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The Art of War by Sun Tzu. “Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.” “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles."You're not alone.
Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Do you think DNA testing can identify your immediate family members?Of course, your statement is surely debatable. If you understand little cosmology, then you understand that galaxies in relation to one another are not homogeneous in distribution through the universe, you also would know that galaxies, and there are different types, have stars in different locations, for instance the earth is in a stellar arm from the center of the galaxy, which is probably a massive black hole.
The location of the earth, i.e. our solar system, is in a more advantageous position for the survival of life than millions and millions of stars located in a different position. You say it is by chance based upon existing physical laws, I can't prove you wrong, can you prove me wrong ?
My position is simple on the evolution issue, there is very little evidence, direct or genetic,m for evolutionary connections above the family or maybe even at the genus level. It is a bridge too far, and there little evidence a bridge ever existed at all.
First of all, Sun Tzu is in aitch.Words from old books are cool!
Skeptics who identify issues with the traditionalist view point to possible anachronisms in The Art of War including terms, technology (such as anachronistic crossbows and the unmentioned cavalry), philosophical ideas, events, and military techniques that should not have been available to Sun Wu. Additionally, there are no records of professional generals during the Spring and Autumn period; these are only extant from the Warring States period, so there is doubt as to Sun Tzu's rank and generalship.
It may just be the aitch educatees ridicule -- if you were truly saved.Give me an aitch...
But what they're talking about doesn't make sense to me.
No, but kids should start mastering the courses needed to eventually understand the ToE at an early age.
They'll need to understand those equations that explain a single evolutionary change (of the million that must occur) that often fill a large blackboard.
Of course they will also have to learn the other 999,999 equations as well.
Edit: Ok, wait a minute. I just discovered that evolution is unable to use mathematics in it's theory. I should have guessed this when I ask what the "odds" were that evolutionary changes actually occur, and got the runaround.
The equations of evolution
What is mind ?
There is no mind in materialism rock is no different than a dog both made out of atoms and thier atoms were all evolved from hydrogen right .
Do you suggest that you have mind ?
To viruses, those without DNA must use a host with DNA to reproduce, correct ?
" All DNA exists for is to be transcribed". Thank you, that is my point. Transcribed for what reason ?
Because cellular "information" is communicated by chemical processes, that does;'t make it a lesser method than a computer using electricity for information distribution and direction. In fact it is infinitely more complicated.
Yes, it is all chemical reaction, but it is controlled chemical reaction, controlled by the transcribed "data" from the DNA, Correct ?
Please, how and where is this information transcribed ? Thanks !
I'ld say it is the conceptual label we have attached to the neural network that exists in an individual's brain.
Maybe your brain is just hypocrite and knows that he has cancer but is in denial and lying to himself what you think about that ?
Well, that's clearly false.
Both a chair and a table are made out of wood, but clearly they are not the same thing.
And those are a lot more alike then dogs and rocks.
Your statement makes no sense at all.
Sure. If by "mind" you mean the consciousness that is produced by my brain.
If you mean some kind of "ghost" that exists independently from my brain / body - then no.
I have made NO faith based assertion. I stated that those who believe in abiogenesis had no explanation for the required inherent information required for a functional precursor organism based upon the encoded DNA to RNA to function model of all life on earth, except for many viruses who must parasatize DNA to reproduce.
I stated it as a fact, based upon my SCIENTIFIC study of the matter.
Obviously, by stating that I was inviting someone who could explain it within the framework of abiogenesis. No one did. I did hear about how I couldn't understand, how I was ignorant, etc, etc, ad nauseum. No one here yet has simply offered a reasonable solution to the problem, or even a totally unreasonable one. There are massive problems with abiogenesis, this is just the newest one.
It seems someone is operating in the faith realm, and that faith is being defended, but not with explanations.
My OPINION is that, based upon the big bang, the resultant physical laws of the universe, the specific distribution of stars and design of the universe, the place of earth in the universe and in relation to the sun in our solar system
no more evidence for the natural creation of life as for the supernatural
, I believe it began supernaturally
Further, Having had formal classes in the discipline of logic, and exposure to significant philosophy, both when I was an atheist,both these support the idea of a supernatural God
It is really ultimately a choice
, based upon ones evaluation of the available evidence, or lack of said evidence, isn't it ? Pascals wager makes sense to me.
No, it ultimately very logically says, " If I am right, I gain everything, and you gain nothing. If you are right, I lose nothing." So, why not bet on the possibility of winning everything ?
REALLY ? I don't quite understand. Something creating itself is a simpler explanation than something creating something ? A logic syllogism, nothing cannot create something, something exists, therefore something created everything.
How is it then that your brain can know that there is infection in your body and will try to get rid of it but you can not know that you have been infected or by what is that infection caused and where is it located?
If your brain would not be so selfish he would tell you " hey you have cancer go to doctor " and not after the cancer is alredy spread all over your body
Maybe brain could be hypocrite and just lie to himself and be in denial that he has cancer in body , what do you think about it ?
It's called the immune system and it operates at bottom on a rather simple action-reaction basis. Creating anti-bodies and all that.
Still not making any sense to me.
How is any of this related to the point I made about what i understand a "mind" to be?
Does everything have mind ? Plant , dog , human , ape , rock , dirt ?
Second question , why can't I just turn off sygnal from my broken foot so it does not hurt anymore with my brain after my leg has been treated by doctor and is in state of repairing . The further pain does not help me because it was there to make me notice that it's something wrong with it . It has been treated and I acknowledged it and would like to stop the pain from it . Why do I have to take morphine and not just stop it with my brain so it does not send sygnals to foot and gets sygnals in response all the time ?
No. Only those things that have a brain capable of that function.
How is that extremely bizar question in any way related to the point?
This is the best implicit argument against Design that I have read. Anytime. Anywhere. Thank you for the insight.Cellular functions would be way more efficient if the molecules actually organized themselves optimally. In reality, catalysts just move about mostly at random until their substrates come into contact with them. It'd be like turning a wood chipper on and filling the room it is in with wood until some eventually falls into the hole and becomes enough wood chips to satisfy demand, and then waiting for the extra, unchipped wood to just rot. It's horrifically inefficient and wasteful. Billions of years of evolution for the barely functioning hot mess that cells are.
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