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Recent content by Tenek

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    Help me out with this one (astronomy)

    Goody, Olber's Paradox. I think perhaps the best way around this is saying "when" instead of "if" for determining if a star lies in one's line of sight. Take the numbers with a grain of salt if you wish, but IIRC the average distance to a star in any given direction would be something like...
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    Are You Laughing?

    I will metamorphose into a giant butterfly tomorrow. Don't laugh at me... I think the issue with the Second Coming is that it would be based on God's timetable, not ours. You have no more reason to think that it's in your lifetime than the people of the last twenty centuries.
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    The Theory of Evolution

    Hmm. Not sure exactly what you're trying to say, there. It would make sense that genetic diseases that crop up every once in awhile would no longer be eliminated, as we inhibit natural selection by keeping alive people who would otherwise die. Ten thousand years ago someone with my eyes...
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    Debate....

    Something tells me that this debate is about as useful as trying to convert the Pope to Satanism. It's very hard to "win" debates that involve personal religious beliefs. There's something about believing that God has given you Absolute Truth (tm) that makes minds like steel traps - closed and...
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    Best argument agenst Creationism?

    I find it very interesting that the people who constantly claim that God's ways are so much higher than ours promptly dismiss evolution from personal incredulity...
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    Best argument agenst Creationism?

    Interesting. What makes you think the rate is .5%? Starting with 8 people, 5,000 years ago, we should have 67 billion people right now. I would think that a population of protohumans would remain fairly stable over long period of time, subject to the same rules as other species. Too few and...
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    Suppressing the truth in unrighteousness ...

    Well that's enough of your fiction for now. Care to tell me about things that actually happened?
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    Which is the best way to learn about God's Creation?

    (Let's just ignore actually having a chat with Him, and assume that He exists for a moment here.) 1) Looking at everything which He created, learning about it, seeing how incredible it is, and how well God can design a universe that *works*, finding out *how* it works, how any particular...
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    How do you tell people. . .

    Ain't gonna get any better sitting on it for the rest of your life. Say your piece and hope for the best...
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    Democracy or hypocrisy

    Worried about Saddam's nukes? One has to wonder if he even has any. North Korea, on the other hand... should be a much bigger issue. Odd. I can think of three reasons... 1) Iraq is a gimme 2) They're after oil 3) The US is trying to bring stability to the Middle East with democratic governments...
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    Natural Selection or Luck

    Zero out of five will survive. They all die eventually. The beneficial mutation means that one particular creature has a greater chance of reproducing before its death. Given a "stable" (now I'd like to find one of those) population, on *average* one of the offspring of a creature will...
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    Is there any proof that prayer is anything other than a feel good exercise?

    Now there's a convenient explanation.
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    The Archer Fish. Design or Evolution?

    You seem awfully annoyed at that reaction for someone whose views on reality come from one book. Since we're discussing a field of "science" based on, oh, about four pages of Genesis, perhaps you could tell me where the "lesser light to govern the night" went.
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    I'm looking at both sides of the argument, but I'm having some major problems

    Uh... right. I think the Big Bang theory is more of a "Universe is expanding. Earlier, it was smaller. Theoretically, if you go back far enough, it's all at a single point" idea. Edwin Hubble made it popular because he noticed that the farther away things were, the faster they were...
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    What do you make of this

    You sure? The Big Void is just as likely, from my perspective.
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