I second cappys post!
Please take the opportunity to draw his attention to their use of his words.
my amazing wife surprised me and bought tickets for us to hear richard dawkins tonight!
he is giving a lecture with someone and then they are having a q&a session.
anyone have any suggestions for questions i could ask?
I second cappys post!
Please take the opportunity to draw his attention to their use of his words.
at our meeting last night there was a talk about having run out of magazines for the last three months.
it's expected this will continue to happen.
the "branch" has not sent the requested number of magazines.
what would happen if we started dropping fake check or bills inside the donation box of an assembly?
i know, is a crime, but so is pushing someone to not accept blood and die.
would it help skew the numbers enough if enough of us did it?.
I'm not sure if you guys may not be aware, but a fake check or a fake bill will be found and dealt with on the day of its donation at any assembly or convention.
Each event has a specified location on premisis that is locked down and only very few allows inside. This room is where all of the money ends up and is counted by several people and added up. During this time they watch for fakes. (at least that's what I've been told, I've seen the places where they count because I escorted someone there as an attendant.)
even if not found there, a bank would notice it and alert the corporation and it'd be dealt with.
what is god's spirit?
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i ask this of those who believe in god.
I believe the proof of evolution or creation is in the details.
But it's not. Evolution is proven by facts regardless of details. I.e., they recently reverse engineered (not sure if correct term) a birds beak into a dinosaur snout. How would this be possible if birds hadn't evolved from dinosaurs?
what is god's spirit?
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i ask this of those who believe in god.
Have there been mutations which have moved a species forward in evolution? If so, can it be proved?
Thats not really how evolution works. It's not that there was a mutation that moved anything forward. Evolution doesn't work like X-Men.
The way it actually happens is the world is constantly changing. The climate or environment changes or there is a disaster that strikes. Within a species there are constant mutations, and when these disasters strike or the climate or environment changes somehow, certain of the species around have mutated traits that enable them to survive these things better than the rest. The rest die out because they can't keep up.
The evidence for this is all around us. YOU are evidence.
its not that mutation pushes anyone ahead, rather its that it allows them to stay.
what is god's spirit?
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i ask this of those who believe in god.
My question is: Is it claimed that mutations in and of themselves play a beneficial part in evolution?
I know this is directed at cofty, but this question makes no damn sense. Mutations in and of themselves? I don't understand what that means.
read my post, it's a very simple concept. You're looking for specificicity that even if is provided you won't understand. But unlike religion you need not take it on faith. It's the beautiful thing about science, as Neil Tyson is known to say, it's true whether you believe it and understand or not. It's observable in nature, reliable predictions about our world can be made based on it and have been.
what is god's spirit?
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i ask this of those who believe in god.
@ cap lol prolly. Let's nip that in the bud now:
if Protestants came from Catholics why are there still Catholics?
what is god's spirit?
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i ask this of those who believe in god.
Evolution is not a difficult concept to understand.
look at dogs. There are many different kinds of dog all classified as Dog. Not all dogs are k-9s. All dogs came from wolves. Wolves are k-9. So over a long period of time through breeding all current kinds of dog came from wolves as their common ancestor, but not all are k-9 and those dogs cannot mate with k-9.
this is what happened with humans. Humans and monkeys are primates. They come come from a common ancestor like dogs all come from wolves.
This is the best way I can think of to explain evolution. It's a bottom up design of gradual change over billions of years through which only the good enough to survive will make it and pass on their genes. It's a very simple concept to understand, unfortunately people who want to deny it will never accept it no matter the evidence or logic.
shit!
it finally happened.. years ago i speculated on this happening but can't find the posts.
anyway, this is a tactically aggressive move by wt.
I'm not sure I see this including people like us. The article specifically says that an antichrist must claim to represent Jesus or deny that he actually lived.
i do neither of these things. I have no proof he didn't live and i never claim to speak on his behalf.
Maybe people who are still 'in' will see it differently, but I think this is just talking about other religions and people who have left to join them.
would you do a ray franz deal and write a book or keep quiet and live out the rest of your life in bethel?.
would you keep reading the watchtower magazine?.
In all honesty, recognizing how emotionally troubling it was after only 26 years id probably kill myself. I'm just being honest. The thoughts were there for years during the time I doubted and one night I probably would have died if not for my best friend. So after 80 years? I'm confident I'd kill myself.
This is why while I will aggressively work to end this religion going forward I will not try to bring people out all the time. Some people just wouldn't benefit from that at all, they may not be able to handle it.