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  Evolution and Atheism - please help

  by Fernando in

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  not being familiar with either, my question is:.

  what is the relationship between evolution and atheism?.

  i'd love to hear from anyone and everyone, and also from any perspective.. without limiting the conversation in any way, i would of course also appreciate comments that are simple, clear, direct and correct (as i don't have the capacity to do a phd in evolution or atheism)..

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  Today atheists are evolutionists but evolutionists are not necessarily atheists.
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  My cat died suddenly!

  by Fisherman in

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  i did not realize that they were symptoms that something was wrong with my cat -but i did notice that my cat was breathing a little differently for a period of about a few days.

  i also noticed prior and after to that, that on occasion, my cat would cry at the litter box, but that was a very seldom event.. anyway, about a week ago i noticed the symptom that my very loved cat was breathing heavy.

  so i called a taxi and i was going to rush him to emergency room for cats.

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  Aw shame man. Its sad to lose a beloved pet.
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  JW Teacher Sues School District For Being Fired Over Valentin's Day

  by Bangalore in

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  http://dailycaller.com/2016/01/25/suit-teacher-sacked-for-not-throwing-valentines-day-party/.

  a former public elementary school teacher who is a jehovah’s witness has filed a lawsuit against the suburban detroit school district where she used to work because, she claims, school officials ordered her to organize a classroom valentine’s day party and then sacked her because she refused.. people who belong to the jehovah’s witnesses, a millenarian christian sect, do not celebrate valentine’s day.

  thus, the teacher, yvonne lemmons, is suing for religious discrimination, reports michigan live.. the defendant in the lawsuit is the southfield public school district in southfield, mich.. lemmons, 56, says in her lawsuit that she had been a fourth-grade teacher at macarthur university academy, a public magnet school, for 10 years and had faced no issues concerning her religious beliefs prior to the valentine’s day party kerfuffle..

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  I think the school board was just stupid. This could have been resolved without issue.
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  JW Teacher Sues School District For Being Fired Over Valentin's Day

  by Bangalore in

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  http://dailycaller.com/2016/01/25/suit-teacher-sacked-for-not-throwing-valentines-day-party/.

  a former public elementary school teacher who is a jehovah’s witness has filed a lawsuit against the suburban detroit school district where she used to work because, she claims, school officials ordered her to organize a classroom valentine’s day party and then sacked her because she refused.. people who belong to the jehovah’s witnesses, a millenarian christian sect, do not celebrate valentine’s day.

  thus, the teacher, yvonne lemmons, is suing for religious discrimination, reports michigan live.. the defendant in the lawsuit is the southfield public school district in southfield, mich.. lemmons, 56, says in her lawsuit that she had been a fourth-grade teacher at macarthur university academy, a public magnet school, for 10 years and had faced no issues concerning her religious beliefs prior to the valentine’s day party kerfuffle..

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  Here's one supreme court ruling: In Hobbie v. Unemployment Appeals Commission of Florida the Court held unconstitutional Florida’s denial of unemployment benefits to a person who had been fired from her retail sales job because she had joined the Seventh Day Adventist Church and was no longer available for work on her Sabbath, which ran from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. In an 8-1 decision, the Court held this case to be controlled by Sherbert and Thomas and thus subject to strict scrutiny. Finding no significant differences between those cases and this one, it reiterated that “the State may not force an employee `to choose between following the precepts of her religion and forfeiting benefits, ... and abandoning one of the precepts of her religion in order to accept work.’”
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  Richard Dawkins has had a Stroke

  by cofty in

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  he is back home and making god progress.. he has issued an audio statement here....

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  Do I detect a mild case or personality worship? Idolatry? Fan Boy-ism?

  I pray to him every night. If he's gone who will I pray to then?

  "Oh lord of the Meme, smite mine enemies with thine iron rod.

  Give them thine angry glare and remember to take thine meds.

  Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

  Thy Delusion and thy Greatest Show protecteth me for ever and ever.

  Oh and please help me with the blocked up sink.

  Amen."

  
  
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  Richard Dawkins has had a Stroke

  by cofty in

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  he is back home and making god progress.. he has issued an audio statement here....

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  Satan still has work for him to do so he should just slow down for a while and take his meds.

  Then he'll be right as rain.
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  A question on natural selection

  by The Rebel in

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  last friday my boy of ten was very late back from school, so i called the school, they called the police, and to cut a long horrible exsperience short he had been helping a younger boy fly his kite.. but what has occurred to me is that when orlando was 5 years old he was totally dependent on mummy and daddy, whilst horses, cats, birds and other animals are born and are independent within days.. so my question on natural selection is, how are we humuns still here?.

  the rebel..

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  These offspring are termed precocial (hence 'precocious'). Species which produce precocial young are typically herbivores that must grow up quickly to avoid being eaten by predators. Within a few hours of being born, young zebra and wildebeest can run and keep up with the herd.

  Yeah and there's another thing with precocial species. Their brains are pretty much hard wired (mostly instinct). Human babies on the other hand have all the brain hardware but its not all wired up yet. This is because the wiring can change depending on the environment. What and how one learns is determined by the surroundings.

  Some species have few offspring and invest lots of time nurturing them, ...

  The whole thing is a tradeoff. Do you want to reproduce with thousands of offspring which are hard wired but cannot really learn a lot of new things. Or do you want few offspring which require a lot of nurture but can learn and adapt to new surroundings.
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  LOOK! Something new and shiny!

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  isn't it amazing just how easily distracted the average witness is?.

  with the flood of stuff being produced and uploaded on the website, from embarrassing corny videos and songs, to music for kids, to cartoons etc, the average witness has no time to actually stop and think about the actual doctrines or facts about the organisation.

  nor the past, nor the scandals being exposed by real news outlets and media.

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  Its like being force fed fast food designed to keep them from getting hungry...and to prevent them from looking for real substance....

  Before I left I felt that the spiritual feast was just cold gruel. Gruel gruel every day.

  Gruel soup. Gruel with mash. Gruel souffle. Gruel casserole. Left over Gruel. Gruel pudding.

  Today witnesses get double cheese burgers with fries and even get it intravenously force fed to them.

  God's fiery chariot now comes standard with Bluetooth and a 4G connection.

  What an age we live in.
  
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  Gay Jihadis?!

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  apparently, aseel muthana, a yemeni-british man from cardiff, was radicalized to follow his elder brother to travel to da'ish.. he was encouraged by forhad rahman and two other extremists.

  according to the gay times, muthana and rahman exchanged flirty texts, with rahman alledgedly calling muthana a welsh cutie.. when police arrested the three extremists for supporting terrorism, they tried to stop the text exchanges from being made public, out of concern for aseel muthana's safety - what with him travelling to da'ish, the possible gay nature of the texts, and da'ish's hatred for gay people.. i don't know if this is true, but it seems as if it is.

  where to start?.

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  This world is full of strange yet interesting individuals.

  
  
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  Astounding! How much do you REALLY know the history of the Jehovah's Witnesses? I bet you DID NOT know about this!

  by park ave boy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  quick background.

  a few days ago someone brought up an old new york newspaper called the "brooklyn eagle.

  " during lunch i had a little time to do some research about the whole jw.borg and what i found almost knocked me out of my seat.

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  Saintbertholdt

  The Brooklyn Eagle has been snarky to the Watchtower ever since the Miracle Wheat trial. If I remember correctly (I might be wrong) they were in a quite gloating mood when they reported on the UN debacle over 90 years later.

  LOL... My granddaddy was a NY newspaper man, and he had it in for Russell after Russell sued. I'm his great grand daughter and by gum I'm going to keep up the tradition!