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Author Topic:   A question about evolution
Theodoric
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Message 5 of 70 (798302)
02-01-2017 4:37 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Micah8294
02-01-2017 4:19 PM


It infuriates me when these, I am too lazy to do my own research, topics come up. You radical theists think you have answers that no one has thought up before and you are going to show us atheists the light and led us to jeebus.
Have you heard of Google? How about Bing? I bet even Siri could answer these.
quote:
Black skin is advantageous in Africa because it prevents sunburns, which can make it difficult to perform basic necessities, such as hunting and gathering. A lack of skin pigment can cause vision problems, and dark skin protects sweat glands from being damaged by the sun. Excessive UV rays from the sun can hinder neural development. Dark skin helps to protect the body's folic acid supply, which promotes neural development.
Scientists conducted studies on people in Africa with albinism. The studies showed that albino people in Africa usually died from skin cancer. The studies also showed that albino people in Africa developed lesions sooner than white-skinned Americans due to the amount of outdoor labor performed in Africa. In the past, if people in Africa had pale skin, they would develop skin cancer at a rapid rate, and not be able to survive. The result is that people with dark skin were more likely to pass on their genes, eventually resulting in a dark-skinned population.
Why Do Africans Have Black Skin?
Took me 20 seconds to find.
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Mongoloids evolved hairlessness to keep clean while wearing heavy garments for months without bathing during the Ice Age.
Mongoloid - Wikipedia
That took 3 minutes.
Next. Or can we be done now with your silly gotcha questions. Your originally topic title betrays your motive.

Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts
"God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.

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Theodoric
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Message 10 of 70 (798308)
02-01-2017 4:58 PM
Reply to: Message 9 by Micah8294
02-01-2017 4:55 PM


What do most people in the evolutionist community accept as the most "solid proof" for evolution and against creation?
Start a new topic.
I'm sure you all know who Kent hovind is
Yup a convicted charlatan, unrepentant tax cheat and felon.

Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts
"God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.

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Theodoric
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Message 12 of 70 (798310)
02-01-2017 5:08 PM
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02-01-2017 5:00 PM


I am keeping this civil. Why would you pose these questions here when it has been shown you can get the answers in a quick google search? You obviously are looking for some sort of debate. Don't hide your motives, that is unseemly. You are the one coming in professing your religion and "challenging" atheists.

Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts
"God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.

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Theodoric
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Message 24 of 70 (798447)
02-02-2017 4:22 PM
Reply to: Message 23 by caffeine
02-02-2017 3:06 PM


Re: A little bit hairy
The ability to follow the sources is always there. The point is that the original post was intended as a gotcha against atheists(see the original attempt at an OP).
I agree the first thing you find is not necessarily the correct or only answer. It is a start. People posing questions to a forum like this should at least do basic background and legwork. It would have been different if the question had been presented and then the author of the OP had said that these are possible answers lets explore them. Instead it was presented as it was and that was a vast improvement at the OP writers attempt to get in a pissing match with atheists. Why was the first question titled "Some questions for Atheists"? The implication is anyone that believes in and follows science is an atheist? Anyone of any faith or no faith that understands scientific principals should be offended by the premise.

Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts
"God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.

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Theodoric
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Message 33 of 70 (798542)
02-03-2017 9:45 AM
Reply to: Message 31 by dwise1
02-03-2017 1:24 AM


Re: A little bit hairy
I have been dealing with them since late '90's online. I first dealt with them in college in the early '80's. I went to a Catholic college and there were a fair bit of students that had been fed fundie doctrine, mostly at by parish priests and lay people. The nuns and priests at the college were the most scientifically literate people I have ever known.
In the 12 years I have been here, numerous times I have seen the bible school kid fulfilling class requirements by engaging and attacking atheists. It is old, boring and offensive.
Micah is obviously inexperienced, or a good troll, but his initial OP was more of the same. In 2017 we still have people that equate science with atheism. I guess the Trumpster fire we have is inevitable.

Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts
"God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.

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Theodoric
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Message 42 of 70 (799135)
02-07-2017 4:08 PM
Reply to: Message 39 by dwise1
02-07-2017 2:53 PM


Re: Micah, you want to debate. We want to oblige you.
I'd like to at least know what kind of grade he got.
I wonder if he is the guy by the same name from Lima, OH, that has(had?)a mime ministry.
https://twitter.com/micahzencho
I think Zencho is supposed to be a cute play on Chosen. I couldn't find any more info on Zencho ministries.

Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts
"God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.

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Theodoric
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Message 64 of 70 (801100)
03-03-2017 9:46 AM


Close an abandoned thread?
I think Admin should close down this thread since it has been abandoned by the creator. Micah obviously tried to do a drive by, in order to fulfill some sort of bizarre right wing fundie need to fight the evil atheists. When that failed or he felt he did his godly duty he slunked away.
There have no responses from him since the day he opened the thread.

Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts
"God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.
If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up why would you have to lie?

  
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