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  Pope says "hell does not exist"

  by Gorbatchov in

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  today the pope said in an interview that hell does not exist.. (we allready knew...).

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  Most of the Catholic church's magnificent buildings were financed by exploiting the fear of hell.
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  How old's the human race?

  by Freedom rocks in

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  hi does anyone know any good articles or videos about how old mankind and the earth are and carbon dating?

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  i've just started looking into it but there seems to be a lot of conflicting ideas over accuracy so i'm unsure what to think.

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  Venus - Why are you confusing evolution with abiogenesis and then confusing both of those with atheism?

  Fact 1 - Humans evolved from non-human ancestors. This fact is not dependant on explaining how geochemistry gave rise to biochemistry.

  Fact 2 - The vast majority of intelligent believers accept fact 1. It is only a small minority of xtian fundies (and most Muslims) who insist on wallowing in ignorance.
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  How old's the human race?

  by Freedom rocks in

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  hi does anyone know any good articles or videos about how old mankind and the earth are and carbon dating?

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  i've just started looking into it but there seems to be a lot of conflicting ideas over accuracy so i'm unsure what to think.

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  I too asked the same question to my professor who was a creationist. - Venus

  Having dumb teachers is bad luck but you can't use it an excuse for your entire life.
  
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  How old's the human race?

  by Freedom rocks in

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  hi does anyone know any good articles or videos about how old mankind and the earth are and carbon dating?

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  i've just started looking into it but there seems to be a lot of conflicting ideas over accuracy so i'm unsure what to think.

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  Then I chanced to read Signature in the Cell (by Stephen C. Meyer)

  If you fell for that pile of bullshit you knew nothing at all about the evidence for evolution and still don't.
  
  
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  How old's the human race?

  by Freedom rocks in

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  hi does anyone know any good articles or videos about how old mankind and the earth are and carbon dating?

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  i've just started looking into it but there seems to be a lot of conflicting ideas over accuracy so i'm unsure what to think.

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  Real problem is not that creationists have not studied evolution. Many of them have studied it, and some of them also have done their homework (like me) - Venus

  I have never encountered a creationist who knew the first thing about evolution and I have had exchanges with dozens of them. Your own contributions betray a woeful ignorance of science.
  
  
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  How old's the human race?

  by Freedom rocks in

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  hi does anyone know any good articles or videos about how old mankind and the earth are and carbon dating?

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  i've just started looking into it but there seems to be a lot of conflicting ideas over accuracy so i'm unsure what to think.

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  Hooby - You linked a pseudoscientific article written by a creationist charlatan who either didn't understand the paper he/she did violence to or did understand it and did violence to it deliberately.

  Then we have to add another level of deceit when creationists like yourself quote the article written by the charlatan even though you don't understand the article and haven't read the original paper to see for yourself how your creationist charlatan is doing violence to it.

  The article is about how rare mutations contribute to the risk for disease. It also explains the 'excess of rare variation across the exome' by examining the population explosion that occurred around 5000 years ago.

  Nowhere in the article - not even on one occasion - do the authors mention your bogus term 'genetic entropy'.

  Please read the article before you try to tell us what it is about.
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  W5 Investigation

  by Christian Gutierrez in

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  hey guys!

  i just want you guys to know that today is a really great day.

  there are so many jehovah's witnesses that saw this documentary and were disgusted by watchtowers policy.

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  Brilliant job Christian and Katja!

  I watched it online in the UK and was really impressed by the quality of the programme. Well done to all involved.
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  Russia Uses Nerve Agent to Assassinate Spy

  by cofty in

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  what started as news of a man and woman being found unconscious on a park bench 12 days ago is escalating into an international incident.. sergei skripal had worked as a double agent for british intelligence mi6 before he was discovered and imprisoned in russia in 2006. he was later flown to england as part of a spy-swap in 2010. on sunday 4th march he was discovered along with his 33 year old daughter yulia close to a shopping centre in salisbury.. since then the story has become increasingly bizarre.

  a policeman who was first to attend the scene also became critically ill and remains in hospital.

  government scientists at porton down have confirmed that the cause is a russian military-grade nerve agent novichok.

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  The United States and its European allies are expelling dozens of Russian diplomats in a coordinated response to the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yuri.

  Twenty countries are expelling a total of more than a hundred diplomats/spies in the biggest diplomatic expulsion in history. The US are throwing out 48 diplomats in and closing the Russian Consulate General in Seattle.

  Twelve Russian diplomats at the UN who are described by the State Department as "intelligence operatives" who have "abused their privilege of residence in the United States" have also been given a week to leave.

  BBC News...
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  Every JW should pay attention to Steven Pinker's lecture: A History of Violence

  by cognisonance in

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  came across this lecutre (or alternatively you can read the transcript) in a class from yale on moralities of everyday life:.

  a history of violence edge master class 2011some excepts:.

  "believe it or notand i know most people do notviolence has been in decline over long stretches of time, and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence.".

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  The frequency of wars isn't really the point.

  The decline in violence and murder rates in society and the increase in personal safety, human rights, rights of children, end to slavery, cruel punishments and many more factors make this the best time to live in all of human history.
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  How old's the human race?

  by Freedom rocks in

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  hi does anyone know any good articles or videos about how old mankind and the earth are and carbon dating?

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  Hooby has copy-pasted from a creationist website that reports on other creationists who have butchered a bit of excellent genetic research that shows the human population has exploded only in the past few millennia. Exactly the point we had to explain to Venus earlier.

  It's painful to witness this sort of ignorance and wilful deception.