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I've got it! I know what Evolution is missing and I'm not going to tell...

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So why start the whole thing in post #49?
For your edification.

Remember what you screamed at Gottservant?
And no, evolution is not holy BECAUSE IT'S NOT A RELIGION OR A DEITY!!!
It doesn't have to be a religion or a deity to be holy.

So you were right, evolution is not holy, but for the wrong reason.
 
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For your edification.

Remember what you screamed at Gottservant?It doesn't have to be a religion or a deity to be holy.

So you were right, evolution is not holy, but for the wrong reason.

But when gottservant talks about evolution, he invariably tries to link to being a religion, so when he calls it holy, he's trying to label it as a religion. Which is a load of bull-poo.

And how can something be not holy but for the wrong reason? That's a double-negative. Unless you're just going with the old "LIE OF SATAN!" spiel again.
 
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And how can something be not holy but for the wrong reason?
Sigh.

This gets so repetitive.

Let's go over this again, and I'll reword it.

You were right, but you were right for the wrong reason.
 
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Sigh.

This gets so repetitive.

Let's go over this again, and I'll reword it.

You were right, but you were right for the wrong reason.

Then tell me why I was wrong instead of you beating around the bush.
 
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I have a fairly large collection of videos in which I explain evolution simply and clearly.
Wow ... that top video; are you in a Hindu garden or something? I only watched the first 60 seconds of it, as someone is speaking in tongues in the background, and it's hard to understand what you're saying.

I'll see how the bottom one goes.
 
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We are all adults here.
Okay.

I watched the bottom one.

According to the New Age Movement, the dolphin has the distinction as the most intelligent.

Remember Darwin on seaQuest DSV?
 
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Although you are not going there, this brings up an interesting question: Can our beliefs effect our DNA? Some think so.

Thoughts and Emotions Change Gene Expression
Thinking affects gene expression in cells of the Brain and the rest of the Body. This in turn affects the structure,
function, and the health of the Body. Toxic thinking harms the normal functioning of the Body.
 
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Wow ... that top video; are you in a Hindu garden or something? I only watched the first 60 seconds of it, as someone is speaking in tongues in the background, and it's hard to understand what you're saying.

I'll see how the bottom one goes.
I'm on my balcony. But there is a Hindu hymn playing in the background
 
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Okay.

I watched the bottom one.

According to the New Age Movement, the dolphin has the distinction as the most intelligent.

Remember Darwin on seaQuest DSV?

I had to look up "seaQuest DSV". It was a TV show. I never knew it existed until you brought it up today.
Alas, the "New Age Movement" exists only in the minds of the people trying to stop it.
Anglo-protestant reactionary extremists trying to blame the problems their political/economic ideology causes, on several unrelated social phenomena they refuse understand.
 
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First of all, this isn't physics, it's nonsense.

Second, syncopation is a term regarding rhythm, and not anything else I can find. I'm not sure you're hip enough to handle syncopation.

I'm not trying to treat evolution as "a force". Certainly not in the sense of a physical force (like gravity). (biological/species) Evolution is a *process* not a force.

Resonant vibrations in structures aren't about gravity. They are about driving a vibration into a structure that matches the natural vibration frequency of structure causing it to break. Once it is broken, *then* it is no longer be strong enough to hold the structure up and it will fail. This is also why engineers don't use marshmallows for structural elements -- they aren't strong enough. No gravity is enhanced during such a failure.

Gravity is not "relative" with high and low states, it is the result of the local curvature of space which in turn is the result of the matter-energy density. That is all.
 
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In my opinion, any religious belief or organisation which requires it's members to reject evolution can be immediately discarded as nonsense.

It can be used as a way to quickly filter out some of the nonsense that is out there.
 
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The "New Age Movement" is not a movement. It is a grab bag of diverse ideas that have no common ground other than being seen as scary by the American Christian Fundamentalist movement.
A term created to try to force fit Civil rights, "Big Bang" Cosmology, the Pagan revival, Evolution, Buddhism, Feminism, Carnival sideshows, Labour unions, Gay rights, the Peace movement, Hinduism, Anarchist philosophy, Rock and roll music, Black resistance, and Environmental stewardship, into a single box.
They called this box "The New Age Movement". And attributed to it all sorts of crazy and fantastical motivations and plots.
 
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Evolution works just fine and God has no action in it or any effect on it.
It like when you turn on the heat under an egg in the morning.
You don't need God to step in and perform miracle to cook your egg.
It changes dramatically just because it does. Life is a miracle but not
because God tweaks anything. God has a plan and life happens as planned.
 
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