Rank and File are not to meddle in others' personal business -- that's the job of the elders.
drwtsn32
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May 21, 2011 - The Rapture Cometh!
by Billy the Ex-Bethelite inharold camping has promised that the rapture will be on may 21, 2011.. .
they've put it on this van that "the bible guarantees it", so it must be true!.
after all, would this face lie?.
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drwtsn32
Yet another BS religious prediction that will fail. Of course most members of this religious group probably won't be fazed by the failure. Strange how easily believers seem to dismiss failed predictions....
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Important security tip for those on here that use FaceBook.
by StoneWall ina friend on fb shared this security tip with me and after realizing how crucial it could be with all the "man-in-the-middle" and data mining going on with fb i decided to share it with all of you in case you were like me and wasn't aware of it.. and after seeing what all it does i'm also curious if you're like me and wonder why facebook doesn't make it the default setting instead of the other way around.. anyhow if you go to account/account settings/account security, you should see a box that says beside it, browse facebook on a secure connection.. make sure to put a check mark in that box and then click save.. to check to make sure it is set properly, your address bar should now show https:facebook.com (notice it added the "s" for secure after http).. when you do banking online or other data sensitive issues online you are probably used to seeing the https on them and that is why.. if you are unsure of why you would want this setting on fb, i'd highly recommend to search on google for https and read the wiki article that comes up.
it list all the benefits of using this security option when/where it's available.. your friends on fb list will be much happier knowing that things they send you or that you post in pm's are more secure as well.. i was surprised at how many friends/family on my list wasn't aware of this option either.. hope that helps with any fears and/or concerns you may have with facebook security.. stonewall.
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Forcing https will help ensure people can't eavesdrop on the web communication traffic between your computer and the Facebook servers. It also provides reassurance that you are communicating with the actual Facebook site and not some rogue server that just LOOKS like Facebook.
The bad thing about https is it will be slower. And it doesn't protect you from anything else, like bad links people may post on Facebook or bad apps that like to spam your friends.
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Couple of "Human Evolution" Questions (Seriously), If I May...
by AGuest inmay you all have peace!.
i know, i know... from body members: why is she going there, again??
but... i have what i believe are a couple/few valid questions, so i must ask that you indulge me, if you can.
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drwtsn32
Humans do their darndest to eliminate the cruelty of natural selection. We care for the weak, and the sick and the mentally incompentent. It's the right thing to do. However this insulates us from the forces that are believed to drive evolution.
Exactly. We are slowing down our own evolution not only because of the above, but also because we can readily adapt to environmental changes (we artificially modify our environment through cooling/heating). In addition, most humans don't stay in small, isolated groups where evolution has a much greater chance of occurring.
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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 04-10-2011 WT Study (CREATION)
by blondie inthe physical heavens, the earth, and everything.
heavens themselves were made, and by the.
creative days three through six, god created.
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drwtsn32
Nothing in evolution has been proven, and none of it is falsifiable, because it doesn't at all state anything in strict terms of science. It is simply a theory. The theory of relativity is also a theory, but it is backed up totally by mathematics and natural physics. Evolution is a story. Sois intelligent design, which is also falsifiable, but hasnt been falsified. We have come much closer to falsifying evolution than the other way around.
Wow... nearly every single one of these statements is false. Please tell me you're just trolling. It's hard to imagine someone actually thinks this way.
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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 04-10-2011 WT Study (CREATION)
by blondie inthe physical heavens, the earth, and everything.
heavens themselves were made, and by the.
creative days three through six, god created.
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drwtsn32
One, the news story was from 2008. Why has this not been on the front page of the NY Times ...
It was pretty big news back in the day. I saw it posted on numerous scientific news sources and even mainstream media. It was quite fascinating but it's not like this was the first or only evidence we have for evolution.
A cell does not live on its own. Bacterium do. It is an organism on its own. And no bacteria has been ever demonstrated to turn into a cell.
Huh? Bacteria are single-celled organisms.
The bacteria didn't turn into anything new ...
If you expect a radical change to happen in front of your eyes, you have a poor understanding of evolution. The theory of evolution does not predict such observations. Changes take hundreds of thousands/millions of years to happen. We will never see drastic, radical changes happen in front of our eyes, although that would be pretty neat. Such a request is like asking to see the complete life cycle of a star happen before your eyes, from the coalescing of hydrogen gas to its possible demise into a black hole. Ain't gonna happen, but it doesn't mean it doesn't happen in the real world given enough time.
Is there even a theory out there that postulates HOW a human cell might have evolved, all the way from amino acids, and how it could have been done in the time alloted?
Yes. Do some reading. "Time alloted" [sic] ? The Earth has been here over 4 billion years. That's a LONG time. Plus it is quite possible the precursors to life arrived at this planet from somewhere else.
The reality is that Stephen Hawking is to the point of declaring that the laws of gravity and physics THEMSELVES created the universe (with pre-existing matter I suppose - whoops, no, that wouldn't be creating). That is where anti-creationism and/or atheism is now. That is the newest theory, put forth only weeks ago from the smartest man in the world.
Yes, all interesting and very hypothetical stuff but it has nothing to do with the theory of evolution. The theory of evolution has nothing to do with the origin of the universe. It's a theory about how life changes over time.
First, why would "light-sensitive cells" ever exist in the first place?
Random mutation. Remember there is no purpose or goal behind evolution. The raw working material is random mutation (among other things). Once something develops or changes that aids in an organisms survival in its environment, that change tends to "stick."
Did they evolve into more focused eyes later? The video showed several different animals which had varying degrees of light sensitivity or focus. Have the fossils confirmed from one of these species to the other that they evolved from one another?
These example species didn't have to evolve one from another. It was an example of eyes that function at various levels of complexity.
The very occurence of "light-sensitive cells" occuring in just the right cells in the right place, what are the chances?? With no intent by anyone, no knowledge of the cells themselves of what they wanted to be? Why didn't the light sensitive cells show up in my skin or heart instead?
Such a mutation COULD show up in your heart cells. But since that would provide no advantage to an organism, the mutation would not present an advantage and therefore would most likely fade out of existence. Unused features tend to get removed as it is a waste of biological resources.
Again, take away any portion of a cell, and it will not live, and certainly not without an organism that supports it, with all of the thousands of chemical reactions which take place in all of our cells everyday.
Take away any part of an arch and it collapses. If you watched the video you should have learned that "irreducibly complex" is hardly ever actually so.
Ask Stephen Hawking where he is.
Stephen Hawking? First of all, he does not believe in a personal god. It wouldn't matter anyway if he did. He may be an extremely intelligent individual, but that doesn't make him right on every topic. Look up "argument from authority."
It simply seems that were this any kind of a viable theory, major documentaries and coherent movies would have been made about it.
There are numerous!
Plenty of money exists among those believing no God to get the right scientists together, and prove it once and for all. We are talking about physical sciences, with archeological proof to be displayed.
So now it's some sort of conspiracy? Wow.
It isn't there.
There is a MOUNTAIN of evidence. Start here if you honestly want to explore it:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/
There is a cause for everything. There must be an ultimate uncaused cause. I call that uncaused cause "God".
I agree that there must be some uncaused source. Infinite causality is illogical. However, even the laws of cause and effect may not have applied before the big bang (heck, they break down at the quantum level), so our understanding of cause/effect may not apply before the big bang.
If you want to call it "God," so be it. But where is your evidence that he exists? That he is the Judeo-Christian God? It seems much more likely to me that some fundamental energy was here at the "beginning" rather than some omnipotent, omniscient being. One is infinitely more complex than the other. Didn't you say something about Occam's Razor?
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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 04-10-2011 WT Study (CREATION)
by blondie inthe physical heavens, the earth, and everything.
heavens themselves were made, and by the.
creative days three through six, god created.
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If you know of one, let me know.
Sure, how about a simple one. This is nice, too, because it was actually observed in the lab. (This entire thing was a lab experiment, after all.)
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14094-bacteria-make-major-evolutionary-shift-in-the-lab.html
Your statement that mutations never add features/capabilities is flat out wrong.
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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 04-10-2011 WT Study (CREATION)
by blondie inthe physical heavens, the earth, and everything.
heavens themselves were made, and by the.
creative days three through six, god created.
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Scientifically speaking, more than anything the law of irreducible complexity proves creation to me.
What scientific "law" is that? There is no such "law." It was made up by Michael Behe and has been disproven many times. Please take 10 minutes and watch this video. It does a fine job explaining how the human eye could have developed.
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Armageddon Prior to 2000 and Capital Punishment Quotes
by bigmouth intwo quotes i'm trying to locate, from the mags i think, or possibly a book;.
1) one article (mid '80's ?
) stated that it was concievable that this system could continue as far as the year 2000 but all the signs were it would never get this far.
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drwtsn32
Maybe you're thinking of the 1/1/1989 Watchtower that said (speaking of the preaching work) "...would be completed in our 20th century"? The bound volume was changed to read "in our day."
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GLOBAL WARMING - "Snowfalls are a thing of the past"
by Nathan Natas incetainly in great britani they are, right?.
see: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html.
.. .. .. oh, that's from ten years ago!.
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drwtsn32
weather ≠ climate