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EFLtrainer

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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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EFL you said this,
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What utter frigging nutcases. How STUPID do you have to be to not understand the very basic definition of science and how it is different from theology?? Can these people NOT read the frigging constitution?? How do they survive climbing out of bed????? |
A little bit different than teasing you about being a chicken. Which by the way, you haven't answered. I also see that everyone else has gone running. Where is everyone now? The light too bright? |
But that is not the post I was referring to when I made the statement about the truth not being an insult, thus it is irrelevant.
Nobody has run anywhere. How many times can you point out the obvious without getting bored? |
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tomato

Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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Wangja

Joined: 17 May 2004 Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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Is Kansas a red state ot a blue state?
I was especially taken with
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A course being offered next semester by the university religious studies department is titled ��Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design, Creationism and other Religious Mythologies.�� |
There are some brains there after all. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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Is Kansas a red state ot a blue state?
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Dorothy's home state is red, red, red.
2000: Bush 58%
2004: Bush 62%
Kansas has not voted for a Democratic candidate since 1964. |
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fiveeagles

Joined: 19 May 2005 Location: Vancouver
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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Nobody has run anywhere. How many times can you point out the obvious without getting bored? |
Pointing out the obvious? I guess it is easy to amuse yourself with your own intellectual rants, but science is in the proof.
Having knowledge is one thing, applying it so it becomes intellegence is another. Working in the engineering field for a few years, I saw this over and over. Engineers who had book knowledge while others who had a knowledge that could be applied into working applications. The ability for it to manifest itself.
Also the question remains: Will you go to Africa or not?
How can you justify people being healed of cancer, tumors and other incurable diseases?
Do you realize that Sodom and Gomorrah will rise up from the dead to condemn this generation for it's disbelief? |
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hypnotist

Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Location: I wish I were a sock
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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Also the question remains: Will you go to Africa or not?
How can you justify people being healed of cancer, tumors and other incurable diseases?
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Tell me how I can scientifically judge that people are indeed cured of cancer, AIDS, etc, and then explain how we can exclude all other factors (placebo effect, improper diagnoses etc) and I'll consider it.
Alternatively, get someone to submit a paper on it to a peer-reviewed medical journal. Then we'll see. |
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fiveeagles

Joined: 19 May 2005 Location: Vancouver
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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:52 am Post subject: |
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What about....
If someone has a tumor the size of a pumpkin on their body and it falls off?
If someone is emaciated and is dying of a disease and then becomes normal?
Someone who has cerebral palsy and becomes completely normal.
http://www.freshfire.ca/revival_reports.php
Take your pick! Do you have to be a scientist to recognize a miracle?
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hypnotist

Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Location: I wish I were a sock
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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 4:36 am Post subject: |
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Take your pick! Do you have to be a scientist to recognize a miracle?
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No, but you have to have some medical training before you can write an account of a healing process I'll fully believe in. And that's before we even get into the question of, if these stories are true, whether it's belief in God or belief in the miracle itself that causes the healing. Sorry  |
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EFLtrainer

Joined: 04 May 2005
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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 6:55 am Post subject: |
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fiveeagles wrote: |
What about....
If someone has a tumor the size of a pumpkin on their body and it falls off?
If someone is emaciated and is dying of a disease and then becomes normal?
Someone who has cerebral palsy and becomes completely normal.
http://www.freshfire.ca/revival_reports.php
Take your pick! Do you have to be a scientist to recognize a miracle?
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As stated in the post above, ever hear of min over matter? There are equally amazing stories that have nothing to do with religion. Hmmmm....
And you keep ignoring the issue of proof. Wonder why... |
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fiveeagles

Joined: 19 May 2005 Location: Vancouver
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Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 1:50 am Post subject: |
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And you keep ignoring the issue of proof. Wonder why... |
Ignoring it? I have posted probably 50 some links giving evidence to these miracles, but you seem to ignore them.
Reinharde Bonkke's video has evidence and is verified by a doctor. The doctor medically examined the body when he was dead. 4 days later he is alive. The doctor is black so I am sure many raise doubts about his ability.
Heidi Baker claims that 10 people have been raised from the dead through her church networks.
There are many medical reports of people being healed. Where they have been cured of cancer, Hepatitus and etc, but people don't believe.
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As stated in the post above, ever hear of min over matter? There are equally amazing stories that have nothing to do with religion. |
They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
I believe there is truth and a power in evolution, mind over matter, psychics, satanism and other philosophies. However, they do not lead to salvation or unto a relationship with God. |
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EFLtrainer

Joined: 04 May 2005
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Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 6:50 am Post subject: |
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fiveeagles wrote: |
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And you keep ignoring the issue of proof. Wonder why... |
Ignoring it? I have posted probably 50 some links giving evidence to these miracles, but you seem to ignore them. |
Ignored them? Are you a troll? All the links I have followed that you posted are nothing but a list of ministry claims of healing. There was not a single documented case on any page I checked. Are you foolish enough to think that a miracle is proven just because someone said so?? No wonder you think ID is more than a pile of rubbish.
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Reinharde Bonkke's video has evidence and is verified by a doctor. The doctor medically examined the body when he was dead. 4 days later he is alive. The doctor is black so I am sure many raise doubts about his ability. |
What video? What doctor? Where is the medical report? Where is the coroners report?]
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Heidi Baker claims that 10 people have been raised from the dead through her church networks. |
I hereby claim I have invented time travel. Halleluja!!!
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There are many medical reports of people being healed. Where they have been cured of cancer, Hepatitus and etc, but people don't believe. |
Show us the indisputable evidence of just ONE.
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As stated in the post above, ever hear of min over matter? There are equally amazing stories that have nothing to do with religion. |
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They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
I believe there is truth and a power in evolution, mind over matter, psychics, satanism and other philosophies. However, they do not lead to salvation or unto a relationship with God. |
So? Prove to me there is such a thing as salvation and someone to offer it. Don't tell me, prove it to me. If you cannot do that, you should never speak of religion as science until you can.
I personally have no quarrel with religion. I think a great many people find comfort in it. Some may even find healing in it due to the power of the mind and the placebo affect. However, I take great exception to the deception that is ID. |
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fiveeagles

Joined: 19 May 2005 Location: Vancouver
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Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:03 am Post subject: |
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http://www.impactchristianbooks.com/products.asp?Submit=GO!&Author=bonnke
What part of this don't you understand?
During a dramatic journey to a hospital in Owerri, Nigeria, he lost all life signs and was later pronounced dead by two different medical staff in two different hospitals. The latter wrote a Medical report and commissioned the corpse to the mortuary.
If you actually bought the video, you would see the report of the doctor and the medical evidence. However, there is testimony from over 10 people regarding his resurrection. Do you know how many testimonies are needed to stand up in a court of law? It is 1! Do you not realize that testimony is evidence? Of course, there is a lot factors that then have to be added up. Like actually seeing if the testimony stands to be true by a court action. Still, it is enough to proceed with a case.
I have many friends who work with Freshfire. Name a report and i will try to get it for you. Problem is, that when thousands get healed. It's not likely they are going to keep a collection of every report.
Phone them up. Ask them for medical evidence.
http://www.freshfire.ca/revival_reports.php
Beyond this though, my wife was personally healed of breast cancer at a prayer service. She doesn't hang onto the report, because people will invariably argue with the credibility of it.
Such is the case with Heidi Baker. Like I have said before, people are healed of such amazing diseases and with such amazing frequency, you would have to be a fool not to give glory to Christ. However, there are medical reports and eye witnesses to such miraculous events. Such as the person who was dead and is now alive. Will you believe if you talk to that person? Will you believe if you talk to the doctor who will confirm his death? Why don't you call her ministry and see if you can get a medical report?
The thing is, God's glory isn't something that can be manipulated or controlled. God is outside of the universe and time. His glory is only road signs pointing towards a deeper relationship with Him. ID recognizes the supernatural and allows for the possibility of divine intervention. Fortunately, ID is only getting started and it will continue to grow in these future years. Great minds like William Dembski, Lee Strobel and others are stroking the fires of great minds for the future. You will see great young minds advance ID in the future, while macroevolution will continue to fall to its demise.
Wisdom is proved right by her fruit. What's your prediction?  |
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tomato

Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:57 am Post subject: |
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I have seen evidence for Evolution in working with children.
Before reading my next message, I ask you to make four lists:
1. What are some items which are attractive to children and good for children?
2. What are some items which are unattractive to children and harmful to children?
3. What are some items which are attractive to children but harmful to children?
4. What are some items which are unattractive to children but good for children?
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tomato

Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 10:10 am Post subject: |
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Now I invite you to compare your lists with mine:
1. What are some items which are attractive to children and good for children?
I list milk, juicy fruit, outdoor exercise, good friends, and healthy affection from adults.
2. What are some items which are unattractive to children and harmful to children?
I list sharp objects, wild animals, and anything else which is painful.
3. What are some items which are attractive to children but harmful to children?
I list junk food, excessive TV and video, and illegal drugs.
4. What are some items which are unattractive to children but good for children?
I list school work, bitter medicine, and penicillin shots.
If children were made in God's image, we would only have items listed under 1 and 2.
If children were conceived in Original Sin, we would only have items listed under 3 and 4.
If children were born as empty slates, we would not have any items listed at all.
So let's look for a pattern.
If your lists are like mine, most of the items listed under 1 and 2 are items which have been around for millions of years. Most of the items listed under 3 and 4, however, are modern inventions.
My contention, then, is that children are born for survival in the wilderness. Modern technology has advanced faster than Evolution.
Will Evolution ever catch up with technology? Probably not, because technology has already made it possible for people to survive who could not have survived in the wilderness. |
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tomato

Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:33 am Post subject: |
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In an earlier post on this thread, I gave this link as evidence that Kansas is not all Creationist:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10153657/
This article is about a course at the University of Kansas which presents Intelligent Design as mythological.
Maybe I bragged too soon.
The latest news is that the teacher of that course has resigned under pressure.
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KU religion professor steps aside
Paul Mirecki says he is giving up his post as chair of religious studies
at the "recommendation of my colleagues in the department."
BY DION LEFLER
The Wichita Eagle
A University of Kansas professor who enraged Christian conservatives
with an e-mail slamming creationism resigned his post as chairman of the
KU religious studies department Wednesday.
Associate Professor Paul Mirecki said his resignation was a response to
the controversy over his canceled plan to teach a course criticizing
intelligent design, the idea that life on Earth was created by a higher
power and is too complex to have arisen through evolution.
Mirecki told police earlier this week that he had been beaten by two men
who apparently objected to his widely publicized statements against
creationism.
In a brief resignation letter, he cited the ongoing controversy and the
"recommendation of my colleagues in the department."
Mirecki will remain a tenured professor of the university.
An announcement about Mirecki's resignation drew cheers at a prayer
meeting Wednesday evening at Immanuel Baptist Church, said the Rev.
Terry Fox, the church's pastor and a leader of the state's Christian
conservative movement.
"I am glad that he resigned," Fox said. "I think it reflects positively
on the university."
Fox said Mirecki's e-mail was not as disturbing as it was to learn that
Mirecki was both the chairman of religious studies and the faculty
adviser to a KU club for agnostics and atheists.
"I think most Kansans would say, 'What a conflict of interest,' " Fox
said.
But Fox said he does not think any further action is needed.
"To be chairman of a KU department is not easily attained," he said. "I
think that (Mirecki stepping down) should satisfy most of the people."
But not everyone.
Longtime conservative activist Mark Gietzen said he thinks Mirecki
should be fired.
"He's not the type of person I want to pay taxes to... to poison the
minds of young kids," he said. "He doesn't belong in a university
teaching anything."
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