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    Evolution conflict and division

    I would have to give your effort at research on this matter an "F". Wikipedia, really ... when the prime source, always preferred, is readily available? “We are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life. Careful...
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    Evolution conflict and division

    It might go better for you if you researched how many scientists reject evolution theory. All science is in the realm of doubt. Unanimous agreement among experts is the appropriate measure of discerning truth with regard to anything that is a matter of truth. In matters of taste, like...
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    Evolution conflict and division

    Apparently you do not understand the principle. Common descent is not the issue that violates this principle: only devolution is possible, a loss of functionality. Apparently you also do not understand the difference between the methods of historiographical and empirical sciences.
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    Evolution conflict and division

    It is commonly believed that if a pathway of functional continuity can be envisioned, a plausible evolutionary pathway has been proposed. For example, the evolution of the eye is often explained by a pathway of gradually increasing curvature of the retina, with each step resulting in slightly...
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    Evolution conflict and division

    First Principles: 1) The principle of sufficient reason: the existence of being is accountable either in itself or in another. (A being cannot give what it does not have.) 2. The principle of proportionate causality: the effect cannot be greater than the cause. My faith permits belief in...
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    Evolution conflict and division

    I'm not a biologist. Critical thinking, ie., logic, discloses the virtual improbability of evolution theories. So improbable so as to be impossible. Secondly, all evolution theories violate first principles of logical thinking. That may well be your interpretation; I think mine more...
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    Evolution conflict and division

    Thanks for the heads-up. His posts demonstrates a certain kind of pedant; a condescending pedant. And his posts that argue from a fallacious and self-referential appeal to authority make any progress by further exchanges with him improbable. His faith in science overwhelms any use of critical...
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    Mass Shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church/School in Minneapolis

    A war on guns, as I think is your position, will in my opinion be as effective in achieving the intended result as our "war on drugs".
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    Evolution conflict and division

    The claim begs for a precise definition of "species". Hybrids are microevolution events. My heritage has never produced a descendant with brown eyes. I married a brown eyed person and some our children have brown eyes but we don't think of them as new "species". So you have not observed a...
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    Evolution conflict and division

    So, you claim to personally have witnessed a macro-evolution event? Do fill us in on particulars. "Macroevolution is speciation" is a meaningless tautological claim, trifling and non-instructive.
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    Mass Shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church/School in Minneapolis

    I'm not sure what your point is. If your point is that some may have wrong beliefs then I agree. If your point is that only because mass murderers have wrong beliefs that that explains their horrific act then I disagree. No one acts contrary to what they think rightly or wrongly is good for...
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    Mass Shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church/School in Minneapolis

    Are you now arguing that someone who believes that the sun orbits the earth is equivalent to one who believes he may intentionally take the lives of innocent people? A commonality between the Nazis and Bolsheviks was their ungodliness. How does one conclude that either had full possession of...
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    Mass Shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church/School in Minneapolis

    A poisoned mind is an unhealthy mind, ie., mentally disordered.
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    Mass Shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church/School in Minneapolis

    Yes it does. Common sense supports what I wrote. We, or at least I, do not need a PhD to make that call. Doctor to patient: "Murder is the intentional taking of an innocent person's life. Have you planned and murdered multiple innocent people at the same time and place? Patient to Doctor...
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    Mass Shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church/School in Minneapolis

    ? The article cited seems to agree with my post. Or are you arguing that mass murderers are mostly mentally normal -- that committing mass murders is OK? A diagnosis of severe mental disorder requires the patient to interview with his doctor. It's quite difficult to interview a dead person...
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