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  Evolution is a Fact #1 - Protein Functional Redundancy

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i intend for this to be one of a series of bite-sized ops on the evidence for evolution.. introduction to dna genes are sequences of dna made up of words (codons) each of which are three letters (bases) long.

  there are only four letters in the genetic alphabet (acg&t) each word or codon is the recipe for one amino acid.

  there are 20 different amino acids in living organisms.

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  Hooby let's look at the options.

  Remember first that there are lots of ways to make a working Cytochrome C molecule AND you can take any one from any species, transplant it to any other species and it works perfectly. This is due to 'protein functional redundancy'. The important thing about the molecule is its physical shape and there are trillions of trillions of way to join amino acids together so that they fold up into that shape.

  Option 1 - God created every species with an identical cytochrome C amino-acid sequence.

  Option 2 - God created every species with its own unique cytochrome C amino-acid sequence.

  Option 3 - Every species evolved from a common ancestor.

  Imagine we now compare a human, chimpanzee and yeast cytochrome C amino-acid and nucleotide sequences.

  What would we expect to find in each of the three scenarios?

  What do we actually find?

  I'm heading out for the day but I will check your homework tonight. No TV until its finished!
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  One aspect of the Bible I still greatly benefit from

  by Ireneus in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  though many things in the bible do not make sense to me, there is something in it that makes my life easy.. this is how i arrived at it.

  bible defines god as the servant of his children because he makes provisions for the enjoyment of life in abundance (mathew 5:44-47) and ‘renews’ them if need arises (mathew 19:28) with no intervention whatsoever in between which means he is not interested in gratitude/worship from his children.

  yet history shows that people forget him in happiness and remember him only in distress which means he is not given love (though he is the giver of love), and he is not bothered of it.

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  I think theists find it comforting to dismiss atheists are just victims of a damaging cult.

  It saves them having to deal with the issues.
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  One aspect of the Bible I still greatly benefit from

  by Ireneus in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  though many things in the bible do not make sense to me, there is something in it that makes my life easy.. this is how i arrived at it.

  bible defines god as the servant of his children because he makes provisions for the enjoyment of life in abundance (mathew 5:44-47) and ‘renews’ them if need arises (mathew 19:28) with no intervention whatsoever in between which means he is not interested in gratitude/worship from his children.

  yet history shows that people forget him in happiness and remember him only in distress which means he is not given love (though he is the giver of love), and he is not bothered of it.

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  Why?

  I notice from one of your previous posts that you have resorted to the old canard that a bad experience in the cult has turned many exJWs away from religion.

  This is not true for many.

  As a born-in it took a lot of intellectual honesty and courage to get out of the cult. If you continue to apply those skills and qualities to all faith-based beliefs you will probably end up in atheism.

  It is an intellectual position not an emotional one.
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  Montana jury awards two women $35M in sex abuse lawsuit against Jehovah's Witnesses

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  https://missoulian.com/news/local/montana-jury-awards-two-women-m-in-sex-abuse-lawsuit/article_1bcabb7c-7381-574b-a2ba-e011cc0250a6.html.

  montana jury awards two women $35m in sex abuse lawsuit against jehovah's witnesses .

  a jury in northwestern montana awarded two women $35 million wednesday in their lawsuit against the local jehovah’s witnesses congregation and its worldwide headquarters.. .

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  I agree Crazyguy. Every victory makes future successes more likely.

  34 million is a massive amount no matter how you spin it.
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  Evolution is a Fact #1 - Protein Functional Redundancy

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i intend for this to be one of a series of bite-sized ops on the evidence for evolution.. introduction to dna genes are sequences of dna made up of words (codons) each of which are three letters (bases) long.

  there are only four letters in the genetic alphabet (acg&t) each word or codon is the recipe for one amino acid.

  there are 20 different amino acids in living organisms.

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  Hooby you are missing the point so egregiously I have to assume it is a deliberate distraction.

  Nobody can be that obtuse.
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  One aspect of the Bible I still greatly benefit from

  by Ireneus in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  though many things in the bible do not make sense to me, there is something in it that makes my life easy.. this is how i arrived at it.

  bible defines god as the servant of his children because he makes provisions for the enjoyment of life in abundance (mathew 5:44-47) and ‘renews’ them if need arises (mathew 19:28) with no intervention whatsoever in between which means he is not interested in gratitude/worship from his children.

  yet history shows that people forget him in happiness and remember him only in distress which means he is not given love (though he is the giver of love), and he is not bothered of it.

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  He makes provisions for the enjoyment of life in abundance

  Except that he doesn't.

  Vacuous platitudes.
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  Russia Uses Nerve Agent to Assassinate Spy

  by cofty in

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  2. current

  what started as news of a man and woman being found unconscious on a park bench 12 days ago is escalating into an international incident.. sergei skripal had worked as a double agent for british intelligence mi6 before he was discovered and imprisoned in russia in 2006. he was later flown to england as part of a spy-swap in 2010. on sunday 4th march he was discovered along with his 33 year old daughter yulia close to a shopping centre in salisbury.. since then the story has become increasingly bizarre.

  a policeman who was first to attend the scene also became critically ill and remains in hospital.

  government scientists at porton down have confirmed that the cause is a russian military-grade nerve agent novichok.

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  there is no evidence of the suspects' involvement with military or intelligence after 2014 - Corney

  Bellingcat compared the passport number on Col. Shishmakov’s cover-identity passport, with the numbers of the (cover-identity) passports of “Petrov” and “Boshirov”. The numbers were from the same batch, with only 26 intervening passport numbers between “Petrov”’s (654341297), and “Shirokov”’s (654341323) number. “Shirokov”’s passport was issued in August 2016, implying that Petrov’s and Boshirov’s passports were issued by the same special authority earlier that year. Indeed, as we will see in their international itinerary below, they start travelling in early April 2016, suggesting that only 26 passports were issued by this special authority between April and August 2016....

  The travel itinerary of the two murderers can be seen in the map at the link above showing their intense activity on a security-issued passports since 2016.
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  Russia Uses Nerve Agent to Assassinate Spy

  by cofty in

  1. social
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  what started as news of a man and woman being found unconscious on a park bench 12 days ago is escalating into an international incident.. sergei skripal had worked as a double agent for british intelligence mi6 before he was discovered and imprisoned in russia in 2006. he was later flown to england as part of a spy-swap in 2010. on sunday 4th march he was discovered along with his 33 year old daughter yulia close to a shopping centre in salisbury.. since then the story has become increasingly bizarre.

  a policeman who was first to attend the scene also became critically ill and remains in hospital.

  government scientists at porton down have confirmed that the cause is a russian military-grade nerve agent novichok.

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  Well, you think our country is so innocent? - Corney

  I think that we don't spread nerve agents in the streets of the UK resulting in millions of pounds of costs in clean-up. I think we don't use nerve agents to kill our enemies in any city anywhere in the world.

  I think Russia has a long and proven history of using poison to kill its opponents abroad.

  I think it is beyond all doubt that Salisbury was the work of senior Russian intelligence agents - at least one of which was decorated personally by Putin recently.

  Our relationship with Russia has never been worse thanks to many years of U.K. foolishness and stupidity

  Our failing relationship with Russia is entirely due to the resurgence in Russian Eurasian nationalism and the actions of a totalitarian dictator who rigs elections with actual murders of his political opponents, invades his neighbours and sanctions black-flag operations to boost his popularity.

  Maybe they are retired, or maybe they were set up by MI6, who knows?

  Retired GRU agents do not have access to military-grade nerve agents.
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  Russia Uses Nerve Agent to Assassinate Spy

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  what started as news of a man and woman being found unconscious on a park bench 12 days ago is escalating into an international incident.. sergei skripal had worked as a double agent for british intelligence mi6 before he was discovered and imprisoned in russia in 2006. he was later flown to england as part of a spy-swap in 2010. on sunday 4th march he was discovered along with his 33 year old daughter yulia close to a shopping centre in salisbury.. since then the story has become increasingly bizarre.

  a policeman who was first to attend the scene also became critically ill and remains in hospital.

  government scientists at porton down have confirmed that the cause is a russian military-grade nerve agent novichok.

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  Killers Identity confirmed as senior GRU agents. The evidence is far beyond all reasonable doubt. Putin ordered the use of a chemical weapon on the streets of a UK city.

  Skripal Poisoning Suspect’s Passport Data Shows Link to Security Services..

  Skripal Suspects Confirmed as GRU Operatives: Prior European Operations Disclosed..

  Skripal Suspect Boshirov Identified as GRU Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga..

  What say the anti-British conspiracy theorists now?
  
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  Naked JW's day in court

  by Moster in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the latest from the 'tea' drinkers in canada.

  https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/police-were-monsters-who-would-kill-them-details-emerge-in-alberta-naked-kidnapping/ar-aaab1wh?li=aaggfp5&ocid=calheader.

  i can hear them chanting now.

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  I think this is fascinating. I doubt if there is any more to it than religiously inspired fear and panic.

  We have all heard about 'demonic' panic from other JWs. This one went viral and meshed with the GBs more recent panic-mongering about 'men in black' coming for them all.

  They are reaping what they have sown.