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ben-ja-menGOLD Member
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Posted:
ok so first read this https://www.venganza.org/
i mean really!!!! wtf?!?!?!?! i just cant get over how censored censored censored censored censored censored censored censored this is.

*deep cleansing breath*

ok so how is it that any educated person (as one would assume the Kansas School Board would be required to have some level of education?) or even a mildly retarded chimp for that matter would even consider adding something like ID to a science curriculum?

Now if the ID group where to be taking a page or two from Cellular Automata (which evolution essentially is just in a much more complex environment with more complex survival/interaction rules) and add that the resulting now is possibly the result of design by choosing the rules such that it would evolve in such a way to have created the given now, or that the soul's link to the real world might be the apparently random quantum tunnelling effects that take place in the microtubules (yet another CA) in the brain then i wouldnt have such a big problem with their proposal. both of which are horribly speculative and cant be proven but both allow for the concept of "god" to be introduced to highlight that science doesnt have all the answers

i suppose next we will be using the fox network for our history classes? confused
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Posted:
Patriarch917, in biological science we start with the null hypothesis, there is no difference; there is no god. For sure, it’s impossible to prove the existence of god, because god does not exit. It’s all made up.

From another perspective, you will never understand God, because you don't understand the nature of the world God crreated. You keep trying to fit your so called Christian model to God's model. Doesn't work !

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Posted:
Afterall there is a more plausable explaination than the christian model...


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Posted:
somehow I can't imagine an 'invisible pink unicorn' proving anything confused ubblol

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Posted:
we're all part of the outcome, of a really bad science experiment at the Bloobon accademy of genetic engineering by this 128 year old alien kid named Pierre from the planet of gucho in a solar system about 54,000 light years east of here. he was trying to grow mold on this thing that was similar to our potato. he dropped a couple drops of the wrong chemical onto it and it grew arms, legs, and told Pierre to go [censored] himself then blasted off through the ceiling. he told the alien overlords of this. so they tracked it down and captured it. they wanted to kill it but there was this huge debate over whether or not it was considered a living organism and if it would be legal. turned out they couldn't kill it. they made abortions illegal that day too. so what Pierre told me, is that they exiled it because it was running around reaking havok, making a huge mess by throwing it's cigarette butts on the ground, using excessive amounts of profanity and ebonics, constantly eating mcdonalds, and always always complaining about something or other. so they sent it to this little planet in a solar system about 54,000 miles west of gucho that was inhabited by dinosaurs. they thought for certain it wouldn't last a day. but apparently it did. and thats it, that's the truth. if you don't believe me, go ask Pierre. You'll know when you see him. he's the green guy with the big forehead, the big eyes, and the tiny little feet.

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might that be because when people learn too much they find it easier to ignore the truth rather than accept they were wrong?

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I've started wondering what one of these exams would actually look like. Anyone know where i can find an American Biology exam that features ID? Not had much luck with Google so far shrug





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TheWibblerGOLD Member
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Posted:
ah, ok so patriarch is a creationist, that explains alot.

Personally i think the genesis idea of creation is hilarious.

God say let there be something, and there was something, and god says that's good

and on

and on

and on

I mean whoever wrote that drivel was exceptionally bad at telling a good story. I mean here we have the christian god, who created poetry, coming up with a story that would get a D grade at pre-school

For a really beautiful account of the creation of the world check out the maori version : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ori_creation_myth

As for inteligent design vs evolution, surely the best possible design god could have made IS Evolution. I just don't get it.

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Posted:

beginning of the world

this ladies and gentlemen, all makes sense.

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Posted:
hehe! I thought about posting that as well, but the thought of bumping this thread again was too much for me!

It's a good read though!

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Why would a perfect, infanate being have to rest for three days after creation? The bible clearly establishes a maximum one to six day resting ratio for the creation of the universe by an infante being.




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ubblol



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Posted:
I like this one:

"Back to evolution- all of the evidence that exists for it is actually false and placed there by Satan, and so that evidence really isn't inconsistent with the Bible at all, and that makes it void." ubblol

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fNiGOLD Member
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Posted:
this makes me sad:

Creation Museum in Kentucky

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Ken Ham sounds really annoying! I dont know why his wife puts up with him!

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Posted:
He probably has a very large... um.. yeah.. anyway.
ubbangel

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Wallet?

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SymBRONZE Member
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https://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/31/inbred_fundamentalis.html

This is intersting. Despite the fact that they are killing themselvs they somehow turn it in to Gods problem...

I'm really not sure what to make of it, but it is another case of religion blinding people...

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Actually , the christian religions are built upon the old pagan religious traditions. Only the old religions honour the Earth and her elements not an absent sky god.
When people learn that they are the authors of their own agonies and stop trying to lay blame, maybe then we will evolve. meditate meditate

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SymBRONZE Member
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Posted:
erm yeah.

Either way it's a refutation of reason and fact, because no matter what it is based on it's unchangable by nature (or very slow to change anyway).

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SymBRONZE Member
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Posted:
And actually the pagan side of it came in quite late on. It's just judaism changed about a bit and then aged 2000 years with political leaders changing bits they don't like.

shrug

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Patriarch917SILVER Member
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Posted:
Silly Mormons. The Bible forbids inbreeding.

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Posted:
I respectfully disagree with Patriarch but I respect him for pretty much taking on half of HoP. Incidentaly my tag line is genuinely an unfortunate co-incidence and not a swipe at patriarch.

I think that in the end the religous idea of faith is so fundamentally opposed to the scientific need for evidence that arguements like these will never be settled. Think of doubting Thomas, the disciple who asked for proof when asked to believe that Jesus had risen from the dead and now held up as a Pariah by the church. I'm damn sure I'd want some proof or good evidence at least before accepting something like that, and I'm sure most scientists would say the same.

I think it makes more sense to say "I believe this because I just know that it is right- thats what faith is" Than to attempt to justify your beliefs with evidence.

The fact is that there is enough evidence out there to justify almost any belief. The key to science is to approach the evidence with an open mind and look for beliefs that make sense given the evidence rather than evidence that makes sense given your beliefs.

The history of twisting the evidence to fit a world view born of religous beliefs is long and unhappy.

Think of Galileo and Copernicus, describing an elegant heliocentric universe, whilst others added small circles (cycles) and then smaller ones (epicycles) to their model of planetary motion. They made the planets move like spirograph patterns, trying to fit the observations into the geocentric model they knew to be correct.

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Wiki on humanoids



.... and more



help I know - nothing is proven.... wink



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Patriarch917SILVER Member
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Posted:
They found a several different kinds of apes, therefore "Human evolution is a fact and not a hypothesis." ubblol

Don't be distracted by the artists illustrations and speculation. Look at the actual evidence. The only links ever found between apes and men have been fakes... and not very good ones ("Piltdown Man"). Other than that, all we've found have been apes, men, and that tooth that turned out to be from a pig ("Nebraska Man").

colemanSILVER Member
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Posted:
 Written by: Patriarch917


Look at the actual evidence.



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SymBRONZE Member
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Posted:
ubblol

Patriarch, have you read the blind watch maker yet? I have just added a book to my reading list: Why Darwin matters

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MikefromGlosSILVER Member
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Posted:
actualy evolotion is complete rubbish cuz it dosnt explain what created us because there is a certain protien made by DNA which makes DNA but need other DNA to make DNA this is because DNA is made by somthing called semi consurvitive replication and requires at least half a DNA strand to produce another. Therefore god must of placed both half a dna strand and the protien on the planet to create life. Any sensible a level biologist will tell u that see well anyone who went beaufort will

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 Written by: MikefromGlos

Therefore god must of placed both half a dna strand and the protien on the planet to create life.



I don't actually know what you're talking about, but:

a) I don't think it's true, can you provide some links to papers on it, or a wikipedia page?

b) Just because at this point science can't explain something doesn't then mean that 'god' did it. It is a bad argument taht people use a lot.

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MikefromGlosSILVER Member
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Posted:
i will have to look the stuff up again in textbooks and find the name of the protien but the same thing is true of ribosomes dna is needed to make them yet they go in the process of making dna.....

As to point b i use the word god as a lack of a better word because there is no word for what ever created us yet as we dont know what it is

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Patriarch917SILVER Member
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Posted:
You don't know what he's talking about, but you don't think it's true? smile

I know what you mean, but it's still funny. ;-)

Sounds like Mike is simply advancing an argument against abiogenisis, saying that one cannot make DNA without something that only DNA can make.

This sounds like a "chicken and egg" problem, but it is not a criticism of evolution. Both those that believe in evolution, and those that believe in ID both agree that currently, one needs a chicken to get an egg, and an egg to get a chicken. Similarly, they might both agree (if it is in fact true) that one needs a certain protien to get DNA, and one needs DNA to make that protien.

The abiogenisis reply is that the first DNA molecule formed by chance out of nonliving material, happened to have encoded in it the description of a cell that could live in that environment, and somehow ended up inside a living cell so that life could begin. ID suggests essentially the same process, but theorizes an intelligent outside source that did the arranging of the parts and encoding of the information in the DNA.

In other words, none of us think that chicken and egg relationships existed infinitely into the past. We agree that at one point, there was neither a chicken nor an egg that the chicken could have come from. Some of us simply choose to have faith in the idea that random events could have gotten this cycle started, while others believe that intelligent input was involved.

Science can verify that eggs are comming from chickens, and that chickens are comming from eggs. It cannot (at the moment) let us observe how the first one was made. Some sciences, such as mathematics, allow us to put odds on the idea of a living organism arriving by chance. However, just because something is unlikely doesn't mean that it didn't happen... it just means that it takes more blind faith to believe in it.

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