Polykephalous

the bottom line is that most of it is breathed out as CO2 and water.

On 9/30/2022 at 6:58 PM, MigL said:

No wonder we have no more women on this forum.
Everyone is less puerile when women are present.
( always wanted to use the word 'puerile' )

No kidding!

Wow! I've been away for a few months and I can't believe the response from from everyone because "we2"  flashed the wifes boobs on this thread. Arguments were made about hypocritical Christians and about the things that went on in the OT, the Christians were right to point out that you can't use those arguments because it was a different world 2,000 years ago with outdated values that worked for them and don't work for us now in the present. So the Christians have won the argument because they accept that were nudity was frowned upon 2,000 years ago and now it's OK because they have evolved and cannot be compared to the god fearing men of the past, did I get it right?

On 3/13/2021 at 9:50 PM, Curious layman said:

Inspired by the banned books thread.

i read Blood Brothers . A play about twins separated at birth, lots of superstition and the differences in how different parts of society are treated IIRC. Very good, I really enjoyed it. Even thought about going to see the musical a few times.

 

And Of Mice and Men. Novel about Lenny Small and Lenny Milton, displaced ranch workers. The teacher read most of this and did the voices, so this was really enjoyable too. Didn't really understand it until a while ago when I read an excellent summary of it on Quora. Been thinking about reading it again.

We read Of Mice and Men at school and one day the teacher put us in the lecture room and showed us an old black & white movie on the TV of the story. The teacher left the room unattended and we all jumped in shock and awe when my friend pulled out the latest David Bowie LP and we talked about it until the teacher came back. Not convinced that 13y old kids where impressed by Lennie and George but I have to say I would love to see that movie again if I could find it, and also David Bowie is still cool!

Can I just look without commenting or does that make me a peeping-tom.

Arnold Schwarzenegger did come back in Judgement day. Holy smoke! it's him! the imortal! Arnold Schwarzenegger is jesus!

Just trying to educate and myself be educated by a "Varient Christian". (To my American "brothers", that's sarcsm!).

On 7/29/2020 at 3:59 AM, CharonY said:

Evolution is never a need. It is just something that happens if the genetic composition of a group starts changing. This can be due to random events, but also due to selective pressures (i.e. there is different reproductive success). 

With regard to human origins, DNA evidence strongly support divergence from a central group originating in Africa. From there we have multiple waves of migration. Also note that skin colour as  a whole is only a tiny part of our genetic history, it is mostly historical baggage that emphasizes it so much.

I do hope no one was offended by my using skin colour as an example, it wasn't meant as a superior or inferior reference to any race.

On 7/29/2020 at 8:59 AM, Strange said:

It is called "translation" for a reason.

Lots of things have been mistranslated. Either because it wasn't known what the original word means, or because it describes something unfamiliar to a European audience.

Jesus is the English translation of Yeshua (via Greek).

 

(I assume you are just mucking about, here, "or the craic")

On 7/29/2020 at 8:59 AM, Strange said:

It is called "translation" for a reason.

Lots of things have been mistranslated. Either because it wasn't known what the original word means, or because it describes something unfamiliar to a European audience.

Jesus is the English translation of Yeshua (via Greek).

 

(I assume you are just mucking about, here, "or the craic")

Mucking about infers humour, as in "One for the crack", I have just had someone tell me that Mary is not the correct name because the real name "Maryam" couldn't be used in the English language so the translator improvised. Oh and in Greek her name is "Agia Maria".

Am I wrong in believing that if a primitive group relocated to another environment that was unpleasant but not deadly, then there would be no need to evolve? Is it more possible that variants of humans originated in different parts of the world and mixed with each other?      

On 7/26/2020 at 1:38 PM, Ken Fabian said:

The kids that didn't get rickets would do better and go on to have more and healthier kids as adults - bigger families - than those that did get rickets. That sounds like natural selection, not sexual selection yet mate selection would be part of it. I'm not sure how obvious any connection with skin colour would be; there will be different susceptibility to deficiency illness according to lifestyle and dietary differences as well.

The more obvious mate selection criteria might be the unattractiveness of bow legged sick youths - choosing for health, not skin colour - but I suppose an enduring mate preference for lighter skins, as a sign of good luck re healthy children could emerge. But then again maybe we get coastal fisherfolk with dark skins and forest hunter gatherers with lighter skins.

So does that mean that any Africans who move to Ireland and don't take vitamins will have a high probability of being afflicted with rickets?  

On 7/26/2020 at 6:16 PM, Strange said:

What? No. The book was translated multiple times into different languages. At each translation, words (including names) were translated into the new language.

I can see that might be a bit hard to understand, but I'm sure it will make sense if you think about it for a bit.

But you can always read it in the original Aramaic or Greek, if you prefer.

So the translator had no respect for facts or reverence for Maryam and made the decision to change her name to something more comfortable and acceptable to the English. Wow, does this mean that other  things in the bible have been translated incorrectly for the comfort of the English? How come they didn't also translate Jesus to something like John or Colin? 

6 hours ago, Strange said:

It is a translation of (ultimately) Maryam:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_(name)

So someone decided that one of the most important characters in Christianity should no longer be known as "Maryam" because that makes her a foreigner, so her name was changed to Mary or Maria to pacify any objections to her origins and Jesus. 

Jesus was born a Jew, his father was a Jew, his mother was also a Jew, Mary is not a Jewish name, how can you get something as important as that wrong?

How about if God created nature for the benefit and pleasure of mankind, a garden of Eden perhaps. By the way, I am totally not religious.

Help me out here because I left school when I was 15 to work in a factory so I had to work things out for myself instead of being told how it is by a teacher or an elder. So my understanding of evolution is that if you pick up ten thousand Africans and drop them in Ireland  where no other humans of any colour exist, then you return 100,000 later the general population would have evolved to Blue eyed blonds because as soon as they hit ground zero they would have realised that the climate was really cold and they should only choose lighter skin mates, and the cold would prevent the darker skin men from reproducing because of the cold and being of a darker complexion they couldn't resource food as well as the lighter skin men who had all the girls and could sneak up to a vegetable without scaring it away. Have I got it right?

12 hours ago, Free_Pepe said:

Natural selection is self evident, there's not a person on the planet who disagrees with it! (if you die, you die! If you don't reproduce, you don't reproduce!)

But how come there seems to be so many people who take this blatantly obvious undeniable fact, and then assert that life is merely about our own survival/reproduction!?

(Just for the record, I'm not denying that life on our planet has developed gradually! The fossil record points to that fairly clearly!)

A giraffe grew a long neck so that it could reach the leafs on the top branches, that is so clever!  

On 5/15/2020 at 3:25 AM, 0utmahfays said:

As an avid follower of Christ I strongly believe you can intertwine scientific beliefs with God (i.e God caused the big bang, the simulation theory coinciding with the intelligent design, higher dimensions, etc.)

Brand new to the forum!

Would love to hear everyones non-biased opinion of this. 

On 5/15/2020 at 3:44 AM, NineTwentyEight said:

What if I told you that saying that the past is the past is no more accurate than saying the past is the future. Our perception of time is a matter of subjectivity. 

 

 

The science of God and all existence works scientifically until you involve any of the prophets. This is not my opinion, but a reality.