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    Biblical atrocities

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    questions about evolution?

    Hey that never stopped me from responding. Sometimes you just have to speak up.
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    questions about evolution?

    One word: Ramapithecus
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    questions about evolution?

    One word: Archaeopteryx.
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    In all seriousness

    I am agnostic. I don't perceive that there is enough evidence to support or refute the whole notion of a rapture. Chances are that I would not be "caught up in the air" if a rapture were to occur due to my ambivalent stance. Since you will most probably be raptured (as the great majority of...
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    In all seriousness

    I don't know. Dr. Issing was a retired Latin scholar and a priest who had spent a decade working at the Vatican.
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    In all seriousness

    To bad, I was getting a chuckle out of it.
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    But rapiemur does not equal rapturo which supposedly serves as the root for rapture. In fact, if I remember my high school Latin, the declination of the Latin verb rapio, rapere, rapui, raptus contains no form bearing a resemblance to "rapturo."
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    Actually the Bible books of the bible were orginally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. The Latin Vulgate translation came much later and is prone to the same dilution of the original text connotations that any translation would entail. "Rapturo" may not carry the meaning that the original...
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    So the Greek symbols are different from the English yet the English can carry the exact same meaning as the Greek?
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    So something is lost in translation?
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    Just today on the BBC, it was announced that human cloning using genes obtained from two women has been approved in the UK.
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    Whoa there! My only intention was to ask some questions. :eek: You know, decaffeinated coffee now comes in a variety of interesting blends.
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    So christian planet colonists living on say Mars will not be raptured?
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    1. If, in the distant future, humanity were to colonize the moon and perhaps Mars, and the rapture were to happen, would those living on distant planets and moons be raptured as well? 2. Would a human clone be raptured? 3. How about a cybernetic organism composed only of a human nervous...
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