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  Evolution - Myths and Evidence

  by maksutov in

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  i 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!

  http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tiny-genetic-differences-between-humans-and-other-primates-pervade-the-genome/

  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 in

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  adam 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 in

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  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!

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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 in

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  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!

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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 in

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  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!

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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 in

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  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!

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  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 in

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  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!

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  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 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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!

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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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  Where did the idea for the 'Bethel labour system' originate?

  by Esse quam videri in

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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!
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  Isn't shaving beards a pagan practice?

  by EndofMysteries in

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  it's funny that in ancient times the jews had beard and had to grow their hair and the egyptians were the ones who shaved.

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  so shouldn't shaving be considered just like birthdays and holidays to the jws?

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  Most of the bible stories are pagan--including resurrection of Lazarus--a most important event (and probably the last miracle) that could not be recalled by the first three gospel writers!!!

  There are clear parallels between the "Jesus raising Lazarus" story and the Egyptian "Horus raising "El-Azar-Us" or "El-Osiris" story.

  http://christianityasamysteryreligion.com/raise_lazarus_truth_sun_myth.htm

  Internal proof is the most pronounced one. Lazarus who received such a great reward from Jesus never came forward to speak in support of Jesus during the mockery of his trial, nor came for preaching word after Jesus's death.

  If youths of today can volunteer for IS and similar terrorist organization which they know would only bring eventual destruction, why did Lazarus not come forward for Jesus?