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	<description>I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog.</description>
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		<title>By: Gallon o' sunshine</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/15/why-evolution-is-true/comment-page-15/#comment-438984</link>
		<dc:creator>Gallon o' sunshine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 01:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>PLEASE READ!!!

 It&#039;s really sad that all these people believe all the book&#039;s lies. FACT: The word &quot;prehistoric&quot; wasn&#039;t even a word until evolutionists made it up. No lie. It&#039;s impossible for the earth to be millions of years old. FACT: Every year, the oceans get saltier If the eath was millions of years old, the ocean would be so salty we would be able to walk on it. Scientists have been proved wrong before, and they&#039;re wrong again. The bible has NEVER been proved wrong. Yeah, maybe nobody saw God make the earth. But nobody saw the supposedly &quot;big bang theory&quot; either. Evolutionists lie. Don&#039;t believe them!!!</description>
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<p> It&#8217;s really sad that all these people believe all the book&#8217;s lies. FACT: The word &#8220;prehistoric&#8221; wasn&#8217;t even a word until evolutionists made it up. No lie. It&#8217;s impossible for the earth to be millions of years old. FACT: Every year, the oceans get saltier If the eath was millions of years old, the ocean would be so salty we would be able to walk on it. Scientists have been proved wrong before, and they&#8217;re wrong again. The bible has NEVER been proved wrong. Yeah, maybe nobody saw God make the earth. But nobody saw the supposedly &#8220;big bang theory&#8221; either. Evolutionists lie. Don&#8217;t believe them!!!</p>
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		<title>By: Andy</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/15/why-evolution-is-true/comment-page-15/#comment-372325</link>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here&#039;s why evolution and natural selection don&#039;t make sense!!

http://jigarbpatel.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-evolution-and-natural-selection.html</description>
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		<title>By: Moderate</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/15/why-evolution-is-true/comment-page-15/#comment-226033</link>
		<dc:creator>Moderate</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Which theories, Jimmy?  There is another article this week about the &quot;fraud&quot; (their words, not mine) of evolutionary theories in NEWSWEEK magazine. This one had to do with DNA sequencing. I have just happened upon a couple in TIME magazine over the past few months - one having to do with Ardi and the puzzling sequence to Lucy to humans, the other having to do with the big meteor thought to have killed all the dinosaurs only it didn&#039;t according to newest information.   Interesting that they don&#039;t ever make the headlines.  They certainly should! Wait a minute, I thought it was Creationists with a hidden agenda. With all these important new findings in the news, with sadly little coverage, how can I really buy evolutionary theory in totality, especially in relation to the origins of humans? And why is it so hard for you to accept?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Which theories, Jimmy?  There is another article this week about the &#8220;fraud&#8221; (their words, not mine) of evolutionary theories in NEWSWEEK magazine. This one had to do with DNA sequencing. I have just happened upon a couple in TIME magazine over the past few months &#8211; one having to do with Ardi and the puzzling sequence to Lucy to humans, the other having to do with the big meteor thought to have killed all the dinosaurs only it didn&#8217;t according to newest information.   Interesting that they don&#8217;t ever make the headlines.  They certainly should! Wait a minute, I thought it was Creationists with a hidden agenda. With all these important new findings in the news, with sadly little coverage, how can I really buy evolutionary theory in totality, especially in relation to the origins of humans? And why is it so hard for you to accept?</p>
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		<title>By: jimmy</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/15/why-evolution-is-true/comment-page-15/#comment-225719</link>
		<dc:creator>jimmy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>wait a minute, have you guys actually thought this throught and make a decision to believe in these theories?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>wait a minute, have you guys actually thought this throught and make a decision to believe in these theories?</p>
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		<title>By: Moderate</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/15/why-evolution-is-true/comment-page-15/#comment-217734</link>
		<dc:creator>Moderate</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bad astronomy or bad science?</description>
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		<title>By: Moderate</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/15/why-evolution-is-true/comment-page-15/#comment-217722</link>
		<dc:creator>Moderate</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why Evolution is true?  Bahahaha  That is a broad statement?  Which part is true?</description>
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		<title>By: Moderate</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/15/why-evolution-is-true/comment-page-15/#comment-217711</link>
		<dc:creator>Moderate</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t know if any of the original friends here are still reading.  I just came across ANOTHER article in te TIME 10/12/09 issue (very current) which casts doubt on the theroy of the origins of man in light of evolutionary theory.  Hmmm - it is about Ardi - &quot;long lost relative&quot; - 1.2 million years older than Lucy. Seems this presents some problems to the original hypotheses.  BTW - when doing science - its always wise to have a larger sample than 1 or two befoe making broad generalizations, don&#039;t you thihk?  I could not find a link for the TIME article, but there seems to be one for the same subject in national geographic dated just today.       ews.nationalgeographic.com/.../091001-oldest-human-skeleton-ardi-missing-link-chimps-ardipithecus-ramidus.html 

quoted fromt eht TIME article &quot;Figuring out the story of human origins is like assembling a huge, complicatd jigsaw puzzle that has lost most of its pieces. Many will never be found, and those that do are sometimes hard to place...&quot;  They took 15 years to find and assemble Ardi and plant sediment around there -  &quot;perhaps most importatnt, Ardi provides clues to what the last common ancestor shared by humans and chimps might have looked like before their lineages diverged about 7 milion years ago.  The surprising thing is that she bears little resemblance to chimpanzees, our closest living primate relatives.  The elusive common ancestor&#039;s bones have never been found, but scientists working from evidence available envisioned great great grandpa to have looked most nearly like a knuckle walking, tree-swinging ape.  But Ardi is not chimplike, which means our last common ancestor probably wasn&#039;t either.  This skeleton flips our understanding of human evolution...It&#039;s clear that humans are not merely a slight modification of chimps, despite their genomic similarity.&quot;  On and on

I have told you all I really have to go on are these things that pass my ways and my own thoughts, intuition , and experience.  But can you see why I can&#039;t completely buy into this theory of human evolution?  The theory keeps flipping and is not solid whatsoever.  Scienctists envisionments continously get proven wrong - just like that TIME article I accidentally found and then posted for you last April.  Holes holes holes.  We try to fill in the gaps with science, but what is found only rips a bigger hole.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t know if any of the original friends here are still reading.  I just came across ANOTHER article in te TIME 10/12/09 issue (very current) which casts doubt on the theroy of the origins of man in light of evolutionary theory.  Hmmm &#8211; it is about Ardi &#8211; &#8220;long lost relative&#8221; &#8211; 1.2 million years older than Lucy. Seems this presents some problems to the original hypotheses.  BTW &#8211; when doing science &#8211; its always wise to have a larger sample than 1 or two befoe making broad generalizations, don&#8217;t you thihk?  I could not find a link for the TIME article, but there seems to be one for the same subject in national geographic dated just today.       ews.nationalgeographic.com/&#8230;/091001-oldest-human-skeleton-ardi-missing-link-chimps-ardipithecus-ramidus.html </p>
<p>quoted fromt eht TIME article &#8220;Figuring out the story of human origins is like assembling a huge, complicatd jigsaw puzzle that has lost most of its pieces. Many will never be found, and those that do are sometimes hard to place&#8230;&#8221;  They took 15 years to find and assemble Ardi and plant sediment around there &#8211;  &#8220;perhaps most importatnt, Ardi provides clues to what the last common ancestor shared by humans and chimps might have looked like before their lineages diverged about 7 milion years ago.  The surprising thing is that she bears little resemblance to chimpanzees, our closest living primate relatives.  The elusive common ancestor&#8217;s bones have never been found, but scientists working from evidence available envisioned great great grandpa to have looked most nearly like a knuckle walking, tree-swinging ape.  But Ardi is not chimplike, which means our last common ancestor probably wasn&#8217;t either.  This skeleton flips our understanding of human evolution&#8230;It&#8217;s clear that humans are not merely a slight modification of chimps, despite their genomic similarity.&#8221;  On and on</p>
<p>I have told you all I really have to go on are these things that pass my ways and my own thoughts, intuition , and experience.  But can you see why I can&#8217;t completely buy into this theory of human evolution?  The theory keeps flipping and is not solid whatsoever.  Scienctists envisionments continously get proven wrong &#8211; just like that TIME article I accidentally found and then posted for you last April.  Holes holes holes.  We try to fill in the gaps with science, but what is found only rips a bigger hole.</p>
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		<title>By: keith</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/15/why-evolution-is-true/comment-page-15/#comment-213238</link>
		<dc:creator>keith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Please, Charles, make your stand clear. It doesn&#039;t seem as if you&#039;re supporting the article written above, but it doesn&#039;t seem as if you&#039;re opposing it either. Anyway, you said
&#039;God is governed by no rules. God’s will be done. &#039; You also said &#039;The primary rules changed big time. And, God makes the rules.&#039; You probably don&#039;t mean it, you make it seem as if God changes the primary rules for his own benefit as he changes, which isn&#039;t very accurate.
Also, do you understand what rules mean? The difference between right and wrong, the point that God can only do what is right and pure, don&#039;t you accept that as a rule? The point that sin cannot be allowed in heaven, is that not a rule? Also, has it changed from time to time? Some things truly and can be changed, but why do they do so?
Anyway, your stand seems to have changed from evolution to change. Hopefully you do realize the difference.</description>
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&#8216;God is governed by no rules. God’s will be done. &#8216; You also said &#8216;The primary rules changed big time. And, God makes the rules.&#8217; You probably don&#8217;t mean it, you make it seem as if God changes the primary rules for his own benefit as he changes, which isn&#8217;t very accurate.<br />
Also, do you understand what rules mean? The difference between right and wrong, the point that God can only do what is right and pure, don&#8217;t you accept that as a rule? The point that sin cannot be allowed in heaven, is that not a rule? Also, has it changed from time to time? Some things truly and can be changed, but why do they do so?<br />
Anyway, your stand seems to have changed from evolution to change. Hopefully you do realize the difference.</p>
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		<title>By: Charles J. Slavis, Jr.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/15/why-evolution-is-true/comment-page-15/#comment-208604</link>
		<dc:creator>Charles J. Slavis, Jr.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Pardon my astronomy typo. I rarely check spellings but you can still get the thoughts intended.</description>
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		<title>By: Charles J. Slavis, Jr.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/15/why-evolution-is-true/comment-page-15/#comment-208602</link>
		<dc:creator>Charles J. Slavis, Jr.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There was a big change between banishing man and drowning man. The primary rules changed big time. And, God makes the rules.</description>
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		<title>By: Charles J. Slavis, Jr.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/15/why-evolution-is-true/comment-page-15/#comment-208599</link>
		<dc:creator>Charles J. Slavis, Jr.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>God is governed by no rules. God&#039;s will be done. If God didn&#039;t change God would be alone without any universe or any people. But I suspect that God is everything eternally evolving. By my definition, The universe is also God or part of God so it always existed or came to be out of other universes that came before. I don&#039;t claim to know how God works. But I am the result of those works. Irregardless of semantics or exclusive definitions, Evolution is basically change. You can qualify it according to biology, or astronmy, or knowledge, but all it is is change.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>God is governed by no rules. God&#8217;s will be done. If God didn&#8217;t change God would be alone without any universe or any people. But I suspect that God is everything eternally evolving. By my definition, The universe is also God or part of God so it always existed or came to be out of other universes that came before. I don&#8217;t claim to know how God works. But I am the result of those works. Irregardless of semantics or exclusive definitions, Evolution is basically change. You can qualify it according to biology, or astronmy, or knowledge, but all it is is change.</p>
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		<title>By: keith</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/15/why-evolution-is-true/comment-page-15/#comment-208347</link>
		<dc:creator>keith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Please, don&#039;t you even know the definition of evolution? Change happens, but change isn&#039;t evolution. Evolution is changing the nature of the same thing until it reaches a stage of equilibrium. And my point is that nature doesn&#039;t evolve.
Also, you stated that there is evolution in the way God interacts with men. Actually there isn&#039;t. If you say that God evolves, then the rules governing him must be changed. But then, why, in all the examples cited above, the primary rules of God interacting with men is not changed?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please, don&#8217;t you even know the definition of evolution? Change happens, but change isn&#8217;t evolution. Evolution is changing the nature of the same thing until it reaches a stage of equilibrium. And my point is that nature doesn&#8217;t evolve.<br />
Also, you stated that there is evolution in the way God interacts with men. Actually there isn&#8217;t. If you say that God evolves, then the rules governing him must be changed. But then, why, in all the examples cited above, the primary rules of God interacting with men is not changed?</p>
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		<title>By: Charles J. Slavis, Jr.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/15/why-evolution-is-true/comment-page-15/#comment-208134</link>
		<dc:creator>Charles J. Slavis, Jr.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>God evolves.</description>
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		<title>By: Charles J. Slavis, Jr.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/15/why-evolution-is-true/comment-page-15/#comment-208132</link>
		<dc:creator>Charles J. Slavis, Jr.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Evolution in it&#039;s basic form is change. Change happens. Even the Bible evolved from the Old Testament to the New Testament. God evolved in his interactions with man. First God threw man out of the garden. Then God flooded man. Then God saved man.  God uses evolution.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Evolution in it&#8217;s basic form is change. Change happens. Even the Bible evolved from the Old Testament to the New Testament. God evolved in his interactions with man. First God threw man out of the garden. Then God flooded man. Then God saved man.  God uses evolution.</p>
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		<title>By: keith</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/15/why-evolution-is-true/comment-page-15/#comment-205382</link>
		<dc:creator>keith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Apparently you have only done research on evolution and not creation. Anyway, back on your claims. Please give an explanation on the chances of evolution happening. Also, don&#039;t base it on the claim that since the universe is so old, it will definitely happen, but imagine if there are a million universes, and each of them are infinitely old, how many of them will evolution take place. Give an explanation of that. After that, take this number and add it on to the chances of one man fulfilling 48 major prophecies. (Just in case you don&#039;t know it is written in history books)
All these are not written in your book, so how can you actually claim that evolution is true. After you finish those things, enlighten us on how you actually test the age of fossils and things like that. Also, do some background research on what the bible actually talks of about evolution. It is written, just in case you don&#039;t know. In revelation actually. Good luck!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Apparently you have only done research on evolution and not creation. Anyway, back on your claims. Please give an explanation on the chances of evolution happening. Also, don&#8217;t base it on the claim that since the universe is so old, it will definitely happen, but imagine if there are a million universes, and each of them are infinitely old, how many of them will evolution take place. Give an explanation of that. After that, take this number and add it on to the chances of one man fulfilling 48 major prophecies. (Just in case you don&#8217;t know it is written in history books)<br />
All these are not written in your book, so how can you actually claim that evolution is true. After you finish those things, enlighten us on how you actually test the age of fossils and things like that. Also, do some background research on what the bible actually talks of about evolution. It is written, just in case you don&#8217;t know. In revelation actually. Good luck!</p>
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		<title>By: Charles J. Slavis, Jr.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/15/why-evolution-is-true/comment-page-15/#comment-201307</link>
		<dc:creator>Charles J. Slavis, Jr.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Again!</description>
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		<title>By: Charles J. Slavis, Jr.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/15/why-evolution-is-true/comment-page-15/#comment-201267</link>
		<dc:creator>Charles J. Slavis, Jr.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>On deciding about eternity vs. a finite amount of time. An eternally evolving situation would ultimately hit upon my combination. Since I am here typing this then I suspect I had eternity to get here. If I only had 16 billion years to make it. I might or might not have gotten here. In a finite amount of time, I lucked  out. With eternity , I was bound to happen.  A multi-verse would make me immortal but I would have to Apollo gise for repeating myself.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On deciding about eternity vs. a finite amount of time. An eternally evolving situation would ultimately hit upon my combination. Since I am here typing this then I suspect I had eternity to get here. If I only had 16 billion years to make it. I might or might not have gotten here. In a finite amount of time, I lucked  out. With eternity , I was bound to happen.  A multi-verse would make me immortal but I would have to Apollo gise for repeating myself.</p>
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		<title>By: Charles J. Slavis, Jr.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/15/why-evolution-is-true/comment-page-15/#comment-201147</link>
		<dc:creator>Charles J. Slavis, Jr.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Odds mean nothing in eternity...just wait.</description>
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		<title>By: Charles J. Slavis, Jr.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/15/why-evolution-is-true/comment-page-15/#comment-201142</link>
		<dc:creator>Charles J. Slavis, Jr.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Is consciousness just a combination of atoms? If so, in an eternally evolving situation we will occur again and again. We are living proof that given enough time we can happen.  Given forever, 16 billion years is nothing. If we aren&#039;t aware of time when we aren&#039;t here, then we might continue to exist in a continuous flow of existence even in an intermittent recombination of our atoms, say every 30 billion years or so. To say it can&#039;t happen, is to deny your existence.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is consciousness just a combination of atoms? If so, in an eternally evolving situation we will occur again and again. We are living proof that given enough time we can happen.  Given forever, 16 billion years is nothing. If we aren&#8217;t aware of time when we aren&#8217;t here, then we might continue to exist in a continuous flow of existence even in an intermittent recombination of our atoms, say every 30 billion years or so. To say it can&#8217;t happen, is to deny your existence.</p>
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		<title>By: Charles J. Slavis, Jr.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/15/why-evolution-is-true/comment-page-15/#comment-201137</link>
		<dc:creator>Charles J. Slavis, Jr.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>For me science comes to a screeching halt when it tries to explain how my consciousness occurred in this body and yours  occurred in that body. I just know that I was supposed to be the richest man in the world. How did I get here? I waited 16 billion years and ended up in the wrong body!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For me science comes to a screeching halt when it tries to explain how my consciousness occurred in this body and yours  occurred in that body. I just know that I was supposed to be the richest man in the world. How did I get here? I waited 16 billion years and ended up in the wrong body!</p>
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		<title>By: Charles J. Slavis,Jr.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/15/why-evolution-is-true/comment-page-15/#comment-198935</link>
		<dc:creator>Charles J. Slavis,Jr.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>For those who have lost loved ones instantly. I felt no pain. I was out before I was able to feel the impact. I awoke without any pain or awareness of the impact and leaped to my feet.....two minutes later.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For those who have lost loved ones instantly. I felt no pain. I was out before I was able to feel the impact. I awoke without any pain or awareness of the impact and leaped to my feet&#8230;..two minutes later.</p>
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		<title>By: Charles J. Slavis,Jr.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/15/why-evolution-is-true/comment-page-15/#comment-198930</link>
		<dc:creator>Charles J. Slavis,Jr.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Playing football, I ran into a goal post and was knocked out for two minutes. I ran up into the sky, landed on my back, and leaped back up onto my feet in a continuous flow of existence.  For two minutes I did not exist. My brain turned off. Only the trainers voice telling me that I had been out proved to me that I was now two minutes behind everyone else. My brain had to download the current updates before I was able to continue to function in the present. I quickly updated and stayed in the game. Perhaps that was a mini death.  Who pulled the plug? My body stayed alive, but I was gone for two minutes. Intermittent immortality might explain why we are here now.  When we are gone, we might not be aware of time. 16 billion years? Cake! See you later!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Playing football, I ran into a goal post and was knocked out for two minutes. I ran up into the sky, landed on my back, and leaped back up onto my feet in a continuous flow of existence.  For two minutes I did not exist. My brain turned off. Only the trainers voice telling me that I had been out proved to me that I was now two minutes behind everyone else. My brain had to download the current updates before I was able to continue to function in the present. I quickly updated and stayed in the game. Perhaps that was a mini death.  Who pulled the plug? My body stayed alive, but I was gone for two minutes. Intermittent immortality might explain why we are here now.  When we are gone, we might not be aware of time. 16 billion years? Cake! See you later!</p>
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		<title>By: Charles J. Slavis,Jr.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/15/why-evolution-is-true/comment-page-15/#comment-198917</link>
		<dc:creator>Charles J. Slavis,Jr.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To me, God provides the potential for everything. Nothing provides no potential. Everything seems to come from something, or somewhere, or it all simply is. If It led to me, It is my God.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To me, God provides the potential for everything. Nothing provides no potential. Everything seems to come from something, or somewhere, or it all simply is. If It led to me, It is my God.</p>
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		<title>By: Charles J. Slavis,Jr.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/15/why-evolution-is-true/comment-page-15/#comment-198916</link>
		<dc:creator>Charles J. Slavis,Jr.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I suspect that the original spark of life happened at the big bang. Even if we create life in the lab we will be utilizing energy from the big bang as the catalyst. I think of everything as an extension of God. Your guess is as good as mine. You might exist without God. I don&#039;t.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I suspect that the original spark of life happened at the big bang. Even if we create life in the lab we will be utilizing energy from the big bang as the catalyst. I think of everything as an extension of God. Your guess is as good as mine. You might exist without God. I don&#8217;t.</p>
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		<title>By: Charles J. Slavis,Jr.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/15/why-evolution-is-true/comment-page-15/#comment-198907</link>
		<dc:creator>Charles J. Slavis,Jr.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Evolution is change over time. One of the difficulties in understanding that it actually happens is that our senses don&#039;t even perceive a single event all at the same instant that it happens. Stand at the finish line of a hundred meter dash. See the smoke from the starter pistol. A second later hear the sound of the gun. If the wind is right, the smoke will be smelled sometime after the runner crosses the finish line.  Did the runner finish before the race started? Your nose would indicate that.  So ,  what time is it , anyways?  When did these changes happen?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Evolution is change over time. One of the difficulties in understanding that it actually happens is that our senses don&#8217;t even perceive a single event all at the same instant that it happens. Stand at the finish line of a hundred meter dash. See the smoke from the starter pistol. A second later hear the sound of the gun. If the wind is right, the smoke will be smelled sometime after the runner crosses the finish line.  Did the runner finish before the race started? Your nose would indicate that.  So ,  what time is it , anyways?  When did these changes happen?</p>
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