I'm going to knock off a bunch of these.
Read_Only said:
In your statement that I quoted, the two parts that I've bolded in this re-quote are the ones that are clearly self-contradictory to any person of science:
"I am a scientist. I know how to evaluate astrophysics research. I understand how a particle accelerator works, and why. I understand exactly why potassium cyanide kills the physical human body. I understand why an atomic bomb explodes, and I also understand many occult sciences, and much sorcery."
RO,
If I am to understand correctly: It is your understanding that a person cannot house understanding of two different disciplines in the same mind? A person cannot be know both Law and Medicine, both know how to be a Postmaster and an Electrician? Know both secular science and applied science? I contend a single mind is free to understand as it is able, as much as its capacity allows.
-SwanSword
Zyxoas said:
SwanSword's beliefs are the ultimate proof that, at least, some human brains have already begun devolving (note: it's not "de-evolution" but rather "devolution").
Hi Again, Zyxoas,
'De-evolution' packs more punch than devolution, and is easier to understand. I am an evolutionary prototype for those who can grasp technology so advanced it appears to be magic. Any sufficiently advanced technology appears to be magic, until it is understood. Because I don't want this technology being used for selfish gain, I make it public. No one is required to like it.
-SwanSword
Avatar said:
I don't remember the name of the species, but there is an anaerobic bacteria that lives about 2km below the surface and was discovered in a South African mine.
Any way that bacteria still possesses inactive genes for aerobic respiration and it means that it has evolved from a surface living, oxygen breathing bacteria.
Change the environment and the organism tries to adjust to it.
If the new environment requires simpler biology and the more complex structure is inefficient it may over time become a "lower order" organism, if you buy that separation.
Here are the ranks of order for Kingdom Animalia:
Lowest to highest
1). Cannot reproduce without host DNA
2). Single celled reproduction by mitosis
3). Ability to live without being surrounded by the solvent, water
4). Groups of independent unicelled organisms that cooperate
5). Symbiotic life forms
6). Organisms that are able to ingest food and water, and digest
7). Organisms composed of many differentiated cells, dependent on one another for the survival of the organism
8). Sexual reproduction
9). Faculties of emotion
10). Willingness to make sacrifices out of love
11). Faculties of reason
12). Use of tools
13). Use of fire
14). Use of Agriculture
15). Formation of civilizations governed by what are best known today as The Ten Commandments
16). Ability to use patterns of beliefs to solve the problems created by temporal physical existence.
17). Discovery of Absolute Truth, and assimilation of Absolute Power.
All animals other than humans are eight orders from finishing their evolution. Man is one order from finishing his evolution.
-SwanSword
SpuriousMonkey said:
1. Modern lynx have two sets of lower molars. In the fossil record felines (not varda) have lacked the second molar since the Miocene.
2. some lizards in South America - digits re-evolved after loss of digits.
3. some scientists claim stick insects have re-evolved wings (Whiting et al 2003: nature 421:264).
4. digits that re-evolve are morphologically different.
5. re-evolution of ovipary (snakes)
None of these examples demonstrate a change in evolutionary order. Natural selection allows a species to adapt to a changing environment over time. Because an environment changes, and an evolutionary artifact becomes useful for a second, third, or seventh time; does not mean the organism has increased or decreased its rank of order on the evolutionary scale.
Also, digging up skeletons, and then deciding who has the most credible guess at what kind of animal it belonged to; and then making the person with the best credential's version the truth that mankind will forever believe, until that expert retires, and another glory hound cooks up some other fantasy fitting the tiniest amount of evidence; is pure conjecture based on flawed rationale, with no other purpose than to give people an excuse not to believe in God, and therefore license to commit sin.
The average IQ of someone with PhD. after their name is 95. Credentials guarantee not that someone is an expert, or even competent, but only that he was subjected to secular humanisitic indoctrination at a post secondary school level, for a given number of hours.
Take a PhD.ed clinical psychologist for an example, he will have a client come to his office, have that client confess sin for an hour; Either sin other people did to the client, or sins the client committed; but the psychologist will not offer forgiveness for the sin, because if he did, he wouldn't have that client to keep paying him for not forgiving his sins.
A person can go to confession at no cost, be forgiven by Jesus Christ, and that's it. They don't need to go back unless they sin again. Secular humanism means big money for a lot of people. The key to reducing The Western World into robots, that get fed the slime oozing out of the television, the lies spread by women's magazines about things as crazy as women faking orgasms, and women wanting mentulate men; is to keep people from hearing The Name Jesus Christ.
I can tell you from personal experience that a large male organ hurts Caucasian women. If a guy wants to date Caucasian women, and he has more than the average guy, she's going to complain.
-SwanSword
RO said:
Hmmm... "Alternative Theories." I didn't realize that was another term for woo-wooism. How about something more to the point - like "Crackpot Posts?" Calm down? I'm having fun poking at obvious woo-woos and other varieties of crackpots.
They are such easy targets that it's hard not to. Sort of like shooting fish in a barrel.
There's a term for inability to express one's self constructively, but I can't remember what it is. It's easy to discredit what a person has never read, or can't understand. Most people function under the assumption that if they can't understand something, or aren't interested in something, that those things aren't relevant or important. This shows that there are definite limits to intellect, but none whatsoever for stupidity.
SpuriousMonkey said:
Jesus already offers people immortality. It's the work of the devil to lure people with falls tales of immortality.
I knew someone could say it. That's what I'm trying to tell this board. The technology that comes from Jesus Christ, much unlike machine technology, promises to bring mankind into an age where Immortality is the goal of technology. Technologies offered by godless sciences will cause everyone to eventually wind up dead. That is not the course we want to pursue.
Death is bad. Life is good. We don't want death. We want Life. Ask any person if he wants to live, or die, and he will say he wants to live, unless he's looking for sympathy, and says he wants to die, in which case if you volunteer to kill him with a pistol, saving him the trouble, he'll admit he doesn't really want to die.
-SwanSword
Avatar said:
Ah, SwanSword, good times, you remind me of some lost posters. I look forward to further entertainment.
Oh, and I agree with spurious.
I'm glad you're entertained, because that's why I write. How do posters get lost?, And if I'm here, how can I remind you of someone who got lost? I seem to be getting mostly comments about me, and not my posts. I don't mind. People persecute me, subtly cut me down, fly into blind fits of homicidal rage (I've had six attempts on my life within six months, six days, and six hours of each other.), I was accused of having disordered thinking by a judge after I gave testimony in court. I invoked my right to speak, for the record, and said, "For the record: The judge has made a medical finding of disordered thinking without the proper credentials". The judge ordered everything regarding disordered thinking stricken.
SpuriousMonkey said:
wikipedia_Bonobo said:
Sexual intercourse plays a major role in Bonobo society, being used as a greeting, a means of conflict resolution and post-conflict reconciliation, and as favors traded by the females in exchange for food. Bonobos are the only non-human apes to have been observed engaging in all of the following sexual activities: face-to-face genital sex (most frequently female-female, then male-female and male-male), tongue kissing, and oral sex.
That is nonsense. What is being mistaken for justification within the animal kingdom for humans to engage in every godless pagan sex ritual, is not sexual in nature. Primates are not capable of developing nonproductive sexual behavior, because the entire species would quickly be annihilated.
-SwanSword
SwanSword said:
Anytime an Immortal tests his Immortality, he dies.
Oli said:
Sorta like telling everyone you can swim, until you actually get into the pool, hmmm?
Without the ability to believe swimming is possible, there is no possibility of swimming.
-SwanSword
SwanSword said:
It is an empirical truth, and maxim of evolution, that higher order life forms can only evolve from lower order life forms, and a higher order life forms never evolve into lower order life forms. Agreed?
Hipparchia said:
I am not an expert on this, but your statements do not ring true. As I understand it from my reading there are lots of instances where 'advanced' evolutionary features are lost. I think one of the other posters made mention of a specific example above, but I believe there are many of these. Secondly, I believe the notion of higher order lifeforms is not popular among biologists. They might refer to a creature bieng more complex, but that is a different thing.
Since your opening statement seems to be wrong I'm afraid I didn't invest the time to read the rest of your post. (No disrespect, I just have a family to look after.
The opening statement is the gatekeeper keeping those without proper understanding from the remainder of the post. Acquisition of Truth requires diligence. See above for evolutionary orders.
-SwanSword
Orleander said:
If people are de-evolving, why does my son have no wisdom teeth? I bet people are being born without an appendix as well.
Since dentistry, there have always been a good proportion of people that have no wisdom teeth. Lack of wisdom teeth is not a sign of evolution, except to people who guess at The Truth, and just say wisdom teeth are evolutionary relics. There is no proof for any part of the story of evolution. However, there is plenty of proof that natural selection occurs within a given species.
Also, surgical removal of organs that are actually necessary for immune health; and without which people are chronically ill for the rest of their lives, generating a steady stream of income for the same people who remove the organs, under the guise of legitimate medical care, because if a doctor says it has to come out, that absolutely must be the truth, because a doctor said it; in no way affects evolution.
-SwanSword
RedArmy said:
don't have time to read all that right now when there's so much else to read and so little time to do it. It looks interesting, so I'll read it in the morning, I promise. I hate to generalise about these things but maybe this is a valid extrapolation about us unbelievers: it's possible that we're just busier.
I used to work 16 hours a day, 7 days a week. That is the hard way to make money. I started practicing Roman Catholicism, and studying it, and I never needed to work again. I have plenty of money, enough that I need to give a good proportion of it away to the poor. I own everything I have ever wanted. I'm like a little kid whose Father spoils him rotten. I'm retired, and I am sustained for life.
That's what happens when people place all their trust in God. It takes effort to get to know God, and time, but if someone gives God 1/2 hour per day, God will give that person five extra hours per day.
How much time and money could you save if:
You always picked the fastest checkout line
Always got a good parking space
Always got good service in every restaurant you ever dined in
Your children were always agreeable, and instantly obeyed you
The laundry always came clean the first time
You never experienced auto crashes, or traffic jams
You had the dream job of a lifetime, that gave you gobs of cash, and endless fulfillment; and you couldn't wait to get there each morning
Your spouse always obeyed you, or was obeyed by you, and made you feel like a king, or queen, serving you, hand and foot, for at least 15 minutes a day
You had a great marriage, and never argued, but sought only a deeper understanding of you spouse, as they probed your heart, fulfilling their role as finger of God
Your car never broke down
People were always willing to help you when you asked
People would loan you money without asking you to pay it back
Whenever you needed a piece of information, it dropped right in your lap
Whenever you couldn't find something you knew existed, you could ask Saint Anthony for help in locating it, and you would instantly find it
You were organized to the degree it takes to be truly efficient
You could always remember everything
You could find solutions to problems that mystify others
you always had a burning Love in your heart that allowed you to give and receive love and forgiveness, overlooking the carelessness and selfishness of those who need love and forgiveness
You spent no time pursuing vengeful emotions, and never experienced jealousy or anger
When people would meet you they would just want to be near you, and ask you all kinds of questions, and young women or men would try to mate with you because they wanted their children to be Children of God
You always got everything you needed, somehow, and you never needed to worry about it
You always got straight through on the telephone to exactly the person who could help you accomplish whatever you needed to
You always found the best airline, and always got a deal on the flight you needed
When your car got stolen, the thief felt so guilty he brought it back, and asked for help to stay away from crime, so you told him about confession, and he soon became a wealthy entrepreneur selling sunglasses at service stations, and called you on the phone saying, "You know, Red Army, I was going to commit suicide, but you led me to God, and saved my life. I would like to reward you. I was thinking of giving you $600,000.00, so you can buy that new house you and your spouse looked at, for cash."
This is what God will do for anyone who gives Him 1/2 hour per day to visit, receive His Love, let Him heal the wounds of injustice, mend your broken heart, speak to you, listen to you, and spoil you rotten, like a Child of The Lord God Almighty, with an inheritance to Rule The All, a gift from your Heavenly Father.
If a person can't imagine what is possible, it remains impossible. No one can ever have what they can't imagine. Desire like a king, so you may be satisfied like a king.
-SwanSword