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Old 09-24-2009, 09:17 AM
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What I ask is for people to stop caring about evolution and try to start to figure out ways to deal with the ozone, overpopulation, and other issues that need pretty much immediate fixing.
Often the study of evolution can help us understand how to deal with these problems by seeing how they were dealt with in the past (only talking about overpopulation and things that deal with potential biologically originated disasters, like diseases).
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Old 09-24-2009, 10:26 AM
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Often the study of evolution can help us understand how to deal with these problems by seeing how they were dealt with in the past (only talking about overpopulation and things that deal with potential biologically originated disasters, like diseases).
Holy crap... this thread is still going on?! Well then...

Case in point:

Evolutionary algorithm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You can apply the theory of evolution to a lot of other fields. It's not limited to biology.
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Science doesn't address God. At all. So belief in God does not inhibit you in any way.
Agreed. However, the poster has (had) "Christianity" as his designated religion.
While Theism has no bearing on science (apart from the fact that Theists believe in something that has no proof), Christianity, as a founded and regulated religion has a plethora of teachings that oppose science, and sway their followers away from the basic scientific process of thought.

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Have you ever stared at the person in a mirror and wondered if you were a reflection of it?
Yes. However, I continue to exist after he walks away.
Now then, that brings us to a real brain tweaker..... have you considered the possibility that mirrors are windows to parallel universes with almost exactly the same set of occurrences within them; and wherein your alternate persona is always approaching a mirror at the same time, in the same lighting, and wearing the same clothing as you.....at which point he carries out exactly the same actions as you (but on the opposite side of his body). ?
Think about it.
If the multiverse is truly infinite, then it HAS TO be happening somewhere.......in fact, it HAS TO be happening in multiple somewheres.
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Old 09-24-2009, 03:29 PM
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What I ask is for people to stop caring about evolution and try to start to figure out ways to deal with the ozone, overpopulation, and other issues that need pretty much immediate fixing.
I have the solution for the ozone. Ozone In A Can. For $10.99 I will sell you a can of ozone and you can replenish the ozone layer yourself.
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If the multiverse is truly infinite, then it HAS TO be happening somewhere.......in fact, it HAS TO be happening in multiple somewheres.
Perhaps the Genesis account of the cosmos actually exists then?
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Perhaps the Genesis account of the cosmos actually exists then?
In one reality - it does - but I don't know that anyone would actually want to live there.
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I bet that there is a place for people in this world who have had their life taken unfairly away from them before they had a chance to find out about jesus
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I bet that there is a place for people in this world who have had their life taken unfairly away from them before they had a chance to find out about jesus
Uh, yeah, it's the same place we all end up. Dead.
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Christianity, as a founded and regulated religion has a plethora of teachings that oppose science, and sway their followers away from the basic scientific process of thought.
I beg to differ. My grade 11 science teacher was a nun.

Evolution is nothing more than mutation that occasionally strengthens a species. It takes generations for even small changes to occur. Evolution does not disprove the existence of a god nor does it disprove creationism. it just means that when the aforementioned god created the universe we didn't look the way we do now. If your hung up on the "in his own image thing " then god is a giant amoeba.
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@Autoadict: fine. Keep thinkin that.
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