Evolution is a Joke part XII

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  1. Never Left

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    Those objections are irrelevant. Its not even an honest objection, just reguritation of internet scoffers. Now the poster is engaging in attempted insults instead of the topic, Evolution is a joke.
     
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    Well, you weren't engaging the topic (or, you know, anything remotely resembling debate), so I guess that makes us even.

    Scoff scoff scoff.
     
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    Actually it makes me right, as always.
     
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    Scoff.

    Scoff.

    Scoff.
     
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    Evolution can be no form of comedy joke, for the sole surviving species in the Homo genus.
     
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    Does anyone actually believe this? Seriously? I can't even imagine ignorant mankind thousands of years ago believing this sort of nonsense much less anyone believing in it today.
     
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    No, see, you're wrong because he's right. And that second part is just taken as a priori fact. Because that's just how we do things around here.

    Scoff scoff scoff.
     
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    There was no attempted insult I could note, instead an explanation of that which you provide this forum. An Insult would have looked more like this:


    It is painfully obvious your ignorance spans far too many topics to list here. You have managed to present yourself as a fool in virtually every aspect of human knowledge touched upon, and at this point are likely considered either mentally challenged, or a very skilled troll by most who bother to read your ramblings. The fact you manage to use a keyboard at all, makes the second option most likely....but it must be consider that you may be an idiot savant and some level of compassionate acceptance should be used before mental ridicule.
     
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    This is a little bit of scary evolution going on.

    There are few things more chilling than the sound of a nearby rattlesnake. That distinctive sound serves as a warning that trouble could be on the way. The only thing worse than hearing a rattlesnake within striking distance — is not hearing it at all. A herpetologist in South Dakota's Black Hills has discovered a growing number of Prairie Rattlesnakes with atrophied tail muscles; he believes it's a genetic issue that multiplies because those snakes that can rattle usually end up being killed. But others think the situation could be an evolutionary development to avoid detection.

    All things considered...
     
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    So let's see, the Grand Canyon doesn't really exist because there was no rain to create the erosion over millions of years before the Great Flood of Noah (that was plagiarized by the Hebrew authors of Genesis from the Epic of Gilgamesh).
     
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    Who cares? He's always right, so it only matters what he has to say.
     
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    Did I ask Jesus to die for my sins? Was it necessary for him to die for my sins? Why should I believe that Jesus died for my sins based on what the Bible says?
     
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    I have always found the Flood narrative fascinating. I am convinced it is a written record of a racial memory that dates to the mega floods of the last iceage
     
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    Right.

    The church has maintained this interpretation from the Dark Ages, when to your surprise, people, actually the whole Roman Empire, did see this as very reasonable and logical.

    Over the thousands year + that Aristotlian/Platonic Science reigned, the flood idea was accepted and believed.

    What we now know is that the flood could not be water, nor the rain for 40 days rising up to mountain tops and covering the whole world.
    The ONLY "flood-like" facts that wiped out all humanoids but us was the "Out-of-Africa" migration which lasted 40 thousand days and nights

    The "rain" of three chromospecies of Modern Homo sapiens survived this event, which compares well with what Genesis say about the table of Nations that followed thereafter. The fact that Genesis had already enumerated the 2 humans in the line of Human ascent which went extinct, as we now understand, supports this story as metaphor, based on real knowledge of our origins.

    The Only stipulate we need make for such an argument is that the mention of 950 year life spans actually was a necessary literary adjustment since no one would have accepted the actual case, that some, if not most, of these now extinct humans were species that lived as long as a million years.
     
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    I agree with you, that some small cult of men passed this down from generation to generation, because they saw these other "men" driven into extinction, as they spread around the world themselves, they knew man had existed way longer than the pyramids.

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    Did you ask the Rev Martin Luther King to die for your red neck sin?

    He did it because he loved America and he loved white and black, ad just wanted them all to go to school together holding hands.
     
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    I'm not a redneck, and MLK didn't die for my sins or claim to be dying for my sins; he died by the bullet of an assassin.

    He didn't sacrifice his life for America, he was shot by a bloody assassin. What an idiotic comparison. You haven't responded to my other posts to you in this thread.
     
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    As I thought, not interested in truth.
     
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    Darwin wrote about diversity of species because of environmental factors in both domesticated and wild stocks. There is nothing wrong with that, in fact I agree. It is the claim that every specie of flora and fauna came to be from protoplasmic goo (simplified), is a bridge to far for me. DNA alone does not explain the existence of modern humans and early homo species. All life on earth shares a certian amount of DNA. Bonobo Chimps and Human Beings only have a 3% difference. and what a differnce 3% makes.
     
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    When the earth was created it was perfect for all species created. Read Genesis. The fall of original sin corrupted the whole of creation.
     
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    All that applies to Jesus, too.

    But the reason Jesus was crucified and the reason Rev MLK was shot was because neither would stop telling a truth which people came to see as correct, while the forces of evil which perpetuate lies and imprison us in the system of things which await each next generation only crumble with such self-sacrifice:

    22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
     
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    So, how was it perfect for both parasites and their hosts? I'm not really seeing how Guinea worms can really peacefully cohabitate with humans Or eye worms. Or mange.
     
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    Too bad the discussion couldn't stick with science.. but i guess the blend of philosophy, science, religion, & opinion is part of everyone's makeup. So few seem to be able to differentiate between them. :frustrated:
     
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    Consider Mars, where everything is imperfect for life by comparison.

    All that matters is that life, itself, continues harmoniously and compatibly with the Reality within which is does exist at all.
     
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    Herein lies the problem. All life on Earth contains common DNA sequences reflecting a common origin. This is especially true of non-coding DNA which does not produce proteins that equals about 98% of the human genome but it only represents about 2% of a typical bacteria genome. If different life forms originated separately then these DNA sequences would not share commonality except by accident and considering that all life forms contain common DNA sequences that is virtually a mathematical impossibility without common ancestry. We would have found at least one life form that didn't share the common DNA sequences with all other life forms but that has never happened.

    DNA itself establishes the very high probability that ALL Life originated from the same source and that it later evolved.
     
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    Did you see the word corruption. That is what you are describing. When Adam and Eve were living in and populateing the garden and everything in it was perfect.
     
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