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Corvus Drake
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08-03-2006 11:44
From: Zuzu Fassbinder
I'll give you 100$L if you can get him to understand Maxwell's demon. :p



I should get that much just for explaining the fundaments of thermodynamics and having the testes to think he'd actually listen.
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Kevn Klein
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08-03-2006 11:45
From: Lordfly Digeridoo
It is a generation later. But it's a different type of microbe.

Given twenty, thirty, a thousand, three thousand generations, isn't it conceivable that it will be a completely different lifeform?

Anything is possible, if you believe. But as I said earlier, it's clearly a matter of faith.
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08-03-2006 11:47
From: Corvus Drake
I should get that much just for explaining the fundaments of thermodynamics and having the testes to think he'd actually listen.

I read your posts and reply thoughtfully. You might try it some time.
Corvus Drake
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08-03-2006 11:47
From: Kevn Klein
Anything is possible, if you believe. But as I said earlier, it's clearly a matter of faith.


No, it isn't. It's a matter of accepting something is possible. Faith is saying something is absolute.
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Corvus Drake
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08-03-2006 11:47
From: Kevn Klein
I read your posts and reply thoughtfully. You might try it some time.


You've yet to reply to my refutation of your counterpoint.
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Kevn Klein
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08-03-2006 11:48
From: Corvus Drake
No, it isn't. It's a matter of accepting something is possible. Faith is saying something is absolute.

I see, like having faith there is no God? Or having faith life came from non-life?
Zuzu Fassbinder
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08-03-2006 11:49
From: Kevn Klein
Anything is possible, if you believe. But as I said earlier, it's clearly a matter of faith.

Nope, it is measureably different on a genetic level.
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Kevn Klein
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08-03-2006 11:51
From: Corvus Drake
You've yet to reply to my refutation of your counterpoint.

Sorry I can't keep up with three or more at the same time. I will get to your posts if they are thoughtful. I miss some when the scroll flies by, but I give it my best to answer all thoughtful questions and respond to points with counter-points.
Lordfly Digeridoo
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08-03-2006 11:53
From: Kevn Klein
Anything is possible, if you believe. But as I said earlier, it's clearly a matter of faith.


That's a horrible dodge.

Okay, look at fruit flies. Scientists experiment with fruit flies because their generational span is less than 24 hours. They have seen, with their own eyes, as of today, changes in the charactaristics of separated fruit fly populations.

Is it a miracle? No. It's science.
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Corvus Drake
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08-03-2006 11:54
From: Kevn Klein
I see, like faith there is no God? Or faith life came from non-life?


Two different comparisons. And you're still not countering my earlier refutation to your counterpoint. You're avoiding the real issue.

Doubt is not faith. You can doubt your faith, but you don't require faith to have doubt.

Atheism is a matter of doubting the existence of God. It is not a matter of having faith that there is not one. Faith implies that you would hope for or want one. Atheists typically do neither; to them, a God just doesn't seem plausible.

God is, technically, non-life. Deity is not a corporeal being.
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Zuzu Fassbinder
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08-03-2006 11:54
From: Kevn Klein
Sorry I can't keep up with three or more at the same time.

Which explains a lot about your understanding of evolution.
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Kevn Klein
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08-03-2006 11:55
From: Corvus Drake
LOL a fish turning into a bird? Now that is a bit proposterous, and noone has ever claimed anything evolved along such unreasonable lines.

I recall fish->amphibian, Amphibian -> Reptilian and Mammalian.

Well, and the more common fish->misused and tired religious iconery.

I know, there is no connection to birds, unless one believes the Archaeopteryx connection. The point is if everything came from a single life form as is now accepted by evolutionist, then everything came out of the primordial swamp.
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08-03-2006 11:55
From: Lordfly Digeridoo
That's a horrible dodge.

Okay, look at fruit flies. Scientists experiment with fruit flies because their generational span is less than 24 hours. They have seen, with their own eyes, as of today, changes in the charactaristics of separated fruit fly populations.

Is it a miracle? No. It's science.

its time for
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Corvus Drake
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08-03-2006 11:55
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Refuted because, by definition, that would make the universe an Open System.

An open system accepts input from outside that system. That's essentially the definition of it. If another dimension is able to influence our own, regardless of the rules of that dimension, that means our dimension is an open system, as it is accepting input.

SL is also an Open System. The ability for players to input data, as well as any influences our RL's have on SL play, including the affects LL projects in the environment as maintenance and development, makes it an Open System.


Reposted. I'll keep reposting it until you counter it, unless you're ready to concede that you don't have a damn clue what you're talking about, Kevn.
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08-03-2006 11:56
From: Kevn Klein
I know, there is no connection to birds, unless one believes the Archaeopteryx connection. The point is if everything came from a single life form as is now accepted by evolutionist, then everything came out of the primordial swamp.

there was no swamp till plants evolved
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08-03-2006 11:57
From: Kevn Klein
I see, like faith there is no God? Or faith life came from non-life?

Or faith that some invisible being magically zapped everything into existence out of the void?
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Corvus Drake
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08-03-2006 11:57
From: Kevn Klein
I know, there is no connection to birds, unless one believes the dinosaur connection. The point is if everything came from a single life form as is now accepted by evolutionist, then everything came out of the primordial swamp.


Noone said a single life form.

A microbiological creature, such as a single-celled organism, could be many, many different species that evolved into many species of multicelled organisms.

And even creationists believe that God used the stuff of the earth to create Man. Primordial swamp = gooey dirt.
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Kevn Klein
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08-03-2006 12:01
From: Corvus Drake
Two different comparisons. And you're still not countering my earlier refutation to your counterpoint. You're avoiding the real issue.

Doubt is not faith. You can doubt your faith, but you don't require faith to have doubt.

Atheism is a matter of doubting the existence of God. It is not a matter of having faith that there is not one. Faith implies that you would hope for or want one. Atheists typically do neither; to them, a God just doesn't seem plausible.

God is, technically, non-life. Deity is not a corporeal being.

I disagree. Atheism, by definition, requires faith. When one believes a certain thing absolutely, without proof of it being true, accepts it by faith.
Kevn Klein
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08-03-2006 12:03
From: Corvus Drake
Noone said a single life form.

A microbiological creature, such as a single-celled organism, could be many, many different species that evolved into many species of multicelled organisms.

And even creationists believe that God used the stuff of the earth to create Man. Primordial swamp = gooey dirt.

That isn't the accepted theory. The widely accepted theory says all life is related by the fact they came from a single source. That's why they say all DNA is so similar, and they use that as evidence for evolution.
Zuzu Fassbinder
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08-03-2006 12:03
From: Kevn Klein
I disagree. Atheism, by definition, requires faith. When one believes a certain thing absolutely, without proof of it being true, accepts it by faith.

Watch him guys, he's changing the topic because he's losing the argument about evolution.
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Corvus Drake
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08-03-2006 12:03
From: Kevn Klein
I disagree. Atheism, by definition, requires faith. When one believes a certain thing absolutely, without proof of it being true, accepts it by faith.



They fall on their own observation and the observations of others. Therefore, they still reference proof, be it empirical or not.

You're not diverting this conversation to something that has no bearing on it. Address the thermodynamics argument or spend the rest of this thread with your failure being constantly and consistently addressed. Your choice.
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08-03-2006 12:04
From: Kevn Klein
I know, there is no connection to birds, unless one believes the Archaeopteryx connection.

You mean, like educated, working biologists accept the Archaeopteryx as a transition between fish and birds? The really annoying part of all this, Kevn, is that Creationists love to scream about there being no missing link -- and when such a link is laid in front of them, they refuse to accept it. You don't get to change the rules as you go, chum.

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The point is if everything came from a single life form as is now accepted by evolutionist, then everything came out of the primordial swamp.

No, not a primordial swamp. More likely it was the chaotic, volcano-laced oceans of primitive Earth.

Newsflash: Results of the Human Genome Project have discovered that
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In a set of 289 human genes implicated in diseases, 177 are closely similar to fruit fly genes, including genes that play roles in cancers, in kidney, blood, and neurological diseases, and in metabolic and immune-system disorders. "The underlying biochemistry of fruit flies and humans is remarkably similar," says Hoskins, "so fruit flies can provide clues to understanding human diseases caused by defective genes."

Hey, whaddya know? Humans and fruit flies have remarkably similar biochemistry! That speaks very powerfully for a common source of life, I'd say.
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08-03-2006 12:04
From: Kevn Klein
That isn't the accepted theory. The widely accepted theory says all life is related by the fact they came from a single source. That's why they say all DNA is so similar, and they use that as evidence for evolution.



Erm. No. Saying "Primordial ooze" does imply a single source. But it wasn't all one puddle. NOONE thinks what you just said.
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Kevn Klein
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08-03-2006 12:05
From: Corvus Drake
They fall on their own observation and the observations of others. Therefore, they still reference proof, be it empirical or not.

You're not diverting this conversation to something that has no bearing on it. Address the thermodynamics argument or spend the rest of this thread with your failure being constantly and consistently addressed. Your choice.

In response to your post. If you don't want a response, np.
Lordfly Digeridoo
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08-03-2006 12:06
From: Kevn Klein
That isn't the accepted theory. The widely accepted theory says all life is related by the fact they came from a single source. That's why they say all DNA is so similar, and they use that as evidence for evolution.


...no, the evidence for evolution is by watching things with short generational timespans (such as fruit flies) evolve over time.

You're confusing abiogenesis (ie spontaneous generation, which was disproven in the 1600's) with modern day evolutionary theory.
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