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  Evolution is a Fact #7 - Human Egg Yolk Gene

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
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  exploring the human genome is like roaming around an historic town.

  some places are pristine and obviously still in everyday use.

  others have been unused for a while and starting to show signs of decay and if you look carefully there are relics of buildings that were abandoned long ago.. in this post we are going to look at a gene that we still carry in every cell in our body but which fell into disuse 10s of millions of years ago.. humans are placental mammals.

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  Clambake

  Wouldn’t it be easier to just refer people to the book or books you are lifting this stuff. This forum isn’t a biology class. You are taking credit for ideas and research that isn’t your own.
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  How do you feel about the expression "The Truth"?

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  it's amazing how the expression "the truth" has become such an ingrained term used by witnesses.. "we have 'the truth'".

  "is he 'in the truth'?".

  most here have found out so many facts about the organisation, and felt the effects of being "gut-punched" as we realised these facts.. so how do you feel about the expression "the truth" now?.

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  Clambake

  I often wonder how much troll factor there is in being a JW or are they really that oblivious to how pompous and arrogant they are. When calling yourself the truth you are basically calling everyone else in a fake religion.

  Not matter what any kind of discussion with a JW you have it all ends up in the exact same place

  We don’t believe in the trinity, holiday are pagan, war is bad etc etc
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  It Is With the Heaviest of Hearts...

  by AudeSapere in

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  .. source: http://eagles.com/news/266763.

  it is with the heaviest of hearts that we [the eagles]...the passing of our comrade, eagles founder, glenn frey, in new york city on monday, january 18th, 2016.glenn fought a courageous battle for the past several weeks but, sadly, succumbed to complications from rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulcerative colitis and pneumonia.the frey family would like to thank everyone who joined glenn to fight this fight and hoped and prayed for his recovery.words can neither describe our sorrow, nor our love and respect for all that he has given to us, his family, the music community & millions of fans worldwide.cindy frey | taylor frey | deacon frey | otis frey|don henley | joe walsh | timothy b. schmit | bernie leadon | irving azoff“it's your world now”written by glenn frey and jack tempchinfrom the eagles’ long road out of eden albuma perfect day, the sun is sinkin' lowas evening falls, the gentle breezes blowthe time we shared went by so fastjust like a dream, we knew it couldn't lastbut i'd do it all againif i could, somehowbut i must be leavin' soonit's your world nowit's your world nowmy race is runi'm moving onlike the setting sunno sad goodbyesno tears allowedyou'll be alrightit's your world noweven when we are apartyou'll always be in my heartwhen dark clouds appear in the skyremember true love never diesbut first a kiss, one glass of winejust one more dance while there's still timemy one last wish: someday, you'll seehow hard i tried and how much you meant to meit's your world nowuse well your timebe part of something goodleave something good behindthe curtain fallsi take my bowthat's how it's meant to beit's your world nowit's your world nowit's your world now.

  ..... source: http://eagles.com/news/266763.

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  Clambake

  I am sad a man died and I am sure he had loved one but the Eagles were truly a terrible band.

  The only thing worse than the Eagles was all those individual side projects they did.
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  Evolution is a Fact #5 - Vitamin C

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  part 1 - protein functional redundancypart 2 - dna functional redundancypart 3 - ervspart 4 - smelly genes.

  in part 4 we saw that roughly half of the 800 genes in the human genome that code for olfactory receptors are broken remnants of our evolutionary history.

  they were vital to our distant ancestors but in humans, as in our primate cousins they have been allowed to fall into disuse as our eyes became more important to our survival than our nose.

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  Clambake

  How many degrees do you have?

  How many papers do you have published?

  Has any of what you are spewing been peer reviewed?

  If you want to a have a discussion about the implications of how the theory of evolution changed how you feel about religion or the such, go ahead. That is the reason this forum exists.

  The problem I have is you are pretending you are an actual scientist while what you really are is just another windbag militant atheist proselytizing. Proselytizing in any form is just annoying on this board.

  Go away.
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  Evidence of Human Activity in Northern Siberia 45,000 years ago.

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. social
  2. current

  this information makes the biblical dating of human origins a sad joke.

  quote: " when they dated the remains, the researchers got another surprise: the mammoth died 45,000 years ago.

  that means that humans lived in the arctic more than 10,000 years earlier than scientists believed, according to a new study.

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  Clambake

  All this information really does is deepen the mystery about the self awareness of mankind and how in such little progression there was over such a long period of time.
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  The Hermit's story PART 4

  by The Hermit in

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  part 4 1992-1994. after the events of april 1992 my dad went through a drastic change of attitude.

  he would order as many books he could from the hall's library; the green insight books, bound volumes of past watchowers and awake magazines, interlinear greek scriptures, reasoning from the scritpures, the list goes on.

  in those days you had to go to his special room he called his office if you wanted to find him, usually sitting at his desk with his nose in the wt books and writing stuff down on paper.

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  Clambake

  Your dad sounds like a pretty stand up guy. People like him are the reason they dumbed down the literature.
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  Jw style encouragement - Return or perish....

  by Tornintwo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i haven't been able to post much recently, just started a new job with long hours... but i'm thinking of you all and drop in when i can.

  anyway i've been meaning to tell you about this because thought it would tickle some of you.... 5 months after my last meeting, i've just had two "kind and loving" 'come back' messages/cards from different people both using the same days text from dec. 31st which says: .

  "it is not a desirable thing with my father who is in heaven for one of these little ones to perish" matt 18:14. jehovah cares deeply about all those who have expressed love for his name, even if they are not actively serving him at present.

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  Clambake

  You would think if jehovah witnesses were so important in god larger plan they would news for more than just raping children and letting babies bleed to death.

  Is it just me when a turn on the news I see the places talked about in bible, I see the people talked about in the bible yet how often do dubs Crack a nighty news cast?

  Sorry, my evangelical roots are showing.
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  My Personal Proof That Elders Are Not Appointed by Holy Spirit

  by TMS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this topic is not about men living sinfully at the time of their appointment as elders.

  it is not about pedophile elders, although i've personally known three, two who were pedophiles at the time of their appointment by the governing body of jehovah's witnesses.. first of all a quick summary of what jehovah's witnesses are taught about the appointment of elders and ministerial servants:.

  before the visit of the circuit overseer, the local elders meet to consider who, if any, among the local congregation they will recommend as elders or .

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  Clambake

  I just thought the job went to the most narcissistic morally bankrupt uneducated weirdo by default.
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  Parallel holidays

  by Clambake in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so my wife congregation had a huge wing ding on jan. 2 complete with live band / food dancing and alcohol.

  yet her company had a yearend party on nov. 15 which she couldn’t go to because it could be perceived as a christmas party.

  i am supposed to be worried that the third century church set up a parallel festival with the winter solace to try and get pagans to convert to christianity but they pull crap like this ?

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  Clambake

  So my wife congregation had a huge wing ding on Jan. 2 complete with live band / food dancing and alcohol. Yet her company had a yearend party on Nov. 15 which she couldn’t go to because it could be perceived as a Christmas party.

  I am supposed to be worried that the third century church set up a parallel festival with the winter solace to try and get pagans to convert to Christianity but they pull crap like this ?

  The whole thing stinks.

  I am not mad at my wife, she is actually pretty good around the holidays.
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  Evolution is a Fact #3 - ERVs

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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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  Clambake

  Coming to a non-science or religious related forum and posting evolution related material is proselytizing.

  The militant atheist is quite annoying.