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Originally posted by Irish M1ck
reply to post by Jezus
Exactly. Some people aren't taught to believe in God, and therefore they have no reason to (since there is no other reason to other than being taught).
Great point.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by Aermacchi
Here ya go....
Enjoy!
*adding*....part 2....because it speaks so well to evolution.
[edit on 4/11/0909 by weedwhacker]
Originally posted by Aermacchi
Jesus says that there would be false religions and false prophets in his name.
Originally posted by Gawdzilla
I AM annoyed with the god-botherers, the drum beaters, the holy Nazis that want me to adhere to their delusions
. .
You confuse disdain with "active disbelief".
I don't worry about the tooth fairy,
I don't worry that Big Foot will stumble over me while I asleep in bed.
I don't worry about your Great Sky Fairy
Originally posted by weedwhacker
Well....too bad you didn't watch.....this should float your 'ARK'....
Creationists often complain that science "supposedly" says there was only one universal ancestor of all livings and that along the way, we evolved both into, and then from, bacteria.
But that doesn’t "seem" to be the case. 21st century revelations in genomic research now "imply" that the origins of evolution come quite a while after the origin of life. There are now "indications" that at the root of each of the largest "possible" taxonomic divisions, there was a point when “descent” (as it is currently understood) was not yet occuring, (at least not in any determinable lineage) and instead there was "a sort of" horozontal gene transfer going on which could not truly be considered part of the evolutionary process.
By definition, evolution requires inherited genetic frequencies, but the co-requirement of "descent with modification" only allows for one series of ancestors rather than multiple lines of largely unrelated ones being inexplicably blended together. While taxonomy still points to a single common ancestor for all eukaryotes, that ancestor "seems" to be "one of two or maybe three" cellular siblings who "evidently" did not all descend from any sort of shared conventional parent! So at the point where an actual evolutionary phylogeny began to take over "more or less" exclusively, the domain, Eukarya had "evidently" already emerged separately and quite distinct from either of the "prokaryote" lineages.
The only way to objectively categorize all sorts of life is by their common characters, those features shared by every member of that collective and only by them. This is how their traits become diagnostic and directly indicative of unique groups. , and therefore certainly wasn't trying to defend or promote either one. But the system he originally devised, -which is still in use today- determines that everything that is truly alive can be divided into two main branches which each then continue diverging in an ongoing series of subdivisions emerging within parental sets, henceforth known as clades Let us also remember that the first man to attempt to classify all living things was a convinced Christian creationist who knew of no other option as he had never heard of evolution, and had never even conceived of common ancestry
Let us also remember that the first man to attempt to classify all living things was a convinced Christian creationist who knew of no other option as he had never heard of evolution, and had never even conceived of common ancestry
The accuracy of divisions at the base of Eukarya are still being explored, because Protista turned out to be way too diverse to be considered a single grouping. But there's no speculation required to determine that humans definitely descend from eukaryotes because t is a verifiable fact that every one of our cells is initially nucleic.
The biological definition, and in fact even the common dictionary defintions describe humans as belonging to the animal kingdom. Creationists howl at that idea that they should be animals, but if you have any knowledge at all of what an animal even is, then you know that you are one! This isn't a matter of opinion either; It is a fact, and we can prove it!
Originally posted by spy66
A great movie about evolution from South Park Beginner level lol.
www.youtube.com...
Man it must have been really quiet here on earth before life evolved from the sea of water. No trees. No grass.No seeds. No Bugs, birds or anything.
What life form crawled out of the sea first!! The seed to grow the grass or the seed to grow trees. In what order did things crawl out of the sea in?
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by spy66
Funnily...the sarcastic 'point' of the creators of "South ParK" kinda sorta get it, when it comes to how 'Evolution' happens...
Too bad that YOU don't get the joke....
Or, do you? Because, Ive seen other posts by you, "spy66"...you seem to be more closely involved in the common 'belief' than you purport, or 'claim'!!!!
So....call to arms!!! Which is it??!!??
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by spy66
The'10' commandments....well, really, only about two of them make any sense...
But, on another tack....
Did you bother to see the links to the YTube I provided??
Because, not to try to change minds....but good stuff to think about, you'd have to admit....
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by spy66
Ermmm....I wasn't going there, but YOU started it....I mean, I said NOTHING about the 'pope'....
Well, now that this 'Pandora's Box' is opened, let's see where it leads, shall we??
(I love serendipity....)......
[to stray back to topic].....I had no idea this would delve into this realm....but, it is way so interesting, I must follow to see if there is relevance...
Am not sure where this will take us, but the 'journey' is part of the 'voyage'...n'est pas??
So, delving into 'evolution'......... first.....