Posted on 12/18/2006 8:12:55 AM PST by SJackson
All men have been created equal. What some have done with that is their own problem. Unfortunately, they force the rest of us to put up with them.
This week's Science News reports on birds supposedly changing their inherited, hard-wired, deep in the DNA coding to adjust to Global Warming.
Now this raises some real questions in my mind concerning the degree of adherence your Global Warming types have to maintaining the coherence and integrity of evolutionary theory.
On the other hand, if birds can just change their DNA, where does that leave us? Possibly over there with the New Testament and St. Paul asking us if any of us can change our height by thinking real hard~!
What an amazing place for evolutionary theory and understanding to end up.
I've concluded there is no Allah based upon the actions of Moslems, and that Islam is based on nothing more than the heat-stroke-induced ravings of a 6th century desert bandit. Would you consider my conclusions faulty?
This place is turning into a religious site with little room for anything else. It's wearing very thin.
I'm not hammering anybody. Plus some of the people who "no longer have a voice here" have chosen to absent themselves of their own free will. If their voices are "no longer heard here," don't blame me for it. Some of these people are my friends. And I miss them.
And not only that, but also you would have to abstract yourself from the "everything" in order to comment on it as if it were an "object" separable from yourself. Logically, this is what "objective" means.
Of course, this is impossible for human beings, who are both parts and participants of the whole they observe.
Thanks my dear brother hosepipe for you insights!
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that only one of the three can be correct, when in fact, they all are. The only real distinction is that Allah is the God of death and lies. He is the great deceiver. The evil one.
Hahahahaha!
Could you spot anything that wyattearp wrote that might constitute a violation of the rules of civility/hospitality here?
One thing I do know: people don't get banned around here for nothing.
BTW, what's your definition of "trolling?" And if wyattearp was studying for finals, how did he find the time to do that, whatever it is?
People will leave FR for reasons that make sense to them. I stay, for reasons that make sense to me.
Different strokes for different folks I guess.
I appreciate and honor your defense of your friends, shuckmaster. Thanks for writing.
I know for a fact you are not.
Others on this thread were. I was not meaning you!!
So all religions are correct except Islam?
God won't be the slightest bit upset with you that you accepted a false prophet (Jesus) to worship. If he's not the son of God and he was just an old fashioned loony-tune like all the "second comings" we have popping up all the time, how do you think God feels about him.
Jews will have a lot of explaining to do if you're right too.
How come God only appeared to people before camera's etc. he's had a lot of years, do you believe that God used to appear before these mortals? Really?
Through all these wars, etc., he's never appeared. All these children molested and mutilated and he's never made even the briefest of appearances. All those Jews being stuffed into ovens and he couldn't pop his head out ONCE.
In the handful of exchanges I've had on this thread I've seen accusations of various unnamed Freepers being the antichrist, and an assertion that it takes several hundred years to revise scientific theory in light of new evidence. If this has come to be representative of the "Premier Conservative Poltical Website" on the internet, we're in trouble.
Rades? Time to bail from this thread.
I'm outta here.
[singing] "Are you there? Say a prayer for The Pretender..."
Good article. Devastating criticism of Dawkins.
Moderated public forums like this one may favor conservatives over libertarians inherently. The latter tend not to conform as easily and to self-destruct more readily. I suspect conservatives are more religious / theistic than libertarians so the site population skews that way. I well could be wrong, of course--it would be an interesting sociological study. But sociologists are generally liberals and soft sciententists, so they likely would politicize the results. So never mind.
blam, I enjoy your threads. Please continue, and add me to your ping list.
Thanks Shuckmaster. I've been suspended myself, for cussin', but hey, I don't make the rules here. I've had some FRiendships here that wound up interrupted because the other people were banned. I've experienced one thing (at least twice, maybe three times, maybe more) that I found annoying and felt like leaving; also, I've been called a moron (the creep's exact words to me were, "You are a moron." I can't recall what thread, or what it was about) with no consequences to the insulting party. But the fact is, I enjoy it too much to leave. If that were to change, I'd be gone in a hot second, plus whatever time it would take to set up a link on my profile page. ;')
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1732037/posts?page=125#125
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/user-posts?name=wyattearp
Anyone else get unsolicited FreepMail from Junior trying to get them to go to DC?
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