(November 13, 2018 at 1:02 pm)Mathilda Wrote:

(November 13, 2018 at 12:30 pm)Everena Wrote: Evolution is a process that we discovered was happening (and the theory is still full of conjecture and speculation if you ever actually bother to delve into it)  

If it was full of conjecture and speculation then we wouldn't be able to use it in practice. Everena: False, we used quantum mechanics for technology before 2012 when it was finally proven. Now list all the things we use the theory of evolution for. 

You also need to learn what a scientific theory is. The evidence came before the theory. The theory explains the evidence. Otherwise it would be a hypothesis.

You say 'if you ever actually bother to delve into it'. I'd be willing to bet that you don't actually know much about evolution at all. You probably just think that you do.

Demonstrate to us that you actually understand the theory of evolution.

(November 13, 2018 at 2:55 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: This is getting to be a soap opera.

Next week Ev and CDF discover tgey're siblings after having an illicit affair.

Who is their secret live child, left at an orphanage to avoid scandal.

And then someone is abducted by aliens!

Yeah, who would have thought that after more than 666 pages this thread may end with an anal probe.

(November 13, 2018 at 2:16 pm)Everena Wrote: I don't have to pretend. I received A's in biology in high school and college. I doubt you even went to college and your faulty understanding of it is not my problem.

(raps Everena on the top of the head with a bundle consisting of three rolled-up post-secondary diplomas, a high school certificate showing a senior-year Biology percentile in the top 1% for the province of Quebec, a SAT transcript with all scores in the high 700s, and a Clue-By-Four™)

(November 13, 2018 at 4:04 pm)Everena Wrote: Everena: False, we used quantum mechanics for technology before 2012 when it was finally proven. Now list all the things we use the theory of evolution for. 

Modern Synth is the unifying theory of biology.  Can you work out how much we use it for, and how important it's accuracy is...for yourself...with that in mind?

(November 13, 2018 at 4:03 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Even if fairies were real..this would still be the case.

True...

It's just as good a thing for you, as a muslim, to consider, Mystic.  You indicated earlier that god owed us an explanation for natural evil.

The mountain of natural evil we had to overcome just to get a few handfuls of rice to be worth farming is glaringly in need of such an explanation. Does magic book provide that, or does magic book bullshit you about god having made the crops like Ev bullshits herself about meatfairy sending down the grass?

Y'know, Mystic, I think I'm starting to like you.  Except for those odd moments where you get tangled up in a rant about dark magic or non-believers not seeing what you perceive as The Truth, you generally conduct yourself with great civility.  

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(November 13, 2018 at 4:05 pm)Deesse23 Wrote:

(November 13, 2018 at 2:55 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: This is getting to be a soap opera.

Next week Ev and CDF discover tgey're siblings after having an illicit affair.

Who is their secret live child, left at an orphanage to avoid scandal.

And then someone is abducted by aliens!

Yeah, who would have thought that after more than 666 pages this thread may end with an anal probe.

And Vorlon isn't here to see it. 

(November 13, 2018 at 4:11 pm)Khemikal Wrote: It's just as good a thing for you, as a muslim, to consider, Mystic.  You indicated earlier that god owed us an explanation for natural evil.

The mountain of natural evil we had to overcome just to get a few handfuls of rice to be worth farming is glaringly in need of such an explanation.  Does magic book provide that, or does magic book bullshit you about god having made the crops?

I think it explains it but you won't like it's answer. Off-topic, make a thread about that, not going to invest so much Quranic wisdom in this massive waste of time thread lol.

So..it bullshits you, iow, lol? Show a single grain of quranic wisdom in this matter.

(November 13, 2018 at 4:13 pm)Astreja Wrote: Y'know, Mystic, I think I'm starting to like you.  Except for those odd moments where you get tangled up in a rant about dark magic or non-believers not seeing what you perceive as The Truth, you generally conduct yourself with great civility.  

Thanks for you kind words, don't know if I really deserve them!  Part of my illness is that I can't see how "madness" in behaviour in me, as I spent a great time of my life in denial of the illness, and it takes me a while to see it or parts of it in me. But when I do see it, I like to get rid of those traits.
I admit, some of my recent behaviour is more related to my illness then it is to my actual personality.
Still I apologize as I still should have had more discipline and perception.

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(November 13, 2018 at 4:15 pm)Khemikal Wrote: So..it bullshits you, iow, lol?  Show a single grain of quranic wisdom in this matter.

Well for one, it put's the food and that kind of stuff with relationship to the families of the reminders and how the Messengers were appointed, and when it talks about food in 16th Surah, it also talks about how mules, horses, etc were all made for us to have authority over.

And it mentions in that category alcohol in it's benefits way (the first Surah about it, didn't condemn it's evil and compare that to it's benefits, but just mentioned it as well as a favor from God).

And so this a serious hint, God is saying, he has per his wisdom given us control over much of what is on earth, including animals, and it was him who did so, and not us without him.