DNA: The Code of Life, to Who?

[memoryburner]

one time i found out the meaning of life. The answer is death. we live...to die. so before we die...TOKE IT UP!!!

[think green]

And I am a Christian, not a Catholic, there are differences. My beliefs come from the Bible, and the Bible only. A Catholic bishop was once quoted, "The Church is the work of an Incarnate God, like all of God's works, is is perfect." Now, according to my faith, God did not create all things perfect, humans are a great example of this, and I'm certainly not going to listen to a church that has a corrupted background of exploiting Pagan holidays so that the church can have a greater influence, or fucking little boys in the ass.

Catholics are Christians. Were you trying to say that you dont ascribe to any certain denomination?
..As for your other comments, I'm too lazy to point out traces of ignorance.

[couch-potato]

Catholics are Christians. Were you trying to say that you dont ascribe to any certain denomination?
..As for your other comments, I'm too lazy to point out traces of ignorance.

As much as I try, I always can't get my words out %100 cleary. Catholics being Christians, you are right, but so was I. I do not believe in Purgatory, Catholics do, and I really can't see how I was ignorant, considering that I previously stated that any theory, or religion has as much chance of being right as any other. Did I say "OMG JESUS IS LORD LOLOL U GUYZ R ALL GUNNA BURN IN HELL!!!1" No, and I also previously said something along the lines of "Darwin's theory of Natural Selection is either bogus, or incomplete." Yes, I gave the possibility that the theory of Evolution can be wrong, but I also said that Christianity can be wrong as well. Oh, and I don't go around calling other people ignorant just because they believe in something different.

[think green]

As much as I try, I always can't get my words out %100 cleary. Catholics being Christians, you are right, but so was I. I do not believe in Purgatory, Catholics do, and I really can't see how I was ignorant, considering that I previously stated that any theory, or religion has as much chance of being right as any other. Did I say "OMG JESUS IS LORD LOLOL U GUYZ R ALL GUNNA BURN IN HELL!!!1" No, and I also previously said something along the lines of "Darwin's theory of Natural Selection is either bogus, or incomplete." Yes, I gave the possibility that the theory of Evolution can be wrong, but I also said that Christianity can be wrong as well. Oh, and I don't go around calling other people ignorant just because they believe in something different.

I said you showed signs of ignorance because of your choice to stay away from Catholocism because of 'fucking little boys in the ass' as well as other subtle cues. I have nothing against your beliefs, just make an effort to show more respect for the beliefs of others.

[couch-potato]

I said you showed signs of ignorance because of your choice to stay away from Catholocism because of 'fucking little boys in the ass' as well as other subtle cues. I have nothing against your beliefs, just make an effort to show more respect for the beliefs of others.

Ah, I see. My fault then. Oh well, time to smoke :stoned:

[diche]

one time i found out the meaning of life. The answer is death. we live...to die. so before we die...TOKE IT UP!!!

the meaning of life is to reproduce. why do u think organisms have so much shit that keeps them alive, so we can continue the species. each species has a "drive" to reproduce because if we dont ntaure's delicate balance would be disrupted (if we were not civilized and we all lived in the forrest in nests as ape men) and the food chain collapses and then ect.. all the way to the "big crunch" (google it if u dont know it).

see I am quite the phycologist when im baked!

[iNfamouzJ]

I know what you mean EXACTLY; when I am high, my mind goes in hypermode. I think about actual intellegent things when I'm stoned rather than sober. I think it's because when I'm sober, I'm too worried about unimportant things, but being stoned kills those worries.

The last time I was high (last night) I was thinking (to myself) about Religion, and how Religion basically took over the world. I "had a solution" [ Don't we all XD ] or a theory about Religion, but I just can't remember it... I think I'm gonna buy a notebook and start a stoned journal or something...

[dopedupdan]

You and I are one of a kind. When I'm blazed, I'm a mad thinker, I think of all sorts of crap. The cats being cute thing makes sense, but about the DNA and how nature can make a code, that's why I'm a Christian.

If you look at the facts, Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection is either bogus, or incomplete. His theory is that all organisms are in a constant struggle of adaptation, and the animals who have an advantages over others will live and reproduce. Survival of the Fittest, the weaker animals will die. As the enviroment changes, these animals are forced to adapt to the cirumstances. Given that variation is inherited through genes (which, there is no evidence of, that is why apes still exist, and there are no half-ape half-humans out there), all evolution occurs through numerous slight, successful mutations.

Now, let's take the human eye as an example. Should Darwin be true, how, exactly does a creature even begin to develop an eye? Humans have extremely complex, camera-type eyes. The pupil acts as a shutter, the lens gathers light and focuses it on the retina to form an image. Different colors of light which have different wavelengths would cause a blurred image, however our eyes are smart enough to change it's density so that we can see clearly. The eye has unique muscles, allowing it to move at ridiculously fast speeds. I'm not even halfway done explaining how we have vision, see how complicated this shit gets?

The chances of any creature to develop an eye as complicted as this, are virturally impossible. Sure, animals can survive with more primative eyes, look at a jellyfish. Can you explain how humans evolved our eyes though "slight, successful variations through genetic mutation"? Nobody can. Now, I'm not going to preach to you saying how great God is, but look at the facts.

wow dude thats deep. but darwins theory could be right think about this When evolution skeptics want to attack Darwin's theory, they often point to the human eye. How could something so complex, they argue, have developed through random mutations and natural selection, even over millions of years?

If evolution occurs through gradations, the critics say, how could it have created the separate parts of the eye -- the lens, the retina, the pupil, and so forth -- since none of these structures by themselves would make vision possible? In other words, what good is five percent of an eye?

Darwin acknowledged from the start that the eye would be a difficult case for his new theory to explain. Difficult, but not impossible. Scientists have come up with scenarios through which the first eye-like structure, a light-sensitive pigmented spot on the skin, could have gone through changes and complexities to form the human eye, with its many parts and astounding abilities.

Through natural selection, different types of eyes have emerged in evolutionary history -- and the human eye isn't even the best one, from some standpoints. Because blood vessels run across the surface of the retina instead of beneath it, it's easy for the vessels to proliferate or leak and impair vision. So, the evolution theorists say, the anti-evolution argument that life was created by an "intelligent designer" doesn't hold water: If God or some other omnipotent force was responsible for the human eye, it was something of a botched design.

Biologists use the range of less complex light sensitive structures that exist in living species today to hypothesize the various evolutionary stages eyes may have gone through.

Here's how some scientists think some eyes may have evolved: The simple light-sensitive spot on the skin of some ancestral creature gave it some tiny survival advantage, perhaps allowing it to evade a predator. Random changes then created a depression in the light-sensitive patch, a deepening pit that made "vision" a little sharper. At the same time, the pit's opening gradually narrowed, so light entered through a small aperture, like a pinhole camera.

Every change had to confer a survival advantage, no matter how slight. Eventually, the light-sensitive spot evolved into a retina, the layer of cells and pigment at the back of the human eye. Over time a lens formed at the front of the eye. It could have arisen as a double-layered transparent tissue containing increasing amounts of liquid that gave it the convex curvature of the human eye.

In fact, eyes corresponding to every stage in this sequence have been found in existing living species. The existence of this range of less complex light-sensitive structures supports scientists' hypotheses about how complex eyes like ours could evolve. The first animals with anything resembling an eye lived about 550 million years ago. And, according to one scientist's calculations, only 364,000 years would have been needed for a camera-like eye to evolve from a light-sensitive patch.

but this is america so u can believe what u want--im still sure myself

[singingbowl420]

blah....I am high and these conversations are deep:upsidedow

[diche]

nice dopedupdan.