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  September Is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

  by azor in

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  please donate.

  whether it's your time, money, or influence.

  the donation box at mcdonalds does go to an amazing charity.

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  My family has been awarded a disney cruise that we will be going on early next year.

  Brilliant! You deserve it after what you have all been through.
  
  
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  Origin of Life

  by cofty in

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  in recent years significant progress has been made in solving the question of how life originated on our planet.. how do you think theists will respond when it finally happens?

  as a former christian i know my reaction would have been something like "well that just goes to show that it takes intelligent life to make life", but for two reasons that defense doesn't work.. firstly it would prove that life is not an ethereal force that originates with god.

  there is no 'ghost in the machine', no elan vital.

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  SBF - Not one single word in your post has anything at all to do with the topic.

  Just more pseudo-intellectual, vacuous postmodernism trolling.

  Please feel free to fuck right off.
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  Origin of Life

  by cofty in

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  in recent years significant progress has been made in solving the question of how life originated on our planet.. how do you think theists will respond when it finally happens?

  as a former christian i know my reaction would have been something like "well that just goes to show that it takes intelligent life to make life", but for two reasons that defense doesn't work.. firstly it would prove that life is not an ethereal force that originates with god.

  there is no 'ghost in the machine', no elan vital.

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  I go for the rule: Life begets life. - vidqun

  Who made up that rule? Again you are missing the main point.

  Scientists are not trying to "make" life. They are trying to set up prebiotic conditions and observe how life emerges by purely naturalistic means.

  If God could create life, so could man.

  That surprises me coming from somebody who quotes the bible as an authority.
  
  
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  Origin of Life

  by cofty in

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  in recent years significant progress has been made in solving the question of how life originated on our planet.. how do you think theists will respond when it finally happens?

  as a former christian i know my reaction would have been something like "well that just goes to show that it takes intelligent life to make life", but for two reasons that defense doesn't work.. firstly it would prove that life is not an ethereal force that originates with god.

  there is no 'ghost in the machine', no elan vital.

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  nothing is impossible ... I am not sure man is going to be allowed to go all the way ... So yes, it's not impossible

  So unless god intervenes man might be able to demonstrate that life is nothing more than a naturalistic process.

  As a christian I would have disagreed with that. I believed "life" was a force or energy, the "spirit" that originated with god alone. "With you is the source of life".

  You seem to be admitting otherwise.
  
  
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  Origin of Life

  by cofty in

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  in recent years significant progress has been made in solving the question of how life originated on our planet.. how do you think theists will respond when it finally happens?

  as a former christian i know my reaction would have been something like "well that just goes to show that it takes intelligent life to make life", but for two reasons that defense doesn't work.. firstly it would prove that life is not an ethereal force that originates with god.

  there is no 'ghost in the machine', no elan vital.

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  Vidqun before we get distracted by yet another argument from complexity could I bring you back to this question...

  One of the questions to consider is whether it (origin of life in the lab) will or won't happen because it's just too technically difficult or because it can't happen. As a former christian I would have believed that it can't happen because I viewed life as something that only emanated from god. Some believers in this thread seem less sure of that.
  
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  Origin of Life

  by cofty in

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  2. beliefs

  in recent years significant progress has been made in solving the question of how life originated on our planet.. how do you think theists will respond when it finally happens?

  as a former christian i know my reaction would have been something like "well that just goes to show that it takes intelligent life to make life", but for two reasons that defense doesn't work.. firstly it would prove that life is not an ethereal force that originates with god.

  there is no 'ghost in the machine', no elan vital.

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  Until man can create a walking talking human with a consciousness from scratch, no cheating, l will never ever believe in evolution. - automant

  This thread is not about evolution automant. Evolution is a fact beyond all reasonable doubt.

  This thread is about how life began on earth 4 billion years ago. If scientists could show how it happened "all by itself" would you be able to accommodate that data into your christian worldview? What difference would it make?

  Are you 100% sure it will never happen? Vidqun seems to be moving from being certain that is can't happen towards "not-in-my-lifetime".

  One of the questions to consider is whether it will or won't happen because it's just too technically difficult or because it can't happen. As a former christian I would have believed that it can't happen because I viewed life as something that only emanated from god. Some believers in this thread seem less sure of that.

  That really is the point of the thread.
  
  
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  Origin of Life

  by cofty in

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  in recent years significant progress has been made in solving the question of how life originated on our planet.. how do you think theists will respond when it finally happens?

  as a former christian i know my reaction would have been something like "well that just goes to show that it takes intelligent life to make life", but for two reasons that defense doesn't work.. firstly it would prove that life is not an ethereal force that originates with god.

  there is no 'ghost in the machine', no elan vital.

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  .. and here lies the real motive of threads like these. To bicker with and poke at those who don't see things the way you do. - Sanchy

  It is very dishonest of you to characterise my motives in that way. I am currently reading about some of the most fascinating research that is going on right now into the origin-of-life. This is a religious discussion forum. I want to discuss the theological implications of that research. With the exception of my obvious contempt for postmodernist answers my tone to believers has been respectful, patient and helpful.

  I didn't realise you had been appointed monitor of what topics are permitted.

  They might be hoping for it to not happen, but you as well are wishing for the opposite, so what's the point? It hasn't happened yet, and until it does, they have as much right to doubt it as you do to wish it.

  That is a false equivalence. Believers are hopeful it will never happen despite the evidence to the contrary. I believe it will because of the evidence. Until it does we can converse about the current state of the research and it's possible implications - if that's alright with Sanchy?

  Sparking new life in a laboratory just proves intelligent beings can spark new life - FHN

  I think this is a common misunderstanding and one of the main reasons I started the thread.

  The research into origin-of-life is NOT about "making" or "sparking" life. It is about setting up conditions that existed on a prebiotic earth an observing if life happens. If it does no intelligent being will have made anything. It will simply prove that life happened 4 billion years ago through entirely naturalistic means. No intelligent designer was ever needed. It will also show that the universe is probably teeming with bacterial-like life on other planets that have water, rock and carbon dioxide.
  
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  Found Another Medieval Coin This Evening

  by cofty in

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  i got in an hour metal detecting this evening and found this almost immediately.. it is a silver penny of henry ii minted in london by "davi" between 1180 and 1189. this adds a king i didn't have in my collection.

  i now have the series of henry ii - john - henry iii - edward i - edward ii - edward iii.. i now need richard the lionheart to fill in the gap.

  he was the brother of john and reigned after the death of henry ii.

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  When you find a coin which you can pin to a period in history, is there any way to determine when the coin was dropped there?

  Detecting finds mostly come from the plough soil. They have been tumbled back and forward by farming for centuries so they are out of archaeological context. Usually it is safe to assume they were lost around the time they belong to.

  The oldest artefacts I have are Roman which in this area puts them around the 1st century AD
  
  
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  Origin of Life

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in recent years significant progress has been made in solving the question of how life originated on our planet.. how do you think theists will respond when it finally happens?

  as a former christian i know my reaction would have been something like "well that just goes to show that it takes intelligent life to make life", but for two reasons that defense doesn't work.. firstly it would prove that life is not an ethereal force that originates with god.

  there is no 'ghost in the machine', no elan vital.

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  Life on Mars would not rule out the existence of an intelligent god, gods or goddesses - FHN

  New life in the lab would make her redundant as a source of life. That would be a huge challenge for theism.
  
  
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  Origin of Life

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in recent years significant progress has been made in solving the question of how life originated on our planet.. how do you think theists will respond when it finally happens?

  as a former christian i know my reaction would have been something like "well that just goes to show that it takes intelligent life to make life", but for two reasons that defense doesn't work.. firstly it would prove that life is not an ethereal force that originates with god.

  there is no 'ghost in the machine', no elan vital.

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  but even slightly degraded complex once-alive compounds.. - Prologos

  It is highly unlikely anything would progress as far as "life" in our aerobic world that is teeming with existing life in every conceivable niche.

  The Alkaline Vents in which life probably appeared are not the same environments as they were 4 billion years ago.