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  I'm A Pacifist but My God Wasn't!

  by new boy in

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  were is the sense...to this?.

  i wouldn't go to war...i was a conscientious objector in viet nam.

  i couldn't even get into a fight at school without getting into trouble.. yet my god...jehovah was is a jealous god an angry god....a god who when he got pissed off could destroy a whole planet...remember the flood....(the bible said he felt bad afterwards)...that was nice.. now he is getting ready to do it again....7 billion people worth....and why?.

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  Landy

  To be fair, JWs don't join the army because they're pacifists but because of their stance on neutrality. Witnesses have never claimed to be pacifists.
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  Evolution is a Fact #1 - Protein Functional Redundancy

  by cofty in

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  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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  Landy

  In my opinion there is no way the human body came about by randomness or chance.

  That's my opinion as well - it had nothing to do with randomness and chance.

  It did however have everything to do with natural selection and evolution.

  
  

  edit - this site is a bloody nightmare when using a phone :(
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  was Darwin an atheist?

  by Ruby456 in

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  asking this q because my own feeling about this is that he probably believed in god but his evolutionary thesis is used to support atheism.

  how come?

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  Landy

  A quote from Herb Silverman which explains atheism quite well.

  Many people tell me they wouldn’t mind if I were an agnostic, but that I shouldn’t be so arrogant as to be an atheist.

  I used to call myself an agnostic because I could not logically prove whether a god exists, so I took the agnostic position that the existence of any god is unknown — and perhaps unknowable. I was without belief in any gods and thought it highly improbable that any supernatural beings exist. When I learned that this view is consistent with atheism, I became an atheist.

  So, my “conversion” from agnosticism to atheism was more definitional than theological. In reality, depending on how terms are defined and their context, I can accurately call myself an atheist or an agnostic, as well as a humanist, secular humanist, freethinker, skeptic, rationalist, infidel, and more.

  I’m curious about why people find “atheist” so much more threatening than “agnostic” when self-described “atheists” and “agnostics” often hold identical views about deities. As with atheists, agnostics almost never give equal merit to belief and disbelief. For instance, I can neither prove nor disprove the following claims.

  Claim 1: The universe was created 30 minutes ago and the creator planted false memories in all of us.

  Claim 2: Infidels who don’t believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster are condemned to burn for eternity in a vat of hot pasta sauce.

  I assume we are all “agnostic” about these two hypotheses, but at the same time pretty certain they are false. (I’d also call myself an atheist with respect to such creators.) The burden of proof is on the person making the assertion — as it should be with any supernatural claim.
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  was Darwin an atheist?

  by Ruby456 in

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  asking this q because my own feeling about this is that he probably believed in god but his evolutionary thesis is used to support atheism.

  how come?

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  Landy

  In effect, they are saying " As there is no evidence whatsoever for a Creator God I simply have a mind open to examining any evidence that does come along, but as for now, there is no such evidence".

  That's an atheist point of view rather than an agnostic. A atheist simply has a 'lack of belief', but is willing to be swayed by any subsequent evidence.
  
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  What is the alternative to JW?

  by Formerbrother in

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  i mean this with all due respect, i would like to hear from genuine people who think jw have it wrong and then what is the truth?.

  im not talking about silly little quibbles here and there.. is jehovah real?

  the the bible is word?

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  Landy

  Who else aprt from JW's really go by the entire Bible, ALL of it in its entirety?

  Well, JWs don't either do they?

  I don't remember them killing lambs at passover. Putting a menstruating women outside the town walls. That would go down a storm.

  The list goes on; wearing two kinds of cloth, circumcision, etc, etc

  And yes, I know why OT laws aren't obeyed anymore but you were the one that emphasised the 'entire' bible.
  
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  was Darwin an atheist?

  by Ruby456 in

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  asking this q because my own feeling about this is that he probably believed in god but his evolutionary thesis is used to support atheism.

  how come?

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  There is a school of thought that one of the reasons he delayed publication of OTOOTS is that he didn't want to offend the sensibilities of his deeply religious family and peers. I think it's fairly certain that he was a believer before his voyages on the beagle but a lot less so after his return.
  
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  First time here

  by BarelyThere in

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  okay so here goes...this is my first time on here.

  i'm lost and confused and am feeling very hopeless.

  i was dfed in september and i am still wrapping my head around everything.

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  Landy

  Maybe throw yourself in to work and try to extend your social circle in that direction.

  Things will get better.,Good luck!
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  Evolution is a Fact #4 - Smelly Genes

  by cofty in

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  part 1 - protein functional redundancy...part 2 - dna functional redundancy...part 3 - ervs.

  the rule in gene survival is "use it or lose it".. when a gene ceases to be useful, mutations are likely to accumulate as they are passed on down the generations.

  these broken genes are called pseudogenes and they provide powerful clues to our evolutionary past.. compared with other animals our ability to detect odours is poor, but if evolution is correct there was a time in our distant past when we relied on our sense of smell much more than we do today.. our olfactory receptors are coded for by or genes.

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  Landy

  Good stuff Cofty - enjoying these.
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  Evolution is a Fact #3 - ERVs

  by cofty in

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  part 1 - protein functional redundancy.... part 2 - dna functional redundancy.... imagine you are teacher with suspicions that some of your pupils have been copying from each other.

  comparing the correct answers in all of their assignments might not provide conclusive evidence.

  they could simply claim they had all carefully revised the same textbooks so it shouldn't be surprising that they all gave the same answers.

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  Landy

  @ Clambake

  Should we all PM you before we post then? Just to make sure that the subject we choose falls within your accepted subject range?
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  5th Columb : We need a signal to identify each other

  by Deltawave in

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  i have been thinking, it is a lonely place in the real world knowing ttatt but if we have a phrase we can unite, support and help each other.

  the question we will ask is:.

  what's your favorite bible verse?

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  Landy

  Columb? Have you got a code in de doze?

  We could always say 'just one more thing ...'