SplitPeaSoup

SplitPeaSoup

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Reply to On Evil in Religion JoeUser Forums

[quote]Yes, babies are born evil.The real deal here is, God is good. God created everything good. Evil is not a thing of itself that was created, but the lack of good.Babies are born with a lack of good, just like the rest of us. They have to learn good.[/quote] It's better to say that babies are born neuteral.

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Reply to On Evil in Religion JoeUser Forums

[quote]Okay, now this is more like it. Saying humans are born evil is incorrect because God does not create evil humans. They do in fact become sinners, some sooner rather than later. Usually with children, they are held responsible for their sins at what we call "the age of reason" that's when their conscience is formed and they can acknowledge their free will actions.[/quote] Fine, whatever. So nit-picky.

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Reply to What is EVOLUTION, anyway? in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

[quote]Through all its stages of change, the banana started out as a banana and remained a banana. Macroevolution would be the banana changing into something else, with new DNA...it, like macroevolution, will never happen..no matter how many eons of time you give it.[/quote] The chemical components of the banana change. Eventually, the banana will no longer be recognizable as a banana. I think the analogy works.

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Reply to On Intelligent Design Part 2 in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

[quote]"Speciation through evolution (i.e., macroevolution) is actually pretty routine in agriculture. Where do creationists believe seedless watermelon come from? Is God creating new ones every generation? In fact, it's pretty easy in the plant kingdom to create a mutation that will breed true, but won't breed back with its parent species. That's the very definition of speciation. That's where seedless watermelon, for instance, come from; from normal diploid watermelon, they selected a tetraplo

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Reply to Oh It's YOU in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Riddle: A man was struck by lighting twice and bitten by a shark once in one year, yet his friends still consider him the luckiest guy they know? Why is this? Answer: He lived.

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Reply to On Intelligent Design Part 2 in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

[quote]Docta' Well, let me know when/if it happens that chickens will be turned into dinosaurs! Until then, I'm content to believe that God created the dinosaurs and they roamed the earth and remained dinosaurs until they died out...never did they "evolve" into birds...[/quote] Aiight. You'll be the first to know.

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Reply to What is EVOLUTION, anyway? in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

[quote]I didn't realize the flag was the third member of the Trinity. Man, I need to brush up on my Bible reading apparently. Seriously though, if you had retained your ability to see the world clearly, why would you pray to a flag?[/quote] Ok, smartass. I prayed to[wards] the flag.

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Reply to On Evil in Religion JoeUser Forums

[quote]You said humans are born evil....are babies evil?[/quote] well, i don't think that can be said of a baby before the baby actually performs an evil act. but i guarantee that it will, given the time. come on. don't play games. babies are evil because the innate human nature that must be overcome through understanding leads them to do selfish things

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Reply to On Evil in Religion JoeUser Forums

There is no sin that has ever been that has not increased suffering in the world. Thus, sin is that which creates unnecessary suffering.

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Reply to On Evil in Religion JoeUser Forums

[quote]Humans are born evil.So babies are born evil? Or are they born innocent and pure and learn evil?[/quote] Kids do not learn to get what they want. They do, however, have to develop the ability to understand the needs of others.

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Reply to What is EVOLUTION, anyway? in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

[quote]Just curious, as I assume from your post you're quite well-versed in the subject:I remember reading somewhere a long time ago that evolution, especially the macro-side of things, often happens as an accident that turns out to be beneficial. That changes on a genetic level are often the result of some random outside force (cosmic and elemantal radiation being the prime suspects), and that those changes create subsets within a species, and that the subset with the new-fangled beneficial "mu

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Reply to What is EVOLUTION, anyway? in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

[quote]You do know that you're completely and utterly incorrect, right?[/quote] See, that's not really an argument, either. I can certainly understand your frustration, though, since I figure you have studied some of those mechanisms. The problem is that American schools need improvement.

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Reply to On Intelligent Design Part 2 in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

[quote]Here, the basic kind DOESN'T CHANGE becasue no new genes arise and so the accumulation of small changes doesn't give rise to Macro-evolution...and neither do mutations result in macro-evolution.[/quote] What if a mutation occured so that a bird expresses the scales on its feet also on its wings. Now what if this new bird happens to fill an available niche in the community that its parents do not fill quite as much, say their scaleywings make them better swimmers. Any of scaleywin

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Reply to What is EVOLUTION, anyway? in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

[quote]Good job describing microevolution...small change within species is real and happening. No problem with microevolution. Macro-evolution, that is, one species with one set of DNA evolving into a completely new one with different DNA is bunk. There are no progressive changes say from fish to amphibians to reptiles to mammals. It's never happened because there is no mechanism that allows it to happen. Genetics frustrates rather than offers proofs for macro Evolution.[/quote] I have

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Reply to On Evil in Religion JoeUser Forums

Evil is not working together to make the world a better place. Humans are born evil. Most stay that way. (Jesus. Forums are seriously addictive.)

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Reply to Can men and women be friends? in Sex & Romance JoeUser Forums

[quote]It seems in our culture that if a guy and a girl are seen together, they must be having sex together... right?[/quote] Wrong. I have made many attempts to create this illusion. Sadly, all have failed.

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Reply to Dang, Women are Complicated. in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

Women aren't complicated. That's a lie they themselves perpetuate as an excuse for why they act so coldly rational. Here's the essential point: Women do what is in their best interest. For example, if you convince one you are a professional baller (hard to do if you are a skinny nerd), she will want to have sex with you so she can have a professional baller for a kid. Basically, your best defense against womens' "complication" is the good old fashion lie. Of

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Reply to Who Do You Believe? Government or Scientists? in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

I think people are missing a point. If the world is warming up and it is not our fault, shouldn't we be trying to stop it anyway!?! A lot of harmful natural phenomena occur, tornados, hurricanes, fires, etc. We don't like these. We predict and guard ourselves from tornados and hurricanes, and we try to prevent forest fires (beneficial to certain plant species whose seeds require a fire to germinate, i know. we could find other ways to preserve those species). Why should we not deal with global w

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Reply to Humans are stagnating in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

Humans [I]are[/I] stagnating. No more democracy! We need to be ruled by a scientific class, an intellectual elite, or just something a little better than mediocre minds. Democracy is on a self-destructive path. Maybe some first-class aliens might do the trick. Who knows? But we need to do something before we kill each over what is left. People do not take the world's problems seriously enough. They do not see the problems regularly, so they can just pretend t

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Reply to Going Green in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

Really, in order to achieve a sustainable future, the world needs population controls. But until we can all get over the notion that it is some kind of inherent human right to breed, "going green" can preserve what we have and maybe make it last just a little bit longer.

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