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A problem of Gradualism and the Survival of the Fittest within Evolutionary Theory.
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Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them? Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Act III:
go with the flow the river knows . . .
Frank
I do not know, therefore everything is in pencil.
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Originally posted by shunyadragon View PostActually this the definition of Monotheism. Theism includes polytheism which believes in more than one God.“He felt that his whole life was a kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.” - Douglas Adams.
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Originally posted by JohnMartin View PostMatter as potency is found in the definition in Aristotle's metaphysics.A material soul is only a material substnatial form, which does not have quantity.You often make rudimentary errors in philosophy.Jorge: Functional Complex Information is INFORMATION that is complex and functional.
MM: First of all, the Bible is a fixed document.
MM on covid-19: We're talking about an illness with a better than 99.9% rate of survival.
seer: I believe that so called 'compassion' [for starving Palestinian kids] maybe a cover for anti Semitism, ...
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Originally posted by JohnMartin View PostIf Evo is not founded upon naturalism, then it's founded upon supernaturalism, which infers a creator.Jorge: Functional Complex Information is INFORMATION that is complex and functional.
MM: First of all, the Bible is a fixed document.
MM on covid-19: We're talking about an illness with a better than 99.9% rate of survival.
seer: I believe that so called 'compassion' [for starving Palestinian kids] maybe a cover for anti Semitism, ...
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Originally posted by Tassman View PostTrue! So make my definition plural.Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them? Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Act III:
go with the flow the river knows . . .
Frank
I do not know, therefore everything is in pencil.
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostWe see this taking place again and again as an organism goes from the embryonic stage to full adulthood.
Too bad he couldn't resist going on another thread posting spree. He's off into the matrix again.
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Originally posted by Leonhard View PostThe burn! I have to say his arguments on the development on the organs is almost as bad as his harping on 'less from more'. Even though just about any thomist philosopher would agree that the earliest organisms could simple have the power to give rise to all the subspecies we know on Earth.
Too bad he couldn't resist going on another thread posting spree. He's off into the matrix again.
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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I suspect this might have been deliberate on JohnMartin's part. He was asking to be banned earlier, apparently as a way of breaking his habit. He was advised to simply change his password to something he would not remember. I think he's decided on this tactic instead... it might let him think of himself as a victim, or of theologyweb as unable to manage his incisive argument. I had nothing useful to say to him after a thread in the old theologyweb where I defended the proposition that he was abysmally bad at philosophy. The board is better without him... and I suspect John is better off weaned away from his pointless pursuits here as well.
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Originally posted by sylas View PostI suspect this might have been deliberate on JohnMartin's part. He was asking to be banned earlier, apparently as a way of breaking his habit. He was advised to simply change his password to something he would not remember. I think he's decided on this tactic instead... it might let him think of himself as a victim, or of theologyweb as unable to manage his incisive argument. I had nothing useful to say to him after a thread in the old theologyweb where I defended the proposition that he was abysmally bad at philosophy. The board is better without him... and I suspect John is better off weaned away from his pointless pursuits here as well.
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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And nothing of value was lost."When the Western world accepted Christianity, Caesar conquered; and the received text of Western theology was edited by his lawyers…. The brief Galilean vision of humility flickered throughout the ages, uncertainly…. But the deeper idolatry, of the fashioning of God in the image of the Egyptian, Persian, and Roman imperial rulers, was retained. The Church gave unto God the attributes which belonged exclusively to Caesar."
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Originally posted by sylas View Postit might let him think of himself as a victim, or of theologyweb as unable to manage his incisive argument.
Originally posted by Leonhard View PostBon voyage JohnMartin, even though we think you're crazy, we love you and hope the best for you. May you find better pursuits to sublimate your energies on."Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from trolling."
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