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CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.
Randall McNally
Secrecy and accountability cannot coexist.
Would it be out of line for me to suggest that you take a statistics course? I took a couple nearly ten years ago, so I'm not sure I'll be able to easily explain the errors in your methodology.TheFriendlyGiant said:
However, if you flipped a coin a billion times, the odds of you getting 50 heads in a row increase dramatically.
But that's really a red herring. When organisms compete for limited resources, the ones that are better at resource-gathering will survive to leave offspring. The fact that a particular individual exists through a confluence of factors seems miraculous only if you don't consider that someone had to exist.
By your reasoning, any single five-card deal from a deck of cards is miraculous because it inevitably results in a combination that is extraordinarily unlikely.
Well, I don't think I have to admit anything, save that Paley's watchmaker argument has been defunct for 150 years.
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is it not true that we have back up copies of most genes, so that most mutations are unnoticed. add another 10 million years.
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Randall McNally
Secrecy and accountability cannot coexist.
"Back up copies"? Much of the genome is thought to be non-coding, "junk" DNA. Is that what you're referring to?william jay schroeder said:
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it was actualy more of a guestion then a statement, the last part i should of left off. I read about it but didnt get the full function of the copies.Randall McNally said:
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