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Scientific thinking and common sense

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I have noticed that sometimes people with a scientific mind, people who have studied a lot and know a lot of information about different sciences, do not notice simple things that do not escape the attention of ordinary people, even if they have studied less or almost nothing.

For example, the fact that the animals that evolutionists call "lower" in the evolutionary scale still live alongside humans, and that others supposedly fitter, because they are located in a higher position in the evolutionary line of man, no longer exist.

Evolutionary theory holds that as animals progressed up the evolutionary scale, they became more capable of surviving. Why, then, is the “inferior” ape family still in existence, but not a single one of the presumed intermediate forms, which were supposed to be more advanced in evolution? Today we see chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans, but no “ape-men.” Does it seem likely that every one of the more recent and supposedly more advanced “links” between apelike creatures and modern man should have become extinct, but not the lower apes? https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1101985017

To what extent do you think the "wisdom" of this system of things can cloud a person's mind?

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kjw47 wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 7:16 pm No religion that rejects Jesus as Gods son has God with them, thus do not have truth.
Any religion that claims Jesus is the son of God is patently false and should be regarded with suspicion. Demons work in mysterious ways.
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kjw47 wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 7:05 pm Alls JW,s do is plant seeds. God waters them if he sees fit.
If those seeds produce weeds, well there we go.
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JoeyKnothead wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 7:42 pm
kjw47 wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 7:05 pm Alls JW,s do is plant seeds. God waters them if he sees fit.
If those seeds produce weeds, well there we go.
Also makes God seem somewhat capricious.
"Will I water those seeds? Nah. It'll be fine."
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JoeyKnothead wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 7:42 pm
kjw47 wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 7:05 pm Alls JW,s do is plant seeds. God waters them if he sees fit.
If those seeds produce weeds, well there we go.

All religions have some weeds.

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kjw47 wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 7:16 pm No religion that rejects Jesus as Gods son has God with them, thus do not have truth.
How can we confirm you speak truth in this matter?
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JoeyKnothead wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 8:48 pm
kjw47 wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 7:16 pm No religion that rejects Jesus as Gods son has God with them, thus do not have truth.
How can we confirm you speak truth in this matter?


God requires--Faith.

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kjw47 wrote: Sat Oct 01, 2022 12:49 pm
JoeyKnothead wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 8:48 pm
kjw47 wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 7:16 pm No religion that rejects Jesus as Gods son has God with them, thus do not have truth.
How can we confirm you speak truth in this matter?


God requires--Faith.
Everyone who ever believed in something that was false also relied on faith. It is a useless tool for determining what is true.
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brunumb wrote: Sat Oct 01, 2022 7:57 pm
kjw47 wrote: Sat Oct 01, 2022 12:49 pm
JoeyKnothead wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 8:48 pm
kjw47 wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 7:16 pm No religion that rejects Jesus as Gods son has God with them, thus do not have truth.
How can we confirm you speak truth in this matter?


God requires--Faith.
Everyone who ever believed in something that was false also relied on faith. It is a useless tool for determining what is true.

That is why God sent his son with truth. I shared 8 important teachings from Jesus in my thread-The real Jesus under Theology, that clearly shows who has him.

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kjw47 wrote: Sat Oct 01, 2022 12:49 pm
JoeyKnothead wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 8:48 pm
kjw47 wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 7:16 pm No religion that rejects Jesus as Gods son has God with them, thus do not have truth.
How can we confirm you speak truth in this matter?
God requires--Faith.
So do con men.

So I ask again, how can we know the religious beliefs - the faith you hold are right, and others are wrong?
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kjw47 wrote: Sat Oct 01, 2022 9:36 pm That is why God sent his son with truth. I shared 8 important teachings from Jesus in my thread-The real Jesus under Theology, that clearly shows who has him.
In case you didn't understand, let me repeat. Everyone who ever believed in something that was false also relied on faith. It is a useless tool for determining what is true. Your acceptance of the alleged teachings is purely based on faith. If you disagree, please demonstrate that they are irrefutably true.
George Orwell:: “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.”
Voltaire: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
Gender ideology is anti-science, anti truth.

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