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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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  pantheism, panpsychism, seem like reasonable explanations..

  Rocks with personalities are not reasonable explanations for anything.
  
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  I want to understand British references to your countries.

  by compound complex in

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  greetings, friends across the two ponds:.

  of course, as per other posters' recommendations, i could google this; i have and remain, not totally confused, but wanting the straight dope as well as nuanced meaning.

  i'm both curious and needing to know for purposes of editing works of american and british writers.

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  United Kingdom is an abbreviation for The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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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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  Hothead - reread the post you were replying to and notice the context and nuance.

  You spend most of your time arguing with and insulting people who actually don't disagree with you.

  It's probably a teenage phase.
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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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  Hothead try reading the context and intent of your interlocutor before replying. That way you will avoid waging war with a strawman.
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  Nested Comments

  by BreakTheWalls in

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  nested comments like reddit.

  it is very hard to read the current pages and track who is talking to who, etc.

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  It is very hard to read the current pages - BTW

  It helps if you are replying to an earlier comment if you use the quote function and if it is on another page use link as well.

  Personally I don't like the nested comments format.
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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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  Too much of either theory (Evolution or Creation) is based upon presumption; - Old Navy

  This is yet another lame attempt to make a false equivalency between the scientific fact of evolution and the superstitious fantasy of creationism.

  and who are we to pass speculative judgment on life processes which are so mysterious and so remarkable?

  We are post-enlightenment humans armed with the tools of science. Mysteries are things to be solved not treated with reverence.

  To claim that thoughts and the "spark of life" itself are naught more than electro-chemical activities within cells or the brain is insufficient.

  There is no 'ghost in the machine'.

  'Life is nothing but an electron looking for a place to rest'. - Albert Szent-Györgyi
  
  
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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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  Hothead - You clearly have no interest in sincere conversation or the possibility of learning anything from anybody. It's the arrogance of youth to a degree rarely achieved. I blame the internet where kids can watch a few YouTube videos and quickly check stuff on Wiki and think they then understand something.

  If anybody disagrees and presents reason and fact to the contrary - no problem. 'Support' is only a click away. Why bother actually giving a fuck about gaining knowledge or understanding of complex subjects when you can join a ideological tribe and have endless resources at your fingertips?

  Shallow point scoring is all that matters to you - the search for truth is irrelevant. Until/unless you mature you are doomed to live in a thought bubble all your life.

  You are no better than the SJW Millennials you despise. You just happen to belong to a different tribe.
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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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  Hothead until you can conduct a conversation like a reasonable person talk to yourself.
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  Thank you, George Couch!

  by charonsdog in

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  i just thought i'd share this story from my past.. back in the 80s i remember the big problem seemed to be about music.

  (today, it's tight pants, i guess) the organization, society, whatever they were calling themselves, were always going on about the music we listened to.

  disco, heavy metal, the whole "backwards masking" thing...couldn't escape hearing or reading about how satan was corrupting us unless we were listening to kingdom melodies or elevator music.. i was assigned to wtf in the late 80s and remember one of the articles stating that "young people know that the rhythm of rock music is the rhythm of sexual intercourse.

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  Brilliant!

  It was part of the Satanic Panic that originated in Evangelical christianity in the '80s. I remember lists going around of bands that were deemed unsuitable. My pioneer partner got rid of a lot of stuff and then bought it all again a few years later.
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  Natural disasters cause the most grief and misery today

  by nowwhat? in

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  its not wars caused by satan and man.

  its hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and tornadoes!

  so the logical question is jesus showed he can control the weather when on earth.

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  'Natural evil' proves conclusively that the god of christian theism does not exist.