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Jan 7, 2010 | comments: 1
Dennis Gilman Jan 7, 2010, 4:31pm EST
Too much of this is in Jamaican and modified Jamaican. I was laughing too much to translate. Maybe I'll translate, at another time, but translation of such dialog diminishes the emotional impact.
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Dennis Gilman Jan 7, 2010, 4:07pm EST
Lovely poem. It is actually incomplete without that picture in the background.
Jan 6, 2010 | recommended: 2 | comments: 32
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Dennis Gilman Jan 7, 2010, 4:03pm EST
Robert S. has already read it.
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Dennis Gilman Jan 7, 2010, 3:58pm EST
lol
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Dennis Gilman Jan 7, 2010, 2:45pm EST
"You seem to understand ring species though." Is that for me or KittyMommy2u?

Anyway, the observed time line is much too way off. Life "exploded" in great diversity in the Cambrian period; hundreds of thousands of different types of life forms with many millions of species in just a few million years? That observation makes it reasonable to conclude that this planet was seeded with an amazing variety of life which evolved to become what we see around us now. Some have barely evolved.
Jan 6, 2010 | recommended: 3 | comments: 26
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Dennis Gilman Jan 7, 2010, 2:37pm EST
"Did you know that evidence argues against a primordial soup? This soup, a supposed mixture of chemicals, has been considered the basis for evolution—but it never existed!"

You will notice that this is one of the points that this post alludes to.

All evidence as I have shown, suggests that spontaneous abiogenesis has not occurred anywhere on this planet. The creation of life requires very complex and carefully controlled processes and containment.

The information I have is much much more extensive and detailed than I can present in a post.
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Dennis Gilman Jan 7, 2010, 2:25pm EST
Very nice.
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Dennis Gilman Jan 7, 2010, 1:44pm EST
I would agree that the request to say grace should have been politely declined.
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Dennis Gilman Jan 7, 2010, 1:44pm EST
When I am among a group of non-believers of nominal "Christians", I never offer to pray and usually decline to do so when asked.
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Dennis Gilman Jan 7, 2010, 1:42pm EST
I only offer to preach to someone. If he/she says no I walk away (Matthew 10:12,13
Jan 5, 2010 | recommended: 3 | comments: 40
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Dennis Gilman Jan 7, 2010, 11:31am EST
Such situations, though great sometimes make it difficult for deportees to be sent back. I know a Nigerian who overstayed his visit here and it took him months to get back.
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Dennis Gilman Jan 7, 2010, 11:28am EST
That is currently a problem now. He is actually being deported from Kenya. He was first deported from U.K. to Jamaica. Somehow he got into Kenya. There are no direct flights between Kenya and Jamaica, so he must have gone through at least two other countries. Now, sending him back is a problem because he must come back under his real name and nobody wants him to even pass through theirs.
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Dennis Gilman Jan 7, 2010, 11:00am EST
Grew up on farms. I noticed that many of the animals seemed to love when the caretaker was singing or whistling.
Jan 7, 2010 | recommended: 1 | comments: 3
Dennis Gilman Jan 7, 2010, 10:55am EST
It appears that he felt a lot of affection for this person. Any information of what influence she had on him?
Jan 5, 2010 | recommended: 5 | comments: 25
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Dennis Gilman Jan 7, 2010, 10:46am EST
What happened was that I had to receive individual attention from my elementary school teachers. I still sat in the same classroom, but received different assignments. So I was in the classroom, but not part of that class. I became so advanced that at my last elementary school, the headmistress prematurely advanced me a grade. I and others at that school were even given the first year high school course.

But you are correct; with almost no exception, "Little allowance was made for those who learned in a different way or whose background was more or less advanced in that subject area." In high school, I faced that problem. I started high school already having a very extensive Spanish vocabulary and already familiar with much of what was being taught, but no adjustment was made for me.

In our senior years, a group of us bought additional textbooks and shared it among ourselves.
Jan 6, 2010 | recommended: 3 | comments: 26
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Dennis Gilman Jan 7, 2010, 10:19am EST
Slight error there. What is needed are nucleic acids, not proteins. Also the experiments produced only some of the amino acids, but not all. Life uses predominantly levo-rotationary amino acids, yet those experiments produced equal amounts of levo and dextro rotationary amino acids. No molecule larger than a peptide was produced.

I am still awaiting an experiment that produces the nucleic acid bases. Those are all very simple chemicals, yet none have been produced yet in any of those experiments that I have read so far.
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Dennis Gilman Jan 7, 2010, 10:11am EST
You're doing very well all on your own KittyMommy2u. That is what has been observed.
Jan 6, 2010 | recommended: 3 | comments: 26
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Dennis Gilman Jan 7, 2010, 10:08am EST
"To solve complexity you posit something even more complex and completely outside our ability to describe . . ." This is in fact the biggest obstacle for atheists to overcome.

One would have to be willing mentally go outside the universe to. To provide an answer. Outside there, time has no definition or you may view it as having infinite time going into the past. In other words, our universe has a beginning, outside of it has no beginning. Only by proposing such a condition can anyone ". . . posit something even more complex . . ."

In one of his lectures, Dr Michio Kaku postulated that outside the universe is boundless and timeless.
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Dennis Gilman Jan 7, 2010, 9:58am EST
Not yet. Will do shortly.
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