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  99.9% Of a People Who Believe In Evolution Don't Understand It.

  by Space Madness in

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  i never believed in evolution as i thought it didn't make sense and that what was proposed was simply impossible.

  how could an environment alter an organism's dna?

  as we can see however, bacteria cannot become resistance to antibiotics.

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  LisaRose and others,

  There are DNA mutations due several factors one of it is UV light and other is natural radioactive decay. UV light on earth was never constant, some period it was much stronger causing mutation of DNA. Ozone layer also did not exist 600 millions year ago and prior, and there were several periods when it was destroyed due catastrophic even (supernova explosion or asteroid impact). UV does alter DNA which causes to species mutated. Natural decay does it as well. We are surrouned by it. The article from Curtis University states:

  While radioactivity occurs naturally in our bodies as well as in every living organism across the planet, it was never before thought to affect our DNA in such a direct way. Using high-performance computers, the research team from Curtin and Los Alamos National Laboratory were able to show radioactivity could alter molecular structures which encode genetic information, creating new molecules that do not belong to the four-letter alphabet of DNA.

  Of course there is someone who claims that DNA did not change nor there is mechanism to it. UV light, and alpha and beta decay are obviously irrelevant to that person.
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  99.9% Of a People Who Believe In Evolution Don't Understand It.

  by Space Madness in

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  i never believed in evolution as i thought it didn't make sense and that what was proposed was simply impossible.

  how could an environment alter an organism's dna?

  as we can see however, bacteria cannot become resistance to antibiotics.

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  I do not want to feed a troll..

  but it is not due to animals adapting to the environment, which is impossible

  Of course they do, but you will not listen any reasoning.. There thousands of books and articles and peer reviews on this topics. Additionally, you insist that environment does not alter DNA. Do you ever figured out what UV light does to DNA? Do you know that DNA was changed due UV in the past where ozone layer was much weaker...
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  2029 - the year NOBODY from 1914 will still be alive.

  by EndofMysteries in

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  going by the oldest verified by birth cert living person is 115 years old, in 15 years not only will not "millions now living will never die(1914)" be untrue, but even 1 single person now living will never die will be out.

  i wonder what the spin will be then w/ the wt.

  it's just around the corner, don't go to school, give us all your money and assets, it's happening real soon now.

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  Overlapping generations was already introduced generation ago when I walked away from the WT cult in 1994. I heard reasoning back then generation can represent multiple biogenesis that is made of multiple successive generations that is a witness of the same phenomena. For example Renaissance started in 1400 and lasted 200 years and anyone living in that period was a member of the Renaissance generation. This was explained back in CZ at that time and JW thought that it was awesome. In theory, WT can claim generation of 1914 to last several hundreds of years and decades after decades because human race was witness of the same changes that started with WWI.
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  99.9% Of a People Who Believe In Evolution Don't Understand It.

  by Space Madness in

  1. jw
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  i never believed in evolution as i thought it didn't make sense and that what was proposed was simply impossible.

  how could an environment alter an organism's dna?

  as we can see however, bacteria cannot become resistance to antibiotics.

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  What a diatribe. The evolution is well observed in the nature even within timespan of several thousands years. You make extremely grave mistake with your reasoning SM, when you insist that 1) species do not adapt 2) environment stays the same. Neither is is true. Environment is constantly changing and there were times in Earth's history when climate was much warmer, humid, and stable; or time when it was arid and dry, with extreme range of temperature; or not so recent ice age where glaciers covered much of the Northern Hemispehre. Mountains do change, they get uplifted or eroded, and with it extensive changes in environment like temperature, pressure, rain, weather pattern... The rate of uplift is well measured within the precession of a few mms and only <.???.> thinks that Rocky and Appalachian Mountains were the same for millions of years. Do you really think that species were always the same in West Virginia millions years ago when Alleghany plateau was the same sea level as is currently Tibet and Appalachians were as high as Himalayah? What happened to forests that covered the shores of the Tethys Sea, while today we have desert in Levant and Central Asia? What happened to flora, insects, and all the food chain when the environment had changed during the tectonic plate movements? Either they adapted or became exctinct. When the environment did changed so did its species. We do not see saber tooth cats and mammoths today because our temperature is much higher than was 10000 years ago, the food for them disappeared and they did not adapt. Why did bobcat survived the Ice Age and saber tooth cat did not?

  Creationism is nothing more than fairy tale that was discussed by illiterate nomads around tribal fires who did not understand the world around them.
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  one reason for the dumbing down of the org

  by Magnum in

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  a lot of us have said that theres been a dumbing down in jw land.

  its just not like it used to be especially a few decades ago.

  it seems to me that if jw are right and the end of the world is near, the spiritual food should get tastier and more nourishing as time goes on, but it's getting more and more bland and less nourishing.

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  As I had noticed, the quality of JW knowledge in the Bible is way down from my time there 25 years ago. When I talk to my parents and relatives, they seem to lack the knowledge what is written in NT & OT as they had back than. My mom is still alright, but she knows more on what is written in WT publication than what is written in Bible. My relatives and sibling are even worse. The quality of biblical education within JW frame went down since they bannished private small bible studies. The literature was dumbed down to match the demantia of the elderly population and the lower IQ of the others. I do not think WT would be capable to bring high quality book like Commentary to James as we had 30 years ago to present WT population.
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  Loyalty to Org Over Everything Else Part 2

  by startingover13 in

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  a few months ago i posted about the dilemna i was facing with my girlfriend and getting reinstated.

  a little under a year ago, both of us were disfellowshipped for sexual immorality.

  while it was difficult, we promised to stick together through it, work our way toward marraige, and eventually return.

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  startingover, you are better off. In JW world marriage and healthy relationship are secondary, the organization is foremost and with it comes all time, privacy, and dedication. While it hurts at the beginning, in longer term in you will be better off. There is no need for you to be in threeway relationship with the borg.
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  G.B. TALK URGING CHILD BAPTISM!

  by The Searcher in

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  the introduction & conclusion to this video is in german, but david splanes' words are loud and clear in english - get your kid baptized asap!.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h33pwdsuvlq&feature=youtu.be.

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  Nothing new. I remember my DO attempted to talk to us into baptism when I was between 8-10.
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  org is dying

  by lambsbottom in

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  i don't understand why so many ex jws and faders think that the jws will continue to grow and thrive as a religion.

  i still attend a meeting once a week and you can smell the death of the religion creeping up when you hear the talks, read the study wts and hear the letters from the gb.

  the way the organization has changed is a sign that it reached its peak (in "healthy" membership) long ago.

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  I do not believe that WT can be reformed like did European churches in 16th century. They will adapt to keep membership increasing or at least stagnant. They can successfully cut from the past as did Rutherford from Russell's followers, but they cannot change their core doctrine. It is End-Time cult that thrives on promoting the Armageddon scenario. It is its brand and purpose. It cannot move from it or push it out of the sight. Additionally, there is always a demand for cult that promotes imminent whipe out of entire humanity. They had existed in the antiquity, thrived in medieval times, and became dominant in Northern America where majority of modern End-cults originated.

  Others also compare WT to totalitarian regimes-which is- like USSR. However, you see it as a political entity, not like cultural-social entity. For example Russian culture survived Tsarism, Soviet Union, WWI & WWII, civil war, and disintegration of the Soviet empire. However, the Russian culture is stil here. The political system had changed. WT is moving along the same principle. Its political system will change, but its cultural fabric will survive. WT is not going anywhere, and they will be here far longer than anyone of us stay alive.
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  Pretty Sad

  by piztjw in

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  it really is pretty sad that the gb and their "fair-haired-boys" cannot get their stories straight even from one day to the next.. friday, while touting the greatness of jw.org the rc speaker bragged about the web site being translated into over 400 languages.

  on saturday splane bragged about it being translated in 369 languages.

  while that is close to 400 it surely isn't over 400.. then yesterday one of the speakers said, "the mormon church is investing on internet web site outreach.

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  NAVYTOWN, it is torture for everyone even elderly. My parents never go for more than day. I was on three day convention in 1991 and never again just from sitting in the heat.
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  org is dying

  by lambsbottom in

  1. watchtower
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  i don't understand why so many ex jws and faders think that the jws will continue to grow and thrive as a religion.

  i still attend a meeting once a week and you can smell the death of the religion creeping up when you hear the talks, read the study wts and hear the letters from the gb.

  the way the organization has changed is a sign that it reached its peak (in "healthy" membership) long ago.

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  FlyingHighNow. USSR was never atheist country. It had the official politics was atheist, but population was not. I lived under communism, and there were some preferred national churches, and outlawed other like JW. While communist government inflicted heavy crackdown on clergy and repressed or marginalized the active believers, it was never successfull in enforcing atheism. The biggest hit to religious organization was education and religious indifference in Eastern Europe. Majority of violence there was directed against population refusing dictatorship. As any other totalitarian regime, it sought to maintain control in whatever means in whatever cost. Not much different from Nazi Germany, or Jacobin France in 1794. Neither Hitler or Robespierre were atheist. Under Stalin in 1941, Othodox church was preferred faith as it helped unified Russian population against Nazims. Churches in Russia were opened durign WWII and remained under government control until 1991. East Asia are specific and religious indifferent, but you cannot compare cultural and social fabric in China with USSR and not to mention with Northern Korea where the dictatorial family is venerated as a saint.