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@ghost-of-a-duke saidNo. Now that you pointed it out I am ROFL! 😉
You didn't get my 'matter' joke?
That was good!
@kellyjay saidAlways be on the lookout sir for embedded jokes.
No. Now that you pointed it out I am ROFL! 😉
That was good!
😀
@ghost-of-a-duke saidI was thinking about this today that people think that Jesus is a crutch. The God’s word says he created the week things of the world to shame the wise.
Belief in God or gods is a weakness in the moral fortitude of man. (And woman). The argument goes like this:
A well adjusted and moral human being will abhor genocide wherever or whenever it occurs. However, if this same well adjusted and moral human being believes in a God who has sanctioned such a genocide, they will accept it as a necessity. (As it derived from ...[text shortened]... eity).
Human's are stronger without a God who can override their own sense of right and wrong.
@sonship said"Synthetic"?
Dr. James Tour an synthetic organic chemist is most qualified scientist to critique pre-biological origin of life issues.
Do you mean nanotechnology?
He appears to be a Professor of Computer Science and a Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering.
You are asserting that he is the "most qualified scientist to critique pre-biological origin of life issues"?
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@sonship saidThis is from his own personal statement which is on the Rice University website:
Dr. James Tour's educational and scientific credentials.
Based upon my study of the scriptures, which I have studied more than any other topic in my life, including chemistry, I believe:
The Bible is the inspired word of God. Faithful Jewish scholars have preserved the Old Testament through the ages and it is an accurate account of God’s dealing with mankind, and more specifically, with the Jewish people. The New Testament, particularly the record in the four Gospels, is based upon eye-witnessed historical accounts that are accurate beyond compare to any historical documents of their time.
Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and God himself, as declared in the New Testament.
Jesus Christ came to earth as the long-awaited Jewish Messiah to fulfill that which had been written about him in the Old Testament.
Although sinless himself, Jesus Christ suffered and died for the sins of humankind, he was buried, and three days later he physically rose from the dead and appeared to many, including more than 500 people at one time. He then ascended to heaven to be seated at the right hand of his Father.
By the act of suffering, dying, and resurrection, Jesus provided the one and only way for any person to have an eternal relationship with God.
Regardless of one’s religious or ethnic background, nobody is born a Christian or automatically comes into salvation.
Salvation, or eternal life in Jesus, comes through a new spiritual birth into Jesus Christ.
There is nothing one can do to earn salvation, but it comes through believing and confessing the work that Jesus Christ did in dying for our sins and in his physical resurrection from the dead.
New birth, or salvation, is witnessed to the world by changes in followers’ lives, actions and words.
To those who have received Jesus Christ as their savior, they are no longer under the Old Testament Law, but are told to obey the commandments in the New Testament, of which there are more than 150.
These commandments not only focus on the physical acts to be valued by Jesus’ followers, but they directly address the followers’ heart attitudes.
God provides sufficient grace for the believer in Jesus to obey the commandments. Grace is the God-given desire and power to fulfill the will of God.
One’s obedience to these commands is a direct relation to their love for Jesus Christ.
The follower of Jesus Christ is commanded to testify of him.
There is a direct command to have fellowship with other believers in Jesus Christ.
The Father God will place honor upon the person who serves Jesus Christ and is willing to die for him. Willingness to die for him is a requirement for being his disciple.
If one has no faith, it is impossible to be pleasing to God.
There will be a physical resurrection of both the followers of Jesus (those who have accepted the salvation provided by Christ) and those who have rejected him. The followers will live eternally with Jesus, while the others will live separated from him.
Everybody will have to give an account for his or her words and deeds.
Jesus Christ will come again, but next time he will come as the crowned King to receive his followers.
That's the context of his expertise in nanotechnology and computer science.
Here is some more:
How do these personal beliefs affect my teaching and research? The commandments and teachings of the scriptures greatly influence the manner in which I conduct myself in all private and professional settings, from my speech, to my management of funds, to my treatment of colleagues and students. The scriptures promise that meditation upon those ideals and obedience to them will result in great blessing and success even through the most difficult of life’s challenges; challenges which are common to all men such as sickness, pain and ultimately death. With Jesus, whether we live or die, we are victorious. I pray daily for my work and professional activities including research, writing and teaching. Although I have never heard an audible voice from God, I do not preclude that it could and does occur. My experience is that I ask his specific blessing and guidance upon all my work, and I often sense his direction and counsel in these endeavors. But I must admit that clarity in sensing his precise direction for me is a topic of my constant seeking and I am in need of improvement.
He is not an evolutionary biologist, sonship, but he's your go-to scientist on evolutionary biology, is that right?
https://www.jmtour.com/personal-topics/personal-statement/
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@fmf saidActually, it's from his own website. The Rice University website doesn't make any claims about him being the "most qualified scientist to critique pre-biological origin of life issues".
This is from his own personal statement which is on the Rice University website:
@sonship saidThe academics teaching evolutionary biology at the university where James Tour works ~ Rice University ~ are Dr Frank M Fisher Jr, Dr Paul A Harcombe, Dr Stephen Subtelny, and Maryanne E Tocidlowski. He doesn't even teach evolutionary biology at the university where he works. And he's the "most qualified scientist" you know in this field? Are you sure?
Dr. James Tour an synthetic organic chemist is most qualified scientist to critique pre-biological origin of life issues.
@sonship saidAs a chemist he is qualified to discuss the chemistry involved and should be taken very seriously on the topic. He and another chemist I heard who is a little dry but highly qualified is Dr. Edward Peltzer he isn't as colorful, but to the point.
Dr. James Tour an synthetic organic chemist is most qualified scientist to critique pre-biological origin of life issues.
James Tour: The Origin of Life Has Not Been Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4sP1E1Jd_Y
Abiogenesis
Dr. Edward Peltzer
@KellyJay
Thanks KJ. I did watched the entire lecture.
Recently I was thinking about Fred Hoyle's comment about the assembly of a 737 by a tornado passing through a junkyard. This video on the checklists start up procedure of a Bowing 737 brought the matter home even more.
Here's how you have to intelligently boot up an intelligently designed Bowing 373.
How to start a Boeing 737-800 (FSX)
@fmf saidSo what you're saying is you pick and choose what truth you want to believe in based on your feelings.
Faith. Belief. Superstitious views v Materialistic views. "God". "Creation". More faith. Less faith. Certainty. Credibility. Earnestness. It all falls squarely within the domain of subjectivity and personal opinions.
A fact is a fact no matter how you feel about it.
@secondson saidNo one can choose to subscribe to speculations about supernatural things and religious doctrines attendant thereto if they find them non-credible.
So what you're saying is you pick and choose what truth you want to believe in based on your feelings.
A fact is a fact no matter how you feel about it.