JuanTheMan

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  I can't send any PM's thru this site.....

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  hi simon, i can't send any pm's thru the sites email system.. please help!.

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  JuanTheMan

  Hi Simon,

  I cannot send or receive PM's.

  I am using Chrome, when I click on the mail icon with a 0 in the middle, I get a white page with a message "Server Error".

  Please help.

  Thanks!
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  Science still doesn't have the answers on how life first appeared

  by EndofMysteries in

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  since so many athiests in this thread, and since i'm going to college, i was curious if what i would learn in biology would change my thoughts and show that life clearly and easily spontaneously happened.

  just looking up the origins of dna or rna there is nothing conclusive.

  for example, scientists today are able to manipulate life.

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  JuanTheMan

  I have learnt a lot about evolution and the origin of life (which are two different things) from this board.
  
  I would seriously recommend reading either The God Delusion or The Blind Watchmaker from Richard Dawkins to understand that something that apparently was "designed" could come just from evolution and natural selection, and to understand possible hypotheses as to how life came to be. The anthropomorphic principle states that since we are alive, and we can ask the question "how did we come here"?, that it is NOT impossible to have life arrive by chance, and it is NOT impossible to have that life turn into intelligent life.
  
  No one knows the "probability" of life arising spontaneously, but it is NOT such a high number to make it so improbable it goes into the "impossible" range.
  
  What if there are multiple universes, and it turns out that OUR universe had the "right" conditions for life?

  The reason why we still do not know how life arose spontaneously is that it is very hard to confirm the hypotheses. For evolution we have the fossil record and many other lines of evidence, for the origin of life we cannot confirm or deny the hypotheses. 
  
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  New forum: one month progress report

  by Simon in

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  well, we survived the first month at least!

  yes, the new forum is now 1 month old.. of course there have been some issues and i'm grateful that people have been patient while i worked on them.

  a big thank-you to everyone who's been patient, have provided useful feedback or just been willing to adapt to something new during the transition.. i've also made some improvements along the way and am fairly happy with how things are from a basic functionality and performance perspective so it's time to start looking at some of the new features i've been planning.

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  JuanTheMan

  Thank you very much Simon for your hard work! I cannot log in into my old account so I guess I will start using this one!

  I need to access my inbox to talk to you to get my old account back!!