Recent content by Jerry Smith

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    Does evolutionary thought propagate racism?

    1) "Races" is not used in quite the same sense in this title as you mean. (its meaning is closer to taxonomic groups) 2) All "preserved" races (modern ones) - of any taxonomic group, human or otherwise, have been favored by evolution. This would seem to mean the...
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    Atheists: Don't deny your God!!

    Joseph Ford, the "evangelist of chaos", Georgia Tech? I met him! (My only little brush with fame.) He even gave me some one-on-one (one-on-two if you count my friend Royce) instruction under the thin veil of Freshman Undergrad Independant Study Not For Credit. I have to admit that I learned more...
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    This is not a personal attack...just a point

    That is a whole 'nuther debate. For the affirmative: http://www.bible.org/docs/soapbox/1john5-7.htm and http://www.simplebiblestudies.com/NT1john5threebear.htm For the negative: http://www.chick.com/ask/articles/1john57.asp?FROM=biblecenter and...
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    Court Weighs Library inappropriate content Filters

    Given that filters do not work, what does?! I have my home computers passworded so that they cannot be used without my wife or myself present. We have one kid that is fairly determined to get at disallowed content & keeping him out of it has been a near-impossibility. We have discussed...
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    Who wrote the Bible?

    Wrong forum, Darwinism. You probably need to post this thread in Apologetics. This is about science, not theology.
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    Evolutionist turned Creationist

    Rome, GA was where I grew up from the ages of 3 mos to 12 years. I don't know about Berry's academics, but their campus is gorgeous. A little heaven on earth! I'd like to take a trip back down there sometime soon just to enjoy the place.
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    Terrorism By Any Other Name

    Thanks... I was hoping for more detail, but that's a good start. I guess I would need more information to be able to judge whether Sharon's alleged war-crimes were equivalent to terrorist acts or not... I'll try to get up to speed before GWII is engaged. (At least I hope it is just a GWII &amp...
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    Terrorism By Any Other Name

    Does anyone have anything to say about PM Sharon's alleged war crimes? I've heard the reports, and the calls for prosecution, but I don't know any details... Would anything Sharon has done qualify as terrorism?
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    Nevada Considers Taxing Prostitutes

    I'm deeply offended. That you beat me to that.
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    Economics and the Iraq War

    Attention George Bush: For $1 billion, plus expenses not to exceed $25 billion, I will personally arrange a regime change in Iraq. I will accept $25,500,000,000 up front to cover expenses, with the remaining $500,000,000 to be paid in twenty easy installments of $25,000,000 per year. Any...
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    The reason I now support war

    I think you did a lot toward supporting the "consistency" argument yourself in this post. It's true that "waiting" for a diplomatic solution to become viable means "ignoring" current abuses in Iraq. In much the same way, invading Iraq now because they are weaker than other abusers and because it...
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    The reason I now support war

    Exactly. If we are to solve the problems of all the world, then we must act consistently. We can't invade small and relatively helpless HR abuser A, while giving large and powerful HR abuser B most favored nation trading status. Whatever diplomatic efforts have hope to succeed (and therefore...
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    Possible solution for argument recurrence

    PL... good idea. The Talk Origins FAQ's ( http://www.talkorigins.org ) were designed for that purpose, but creationists refuse to go to them because they see TalkOrigins as "biased" (conveniently). They could hardly have the same complaint about this forum, if they are here in the first place...
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    some good news

    I understood that. My point is that a 4th grade understanding of evolution is too basic to be able to make an informed "choice" with. If there was a pseudoscientific theory that decried the existence of gravity, the same would be true. In 4th grade, you can understand that gravity...