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  Barbara Anderson's fancy new website

  by Dogpatch in

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  check it out!.

  very nice look and feel, though not all the downloads are linked properly yet.. http://watchtowerdocuments.com.

  randy.

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  Love it - also well done to Moxie for excellent technical and design work
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  Is this Loaded Language in the 2011 Calendar?

  by maninthemiddle in

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  i think it could be fair to say, that if paul spoke for jesus, then "revealed truth" could be a valid description since the scriptures say he visited them several times, but i think the loaded language comes in when you try to apply this to modern times, (wts a modern paul?).

  i see this as trying to mold the first century to fit the current wts/jws.

  what do you think?.

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  cofty

  That door-to-door cartoon is hilarious - or would be if it wasn't so creepy
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  Non-evidence reasons why people embrace Evolution.

  by hooberus in

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  evolutionists always claim that the reason why they believe in evolution and reject creation is due to "evidence".

  they frequently use the opposite term "no evidence" in relation to any type of intelligent design, or creation, (and especially to genesis creation and flood history !).

  their advocated beliefs always tend to include whatever is necessary to believe in to intellectually "explain" the existence of the universe, world, and its creatures without needing god).

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  Now, I'm getting treatises on the evolution of various gull species.

  No, you got a simple question as a very relevant first step in addressing the wider questions we need to understand your muddled thinking a bit better. Never mind you clearly have no genuine interest and would rather pretend that nobody wants to help you.
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  Atheists Declare Religions as 'Scams' in New Ad

  by Quirky1 in

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  http://www.christianpost.com/article/20110103/atheists-declare-religions-as-scams-in-new-ad/.

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  Why is it that Atheists are as vocal and condemnatory of religion and belief in God as JW's are of Atheists and "Babylon the Great"?

  If religion was a private hobby like knitting no atheist would have a problem with it. Problem is religion wants to have a say in our classrooms and courts and seats of government.
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  Non-evidence reasons why people embrace Evolution.

  by hooberus in

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  evolutionists always claim that the reason why they believe in evolution and reject creation is due to "evidence".

  they frequently use the opposite term "no evidence" in relation to any type of intelligent design, or creation, (and especially to genesis creation and flood history !).

  their advocated beliefs always tend to include whatever is necessary to believe in to intellectually "explain" the existence of the universe, world, and its creatures without needing god).

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  cofty

  you are unable/unwilling to admit you cannot answer. Now, I know you cannot, and it's really no big deal to ME... but you should probably stop acting like you can

  That is disingenuous. I have asked you to clarify your question a number of times. Nobody wants to waste time answering a question only for the other person to reply that it is not the question they asked in the first place. I think TD's post above is probably getting at the nub of what you are asking but who knows?

  Are you seriously arguing against speciation? TD's example is an excellent one. Further to that here are a series of gulls all of which I see on a daily basis - ironically enough apart from the "common" Gull which is less common on the East Coast . They are in order Common, Lesser Black Backed, Herring, Black Headed and Greater Black Backed Gulls

  Do you accept all of these evolved from a common ancestor or do you believe they were each a special creation. Or if I understand one of your previous posts correctly do you beleive god used evolution to bring about each of these separately? None of them ever interbreed which by definition makes them separate species.

  
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  Non-evidence reasons why people embrace Evolution.

  by hooberus in

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  evolutionists always claim that the reason why they believe in evolution and reject creation is due to "evidence".

  they frequently use the opposite term "no evidence" in relation to any type of intelligent design, or creation, (and especially to genesis creation and flood history !).

  their advocated beliefs always tend to include whatever is necessary to believe in to intellectually "explain" the existence of the universe, world, and its creatures without needing god).

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  For example, that "neanderthal" DNA cannot be tested. Someone didn't believe that... and has now shown that it can be and has been

  No scientist ever said that. Scientist humbly admit there are things they can't know YET. Then they do some hard work and things move on. It illustrates the difference between reason and dogma quite well.
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  Non-evidence reasons why people embrace Evolution.

  by hooberus in

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  evolutionists always claim that the reason why they believe in evolution and reject creation is due to "evidence".

  they frequently use the opposite term "no evidence" in relation to any type of intelligent design, or creation, (and especially to genesis creation and flood history !).

  their advocated beliefs always tend to include whatever is necessary to believe in to intellectually "explain" the existence of the universe, world, and its creatures without needing god).

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  Your question is very muddled Shelby. If you are asking about speciation then TD has already made a very useful start in helping you with that. If you want to know more about the significance of Lenski's experiment then I answered that in detail in the Evolution in a Theological context thread (Cofty - Post 575 of 655)

  Your response was basically that it was of no significance because god (the Most Holy One of Israel) can manipulate the environment to produce whatever changes he wishes.

  I'm sorry but if you are going to keep resorting to magic for explanations then you have abandoned scinece all together and we have no common ground.

  Your refusal to share what you know about evolution already is churlish. If somebody asked us to explain calculus but refused to tell us whether or not they have basic maths, where would we begin? Some of your comments suggest you are missing some of the absolute basics that is why people are suggesting you go read a good introduction like "The Greatest Show on Earth"
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  Why do people have to steal what we say?

  by Lady Lee in

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  4 years ago i posted a series of articles here.

  i am always willing to share what i know and help people at the same time.. i feel honored when people say it has helped them as many of you have.

  and in an odd way i suppoe it is an honor to have someone think what i write is good enough to post somewhere else.. but i want to know where it is going and what it is being used for and i want my name attached to it either as lady lee or lee marsh.. i just discovered that somebody named david_aaron_phillips took something i wrote along with over 500 pages of things other people wrote, put it altogether into one huge document and posted it on the web.

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  I worried there might be apostates writing on this site

  You know I was wondering about that too? Maybe we're just being paranoid?
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  Non-evidence reasons why people embrace Evolution.

  by hooberus in

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  evolutionists always claim that the reason why they believe in evolution and reject creation is due to "evidence".

  they frequently use the opposite term "no evidence" in relation to any type of intelligent design, or creation, (and especially to genesis creation and flood history !).

  their advocated beliefs always tend to include whatever is necessary to believe in to intellectually "explain" the existence of the universe, world, and its creatures without needing god).

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  Qcmbr - thank you for your post.

  Losing faith in the certainty of god and the promises of security is certainly not something done lightly. Its like leaving the safety of the borg in the first place, once you know something you can't "unknow" it and the outcome is probably inevitible.
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  Non-evidence reasons why people embrace Evolution.

  by hooberus in

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  evolutionists always claim that the reason why they believe in evolution and reject creation is due to "evidence".

  they frequently use the opposite term "no evidence" in relation to any type of intelligent design, or creation, (and especially to genesis creation and flood history !).

  their advocated beliefs always tend to include whatever is necessary to believe in to intellectually "explain" the existence of the universe, world, and its creatures without needing god).

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  cofty

  We seem to have established you have never read a single book on evolution and yet you presume to have an opinion about it because your god with the double-barrel name tells you so hmmm

  Please re-state your question as succinctly as possible, I looked at your link and could not find anything resembling a specific question