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RE: Damned Protestants...
March 14, 2014 at 8:18 pm
"The top of one little boy's head pretty much resembles any other."
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March 20, 2014 at 4:02 pm
Wait, wait, wait... is Billy Graham's daughter... Lotz' wife???
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
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RE: Damned Protestants...
March 20, 2014 at 4:09 pm
Who knows..... there must be a lot of inbreeding to get that stupid.
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RE: Damned Protestants...
March 20, 2014 at 10:43 pm
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
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RE: Damned Protestants...
March 21, 2014 at 8:20 am
(March 20, 2014 at 3:40 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Hmm....so this dumbfuck thinks that a bunch of primarily Islamic Malaysians and atheist Chinese are a precursor to her silly-assed jesus stories?
Quote:Billy Graham’s daughter wonders if missing airliner offers a ‘small snapshot’ of the Rapture
Wow. What a coincidence. Just yesterday, I suggested in jest, "maybe the plane was raptured". There's no parody that won't be taken seriously by the religious these days.
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March 21, 2014 at 1:34 pm
(March 20, 2014 at 1:05 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Quote:A Baptist pastor in Connecticut was arrested this week after being accused of stealing more than $170,000 from an elderly woman who was a member of his church.
According to Attorney Joseph Mager, who is currently serving as conservator for the victim, a probate judge first noticed inconsistencies in the woman’s bank account while 67-year-old Stratford Baptist Church Pastor Robert Genevicz was the acting conservator in 2013.
That's not the way you do it... you convince her to give everything to the church. That way you still get the money and avoid jail time.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
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March 26, 2014 at 9:42 am
Quote:VA Christian school bans 8-year-old girl because her tomboy looks aren’t ‘biblical’
Quote:Doris Thompson told WSET that her granddaughter, Sunnie Kahle, was forced to enroll in public school and has been refused admission for the next school year until she can express the proper gender identity.
To be fair to the school, a pair of knee pads can't be
that expensive.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
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