"I want to Thank God for helping me win...."

What does that have to do with Darwin's conversion from natural selection to Lamarckian evolution which is an extreme form of plasticity to account for the diversity of life?

Are you trying to avoid my question again?

 

Source?

 

still waiting

 

Well this is harder to explain but I'll try.

God used the isrealites as a tool for punishing and wanted the Holyland to be holy. Archaelogy proves that the caanonites were really excedingly wicked

The second passage maybe the best alternative for a devirginized woman whom no one would want to marry. Thats a hard one

Slavery was a curse from God but slaves were treated very well and not based on race a we know it. Some people had no alternative but to be adopted into a form of slavery so rules were made.

Your last passage deals with prophacy of what will happen to Isreal but not condoning.

I think if we lived back then we would have a much different opinion and understanding of these hardships and punishments

 

I don't mind fighters thanking God after fights. Let them express their beliefs. It helps them have courage and boosts their confidence.

I think the thread starter should've made a new topic if a fighter thanks satan... Now that is disturbing...

 

Of course, genetic mutation must ultimately fuel the genetic variation that permits adaptive evolution. However, genetic accommodation need not await mutation. There are two kinds of evidence that the standing genetic variation (

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) of particular responses is probably usually sufficient to support genetic accommodation without mutation. A large accumulation of data on protein polymorphisms has shown that genetic variation is common in natural populations (

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); and virtually every trait subjected to artificial selection shows a response to selection (references in ref.

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). A rare class of exceptions occurs under artificial selection for directional (consistently right or left) asymmetry of various traits (ommatidia number, wing folding, eye size, and thoracic bristle number) in Drosophila (

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). Nonetheless, directional (consistent right or left) asymmetry has evolved repeatedly in insects (e.g., see ref.

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on genitalia and other abdominal structures) and in other organisms (

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), suggesting that even this category of lack of response to selection can be overcome by variation and selection during longer evolutionary time scales. The phenotypic definition of selection helps to explain some of these cases, in which lack of genetic variation initially may have blocked a response to positive selection, and yet the trait eventually evolves to fixation. Because selection (differential reproductive success) of phenotypes does not require genetic variation, directional selection can persist generation after generation, favoring either the right or left form under environmentally influenced fluctuating asymmetry ("antisymmetry"), a state known to precede the evolution of some examples of directional symmetry (

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). Then an evolutionary response to selection would occur as soon as favorable genetic variations arise, e.g., due to mutation. Thus, although standing genetic variation usually must be sufficient to produce a response to selection (

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What about it?

 

I'm not closed-minded, in fact, I'm willing to consider any legitimate independently verifiable piece of of evidence a theist would like to present.

 

She works for the Smithsonian and also funded by PNAS. if she totally refuted mutational evolution she'd be fired. However her book is fascinating

 

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I think violence has its place. For instance God destoyed the world with a flood to save it because man was excedingly wicked and destroying everything. Palaeontology reveals that fossils are laid down in water and many of those show overkill by humans.

 

neither of these link provide any evidence to support your assetion

 

Well, since he is an all powerful (a logical contradiction by the way), benevolent deity, wouldn't it have made more sense just to make people less wicked and spare humanity the carnage?

 

I'd like to thank Ares god of war....but some of those monotheistic deities....man.....mean mutha****as!!!