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- Tue Apr 27, 2010 1:23 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Religion
- Topic: Quotes from Prof Dawkins
- Replies: 92
- Views: 17523
Re: Quotes from Prof Dawkins
I'd be surprised if someone thought for themselves and then decided to believe in a god based on the text in an extremely old book that had been modified for so many reasons by so many people for so long. If you're saying that someone exmined the bible and used it to prove the existence of god, the...
- Tue Apr 27, 2010 2:52 am
- Forum: All our own work
- Topic: Home for Random Thoughts
- Replies: 4312
- Views: 494820
Re: Home for Random Thoughts
A fly always flies backwards before it flies forwards.
To keep a fly from flying cup your hand and sweep it a little up and behind where the fly is sitting stationary.
You'll catch it every time...
To keep a fly from flying cup your hand and sweep it a little up and behind where the fly is sitting stationary.
You'll catch it every time...
- Mon Apr 26, 2010 7:04 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Religion
- Topic: Quotes from Prof Dawkins
- Replies: 92
- Views: 17523
Re: Quotes from Prof Dawkins
Fine I'll let it go...
- Mon Apr 26, 2010 6:11 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Religion
- Topic: Quotes from Prof Dawkins
- Replies: 92
- Views: 17523
Re: Quotes from Prof Dawkins
A fact keld? How about several? Mutations exist--fact 1. Some of these mutations are negative and lead to early deaths, some are neutral, and some are positive--fact 2. The positive mutations ar emutations which make it better for the individual to survive in its envrionment--fact 3 (don't believe ...
- Mon Apr 26, 2010 5:35 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Religion
- Topic: Quotes from Prof Dawkins
- Replies: 92
- Views: 17523
Re: Quotes from Prof Dawkins
Post a "Fact" about the development of the human eye that has relevance to it "evolution". If you find any it is anecdotal but that's acceptable, yet not seen, conjecture on the part of the person doing the writing "this so this". Jesus contemporaries (both friend and foe) listed his works (and not ...
- Mon Apr 26, 2010 4:40 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Religion
- Topic: Quotes from Prof Dawkins
- Replies: 92
- Views: 17523
Re: Quotes from Prof Dawkins
At least you came close. I am not arguing for a "God" per se. I am trying to point out that Dawkins poo poos to the point of calling anyone that believes in God a "Religious Nutter". However as I will mention one more time Dawkins "God" is evolution. He believes that a mechanism exists (but has neve...
- Mon Apr 26, 2010 2:32 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Religion
- Topic: Quotes from Prof Dawkins
- Replies: 92
- Views: 17523
Re: Quotes from Prof Dawkins
When people are killed by falling minarets, or buses on their way to Lourdes crash killing the sick and innocent, does god laugh? What kind of question is that? OK then how does “Variable Speedism” to use the honest Mr Dawkins phrase work. let's use the eye as the example. Obviuosly no half formed ...
- Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:34 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Religion
- Topic: Quotes from Prof Dawkins
- Replies: 92
- Views: 17523
Re: Quotes from Prof Dawkins
Same holds true of many other prophets of various plentiful religions throughout the years (anthropologists would point out the universal human tendency to make up stories to explain life/natural experiences). Muhammad? He performed no miracles he was an epileptic that plagiarized the Jews... Whom ...
- Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:09 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Religion
- Topic: Quotes from Prof Dawkins
- Replies: 92
- Views: 17523
Re: Quotes from Prof Dawkins
Dawkins is intellectually dishonest. Since Darwin came up with his idea of natural selection in 1838, there have been some difficulties. Richard Goldschmidt recognized them as “Saltations” George Gaylord Simpson referred to them as “Quantum Evolution” Eldridge and Gould; “Punctuated Equilibrium” Daw...
- Sun Apr 25, 2010 9:03 pm
- Forum: Lifestyle
- Topic: Food calorie RIP
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2058
Re: Food calorie RIP
This place explains rather conclusively that a simple attention to calorie counting is not a way to predict weight control. The author shows how to groups of people consuming the exact same number of calories experienced very different results. The difference was in what was eaten; one group had a ...
- Sat Apr 24, 2010 4:20 pm
- Forum: Lifestyle
- Topic: Food calorie RIP
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2058
Re: Food calorie RIP
Food Calorie vs Calorie Food energy is the amount of energy obtained from food that is available through cellular respiration. Like other forms of energy, food energy is expressed in calories or joules. Some countries use the food calorie, which is equal to 1 kilocalorie (kcal), or 1,000 calories. ...
- Sat Apr 24, 2010 1:17 pm
- Forum: News & Suggestions
- Topic: New Skin
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3295
Re: New Skin
Thanx RB ...
Re: My ride?
I don't "name" vehicles.
Although I refer to the State car (an Aveo) as the "Roller Skate"...
Although I refer to the State car (an Aveo) as the "Roller Skate"...
- Fri Apr 23, 2010 7:39 pm
- Forum: General stuff & Tabloids
- Topic: Gone mad
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4092
Re: Gone mad
A friend of mine had a German Wirehair that ate a pound and a half of Bologna.
She ran around with red rings hanging out her backside for a couple days...
She ran around with red rings hanging out her backside for a couple days...
- Fri Apr 23, 2010 7:14 pm
- Forum: Lifestyle
- Topic: Texting too much to give (or take) a crap
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4081
Re: Texting too much to give (or take) a crap
This:
Not This:
Just remember...
Not This:
Just remember...
- Fri Apr 23, 2010 6:12 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Religion
- Topic: Quotes from Prof Dawkins
- Replies: 92
- Views: 17523
- Fri Apr 23, 2010 3:05 am
- Forum: The Arts
- Topic: Sodom and Gomorrah come to Riverdale
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1672
Re: Sodom and Gomorrah come to Riverdale
I thought Fallwell was dead...
- Fri Apr 23, 2010 2:55 am
- Forum: News & Suggestions
- Topic: A request to the membership.
- Replies: 127
- Views: 21613
- Thu Apr 22, 2010 8:33 pm
- Forum: Lifestyle
- Topic: Could you really do it?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3037
Re: Could you really do it?
I already live 30 minutes from anythang North Or South of me.
East or West, hours.
I don't consider that "away from it all"...
East or West, hours.
I don't consider that "away from it all"...
- Thu Apr 22, 2010 7:27 pm
- Forum: Lifestyle
- Topic: Could you really do it?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3037
Re: Could you really do it?
Live?
No
Having a place as a getaway from it all?
I would love it...
No
Having a place as a getaway from it all?
I would love it...