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  The Biotic Message, alternative to Evolution

  by hooberus in

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  lecture by walter remine:.

  https://youtu.be/o2usdd_8eay.

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  cofty

  Hooby?
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  The Biotic Message, alternative to Evolution

  by hooberus in

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  lecture by walter remine:.

  https://youtu.be/o2usdd_8eay.

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  'Encrypted messages don't serve survival. The designs of life MUST serve survival, and also be a message'.

  Hooby even you can see the self-contradiction in that sentence.

  How can anybody start a well-prepared lecture with such a blatant own-goal and expect to be taken seriously?
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  The Biotic Message, alternative to Evolution

  by hooberus in

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  lecture by walter remine:.

  https://youtu.be/o2usdd_8eay.

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  His assertion 3 minutes in that it would not be possible or desirable to encode a message in the DNA is utter nonsense.

  It would be ridiculously simple to encode such a message from the creator and protect it from loss by mutation.

  In fact storage of information in DNA is an active field of investigation.

  If the creator had encoded a simple signature in the code of every living thing we would not be having this debate.

  He gets off to a really bad start in his argument
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  The Biotic Message, alternative to Evolution

  by hooberus in

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  lecture by walter remine:.

  https://youtu.be/o2usdd_8eay.

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  Hooby. He is an electrical engineer. How on earth does that qualify him to refute one of the most fundamental facts in all of science?

  He bases his idea on something he calls 'Message Theory' but everybody who has reviewed his book seem unable to explain what that means.

  How would you define Message Theory?

  I haven't invested over two hours to listen to yet another creationist ramble on about complexity therefore god. Maybe you could describe the highlights of his ideas and explain how they are different from the usual Intelligent Design dogma.

  What was it specifically about his presentation that impressed you? It certainly wasn't his charisma!
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  The Biotic Message, alternative to Evolution

  by hooberus in

  1. watchtower
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  lecture by walter remine:.

  https://youtu.be/o2usdd_8eay.

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  cofty

  He is an electrical engineer and his religiously-motivated assertion is 'God did it'.

  The central idea of his book is something he calls 'Message Theory'.

  Hooby could you define message theory please?
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  Johnson and the NHS

  by jhine in

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  we brits are being bombarded with facts and speculation about the horrific consequences of either corbin or johnson getting into power .

  another thread has discussed the anti-semitic leanings ( or not ) of corbin .

  what do people think about the left's claims that boris would sell off the nhs ,only this morning l saw a post on fb saying that " america is demanding full access to nhs records " it has been pointed out by a political reporter on the bbc that the talks that the papers were leaked about happened before johnson became pm and these were just things that have been put on the negotiating table by the usa .

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  Corbyn suffers from Oikophobia...

  Noam Chomsky is patient zero.
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  What if .... some thoughts

  by menrov in

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  ok, to start, i no longer believe the scriptures are inspired.

  may be some writers were influenced but that does not mean all what they wrote was correct.

  does this mean there is no creator?

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  Pure evolution (i.e. big bang) would mean that suddenly everything was there in order to develop into a human being without failure or shortcomings and would also be able to reproduce immediately....what are the odds? - menrov

  Hi Menrov. I think your issues with evolution are a result of some misunderstandings.

  The path to modern humans is a massive experiment in failures and trial and error.

  At least six times almost all of live on earth was wiped out in mass extinctions. 99.9% of all the species that ever lived have gone extinct. The ancestors of humans (in fact all mammals) only thrived because a meteor wiped out the dinosaurs leaving a niche for them to thrive.

  Consider that virtually every creature that has ever lived - including 200,000 years of modern humans who suffered and grieved just like us - died of starvation, disease, exposure, parasites, infection or predation.

  The history of life seems perfectly designed to maximise suffering and waste.

  Does this sound anything like a plan of an intelligent - let alone loving - creator?

  P.S. Please tell me some more about your question regarding reproduction.
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  Johnson and the NHS

  by jhine in

  1. social
  2. current

  we brits are being bombarded with facts and speculation about the horrific consequences of either corbin or johnson getting into power .

  another thread has discussed the anti-semitic leanings ( or not ) of corbin .

  what do people think about the left's claims that boris would sell off the nhs ,only this morning l saw a post on fb saying that " america is demanding full access to nhs records " it has been pointed out by a political reporter on the bbc that the talks that the papers were leaked about happened before johnson became pm and these were just things that have been put on the negotiating table by the usa .

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  Obesity, hypochondria and binge-drinking are the greatest threat to the NHS.
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  Johnson and the NHS

  by jhine in

  1. social
  2. current

  we brits are being bombarded with facts and speculation about the horrific consequences of either corbin or johnson getting into power .

  another thread has discussed the anti-semitic leanings ( or not ) of corbin .

  what do people think about the left's claims that boris would sell off the nhs ,only this morning l saw a post on fb saying that " america is demanding full access to nhs records " it has been pointed out by a political reporter on the bbc that the talks that the papers were leaked about happened before johnson became pm and these were just things that have been put on the negotiating table by the usa .

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  Diog - How would you be in a position to judge whether or not Corbyn has contempt for Jews?

  The evidence is beyond reasonable doubt. I would be happy to set out example after example after example on here every day until the election if you like?

  Here is exhibit 1 - In 2012 the artist Kalen Ockerman painted this mural on a wall in east London. He called it 'Freedom for Humanity'. It portrays Jewish financiers playing Monopoly on a board supported by the backs of the world's oppressed - mostly blacks. It perfectly illustrates Malcolm X's damnation of 'Zionist dollars' bankrolling colonial oppression, am important influence in Jamaica at the time of Corbyn's stay there in the '60s. After a protest Tower Hamlets ordered the mural to be removed.

  Corbyn admitted looking at a picture of the mural and protested its removal. He even wrote to the artist - 'you're in good company' and referred to the removal of another mural by Diego Rivera in New York in 1934. 'Rockerfeller [sic] destroyed Viera's [sic] mural because it includes a picture of Lenin'.

  
  
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  Johnson and the NHS

  by jhine in

  1. social
  2. current

  we brits are being bombarded with facts and speculation about the horrific consequences of either corbin or johnson getting into power .

  another thread has discussed the anti-semitic leanings ( or not ) of corbin .

  what do people think about the left's claims that boris would sell off the nhs ,only this morning l saw a post on fb saying that " america is demanding full access to nhs records " it has been pointed out by a political reporter on the bbc that the talks that the papers were leaked about happened before johnson became pm and these were just things that have been put on the negotiating table by the usa .

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  cofty

  I also did some research on Corbyn's gang of four unelected advisors, Karie Murphy, Seumas Milne, Andrew Murray and Len McCluskey.

  Wow!