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@YouFound_Lxam
Your reasoning ability is severely lacking.
Why was Louis Pasteur's demonstration against abiogenesis approved when it did not address the conditions required for abiogenesis in the first place?
It met the conditions for abiogenesis as it was then understood. It was widely believed that signs of decay, like maggots and mold, spontaneously generated. Pasteur showed it wasn’t so.
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OK, it's time to vote. Do you think YF_L proved that God exists?
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@Lemming
So if life is so simple to make (and it really kind of is), why isn't new life forms popping up all over the place?
Because all life, new and old, is made of food, and bacterial life is already everywhere. Even deep in the ocean, surrounding volcanic vents, there exists a rich and well-established eco-system, liable to eat anything that could potentially start a new tree of life, and even if an early cell could develop, it would either rapidly be eaten or out-competed by creatures with a good 4 billion years and change of evolution on it.
New life, even if conditions are such that it can form, simply can't hack it in the wild, and probably never will. In fact, it hasn't had a chance for billions of years.
The math of this is fairly simple: Even if a new strain of life unrelated to our own last universal ancestor (LUA) should turn up on the scene and replicate out to a trillion individuals (about 40 generations), and even if it could go toe to toe with established bacteria, it just can't measure up, because it's not about the battle.
Every time a LUA creature eats a new universal ancestor (NUA) creature, the NUA loses a trillionth of its strength.
Because all life, new and old, is made of food, and bacterial life is already everywhere. Even deep in the ocean, surrounding volcanic vents, there exists a rich and well-established eco-system, liable to eat anything that could potentially start a new tree of life, and even if an early cell could develop, it would either rapidly be eaten or out-competed by creatures with a good 4 billion years and change of evolution on it.
New life, even if conditions are such that it can form, simply can't hack it in the wild, and probably never will. In fact, it hasn't had a chance for billions of years.
The math of this is fairly simple: Even if a new strain of life unrelated to our own last universal ancestor (LUA) should turn up on the scene and replicate out to a trillion individuals (about 40 generations), and even if it could go toe to toe with established bacteria, it just can't measure up, because it's not about the battle.
Every time a LUA creature eats a new universal ancestor (NUA) creature, the NUA loses a trillionth of its strength.
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The Earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old. The Coelacanth fish is 400 million years old and is alive today. Until a live specimen was discovered in 1938, the coelacanth was thought to have gone extinct about 65 million years ago, along with the dinosaurs. Scientists believe that this mysterious fish represents an early step in the evolution of fish to terrestrial four-legged animals. Coelacanths have many unique characteristics, including its four fins that extend away from its body like legs. These fins also move in an alternating pattern, similar to other four-legged animals, such as a trotting horse.
In the universe there are 10^25 planets that orbit stars, with some ~10^26-10^30 additional starless planets. This is the reason life could form on one planet and my belief is that it did on only one planet.
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So essentially humans came about due to an err in evolution. Well, that explains Trump.
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@YouFound_Lxam
Actually, a flaw in our brains caused us to be able to learn things. Aida Gómez-Robles, an anthropologist at The George Washington University, and her colleagues compared the effect of genes on brain size and organization in 218 human and 206 chimpanzee brains. They found that although brain size was highly heritable in both species, the organization of the cerebral cortex—especially in areas involved in higher-order cognition functions—was much less genetically controlled in humans than in chimps. One potential explanation for this difference, according to the researchers, is that because our brains are less developed than those of our primate cousins at birth, it creates a longer period during which we can be molded by our surroundings.
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Shouldn't the topic be: God Doesn't Want You To Know He Exists, and I Can Prove It ?
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Do unborn children who are aborted or who die in the womb go straight to heaven? Would this be true even if the parents of the baby were not saved?
The short answer is yes. I’ll try to lay it all out for you as briefly and as simply as possible.
We begin with the assumption that preborn babies are just as “eligible” for heaven as anyone else. Why? Because they are just as human as anyone else. According to Genesis 1:27, all human beings are created “in the Image of God.” Every individual ever conceived bears that Image. It doesn’t matter who his parents are or what they happen to believe. This means that, in some mysterious way, each one of us is a “copy” or “graphic image” of the Creator. Every human being is a formal, visible, and understandable representation of who God is and what He is really like. We’ve been designed to enjoy interpersonal communion with Him and with each other for all eternity. How do we know this? Because community, fellowship, and relationship are basic to the very nature of the Trinity. That fellowship and community are what heaven is all about.
We begin with the assumption that preborn babies are just as “eligible” for heaven as anyone else. Why? Because they are just as human as anyone else. According to Genesis 1:27, all human beings are created “in the Image of God.” Every individual ever conceived bears that Image. It doesn’t matter who his parents are or what they happen to believe. This means that, in some mysterious way, each one of us is a “copy” or “graphic image” of the Creator. Every human being is a formal, visible, and understandable representation of who God is and what He is really like. We’ve been designed to enjoy interpersonal communion with Him and with each other for all eternity. How do we know this? Because community, fellowship, and relationship are basic to the very nature of the Trinity. That fellowship and community are what heaven is all about.
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@Greyparrot
Because I'm a Christian? What would Jesus do? "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's".
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Don't all aborted fetuses go to Heaven? Isn't that a better outcome than becoming a Trump voter and then going to Hell?
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Tax evasion is a felony, the most serious type of crime. The maximum prison sentence is five years.
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@RationalMadman
Yes RM, that is actually what I look like.
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@zedvictor4
Pessimism might or might not be a human failing, so A.I. might be the necessary next evolutionary/cosmological phase, in terms of intellectual development.
Well stated!
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During President Donald Trump's tenure in the White House, the national debt grew by some $7.8 trillion—or nearly 40 percent compared to the amount when former President Barack Obama. left office in January 2017. So you think Trump giving himself a big tax break was a good idea? Remember that the last smart republican president, Eisenhower, had a tax rate of 91 percent for the rich.
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Hang Mike Pence,Hang Mike Pence, Hang Mike Pence! Oh wait, isn't this a Trump rally?
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This is from an online comment by a person named Paul (ironic)
I cant believe in God anymore simply because of the staggering level of injustice on this planet. I used to believe, and I keep trying to believe, but then I am confronted by the level of injustice in this world and it kills my belief. Injustice was too high a price to pay for ‘free will’. And hard on injustice’s heels is senseless suffering. I cant believe in a loving God when people suffer such terrible things in their lives. I just cant do it. I feel I am playing a game of self-delusion when I do. And then the last reason: Hell. A ‘loving God’ who holds Hell in reserve and sends the vast majority of Catholics to Purgatory is no God I wish to worship. We have a world of pain because HE is a God of pain. So I’m done.
Other reasons: The Manchester Arena bomber prayed to God before he slaughtered 22 young lives. Who is to say his prayers were less valid than mine? Why didnt God speak to him and tell him not to do it? What are we to take from THAT!? Was God ok with it? Or did God not wish to interfere with the bomber’s free will to maim and kill? See how the non-existence of God becomes the simplest explanation for all these things? Makes sense, doesnt it?
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@ebuc
I think this comment on the site says it all.
What a fantastically made documentary explaining a complex and mind blowing concept in an engaging manner. Huge respect to the often overlooked animators on this one. I thought the graphics were unique and fascinating, so well done Rui Braz and Kim Taylor!
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Satan exists, and I Can Prove It. Donald J Trump!
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I think ebuc is just showing that there are some people on this forum that have an IQ over 130.
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@RationalMadman
What you say about Eve is true. That is why men have nipples.
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@Sidewalker
Yes, conditions detected in prenatal screening can be fatal or carry a profoundly poor prognosis. For example, half of the babies born with anencephaly will not survive birth and the other half die within hours or days. A chromosomal condition such as trisomy 13 or trisomy 18 can result in a baby with a short lifespan; 90 percent of babies with either of these conditions do not survive past one year old and are frequently afflicted with health problems and medical interventions throughout their lives.
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@Greyparrot
Furin cleavage sites occurred independently for multiple times in the evolution of the coronavirus family, supporting the natural occurring hypothesis of SARS-CoV-2.
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@YouFound_Lxam
I would say that is ok to abort a baby up to birth. It cannot feel pain until it is conscious. It is only reacting to stimulation.
Research shows that babies display glimmers of consciousness and memory as early as 5 months old. I bet most babies that died from pediatric cancer wish they had been aborted before they felt pain.
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"The word 'God' is for me nothing but the expression and product of human weaknesses; the Bible a collection of honorable but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish," Albert Einstein 1954
I guess YouFound_Lxam is no Einstein.
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@YouFound_Lxam
Miscarriage is generally defined as the loss of a pregnancy before viability. An estimated 23 million miscarriages occur every year worldwide, translating to 44 pregnancy losses each minute. Doesn't this prove that God is pro-abortion?
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The U.S. economy improved more during President Joe Biden’s first year in office than in the first 12 months of any other president in the past 50 years.
Gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2021 reached 5.7%—the highest annual growth since 1984—after rebounding from a decrease of 3.4% in 2020.
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@Statichead
“An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls.” – Albert Einstein
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@YouFound_Lxam
Sex can be much more complicated than it at first seems. According to the simple scenario, the presence or absence of a Y chromosome is what counts: with it, you are male, and without it, you are female. But doctors have long known that some people straddle the boundary—their sex chromosomes say one thing, but their gonads (ovaries or testes) or sexual anatomy say another. Parents of children with these kinds of conditions—known as intersex conditions, or differences or disorders of sex development (DSDs)—often face difficult decisions about whether to bring up their child as a boy or a girl. Some researchers now say that as many as 1 person in 100 has some form of DSD.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
Be careful IWRA, GP carries a hammer.
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As per standardized medical examination, Floyd’s underlying health conditions and toxicology screen were documented during the autopsy. These are ordinary findings that do not suggest causation of death. The May 29 criminal complaint against Chauvin and ensuing headlines falsely overstated the role of Floyd’s coronary artery disease and hypertension, which increase the risk of stroke and heart attack over years, not minutes. Asphyxia—suffocation—does not always demonstrate physical signs, as other physician groups have noted.
Without this important medical context, however, the public was left to reconcile manipulated medical language with the evidence they had personally witnessed. Ultimately the charging document overstated and misrepresented the role of chronic medical conditions, inappropriately alluded to intoxicants, and failed to acknowledge the stark reality that but for the defendant’s knee on George Floyd’s neck, he would not be dead today.
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Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, which never received a cent from the former president, moved an estimated $2.8 million of donor money into the Trump Organization. In addition, one of the campaign’s joint-fundraising committees, which collects money in partnership with the Republican Party, shifted about $4.3 million of donor money into Trump’s business from January 20, 2017, to December 31, 2020.
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Isn't Pastor Kenneth Copeland who is worth $760 million an atheist? Isn't Pastor Jim Bakker who spent 5 years in prison an atheist?
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That is probably why six months after leaving the White House, Jared Kushner secured a $2 billion investment from a fund led by the Saudi crown prince.
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As the U.S. government raced to shore up small businesses' finances at the height of the pandemic, it may have erroneously awarded more than $1.3 billion to foreign applicants - raising new suspicions that the program might have helped fund overseas crime syndicates.
The trouble concerned the Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program, or EIDL, an initiative dating to the Trump administration that provided grants and other financial support to struggling small companies. More than 27.8 million applicants ultimately sought funds from the SBA, overwhelming an agency that had been tasked to oversee a vast array of emergency spending that dwarfed its annual budget.
Congress required the SBA to disburse its EIDL aid only to those businesses affected by the pandemic and located in the United States or its territories. But a crush of applications from foreign sources still flooded the agency over the life of its program - and the SBA repeatedly appeared to fund them anyway.
Congress required the SBA to disburse its EIDL aid only to those businesses affected by the pandemic and located in the United States or its territories. But a crush of applications from foreign sources still flooded the agency over the life of its program - and the SBA repeatedly appeared to fund them anyway.
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As a matter of fact, dozens of clinical trials are testing mRNA treatment vaccines in people with various types of cancer, including pancreatic cancer, colorectal cancer, and melanoma. Some vaccines are being evaluated in combination with drugs that enhance the body’s immune response to tumors.
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@Vici
SARS-CoV-2 spike protein inhibits growth of prostate cancer: a potential role of the COVID-19 vaccine killing two birds with one stone
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@Public-Choice
An overwhelming majority vote in the Ukrainian Parliament in March 2016 led to Shokin's removal from office after an investigation into extortion of another company led to associates who were found in possession of diamonds, cash and other valuables as well as documents and passports belonging to Shokin.
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@oromagi
Yes, Trump says there is "absolutely" a Muslim problem,and that the Koran "teaches some very negative vibe."
Trump falsely claims to have watched Muslims in NJ celebrate after the 9/11attacks. Despite being quickly and widely debunked , Trump continues to repeat the
falsehood.
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@PREZ-HILTON
I am as old as Trump, so I am a Boomer.
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@oromagi
Do Republican's know Mehmet Oz is a Muslim?
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@ebuc
Eve had 2 X chromosomes. Adam had an X and a Y chromosome. The Y chromosome is small compared with the X,
This shows that Eve was the first.
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@sadolite
I too, think the speech speaks for its self and needs no clarification.
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@PREZ-HILTON
FLRW says being trans is due to poor design.
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