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originally posted by: Maxmars
originally posted by: livinglight108
2A suggests we have the duty to be members of militias. It's not usually considered however what if people do not have the right to fail to understand the bill of rights? What if it is people's moral obligation to understand why self-defense using fire-arms is critical as a last line of preservation/defense of freedom?
I don't want to spoil this great thread full of the most quotable quotes ATS can muster, but I need to point out that the general acceptance that the maladies that could befall our national (notional?) sovereignty as new "Americans" was avoidable by accepting that an armed population could never be completely oppressed, isn't the same as 'engendering a duty.'
The framers were careful to avoid the creation of such burdens on citizens. I agree that can be inferred but disagree that it constitutes an implicit duty.
originally posted by: SkyAngel
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." - Albert Einstein
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What do many scientists claim?
Many who believe in evolution would tell you that billions of years ago, life began on the edge of an ancient tidal pool or deep in the ocean. They feel that in some such location, chemicals spontaneously assembled into bubblelike structures, formed complex molecules, and began replicating. They believe that all life on earth originated by accident from one or more of these “simple” original cells.
Other equally respected scientists who also support evolution disagree. They speculate that the first cells or at least their major components arrived on earth from outer space. Why? Because, despite their best efforts, scientists have been unable to prove that life can spring from nonliving molecules. In 2008, Professor of Biology Alexandre Meinesz highlighted the dilemma. He stated that over the last 50 years, “no empirical evidence supports the hypotheses of the spontaneous appearance of life on Earth from nothing but a molecular soup, and no significant advance in scientific knowledge leads in this direction.”1
1. How Life Began—Evolution’s Three Geneses, by Alexandre Meinesz, translated by Daniel Simberloff, 2008, pp. 30-33, 45.
Source: W.-E. Loennig: Gesetz der rekurrenten Variation (Law of recurrent Variation)
All competent biologists acknowledge the limited nature of the variation breeders can produce, although they do not like to discuss it much when grinding the evolutionary ax.
William R. Fix
Needless to say, I did not succeed in producing a higher category in a single step; but it must be kept in mind that neither have the Neo-Darwinians ever built up as much as the semblance of a new species by recombination of micromutations. In such well-studied organisms as Drosophila [fruitflies], in which numerous visible and, incidentally, small invisible mutations have been recombined, never has even the first step in the direction of a new species been accomplished, not to mention higher categories. [One way that scientists classify all living things is by a seven-step system in which each step is more specific than the one before it. Step one is kingdom, the broadest category. Then come the categories phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. So a higher category than species is genus.]
Richard B. Goldschmidt
Mutations are merely hereditary fluctuations around a medium position…No matter how numerous they may be, mutations do not produce any kind of evolution.
Pierre-Paul Grassé
(On evolutionary novelties by chance mutations: ) I have seen no evidence whatsoever that these changes can occur through the accumulation of gradual mutations.
Lynn Margulis
Mutations are a reality and while most of them are of no consequence or detrimental, one cannot deny that on occasion a beneficial mutation might occur [in relation to a certain environment, but usually not for a gene's function per se; Anmerkung von W.-E.L.; vgl. Diskussion]. However, to invoke strings of beneficial mutations that suffice to reshape one animal into the shape of another is not merely unreasonable, it is not science.
Christian Schwabe
originally posted by: SkyAngel
"For me, meek does not mean weak - for me, meek means people which are heart-centered" - Me
originally posted by: SkyAngel
"Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives." - Howard Zinn
originally posted by: whereislogic
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“Happy are the mild-tempered ones, since they will inherit the earth.”—Matthew 5:5.
Although Jesus promised his disciples that he would “prepare a place” for them in heaven, he indicated that the righteous do not automatically go there. (John 3:13; 14:2, 3) Did he not pray that God’s will take place “as in heaven, also upon earth”? (Matthew 6:9, 10) In reality, one of two destinies awaits the righteous.
The majority of good people will live forever on earth—not in heaven.
originally posted by: JefeFeesh
a reply to: AOx6179
That's a good one that sounds similar to this:
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” – Abe Lincoln
originally posted by: livinglight108
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." We all know who said this.