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2024-04-28 15:27:14

We assume that everybody wants to be with God.
Some don’t…
The problem is that ALL good things come from God.
So they are removing themselves from EVERYTHING good.
That is hell…
#grownostr #Christianity #God

2023-10-11 22:42:23

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I guess thats right given the definition of extra-terrestrials.

2023-09-24 16:19:30

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and a very high fee to have the privilege of being there! Cheers!

2023-09-20 01:40:09

From my other nostr channel:
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2023-09-15 13:12:20

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Who's definition of evil do they go by? Nobody asks that question.

2023-09-15 13:11:18

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Apple? What company is that? They look like they promote freedom of thought... Hmmm...

2023-09-15 13:00:02

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What if the conditions that sustain life are so finely tuned that Earth is the only place that life can exist?

2023-09-15 12:57:00

First Life Must Have Had a Minimally Reliable Replication System — A Conundrum for Materialists
#apologetics #evolution #grownostr
https://evolutionnews.org/2023/09/first-life-must-have-had-a-minimally-reliable-replication-system-a-conundrum-for-materialists/

2023-09-15 12:38:06

The design complexity of the cell, points away from Darwinian evolution.
#apologetics #evolution #science #plebchain
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2023-09-15 01:50:00

WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL ABOUT A NEW PAPYRUS WITH SAYINGS OF JESUS? _______________
“If the proposed date is right, then 5575 would be … one of the earliest witnesses to any Christian document.”
#Christianity #Jesus #history #apologetics #grownostr
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2023-09-13 23:00:35

Play fiat games, win fiat prizes!
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2023-09-12 00:41:34

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Dang, I was already hungry. Then I scroll to see this!

2023-09-12 00:34:45

The Shop Rat!
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Check out my other nostr channel named “The Shop Rat”. In it, I write about and showcase my other love in life of making things of value. I will be covering all things related to the craftsman and their trade. Join me in the art of creation!
The Shop Rat:
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2023-09-10 16:11:47

Good Sunday morning, nostr!
Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths. Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long. (verses 4–5)
~ Psalm 25 – David’s Prayer for Help, Guidance, and Forgiveness
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2023-09-10 16:04:03

It is quite possible that the pencil sketch left on our hearts can be heard in the still quiet voice in our soul.
#grownostr #Christainity #Jesus
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2023-09-10 15:40:28

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Lewis is making the observation that most people that have become Christians in their adult years and not as children were persuaded by arguments that affirmed the existence of God (or theism).
This means that as adults we sometimes require more substantial proof in order to believe in God. As children we can become Christians through upbringing (like myself), songs, or experience, etc. However, if a nonbeliever comes to Christian faith as an adult it may be through logical or philosophical arguments for the existence of God, something that a child would not care about.
Lewis' writings were all about providing "adult" arguments for the existence of God, as in his book "Mere Christianity."
Did that help you understand better?

2023-09-10 02:33:33

C.S. LEWIS QUOTE
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“Nearly everyone I know who has embraced Christianity in adult life has been influenced by what seemed to him to be at least a probable argument for theism.”
~ C. S. Lewis
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#grownostr #Christianity #Bible #apologetics
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2023-09-10 02:31:47

JORDAN PETERSON’S UNDERSTANDING OFJESUS CHRIST
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“What you have in the figure of Christ is an actual person who actually lived, plus a myth, and, in some sense, Christ is the union of those two things. The problem is I probably believe that, but I’m amazed at my own belief and I don’t understand it.”
“It’s too terrifying a reality to fully believe. I don’t even know what would happen to you if you fully believed it.”
~Jordan Peterson in an interview with Jonathan Pageau
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2023-09-09 02:51:02

#God #evolution #science #grownostr #naturallaw
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2023-09-09 02:29:14

Just a friendly reminder!
Fairytales come in all forms!
#evolution #darwin #naturallaw #science #grownostr
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2023-09-09 01:50:41

THE COMPLEXITY THAT IS SEEN IN BIOLOGY IMPLIES A DESIGNER
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In a series of essays titled “The Deniable Darwin”, David Berlinski has an imaginary conversation with Jorge Luis Borges an Argentinian writer of short stories. In this conversation, Borges recounts the fantastic series of events in which all literary novels, in fact owe their existence and are descended from one ancestor novel “the Quixote”, the novel written by Miguel de Cervantes.
Borges recalls to Berlinski over a cup of coffee, “As you know,” he continues, “the original handwritten text of “the Quixote” was given to an order of French Cistercians in the autumn of 1576.”
The Cistercians were given the charge of making copies of the manuscript of “the Quixote”, but were not adept in the Spanish language and made many errors in their copying. Over the years, the singular errors made during the coping finally culminated in the first edition of Fernando Lor’s “Los Hombres d’Estado” in the year 1585. Then in 1654, still by singular coping errors Juan Luis Samorza’s novel “Por Favor” was created. The errors eventually lead to language changes from Spanish to French and then from French to English and throughout the years new novels that would become the literary masterpieces of the world were created. This chain of remarkable errors finally culminates in the novel “Ulysses”.
Borges then proclaims, “Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the “Quixote.” [1]
Evolution’s growing issues
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As fantastic as this made-up discussion of the transformation of the novel Don Quixote into the novel Ulysses, it pales in comparison to the evolution that was created by Charles Darwin. One that implies that singular mutations can over time develop highly specialized structures in organisms and even new species. The mutations are completely random and when they are subjected to the harsh reality of their environment, they are tested by what evolution calls natural selection. The good mutations are passed down to future generations and the bad mutations ones, that are of no benefit or are detrimental to the organism, are killed off. This process was coined the ‘survival of the fittest’.
At the time of Darwin, DNA, and the magnificently complicated structure of the cell were not yet discovered. Mutations were thought to be a simpler process that did not involve the encoded information contained in DNA. What evolutionists in Darwin’s day thought of as a single mutation would have contained thousands or millions of individual DNA mutations. An example would be the bud of a primeval leg forming on an organism. Then, the bud would have been thought as single mutation, but over a hundred years later it is known to be a vastly more complex situation. Mutations are disqualifying themselves as a driver of evolutionary change as time progresses, and more is known about DNA and the complexity of life.
Evolutionary Paradoxes
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Evolution relies on random mutations and natural selection to be a viable theory for the diversity of life. However, there are issues with mutations causing changes in organisms. We can call these issues, evolutionary paradoxes. When the paradoxes are fully examined, they unveil the absurdity of evolutionary theory. Below are a few of the examples of evolutionary paradoxes.
DNA — Protein Paradox: DNA is the information carrier for the construction of proteins that are in turn the building blocks of cells. Without DNA, the only way to build a protein would be the chance assembly from a primeval goo. So, for life to exist and to replicate in an environment you must have the blueprint of a protein’s assembly that is contained in DNA. However, DNA is itself made of proteins and assembled in cells. DNA and proteins rely on the other for their assembly. This establishes a “which came first, the chicken or the egg” situation. It is inconceivable that one component can assemble itself spontaneously enough to form the other. The creation of a protein is extremely complicated and further complicated by the proper folding of the protein. The protein folds are what allows it to function properly. According to Cyrus Levinthal, there are 10³⁰⁰ different ways that a protein can fold after a peptide chain is produced [2]. Only one of the folds is the correct one for the function of the protein. This is just one of numerous issues that either the protein or DNA would have to survive in order to spontaneously create.
The Butterfly Paradox: As children, most of us become familiar with the life cycle of the butterfly. We learn that the butterfly starts out life as an egg laid by an adult. The egg hatches and a larval caterpillar is born. The caterpillar feeds and grows until it sheds its skin and starts the pupal stage of its life. In this stage the larva undergoes radical changes to its body. The legs, wings, and the body of an adult butterfly are formed and after a certain amount of time it emerges. Here is the paradox, the life cycle of the butterfly is only perpetuated by the adult mating and then laying its eggs. Consequently, the larva is not the same body configuration as the adult and cannot reproduce. It is separated from the reproductive phase of its life by a massive rearranging of its body in the pupal stage.
How does this rearranging of major body parts happen in an evolutionary paradigm, where changes happen with individual random mutations in DNA?
For the life cycle of the butterfly to exist in evolutionary terms the first larva of the species must make the transition to adult in one clean mutational jump. The pupal stage requires the DNA information to be clear and contain the many changes to form into an adult… to then reproduce. If this process was due to a series of singular random mutations, a vast amount would be detrimental to the larva and would kill it.
How does this change happen via singular random mutations of DNA? This seems to be an all or nothing conundrum.
The Male-Female Paradox: This is one of the greatest problems for the evolutionist, how did sexual reproduction evolve from single DNA mutations? This suffers from the same basic problem as the Butterfly Paradox. Mainly, a great leap in single mutational changes required to have the correct body types needed with the mechanism for successful procreation of the species at the end of the process. You could say this paradox even complicates the butterfly paradox further by adding another layer of complication to that issue. Evolutionists will say that organisms evolved into sexual reproduction as it is vastly more complicated than asexual reproduction. Basically, going from simple one celled organism that reproduces asexually and mutating into a more complicated multicell organism that reproduces sexually.
So, how did that happen?
To make the jump you must go from an asexual organism to a fully functioning male and female organism. Moreover, the process to procreate must work the first time or the species will not survive as either the male or female cannot asexually procreate on their own. This again is an all or nothing process that must happen successfully the first time via the process of random mutation and natural selection, otherwise the species dies out. 
In Darwin’s day, the paradoxes may have been easier to envision working out, but what we now know about DNA and cellular biology it vastly complicates the random mutations that are required. It is much like adding random errors to a computer’s operating system and expecting to get a revolutionary new computer at the end, it does not happen that way. Errors in turn cause more errors, much like the entropy in a thermodynamic system. To expect otherwise is frankly wishful thinking.
Irreducible Complexity Points to Design
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Engineers know the importance of design. One needs to know how the individual parts of a machine interact together. Great care must be taken with the design, material selection, and manufacturing for even the simplest machine to operate well. If one part is not in the design that is crucial for the overall function, then the machine is junk. Would you fly in an airplane that does not have one of its engines? How about no fuel nozzles in the engine? Or missing just one of the compressor blades? The answer is most likely a resounding “No!” Because in each scenario the engine is not functional or won’t be in very short order.
Life is very much the same as the aircraft engine. There are structures in organisms that must have all their parts intact or the structure ceases to function. This is known as irreducible complexity. The engine must have all its major parts intact or it does not function, it is irreducibly complex. There are many irreducibly complex structures in life a few of which are the circulatory system, the eye, blood clotting, or the ear.
The bacterial flagellum is one of many irreducibly complex structures in biology. It is truly a remarkable organelle that provides propulsion for certain types of bacteria. The flagellum is a complex molecular motor made of proteins that runs on the flow of hydrogen ions. The flagellum has the same classical parts as an electrical motor such as the rotor, stator, and bushings, and can operate at thousands of rotations per minute. The motor then turns a whip like structure called the filament. This is what gives propulsion to the bacteria much like a propeller. It is a beautifully engineered nano-machine that is remarkably efficient. Its structure is much like the engine referenced above; it is irreducibly complex. If you remove any of the major components, the flagellum will not work and is useless.
So, the question is how does this kind of complex machine evolve by singular DNA mutations?
When the loss of a major component renders the flagellum useless and fodder for the evolutionary scrap yard via natural selection. A bacterium is at a disadvantage with a useless motor hanging off its backside for a million or so years waiting on the improbable molecular rotor to mutate into existence. Wouldn’t the useless appendage just disappear like the legs of the “primeval” whale that is hanging out on the water’s edge waiting for flippers? I’m just asking.
One of the explanations for the evolution of the flagellum is given by the similarity in structure to the Type Three Secretion System (TTSS) in bacterium. They both share similar shape and proteins as each other. However, their functions are completely different, the TTSS is used to export proteins across the cell envelope not as a mode of propulsion. Just because there is a similarity of shape does not imply evolutionary lineage. Even if they were linked in evolution, there is very little attention given to the “nuts and bolts” of the coding changes needed in the DNA and the not so trivial statistical challenges of the creation of the winning design.
Evolutionists must adhere to their own theory’s guidelines when discussing the complicated matters of “chance” design and those guidelines have only become more stringent with the discovery of DNA. The code for changing life is contained within the mutations made in DNA; and with that the chance miraculous coding for all the proteins and the design of the flagellum runs afoul. This mathematical challenge is not addressed in evolutionary theory.
The explanation for the evolution of the TTSS into the flagellum is oversimplified into the rearrangement of the proteins thru the “right” mutations and natural selection and… voila! You have a sophisticated propulsion system. You don’t need to explain the real challenges. Engineers wish redesign was that easy because their job would be less stressful. If you don’t manage every single detail in a new product design, it will run off the rails fast. We should, expect life to be a little more complicated than man made items.
Design implies a designer, and life has many designs that are improbable given the limitations of evolution. There are the singular mutation and natural selection limitations that are self-imposed in evolutionary theory. But there are the materialistic limitations that are arbitrarily placed on it as well. With random mutation and natural selection as the driving factor behind evolution, the metaphysical is vehemently avoided and along with it any mention of design.
The concept of design in life is avoided as nonscientific. But why?
There is clear evidence of design in every aspect of life. I don’t look at the airplane engine and say, “Look what natural selection and wind erosion has brought me!” That would be foolish and unscientific. It would be scientific of me to use the evidence that I observe from the engine and imply an intelligent designer that ushered that design from imagination to reality. The designs that we see in life are no different and harder to avoid implying a designer because of the exponential complexity over the engine.
Science cannot be held hostage by dogma, a dogma that was birthed with Darwin and limits exploration of life only to the materialistic realm. That would have been sufficient for some in that era, but we now have the language of DNA and sophisticated instruments that have revealed the complex world of cellular biology. With those two things we can observe the blueprints of life along with the overwhelmingly complex design itself.
In viewing this design, it implies that there is a Designer… some might call God.
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End Notes
[1] David Berlinski June 1, 1994 Intelligent Design. “The Deniable Darwin.” Discovery Institute, 14 July 2020.
[2] Levinthal, Cyrus (1969). “How to Fold Graciously”. Mossbauer Spectroscopy in Biological Systems: Proceedings of a Meeting Held at Allerton House, Monticello, Illinois: 22–24.
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2023-09-08 13:02:32

Good morning nostr!
Remember that most things in life are a distraction from what is truly important.
They turn your attention away from God, family and each other.
They turn you attention away from your miraculous creation and thus any purpose that God has granted you.
Don't let yourself be distracted by what the world has in front of you. Look for the quiet and peaceful that is in your life.
#God #grownostr #coffeechain

2023-09-04 02:52:16

BISHOP BELLS DINOSAURS
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Carlisle Cathedral in the United Kingdom is the final resting place of Bishop Richard Bell. Bell who was laid to rest around the year 1496 AD was buried within the stone floor of the cathedral. Brass strips are inlaid in the floor as a border for his tomb.
The strips have various contemporary animals skillfully engraved on them. The animals are easily identified as a bird , a pig, a dog, and even an eel. All of the animals would have easily been identified within the medieval period in which they were engraved.
However, there are animals that are curiously out of place and resemble sauropod dinosaurs. The animals are of such detail that they can be identified as possibly vulcanodon and shunosaurus due to the spikes on its tail.
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2023-08-31 01:56:49

Caravaggio, The Conversion of St. Paul, c. 1600-1601
#grownostr #plebchain #Christianity #paintings
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2023-08-31 01:55:35

THE ORIGIN OF LIFE FROM THE FOUNDER OF NASA’S GODDARD INSTITUTE
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“Scientists have no proof that life was not the result of an act of creation, but they are driven by the nature of their profession to seek explanations for the origin of life that lie within the boundaries of natural law.”
~ Robert Jastrow, The Enchanted Loom (founding director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies)
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2023-08-30 02:39:45

THE INCREDIBLE PRECISION OF INCA STONEWORK
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Name the modern stonework that rivals the precision and closeness of fit that ancient Inca walls have in places like Cuzco, Peru.
Such closeness of fit where you cannot place a business card in-between the stones. The ancient Inca had more skill and technology than we think to be able to accomplish such mastery.
Their level of craftsmanship is very hard to duplicate with todays machinery and I have not seen a modern example that rivals it.
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2023-08-29 01:26:23

When you are in the middle of historical events, sometimes it is hard to see the history.
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2023-08-29 01:11:26

TRICERATOPS HORN UNFOSSILIZED SOFT TISSUE
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A video showing the examination of soft tissue from a triceratops horn collected in Montana by Mark Armitage.
The tissue in not fossilized and is still very flexible. Unfossilized tissue is not that uncommon among fossils and is being found more often.
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2023-08-29 00:48:39

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Welcome to nostr!

2023-08-28 00:51:16

THE ABSURD MAKE BELIEVE OF EVOLUTION
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So this is all it takes to establish an evolutionary link between chickens and dinosaurs? You glue feathers onto a velociraptor?
This is make believe.
It totally glosses over the multiple billions, trillions or more of genetic changes that have to happen in order to get a working chicken-dinosaur. All of the changes are by shear chance, as the is no Creator in evolution.
But hey, glue them feathers on that dinosaur… It’s SCIENCE!
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2023-08-27 03:10:26

THE UNIVERSE CREATED FROM NOTHING IS ABSURD
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When looking back into our universe’s history just after the Big Bang, t = 10⁻⁴³ seconds is as far back as we can go and still be able to rely on physics and mathematics to describe the conditions of our universe. This is the point in time when the equations that are known to govern our universe begin to function; before this point there are no viable mathematical equations to model the universe.
At this moment, our universe was infinitesimal, extremely hot, and all energy and matter where combined. Scientists have very little to say about the universe before this point including what caused the Big Bang.
What initiated the Big Bang? This is the most important and fundamental question that can be asked; that is, what caused the universe and everything in it to exist? The answer to this will answer our most basic question, is there a God?
This question has only two basic options for an answer. Either, the universe arose from nothing and therefore no God or it was created by something with sufficient power to create everything in our universe.
The first option, whereas the universe arose from nothing is a fiercely debated topic. This is because the definition of nothing cannot be settled upon and physicists have many definitions of what that nothing would contain.
Yes, it is that absurd.
In this discussion, we will divide the meaning of nothing into two distinctions.
First, the meaning of nothing that is truly nothing, no matter, space, time, energy, or laws of physics, absolutely nothing. This nothing would be a complete void that is beyond anything that we can conceive of in our existence. It is a state that physics can’t even begin to describe and is best described in terms of philosophy.
This state of existence is the best explanation of the physical conditions that the universe expanded out from after the Big Bang. This is because the universe contains all matter, space, and time that we know of and when extrapolated back using the Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem [1] the universe has a beginning and thus a point in which all matter, space, and time did not exist. Without those attributes, we are left with truly nothing before the big bang and the philosophical paradox of something arising out of absolute nothing.
One of the first times the paradox of something coming from nothing was addressed by Parmenides of Elea and first written down in Aristotle’s Physics [2]:
“τί δ᾽ ἄν μιν καὶ χρέος ὦρσεν ὕστερον ἢ πρόσθεν, τοῦ μηδενὸς ἀρξάμενον, φῦν; οὕτως ἢ πάμπαν πελέναι χρεών ἐστιν ἢ οὐχί.”
Translation by John Burnet:
“Yet why would it be created later rather than sooner, if it came from nothing; so, it must either be created altogether or not [created at all].”
This literature sets up the philosophical principle of “ex nihilo nihil fit” or Latin for “nothing comes from nothing”. Very few scientists even attempt to argue that the universe sprang forth from absolute nothing. Even the Scottish skeptic, David Hume, wrote [3]:
“But allow me to tell you that I never asserted so absurd a proposition as that anything might arise without a cause.”
Usually, this problem of ex nihilo nihil fit is circumvented by inserting a causal agent into the absolute nothing.
Second, is a definition of nothing that includes a something, like the laws of physics. This definition of nothing reveals the true philosophical problem of something (our universe) arising from truly nothing. It necessitates the need for a causal agent of some sort with sufficient power to bring forth the Big Bang. This is illustrated famously by what physicist Stephen Hawking wrote in his book with Leonard Mlodinow, The Grand Design, Hawking states [4]:
“Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going.”
Hawking in this quote gives causal power to the Law of Gravity; this power is what would be traditionally ascribed to the classical ideal of God. The problem with this approach is that it makes the mistake of transferring the causal power of God for what would be an attribute of God that has no causal power in it apart from God. This amounts to their definition of God being too small. Any causal agent of the universe will have unfathomable attributes that are His alone and these attributes cannot be separated from the causal power of God.
To illustrate this point, the Law of Gravity by itself cannot create anything, just like the law of thermodynamics cannot create the internal combustion engine; laws in of themselves cannot create anything they need causal power. It seems physicists trivialize the immense power that brought forth our universe by ascribing that power to a physical law. By giving causal power to any physical law sounds exceedingly close to what God would be like without the baggage of traditional religion for the scientist.
This is a rhetorical sleight of hand to wiggle out of the concept of God and place the creation of the universe firmly into the materialist worldview.
They are playing a shell game.
A further problem with this approach of laws having causal power is that when the universe was before its singularity, where or when did the laws reside? There was nothing physical that would have the imprint of such physical laws upon it.
If the laws could not have any base in the physical universe they would have to reside in a metaphysical mind of some sort. This mind would have to reside outside of our space-time and have the causal attributes to bring forth the whole universe. This still sounds exceedingly close to God.
Whether you ascribe the causal power of the Big Bang to a physical law or to the classical ideal of God, the result is the same for both. To be able to create time, space, and all matter and energy; the cause must be timeless, beyond the constraints of space, and immensely powerful. This again sounds exceedingly close to God whether you call it a law or God, it doesn’t matter.
Richard Lewontin, in his review of Carl Sagan’s last book, The Demon-haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, acknowledges the clash between scientific materialism and common sense. Speaking of scientists, he says [5]:
“Our willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between science and the supernatural. We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.”
A Divine Foot in the door indeed…
REFERENCES:
[1] Borde, Arvind, et al. “Inflationary Spacetimes Are Incomplete in Past Directions.” Physical Review Letters, vol. 90, no. 15, 2003, https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.90.151301.
[2] Parmenides, Fragments 1–19, https://lexundria.com/parm_frag/1-19/b.
[3] Hume, David, and Greig J Y T. “David Hume to John Stewart, February 1754.” The Letters of David Hume, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1932.
[4] Hawking, Stephen, and Leonard Mlodinow. The Grand Design. Bantam Books, 2010.
[5] Lewontin, R. Review of Billions and Billions of Demons, The New York Review of Books, 9 Jan. 1997, pp. 7.
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2023-08-27 01:33:53

ANGKOR WAT STEGOSAUR
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Many cultures around the world have stories involving dragons and large serpents. This stone carving at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temple, Ta Prohm bares a remarkable resemblance to a stegosaur. It was carved around 1200 AD.
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2023-08-26 23:17:24

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I have only returned one rare steak in my life for being undercooked. It came to the table looking like it was sprayed with a light gray Krylon paint... It was lost somewhere in steak cooking limbo.

2023-08-26 23:14:00

#grownostr #uncomfortabletruth
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2023-08-26 23:11:53

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With onions, reminds me of my childhood!

2023-08-26 22:58:19

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Rare or it is overcooked!

2023-08-26 18:00:51

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At this point in Clown World... I am open to just about anything! Cheers!

2023-08-26 17:44:06

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Welcome and thanks for the follow!

2023-08-26 17:41:32

YOUR THOUGHTS HAVE BEEN SHAPED
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The term “conspiracy theorist” is one of the greatest psychological operations ever perpetrated on the American people.
Its only purpose was to silence and marginalize free thinking individuals and to bring us into a herd mentality.
Rendering us unable to think for ourselves.
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2023-08-26 17:32:41

NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY IS NOT AS BLACK AND WHITE AS YOU WERE LEAD TO BELIEVE
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A common fallacy is that the Native American population was peaceful and pristine up until the Europeans showed up and destroyed their civilizations.
It is possible that sometimes this may have been a good thing.
The Aztecs before the Europeans, were sacrificing enough innocent people that they build monumental towers made from their skulls.
To those innocents, destined to be slaughtered, the Spanish would have been seen as rescuers.
“The tower is believed to be one of seven similar structure that once stood in the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlán (now Mexico City). The skull towers are mentioned in contemporary accounts of the city’s capture by Hernan Cortes in 1521, and were razed by the Spanish conquistadores shortly thereafter.”
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2023-08-26 02:07:43

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2023-08-26 02:03:43

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2023-08-26 02:02:14

“Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.”
~ Rembrandt van Rijn
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2023-08-25 01:42:57

[27] Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
John 14:27
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2023-08-25 01:19:33

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Followed!

2023-08-25 00:16:28

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On second read of your reply, I might have misread your premise. Yes, science can never answer the why or how. Cheers!

2023-08-25 00:12:40

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The article's premise that a Creator exists is not from what we don't know.
It makes the argument for a Creator from what we do know of the mathematics.
This is not a "God of the Gaps" premise. Thank you for your lively reply!
It looks like that agitated clown needs to read a book about them magnets!

2023-08-24 22:46:28

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Yeah... that's the ticket! Lol, Cheers!

2023-08-24 22:36:54

Caravaggio, The Taking of Christ, c. 1602
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2023-08-24 22:35:38

THE MOST GOLDILOCKS IN ALL OF PHYSICS
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The fine-tuning of the universe is one of the most compelling arguments for the existence of God. Fine-tuning refers to the “just right” initial conditions that were set into the equations that govern physics and how they effect life.
One of the most finely tuned parameters in physics is the entropy of the universe. It refers to the initial low entropy state of the universe, which was necessary for the existence of life. If the Big Bang Theory is correct and the universe started with a massive expansion, our newly formed universe was not a chaotic soup of energy and matter. It was quite the opposite, it was orderly. This is because of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. This law states that there is a natural tendency of any isolated system to degenerate into a more disordered state. This direction towards disorder is called entropy.
The entropy of the universe was fine-tuned to such an exquisite degree. Physicist Roger Penrose estimated that the odds of the initial low entropy orderly state of our universe occurring by chance are on the order of 1 in 10 raised to the 10th power then raised to the 123rd power. [1] This number is absolutely unfathomable odds, even in the world of physics and mathematics. Basically, there would be a VERY large number of universes in which the entropy would be so chaotic in the beginning that it would be uninhabitable for life; before one is formed that could sustain life.
This leads to the view that the equations that govern physics and in turn life were designed to be just right for life to exist.
[1] Penrose, Roger. (1989). Emperor’s New Mind. Penguin Books. 339-345.
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2023-08-23 00:42:53

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I am glad you enjoyed the article. Thank you very much for the zap! Cheers!

2023-08-18 01:36:28

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2023-08-17 01:23:31

The podcast "Cultish" has released a new series called "Alien Encounters". It explores the connections between the occult and the alien phenomenon. I have made it to episode 2. It has been an eye opener!
#grownostr #spirituality #UFO #nostr
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2023-08-17 01:02:43

ALEISTER CROWLEY’S ALIEN
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Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) was an English occultist, writer, and ceremonial magician who played a significant role in the development of modern Western esotericism. He gained notoriety for his involvement in various mystical practices and his influence on occult and spiritual movements.
One of Crowley's lesser-known aspects of his work involves his encounters with an entity he referred to as "Lam." In the later years of his life, Crowley was known to have engaged in a series of visionary and trance-like states, during which he claimed to have communicated with a being he depicted in a drawing as a somewhat androgynous figure with a large, bald head and slit-like eyes. Lam bears a remarkable resemblance to the speculated alien grays in popular UFO lore.
This resemblance does bring up an interesting possibility. Crowley was called by the tabloids of the day the “Wickedest Man In The World,” and a “Master Of Darkness.” He was defiantly trying to communicate with beings from other dimensions, what we could call demons. It is very possible that the aliens that are encountered are in fact demons and not visitors from another planet. This would have profound and even biblical implications if true. It would mean that we are most defiantly alone in the universe, unique and miraculous creations. It would also mean that the UFO phenomenon is an encounter with a spiritual realm that we know little about.
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2023-08-03 02:01:12

WILLIAM BUCKLEY AND THE BUNYIP
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William Buckley was an escaped convict who lived with the Wathaurong aboriginal tribe in Australia for over 30 years in the early 19th century. During his time with the tribe, he encountered a creature known as the bunyip. According to Buckley's account, the bunyip was an "extraordinary amphibious animal" with grey feathers covering its back and about the size of a full-grown calf. Buckley also claimed that the bunyip was believed to have supernatural powers and was a common sight along the Barwon River.
“He [the Bunyip] made his home in the deep waterholes and the rain forests, lurking in the gloom by day and roaming the earth by night during the time of darkness. He brought fear to the tribes, threatening to devour any human he might meet.”
~ William Buckley, The Life and Adventures of William Buckley, 1852
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2023-07-29 15:36:25

“PRESERVATION OF FAVORED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE”
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You never hear that subtitle for “The Origin of Species” written by Charles Darwin. The outward racist beliefs of Darwin are never talked about or mentioned when genuflecting to his evolutionary theories. His views grew roots in the fertile soil of hatred in the twentieth century and allowed for the extermination of our fellow man because of a self appointed superiority.
“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla. ”
~ Charles Darwin, “Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex”
“I could not have believed how wide was the difference between savage and civilised man… Viewing such men, one can hardly make oneself believe that they are fellow-creatures, and inhabitants of the same world. It is a common subject of conjecture what pleasure in life some of the lower animals can enjoy: how much more reasonably the same question may be asked of these barbarians!”
~ Charles Darwin, “Voyage of the Beagle”
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2023-07-29 15:35:02

POLYSTRATE PETRIFIED TREES
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Polystrate trees are fossilized tree trunks that are found protruding through multiple layers of rock strata. The question is how the tree fossilizes this way if the rock layers take millions of years to form?
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2023-07-24 02:10:15

STATUE OF THE BIBLICAL JOSEPH FOUND IN EGYPT
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A statue was found in Tell el-Dab’a, Egypt between 1986 and 1988 that has a remarkable resemblance to the biblical Joseph written about in Genesis.
“Over the statue’s right shoulder you can still see his “throw stick” i.e., the symbol of his rule. On the back – remarkably, as with the Biblical Joseph – you can still see evidence that this ruler was wearing a striped garment, made up of at least three colors: black, red and white. He was found in a tomb. The tomb was empty.”
“he is not Egyptian, rather he is a man who comes from the area of Canaan/Israel.”
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2023-07-23 03:52:40

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Amen!

2023-07-23 03:42:13

Caravaggio, The Crowning with Thorns, c. 1602/1604
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2023-07-22 18:19:45

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2023-07-21 15:33:55

THE COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
The Cosmological Argument is a philosophical argument for the existence of God and can basically be summed up by the following logical form:
Premise 1: Everything that begins to exist has a cause of its existence.
Premise 2: The universe began to exist.
Conclusion: Therefore, the universe has a cause of its existence.
Premise 1: States that for everything that has a definite point in time where it begins to exist, there must be a cause or another entity that brings forth that existence. For instance, if you have a seedling growing in your front yard there must have been another plant that initiated that seed that is spouting. Things in our universe just don’t pop into existence from nothing, it is contrary to the reality that we know.
Premise 2: States that our universe has a definite beginning point where it began to exist. We know this by many reasons. First, the Big Bang Theory is evidence that points to this conclusion. Second, one can point to the increasing entropy of the universe, where the universe will eventually run out of usable energy making and infinite past is impossible because entropy would have run out an infinite time ago and we would not be here. Lastly, you can use the argument that Aquinas used in his Second Way that an infinite regression is absurd and doesn’t make sense.
The conclusion ties premise 1 and 2 together. The universe had a beginning, thus it had a cause. Some people take this part as an objection to the Cosmological Argument. They will say that it doesn’t prove the existence of the Judeo-Christian God. Yes, they would be right, it doesn’t. It is not meant to prove there is a God, only a cause sufficient to create the universe. Now, that cause would have some of the attributes of the Judeo-Christian God like all-powerful, timeless, and spaceless just to name a few.
Another objection to the Cosmological Argument is the need for the first cause of the universe to have a cause. The answer to the question, “Who made God?”. I believe that to be a premise that doesn’t take all the facts of the situation into account. Remember in the preceding paragraph that the cause would have the attribute of timelessness? If you are timeless, how do you have a beginning or a cause? There is no time. If you cannot measure with the parameter of time then there is no beginning or end, everything exists in a timeless realm. Something we cannot even begin to comprehend, and we exclude from this kind of philosophical discussion.
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2023-06-21 01:44:25

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2023-06-20 23:49:07

“Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.”
~ C. S. Lewis
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2023-06-19 23:33:15

The question I have always had during the farce of climate change… How do we know what the temperature of the earth should be? We have had ice ages and more tropical times in our past, before the evils of manmade pollution.
We have to know what the baseline temperature is to determine if we are heating up or cooling down.
The answer is we can’t, we have always been cycling in temperature for millennia and will always. Climate change is a pseudo science based on fear to get MONEY.
#grownostr #plebchain #nostr #science

2023-06-19 18:17:42

The politicalization and corporatization of science or "$cience" has been used to totally control you… all your life.
It affects EVERYTHING you may believe!
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2023-06-18 23:13:53

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I remember Stephen Meyer talking about the different levers of coding in DNA. Cannot find the references to that though. Cheers!

2023-06-18 02:14:04

So... what is so dangerous that I cannot buy raw milk at the store? When they sell Lucky Charms? The government needs to butt out of our lives!
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2023-06-18 01:28:33

THE BRIMSTONE OF SODAM AND GOMORRAH
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Geological formations known as sulfur balls or brimstone balls have been discovered near the ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. There is also an unmistakable charred destruction layer that along with the sulfur balls emphasizes the horrific event that took place in this area. These formations offer tantalizing evidence for the biblical account of the cities' destruction.
Sodom and Gomorrah were cities infamous for their depravity and moral decay, according to the Bible in Genesis 19. In retaliation, God rained down fire and brimstone on the cities, destroying them. The sulfur balls, which are made of solidified sulfur and are around 94-98% pure sulfur and burn with a very hot blue flame, are evidence of this catastrophic event and show the ferocious damage that occurred.
The presence of a burned destruction layer, in addition to the sulfur balls, strengthens the case for the cities' destruction. This layer is made up of charred remains, ash, and other material that was left over after the area was completely consumed by fire and tremendous heat. This layer was discovered by archaeologists during excavations, offering a visual portrayal of the catastrophic event mentioned in the ancient literature.
Along with supporting the Biblical description, the sulfur balls and the corresponding burned destruction layer provide important new information about the area's geological and archaeological past. It implies that the cities were destroyed as a result of a catastrophic event.
The sulfur balls and the burnt destruction layer stand as enduring reminders of a significant event in human history, attracting the attention of scholars, researchers, and visitors. Their presence provides yet another tangible link to the past and further supports that we can trust the accuracy of the Bible..
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2023-06-16 17:28:32

LANGUAGE, CREATION, AND MEANING
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When someone is walking along the beach and looks down to see the words “I Love You”; they do not think it was a random accident of the wind or the waves. The symbols that make up the writing convey a deeper meaning that passes information to us in a metaphysical way. We know that the phrase means that two lovers have gone before us and stopped to write in the sand. It would be preposterous to think it was the wind that carved them. It is by that transfer that we know the words were written on purpose and by an intelligence. That purpose is language.
You have in you a similar language. It is written in every corner of your being, every cell and tissue have it written throughout them. The language is far more complex than the words that were previously discovered in the sand. It requires billions of characters to convey its message.
The language is DNA. It is the molecule that is the instructional blueprint for the assembly of proteins that are the building blocks for all cells and is formed by four distinct bases: adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T). The bases act as letters in a four-letter alphabet transferring information to build a specific protein. The bases are assembled into a long strand that we know as the DNA double helix.
Just as we know that the simple phrase in the sand conveys the love between the two beachgoers. Similarly, we should understand that the far more complex writing in us conveys a vast love between a creator and its creation. The DNA language inside you was written not just for you, but it is you. It wrote another being into existence. Something that the words in the sand could not do. Yet, some scoff that the language that has the power to bring things into existence was yet an accident of physics and chemistry. Those words had a meaning lovingly penned by the Creator, and that meaning is you…
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2023-06-15 01:46:34

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Ok, I’ll have to try that. Last time I used bacon grease… not so good!

2023-06-14 23:57:16

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What oil did you use?

2023-06-14 01:00:27

I used to love Apple products… NO MORE!
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2023-06-13 22:39:07

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I have the same thoughts. I have been an avid Apple user. No more! Apple is the enemy.

2023-06-13 21:21:06

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Thank you for spotlighting him!

2023-06-11 23:08:30

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You can at least sit down and lean up against the wall! I would hate for you to fall over…😜

2023-06-10 18:00:35

WHAT IS APOLOGETICS?
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The word apologetics comes from the Greek word “apologia”. It means a speech of defense, reply, or the act of making a defense. It provides the textual foundation for what is called “Apologetics”. Christian apologetics describes the discipline of providing cogent arguments and reasons for why the Christian belief system should be considered true. In scripture, Peter instructs his readers to always be at the ready to provide an oral defense for why they are a believer in Christ. The Christian viewpoint is not to be built on faith alone, it has from the very beginning been built on evidence and reason.
“…but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence”
~ 1 Peter 3:15
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2023-06-10 03:14:33

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My cat Bailey spent countless hours on my desk while I was doing my homework for engineering school. She was my study buddy!

2023-06-10 02:19:47

IRREDUCIBLE COMPLEXITY POINTS TO A DESIGNER
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Engineers know the importance of design. One needs to know how the individual parts of a machine interact together. Great care must be taken with the design, material selection, and manufacturing for even the simplest machine to operate well. If one part is not in the design that is crucial for the overall function, then the machine is junk.
Would you fly in an airplane that does not have one of its engines? How about no fuel nozzles in the engine? Or missing just one of the compressor blades? The answer is most likely a resounding “No!” Because in each scenario the engine is not functional or won’t be in very short order.
Life is very much the same as the aircraft engine. There are structures in organisms that must have all their parts intact or the structure ceases to function. This is known as irreducible complexity. The engine must have all its major parts intact or it does not function, it is irreducibly complex. Each part is designed to fill a certain role in the overall design and interact in certain ways with other parts.
Complex structures do not just happen, they are designed with purpose otherwise they do not function the first time or at all.
There are many irreducibly complex structures in life a few of which are the circulatory system, the eye, blood clotting, or the ear. Each has been designed to work the first time with all parts interacting. Evolution does not allow this all or nothing design to happen. Therefor, if there is design there must be a designer that is God.
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2023-06-06 05:08:59

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Interested in what you find out!

2023-06-06 01:41:18

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Apple has lost me...

2023-06-05 19:37:06

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I am not sure where we are. I think I agree with you. Depends on the day…

2023-06-05 19:13:56

Oh man… apple has sure went to crap after Steve Jobs died. Google, I mean Apple glasses…
Linux, here I come!
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2023-06-05 12:37:29

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Are we going into bad times? Or are we there?

2023-06-04 14:05:09

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
~ Friedrich W. Nietzsche

2023-06-03 14:44:49

SOCIALISM IS BASED ON NOBLE IDEAS; EQUALITY, FAIRNESS, AND JUSTICE
However, socialism has a fundamental flaw. It is assumed that the system will be administered with ideal morality. This is a quality that no human possesses. We all have lied, cheated to get ahead and oppressed others for gain. Man has innumerable other evils engrained into his being.
When you place healthcare, ability to earn a living, or freedom under the sole authority of elected, appointed, anointed, or simply the strongest; you are inviting that evil to take root. This is because you are using the moral foundation of man to rectify the injustice of other men. Equality, fairness and justice can only be administered when you have a standard of morality that is apart and sovereign over man. A standard that is morally perfect, that position is solely occupied by God. Without Him, man has to invent their own moral standard and human morality is subject to fleeting and fickle whims.
If you are seeking equality, fairness, justice, love, acceptance and all the other fundamental yearnings that we all have inscribed into our hearts, do not seek them amongst men. You must look to the source, the One that wrote those aspirations into our souls. The divine author that is embodied in our Lord Jesus Christ. Whom, thousand years ago set forth and established the path back to those ideas under the perfect moral standard of God.
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2023-06-03 02:06:48

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It is like we are living with a vast population that is completely hypnotized and oblivious to anything. It is scary!

2023-06-01 21:57:20

THE MOST GOLDILOCKS IN ALL OF PHYSICS
The fine-tuning of the universe is one of the most compelling arguments for the existence of God. Fine-tuning refers to the “just right” initial conditions that were set into the equations that govern physics and how they effect life.
One of the most finely tuned parameters in physics is the entropy of the universe. It refers to the initial low entropy state of the universe, which was necessary for the existence of life. If the Big Bang Theory is correct and the universe started with a massive expansion, our newly formed universe was not a chaotic soup of energy and matter. It was quite the opposite, it was orderly. This is because of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. This law states that there is a natural tendency of any isolated system to degenerate into a more disordered state. This direction towards disorder is called entropy.
The entropy of the universe was fine-tuned to such an exquisite degree. Physicist Roger Penrose estimated that the odds of the initial low entropy orderly state of our universe occurring by chance are on the order of 1 in 10 raised to the 10th power then raised to the 123rd power. [1] This number is absolutely unfathomable odds, even in the world of physics and mathematics. Basically, there would be a VERY large number of universes in which the entropy would be so chaotic in the beginning that it would be uninhabitable for life; before one is formed that could sustain life.
This leads to the view that the equations that govern physics and in turn life were designed to be just right for life to exist.
[1] Penrose, Roger. (1989). Emperor’s New Mind. Penguin Books. 339-345.
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2023-06-01 19:34:25

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2023-06-01 13:55:43

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Welcome to nostr! What helped me is using hashtags.

2023-06-01 00:38:32

I had a brief exchange on nostr this weekend discussing diet and how it affects mood, specifically low-carb and carnivore ways of eating and how they may decrease depression symptoms. I first experienced this in 2018 when I started reducing sugar and processed grains in my diet, and after a few days, I noticed a significant improvement in my mood. However, it took a few more days to make the full connection, as I observed that consuming sugar again seemed to lower my mood.
Last November, while visiting my sister, I shared this insight with her. She mentioned that she had also started reducing sugar and carbs in her diet and had not realized the connection until we talked.
I am writing this to inform people who suffer from depression that the solution might not be an "imbalance," but it may be what they eat. Changing your diet can be one of the simplest things one could do, and it may have the most significant impact.
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2023-05-29 20:54:10

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Hey! You just put a high dollar finish on that flashlight!

2023-05-29 15:13:32

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I had depression before I started a keto/carnivore diet. When I started eating less sugar I noticed my mood was elevated. It took me several days to figure out what was going on. After that if I started eating sugar again my mood tanked.
If someone has depression, it very well could be because of their diet. It was mine. Cheers!

2023-05-28 15:12:38

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Good point, never thought about that. Cheers!

2023-05-28 14:51:40

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I will. I already have one that I have been running to test. It heats up the room really good.

2023-05-27 21:18:21

Has anybody out there installed a Bitcoin miner (s9) as a preheater to their primary heater in the house? How much of a difference did your bills seem to have?
I am thinking about installing one as a preheater to our heat pump. It needs a little help in the cold part of the winter. Seems like it may be a wash but with a small Bitcoin accumulation.
I am building a shop and will definitely install two out there to heat it. S9 costs are cheap compared the other heating solutions.
Any other cleaver Bitcoin miner solutions out there?
#grownostr #nostr #bitcoin

2023-05-27 13:53:43

Been seeing a lot about comfrey, what’s the deal? What is it good for?
#grownostr #comfrey

2023-05-26 15:05:59

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What distance do you like?

2023-05-26 12:08:34

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It is a meditation?

2023-05-25 01:49:30

THE EVOLUTION OF THE BUTTERFLY PARADOX
As children, most of us become familiar with the life cycle of the butterfly. We learn that the butterfly starts out life as an egg laid by an adult. The egg hatches and a larval caterpillar is born. The caterpillar feeds and grows until it sheds its skin and starts the pupal stage of its life. In this stage the larva undergoes radical changes to its body. The legs, wings, and the body of an adult butterfly are formed and after a certain amount of time it emerges.
Here lies the paradox, the life cycle of the butterfly is only perpetuated by the adult mating and then laying its eggs. Consequently, the larva is not the same body configuration as the adult and cannot reproduce. It is separated from the reproductive phase of its life by a massive rearranging of its body in the pupal stage.
How does this rearranging of major body parts happen in an evolutionary paradigm, where changes happen with individual random mutations in DNA?
For the life cycle of the butterfly to exist in evolutionary terms the first larva of the species must make the transition to adult in one clean mutational jump. The pupal stage requires the DNA information to be clear and contain the many changes to form into an adult… to then reproduce. If this process was due to a series of singular random mutations, a vast amount would be detrimental to the larva and would kill it.
How does this change happen via singular random mutations of DNA?
This seems to be an all or nothing conundrum.
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