Posts by cofty

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Evolution is a Fact #6 - Human Chromosome 2

by cofty in

part 1 - protein functional redundancypart 2 - dna functional redundancypart 3 - ervspart 4 - smelly genespart 5 - vitamin c.

the big book of how to build a human - your genome - is approximately 3 billion letters long.. the text is arranged in long molecules of dna called chromosomes.

each letter of code in a chromosome is joined to its compliment - a to t and c to g - and the whole string is arranged in the iconic double-helix shape discovered by watson and crick in 1953.. our chromosomes come in pairs, one from our father and one from our mother.

cofty

Here's what he specifically said:

Who is "he"?

Source please.

They come up with several explanations, but of course they have to keep riding with the Evolution assumption and can’t admit that the data just don’t fit their assumptions because they have no other option with God excluded. The Christian response that these telomeric repeats are simply normal telomeric repeats

What explanations do "they" come up with and why specifically are those explanations not satisfactory?

Why is a rejection of evolution by the unnamed author being equated with a "christian" response? Millions of informed chrisitians accept the fact of evolution. What he means is "the fundie response is..."

The very first paragraph quote-mines a peer-reviewed paper the presents the genetic evidence for telomere - telomere fusion in chromosome 2 to make it sound as if the authors of the paper are saying the exact opposite.

Typical creationist dishonesty. Having noted the rank dishonest of paragraph 1 I stopped wasting my time right there.

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Hi from England

by victimofdeceit in

jw
friends

recently quit being a jw because i realised that beyond armageddon i was going to be ruled by people who cover up child abuse, not telling the congregations by their letter where the money they donated in the box is going towards paying compensation for legal battles which they caused, and also i was bullied by elders and discriminated against for being homosexual, even though i am not practicing it.

it wasn't until i threatened legal action for a breach of confidence that the elders were deleted.

so through the media and my own personal experience, i realised that they were no different to corrupt businesses in the world.

cofty

Welcome from Northumberland. It will be tough for a while. Step one is to get over the whole attitude we were taught to have about "worldly people".

Be open to new friendships and relationships. Don't spend another minute fretting over how unkind or corrupt the organisation or the elders are. They are not worth the time or energy. You will be okay.

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Dunkirk.

by zeb in

i have just seen the film "dunkirk".

do yourselves a big favour and go see it.

(not for kids).

cofty

Hitler has no Quarl with the British. He was really about finishing off the slavs, jews and communists

What a bizarre statement!

Is this myth taught in American schools? I bloody hope not.

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Dunkirk.

by zeb in

i have just seen the film "dunkirk".

do yourselves a big favour and go see it.

(not for kids).

cofty

There was nothing Hitler would have wanted more than to destroy the British army on the beaches. He thought he could do the job with planes. He didn't count on British ingenuity. Mustering an armada of small craft was genius.

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No brain, No Life -- says JW Professor Rajesh Kalaria

by cognisonance in

so continuing my review of the current bull shit my family in this cult are subjected to i found this article about professor rajesh kalaria, a jw since 1973 and a scientist who has studied the human brain for 40 years (hmm... so he converted into this cult very early in his career it seems).anyway i also found this jw broadcasting piece about him where he says:.

“and brain is what we are; what i am, what you are.

no brain, no life.

cofty

even going as far as admitting in the papers that this research could be useful for other primates on the phylogenetic tree

Good catch.

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Verifiable proof of Jesus' existance outside the Bible

by unsure in

thought i'd start a separate discussion on the subject.. those who know me know i'm struggling with faith; i want to believe, some days i do but it becomes difficult.. many believers say there is verifiable proof of jesus' existence outside of the bible.. please post this proof..

cofty

I have come to believe in The Father and The Son because of the evidence which abounds - Old Navy

What sort of evidence are you referring to? The design of the universe and of living things ceased being an argument for god 150 years ago.

If god made the living world why did he wipe out 96% of all living things in the Permian extinction 250 million years ago? Everything you see today evolved from the 4% that survived. This event that lasted more than 40,000 years was just one of five similar events.

Seeing love or wisdom in the natural world requires a very selective view of natural history.

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Dunkirk.

by zeb in

i have just seen the film "dunkirk".

do yourselves a big favour and go see it.

(not for kids).

cofty

One of the best films I have seen.

It is three overlapping stories told from the perspective of The Royal Air Force, the men on the beach and the boats that rescued them.

More than 300,000 British soldiers were brought home by an armada of civilian vessels. Churchill had feared that number might be as low as 30,000. They lived to fight another day and, with the help of the USA, defeat the Nazis in 1945.

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