compscitiger

In my first post I said "evolution" (even put it in quotes) so your claim to have misunderstood is fair and a result of my imprecision in terminology. Mea culpa. However, it was clear from the rest of my post that I was and am talking about abiogenesis, which you are clearly not defending.

I appreciate your taking the time to respond. I used to think the way you claim to until relatively recently. I finally came to the conclusion through much study that my position was philosophically incoherent and also not as biblical as I imagined.

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With a continuous input of energy, localized decreases in entropy (increased order) can and does happen. For example, how a seed grows into a complex tree or how ice can form in a freezer.

Just because you don't understand it, doesn't mean it can't happen.

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the lipids, proteins, DNA, and RNA required to construct life on this planet require more energy to assemble than to take apart. the principal of chemical equilibrium says that all the limitless energy you're referring to inexorably leads to the destruction of any of these substances outside of a living cell.

the localized energy you're appealing to is the enemy, not the friend of materialistic abiogenesis.

the freezer in your example was unquestionably constructed by a purposeful being to accomplish just the purpose you mentioned (the localized decrease in entropy).

i understand just fine.

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Where did I say that?

I responded to two VERY specific points, raised by others.

As usual, the midwits lost their minds that I did not respond to the point(s) at the forefront of their own minds.

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Bard asserted, "Human trafficking is human trafficking." and your VERY specific response to him was, essentially, that trafficking minors for the sex trade is different than trafficking adults to work in the construction trade. It's even cute that you qualified the "minors/sex trade" case with "against their will," which is, frankly, gross. In any case, you're the one that mentioned 'adrenochrome' in this thread.

You're the only one that appears out of your mind here.

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You find it no more reprehensible

(a) to transport minors, against their will, across international borders, to be sex slaves than

(b) to transport adults seeking paid work in the construction industry.

You be you, amigo.

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does allowing the lawlessness that facilitates "b" not also facilitate "a?"

this is my shocked face: :snoozer:

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Bruce is Jewish by ethnicity. His faith is Christian.

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i thought this too until i read the following:

Bruce on his faith

FTA:

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At the end of the evening, as Pearl talked about his Jewish faith, he shared that his wife, Brandy, is a Christian. She prays for him to come to faith in Jesus because she loves him and “she knows what eternal life is for her and she wants it exactly that way for me.” She also finds richness in her faith in Jesus through learning more about the Holy Land and the Jewish festivals Jesus celebrated when He walked the earth, he noted.

Pearl said for him personally, his identity lies in his Jewish faith. He said he believes in the miracles of Jesus, but he holds to Judaism “because my people have been murdered for their faith” and because “that’s my father’s religion, that’s my grandfather’s religion, that’s how I was raised.”

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organized hoarding

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i am simultaneously depressed at seeing exactly this and also inspired to start a serious round of spring cleaning.

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Nope, I already said I don't really care about the Ole Miss stuff. But if some other things turn out to have merit, I don't want a 10-win season THAT badly...

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This. No freeze please.

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1. you had to google it? why?

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no. n/a, try again. you are parroting this particular social media talking point as a "gotcha" and got caught.

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2. its not accurate anyway, thats not what "woke" means, he's just taking what Fox told you CRT was and using that again.

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i've studied CRT extensively, and more than enough to know that I reject it as a fatally flawed worldview. if, when you hear "woke," what you understand is "racism," "white supremacy," or "LGBTQ-phobia," then that's just not realistic. if not, please enlighten us by offering your definition so we can consider it.

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The affair rumor is trash.

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agreed.

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...needs to answer for ... Coaches leaving, players leaving, signing day, etc.

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on these issues, he answers to the AD and not to the fans, the beat writers, or the BOT.