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When you get past the fact, its very unlikely the soul exists, and therefore, very unlikely heavan exists and then If you've read the Qu'ran or any religious book It does not give the impression that God of all the rewards he would give you, would give you Virgins, I would be inclined to severely doubt that anyone including the Muslim extremests are going to go to heaven, much less get Virgins, the whole concept is disgusting and Ammoral (which is a characteture of God himself), which should not be something a god would go for being a 'moral being', then again if any of the books are true then God is a hippocrit so who knows what he would do.But anyway Virgins is a mistransation I believe, or at least that what I heard anyway so don't take my word for it. Do you honestly think the will get this? Think about it.

Whatever he did, this made it to stumbleupon, That or I have no Idea how I got to this link.

But you really need to clone from puppies, there was the incident with dolly the sheep where her DNA was the same age as her parent. Which wouldn't be good. Though that is cool, I know some people are against cloning for moral and religious reasons, but since Religion has no part in secular society, and the majority of people have no problem with cloning provided the clones do not suffer. I think this is a good Idea, as long as they don't clone race horses.

Well the mutations themselves etc. are indeed random, with every Generation at least a portion of your dna will be different from that of people in general, of course that information won't stay unless it was an improvement, we're at this stage in humanity now where normal evolution (natural selection) is being replaced by social evolution, people who just would not have survived even a few hundred years ago are surviving, instead the success of you is more based on you as a person, and you're individual personality and prehaps looks, rather than wether or not you hunt and kill. Also @ anyone who is prehaps a creationist if I can use that word, I'd advice you watch this playlist, though If you don't want to watch them all, start around 9,10 and 11. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ It deal with misinformation that deniers of Evolution may believe, or use as well as detailing how evolution works in detail. It's not a rant against Creationism instead it is an explanation of the assertion they make to denounce evolution. Also don't link me to Hovind's videos, i've already seen them. The guy uses straw mans every sentence and more lies and misinformation than a convicted fraudster. Makes sense though because he is one. Okay he might rant a little but hey, its an explanation.

Right there are an awful lot of posts but I havn't read them yet, this is purely aimed at truefusion, your description of a lot of what darwin said was very good in general, and I thought correctly about de-evolution, however I would just consider that evolution, in which much of what evolution did to finches was crossed out by change in environment making them more suited to what they were, however they are not the same breed of finch as before they would be slightly different as I doubt there is a case of something evolving backwards perfectly, although evolution is not random due to natural selection it certainly isn't perfect and thus I don't see a reason why something could de-evolve, instead it would simply evolve due to natural selection into a breed of finch which happens to be very simular to its predessessor. Everything I write now is since I have read other posts. Bux, I'm afraid your comment was more pointless than my question, claiming that evolution is a fairy tale and that so is God/Jesus. and that we cannot know so why ask. and I find myself asking the question, why did you post this? If you do not care wether evolution is true or not and are more concerned with your opinion on the process and what I can only assume from the point of jesus, you don't believe intelligent design either, your place in this conversation is pointless as you don't have a point. Wether or not I like/want to believe something does not make it true. Simply saying we cannot know is not the right answer, I reckon people have said we will never cure cancer, we can't kill cancer. and now we have the means to at least stop mild cases and research is getting better. We are on the brink of finding a cure for HIV and even then we can control it so that sufferers can have fruitful lives. Nothing is to be gained by not trying to gain a better understanding and we have lots to gain by doing so, if you don't want to, then fine that is your choice, but doesn't mean the rest of us will stop trying. You prooved your own point, you are ignorant on the subject of evolution, some of the other things you said proove that. Don't get me wrong Its okay to be ignorant, so long as you don't use your ignorance to persuade people, like "Dr" Hovind who is in prison for fraud. and I myself am ignorant at many things, but I admit that to myself. Lastly, I will get some evidence for you Truefusion, it will likely be in the form of videos because I enjoy watching and listening more than reading, but thats just me, I like a good audio book you see... etc. I know I took the offensive and I wasn't having a go at you, but you see you critisise me for asking questions and attempting to better my understanding, and also my own curiousity, and I don't like that. You are of course entitled to your own opinion, but your point adds nothing to the debate and codemns the idea of the debate at all, of course if people did not want to debate the point then they wouldn't.

Hey, I would appreciate it if you explained what you want in more detail, define what you mean by mantainance on the subject of Evolution. "De-evolution" to my knowledge does not exist, explain what you mean by something de-evolving surely de-evolution is just evolution. It is rather I have misunderstood you point or your point really makes little sense, but if you explain what you mean I will be able to answer you.But heres what I've got, you want me to show you evidence of a specific example of a creature that has evolved into another, due to it becoming more suited to its situation/environment whatever. and it also cannot of "de-evolved" due to "lack of mantainance" Its that last bit I really need you to clarify what you mean. also Baniboy or anyone else if you know better what he means feel free to clarify it for me. Cheers.

Well I already have some stuff in the works about Evolution, so maybe we can work together on that bit. Apart from that, science is something I'm interested in greatly so I will be happy to join in the discussion. Also no. 6 ties in nicely with no. 5Your not seriously a believer in the arguement from morals Truefusion, if you havn't found something yet which shows where then you certainly haven't looked, infact it is one of the worst arguements for God out there. It is sooooo easy to refute compared with a lot of arguements for God if you know a little about Evolution, and more about social advancement, and contrary to your point, I have yet to see one use that arguement in a way which is impossible or difficult to refute.If your intested I can link you to tons of videos, blog posts etc, each one will show how moral can exist without God, and yes they may include bits about subjective morals and will include more. and again the reason they include the bits about subjective morals is because they are true, again I will always say that the fact Morals can exist without God does not disproove God or even the fact he made morals, but they make it so he isn't needed and therefore make God superfluous.

Right, I know several people on this forum are Christian, fewer still disbelieve in evolution and prehaps the same if not less people are Literalists of the bible, I.E. believe that is 100% truth, a minority in there own religion I might add (talking of Christianity more generally, specifically Catholism and Lutherianism/Protestism). Even more specifically than that, here is my question.What would you accept as evidence for evolution?Now before I start, I never suggest and if you read the post on the subject before that to believe evolution to be true is synonomous with athiesm, when especially outside of the United States (Within Christianity creationism is a bit of an American thing) Christians who believe in Jesus and God accept evolution to be true under the weight of the exteme amount of evidence, when even the pope would accept evolution to be true, why do you not accept the same evidence. So that begs the question of what would you accept evidence. (I'm saying that God if he exists could have created the world etc, and made it so that there was all the means for life an rather worked with the process or let in run its course) note: Evolution is nothing to do with Atheism, Atheists do almost always believe in Evolution but so do most other theists. Evolution does not explain where the universe, the earth came from, it PURELY explains lifes diversity. and lastly, do you believe in micro evolution and not macro evolution and if so, why.For each response I plan on finding the evidence you are looking for, unless you are being unreasonable (Crociduck), I will likely provide a video made by someone with a much better understanding than I do, and I will admit If I was unable to find evidence, and if so I will try to find why there is no evidence, prehaps you are looking for evidence that cannot exist, i.e. you have failed to understand what evolution is and are asking for something that doesn't even come into it, and therefore its existance could not be proof of evolution.I look forward to peoples answers, especially truefusion.as an after Thought if anyone says they would not accept any evidence as evidence then they are being willfully ignorant and are a waste of everybodies time, and trying to convert others using willful ignorance inclusing indoctrination of children to your idea should be punishable by law, indotrination of any kind should not be used because people deserve a choice which you deny them, I wouldn't indoctrinate my children into Atheism, I would allow them to make there own minds up. If you don't understand or don't want to, don't try to drag everyone down to the same place as you because that is immoral, I don't even think God (if he exists) could disagree with me there.

Ah I watched a great video on the subject, the fact remains that you have a choice what to do in any situation, but think about it, don't you think that choice is fixed, based on circumstance, in the same circumstances, you would always make the same choice, this means that the events leading up to the choice were to happen again after you had say amnesia about the first time, I don't think you would move logically to a different choice, the choice you make is rooted in logic, and the way you thing, coupled with events and circumstances in your life, but these are fixed in time providing that a time machine is never invented, lf course if one was invented in the future, the events that have taken place would have already taken that into consideration. Free will just means that you get to choose what you do, but due to the way our minds work the choices we make are often thought about more, but it really isn't that different from how animals decide what to do, its similar to instinct, but you are more involved in the process. of course if you were to go back you may choose differently but no one gets that chance, do we. I suppose the choices we make are rooted alot, similar to animals in the way we evolved, being quite social creatures in nature means we will choose to work together much of the time, due to the foods that were not readily avaliable we choose chocolate over vegetables, the part where free will comes in is we may choose vegetables because they are better for us, but before being fully cognitive we would not. So I suppose you could say that is evidence of free will, when you choose Carrots over chocolate.

Often when you install/reinstall a operating system, so I guess this counts as upgrading, sound drivers and video drivers are by far the worst when It comes to needing an update, when I had to do it to my olllld laptop it was a nightmare trying to find them, but yeah, if you have vista it should be easy, it is not microsofts fault, you get that problem with all operating systems, when I installed linux I had a simular problem. Hopes this helps.

I agree, as long as the files are legal and will not affect the reputation of Xisto - Web Hosting, I.E. they don't want to get any takedown notices etc, then I doubt they will have a problem with you hosting files as torrents, as long as it does not cause a ridiculous bandwidth usage as Rob said, if you have the unlimited bandwidth option then watch out. I don't know if torrents would use a lot of bandwidth, I assume you will be the tracker but there usually quite a small file size.

Very intersting, I might get up on this offer. or not, a link may or may not be worth the effort it would require me to beat the people who actually know what they are doing and don't have to google every other bit of code. I take it we're sticking to html/css not ajax or flash or anything, that banner gets old (no offence). I might look up that post for why it is called Xisto form some ideas. though I personally think people wouldn't mind a couple of mycents there way.

Right, this is one of those dreams you really do remember, not one you think of when you wake up, go to tell someone and realise you've forgotten, this has been firmly positioned in my long term memory due to the intracy of it as it managed to make no sense and yet make sense, but not only that, seemingly random jumps in the dream and it even had a plot, I just wish I'd finished it, I want to know how it ends.Right so I don't know if any of you are from the UK, but the BBC has been advertising heavily for there own show Torchwood special, "Children of Earth" or something along those lines, now I have seen 2 minites of the 2nd episode in which I saw jack talking about sacrafising kids for some reason to some aliens and taken them there on a coach/bus, substitute kids, for 17 year olds, and kids for my Friends and myself. So we get there and defeat the aliens (who I never saw) in an unspecified way. I'm not sure, we all twelve of use use the aliens teleporter to make it back. Then I arrive home to find my mum at the head of a secret organisation which me and my friends were part of, but would have known about. I got sent to russia to help my dad capture some Russian guy (don't ask) for whatever reason glenn was underground in a manmade tunnel under this guy. Its snow roof, I think he was listening in on him or something, the russian guy has Dogs and a nife, the dogs somehow hear/picked up the scent of me and my dad under the snow. so then the russian guy uses his hands and knife to cut into the tunnel, brief fight in which the russian guy gets a cut down his cheek from his own knife and I blind him in one eye with my finger (nice) I head home, my Dad also heads to his home, (my parents are seperated) and I go to my mums where she informs me that one of our no. never made it back from the teleporter. I tell her not to worry I'll sort it, but it was my weekend at my dads. I'm at my dads and we're are having a discussion about Russia, he thanked me for the help and when I asked him if he was worried about the danger, he said he didn't really care about that anymore. I then go to my room I have at his and sleep, I wake up (still in the dream) and I'm back at my mums but I'm myself, the same me but In the body of myself when I was in year 5 (I asked my Mum what year I was in) this was before whatever organisation existed. I go to school and see people who I don't know, I don't know if there really schoolchums from primary or wether my subconsious just made them up but also there was a few friends who I did go to primary school with and a couple who I wouldn't have met but for the dream apparently I had, at this time, I'm trying to avoid changing time, but then the Voice of the girl lossed in the teleporter keeps cropping up around me and I realised that I had to change something while I was here.... but then I really woke up.I must say, when I woke up I was upset, it was the most amazing dream I'd ever had, and I want to know how it ends but I know that only in sleep am I creative enough to discover it, and getting back into a dream is next to impossible, so like all dreams I'll never know how it ends. Lets just assume a happy ending. But anyway what do you think, it sounds made up but this is really what happened, though I'm not entirely sure about small bits, I might have invented some glue to make it work by accident, but there we go. I just wish I knew how it ended ....

Now I know I said I wouldn't but this isn't directed at anyone here, so I will anyway, but heres what I hate, people who register domains, don't use them, don't sell them, don't let them run out, just keep them. I'm back to take advantage of Mycent system at Xisto and was looking for a domain, I won't say what it is. But then I think, it would be nice to have a smaller version (3 letters), but its bound to be taken, so I type in Domain.com, taken, then the same domain.org and loe and behold, nothing I struck gold. or did I?No I didn't, after having a quick peep on a registar I found it to be taken, .co.uk was also taken. As well as .net and all the other TLD that are at least worth it. I have a look at the who.is the domain is owned by some dutch company that don't use it, its not even worth me emailing and hoping they'll let it run out, they'll probably only renew it, or try and sell it to me for ?100 or something on sedo. But now, i'm being hippocritical because I have unused domains (I don't even have a hosting account) but at least I'm not renewing them. But really, whats the point, its $10 a year out of your bank account when you could save that money and give it to someone who would have as much use out of it as you planned on having. Talk about getting your hopes up just to have them knocked down again.

For the same reason limited editions cost so much, its a piece of history. But they're unique, just because you and I wouldn't pay for them, there are always people who will.

It is rather plain I'll admit, but not bad for a first time, prehaps a little more work, fluid width would be good, I'm on widescreen so it looks better. The font or at least the text, is very cramped. But as I said, not a terrible Job, especially if you coding it by hand.

This sounds interesting, I will definately download this, I have been looking for this sort of program for some time, and I can think of uses for many of the questions. So well done, 5 star find.

Well I have a laptop, so I essentially go buy a new one when I get fed up of the old one, Why not buy a desktop pc? well, I need the portability, I hardly ever just use my computer at home, I just wish laptops could keep up with desktops technology wise, but I'll never be that lucky. But at ?600 a pop for a good one, its a shame a month later when you could have got god knows how much better for your money, but the thing is, if you'd waited the same thing would happen!

It's not really Hot news, I've known about this for weeks, but yes it is very interesting, if you find a 20p with no name on it, I think the most expensive one sold made ?7,000 its worth trying to get, hell ?50 for it, from people who have more money that sense.

I don't like any of the forums, the bad ones like PHPBB has all the users and the content, where all the better made wikis such as AEF and such have barely any. as far as paid go, this is the best paid and the other major player thats names escaped me is the ugliest forum software I have ever seen. But it really depend what your forum does. it always helps to have php knowledge to customise your forums. But this one is my personal favourite.

Now I prefer british sitcoms, but I do like friends. I don't like the other ones. I also hate that fake laughter they put in the background, If I find it funny, I will laugh. Though I also like frasier, but I'm british so I prefer our humour overall, its just the way it works, you prefer, or are more confortable in your own culture.My Family is great, but It lost a large part of itself when nick left, he was by far the best Character in the Show. and I agree with baniboy, talk shows are so acted. Also "psychics" and such, also most haunted, its just shamelessly acted, possessed, are you kidding me...

Not in England it wont be, it will be that day here on the 7th August, because our dates are different . I must admit though that it is illogical to have mm/dd/yyyy because that suggests its the month of the day of the year. I know thats because you say May 8th but your techniquely meant to say 8 of May etc. but anyway it should go chronologically. Not that it matters but I just thought I'd add that.

The bands are the frequencies they can use. So triband has 3 frequencys, quadband has 4. and each band usually is assigned to a country or selection of countries. Its useful to enable roaming if you plan on visiting other Countries, quad band I think adds a few new Countries that wern't in the tri-band but this is just my understanding.

Hmm, the worst game I've played was Kane and Lynch, if I ignore the fact that I don't like other Genre's. I like shootem ups as much as the next guy, but this one was awful, the plot made little sense, even though the idea seemed good, the gameplay was awful, and there seemed to be no logic to it, they just seemed to randomly drop you into stupid situations, theres one bit in particular, when you spend time getting an army of locals together and die, hundreds, and then they all charge in the distance, and all die, then you proceed and the 2 of you manage to do what 300 odd people couldn't. The story progresses randomly, the other guy might not exist, it was said to be a co-op experience, and it certainly was an experience, but it wasn't a good one, and in the end you can rather A) Be a selfish *BLEEP* and escape, or choose to save your friends, despite when you get there, only one is still alive, and he dies anyway.The only redeeming factor is the multiplayer, which works, barely. it's a great Idea but is poorly made, the whole game seems to have been designed by comititees, and all but all comitees are locked in seperate cupboards each doing there own bit, its designed like they were given the name and a rough plot and people were set off to do there own bit, and never spoke to each other till the finished product. Yes I got the idea for seperate cupboards from a video by Yahtzee before anyone tells me.I would have said PGR 3 or PES 6 but that would not be because they were bad games, but simply because I don't like the genre, but of the ones I've played Kane and Lynch was just... awful!

Right, I disagree with what I said, Honesty really is better, so I guess I agree with anwiii, however I feel that judging from your reply that, your relationship is broken, that you just aren't right for each other, you may disagree, but it is just my opinion, but Judging from limited information that is my suggestion, theres plenty more fish in the sea.