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RE: One step closer to proving abiogenesis? Scientists create "Near-Living Crystal"
February 1, 2013 at 1:43 pm
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(February 1, 2013 at 6:37 am)Aractus Wrote: "Near Living"? Hardly. Crystals are built using pure chemical mechanics. Living cells are not. Why would any serious scientist make such a statement??
"the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being." (Genesis 2:7)
In light of the fact that you subscribe to a faith which claims that it happened as asserted above, your incredulity is noted.
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RE: One step closer to proving abiogenesis? Scientists create "Near-Living Crystal"
February 1, 2013 at 2:14 pm
(February 1, 2013 at 12:22 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Quote:Committing fraud to gain following amongst the most retarded, maladjusted and impressionable amongst an illiterate, superstition addled society in abysmally terminal decline counts as "employment"?
Absolutely. And very lucrative, too.
If you consider welfare fraud to be a form of employment. Jesus must have divine to be able to prepetrate by far the most dispicable case of welfare fraud in history in a society that probable didn't have a welfare system.
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RE: One step closer to proving abiogenesis? Scientists create "Near-Living Crystal"
February 1, 2013 at 2:23 pm
"Jesus" never worked a day in his life. Bastard lived on handouts. The ultimate welfare queen.
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RE: One step closer to proving abiogenesis? Scientists create "Near-Living Crystal"
February 1, 2013 at 2:28 pm
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(February 1, 2013 at 2:23 pm)Minimalist Wrote: "Jesus" never worked a day in his life. Bastard lived on handouts. The ultimate welfare queen.
"Bastard" and "queen" does seems to fit the image christians wants to project of their neutered layabout god boy, doesn't it?
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RE: One step closer to proving abiogenesis? Scientists create "Near-Living Crystal"
February 1, 2013 at 2:51 pm
(February 1, 2013 at 2:32 pm)Confused Ape Wrote: (February 1, 2013 at 2:23 pm)Minimalist Wrote: "Jesus" never worked a day in his life. Bastard lived on handouts. The ultimate welfare queen.
We're supposed to believe he was a carpenter before he started teaching. 
We are supposed to believe a whole lot of things about him. Very few of these are fit for an intelligent human to believe.
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RE: One step closer to proving abiogenesis? Scientists create "Near-Living Crystal"
February 1, 2013 at 3:05 pm
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(February 1, 2013 at 2:28 pm)Chuck Wrote: (February 1, 2013 at 2:23 pm)Minimalist Wrote: "Jesus" never worked a day in his life. Bastard lived on handouts. The ultimate welfare queen.
"Bastard" and "queen" does seems to fit the image christians wants to project of their neutered layabout god boy, doesn't it?
Not my problem.
(February 1, 2013 at 2:32 pm)Confused Ape Wrote: (February 1, 2013 at 2:23 pm)Minimalist Wrote: "Jesus" never worked a day in his life. Bastard lived on handouts. The ultimate welfare queen.
We're supposed to believe he was a carpenter before he started teaching.
I wonder what he charged for book shelves?
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RE: One step closer to proving abiogenesis? Scientists create "Near-Living Crystal"
February 1, 2013 at 3:11 pm
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(February 1, 2013 at 3:05 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I wonder what he charged for book shelves?
That's too much cunning to attribute to even a divinely conceived illiterate. I think his wiles would extend only as far as charging his apostles for the dirt they sat on.
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RE: One step closer to proving abiogenesis? Scientists create "Near-Living Crystal"
February 2, 2013 at 3:28 am
(February 1, 2013 at 3:05 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I wonder what he charged for book shelves? I imagine he didn't charge anything, he was a carpenter, not a joiner.
For Religion & Health see:[/b][/size] Williams & Sternthal. (2007). Spirituality, religion and health: Evidence and research directions. Med. J. Aust., 186(10), S47-S50. -LINK
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RE: One step closer to proving abiogenesis? Scientists create "Near-Living Crystal"
February 2, 2013 at 4:18 am
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Fascinating. It reminds me of a reference in The Blind Watchmaker to some speculative notions about silicates forming an early stage of life. It's an interesting philosophical exercise to try to pin down exactly what properties one means when one uses the shorthand of 'life'. There was a thread here which asked the question of what is different about a rock and a live animal. My first attempt at answering that question crashed and burned. This is also rather eerily reminiscent of Conway's Game of Life. I find it and other simulations interesting in the abstract, but I never acquired the practical, hands-on interest in it that my peers developed (and me a math egghead, too).
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