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@dot3510 Total garbage and bullshit. The energy was there originally and became matter when space-time expanded enough that it cooled.
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@dot3510 Total baloney and made-up bullshit. Matter and anti-matter formed from quarks that spontaneously emerged when the original energy which cannot BE created or destroyed cooled enough to allow their formation, like a crystallization. The big bang didn't produce any energy, it was all there to begin with, it just changed form when space-time expanded.
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@TBOTSS No. He didn't.
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DNA is NOT a "language" OR a "code". Both are means of sending messages from intelligent senders to intelligent receivers. That is NOT true of DNA. And DNA is shown to WRITE ITSELF!! It does this by the different types of random mutation, single base-pair mutations and gene duplication among them. A ribosome hiccups and makes two copies of a gene. Then later mutations can change the second copy without damaging the first. The new gene is new information, and it may have function that is new and even beneficial!! And THAT is HOW DNA writes NEW information ALL BY ITSELF! That is how it grew the genome up from the tiny genome of bacteria to the huge genomes of higher animals and humans!! Natural Selection, by which we mean massive death of the unsuccessful, filters these changed genomes for the few winners.
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No, Deism is the same as a "god" that has no effect on reality, it's the same as non-existent.
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Hole, not whole.
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@Andrew_O No, causality made life, chemistry isn't random.
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@ljramirez Maybe. But it has to be countered for the sake of others watching.
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Fuck "suffering", animals don't think and so, if not abused, do NOT "suffer" because they DO NOT THINK! ONLY THINKERS CAN SUFFER THE PROSPECT OF BEING KILLED, to animals there is only pleasure, pain, and fear flight. If killed quickly, no animal suffers!
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@j-sm4554 1) they run on emotion, they don't think as we do. 2) emotion is not sentience, sentience is analyzing and knowing. Animals don't have ideas, they don't know a why they do things. 3) you're the one who is behind the state of knowledge.
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@j-sm4554 I have loved my pets, also even the pigs I ate. I had a chicken who would run up to me and snuggle under my arm. But their brains never made ideas, their brains did it altogether WITHOUT rendering it to any conscious awareness, like squirrels finding their nuts, they find them out of vague emotional impressions about where they would have left them. Their brains are just not big enough to cogitate.
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@GyulaHorvathGarijin According to infant development researchers, the aware mind arises with some specific suddenness on one particular day at about 2 to 4 months after birth. They can see it happen and note the hallmarks, eyes focus on events or items, giggling, reaching, whereas prior to that only suckling or crying with no tears, automatically, and undirected wiggling.
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@GyulaHorvathGarijin Before abortion many cultures did exactly that, killed newborn for slight defects, inability to support another child, or to limit population on islands. Now we protect all newborn, but used to be you had a week or ten days to decide to keep it or kill it. That was Roman law. Jews as well. A fetus has no human mind, neither does a newborn before it develops one.
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I'm a communist because of John Rawls. There are no "communist state religions". There's nothing to worship. Socialism/communism is the political view that we don't have to permit some few people to own the whole world and that we should knock them down and take it back from them. We do that through taxes, or penalties, or prison. It is the belief that all rights emanate not from some divine natural human right to abuse others, but from rights the people decide Democratically to award each other equally. We hold that the natural state of nature is something we have worked hard to defeat collectively, and that kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, the war of nature, must be halted and defeated for our species, and that we must work collectively to eliminate all misfortunes and disadvantages to the degree that we can for each member of our species. This is what we began doing on the plains of Africa to take over the earth, this IS how we did it. A lion attacking a child or adult resulted in hundreds of us with rocks and spears killing all lions in the region on sight. They were no longer allowed to even exist around us. Dogs who were not kind to our children or didn't obey were killed immediately. African bovines were selected for tameness and the rest were eaten! We assigned people to study healing, and anyone with a sickness or injury was treated. Anyone who was unfair in his dealings was banished. Anyone who was a bully was killed. Anyone who tried to take too much for himself was beaten down and punished. This enforcement of fairness was what made us powerful and good!! This IS Socialism!! ALL that now marks our civilization as civilized is Socialism. Libraries, Fire and Police protection, Social Security, Food Stamps, Disability, Unemployment, the Affordable Care Act, and the guarantee of medical care in hospital ERs are all Socialism. This is the Social Contract. Anyone who denies it is not protected from robbers and brigands, they are outlaw, free to be killed by anyone. But it guarantees you support, defense, and care from the rest of us. Nature is brutal and unfair, the only way to avoid it is join the Compact of Humans. If you would be with us you have to do what we decide Democratically is fair to demand of each one of us. You agree to our legal system and economic system, and that means our Democratic right to tax ourselves as much as we decide to take care of our social obligations, even if that takes a big chunk of your wealth. Why do we get to do this, to take from you? Because without our monetary system and our legal protection of you and your property you would be subject to robber gangs killing and robbing your family, and raping your wife and daughters, you are indebted to the rest of us for your very life, and you must pay for that, whatever we tell you collectively you have to pay!!! And why do we have this power? Law of Nature, kill or be killed, it is still in effect out in the world beyond our control, we are the biggest gang, so we CAN DO WHATEVER WE WANT!! And that IS really the reason we all have power over you, because we have TAKEN it!! Our power is the power of these men and these arms!! It is not divinely given, it is TAKEN!! Be glad you're a member of the biggest gang, and that it's Democratic!! You could easily instead have been a member of a smaller gang that was run by enslaving warlords, and the farthest thing from Democratic you could ever imagine in your wildest nightmares!!!
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Nonsense. If charity worked we would never have NEEDED government!! In 18th century England, fully 30% of the population was ill-housed, ill-fed, or dying in the streets. That was before people realized that Socialism was the good and the right!!
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Very good, I agree.
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Free speech cannot defend lies, lies are always fraud and crime!!
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@Runkus_Grunkus It's a delusion!
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@JGM0JGM DNA functions as a self-modifying finite state machine.
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@danielsurvivor1372 No, it's NOT a language, it's the information in a self-modifying state machine.
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@snap-off5383 But, if we don't know of, or have any evidence of a "god", and we don't, then while "possible", the null hypothesis bars us reasonably from any actual theism. And it EVEN bars us from qualifying some unknown "god" as possible! Something not impossible still cannot be called possible without evidence.
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Namby-pamby spoiled urbanites blabber about meat when they have never killed their own food like every farm child has. Farm children grow up killing chickens. They also grow up cuddling farm animals and simply feel sad when they have to eat them. When you shoot a pig in the head and cut its throat so its blood drains, the other pigs try to muscle in the slurp up the blood as soon as they are done running from the sound of the shot. Same with chickens. Animals do NOT comprehend death. In fact they do not comprehend anything. They eat and shit and pee and fuck and sleep and that's it. They seek pleasure and run from pain. It isn't slavery, slaves are HUMANS!! Animals are NOT self-aware in ANY meaningful sense. They do NOT have the brain function we have on top of those natural reflexes and instincts to do so. We see animals doing what we do and assume that they are like us, when they ARE NOT!! When they begin asking us not to kill them, that is when you should worry about it. If you were a pig for one minute you would realize that there is NOTHING THERE!! You would have NO "memories" of it, only sense impressions, flashing light and color and not anything of "thought" or "experience" as we know it. The moment of death isn't even painful, it is like the noises and flashing lights ending, nothing more. People pretending they can put themselves in the place of lower animals is hugely ridiculous. Lower animals do not think, do not suffer.
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Niels Bohr, one of the main architects of quantum theory, suggested however that no connection could be made between indeterminism of nature and freedom of will.
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Garbage! Religion IS nonsense. I'm 71 and I have never seen a value in it AT ALL!! People helped each other LONG before religion was invented. All religion is, is vicious cruel gaslighting. We shared food since the first campfire. We had "Xmas" as the same festival thousands of years before religion. You're disgusting me trying to suck up to these people.
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@TRealidad Lennox is a LIAR!! Everything he says was debunked in the 19th century!!
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@miltonwetherbee5489 Doesn't matter, it happened, we're the proof, no shit-sucking "god" ever showed up or fucking DID ANYTHING!! Also, Evolution ALSO occurs in chemistry, not merely genetically. Abiogenesis was random mutation filtered by Natural Selection!! There is NO "language", DNA is NOT a "code", it is a self-modifying state machine, nothing more.
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@ljramirez It's not for him, but to teach others. It's merely one more opportunity to teach.
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@dot3510 No. Matter and antimatter occur whenever energy density is super high, it's a spontaneous natural process, no creator required.
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@miltonwetherbee5489 Chemical Evolution produced abiogenesis. Evolution is true even in the simplest chemical reactions.
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@miltonwetherbee5489 No, you don't know shit about genetics to believe that crap!! DNA writes its OWN new information. Boltzmann, Von Neumann and Shannon proved that information arises due to random processes when constrained by selection pressures. Even chemical reactions Evolve, it doesn't require cellular life. The laws of chemistry cause that.
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@mathew4181 Pure garbage. Each of those assertions have been debunked or further explained away by greater clarity in theory, i) Nothing requires Evolution to be steady, just because Darwin supposed it would be is meaningless. We know now that PE comes from environmental changes, and that environment drives Evolution. ii) Meaningless observation. Pretense. iii) Information that is destroyed is destroyed, but this information is digital and it is instantly replaced with different information by the process of mutation which is destroyed or retained by natural selection. iv) Over-asserted. Cancer cells either die, kill the host, or are excised, removing them from the gene pool and Evolutionary milieu. v) Epigenetics do not long persist and have little or no effect down the generations, No, they do NOT signal that Lamarck was right, his assertion was that effort is genetically remembered in musculature and skeleton, not disease or strife.
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so it goes No, atheists are NOT giving cover to muslims. Those who do are christian or woo-woo believers who are emotionally bound and gagged SJWs who are so ignorant that they are incapable. Remember, all believers in religions, especially the most devoted believers, have nothing and live in mud huts and can't come take over the world. They have no airliners of their own, they have no complex weapons. They are unable to take over a pot party, so no matter how many of them there are, they don't count. Atheists don't need to outbreed anybody because the stupidest religions, fundy and catholic and muslims, are hemorrhaging their members into our ranks at a gigantic rate, so much that the churches of Europe are all being sold for nightclubs!! The US catholic churches are empty, the priests having to service several churches at the same time because priests are running away. In pakistan and saudi the most googled topics are porn and atheism! And so it goes.
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@Person 1 No, it isn't.
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Libertarians are greedy immature adolescent simpletons. ALL rights are granted SOLELY by the democracy, awarding rights to one another based on what we each want for ourselves as well. Without the democratic government protecting our awarded rights, no one could be assured of anything, brigands could steal from you, rape your women, kill you. Law of the Jungle, dog eat dog, the War of Nature, as Darwin put it. For that protection each person owes the rest of us the costs of defending and protecting them. The People also realize that wealth inevitably steals by usury and investment without labor, and progressively robs the less able of their right to their very lives, homes, and property. Thus the very fiscal system which we set up among us to assist the lucky in their acquisitions, itself justifies additional cost upon the lucky and the proud. Thus the people, democratically, though this Social Contract, has the right to confiscate wealth beyond a certain level, in order to provide for the needs of the ill, the malformed, the ignorant, the elderly, and those being underpaid for their labor due to the greed and connivance of the lucky. Without this Social Contract, we would invariably see a vastly wealthy nobility occur and most of the rest of us be living in filth in the streets or become their serfs, servants or slaves again. Absolute rights of wealth and property which are beyond a certain socially controlled level constitute nothing but organized criminality. Thus, actually Libertarianism is nothing but only barely disguised greed and barbarianism. If you cannot devise a FAIR fiscal system by which to live wherein you will not know in advance your fortunate or unfortunate place within it, then you are simply dishonest and disingenuous. Nature is not fair, which is why we do not use the state of nature as our governance. We took over the world and defeated all of its predators and adversities ONLY by our affectionate mutual cooperation, and those of us who did not Evolve to cooperate together on the plains of Africa were eaten one at a time and are NOT our ancestors.
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