Posts by IronGland

What does creationism explain?
What does it predict?
What does creationism have to say about the ostrich (why did God bother to give it wings?)?
What about blind cave fish with residual eyes. Why did God start to give it eyes that it didn't need?
Why do certain aquatic salamanders who never leave the water and never use their feet have useless feet anyway ?
Why did God make horrible things like ticks, leaches, salmonella, and the AIDS virus?
Why did God do such a bad job designing our lower backs? So many people visiting Chiropractors.
Why do tasty ripe fruit signal us by changing color when they are ready to eat? How about Marijuana when the seeds are ready to be planted it sends out a heady inebriating fragrance to attract flocks of birds which devour the buds and then fly away stoned (there should be a law) .The seeds then are passed whole from the birds and are widely dispersed.
Lets suppose we wanted to turn nice house cats into big viscous lion like killers. We could do it and it would only take a couple hundred years of an intensive breeding program. Imagine what we could do in 1000 years or 1,000,000 years we could turn the house cat into something no one could recognize by breeding alone.
Look at what we have done with corn.
Look at how the Chinese created the
Gold fish from the Carp
while the Japanese created the koi.
Check out Lake Tanganyika in Africa.
A lake on top of a volcano. Somehow
a few Ciclid fish were introduced to this lake. Over the course of many thousand years this single Ciclid species diversified into many different but closely related species to fill every ecological niche in the Lake.
Look at the marsupials of Australia.
How in isolation one species diversified into many. Kangaroo, wombat, koala all close relatives.
Darwins theory was mainly based on the study of living Animals. The fossil evidence has just been used as one type of conformation.

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100 Greatest Americans

by ScoobySnax in

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ok.....i vote jfk.....does that make me shallow?"reagan?

" (better??

IronGland

Wendell Wilkie

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Diet Bias: Evolution vs. Creation

by patio34 in

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1. creation viewpoint: if one takes the bible literally, then it follows that all humans were vegetarian until the flood.

in fact, gen. 1:30 states that all creation ate vegetation.

one could deduce also from the bible that the carnivore/prey cycle is not god's original plan and that possibly it would be done away with in a paradise earth (isaiah somewhere).

IronGland

Frank, what scientists?

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Evolutionists Dogmatic like WTS?

by Gedanken in

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jrizo in a thread of mine on kangaroos and that seems to have vanished posted these remarks in response to points made by alanf:.

alanf: pomegranate's mind is a fine example of the intellectual desert in which almost all creationists live.

evidence is presented and they discount it with a few inanities and misquotations.

IronGland

Actually I said that,Gedanken.

Edited by - irongland on 29 October 2002 22:8:18

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Does Our Arguing Scare People Off???

by minimus in

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with so much going on over here, do you think that newbies, lurkers, or potenial apostates could or do get scared off from this place?

if someone is on the fence and they want to explore the internet and are warned that all you'll see are disgruntled apostates, could these forums make them think the "faithful and discreet slave" is actually right?

IronGland

I really dont think there is that much fighting. JW's who lurk here may think so because they've been warned to avoid 'independent thinking' and to never question anything. There's also the fact that they believe 'Unity' is one of the highest virtues which pretty much closes the door on any kind of healthy debate on anything.

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Evolutionists Dogmatic like WTS?

by Gedanken in

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jrizo in a thread of mine on kangaroos and that seems to have vanished posted these remarks in response to points made by alanf:.

alanf: pomegranate's mind is a fine example of the intellectual desert in which almost all creationists live.

evidence is presented and they discount it with a few inanities and misquotations.

IronGland

Ok, so im not 'most'. What if every biologist on the planet sent you a notarised letter stating the same thing? The fact that they may believe in some sort of God has nothing to do with evolution. As there is no evidence one way or the other, someones religious beliefs are just personal preference.

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Evolutionists Dogmatic like WTS?

by Gedanken in

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jrizo in a thread of mine on kangaroos and that seems to have vanished posted these remarks in response to points made by alanf:.

alanf: pomegranate's mind is a fine example of the intellectual desert in which almost all creationists live.

evidence is presented and they discount it with a few inanities and misquotations.

IronGland

Ok. Im a Deist.

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Does Our Arguing Scare People Off???

by minimus in

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with so much going on over here, do you think that newbies, lurkers, or potenial apostates could or do get scared off from this place?

if someone is on the fence and they want to explore the internet and are warned that all you'll see are disgruntled apostates, could these forums make them think the "faithful and discreet slave" is actually right?

IronGland

I suppose it could possibly scare someone, but if a little arguing and free exchange of ideas scares people, they'll probably never leave the WT anyway.