Posts by Perry

i can't wait.it's the first holiday since i da'd.looking forward to see some sun, fishes and having a chill out.will keep up posting when i'm away.you're .

my friends now.i would miss you otherwise.xx.

First Pastafarian Politician Sworn In

by metatron in

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http://gawker.com/americas-first-openly-pastafarian-politician-sworn-int-1496554452.

isn't diversity wonderful?.

metatron.

2 Peter 3:3 - Most importantly, I want to remind you that in the last days scoffers will come, mocking the truth and following their own desires.... They deliberately forget that God made the heavens by the word of his command. - NLT

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The Christian Hope--Is it in Heaven or on Earth?

by DS211 in

so is the christian hope in heaven or on earth?.

in acts chapter 1the question was raised: 6 so when they had assembled, they asked him: lord, are you restoring the kingdom to israel at this time?

7 he said to them: it does not belong to you to know the times or seasons that the father has placed in his own jurisdiction.. notice jesus never said thered be a change in venue, just that it wasnt up to them to know when..... so what is there from both sides?

Perry

Neither. This is a false choice. The hope of Christians is to avoid Judgment after death.

Hebrews 9:27

Acts 10: 42 & 43

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Undeclared changes to the 2013 NWT

by Doug Mason in

in the following from the 2013 edition of the nwt, the watchtower society indicates that when it released its initial 1950 edition, it considered the greek text provided by westcott and hort as its master text.

as a result of these additional masters, the wts made some undeclared changes to the 2013 nwt.

it does not list these changes or give any explanations.. greek text: in the late 19th century, scholars b. f. westcott and f.j.a.

Perry

Yes. The occult-practicing Wescott and Hort team was highly valued by Fred Franz.

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A Clean Slate When You Die ??

by Perry in

for the one who has died has been acquitted from his sin.

- romans 6:7 (nwt).

i got a chance to witness to my dad scripture for scripture for one whole hour over the holidays.

Perry

Thanks Bobcat....marked in my bible now.

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Questions on Evolution and the Existence of God and...

by ILoveTTATT in

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i know this is one huge rant, but i want to put my own questions and doubts in writing.. i am a fading jw who has become agnostic... i still believe in "god" and "jesus," but i simply cannot explain to people why i believe in them.

i just do.. about the existence of god: it is an infinite regress.

"all things were created by someone"... well... who created god?

Perry

Adamah writes,

See, you missed that the study's FINDINGS need to be replicable:

So according to your own tedious definition a study is separate from its findings, and only the findings need to be replicated for it to qualify as science? Then it follows that the study of macro evolution hasn't produced any replicatable "findings", suggesting that after 160 years of study, scientists really havent found anything scientific as far as macro darwinian evolution is concerned. This is accoring to your definition, not mine.

But the findings ARE there, they just aren't the findings Darwin expected in his grandiose slime-to-scientist paradigm. And, they are replicatable. Cats stay cats, bears stay bears and so forth. Darwinian evolution seems to me to be a very outdated 19th century theory, especially when you consider what we now know about the incredibly complex biological information strand called DNA. The amount of DNA information that can be stored in a space the size of a pinhead is equivalent to the information content of a pile of paperback books 500 times as tall as the distance from earth to the moon. Where did all this information come from?

A single cell has been likened to the Complexity of a moderrn city with numerous parts that are irreducible complex. Nice video from Harvard University below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJyUtbn0O5Y

I think most people are fine with manipulating the environment in a study to try and "speed up" the theoretical macro evolution process. Likewise, artificial selection is fine too as far as I'm concerned. But even with all this, in the two studies presented in this thread, a canine still ends up a canine and a bacteria still ends up a bacteria.

This is consistent with a biblical worldview as are thousands of other replicatable scientific "findings".

What are the odds?

The mathematical probabilities against the spontaneous generation of life are sometimes acknowledged by evolutionists as a strong argument for creation. The odds in favor of the chance formation of a functional simple cell are acknowledged to be worse than 1 in 10 40,000 . [111] The scientist Sir Frederick Hoyle, a renowned mathematician from Cambridge known for many popular science works, [112] has used analogies to try to convey the immensity of the problem. For a more graspable notion of the improbability, he has calculated the odds of the accidental formation of a simple living cell to be roughly comparable to the odds of rolling double-sixes 50,000 times in a row with unloaded dice. [113]
As another comparison, Hoyle asks, what are the chances that a tornado might blow through a junkyard containing all the parts of a 747 and just accidentally assemble it so as to leave it sitting there all set for take-off? “So small as to be negligible,” Hoyle says, “even if a tornado were to blow through enough junkyards to fill the whole universe.” [114] Although not a creationist, Hoyle’s calculations have convinced him that there must have been some “intelligence” behind the emergence of life on earth.

Based strictly on science, many have concluded that Macro evolution and spontaneous generation are simply elaborate fairy tales for adults. I can see no sound reason to refute this conclusion.

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Questions on Evolution and the Existence of God and...

by ILoveTTATT in

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friends

i know this is one huge rant, but i want to put my own questions and doubts in writing.. i am a fading jw who has become agnostic... i still believe in "god" and "jesus," but i simply cannot explain to people why i believe in them.

i just do.. about the existence of god: it is an infinite regress.

"all things were created by someone"... well... who created god?

Perry

I should have expected such a response. Your belief system is secure from attack. Congratulations.

jnat,

Why the intellectual personal attack? You provided an example to support your conclusion that Darwinian (Macro) Evolution is true. Instead of supporting the fluidity of one "kind" of animal morphing into another "kind" of animal. The experimant in actuality better supports the biblical view that animals were created according to definite "kinds".

My belief isn't secure from attack as you assert. All you have to do is show me where one "kind" of animal can morph into another kind of animal through the selection process. It is a simple and reasonable request given the assertion of Macro (Darwinian) Evolution. Furthermore, it should be easy to do under controlled circumstances given that the theory claims that this has happened accidentally millions of times.