i have done a breakdown for the usa, since the majority on this forum are american, along with the uk and australia.
us growth has slowed, but still moving along, but uk and australia have are at a virtual standstill, and in fact decreasing against population growth.. .
jehovah's witness publisher statistics - united states.
From 2000->2010 the US population growth was +9.7%, the peak growth for JWs was under +4%. Expressed as a percentage of population, the religion is shrinking, at least in the US.
For the UK, between 2003 and 2013 it was +7.5%. JWs grew at a peak of < +3%. Also shrinking as a percentage of the population.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2015-01-06/astronomers-find-some-other-earthlike-planets-out-there.
this is not really anything new, but every time i see one of these articles about earth like planets in habitable zones, i can't help but hear he echo of past indoctrination at wt studies etc saying "oh how unique earth is to be placed where it is blah blah blah impossible odds".
there are many more articles on this subject that have much less conservative ideas of potentially how many "earth like" planets could be out there, staggering numbers actually.
The ancients knew a lot more than we give them credit. Heck, if a Greek could stick a stick in the ground, measure its shadow and tell you the circumference of the earth, my hat's off to 'em.
Is your argument that because someone used repeatable and provable science and math to move knowledge forward that his cultures unprovable myths might also be true? Because I saw a dog and can prove it, UFO abductions might also be real?
As usual, religion gets it exactly backwards.
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.
1) We replaced perfect language (eg. Sanskrit, according to NASA, something they found out in their process of developing artificial intelligence) with imperfect languages.
As your first proof, you shouldn't pick something that never happened, that's only reported on blogs with no source reference and nothing, absolutely NOTHING every said by NASA about this.
Once again, you've got it exactly backwards.
racemic mixtures formed in the lab with no catalyst remain racemic. No sides win out in this case cofty.
Which, as has been pointed out many times, is still not evidence of anything you claim. It's simply your belief.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!.
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..
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?.
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?.
