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  Scientists almost created life in a lab?!

  by abiather in

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  the scientists at the scripps research institute, california, have almost succeeded in creating the world's first living organism with artificial dna!.

  http://discovermagazine.com/2015/jan-feb/43-first-organism-with-artificial-dna.

  http://www.scripps.edu/news/press/2014/20140507romesberg.html.

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  Viviane

  HAD to be? That is a pretty bold assumption. Why does HAVE to be guided?

  Because reasons and stuff. It's not, of course, evidence for any such thing, but that doesn't stop people from saying it.
  
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  Scientists almost created life in a lab?!

  by abiather in

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  the scientists at the scripps research institute, california, have almost succeeded in creating the world's first living organism with artificial dna!.

  http://discovermagazine.com/2015/jan-feb/43-first-organism-with-artificial-dna.

  http://www.scripps.edu/news/press/2014/20140507romesberg.html.

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  Viviane

  But it opens mind-boggling opportunities: they may present to us completely man-made cells in the near future, thus would prove beyond any doubt that AN ORGANIZER was needed for the emergence of life in the first place, just like these scientists are ORGANIZERS of the doctored life!

  Or, creationist, as usual, have it backwards.

  
  http://www.salon.com/2015/01/03/god_is_on_the_ropes_the_brilliant_new_science_that_has_creationists_and_the_christian_right_terrified/
  
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  Still pointing your Finger when having a Rafter in your eye?

  by DocHouse in

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  yes- everyone has faults and makes mistakes; an organization even more so.. yet, you ignore all the fingers pointing at you.. many here have no faith.

  many here go to churches who lie about everything biblical; look at x-mas!.

  but at least we know god and christ and try to live up to their name!.

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  Viviane

  Doc, you've not the foggiest idea what Jesus taught. Stop pretending you do.
  
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  2014 Watchtower Publisher Statistics

  by jwfacts in

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  the 2014 grand totals page has been released onto facebook.. .

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  i have started updating the statistics and graphs at jwfacts.com/watchtower/statistics.php, and will release highlights as i work through it during the rest of the day..

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  Viviane

  I would live to see these numbers for the past five years as a per capita number. I can whip up a spreadsheet to show that if anyone has raw numbers for the JWs.
  
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  Good Netflix shows to watch

  by Simon in

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  in the long winter nights you need some good tv shows to watch while you wait for the eternity between seasons of game of thrones.. we've watched marco polo (pretty good) and have just started watching orange is the new black which is not at all what i imagined (didn't know it was funny!).

  house of cards is on the list too as we've heard good things about that.. anyone have any others that are worth seeing?.

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  Viviane

  And Trailer Park Boys, Fringe, Twin Peaks, Ripper Street, Weeds, Luther, Mad Men, It's Always Sunny in Philadephia, White Collar, Peaky Blinders....
  
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  Good Netflix shows to watch

  by Simon in

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  in the long winter nights you need some good tv shows to watch while you wait for the eternity between seasons of game of thrones.. we've watched marco polo (pretty good) and have just started watching orange is the new black which is not at all what i imagined (didn't know it was funny!).

  house of cards is on the list too as we've heard good things about that.. anyone have any others that are worth seeing?.

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  Viviane

  Besty, I came here to recommend Lillyhammer. Incredibly fun show and well done. I hope it gets picked up for a fourth season. Also, the Almighty Johnsons was well done.
  
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  Churches: Praise the LORD! ---- JWs: Praise the Org!

  by DocHouse in

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  sad but true; i've yet to be at a meeting where the org/ 'fds' isn't praised....

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  Viviane

  The bible no more shows the truth than you can unscramble an egg.
  
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  Churches: Praise the LORD! ---- JWs: Praise the Org!

  by DocHouse in

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  sad but true; i've yet to be at a meeting where the org/ 'fds' isn't praised....

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  Viviane

  DocHouse is an arrogant nutterball.
  
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  Is this proof that the flood was regional?

  by silent in

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  i stumbled across a scripture today.

  it's numbers 13:33 "and there we saw the nephilim, the sons of anak, who are from the nephilim, and in comparison we seemed like grasshoppers, both to us and to them.. now if they honestly believed that they saw the nephilim, it would mean that some nephilim would have had to survive the flood or that the hijinks of the fallen angels before the flood, happened again shortly thereafter.

  the only other thing i can come up with is that nephilim was some kind of generic word that implied giant proportions, but not necessarily the nephilim.. comments from the more educated appreciated.. silent.

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  Viviane

  There is no actual proof of giants, the global flood, any prophecy in the bible coming true or any particular wisdom not found elsewhere in the Bible.It's all non-original myth or re-telling of common sense previously writ.
  
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  Why were no sea creatures destroyed in the flood?

  by smiddy in

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  all the animals on earth were destroyed in the flood of noahs day apart from those in the ark ,apparently no sea creatures were destroyed in the flood , why is that ?.

  this is not an issue that only affects jehovahs witnesses , it is one that affects all beleivers that accept the bible as gods word.. obviously sea creatures were not put on the ark , no whales ,no dolphins , no fish , no krill , no plankton etc.

  you can fill in the rest .. so my question is , why were land animals / birds singled out for destruction ?, what wrong did they do to deserve this judgement against them .

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  Viviane

  But regardless, you are basically saying that God has no right to judge people.

  That is your core argument, right?

  As an aside, you do eat meat I assume.

  See a problem here?

  Nope. Explain it if you do.

  If you are holding Jehovah to a standard (protect ALL life, no matter what), you should follow it as well.

  Who said that was the standard? How about "don't randomly kill millions animals and people for no reason other than a rib lady ate a piece of fruit"?

  Have you supported just human millitary intervention? It's no different, actually, it's even better when judgment comes from God: he is outside of space time, no margin for error.

  It's very different. God claims to know all yet constantly screws up and doesn't know things, goes on murderous rampages like a two year old pitching a fit and decides to do nothing when he has the power to help the innocent.