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M*W: With all this talk about lactose intolerance, I'm getting that explosive feeling in my lower bowels.
M*W: With all this talk about lactose intolerance, I'm getting that explosive feeling in my lower bowels.
Woody: Then why don't caucasians have dark skin? they would have less skin cancer as a result.
Yet many caucasians view dark skinned people as inferior
and dark-skinned people like Michael Jackson, want to be white.
Woody: There are many medical professionals in the fold. A good understanding of human anatomy doesn't give them problems with their faith. Luke was a physician too.
Woody: Because speciation does not prove that life could evolve from a single cell organism. As S/G said, speciation is not the evolutionary method that got us here. I am still waiting to hear about the evolutionary method that got us here.
On the subject of inert ingredients springing to life: What caused it I might ask? The answer must be pretty tough.
By the way I never thought elephants came from grasshoppers in the evolutionary scheme of things. I've had some biology courses in secular school, so please don't get extreme in your characterizations.
We are covering a lot of the same ground that has already been covered before. I remain unimpressed.
Your "way-back-then-but-not-now" time machine doesn't buy any points.
So what do you think about a human fetus "supposedly" going through all the evolutionary steps as it develops from single cell to baby? Do you attribute evolutionary proof to this phenomena?
Woody says: It's a reality to you. There was a time when I believed in neither a god or evolution. I was an agnostic -- I didn't have an opinion. I was already college -degreed.
The question I asked S/G is the same I ask you about the single celled zygote going through all the evolutionary steps to become a baby. It was taught as evolutionary gospel back in the 70s.
I didn't buy it then and I don't buy it now.
Yesterday's facts are today's science fiction, and so it continues. Just refuse to believe a "fact", wait fifty years and then you'll be right.
Australopithicus prometheus -- the great and mighty "firebuilder". The fire turned out to be none other than .... bat dung.
You say the evolution tree is all fleshed out, well have you taken a look at it? The gaps are tremendous, especially in the reptile to mammal/bird split off.
Woody: I say the same to you about the bible.
I took an anthropology course -- from which I learned all cultures adopt the idea of a supernatural entity no matter where they are on earth, and even if they are isolated on islands or the australian continent. All of humanity independently comes to the same conclusion -- there is a supernatural world. But then they didn't have Snakelord as a wise old sage to tell them otherwise, did they?
Woody: Before or after I became a christian?
Tell me Snakelord, how many times have you been to a church service other than weddings and funerals?
Woody: Odviously, the employment scenario wasn't good. Why would you get this degree anyway?
this is the most inanely stupid comment, I've ever read.woody said:You want proof of God, but you have never, even once, gone to a place where He is worshipped. This is strange indeed. Do you think you could explain this to God someday? Well God, I did my part, where were you? oh really?
Woody: What about the druids and stonehenge?
Woody: I suppose that depended on the tribe. The Shawnees believed in a great spirit. Also, the Aztech, Mayas, etc had civilizations that indicated diety worship.
Woody: That could explain the middle eastern religions, but not the rest of the world.
Woody: Actually the birth of cults is at an alltime high. Examples: Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Science, and Moonie movements have all happened since 1800. The new age movement is a rebirth of the eastern religions. Then there is the maharishi and the meditation religions. TM is a pretty big deal here in the U.S.
Woody: So you probably don't know what goes on in a church service or a sunday school service.
I believe I can learn about religion by participating rather than by getting a degree.
Woody: Yet you never listened to the first church sermon. It seems you would be entertained, hearing the preacher make a fool out of himself. Try a fundamentalist service for maximum bizzareness. Don't try a catholic mass, they won't teach anything there. Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Anglican are all tepid -- try the hot stuff.
You want proof of God, but you have never, even once, gone to a place where He is worshipped. This is strange indeed. Do you think you could explain this to God someday? Well God, I did my part, where were you? oh really?
Woody says: I don't know?
Woody: Whose service did you watch?
Woody says: What has Odin done to show he cares for me?
If he doesn't care about me, what difference does it make whether I believe in him or not?
Woody: I am biased now, but I got here with an unbiased approach.
I prayed to God that I could do things on His terms. I was going to try every religion in the world until I found God. He directed me to go to a baptist church.
I only went there because my parents made me go. I didn't like it, and I could write everything I learned on one sheet of paper. That church was dead dead dead. Most people went there for the prestige. I must admit my dad sang good enough for the choir. Well at least my parents had friends there.
Jesus says: And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
Jesus says: For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Woody says: You might get lucky with one of the other denominations -- I don't have the authority to tell you which one. However, you probably won't find God unless you go where He is.
Woody: Have you found Him in a closet? Perhaps you are looking in the wrong place.