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Tag: evolution
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Numbers, big numbers… are difficult to imagine. In your mind you can imagine ten people standing in a row… maybe a few more, twenty, thirty… but then when you get up to say one hundred, envisioning a hundred people standing in a row is more difficult. The concept might be grasped, but the vision, the…
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Hurricanes, floods, tornados, drought, dust storms, and tsunami; all natural scourges humans and animals alike have faced since the beginning of existence. Ancient humans decided there must be some cause for these horrible tragedies. They fabricated a cause: Gods, demons. Nature has no conscience or consciousness. Nature does not act for or against any organism.…
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Accept: 1.to take or receive (something offered); receive with approval or favor: to accept a present; to accept a proposal. 2.to agree or consent to; accede to: to accept a treaty; to accept an apology. 3.to respond or answer affirmatively to: to accept an invitation. 4.to undertake the responsibility, duties, honors, etc., of: to accept…
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Christianity is finished. Some religious people maintain that to accept the Theory of Evolution as true is to also accept atheism. This is not necessarily so. While the Theory of Evolution, which is, by the way, a fact, invalidates many of the assertions of the Bible, it does not in fact eliminate the possibility of…
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Every so often there is a biological science report extolling the advanced level of the human brain. These reports expound upon the remarkable memory capacity and reasoning ability of this evolved organ. It is unfortunate that like the muscles in a body if a brain is not utilized, not exercised, it atrophies, or fails to…