Hartsock
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This is a true and valid question.
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This is a true and valid question.
Righteous living.
No, really, I have no idea. I do know that in high school we used to go down to Provo and cruise the campus some weekends, because the girls were generally better looking than those that hung out on State St.
Batman
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Of all monotheistic faiths, Mormons are the only one's that i am aware of that believe in a pre-existence. What is really interesting, Is that I think Proverbs 8 pretty much proves that there was a pre-existence, at least in the King James Version. Read Proverbs 8 and you'll have to conclude that the LDS faith is true.
22-The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
28 When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
30 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
Batman
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Except for the fact that we can't explain how the human brain got 4 times bigger in such a short period of time, or at least that is what i heard on the history channel
The same history channel that treats the Bible as history?
Our brain grew over several million years. It's not hard to explain at all.
They aren't more attractive, they just seem that way because you can't have them.
b_line
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yeah, the history channel is whack. I am reading this book called Last Ape Standing. Its pretty rad, and it tells about how we were the only ones left from 27-28 other species of "human" forms. Basically says the same thing, that our brains about tripled in size over about 3 million years.
By the way, I am a Mormon, and believe in evolution. The way I see it, God has to live by natural laws just the same as we do. He might understand them like 5,000 times better than even Stephen Hawking, but he still has to live by them.
b_line
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oh, and Mormon girls are way more attractive than any other girls. It's some secret they learn in young women's. They wont even tell the guys in the church what the secret is.
I agree. I was just busting Sandy's chops.
I've had a number of people that I work with from other areas of the country visit Salt Lake, and to a person, everyone of them has commented on how hot the women in Salt Lake are.
Zulu
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It the whole you want what you can't have!!!
Zulu
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Is the book a good read??? I really big into human evolution!!
Zulu
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I'll watch the Video when I gets home.. Follow up question, do you believe Adam and Eve were products of evolution and then Allah communicated with them, or do you think once humans had evolved he then created Adam and Eve to be their spiritual leaders??
b_line
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I am loving it. about 2/3 of the way through it now, but it is really good. It is similar writing to Jared Diamond, if you are familiar with him. Here is the link to it on amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Ape-Standing-Seven-Million-Year-Survived/dp/080271756X
NAOS
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Diamond is over-simplified fluff. It's environmental- and technological-determinism.
Bergson's CREATIVE EVOLUTION is more up-to-date and awesome, and it's almost 100 years old. The second you start thinking of evolution in terms of species-based categories, you miss 90% of the story.
Bergson's CREATIVE EVOLUTION is more up-to-date and awesome, and it's almost 100 years old. The second you start thinking of evolution in terms of species-based categories, you miss 90% of the story.
b_line
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yeah, I guess when I said it is similar to Jared Diamond, I meant in content, not writing style. Anyway, this book is more interesting to me than the last Diamond book I read, because it seems more in depth. I have found that Diamond is pretty broad and general.
Thats an interesting take. I will have to read that next.
NAOS
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I wasn't referencing Diamond's writing style. I was referencing his content, methods, analysis, etc.
I'm not saying you shouldn't read it, but it has very clear limits if you really want to dig into the mechanisms of evolution. It's the sort of thing that would be read in an introductory undergraduate course.
b_line
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haha, thats where I read Diamond first.
The Black Swordsman
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Evolved. Says Human creation began with clay in Qur'an which is a distinction. My theory is a compound or something found in clay had something to do with biogenesis at the bottom of ocean depths.
Zulu
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Chemical Evolution???
Zulu
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Just watched that video and I think you sent me the wrong link..
This video is of a Oxford evolutionary biologist slamming all religious belief!!