  I am FOR rational thinking, an evidence-based worldview, humanism, secular morality and much more. Not believing in the god of christian theism is simply a corollary of that.

  On the other hand when somebody says they are an atheist that tells us very little about them. I know of atheists who believe in all sorts of irrational woo.

  An agnostic is just somebody who needs to do a bit more thinking as EOM demonstrated above.

  I am totally convinced that it can be proven beyond all reasonable doubt that the god of Jesus does not exist. Same goes for the god of the pedophile prophet of Islam. Same goes for any specific god you want to discuss.

  When people say that you can't prove there is no god they can only say that by being as vague as possible about the words "prove" and "god". Define "god" and of course we can prove it is nothing but a human construct.

  As for the vacuous waffle we just saw above from SBF it is not worth wasting a single heartbeat even contemplating.

  God can exist and not-exist, or neither, without being bound by definitions. When I think of God I think of God in these terms, or not in these terms, as the case may be.

  It is unmitigated mental masturbation and I wish he would do it in private.