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  A Mathematic Perspective on Evolution

  by Saethydd in

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  i would like to apologize in advance if any of my information on the biology side of this discussion is incorrect, because unfortunately it is not my strongest scientific subject on account of my being subtly encouraged to view it with distrust.. i've recently debated the of subject of evolution with my father, i made the argument that when viewed over several million years random mutation provides a more than adequate explanation for humans having evolved from a common ancestor with chimpanzees.

  then he got this derisive look on his face a waved his hand saying "evolution's explanation for everything is the amount of time involved.".

  so i decided i would examine this mathematically.

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  Unguided evolution and mutation succeeding against the all-pervasive force of entropy that rules the material world is really a more amazing miracle than creation. - anointed1

  Living things extract energy from their local environment. There is no contradiction between unguided evolution and thermodynamics. In fact there is an interesting hypothesis that thermodynamics makes the emergence of life inevitable. Life accelerates entropy.

  Please tell us which books that present the evidence for evolution you have read. I'm going to make two predictions that have proved accurate many times in the past.

  1 - The honest answer is none

  2 - You won't answer the question.

  Evolution is a fact...
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  Winnesses of ME (Jesus)...Acts 1:8...NOT Winnesses of Jehovah

  by NikL in

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  so jesus said in acts 1:8 .... you will receive power when the holy spirit comes upon you,+ and you will be witnesses+ of me in jerusalem,+ in all ju·deʹa and sa·marʹi·a,+ and to the most distant part* of the earth.. .

  witnesses of jesus and not jehovah.

  so i was a witness for years.

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  1] Early Christians were WITNESSES of Jesus.

  On his last evening with his disciples Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit who would;

  "Bear witness about me, and you in turn are to bear witness, because you have been with me from when I began." (Jhn.15:26,27)

  Immediately prior to his ascension Jesus told them ;

  "You will be witnesses of me..to the most distant part of the earth." (Acts 1:8)

  Paul said that the minds of unbelievers had been blinded so that:

  "The glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine through. For we are preaching not ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord." (2Cor.4:4,5)

  In Revelation the dragon goes off to wage war with those who:

  "Have the work of bearing witness to Jesus."

  The harlot is seen to be;

  "Drunk with the blood of the holy ones and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus."

  When John falls down before the angel he receives the rebuke:

  "Be careful do not do that. All I am is a fellow slave of you and of your brothers who have the work of witnessing to Jesus."

  In contrast to the practice of early Christians, no Jehovah's Witness would ever identify themselves as a witness of Jesus...
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  ARC Analysis Summary of Case Files

  by Richard Oliver in

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  2. child-abuse

  i have been doing research on the arc as some people on here have suggested.

  i find it interesting on the case file analysis some of the findings.

  it looks like queensland and new south wales had the biggest problems with this.

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  1006 opportunities to help make Australian society in general a safer place for Australian children

  1006 opportunities declined.

  “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men should do nothing.” - Edmund Burke
  
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  Uk members ?

  by midnight in

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  hi anyone from the uk ?

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  and not participate in wars

  Pacifism is morally indefensible. What has happened to Scotland the Brave?
  
  
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  Uk members ?

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  Northumberland.
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  Why do some Jehovah's Witnesses choose to be atheist or agnostic?

  by Cassaruby in

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  "traumatic as the initial transition may be, it can lead to the development of a truly personal relationship with these two greatest friends [the father and the son] .

  .. "whatever sense of 'belonging' that membership in some religious system may create, it can never compare with the power and beauty and strengthening benefit of the intimate personal relationship the scripture presents .

  from reading joseph campbell i've come to understand that there are functions to religion or mythology.

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  I value their emphasis on evidence

  That is like saying you value the Jewish emphasis on foreskins.
  
  
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  Now I'm Convinced There Probably Is No God

  by pale.emperor in

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  2. experiences

  yesterday i made a visit to the museum in my city.

  the top floor is the planetarium, which has a connecting room with a huge dome ceiling where they project lessons and lectures and you have a 360 view of the night sky etc.. this particular lecture explained about our galaxy, and how it's only one of billions in the universe.

  and then we learned about each planet, some of their moons and the sun.

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  If we extrapolate known planetary systems then we can safely assume the universe contains many billions of planets many of which have one or more moons. A percentage of those planets will have conditions favourable for life. Some of those will far more accommodating than our planet.

  Positing magic to explain the moon is risible.
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  Oi Cofty

  by Landy in

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  new series of timc started monday.. one of the episodes is on evolution - should be good knowing cox's antipathy towards religion.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b088f2vv.

  sorry you colonials - it's on the bbc so you won't be able to get it.

  serves yourself right for voting for trump!

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  Is the bias in this case pro or anti-English?

  Neither. It lives in a "liberal" bubble.
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  Are there any doctrines which all Christian religions follow.

  by jwfacts in

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  i cannot think of a single doctrine that is so clearly laid out in the bible that every christian sect teaches the same point.

  are there any doctrine where there is total consensus amongst all christian religions, including jehovah's witnesses?.

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  I think it is ludicrous to say JWs are not Christians because they do not accept the Trinity.

  I agree.

  What he rejected was the idea of "substitution"-that Christ died instead of us, that by his death Christ paid the penalty for sin for Adam's offspring.

  Barbour denied that Jesus received the punishment for your sins and mine on the cross. That idea of vicarious punishment is at the heart of the Pauline version of the work of Jesus. I think that is the closest thing to an idea that is common to all christian denominations. It it usually the first one to be denied by "cults" like the Watchtower. Rutherford made the ransom to be about an Adam=Jesus legal transaction and robbed the doctrine of it's power... (puts evangelical hat off again)

  
  
  
  
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  Oi Cofty

  by Landy in

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  new series of timc started monday.. one of the episodes is on evolution - should be good knowing cox's antipathy towards religion.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b088f2vv.

  sorry you colonials - it's on the bbc so you won't be able to get it.

  serves yourself right for voting for trump!

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  Compare...

  Either you know nothing about Scottish politics or you don't know what the word jingoistic means. - SBF

  One of the most popular independence slogans during the referendum "Bairns Not Bombs" - SBF

  As for the other slurs they are also the oppsotive of the truth. - SBF

  What does oppsotive mean?

  The anti-English slur is a canard

  The anti-English rhetoric I witnessed constantly during the campaign was shameful.

  Bunch of small-minded ignoramuses who thought that Braveheart was a documentary.