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DNA Suggests Three Basic Human Groups
Death Metal writes "All of Earth's people, according to a new analysis of the genomes of 53 populations, fall into just three genetic groups. They are the products of the first and most important journey our species made — the walk out of Africa about 70,000 years ago by a small fraction of ancestral Homo sapiens."
I thought the three groups were those who are good at math, and those who aren't.
1. Dicks
2. Pussies
3. Assholes
...I genuinely want to know...
The biggest reason why I believe the Bible is true, is a highly personal experience that I do not think is appropriate to share on this public forum. However, it has never been demonstrated to me that any of the FACTS stated in the Bible, be they a scientific or historical are wrong. The Bible itself is a book composed of 66 books written by 40 authors over a period of 1500+ years, yet it is a unified message of a person, the person of Jesus Christ. From Genesis to Revelation it details how God is dealing with the one problem that all humans have in common, namely the problem of sin. The biblical definition of sin could be called "missing the target". The target of course is to live a life within the perfect will of God as Jesus Christ did. He was the only human who ever lived a perfect life and never did anything wrong in thought and deed. Because of that, through his death and resurrection he has imparted his life to me, so that now God sees him when he looks at me.
This life from God which is available only through Jesus Christ can be had for the asking by anyone who believes. It is as simple as that. There are many things that all human beings cannot do, but if anyone can believe, even a small child. So can you, but only if you WANT to. Ultimately, it is a matter of your will.
All theory is gray
Well, as best I can understand it (listening to a lot of talk-radio - so don't have hard references, sorry). The old testament had dozens prophecies. One of which mentioned a young-woman giving birth to a bla bla in Hebrew. The translation CAN be interpreted as a virgin birth (as the wording is sufficiently vague). So when people tried to retroactively apply all the prophecies to Jesus (ultimately recorded in Greek), they flat out labeled the Mary birth as virginous. So it's harder to claim the Greek is mistranslated, BUT, it's part of a larger argument that little if any prophesy was actually fulfilled (Jews weren't freed, etc), and are thus ultimately questionable embellishments that the Nicea council chose to go with some - 300 years after the events in question - based on recordings some 60 to 110 years post-facto.
This, of course, begs the issue of whether prophesies are relevant to begin with (since much of the Nicea justification was the fulfillment of Prophecy - that's what's echoed in Catholic church).. Consider our modern obsession with Nostradamus every season (or even Deja-Vu). The argument I would make is that either prophesies don't exist - they are man's struggle with statistical behavior. Or they DO exist but in divinely fucked-up ways. Such that an Edgar Casey / Nostradamus are non-religiously-important, yet Mohammud/old-testiment (and loosely speaking Jesus) IS. Islam of course conveniently says Mohammud was the last one.
To me, accepting prophesy opens a can of worms such that the world makes tremendously less sense and is more scarry than rejecting it. You've got Angry daemons who lie to you through dreams competing with benevolent Angles whispering secrets - you've got Christian prophesies that there will be great deceivers, you've got all Christian/Islamic morality tangled with power-hungry figure-heads that history proves time and again were ultimately immoral. So it's impossible to be religious and a believer and have any assurance that you're acting morally (outside of the incredibly obvious moree' of don't fuck with people). The simple recognition that alpha-males naturally will deceive as necessary to achieve power, and that people are susceptible to superstition is a much simpler explanation of history.
-Michael