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    Thread: A simple challenge for atheists
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(January 27, 2015 at 5:58 pm)Esquilax Wrote: ...you bring up Neanderthal, a species for whom we have a genetic record, which is an objective indicator that it was a separate species from us. If you ...
bob96 Religion 775 109889 January 28, 2015 at 4:41 pm
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(January 27, 2015 at 5:45 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: (January 27, 2015 at 5:41 pm)bob96 Wrote: Of course the statement about the skull being "described as archaic" would never be accepted in a peer...
bob96 Religion 775 109889 January 27, 2015 at 5:53 pm
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Why are there no fossilized chimpanzee skeletons? They are conspicuously absent from the fossil record.
bob96 Religion 775 109889 January 27, 2015 at 5:46 pm
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(January 27, 2015 at 5:27 pm)Esquilax Wrote: (January 27, 2015 at 5:16 pm)bob96 Wrote: It's not my degree: "its morphology (the Modern Aboriginal skull) could be described as archaic" (Jim Vanholl...
bob96 Religion 775 109889 January 27, 2015 at 5:41 pm
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(January 27, 2015 at 5:33 pm)Esquilax Wrote: (January 27, 2015 at 5:30 pm)bob96 Wrote: Sorry for breaking the rules. I interpreted the following exception as saying it's acceptable to post links i...
bob96 Religion 775 109889 January 27, 2015 at 5:35 pm
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Sorry for breaking the rules. I interpreted the following exception as saying it's acceptable to post links if using it as evidence in a discussion, if relevant. 30/30 Exception One very important ex...
bob96 Religion 775 109889 January 27, 2015 at 5:30 pm
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(January 27, 2015 at 4:58 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Where did you get your science degree, again? :thinking: It's not my degree: "its morphology (the Modern Aboriginal skull) could be described as archaic"...
bob96 Religion 775 109889 January 27, 2015 at 5:16 pm
    Thread: A simple challenge for atheists
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(January 27, 2015 at 4:05 pm)Esquilax Wrote: (January 27, 2015 at 3:55 pm)SteveII Wrote: I would like to know a few Bible claims that are contradicted by scientific facts. Leave out miracles for a...
bob96 Religion 775 109889 January 27, 2015 at 4:45 pm
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Ok, so scientists have created a self-assembling molecule that can self-replicate. I was wrong. But still, the environment proposed for this to happen in nature is still highly unlikely. Will scientis...
bob96 Religion 775 109889 January 22, 2015 at 7:24 pm
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(January 18, 2015 at 11:11 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Who the hell told you you could tell us what we believe? :dodgy: Sorry, I assumed that was what you believed. If you believe something came from "somet...
bob96 Religion 775 109889 January 20, 2015 at 6:42 pm
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(January 18, 2015 at 10:53 pm)Davka Wrote: Ah - abiogenesis. A different matter entirely, and he's right. It couldn't have happened randomly. And those are older books, written before the more recen...
bob96 Religion 775 109889 January 20, 2015 at 6:23 pm
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(January 16, 2015 at 8:22 pm)goodwithoutgod Wrote: Bob96, christianity is the dominating religion because emperor constantine decided he saw a message in the sky indicating this was the god that wou...
bob96 Religion 775 109889 January 20, 2015 at 5:46 pm
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(January 16, 2015 at 7:56 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Oh, and also? In an increasing number of circles we use C.E and B.C.E, not B.C and A.D. So... I guess that's a strike against the existence of Jesus? :th...
bob96 Religion 775 109889 January 20, 2015 at 5:35 pm
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(January 15, 2015 at 9:54 am)Chas Wrote: (January 13, 2015 at 3:49 am)bob96 Wrote: Dawkin's himself has acknowledged that there is not enough time in the Universe for it to have self assembled, bl...
bob96 Religion 775 109889 January 18, 2015 at 7:20 pm
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(January 14, 2015 at 6:42 pm)Cheerful Charlie Wrote: (January 9, 2015 at 7:33 pm)bob96 Wrote: Imagine an alternate universe which contains a single hydrogen atom. (Lets not include dark matter or ...
bob96 Religion 775 109889 January 18, 2015 at 6:46 pm
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(January 16, 2015 at 6:43 pm)goodwithoutgod Wrote: (January 16, 2015 at 6:30 pm)bob96 Wrote: None of the purposes of the council that you refer to in the Wikipedia article are actually mentioned. ...
bob96 Religion 775 109889 January 16, 2015 at 7:36 pm
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(January 12, 2015 at 2:27 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: (January 12, 2015 at 12:52 am)bob96 Wrote: Where did you get the belief that the bible was created in the 4th century AD??? In the early days chri...
bob96 Religion 775 109889 January 16, 2015 at 6:30 pm
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(January 12, 2015 at 5:28 pm)Esquilax Wrote: (January 12, 2015 at 5:18 pm)bob96 Wrote: Tell me this. Which is more complex: the infrastructure, processes and functions operating within New York Ci...
bob96 Religion 775 109889 January 13, 2015 at 3:49 am
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(January 12, 2015 at 6:55 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: Argument from Authority. Fail. Yes, but they are *your* authorities! The most brilliant minds in science believe in God. For many, it was science t...
bob96 Religion 775 109889 January 13, 2015 at 2:34 am
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(January 10, 2015 at 8:41 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Ah yes, the argument from ignorance regarding complexity; "I can't think of how this could have happened naturally, therefore it didn't." Sorry, but comp...
bob96 Religion 775 109889 January 12, 2015 at 5:18 pm