Posts by Vidqun

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JW Headquarters Horror Story

by Vidqun in

i discovered this on youtube, it's quite recent:.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cam-nzcaa_q.

the woman's story sounds believable and credible, but i just don't know.

Vidqun

Sorry, my bullshit meter was not calibrated. It is now.

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JW Headquarters Horror Story

by Vidqun in

i discovered this on youtube, it's quite recent:.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cam-nzcaa_q.

the woman's story sounds believable and credible, but i just don't know.

Yes, Finkelstein, you're right. She sounded sincere and I fell for it. Another snag in her story is the ghostly cowboy. So, the ghostly cowboy attire would materialize on the demon, etc. She definitely slipped up there.

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JW Headquarters Horror Story

by Vidqun in

i discovered this on youtube, it's quite recent:.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cam-nzcaa_q.

the woman's story sounds believable and credible, but i just don't know.

Vidqun

Yes, it does sound far-fetched, now that I think of it. Because of Russel's links with the Free Masons, one could easily be drawn into believing such accusations, typically the stuff for an elaborate conspiracy theory. Raymond Franz would have mentioned it, even if he suspected such activities. Yes, and Barbara Anderson would be the ideal person to examine her claims and refute them if necessary. Thanks.

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JW Headquarters Horror Story

by Vidqun in

i discovered this on youtube, it's quite recent:.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cam-nzcaa_q.

the woman's story sounds believable and credible, but i just don't know.

Vidqun

I discovered this on Youtube, it's quite recent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAm-NZcaa_Q

The woman's story sounds believable and credible, but I just don't know. Her facts are in order and she knew these people personally. Sounds like Free Mason activities? Raymond Franz didn't know. He would have mentioned it in his writings. Perhaps there are some of you that have heard similar rumours? I would appreciate your input. Thanks in anticipation.

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Debating With Evolution Deniers is Just Like This

by cofty in

arguing with those who reject scientific evidence can be like arguing about football; just as angry and passionate, but the goalposts keep moving, and one team doesn't exist.. read more here....

Vidqun

Cofty: There is a little thing in every cell of every living thing on earth that is essential to life. It is slightly different in every species but the amazing thing is that the amount by which it is different is identical to what evolution would predict.
It is impossible for this to happen by chance - really, really impossible. Therefore evolution is true.

Is this a paradox or what? Is evolutionism not based on chance? If you really believe what you said here, our views are not so far from each other. I also believe that it is impossible for all of this to happen by chance. Anyway, I do believe the creation model explains the above satisfactorily.

There is no 100% “neutral” mutation. This is a misnomer, one of many. One should excuse the scientists. Not many linguists amongst them. Cf. Crick’s “central dogma of molecular biology.” Similar to Newton’s third law, in the nucleus of a cell every action would be having a reaction. The reaction might be minor or unnoticible. E.g., even then, it would be causing the genome to change and expand. In the end, multiple minor mutations would be detrimental to health of a cell. Since certain codons are less-used than others, the body does not produce as much tRNA for that specific codon. Protein synthesis would be slowed. On the long run, such so-called “neutral” mutations would be influencing the genome negatively. Summary: Even “neutral” mutations, compounded over time, could result in loss of the original specified use of the genetic code.

That brings me to “junk DNA.” There is no “junk DNA.” This is another misnomer. It should be called Noncoding DNA. Splice out all socalled “junk DNA” and the organism dies. Everything in the genome is interconnected. No part should be seen in isolation. Evolutionary scientists should be thanking creation scientist for insisting that every part of the genome has a purpose. The fact that nobody could work out the function of Noncoding DNA, doesn’t mean it has no function. According to ENCODE, they predict that over 80% of the genome is functional.

Stefan Schwarz has compiled the following arguments, of which I concur wholeheartedly.

1. There is no mechanism for evolution - mutations only cause deleterious effects.

Mutations cause cancer, deformities, ageing (in somatic cells) and other deleterious effects.

Even neutral mutations, compounded over time, result in loss of the original specified use of the genetic code.

This points to a more perfect genetic past.

Random mutations are not a mechanism that creates new, usable, specified, complex genetic information. They only add to, subtract from, or replace the original DNA with random changes.

There are many claims that beneficial mutations occur, from nylon digesting bacteria to citrate digesting bacteria. Under closer examination, these so-called mutations are repeatable in laboratory experiments where the same mutation occurs under similar situations....which shows that it is not a mutation, but an ability to adapt under certain environmental pressures. Further, none of the examples invent digestion or anything novel.

2. DNA Copying - chicken and the egg

DNA is copied using complex machines that can copy DNA forward and backwards in segments.

If evolution is true, this method of copying would have evolved.

Yet, evolution cannot occur according to the theory if there is no copying mechanism or no method of reproduction.

Therefore, DNA could not begin to evolve before it supposedly evolved a copying mechanism.

If the mechanism of copying slowly evolved, every generation would have to have at least one fully working copying mechanism for it to evolve, which presupposes that the thing evolving caused itself to evolve which is absurd. Something can not cause itself to exist before it exists!

Some will suggest self replicating pairs of RNA might have gotten the whole process going....and then evolved a programmed molecular machine that could copy DNA and then changed itself into DNA, all in one generation (the machine doesn't work without DNA or all the parts, or the parts of the DNA that have the instructions to create the DNA copying machines, and therefore could not incrementally work).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqESR7E4b_8

Many will say, "but evolution doesn't explain origins!" They are correct, if there is no way to get evolution started. Evolution, at minimum, supposes that the process could start on its own. No matter how much time you wait for something that is impossible to happen, it will be impossible for it to happen.

There are a few other arguments, such as the Cambrian explosion where the sudden appearance of most phyla (and broad genetic diversity) originates, the flawed presumptuous ad hoc dating methods used in geology, the impossibility of the evolution of gender, the logical contradictions inherent in the claims of evolution, the inexplicable commonality of convergent evolution among disparate phyla, and so on.

If someone has put all their faith in evolution, they will most likely reject these arguments. They are then left believing something that is absurd. Either the self-contradictory mechanism of unguided random mutations being intelligently directed or that something can create itself before it exists.

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Debating With Evolution Deniers is Just Like This

by cofty in

arguing with those who reject scientific evidence can be like arguing about football; just as angry and passionate, but the goalposts keep moving, and one team doesn't exist.. read more here....

Vidqun

You are the only "scientist" in the whole universe who is aware of this terrifying idea. Please publish your evidence in a peer-reviewed journal immediately.

Don’t worry Cofty. It has been done. An animal that has a harmful near-neutral mutation will not die out because the mutation is not big enough to be ‘noticeable.’ The animal lives on to reproduce — with its offspring also acquiring that mutation (if it affected the reproductive cells). But now, those offspring not only have the mutation it got from its parents, but 100-300 entirely new near-neutral mutations.1 By stark contrast, the famous geneticist, H.J. Muller, said a rate of only 0.5 mutations per person per generation would doom the human race!2

1. Kondrashov, A.S., “Direct Estimate of Human Per Nucleotide Mutation Rates at 20 Loci Causing Mendelian Diseases,” Human Mutation 21:12-27, 2002; Nachman, M.W., Crowell, S.L., “Estimation of the Mutation Rate Per Nucleotide in Humans,” Genetics156:297-304, 2000; Sanford, John C., Genetic Entropy and the Mystery of the Genome (New York: FMS Publications, 2005), third edition, p. 21.

2. Muller. H.J., “Our Load of Mutations,” American Journal of Human Genetics 2: 111-176.

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Debating With Evolution Deniers is Just Like This

by cofty in

arguing with those who reject scientific evidence can be like arguing about football; just as angry and passionate, but the goalposts keep moving, and one team doesn't exist.. read more here....

Vidqun

Any point mutation in the vast non-coding regions of the genome have no effect at all on anything. They are genuinely neutral.

Non-coding DNA does not code for proteins and scientists have previously thought it is largely useless. But this idea is illogical for two reasons.

Reason 1: it is wrong since non-coding DNA helps during embryonic development and can be a part of many diseases.

Reason 2: just because scientists cannot see any function in non-coding DNA (in fact, we now know there is function and effects), that does not mean there is no function!

The idea that non-coding DNA absorbs mutations making them neutral is plausibly false.

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Debating With Evolution Deniers is Just Like This

by cofty in

arguing with those who reject scientific evidence can be like arguing about football; just as angry and passionate, but the goalposts keep moving, and one team doesn't exist.. read more here....

Vidqun

Wizzstick, why do you get so agitated? Is that not what you believe? So what are you going to teach your child? Be kind to your cousins, the apes and monkeys. A childish response to a childish theory, I know. But even if you put in highfiluted, technical language, it still come out as stupid. Let's not give children a bad name. I think most of them are far too intelligent to stomach such ludicrous notions. Fortunately, today they have a choice. They will not be railroaded into believing such gibberish.

Never a jw: Or perhaps you are talking about our current western civilization ethics, which trace their origins to Christianity, but have been vastly improved by secular humanism.

Never a jw, I was worried that you will not get round to it. Yes, the above is what I am referring to. Have you read through the NT? If not, do so. It might be a new experience for you.

DJS, you're right about one thing, luck has nothing to do with it. And no, I'm afraid you don't know me at all and your estimate is all wrong. But believe it or not, that doesn't concern me at all. My favorite saying: Time will tell. Here's my final gift to you. This is what lies ahead. They might appear in our lifetime, they might not, but they will come. It's a promise. Those that will experience them will only have two choices before them. May each and everyone make right choice. If it doesn't happen, the joke's on me, but if it does happen, the joke's on all of you that feel the urge to ridicule:

3 I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth."

4 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.

5 If anyone wants to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and consumes their enemies; if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this way.

6 These men have the power to close the sky so that it does not rain during the days of their prophecy. They also have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with any plague whenever they want.

18 The nations were angry, but Your wrath has come. The time has come for the dead to be judged, and to give the reward to Your servants the prophets, to the saints, and to those who fear Your name, both small and great, and the time has come to destroy those who destroy the earth. (Rev. 11:3-6, 18 CSBO)

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Debating With Evolution Deniers is Just Like This

by cofty in

arguing with those who reject scientific evidence can be like arguing about football; just as angry and passionate, but the goalposts keep moving, and one team doesn't exist.. read more here....

Vidqun

Double post. Slow Internet connection.

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Elders and Attendants sing, clap and turn backs on Street Preacher after Duluth RC.

by ToesUp in

very strange behavior by the attendants and elders after the duluth, ga, rc.

on the first link the attendants start to exit the arena, then line up and turn their backs on the street preachers.

(around the 6:00 mark).. elders and attendants after duluth rc.

Vidqun

Two possibilities here: Either 1) The elders and MS bravely stage a diversion, while the sisters and children are evacuated safely through the back door. Or 2) It's called "the measuring of the penis." Look, mine is bigger.