https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/aug/12/jehovahs-witnesses-under-pressure-over-handling-of-sexual-abuse-claims.
I'm genuinely puzzled by their legal tactics in this case. It seems perfectly designed to maximise damage.
What on earth are they hoping to achieve? Now they have seriously annoyed the CC who have the power to hurt them. Why did they not welcome them and give them complete cooperation?
Is it just arrogance or is it possible that they know they are sitting on a problem of such proportions that it will destroy them?
http://www.reformer.com/latestnews/ci_30235457/bellows-falls-jehovahs-witnesses-ask-court-toss-lawsuit.
Unless the alleged abuser had a history of abuse that was known to the congregation it is difficult to see how they can be held liable in this instance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfxkwe0881e .
Loving your work
is there a setting that can send me e-mail or even a text message letting me know i have a new pm from someone, or perhaps someone commented on a post i wrote?
i get so busy in life and have several messaging apps to keep up with and sometimes it's weeks or even months before i remember to check my pm's here.. thanks,.
downtowner.
If the envelope is green you have a PM. If it isn't you don't.
anyone else also hold this view or understand it at least, or do you feel the need to argue that both can in no way coexist?.
Just got in from work. What an extravaganza of wilful ignorance by creationists this turned out to be.
Where to start? Is it worth starting?
Have a cup of tea, maybe later, maybe not.
anyone else also hold this view or understand it at least, or do you feel the need to argue that both can in no way coexist?.
it's rather a blueprint
It is NOTHING like a blueprint. That is one of the worse metaphors for DNA you could think of.
It'll take one helluva spontaneous mutation to come up with a single strand of DNA, let alone a nucleus full of them
If you want to know more about the evolution of DNA - at least what is known about that process so far - you will have to commit to some serious reading. Based on our previous conversations there is no point in me suggesting a reading list is there?
anyone else also hold this view or understand it at least, or do you feel the need to argue that both can in no way coexist?.
One could compare the DNA code to a language.
Yes we could COMPARE the two but that would just be a metaphor.
DNA is not a literal code neither is it information in the same sense as these words are. The articles I linked for you will explain in more detail.
Denail, denail, denail....
What is a denail?
anyone else also hold this view or understand it at least, or do you feel the need to argue that both can in no way coexist?.
If you have the intellectual honesty to face up to a scientific refutation of creationist's abuse of information theory here are a couple of links.
Talk Origins... (follow the links)
anyone else also hold this view or understand it at least, or do you feel the need to argue that both can in no way coexist?.
6. All codes result from an intentional choice and agreement between sender and recipient
There is no recipient in DNA. It's all just electrons doing their thing.
In DNA, information is just a metaphor.
anyone else also hold this view or understand it at least, or do you feel the need to argue that both can in no way coexist?.
Vidqun - This is called a discussion forum. Discussion isn't the same thing as demanding somebody watch almost an hour of ill-informed pseudo-science.
If you think the video makes any compelling points then present them succinctly in your own words.
DNA is the most important evidence for evolution.
#1 Protein Functional Redundancy
Comparing the sequences of amino acids in ubiquitous proteins confirms the relationship between all living things.
#2 DNA Functional Redundancy
Comparison of the DNA that codes for the amino acids of ubiquitous proteins predicts the tree of life with an astonishing degree of accuracy.
#3 ERVs
Endogenous retroviruses that infected our ancestors are found in the same place of the genome of our closest primate cousins.
#4 Smelly Genes
Hundreds of broken genes that used to code for olfactory receptors in our ancestors are still found in our genome.
#5 Vitamin C
Why humans can no longer make their own vitamin C and what that tells us about our species' history.
#6 Human Chromosome 2
Our second biggest chromosome is made up of two of our ancestors' chromosomes stuck end-to-end.
#7 Human Egg Yolk Gene
Humans and our primate cousins have the genes for making vitellogenin and they are all broken in the same way.
#8 Jumping Genes
Bits of parasitic code called ALU elements prove our common ancestry with primates.
#9 Less Chewing More Thinking
A broken gene for a type of muscle fibre we no longer have tells a story about our evolutionary past.
#10 Non-Coding DNA
In common with many other species huge amounts of our genome originated as copying errors.
#26 Colour Vision...
How gene duplication - new "information" -and mutation equipped us with trichromatic vision.
#29 Use it or Lose it...
Fossil genes reveal the history of modern species.
