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An off-topic comment was deleted. One more offense and the poster will be put on moderator approval, where EVERY post gets vetted to ensure it's on topic prior to anyone else seeing it. FA,FO. Thank you.

Ken is an idiot of the highest order, and I could see taking offense if you think he's right, but unless you do, the shoe should not fit. If it doesn't fit, no one's talking about you.

Ken Hamm was mentioned.

Trading Places Denholm Elliott Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Wild swing time. "Soapdish?" "Switching Channels"?

If it were true that bands had to tour together on the basis of their names (Styx and the Stones, Ratt Poison...) , then this band was the one that would have to tour WITH Simple Minds.

Thanks!

From the 6:00 to 11:00 mark on the video, an explanation is given for the beginning of Proto-life, but the question is how do they know this for sure?

Thank you for your replies. Since I've already come to the conclusion that the bible was written by men, articles giving more evidence to this should not be surprising to me, and yet they still do have an element of shock to them. Go figure. I guess it's like putting another nail in the coffin while knowing there are many more nails out there that I don't know about yet. I've read somewhere that the accounts of god's involvement in the biblical wars were written by men for political reasons like you said Raf. The website below seems to give other reasons as well, so I guess I'm delving into this after all. https://www.historyextra.com/period/ancient-history/history-bible-origins-who-wrote-when-how-reliable-historical-record/

I did some moderating here even though I am involved in the discussion. The above post is not directed at anyone on GSC until and unless they accept that it describes their feelings. No one here is being accused of fitting that description. It was describing other Christians on other sites, one of whom is specifically named. If you do not feel this way or act this way, the post is not talking about you. The offending posts were hidden, as were the responses. Another mod may or may not decide what to restore. In the meantime, this thread is about evolution v creation in the context of a person seeking to examine evolution without religious preconceptions. Make it about me again and the post gets deleted. Do it as often as you want and it's gone. Stay on the g-dam topic. Thank you.

One of the first things I realized pre-deconversion is that the story of Job was just a story and not history. It does not pretend to have actually taken place in history. It was a fable, no more historical than The Fox and the Grapes. Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob... fictional characters in an origin story designed to unify a politically vulnerable people. It took a little longer for Moses and Joshua to sink in.

Which of you by being a megawatt movie star can add a cubit to his stature?

Heh heh heh. George thought he was completely lost, and he was. Was this Simple Minds?

This streaming show is based on a series of 24 novels. Two movies have also been based on the novels. The star of the TV show read all of the novels in preparation for the role. The actor playing the title character in the series is about twice the size of the actor playing him in the movies. Although the movie actor is a well-known action star, I find the TV actor more believable in this role. The title character is considered by some an antihero, but I prefer the description as a knight errant. He refuses to be called a "vagrant," preferring "hobo." Traditionally, hoboes work for their sustenance and are generally law-abiding, whereas vagrants beg or steal. The star said he thought that playing the title character, a man of few words, would be a cinch in terms of dialogue. That was until he had a scene describing a case in great detail, where he had to spew out four pages of monologue in 30 seconds. That required some extra study at night. George

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The problem from an unbeliever's perspective is that some believers tend to hide God in "I don't know." Where does thunder come from? I don't know. GOD!!! Actually, there's a natural explanation. Does it account for hurricanes? No, I don't know where... GOD!!! Actually, there's a natural cause for hurricanes. Evolution answers a lot of questions and challenges a lot of preconceptions. But it doesn't answer a LOT. Nor does it claim to. How did life begin? Evolution does not answer. The answer does not affect evolution at all. So even if it was God who got the ball rolling, that does not change the FACT of evolution. It happened. It's how we arrived at the variety of species we have today. It's why there are more species of birds on earth than there are verses in the New Testament. Some creationists are fond of asking questions that lack foundation and comprehension. Why is evolution "only" a theory? Because so is gravity. Theories don't graduate into laws. Theories in science are conclusions, not hypotheses. You don't experiment to prove a theory. You experiment, get the results and incorporate them into the theory. Evolution is not a hypothesis. It's not a preconception. It's the opposite of a bias. It's what you get when you ditch the biases and let the evidence speak for itself. But there will always be questions to which we don't have the answer. And we will answer "I don't know." And the Ken Hamms of the world will say aha! GOD is THERE! Until we find the answer. Then God is elsewhere. Every. Single. Time.

Sounds familiar, but I'm not coming up with it. George

"If I am wrong, I'm insane... but if I'm right, it's even worse than if I was wrong." "I'll just die if I don't get this recipe. I'll just die if I don't get this recipe. I'll just die if I don't get this recipe." "I can't just call him up and say, 'Hi! I used be Joanna Ingalls. You deflowered me twelve years ago. Would you check my water?'" "I don't think that, uh, Ed ever loved me. I mean, uh, he married me because I looked right and it made a big impression on the other TV executives for his wife to look like I look. God knows he's given me things, I... I'm not complaining on that score, but... uh... he never loved me." George

I am completely lost. And the Raf-WW diversion didn't help any. George

Christopher Reeve? George

I think you've done it again, Human, unless these are the names of actors in a movie. I don't recognize any of the names. George

"And she could hear the highway breathing And she could see a nearby factory. She's making sure she is not dreaming. See the lights of a neighbor's house. Now she's starting to rise. Take a minute to concentrate And she opens up her eyes." "Rising up above the earth. Moving into the universe And she's drifting this way and that. Not touching the ground at all And she's up above the yard." "no doubt about it She isn't sure about what she's done. No time to think about what to tell them. No time to think about what she's done" "And things were looking like a movie She had a pleasant elevation She's moving out in all directions,"

Raf! I saw in another thread you're suspected to have killed Mufasa. I was shocked. I would never have pictured you as a psycho-killer....

I tried to answer some of this but it didn't post so maybe I screwed it up or maybe it will later, or whatever. I see there's an array of notes about the thread, the direction, the this or that, something being locked, unlocked. I don't get it, and it's too tiresome for my old brain. If you'd like I can send a more detail response in email, message me here an address. I promise not to deluge you with ads for books, gadgets or health beverages. : p

nice....keep your wit about you, wisdom will guide