my daughter has been 'going out' with a black gentleman for the last year.
they are very much in love by the looks of things and have long term plans.. however, opposition has recently come from somewhere i did not expect.
it turns out that he has been very upset with his mother since she made several unpleasant remarks to him.
| When my daughter was 13 a black boy was intersted in her. He came by after school often. I finally asked him one day "James , do you believe that Black is beautiful?" He replied "Yes"- I then told him, " Then, why don't you go find yourself a Black girlfriend?" He had the strangest look on his face and he stopped calling and coming by anymore. |
Yup that sounds like one of them there racists. I blame the education system.
my daughter has been 'going out' with a black gentleman for the last year.
they are very much in love by the looks of things and have long term plans.. however, opposition has recently come from somewhere i did not expect.
it turns out that he has been very upset with his mother since she made several unpleasant remarks to him.
| I'm afraid to say jayhawk is 100% correct, mixed race kids cause alot of trouble as well. |
I don't think you are explaining yourself very well, because what you are saying is the dumbest thing I have ever heard, and you can't be THAT dumb.
i've been scanning thru geronimo's recent thread on evolution, & have really enjoyed reading all the fascinating responses.
i was going to post in there, but was worried it might get buried.
many may not know me here, as i've barely posted, but in a nutshell, i'm still in the org (somewhat trapped at the moment) but consider myself a christian with somewhat leftish leanings.
| believed that the energy or force behind what thrust the universe in motion was what represents "God" to them, would evolutionists have a problem with this? |
Lovelylil, I think your questions have been well answered by others (far better than I could have).
Can I turn the questioning back on you, and ask what you mean when you say 'evolutionist'? It strikes me as odd that you would ask what an evolutionist thinks about how the universe started, it's like asking what psychologists think about the theory of plate tectonics. Evolutionary theory says nothing about the start of the universe, or even the start of life on Earth.
i've been scanning thru geronimo's recent thread on evolution, & have really enjoyed reading all the fascinating responses.
i was going to post in there, but was worried it might get buried.
many may not know me here, as i've barely posted, but in a nutshell, i'm still in the org (somewhat trapped at the moment) but consider myself a christian with somewhat leftish leanings.
| However, you have an appifiny and reliease that everything would make so much more sence if a all knowing and all powerful 'God' |
Epiphany wouldnt cut it, you'd need data. If I had an epiphany but no data, I wouldn't even open my mouth. I have seen things which dont exist. I dont trust everything my mind tells me, the human mind is not an infallible computer of outside inputs, it is a constructive and error-prone reasoning tool. Science has rules designed to remove the fallibility of human thinking from our collective attempts to understand existence.
my daughter has been 'going out' with a black gentleman for the last year.
they are very much in love by the looks of things and have long term plans.. however, opposition has recently come from somewhere i did not expect.
it turns out that he has been very upset with his mother since she made several unpleasant remarks to him.
Yep, racism sucks from whatever angle.
i've been scanning thru geronimo's recent thread on evolution, & have really enjoyed reading all the fascinating responses.
i was going to post in there, but was worried it might get buried.
many may not know me here, as i've barely posted, but in a nutshell, i'm still in the org (somewhat trapped at the moment) but consider myself a christian with somewhat leftish leanings.
My point is:
Genetic bottlenecks are entirely in accordance with evolutionary theory. There are well known instances such as for humans that are used in discussions of the evidence FOR evolution. They are not a good argument against evolution (I don't actually see how they can be used as an argument against evolution).
Unless you meant something different when you said 'This would be a good argument against evolution' in reference to the cheetahs being 'nearly identical genetically'? Maybe I misunderstood.
i've been scanning thru geronimo's recent thread on evolution, & have really enjoyed reading all the fascinating responses.
i was going to post in there, but was worried it might get buried.
many may not know me here, as i've barely posted, but in a nutshell, i'm still in the org (somewhat trapped at the moment) but consider myself a christian with somewhat leftish leanings.
This is not a good argument against evolution (I've never heard a good argument against evolution). If evolutionary theory didn't explain cheetahs as well as it does everything else, it wouldnt be the well tested theory we know today.
"Several examples of bottlenecks have been inferred from genetic data. For example, there is very little genetic variation in the cheetah population. This is consistant with a reduction in the size of the population to only a few individuals - an event that probably occurred several thousand years ago." Source
Such a bottleneck occured for our ancestral humans about 70,000 years ago, when the population was reduced to maybe 10-15,000 individuals.
Both these events are entirely compatible with evolutionary theory.
i've been scanning thru geronimo's recent thread on evolution, & have really enjoyed reading all the fascinating responses.
i was going to post in there, but was worried it might get buried.
many may not know me here, as i've barely posted, but in a nutshell, i'm still in the org (somewhat trapped at the moment) but consider myself a christian with somewhat leftish leanings.
peacefulpete - reminds me a of a Penn and Teller quote: 'A million to one shot happens 8 times a day in New York City.'
i know there are a lot of threads on evolution and creation and i've read a few here and there.
how can complex systems arise of themselves in the face of entropy?
one evolutionist book i read used snowflakes to show this is possible.
Hi Geronimo. Yes the pictures are cool aren't they. Sorry I wasn't actually aiming this post at you. Confusing as it seems I think I was answering a hypothetical person who had the same question as your thread title, for posterity.
i've been scanning thru geronimo's recent thread on evolution, & have really enjoyed reading all the fascinating responses.
i was going to post in there, but was worried it might get buried.
many may not know me here, as i've barely posted, but in a nutshell, i'm still in the org (somewhat trapped at the moment) but consider myself a christian with somewhat leftish leanings.
This is a great reminder of how big our universe actually is:
Hubble looks further than ever before
Given the size and complexity of our universe, that self-replicating molecules arise from molecular interactions on a planet is no long shot, you might even consider it pretty much guaranteed to happen somewhere. How many times it has happened we don't know. Give that self-replicating molecule long enough and eventually the complexity of the interactions will increase. And eventually, way down the line, you have me typing on this keyboard - a multi-cellular dna propagation machine.
