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  Evolution doesn't happen today...WRONG...

  by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

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  last year i had a brother tell me that one proof evolution is false is that he doesn't see it happening today... i was going to bring of viruses evolving so fast that new vaccines must be developed each year but felt he was too closed minded to receive it.

  today i was listening to the audio book of 'an ancestors tale- richard dawkins' and noted oe point that shined through.. here is evolution happening>>>.

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/05/2/l_052_05.html.

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  Venus there is no justification in the Theory of evolution for the racist ideology of the Nazis.
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  Family Insists on Having Relationship with My Child -_-

  by Cimarrona in

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  hi gang, i'm a single mother of an 8 month old baby boy.

  i've been df'd for over six years now.

  my parents are super dubs and most of my siblings are dubs (on paper - a couple have been inactive my entire life but still claim to believe) with the exception of a brother who was never baptized.

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  "As long as your desire to have a relationship with my child is contingent on my absence, you will not have a relationship with him. I'm not allowing him to be taught that I'm to be treated as less than for any reason, biblical or otherwise. I am open, as I always have been, to developing a loving, respectful, harmonious relationship so that you can show him by example that I am to be loved and respected. He will not be exposed to anything else."

  Perfect!
  
  
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  Hello from Scotland - it has been ages....

  by The Scotsman in

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  well how the devil is everyone?

  i have not been here for a long time........totally lost track of what is going on in jw land, apart from the little bits i hear from family members still in.

  (they say everything is swell and that armageddon is just round the corner).... :).was hearing that anniesland congregation in glasgow has been (or is about to be) disbanded.

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  I met up with some of the Greenlees recently, all well and good and enjoying freedom

  That's good to hear.
  
  
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  Evolution doesn't happen today...WRONG...

  by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  last year i had a brother tell me that one proof evolution is false is that he doesn't see it happening today... i was going to bring of viruses evolving so fast that new vaccines must be developed each year but felt he was too closed minded to receive it.

  today i was listening to the audio book of 'an ancestors tale- richard dawkins' and noted oe point that shined through.. here is evolution happening>>>.

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/05/2/l_052_05.html.

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  Monkeys and typewriters - The trademark of somebody who nothing about science.
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  Calling Cofty and others regarding evolution

  by dubstepped in

  1. jw
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  so i have started down the path of trying to understand evolution, and to get the linear lies that the jws planted in my head out of it.

  i bought an audiobook called "evolution: what the fossils say and why it matters" by donald prothero.

  i heard it recommended on an atheist podcast that i listened to.

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  Thanks Searill. The question of origins is interesting. I suspect that when we know the answer for sure we will find that life is as inevitable as a rock rolling down a hill. Jeremy England is doing interesting work on this from the perspective of physics and entropy.
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  Calling Cofty and others regarding evolution

  by dubstepped in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i have started down the path of trying to understand evolution, and to get the linear lies that the jws planted in my head out of it.

  i bought an audiobook called "evolution: what the fossils say and why it matters" by donald prothero.

  i heard it recommended on an atheist podcast that i listened to.

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  cofty

  Fisherman why don't you do a little research before spouting lies?

  Do you enjoy being ignorant of the facts? Are you never embarrassed to make a public display of your ignorance?

  I could describe the fossil evidence for the evolution of the phylum Chordata but what's the point? You have never read anything useful in your life - your not going to start now are you?

  Do your own research - here are some key terms..

  Jawless fish; hagfishes; Heterostracans; lampreys; Osteostracans; Anaspids; Placoderms; Cartilaginous fish; Acanthodians.
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  Calling Cofty and others regarding evolution

  by dubstepped in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i have started down the path of trying to understand evolution, and to get the linear lies that the jws planted in my head out of it.

  i bought an audiobook called "evolution: what the fossils say and why it matters" by donald prothero.

  i heard it recommended on an atheist podcast that i listened to.

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  Cofty, is there any chance you could you put your series into a PDF and upload it somewhere? It would be really useful to have it as a single document. - Splash

  Interesting idea. I will look into that.
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  Evolution doesn't happen today...WRONG...

  by HowTheBibleWasCreated in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  last year i had a brother tell me that one proof evolution is false is that he doesn't see it happening today... i was going to bring of viruses evolving so fast that new vaccines must be developed each year but felt he was too closed minded to receive it.

  today i was listening to the audio book of 'an ancestors tale- richard dawkins' and noted oe point that shined through.. here is evolution happening>>>.

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/05/2/l_052_05.html.

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  Anthony Flew was senile. William Dembski and Jonathan Wells have no such excuse.

  Stop cherry-picking out of context quotes from the internet and read some actual books.
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  Calling Cofty and others regarding evolution

  by dubstepped in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i have started down the path of trying to understand evolution, and to get the linear lies that the jws planted in my head out of it.

  i bought an audiobook called "evolution: what the fossils say and why it matters" by donald prothero.

  i heard it recommended on an atheist podcast that i listened to.

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  Fisherman - That is one of those dumb things that creationists keep telling each other but none of them ever check to see if it's true.

  It isn't.

  We have an embarrassment of riches of transitional forms.

  I have even described some of them to you in the Evolution is a Fact series but you are too lazy/prejudiced/arrogant/ to bother to read it.

  #11 Tiktaalik
  An amazing fossil discovery illustrates the transition of life from sea to land.

  #16 Aquatic Mammals
  An excellent sequence of fossils illustrates the evolutionary journey of whales from land to sea.

  #18 Fish Fingers
  The evolution of limbs is mapped out in an amazing sequence of ancient fish fossils.

  #20 Lucy in the Sky...
  An exceptional fossil of a 3 million year old hominid.

  #21 Footprints in the Sand...
  Footprints at Laetoli show our Australopithecus afarensis ancestors were bipedal 3.6 million years ago.

  #23 Faunal Succession...
  The consistent sequence of fossils found in the rocks can only be explained by evolution.

  #24 The Origin of Your Inner Ear...
  How the bones that reptiles eat with became the bones that we hear with.

  So then what evidence do you have for your ill-informed assertions?
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  Calling Cofty and others regarding evolution

  by dubstepped in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i have started down the path of trying to understand evolution, and to get the linear lies that the jws planted in my head out of it.

  i bought an audiobook called "evolution: what the fossils say and why it matters" by donald prothero.

  i heard it recommended on an atheist podcast that i listened to.

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  The concept of the 'selfish gene' is a very useful way of understanding evolution. Bodies - whether that is a human, fish, insect or oak tree - are vehicles by which genes travel through time.

  Combinations of genes that build bodies that are better at leaving copies of those same genes, by definition leave more copies.

  Sexual reproduction shuffles the pack allowing favourable combinations to travel together and freeing them from less effective genes.

  The vast majority of our genome consists of code that contributes nothing to the phenotype but hitches a free ride alongside the much smaller percentage of code that does the real work.

  Keep in mind that the phrase 'selfish gene' is a metaphor. There is no agency or teleology. Genes that build bodies that are unselfish and cooperative members of social species are successful 'selfish genes'.