there's also a fellow who calls himself the "watchman," but he seems as critical as many of the so-called "apostates.
" is there a place where one can ask questions from knowledgeable believers or "a" believer?
i really don't want to take the bible lessons.
So it turns out there really is such a thing as a dumb question.
Why would you come on a forum full of ex-JWs and ask them where you could go to get answers to questions about JWs? That's like going into a baker's shop and asking if they know anywhere you can get some bread.
Many of us were teachers of JW doctrine for decades.
10 " any israelite or any alien living among them who eats any bloodi will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from his people.
12 therefore i say to the israelites, "none of you may eat blood, nor may an alien living among you eat blood.
15 'anyone, whether native-born or alien, who eats anything found dead or torn by wild animals must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be ceremonially unclean till evening; then he will be clean.
I discussed the sacrificial value of blood in the OP.
I decided the atonement would have been an unnecessary diversion.
so... i live in mexico and i am helping with an esl class (english as a second language).
actually, i am helping with two classes.
i get two days a week in which i just stand there and have a debate with the class, encouraging as many as possible to just talk... in english.. anyways, i like talking about subjects that generate debate.
Cofty, small genome, big genome, does it matter?
It mattered a lot to you as evidence of design right up to the point that I shared some inconvenient facts. Then suddenly it doesn't matter.
As usual your intellectual honesty is nil.
10 " any israelite or any alien living among them who eats any bloodi will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from his people.
12 therefore i say to the israelites, "none of you may eat blood, nor may an alien living among you eat blood.
15 'anyone, whether native-born or alien, who eats anything found dead or torn by wild animals must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be ceremonially unclean till evening; then he will be clean.
This original law was created mostly upon the eating of blood as a dietary prohibition
I disagree for reasons I offer in detail in the OP and here...
so... i live in mexico and i am helping with an esl class (english as a second language).
actually, i am helping with two classes.
i get two days a week in which i just stand there and have a debate with the class, encouraging as many as possible to just talk... in english.. anyways, i like talking about subjects that generate debate.
You just demolished your own argument for intelligent design.
10 " any israelite or any alien living among them who eats any bloodi will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from his people.
12 therefore i say to the israelites, "none of you may eat blood, nor may an alien living among you eat blood.
15 'anyone, whether native-born or alien, who eats anything found dead or torn by wild animals must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be ceremonially unclean till evening; then he will be clean.
Thank you Stavro. I still think this line of argument is unassailable.
At the very least it should give a JW pause before they risk the life of their child.
Here is a shorter version of the same argument...
so... i live in mexico and i am helping with an esl class (english as a second language).
actually, i am helping with two classes.
i get two days a week in which i just stand there and have a debate with the class, encouraging as many as possible to just talk... in english.. anyways, i like talking about subjects that generate debate.
Human language, computer language and DNA "language"
I am glad you put your third use of the word language in quotes. The first two are actual languages. The third is a metaphor.
I have noticed all of your questions get answered but you ignore questions directed at you. Why?
If our genome so optimal why are there plants with genomes 50 times larger ours? Is a Japonica 50 times as complex as a human?
How about the protozoa known as Amoeba dubia? It has a genome more than 200 times bigger than a human!
so... i live in mexico and i am helping with an esl class (english as a second language).
actually, i am helping with two classes.
i get two days a week in which i just stand there and have a debate with the class, encouraging as many as possible to just talk... in english.. anyways, i like talking about subjects that generate debate.
Priceless!
so... i live in mexico and i am helping with an esl class (english as a second language).
actually, i am helping with two classes.
i get two days a week in which i just stand there and have a debate with the class, encouraging as many as possible to just talk... in english.. anyways, i like talking about subjects that generate debate.
Perhaps my problem is that I have no imagination. - Vidqun
Your problem is a lack of knowledge combined with dogmatism.
so... i live in mexico and i am helping with an esl class (english as a second language).
actually, i am helping with two classes.
i get two days a week in which i just stand there and have a debate with the class, encouraging as many as possible to just talk... in english.. anyways, i like talking about subjects that generate debate.
Cofty, hydrothermal vents would be the last place on earth where life would originate - Vidqun
Actually it is an amazing environment that contains all the conditions and ingredients for life.
As I said before, it probably one of the most inhospitable places on the planet.
No not by a very long way. You are obviously not thinking about alkaline vents.
Secondly, through diffusion in sea water, free molecules would disperse, rather than aggregate.
No they wouldn't. Alkaline vents are made up of millions of tiny pores each a few microns lined with metallic catalysts.
How would life form under such conditions, if it cannot be kickstarted in “perfect” conditions in a lab?
There is no such thing as perfect conditions in the lab. Recreating the pressures, temperatures, PH gradients etc etc is a gigantic challenge. Progress is being made.
