...Yet why would many of the followers of Christ before that time go to their deaths believing it if it were a lie? I mean, if you helped lead a lie about a resurrection would you die because of it?
People die for religious beliefs all the time. I don't think I need to provide examples as I suspect you can do this without much thinking.
Further, If the idea of a resurrection was not yet circulating then there is no "lie" just some kernel of religious belief.
Breed (or Engineer) humans that are predisposed towards the herbivore end of the omnivore scale. Such an attribute would also be better suited to space travel/living.
I brought home a couple magnets from some old large 2.4 GByte drives and gave them to my son on his birthday. I told him to be careful as they will pinch or even break fingers if they get close to each other.
So he safely put one in each of the front pockets of his shorts. It did not take long before the two magnets to find each other and they clamped down soundly, right in front of the family jewels, oddly distorting his shorts. You can imagine how funny a group a 12 year old boy found that to be!
errr maybe he is... I mean important. If someone has specific and in depth knowledge and spends time helping the less knowledgeable, being an asshole sometimes come with the territory.
It's the first time evolution has been caught in the act of making such a rare and complex new trait
Didn't the nylon eating bacteria already demonstrate that a complex trait can arise in short order? Actually I think it was industrial waste products from the nylon manufacturing process but still the same.
"If one of the gods decided to actually show up and do some, you know, godly stuff". I refer you to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Granted, you may not wish to believe the event or the accounts, but it is a central claim of Christianity that God has involved himself directly and personally in the world. The notable thing is the this God, who allegedly created the universe in apparent fantastic material excess, failed to leave any material evidence of the event of which you speak - seems a bit odd.
Now that I think about most anthropomorphic man-made gods allegedly interacted directly in the real world - Zeus, Jupiter, Thor, etc.
I am Muslim and I am willing to have an intellectual discussion with someone who respectfully debates with me and argues that Islam is not the right religion or that there is not God, etc... but making derogatory cartoons of what's dear to me is NOTHING but hate crime... Not sure why any mod would rate your post down.... but prompted me to reply.
Ridicule of a religious belief or political persuasion is NOT a hate crime. I consider myself an agnostic science-is-religion libertarian - you can make fun of my beliefs all day long, draw cartoons of political leaders I respect or make jokes about those who I consider prophets (Newton, Darwin, etc.). I won't sulk around with hurt feelings or have promptings to harm anyone. Such absolute reverence to an ideology almost always ends in persecution and evil.
Further if you really feel you worship the "right" vision of God and this God is almighty why doesn't this God make a public statement and strike down such provocateurs directly? Why does this God need protection from puny humans.
Seems to me the Truth needs no local support but can stand on its own.
What he doesn't have is extensive training in the philosophy of religion, which causes him to make statements that sometimes woefully misrepresent the religious perspective. I have heard this criticism against Dawkin's before but I have never really found an explicit example where he misrepresents religion or religious thought. He may not get involved in the finer points such as the possible translation and connotations of the word "Day" in Genesis, but that is just a useless discussion on the composition and style of the Emperor's fine clothes.
How about a much cheaper solution that detects the number of incoming missiles and immediately launches an equal number and equally randomly targeted missiles in return. So that the point may sink in that firing such a missile is equivalent to firing on your own people.
I don't think that is really true. Biogenesis and biological evolution are really just sub-branches of statistical mechanics.
How so? Statistical mechanics is study of probability of states; biogenesis and biological evolution is an emergent property of chemistry. I don't see the direct enough connect to warrant the claim that one is a sub-branch of the other.
One of the reasons for the success of science is the breaking apart and classification of problems. The mechanisms and principles behind abiogenesis and evolution are sufficiently different to warrant different classification, appoaches and treatment.
Just curious how you explain the notion that if evolution is true then there was no original sin therefore what did Christ become carnate and what did he die for?
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These birds CAN produce offspring, but behaviorally, don't.
;) can be considered a different species?
Therefore then isolated human communities that don't often intermarry, such as in parts of the southern USA
Power up this post. In fairness, Philip K Dickhead is being either ignorant or deceitful.
...Yet why would many of the followers of Christ before that time go to their deaths believing it if it were a lie? I mean, if you helped lead a lie about a resurrection would you die because of it?
People die for religious beliefs all the time. I don't think I need to provide examples as I suspect you can do this without much thinking.
Further, If the idea of a resurrection was not yet circulating then there is no "lie" just some kernel of religious belief.
Ha ha good reply. I suppose we don't raise other mammal carnivores for food... as perhaps a professional courtesy.
Right, why not attack the heart of the problem.
Breed (or Engineer) humans that are predisposed towards the herbivore end of the omnivore scale. Such an attribute would also be better suited to space travel/living.
Human DNA contains only 20 amino acids.
DNA contains amino acids?
Now come on...
I have been helping my kid in high school biology lately and you are messing with what little understanding I have.
I brought home a couple magnets from some old large 2.4 GByte drives and gave them to my son on his birthday. I told him to be careful as they will pinch or even break fingers if they get close to each other.
So he safely put one in each of the front pockets of his shorts. It did not take long before the two magnets to find each other and they clamped down soundly, right in front of the family jewels, oddly distorting his shorts. You can imagine how funny a group a 12 year old boy found that to be!
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Another innovation spin off from the space program.
These portals I suspect are just a series of tubes.
The sun is just like a big truck that dumps particles into these tubes and it can be an enormous amount of material.
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errr maybe he is... I mean important. If someone has specific and in depth knowledge and spends time helping the less knowledgeable, being an asshole sometimes come with the territory.
Roger that... $15/year and it is not a chained SSL. Just what is the complaint again?
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Did anyone else see Kermit the Frog in this image?
Nothing will change the minds of creationist. The arrived at their position sans data, therefore no amount of data will change their minds.
Faith is their object of worship and if anything this allows them to exercise more faith. In religion faith is both the means and end.
The last comment in the article should be edited out.
"That's just what creationists say can't happen."
Look creationism is in the same league as astrology.
When astronomers make some new discovery about the cosmos do they tack on the end - "there that will show them astrologers up!"
Didn't the nylon eating bacteria already demonstrate that a complex trait can arise in short order? Actually I think it was industrial waste products from the nylon manufacturing process but still the same.
Now that I think about most anthropomorphic man-made gods allegedly interacted directly in the real world - Zeus, Jupiter, Thor, etc.
Thanks for the summary and saving me hours digging through the details!
At the corporate level Evil is often complicated.
Ridicule of a religious belief or political persuasion is NOT a hate crime. I consider myself an agnostic science-is-religion libertarian - you can make fun of my beliefs all day long, draw cartoons of political leaders I respect or make jokes about those who I consider prophets (Newton, Darwin, etc.). I won't sulk around with hurt feelings or have promptings to harm anyone. Such absolute reverence to an ideology almost always ends in persecution and evil.
Further if you really feel you worship the "right" vision of God and this God is almighty why doesn't this God make a public statement and strike down such provocateurs directly? Why does this God need protection from puny humans.
Seems to me the Truth needs no local support but can stand on its own.
How about a much cheaper solution that detects the number of incoming missiles and immediately launches an equal number and equally randomly targeted missiles in return. So that the point may sink in that firing such a missile is equivalent to firing on your own people.
Necessity is the mother of invention. The Israeli's are smart, maybe this will spur them on to create their laser defensive weapon.
How so? Statistical mechanics is study of probability of states; biogenesis and biological evolution is an emergent property of chemistry. I don't see the direct enough connect to warrant the claim that one is a sub-branch of the other.
One of the reasons for the success of science is the breaking apart and classification of problems. The mechanisms and principles behind abiogenesis and evolution are sufficiently different to warrant different classification, appoaches and treatment.
Just curious how you explain the notion that if evolution is true then there was no original sin therefore what did Christ become carnate and what did he die for?