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  I am deeply ashamed that I didn't accept evolution until a few years ago...

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  so... i live in mexico and i am helping with an esl class (english as a second language).

  actually, i am helping with two classes.

  i get two days a week in which i just stand there and have a debate with the class, encouraging as many as possible to just talk... in english.. anyways, i like talking about subjects that generate debate.

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  Please tell me which books that present the scientific evidence FOR evolution you have studied in recent years? - Cofty

  I have asked that question of lots of people who reject evolution. So far not one answer. I think I see a pattern.
  
  
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  Jehovah's Witnesses ARE Christians, why do so many ex JW's deny this?

  by nicolaou in

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  jehovah's witnesses accept jesus as christ, the son of god.

  they try, in their own way, to live by his teachings and imitate him.

  they pray, read the bible and meet together regularly for worship.. i won't minimise any of the harm and damage they cause but for the life of me, i can't see how anyone can credibly deny that they are christians.. why do so many former jws have a problem with this?

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  Jehovah's Witnesses ARE NOT Christian. Jesus said, "You will know them by their works".

  Your blanket condemnation of JWs could apply equally to any other denomination. The self-righteousness of christians is astonishing.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses ARE Christians, why do so many ex JW's deny this?

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jehovah's witnesses accept jesus as christ, the son of god.

  they try, in their own way, to live by his teachings and imitate him.

  they pray, read the bible and meet together regularly for worship.. i won't minimise any of the harm and damage they cause but for the life of me, i can't see how anyone can credibly deny that they are christians.. why do so many former jws have a problem with this?

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  An assumption that both JWs and Christians would strongly dispute of course. - SBF

  No they wouldn't dispute it. They would assert it and then demand respect for their equally risible superstitions.
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  Genital Warts Because our Ancestors were Banging Neanderthals

  by cofty in

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  researchers have found evidence that modern genital warts – otherwise known as the human papillomavirus (hpv) – were sexually transmitted to homo sapiens after our ancestors slept with neanderthals and denisovans roughly around 100,000 years ago.....

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  Researchers have found evidence that modern genital warts – otherwise known as the human papillomavirus (HPV) – were sexually transmitted to Homo sapiens after our ancestors slept with Neanderthals and Denisovans roughly around 100,000 years ago....
  
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  Jehovah's Witnesses ARE Christians, why do so many ex JW's deny this?

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jehovah's witnesses accept jesus as christ, the son of god.

  they try, in their own way, to live by his teachings and imitate him.

  they pray, read the bible and meet together regularly for worship.. i won't minimise any of the harm and damage they cause but for the life of me, i can't see how anyone can credibly deny that they are christians.. why do so many former jws have a problem with this?

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  Ucant - How is it you seem to have no idea what the christian gospel is?
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  Jehovah's Witnesses ARE Christians, why do so many ex JW's deny this?

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jehovah's witnesses accept jesus as christ, the son of god.

  they try, in their own way, to live by his teachings and imitate him.

  they pray, read the bible and meet together regularly for worship.. i won't minimise any of the harm and damage they cause but for the life of me, i can't see how anyone can credibly deny that they are christians.. why do so many former jws have a problem with this?

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  Christians are supposed to follow and put their confidence in Jesus, not just pay lip service to following Jesus while jumping to do the bidding of men who require things of them not even suggested by Jesus.

  EVERY christian group does that.
  
  
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  I am deeply ashamed that I didn't accept evolution until a few years ago...

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so... i live in mexico and i am helping with an esl class (english as a second language).

  actually, i am helping with two classes.

  i get two days a week in which i just stand there and have a debate with the class, encouraging as many as possible to just talk... in english.. anyways, i like talking about subjects that generate debate.

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  macro-evolution still depends on a lot of assumptions and connecting-the-dots - rpt

  Nothing could be more contrary to the facts.

  Not convinced yet.

  Please tell me which books that present the scientific evidence FOR evolution you have studied in recent years?

  Evolution is a fact...

  #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.

  #11 Tiktaalik
  An amazing fossil discovery illustrates the transition of life from sea to land.

  #12 Lenski's E.coli Experiment
  An experiment with E.Coli, now in it's third decade, demonstrates the power of natural selection.

  #13 Morris Minor Bonnets
  Evolution has to make do with building on existing designs as illustrated by the recurrent laryngeal nerve.

  #14 Joey Goes to Oz
  Fossil evidence for the origins of marsupials found in Antarctica exactly as predicted.

  #15 Robinson Crusoe
  The biogeography of oceanic islands presents an impossible dilemma for creationism.

  #16 Aquatic Mammals
  An excellent sequence of fossils illustrates the evolutionary journey of whales from land to sea.

  #17 Belyaev's Silver Foxes
  A 50 year breeding programme demonstrates the amazing power of selection and the interconnected nature of genes.

  #18 Fish Fingers
  The evolution of limbs is mapped out in an amazing sequence of ancient fish fossils.

  #19 Goosebumps
  A vestigial reflex bequeathed by our hairier ancestors.

  #20 Lucy in the Sky...
  An exceptional fossil of a 3 million year old hominid.

  #21 Footprints in the Sand...
  Footprints at Laetoli show our Australopithecus afarensis ancestors were bipedal 3.6 million years ago.

  #22 The Hillocks of Hiss...
  A vestigial feature if the human ear shared by 10% of the population demonstrates our evolutionary history.

  #23 Faunal Succession...
  The consistent sequence of fossils found in the rocks can only be explained by evolution.

  #24 The Origin of Your Inner Ear...
  How the bones that reptiles eat with became the bones that we hear with.

  #25 Deep Time...
  Scottish geologist Andrew Hutton discovered the proof of earth's great antiquity.

  #26 Colour Vision...
  How gene duplication - new "information" -and mutation equipped us with trichromatic vision.

  #27 Monkeys, Typewriters, Shakespeare, 747s etc...
  Evolution is a combination of random mutations and non-random selection.

  #28 Something Darwin Didn't Say...
  A long term study of pigeons demonstrates how natural selection acts on a local population.

  #29 Use it or Lose it...
  Fossil genes reveal the history of modern species.

  #30 Your Third Eyelid...
  The remnants of a nictitating membrane reveals our evolutionary history.

  #31 Ten Questions For Creationists ...
  The basic facts about reality covered so far pose an impossible challenge to creationism.

  #32 Sexual Selection
  How female mating preferences led to some of the most remarkable features of living things.

  #33 A Tale About Tails
  Human embryology reveals our primate history.

  #34 Hiccups and Tadpoles
  How hiccups are a relic of our amphibian ancestors.

  #35 Nature Red in Tooth and Claw
  Nature's ability to inflict pain and suffering in the battle for survival.

  #36 Mass Extinctions
  96% of life was wiped out in The Great Dying 250 million years ago.

  #37 Testicles
  The plumbing of the vas deferens gives evidence of our fish ancestry

  #38 The Origin of Complex Cells
  How a merger of simple cells made complexity possible
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  Jehovah's Witnesses ARE Christians, why do so many ex JW's deny this?

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jehovah's witnesses accept jesus as christ, the son of god.

  they try, in their own way, to live by his teachings and imitate him.

  they pray, read the bible and meet together regularly for worship.. i won't minimise any of the harm and damage they cause but for the life of me, i can't see how anyone can credibly deny that they are christians.. why do so many former jws have a problem with this?

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  Christianity predates the Council of Nicea by three centuries.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses ARE Christians, why do so many ex JW's deny this?

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jehovah's witnesses accept jesus as christ, the son of god.

  they try, in their own way, to live by his teachings and imitate him.

  they pray, read the bible and meet together regularly for worship.. i won't minimise any of the harm and damage they cause but for the life of me, i can't see how anyone can credibly deny that they are christians.. why do so many former jws have a problem with this?

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  It's really simple. Lots of ex_JWs assume being a christian is a good thing. They are also sure that being a JW is a bad thing.

  The only way to resolve this is to find tenuous reasons to label JWs as non-christian.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses ARE Christians, why do so many ex JW's deny this?

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  jehovah's witnesses accept jesus as christ, the son of god.

  they try, in their own way, to live by his teachings and imitate him.

  they pray, read the bible and meet together regularly for worship.. i won't minimise any of the harm and damage they cause but for the life of me, i can't see how anyone can credibly deny that they are christians.. why do so many former jws have a problem with this?

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  I prefer to look at their attitudes and behaviors rather than pay attention to their lying mouths.

  On that basis there are no christians denominations.