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  Evolution Deniers - An Endangered Species

  by cofty in

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  evolution explains how everything descended from a common ancestor over millions of years.

  creationists only seem to want to talk about what came before that common ancestor.

  just for the sake of discussion let's pretend that the following is true.

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  Duuning-Kruger thank you for that information. I have been unable to find any Islamic source that endorses human evolution.
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  Evolution Deniers - An Endangered Species

  by cofty in

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  evolution explains how everything descended from a common ancestor over millions of years.

  creationists only seem to want to talk about what came before that common ancestor.

  just for the sake of discussion let's pretend that the following is true.

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  How about - "Resistance to evolution is almost entirely found among Muslims and Protestant Evangelicals"?
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  Evolution is a Fact #27 - Monkeys, Typewriters, Shakespeare, 747s etc.

  by cofty in

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  most creationist arguments can be summarised as "complexity, complexity, complexity - therefore god".

  we have all heard the illustrations about the odds of (insert favourite example) evolving, being less than 10,000 monkeys typing macbeth by pure chance.

  evolution is not like that.

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  "At that point all the other pages are scrapped and every monkey is given a copy of this page."

  This is the part that takes many generations in the real world.
  
  
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  Evolution is a Fact #27 - Monkeys, Typewriters, Shakespeare, 747s etc.

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
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  most creationist arguments can be summarised as "complexity, complexity, complexity - therefore god".

  we have all heard the illustrations about the odds of (insert favourite example) evolving, being less than 10,000 monkeys typing macbeth by pure chance.

  evolution is not like that.

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  Hooby you really don't get it.

  It illustrates how natural selection accumulates complexity - it doesn't get there in one lucky jump.

  The population is not reduced to just that individual who hosts the favourable mutation. The advantageous gene just gradually becomes more frequent in the population which doesn't get any smaller as a result.

  You made the mistake of taking a simple illustration that explains one aspect of a complex subject and tried to make it apply to the whole subject.
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  Evolution is a Fact #27 - Monkeys, Typewriters, Shakespeare, 747s etc.

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  most creationist arguments can be summarised as "complexity, complexity, complexity - therefore god".

  we have all heard the illustrations about the odds of (insert favourite example) evolving, being less than 10,000 monkeys typing macbeth by pure chance.

  evolution is not like that.

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  cofty

  That is because you totally misunderstood the illustration Hooby.
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  I need your opinions and recommendations please.

  by bola in

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  after my exit from the watchtower shunning cult, i have received tons of invitations from different churches.

  but because i am aware of religious cults, i need recommendations of churches that are not cults at all.

  after exiting the watchtower cult, i don't want to fall into another religious cults.

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  All churches are cults. It is a spectrum. Some are less harmful than others. It all depends how much you value your right to do your own thinking.
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  Mathematically Measuring Evolution.

  by towerwatchman in

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  mathematically measuring evolution.. when judging relationships in terms of morphological characteristics we will always be bound by the subjective.

  morphologically one cannot exactly measure the distance between two organisms strictly in mathematical terms.

  using the standard method of taxonomy we cannot quantify the difference between a horse and a mouse, or know which is closer mouse to cat, or mouse to fish.

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  cofty

  No what you have is hundreds of fossils that demonstrate the entire journey from fins to legs.

  
  
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  Evolution Deniers - An Endangered Species

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  evolution explains how everything descended from a common ancestor over millions of years.

  creationists only seem to want to talk about what came before that common ancestor.

  just for the sake of discussion let's pretend that the following is true.

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  cofty

  Evolution explains how everything descended from a common ancestor over millions of years.

  Creationists only seem to want to talk about what came before that common ancestor.

  Just for the sake of discussion let's pretend that the following is true. Imagine science had nothing to say about the origin of the universe or life or DNA or the first cell or even the first multicellular organism.

  Even if all of that was the case - and it isn't - none of that would make the slightest difference to the fact of common ancestry through millions of years of biological evolution.

  Evolution is not an issue for most Christians. They have accepted the overwhelming evidence and adapted their theology. Evolution does not require atheism.

  It is a beautiful fact. It is beyond sensible dispute. Only Muslims in and Protestant Evangelicals are still fighting against it.

  The wilful ignorance that is required to do so has no place in an age of freely available information.
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  Interesting take on John 3:16

  by NikL in

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  the superstar of all scriptures.

  for god so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.. .

  but i just learned something about it.. i try to look at different translations of the bible and the lexham english bible words it a bit different.... 16 for in this way god loved the world, so that he gave his one and only son, in order that everyone who believes in him will not perish, but will have eternal life.

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  NikL - I thought your OP was very interesting. Thanks for posting it.

  In other words "God loved the world in this way ... "
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  Mathematically Measuring Evolution.

  by towerwatchman in

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  mathematically measuring evolution.. when judging relationships in terms of morphological characteristics we will always be bound by the subjective.

  morphologically one cannot exactly measure the distance between two organisms strictly in mathematical terms.

  using the standard method of taxonomy we cannot quantify the difference between a horse and a mouse, or know which is closer mouse to cat, or mouse to fish.

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  I believe you can do that. I don't believe a chimp can take 1 step and when he is done walking across town he somehow becomes a man

  Despite this being an incredibly stupid statement you have repeated it three times.

  I posted very long detailed posts yesterday refuting your assertion that there were no transitional fossils showing the evolution of limbs an inner ears. Every word of it was my original work.

  One minute you want to talk about fossils but when you are proven wrong you refuse to discuss it. That post was just the tip of the iceberg of the evidence we could talk about.

  You lied when you claimed to have read lots of books that present the scientific evidence for evolution. That is like somebody claiming they have studied calculus when it is perfectly clear they can't count to ten.