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   From: robpar@deleteairmail.net   
      
   On 19 Feb 2004 18:02:44 -0800, mikesantos15@hotmail.com (commutator)   
   wrote:   
      
   >>>****** Well we can always go back to my signature. There are 6   
   >billion   
   >>>people, somebody created them, somebody was not us - conclusion   
   >somebody has   
   >>>more knowledge than us!   
   >   
   >First off, you do know where babies come from right?  Tracing back   
   >lineage reduces the number quite a bit.  Than examination of   
   >mitochondrial DNA (which is only passed on by the female) reduces that   
   >number further. Than we have the bible story saying it was originally   
   >a man and a female.  So get your argument straight, Your God created 2   
   >(or however #) NOT 6 billion.  The rest of us got here via good old   
   >fornication. Than there is the whole somebody had to create them to   
   >which is the old argument : who created the somebody?  If the somebody   
   >can just exist than why can't the universe just exist?   
   >   
   >>>--   
   >>>**** The fact that the greatest scientists, to their utter dismay,   
   >can't   
   >>>breath life into a dead body or create a perfect animal and breath   
   >life into   
   >it - is PROOF of a higher intelligence! ****   
   >   
   >There was a time when no one could prove where lightning cam from,   
   >they said it was God.  Than scientists gained the knowledge to   
   >demonstrate it was just electron transfer due to ionic charges in the   
   >air.  There was a time when the greatest scientits in the world could   
   >not show gravity was not just God saying "Stay on the ground" but than   
   >science advanced and we learned that wasn't true.  In time we may be   
   >able to construct 'life' by your definition.   
   >We can already reconstitute bacteria which have been lysed and their   
   >metabolic functions ceased (death).  We can take sections of organisms   
   >and create hybrids.  We can synthesize plasma membranes and organelle   
   >to some degree.  Soon enough we may be able to create a cell from   
   >scratch.  We just can't do it yet.....   
   >   
   >P.S. have you heard of flatlining? (Clinical death and cessation of   
   >brain activity).  We have brought people back from that as well via   
   >fun inventions like defribolaters (sp?)   
   >   
   defibrillator (dê-fîb´re-lâ´ter, -fì´bre-) noun   
   An electrical device used to counteract fibrillation of the heart   
   muscle and restore normal heartbeat by applying a brief electric   
   shock.   
      
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   >>>** People who deny that there is a God, are not so convinced that no   
   >God   
   >>>exists, but are using this denial as a crutch to get out of having   
   >to comply   
   >>>with God's Law!**   
   >   
   >That's your opinion, NOT evidence.  P.S. a crutch is something you   
   >lean on because you can't stand on your own.  God's law is your   
   >crutch.  I just stand, I just live, and I don't need your God's law to   
   >do so.   
   >   
   >Your evidence is/are just unanswered questions.  Because there   
   >unaswered now doesn't mean they'll stay that way.  And when they are   
   >you'll just have to come up with other unaswered questions to justify   
   >the existence of your God.  I mean it's been done by the 'ignorant and   
   >not able to take it' for all of history why would it stop now?   
   >   
   >Come back with some real evidence.  If you've got something worthwhile   
   >to show and say, go ahead.  Otherwise, maybe you should pray harder   
   >and God will throw some your way....   
      
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