"I would also recommend "Climbing Mount Improbable" by Dawkins, as it does an excellent job explaining how evolution can come up with some really sub-optimal designs, that work well enough."
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When JC Returns
Started Nov 17, 2013 0 Replies 0 Likes
A while back, lots of folks were speculating about what would Jesus do, buy, drive, think etc. It seems no one asked what would Jesus be. Here are some clues; they can be found in “Wealth” under “The…Continue
Tags: Republican-Party, accumulation-of-wealth, homosexuality, Socialist, Nazarenes
Intelligent? Design?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Michael Dec 16, 2013. 43 Replies 2 Likes
Intelligent Design (ID) is a concept proposed by some who are unable to accept evolution. They assume that (1) life, with its nearly infinite variety, is far too complicated to be the result of a…Continue
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Where Is God?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Jimmy Nov 7, 2013. 62 Replies 2 Likes
If you google that question most of what you get are explanations of why God allows so much suffering and proofs of God’s existence. For locations you get only: “everywhere” or in a “different…Continue
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Gary Clouse replied to Giddian Beer's discussion 'Intelligent? Design?'"When Micheal makes the claim that "Mutations can only be one of three possibilities in terms of natural selection: beneficial, detrimental, or benign. ", he completely ignores mutations that can be classified as both beneficial and…"
Michael replied to Giddian Beer's discussion 'Intelligent? Design?'"Do not think that that there is an established cohesive view for the orgin of Phyla, particulary during the Cambrian explosion.You can rest your world view on Darwin even though Darwin was thinking out of the box. However we are untettered to think…"
Unseen replied to Giddian Beer's discussion 'Intelligent? Design?'"Thus we can be speaking of an eternity for a higher realm of beings to have a window to orignate. And as I said on other posts the Higgs Boson is the only thing tettering us to sublight travel. Without inertia due to mass impossible manuevering seen…"
Michael replied to Giddian Beer's discussion 'Intelligent? Design?'"bWell current theories speak of a preexisting universe. However with multiverse thought you don't even need that, you can have different universes appearing at different times. Thus we can be speaking of an eternity for a higher realm of beings…"
Michael replied to Giddian Beer's discussion 'Intelligent? Design?'"Oh the brutish shallow debator is now threatening me with bodily harm. Yes, I do think that you do descend from Neanderthals. Well before you beat me with your club or slobber all over me, OK uncle, I start giving you what you want but here is a…"
Unseen replied to Giddian Beer's discussion 'Intelligent? Design?'"Oh, so has a laboratory and access to tools and raw materials? Or are we back to talking about an epic magician and sorcerer again?"
Michael replied to Giddian Beer's discussion 'Intelligent? Design?'"No scientific powers. Quoting the great Kreskin not esp but pse , powers scientifically explainable."
Michael replied to Giddian Beer's discussion 'Intelligent? Design?'"I watch it for entertainment but thoses brianiacs have gone off on the deep end.
Never saw so many conjectures void of the scientific method."
Michael replied to Giddian Beer's discussion 'Intelligent? Design?'"You are poor debater, you cannot use, a shallow knowledge base and insults to leverage your arguments, Also your audience is not so gullible as to take your quote out of context without clicking on the site. Like a parrot your arkward…"
Unseen replied to Giddian Beer's discussion 'Intelligent? Design?'"And welcome back, Michael, to argue once again that the universe was created by some guy with magical powers."
Unseen replied to Giddian Beer's discussion 'Intelligent? Design?'"How about switching from passive voice in which nobody does anything and things just happen to active voice where you tell us who it was who showed us "that even with 3.5 billion years of evolution the fine tuning necessary to create the…"
Unseen replied to Giddian Beer's discussion 'Intelligent? Design?'"Bottom Line, this technology is from a realm for above us. not happenstance and mutation.
You've been watching Ancient Aliens."
Towers replied to Giddian Beer's discussion 'Intelligent? Design?'"Dawkins is your man. Here's a short-ish essay. Or you might want to read "The Blind Watchmaker", also by Dawkins."
_Robert_ replied to Giddian Beer's discussion 'Intelligent? Design?'"As a working engineer I resent any generalizations about engineers subscribing to the idiocy of ID.
"Nobody has ever soldered transistors and resistors together randomly and produced a color TV set."
Incorrect. If you randomly apply…"
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Epiphany
Posted on September 21, 2011 at 11:30am 1 Comment 1 Like
I recall. Springtime 1946, probably a weekend or Easter vacation because it was mid-afternoon and I was alone in my room doing -- something. On the radio, a hellfire-and-damnation preacher bloviating about “stupid, evil heathens”. In those days programming was eclectic. News, popular music, comedy, talk, opera, baseball, preaching -- including diatribes like the one I was hearing, but not listening…
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