maksutov
If we can believe Gorilla made such an impossible leap to human, such a great miracle that happened automatically without an external help would eclipse all the miracles reported in all the scriptures.
abiather
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Evolution - Myths and Evidence
by maksutov ini have nearly finished writing my 'apostate' book, which i will soon be publishing as a free e-book.
here is an excerpt from it on the subject of evolution and the misconceptions about it held by jws.
sorry it's a bit long, but i would appreciate any feedback.
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Evolution - Myths and Evidence
by maksutov ini have nearly finished writing my 'apostate' book, which i will soon be publishing as a free e-book.
here is an excerpt from it on the subject of evolution and the misconceptions about it held by jws.
sorry it's a bit long, but i would appreciate any feedback.
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abiather
It is true that certain percentage of DNA of gorilla and NNA of humans would be similar. Yet that tiny portion of unshared DNA makes a world of difference: it gives us, for instance, our bipedal stance and all our unique abilities to the extent of planning even space missions!
Nothing except a superstitious faith can vouch for such an impossible leap from gorilla to humans!
"“What a piece of work is man!
How noble in reason!
How infinite in faculties!
In form and moving how express and admirable!”--Shakespeare
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Adam and Eve account does not meet the criterion of a story!
by economy inadam and eve story does not follow the common logic..
1) children would never believe a lie (especially from a stranger) against their father who has already proved a supreme benefactor to them!.
2) if even if they believed, normal course of action would have been to wait!
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abiather
That means, if we replace names of the characters with some modern names and send this story for a short-story competition, it will definitely be rejected! -
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Greatest Proof for evolution!
by abiather in2014 was the worst year ever for terrorism: u.s. intel chief (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/wrost-year-global-terrorism-2014-article-1.2130490).
terror attacks reached their highest number in 2014 since 45 years of its history.
in the first nine months of 2014, there were 13,000 terror acts that killed some 31,000 people!
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abiather
Google doesn't say 160 years x 31 is not 4960 years [When common sense can answer this, why turn into google?]
I would always prefer to live in a time-period when water and air are not polluted.
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Greatest Proof for evolution!
by abiather in2014 was the worst year ever for terrorism: u.s. intel chief (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/wrost-year-global-terrorism-2014-article-1.2130490).
terror attacks reached their highest number in 2014 since 45 years of its history.
in the first nine months of 2014, there were 13,000 terror acts that killed some 31,000 people!
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abiather
DJS, Your 100000 years do not match with reality!
If Human History is that many years old, what could be the present population on earth? Would it not be UNIMAGINABLY greater than the present 7.12 billion? Let us start from something concrete, and go backward! According to United States Census Bureau, world population was 2 Billion in 1927 and 4 Billion in 1974 and will be 8 Billion in 2026. That means population almost doubles about 50 years.
Now let us make a simple calculation! Though a couple can produce four children in about four years, let us give a too liberal 160 YEARS TO PRODUCE JUST FOUR CHILDREN! Suppose the human tree starts with just 8 people (or 4 couples), and each couple produces 4 children each in 160 years (and then the original couples/parents pass away). Now the history is 160 years old and population of the earth is just 16 (or 8 couples). These 8 couples produce 32 children (or 16 couples) in another 160 years, and the parents pass away. Now the history is 320 years old, and population is 32. If we go on calculating like this, earth’s population will be 17.17 Billion in just 4960 years (160 years x 31 = 4960). [Yet the present population is only 7.12 Billion, and the excess of over 10 Billion would adequately provide room for all those who remained childless for various reasons and all those who died prematurely due to war, accident, diseases … etc]
No of couples/
No of children
/No of years
4
16
160
8
32
320
16
64
480
32
128
640
64
256
800
128
512
960
256
1024
1120
512
2048
1280
1024
4096
1440
2048
8192
1600
4096
16384
1760
8192
32768
1920
16384
65536
2080
32768
131072
2240
65536
262144
2400
131072
524288
2560
262144
1048576
2720
524288
2097152
2880
1048576
4194304
3040
2097152
8388608
3200
4194304
16777216
3360
8388608
33554432
3520
16777216
67108864
3680
33554432
134217728
3840
67108864
268435456
4000
134217728
536870912
4160
268435456
1073741824
4320
536870912
2147483648
4480
1073741824
4294967296
4640
2147483648
8589934592
4800
4294967296
17179869184
4960
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Greatest Proof for evolution!
by abiather in2014 was the worst year ever for terrorism: u.s. intel chief (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/wrost-year-global-terrorism-2014-article-1.2130490).
terror attacks reached their highest number in 2014 since 45 years of its history.
in the first nine months of 2014, there were 13,000 terror acts that killed some 31,000 people!
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abiather
Cofty,
I am talking about EVOLUTION (Cofty, what are you talking about?)
In ultimate analysis, Theory of evolution taught through school books did more harm than help. People started investing all their time and effort in pursuing their careers and climbing the professional ladder as they believed this life is all what there is. Then later most discover that their victory is empty and that they won it at an irreparable loss to their health, family and psyche, incurring obesity, heart disease and fatigue on the physiological front; separated spouse, estranged children and uncared-for parents on the familial front; frustration, depression and stress on the physio-psychological front. The World Health Organization predicts that stress will be the number one killer in the world by 2020. And stress is usually nothing more than an individual's failure to balance his lifestyle. Living life in a healthy manner and living it fully means we have to maintain regular food habits and follow a sensible diet, regular exercise and rest, going out with family, working for charity and spending some time in reflection, talking to God in meditation …. Etc.
Very few people like Albert Einstein have really understood the secret of life; he said: “Try not to become a man of success, but rather to become a man of value.” Materialistic view, as implied in Evolution theory, is unlikely to help us to become men of value, as Einstein envisioned!
Instead of viewing man as having originated from mere matter, what an appreciation Shakespeare had:
“What a piece of work is man!
How noble in reason!
How infinite in faculties!
In form and moving how express and admirable!
In apprehension how like a God.”
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Greatest Proof for evolution!
by abiather in2014 was the worst year ever for terrorism: u.s. intel chief (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/wrost-year-global-terrorism-2014-article-1.2130490).
terror attacks reached their highest number in 2014 since 45 years of its history.
in the first nine months of 2014, there were 13,000 terror acts that killed some 31,000 people!
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abiather
LoveUniHateExams
It's very simple. Many humans are EVOLVING backward!
In other words, evolution is a fact (forward or backward matters not).
Whenever evidence for moral decline is presented, some would dismiss it saying: "No, we are living in the best part of history, such talk is stupid and so on.
However, U.S. Intel Chief is better positioned than all of us to know where the world is heading!
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Greatest Proof for evolution!
by abiather in2014 was the worst year ever for terrorism: u.s. intel chief (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/wrost-year-global-terrorism-2014-article-1.2130490).
terror attacks reached their highest number in 2014 since 45 years of its history.
in the first nine months of 2014, there were 13,000 terror acts that killed some 31,000 people!
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abiather
JeffT
Prevention is better than cure relates to all aspects of our life, not just medicine. Context is that: Why fight terrorism, instead can't we prevent it? Devise political system that does not give rise to extreme ideologies!
We have a history of abandoning the wise habits.
1) The ancient Greeks–the finest of people, physically and mentally, that ever lived–ate only two meals a day (which gave the body enough time to complete the digestion process fully and to concentrate on toxin/waste removal [toxin and waste provide fertile ground for germs to multiply], which gave them peaceful sleep with body too being at full rest, permitting the sleep mechanism to do its intended job perfectly. [But we preferred to eat whatever we want and whenever we want giving overload to body, becoming obese, and then going for exercise to reduce weight .....]
2) In ancient India, one of the greatest laws was: “If a beggar is found in a kingdom, king would automatically be disqualified from continuing as king.” [We are now creating beggars in our kingdoms}
3) Nikola Tesla offered to distribute electricity free of charge to all consumers, and he had the technology too for that. Yet our commercial mind abandoned listening to such wisdom.
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Greatest Proof for evolution!
by abiather in2014 was the worst year ever for terrorism: u.s. intel chief (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/wrost-year-global-terrorism-2014-article-1.2130490).
terror attacks reached their highest number in 2014 since 45 years of its history.
in the first nine months of 2014, there were 13,000 terror acts that killed some 31,000 people!
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abiather
2014 was the worst year ever for terrorism: U.S. Intel Chief (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/wrost-year-global-terrorism-2014-article-1.2130490)
Terror attacks reached their highest number in 2014 since 45 years of its history. In the first nine months of 2014, there were 13,000 terror acts that killed some 31,000 people!
This provides proofs for evolution in various ways:
1) We are evolving from being human to beasts (It was an easy evolution from vegetarian to non-vegetarians who started slitting the throat of innocent birds and domestic animals to slitting the throat of humans)
2) We evolved from the wise habit of prevention-better-than-cure to cure-better-than-prevention, then further evolved into fighting the symptoms rather than the roots
3) We evolved from the universal fraternity to building walls, and from self-correction to blame-game
4) We evolved from the wise habit of spending less than the income to spending more than the income.
Global debt markets burgeoned to an estimated $100 trillion last year (http://www.hhse.biz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5268:global-debt-markets-hit-100-trillion-mark&catid=121:risks&Itemid=553)
Even householders in rich countries like Canada are no exception(http://globalnews.ca/news/1814419/household-debt-hits-record-levels-says-statistics-canada/) -
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abiather
It's actually Bethel Slavery System!
Bethelites must compulsorily wear a neck-tie even in summer's scorching heat, even though the neck-tie is a symbol of penis and of pagan origin!