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Old 08-01-2012, 01:23 AM
 
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BTW, at minimum, 10% of the entire human population is, actually, insane.
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Old 08-01-2012, 08:34 AM
 
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"A man convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still."

"Some people just like to argue; thus they cannot get along with anyone."

I wish all of you well: I'm unsubscribing because there nothing but argument and bitterness here.
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Old 08-01-2012, 08:40 AM
 
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Amazing how quickly some people are to construe people of differing opinions as being argumentative or bitter. We live in a world of differing opinions. There is nothing magically wrong with people who do not share yours. Running off stamping ones feet and throwing out insults like "bitter" makes only one person look the poorer... the speaker.

I would also not be so quick to equate debate and argument with not getting along. This is a debating and discussion forum after all. We are MEANT to discuss our differing opinions here and debate against each other. Coming here and moaning that people are arguing therefore makes about as much intellectual sense as walking into a zoo and moaning that people keep looking at animals.

If you are looking to write something somewhere that everyone will agree with then perhaps a discussion forum is not for you. Start a blog and turn commenting off, or write letters to yourself.
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Old 08-03-2012, 01:25 PM
 
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You stopped at a stoplight beside a truck hauling pigs to market. One of the pigs pooped, and some of it landed (un-noticed by you) on the roof of your car.

You get to where ever your were going, get out of your car, and notice the poop on top of your car. You immediately look up, for there is only one possible explanation of what you see, pigs can fly Right

You found a little evidence, applied flawed logic to arrive at a flawed conclusion, be it the mess on top of your car or the totally disproven A&E fairy tale.
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Old 08-03-2012, 01:27 PM
 
Location: West Virginia
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BTW, at minimum, 10% of the entire human population is, actually, insane.
Look around the room and see if you can pick out who they are.
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Old 08-06-2012, 02:04 AM
 
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I ride the subway every AM in NYC.. I could show you legions!
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Old 09-09-2013, 08:40 PM
 
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what i dont understand is if we all came from noah and his children and their partners how do we get the natives of the world. assuming that noahs family were civilized as they built things and had fairly modern ways where do primitive natives fit in. if you take the aborigines and Torres straight islanders for example they look primitive and have primitive ways. the natives of south America are the same. how did they get to their locations and then regress back to ancient ways in such a short time. they say that Aborigines are 40,000 years old. the same with negro discoveries buried with primitive artifacts that suggests prehistoric practices. why would a civilized group split off and end up in places all over the world only to give up their modern ways to regress to primitive ways. if they knew how to live modern they would have continued the practice as it was beneficial and not revert to practices that would suggest they evolved from someone who didn't know this in the first place.
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Old 09-09-2013, 09:10 PM
 
Location: Ontario, Canada
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what i dont understand is if we all came from noah and his children and their partners how do we get the natives of the world. assuming that noahs family were civilized as they built things and had fairly modern ways where do primitive natives fit in. if you take the aborigines and Torres straight islanders for example they look primitive and have primitive ways. the natives of south America are the same. how did they get to their locations and then regress back to ancient ways in such a short time. they say that Aborigines are 40,000 years old. the same with negro discoveries buried with primitive artifacts that suggests prehistoric practices. why would a civilized group split off and end up in places all over the world only to give up their modern ways to regress to primitive ways. if they knew how to live modern they would have continued the practice as it was beneficial and not revert to practices that would suggest they evolved from someone who didn't know this in the first place.
Try figuring things out as if we DIDN'T all come from Noah.

In fact, try figuring it out as if Noah didn't exist and the whole flood story was just that - a story.

Then, get a hold of some basic, Grade 10 or 11 Science books and read them.

Things will become plainer. The world will be easier to understand.

Just don't restrict your reading, or your reality, to the bible.
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Old 09-09-2013, 10:07 PM
 
Location: Somewhere out there
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Default Science lacking yet again? Get out the textbook. Please?

Steve, think now! Regressive behaviors are not necessarily a part of our evolving genome. What are important are our biochemical responses plus whatever such chemistry imparts into our possibly genetic reactions.

Now we can see that humans have not evolved as fast as so many other species, since we enthusiastically correct so many genetic problems (As in: we do back surgery, we have invented corrective eyewear, and we have found the antibiotic properties of some natural mold-based biochemicals so we can fight off diseases that would have decimated us by now.)

It has now been categorically demonstrated that there are direct lineages within our DNA maps and lineage tracking showing from whence and where we came from, and even how long ago some of it happened! How so, you may well ask? Because we now know the typical and observable rates & frequencies of DNAmutations. We don't have to be statisticians or rocket scientists to see and calculate such links.

The differences between us and lemurs (from where we actually have come from, not from the Great Ape fairytale.) are few. Seenig how it all works now, genetics has completely disproven any need for some imaginary but still demanded "Missing Link", which was predicated on our evolution being step-wise, in some jolting manner. Nope. Rather, it's obviously a constantly ongoing process.

To wit: Your kids are genetically different in many thousands of ways than you. If any such mutation(s) facilitate any improvement or improvements in animals or plants, the positive results will indeed take hold and manifest themselves in later generations. All while leaving the originating species intact, unless it's completely outclassed by the newer version of course.

{You getting this, Steve? I surely hope so!}

But despite the easily observed results of such accumulated and purely natural mutations, many theists still prefer to manifest their endlessly unsupportable & technically illiterate beliefs just to blurt out, loudly, "See! You guys are still wrong!"

Stop trying to debunk the facts and the truth, Steve. It's a bit embarrassing to watch a grown man making stuff up just to defend his lack of curiosity and natural inquisitiveness!
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Old 09-10-2013, 05:40 AM
 
Location: Deep Dirty South
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Are you referring to the mythical, legendary literary figures Adam and Eve? The ones that never really existed? The ones from the Garden of Eden story with the talking serpent and the forbidden fruit, etc?
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