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  1. Laughing Coyote

    Jesus paid the bill so that we can have our fill

    Maybe the pastor runs a gas station during the week?
  2. Laughing Coyote

    Does anyone actually believe that the US is capable of any kind of revolution during our lifetimes?

    The man who promoted revolution nevertheless put it aptly, "People make their own history, but they do not make it as they please." I think ultimately it has something to do with the laws of thermodynamics which are driving the universe, but I haven't quite figured out the connection.
  3. Laughing Coyote

    The validity of intelligent design

    This is not my answer to your well-considered post, except to say that your initial two points -- that a single cell could not have morphed into a human being and that this could not have been blundered upon by chance are well taken and true, but neither are proposed by natural selection. (I...
  4. Laughing Coyote

    The validity of intelligent design

    This quote asserts that mutations are random, something that no biologist would deny. But then what is the thought process that leads you to deduce from that statement that evolution (from the Latin for "unrolling") is itself random? Mutations may be seen as the manner that new traits or...
  5. Laughing Coyote

    The validity of intelligent design

    Or, to put it in frame of question, you assert god is spirit, so what is spirit? I'll give you the etymology of the word, which is Latin spiritus a breathing (respiration, and of the wind), breath; which translates the Greek pneuma, breath; which translates Hebrew ruah, breath. There was a...
  6. Laughing Coyote

    The validity of intelligent design

    On what basis are you saying that anybody claims it is random? Could you cite even one sentence in Darwin's Origin or Species, that might make you feel that the theory of natural selection is random (note the operative word "selection"). Once a basis is given for such a position we can discuss...
  7. Laughing Coyote

    The validity of intelligent design

    On what basis are you saying that anybody claims it is random? Could you cite even one sentence in Darwin's Origin or Species, that might make you feel that the theory of natural selection is random. Once a basis is given for such a position we can discuss it and ascertain whether it is indeed...
  8. Laughing Coyote

    The validity of intelligent design

    I should hope that good scientist is questioning climate change, in every detail, just as good scientists question everything. I would however would like to see sources for your "thirty thousand." The number I saw was 3,000, mostly employed in petroleum and related industries, as opposed to the...
  9. Laughing Coyote

    The validity of intelligent design

    Then you are halfway to being a good scientist. Science advances by lack of faith in human sources. The other half is that when you disagree, you devise ways to test it. Everything in scientific knowledge is continually being being considered and test Actually end times Apostle Paul referred...
  10. Laughing Coyote

    The validity of intelligent design

    The question is what are selective pressures at work. Usually there are very many, perhaps countless, pressures working simultaneously on all different elements of an organism, making a population of organisms into constantly changing collection of compromises. Certainly an eagle eye would be...
  11. Laughing Coyote

    The validity of intelligent design

    If you start by saying you can't imagine something, then it will be unlikely that you will imagine it. No? Your question should begin with the question of how can I go about to figure it out? It does seem to be a mystery to me that billions of people read the various texts in the world and take...
  12. Laughing Coyote

    The validity of intelligent design

    What you are describing in your first two sentences is basically the theory of thermodynamics, which underlies all the sciences, including evolution. Everything that evolves is balanced against its energy cost, which can become a burden too great for it to carry. That is why animals seem to have...
  13. Laughing Coyote

    The validity of intelligent design

    Umm, I would like to know exactly where Darwin himself did imply this? ID likes to take things such as Darwin's introduction to his discussion of the the structure of the eye, for example, in which he says the eye is so complex that you would think that only some creator could have designed it...
  14. Laughing Coyote

    The validity of intelligent design

    That's fine, for belief, which implies that for whatever reason one has excluded other possibilities. The Big Bang is not my opinion but simply the best explanation for observations that I am familiar with. Maybe if I got some different observations, or divine insight, I might use that as my...
  15. Laughing Coyote

    God's Existence

    Mutations are relatively rare because there is a uniform rate of background radiation and there are built-in editing systems that repair damage and flaws in reproduction of the DNA. But still they slip in at a statistically predictable rate, simply due to the limitations of the system. Humans...
  16. Laughing Coyote

    The validity of intelligent design

    This is interesting. Could you give examples of functionality without specificity so we can test your premise? Regarding your second and third sentences, Darwin dealt also with these topics in detail in the Origin of Species and his conclusions make up part of the core of his theory. If you...
  17. Laughing Coyote

    The validity of intelligent design

    So I guess you are implying that they can get over it? That's fair enough.
  18. Laughing Coyote

    The validity of intelligent design

    Umm, ... better understanding of the minds of creationists?
  19. Laughing Coyote

    The validity of intelligent design

    The Big Bang itself is not "fact" until it can be empirically observed. However it seems to be the best explanation fitting what we can observe: expanding university, closeness of galaxies in the early universe, grouping of galaxies due to gravity, background radiation, high content of hydrogen...
  20. Laughing Coyote

    The validity of intelligent design

    There is definitely a lot of hidden political and economic agendas behind it. For example, reading some of their websites way back, I found there was stuff indicating an interest in undoing the endangered species act and generally make open house on exploitation of the ecosphere. Fisheries at...
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