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New Findings Confirm Darwin's Theory — Evolution Not Random
ScienceDaily is reporting a team of biologists has demonstrated that evolution is a deterministic process, rather than a random selection as some competing theories suggested. "When the researchers measured changes in 40 defined characteristics of the nematodes' sexual organs (including cell division patterns and the formation of specific cells), they found that most were uniform in direction, with the main mechanism for the development favoring a natural selection of successful traits, the researchers said."
Trying to argument by calling things "merely the way they are" is what I hate my Christian enemies for.
I'm an infovore...
That way, the isolated fact is self-contained, self-consistent, and therefore true.
Take, for example, the "fact" that the United States should not have removed Saddam Hussein from power.
The context of that act was that Saddam had fired over a thousand missiles at our aircraft. The context of that act was that the U.N. sanctions were corrupted by Saddam. The context of that act was that the U.N. sanctions were going to end. The context of that act was that after sanctions ended, Saddam would resume his encysted WMD programs.
And most importantly, the idiots drop the larger context, that in a post-9/11 world, we cannot wait for threats to become imminent. But whenever, and I mean whenever, the administration made that point, the context-droppers would say, "but Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11," and claim that the administration was attempting to "link" Iraq to 9/11. The administration was explaining the necessary change in its worldview, the change necessitated by 9/11, which means that the words "Iraq" and "9/11" appear in sentences together.
Context is so anathema to liberals (using the American sense of "liberal" which is the exact opposite of the dictionary and European conceptions of the word) their entire thought process consists of isolated factettes. "Halliburton." No verb required, just a single word. Sometimes they make little rhymes so they can march in large corporates and destroy MacDonald's restaurants, these might have verbs to make the meter marchable.
These context-free lunatics would even jail those who attempt to provide context. Look what they did when someone attempted to provide the context for the CIA sending an ex-ambassador on an intel mission - they went apeshit.
And really, when someone habitually drops context, they are just apes.
"give orange orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me me give give me you" says Nim Chimpsky.
"Halliburton Cheney Bush lied Neocon Halliburton lied Oil died" say the liberals.
Liberals do not think. Therefore they are not human.
.....There is no 'Mind', and it is therefore meaningless to speculate on what that 'Mind' might want.......
You don't KNOW that, but you believe it because you WANT to believe that there is no God. You hope it lets you out of your responsibility to Him as your Creator.
I do respect your decision to reject God. God has given you the freedom to reject Him. He could have made us like a deterministic, highly intelligent computer, but then we would not be capable of love. You know that if suddenly there appeared on you computer screen: "I love you --- (your name)" that someone was messing with that computer and that it means nothing to you. On the other hand if your spouse or child expresses that love, you respond very differently. The computer doesn't have the capability of love. You do, first of all toward your fellow humans and by extension toward God. All this has nothing to do with religion, but how we are all wired. When someone expresses this love by sacrificing his/her life, they are acting against all principles of "the survival of the fittest" as formulated by Darwin.
Maybe, if you live long enough, you'll begin to understand that there is more to life than science can explore and reduce to a mathematical formula.
All theory is gray