"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
Tags: events, chance, environments, irreducible, complexity
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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Gallup's Mirror replied to Giddian Beer's discussion 'Intelligent? Design?'"Assuming this was meant to explain the meaning of "transphylum evolution"-- conjoined words which didn't exist until you conjured them here-- the term doesn't appear in the article.
I don't know what that means. If…"
Gallup's Mirror replied to Giddian Beer's discussion 'Intelligent? Design?'"Really, Michael? Plagiarism, word for word, unsourced, no quotes, after you called me a parrot?
I'm posting a reply below (to Lucky Dog's post on Free Republic in 2006) because I had already typed a response before I discovered…"
Gallup's Mirror replied to Giddian Beer's discussion 'Intelligent? Design?'"I'm leaning toward joking-- that's pronounced "phony outrage"-- since the mutual references to the subject of debate, leading up to and actually in the exchange, are rather obvious.
Apparently, we're expected to believe…"
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…"
kris feenstra replied to Giddian Beer's discussion 'Intelligent? Design?'"I cannot really tell if you are joking or not here or not. As a moderator, I will state that threats will not be tolerated on this site if found or reported; however, I do believe he was being figurative as if to say you can be very easily defeated…"
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…"
Gallup's Mirror replied to Giddian Beer's discussion 'Intelligent? Design?'"Absolutely, Micheal. I did a search for the term "transphylum evolution" in the NYU university library database and in the New York Library databases (in all subjects, locations and audiences). It returns zero results as a conjoined…"
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…"
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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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