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  Evolution - A Conversation with Alex Williams

  by cofty in

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  alex - thank you for your offer to have a conversation about evolution.. i accept the scientific evidence that all life - including humans - evolved from a common ancestor through unguided evolution over millions of years.

  this isn't even a controversial position in the scientific community.. the evidence rests on the data from many interconnected fields including paleontology, comparative anatomy, geology and especially genetics.

  it is no exaggeration to say that the evidence for your own non-human ancestry is contained in every cell in your body.. it is my experience that jws are generally quite ignorant (not in a pejorative sense) of the scientific case.

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  Which should I believe whats taught here in school or the Bible?

  Consider the RNA molecule,Robert Shapiro, professor emeritus of chemistry at New York University says no nucleotides of any kind have been reported as products of spark-discharge experiments or in studies of meteorites.”3 He further states that the probability of a self-replicating RNA molecule randomly assembling from a pool of chemical building blocks “is so vanishingly small that its happening even once anywhere in the visible universe would count as a piece of exceptional good luck.

  What about protein molecules? They can be made from as few as 50 or as many as several thousand amino acids bound together in a highly specific order. The average functional protein in a “simple” cell contains 200 amino acids. Even in those cells, there are thousands of different types of proteins. The probability that just one protein containing only 100 amino acids could ever randomly form on earth has been calculated to be about one chance in a million billion.

  A billion seconds is 31 years.A million hours ago was in 1885. so one chance in a million billion is not to be believed
  
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  Do you believe in a Rapture that the Churches teach instead of living on earth forever

  by Alex Williams in

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  its taken from 1 thessalonians 4:13-17. now jesus compared the end to the days of noah .

  but as the days of noah were, so shall also the coming of the son of man be.

  why did he compare the two and does it give us a clue to which teaching is the right one?.

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  Paul stated: “This I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s kingdom,
  Upon dying in faithfulness during Christ’s presence, each one of the remnant of spiritual Israel instantaneously receives his heavenly reward. “In the twinkling of an eye,” he is resurrected as a spirit creature and “caught away” to meet Jesus and to serve as a coruler in the Kingdom
  

  This has nothing to do with a rapture at the end of the world

  Paul added: “Afterward we the living who are surviving will, together with them, be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and thus we shall always be with the Lord.” (Verse 17) “The living” would be those alive during Christ’s presence. They would be “caught away” to meet the Lord Jesus. As in the case of faithful early Christians, death as a human is necessary for them to be united with Christ in heaven.
  Thessalonians speaks of the resurrection hope not a rapture which word is not in the scriptures

  1 Thessalonians 4:17 as the basis for their belief. Let us examine this scripture in its context. Paul wrote:
  “Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant concerning those who are sleeping in death; that you may not sorrow just as the rest also do who have no hope. For if our faith is that Jesus died and rose again, so, too, those who have fallen asleep in death through Jesus God will bring with him.
  
  The congregation in Thessalonica was relatively new when Paul addressed his first letter to Christians there in about 50 C.E. Members of the congregation were distressed that some of their number were “sleeping in death.” However, what Paul wrote comforted the Thessalonians with the resurrection hope.
  
  
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  How did Adam and Eve survive when kicked out of the Garden of Eden?

  by I believe in overlapping in

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  it’s funny how a simple question like this is something that the dubs never even consider.

  my dad asked this question to a couple of witnesses and they wondered for a minute and said; .

  “i never thought about it, i’ll have to ask the elders”.

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  One thing I know about it deals with probability ,one bible Scholar put it this was its like placing the letters of the alphabet in a hat and on the first and only chance picking every letter from A to Z in secession ,thats the odds of evolution
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  How did Adam and Eve survive when kicked out of the Garden of Eden?

  by I believe in overlapping in

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  it’s funny how a simple question like this is something that the dubs never even consider.

  my dad asked this question to a couple of witnesses and they wondered for a minute and said; .

  “i never thought about it, i’ll have to ask the elders”.

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  How familiar are you with the scientific evidence for evolution?

  Would you be open-minded enough to discuss it?

  Im not adapted at evolution belief, Im one of JWs minister but have access to any topic there is to refute that belief,so yes we can discuss it
  
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  Questions About the Watchtower's View on Blood Transfusions.

  by Pallbearer in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i admit to not being very well informed about the watchtower's view on blood transfusions.

  i have a couple of questions that i hope someone here is able to answer.. i understand that the watchtower now considers it to be okay to receive blood fractions.. my first question is: are all fractions considered to be permissible?

  and if not, specifically which fractions are not permissible?.

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  David who was thirsty exclaimed he longed for water after being pinned down,his warriors heard that and fought to get water to David,but what did he do when they offered it to him?
  
  New Living Translation
  David remarked longingly to his men, “Oh, how I would love some of that good water from the well by the gate in Bethlehem.”
  

  New International Version
  So the three mighty warriors broke through the Philistine lines, drew water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem and carried it back to David. But he refused to drink it; instead, he poured it out before the LORD.

  Why did he do this?

  
  New American Standard Bible
  and he said, "Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this. Shall I drink the blood of the men who went in jeopardy of their lives?" Therefore he would not drink it. These things the three mighty men did.
  

  So sometimes distinction, physically, ethically and morally are relevant
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  Do you believe in a Rapture that the Churches teach instead of living on earth forever

  by Alex Williams in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  its taken from 1 thessalonians 4:13-17. now jesus compared the end to the days of noah .

  but as the days of noah were, so shall also the coming of the son of man be.

  why did he compare the two and does it give us a clue to which teaching is the right one?.

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  In simplistic terms if the comma in Luke 23:43 is that day the thief was to be with Jesus then why did Jesus tell Mary he had not yet ascended to the father,if fact he was on earth 40 days

  
  

  
  

  John 20:17

  
  

  "Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father

  
  

  So days later he told the thief he would be with him had to be the day he was saying it not TODAY you will be in paradise makes no sense that teaching,it could have easily been I tell you today you will be with me and in view of the fact he didnt go anywhere JWs teaching makes more sense not the Churches
  
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  Questions About the Watchtower's View on Blood Transfusions.

  by Pallbearer in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i admit to not being very well informed about the watchtower's view on blood transfusions.

  i have a couple of questions that i hope someone here is able to answer.. i understand that the watchtower now considers it to be okay to receive blood fractions.. my first question is: are all fractions considered to be permissible?

  and if not, specifically which fractions are not permissible?.

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  I do,as I stated and quoted from scripture after the flood God told Noah he could now eat meat and I said why God now allowed the killing of animals now for food where as before he didn't ,Blood is sacred to God ,he says the life is in the blood and in Israel without the shedding of blood sins could not be forgiven

  
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  In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

  
  New International Version
  "But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.

  Whats the difference to taking a blood transfusion and just drinking blood ,believers are told to abstain from blood

  Abstain ;

  One is free to do what he wants in regards to things God forbids but will suffer the consequences in the end
  
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  How did Adam and Eve survive when kicked out of the Garden of Eden?

  by I believe in overlapping in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it’s funny how a simple question like this is something that the dubs never even consider.

  my dad asked this question to a couple of witnesses and they wondered for a minute and said; .

  “i never thought about it, i’ll have to ask the elders”.

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  Alex Williams

  Someone knew we were coming then,think about oxygen someone knew we would need

  air to live here.
  

  a colorless, odorless reactive gas, the chemical element of atomic number 8 and the life-supporting component of the air.About a fifth of the air is made up of oxygen, and almost all the rest is nitrogen. Oxygen comes from plant photosynthesis where carbon dioxide is absorbed and oxygen is emitted.

  
  Most of Earth's oxygen comes from tiny ocean plants – called phytoplankton – that live near the water's surface and drift with the currents.

  
  In space, no one can hear you scream. This is because there is no air in space – it is a vacuum. Sound waves cannot travel through a vacuum.

  We needed heat and light so someone created our star which is our sun ,
  200 billion suns are in the Milky Way galaxy alone. but ours just happned to be close enough to sustain life here but not too distance where we would freeze to death

  
  The sun is about 93 million miles away from Earth If ... If Earth were closer to the sun, however, the oceans would boil away. and if farther we would not be able to live on earth

  So with the amount of suns in the milky way this just so happened to be just where we needed it. Too many coincidences for me to accept your beliefs
  
  
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  Questions About the Watchtower's View on Blood Transfusions.

  by Pallbearer in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i admit to not being very well informed about the watchtower's view on blood transfusions.

  i have a couple of questions that i hope someone here is able to answer.. i understand that the watchtower now considers it to be okay to receive blood fractions.. my first question is: are all fractions considered to be permissible?

  and if not, specifically which fractions are not permissible?.

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  cofty 2 minutes ago

  Admittedly I'm not an expert on blood procedures

  "Then why not stop making a lot of noise, take a step back and listen to those who are?"

  So we have here armchair hematologists and immunologists ?
  

  
  

  Hematologist and Immunologist
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  Questions About the Watchtower's View on Blood Transfusions.

  by Pallbearer in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i admit to not being very well informed about the watchtower's view on blood transfusions.

  i have a couple of questions that i hope someone here is able to answer.. i understand that the watchtower now considers it to be okay to receive blood fractions.. my first question is: are all fractions considered to be permissible?

  and if not, specifically which fractions are not permissible?.

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  Alex Williams

  After receiving a transplant, white blood cell count will decrease quickly and will remain low until the new cells begin to grow (engraftment). During this time, you are at great risk for developing an infection since you will not have white blood cells to fight bacteria, viruses or fungi. We are talking bloodless surgery here where
  the donor's blood is flushed from the body as the organs are flushed. The blood is not used in any transfusions. So it would be dumb to transfer millions of white blood cells and think its acceptable

  https://www.ahn.org/specialties/bloodless-medicine/organ-transplantation-without-blood