Quote (Jodi Lee @ Aug. 14 2009,11:47)Quote (Douglas @ Aug. 14 2009,10:31)Quote (Cindy @ May 15 2009,22:06)           The ark provided safety from destruction that God had pronounced on the world, for Noah and his family; what will protect you from God’s wrath in the end-time? How close do you think we are to the end-time? Have you been watchin…[Read more]

Quote (Cindy @ May 15 2009,22:06)           The ark provided safety from destruction that God had pronounced on the world, for Noah and his family; what will protect you from God’s wrath in the end-time? How close do you think we are to the end-time? Have you been watching the news lately?You know, I hate to point this out – but Noah DID have to…[Read more]

Quote (Cindy @ Aug. 13 2009,03:25)Quote (theodorej @ Aug. 13 2009,01:37)Greetings Cindy…..Iam onboard with that….there is no evidence of Christs return previous to this time,but there is overwhelming evidence that his return is iminent and very soon….Iam scared..theodorei!  You don't have to be scared.  God told us that He will keep us s…[Read more]

Quote (Stu @ Aug. 13 2009,06:57)Aren't sugar pills cheaper than doing this?Faith healers attack cancer with prayerStuartYou know, the placebo effect is down to the individual, and the cynical side of me says, if it works – use it.Unfortunately once you know about the placebo effect, it's a lot harder to knowingly take a sugar pill to help you with…[Read more]

Quote (t8 @ May 06 2009,00:00)I thought it would be good to start a discussion about the New World Order. What is it? Is it part of end time prophecy?Civilisations rise and civilisations fall.As surely as the Egyptians, Romans, Babylonians, Greeks, Persians and countless other empires and civilisations rose and fell, so this one shall.So when is…[Read more]

Quote (t8 @ Aug. 09 2009,12:10)Quote (Stu @ Aug. 06 2009,22:52)It seems that programming for AI takes you down dead-ends UNLESS you use an approach which treats the computer instructions as genes, allowing random mutation and selection of the rules that are most productive in solving unforeseen problems.Creation creation creation.You say you need…[Read more]

Quote (Stu @ Aug. 10 2009,06:57)We can artificially select captive organisms (assuming the animals are willing to cross-breed for us!) but we have evolved ethical sensibilities that I think will stop humans making a blind bit of difference to human evolution.  It may be that we unconsciously do artificial selection on ourselves but there is no…[Read more]

Quote (Cindy @ Aug. 10 2009,02:03)Quote (karmarie @ Aug. 10 2009,00:04)Jesus has been very busy in the middle east. Here's one link but theres plenty more sites. http://www.jesusvisions.org/index.shtmlThese are some brave enough to tell their story, I wonder how many more Jesus has visited?Peace and love.The Bible tells us that in the end times we…[Read more]

Quote (Stu @ Aug. 09 2009,13:57)DouglasMany issues there.  I'm not sure how you can use the word goal in relation to evolution.  If it is not intelligent foresight then there is no goal of any sort.  Why is it necessary to insert the concept of goals when it appears to be completely redundant?Having thought about it recently I decided that no ma…[Read more]

Quote (Stu @ Aug. 09 2009,10:14)Quote (Douglas @ Aug. 08 2009,21:57)DNA seems to be a brute force dumber approach. It works though.It is brute force from the point of view of survival of the organism but not from the point of view of the mechanism by which it accumulates change: natural selection does not try opening combination locks by starting…[Read more]

It does occur to me to note that creationism seems to me a little weak at explaining extinction – firstly – why? (given people aren't always the agents of extinction)Secondly, how do you get new species – are they continually created in creationism, including right now? (evolution provides a model for species divergence and new species coming…[Read more]

Quote (Stu @ Aug. 07 2009,20:54)There must be a finite space of possibilities in which chess is played, albeit a large number of permutations.  It is strictly true of the whole universe that there are only certain values of various quantities that are allowed. With enough brute force you can simply code for every eventuality, but you should then…[Read more]

Quote (Cindy @ Aug. 05 2009,19:49)A generation is 70 years, thought you would like to know.Why?A generation, to me, is one reproductive interval in a species.Not only has typical human life expectancy not necessarily been anywhere near 70 years in many parts of the world in much of recent history (last 10,000 years), but the reproductive interval…[Read more]

Quote (theodorej @ Aug. 07 2009,12:00)Greetings Irene……Please allow me to make myself perfectly clear…I am not saying that RW is emulating The Christ….Simply put…everything that he espouses is not wrong…And as I stated before his boldness with respect to his prophesies has been tempered..His conviction is evident and it would behoove…[Read more]

Quote (Cindy @ Aug. 07 2009,11:51)Quote (Jesus name follower of Christ @ Aug. 07 2009,09:57)when I was told the story I  felt the Holy GhostThat is NO NO PROVE.  And no one beliefs you if you don't have prove.  I live in Ohio and I did not hear anything like that.  I also think if that happened that News would be all over the T.V. Stations. Ire…[Read more]

Quote (Stu @ Aug. 06 2009,22:52)Have come across a different answer to t8's perpetual monotone about computers being coded as a (false) analogy for biological 'design', and his claims about artificial intelligence.  It seems that programming for AI takes you down dead-ends UNLESS you use an approach which treats the computer instructions as…[Read more]

Quote (theodorej @ Aug. 06 2009,11:47)Quote (Douglas @ Aug. 06 2009,11:37)Quote (charity @ May 25 2009,22:30)Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.-Chinese ProverbVery apt, and yet that's what dogmatic adherence to the Bible does.I suggest the best way to get to the bottom of God, for those who can,…[Read more]

It's too late at night for me to want to watch it again, but I did have a couple of comments.If there were nothing, we couldn't sit here to discuss it, therefore the only scenario in which we can exist to argue about it is one where necessarily there is something.Morals can be shown to fit an evolutionary model, but worse than that – I contend…[Read more]

Quote (charity @ May 25 2009,22:30)Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.-Chinese ProverbVery apt, and yet that's what dogmatic adherence to the Bible does.I suggest the best way to get to the bottom of God, for those who can, is simply to ask.Forget all the human preconceptions. Start with a blank…[Read more]

This debate seems somewhat futile to me – the best minds the human race has have not yet been able to explain the ultimate origins of the universe. There is strong evidence for Big Bang theory in terms of Doppler shift of light from other galaxies, and a certain amount of understanding of what would be the case at higher temperatures (as the…[Read more]