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  2. XTreme

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    The Motorbike Forum Me, @Six30, @busabeast, and @Clive are all banned from there! As you see, I posted a link to there......and any of the members here are free to post a link to it, or even join up there, at any time. But if someone over there posted a link to this place then they're very likely to get banned!
  3. skyrider

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    go roll your eggs
  4. Marcel

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    Your logic is impeccable...without being to nosy ...I know that there is no answer for my question...but could you share some of your deeper thoughts...regards to this question....accident or desigh.
  5. Marcel

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    I have to say this is way better than youtube or FB...anxiously awaiting a reply from are mysterious guest...
  6. I’ve certainly worked with many scientists who believed in God in my time, and in my early career I’ll admit that it bothered me. Religion and science are non-overlapping magisteria; one demands that we apply a formal, codified approach to separating good ideas from less good ones, whilst the other accepts ‘on faith’ things that cannot be tested, that are often completely at odds with logic and reason, and that frequently also offend morality. Those who were open to discussing it invariably gave an explanation that boiled down to them keeping their professional lives separate from their faith, which always struck me as intellectual dishonesty – essentially keeping two sets of books, where between the hours of nine and five they demand absolute scientific rigour and shred mercilessly anything that falls short, whilst the rest of the time they are willing to put their academic training to one side and believe things that they would consider to be patent absurdities if they were presented in any other context. The Noah’s Ark story is one example, because it doesn’t fit with the observable evidence we have around us. If the only animals to survive the flood were the ones on the ark, then today we would expect to see evidence of species radiating out from the point where they all disembarked, with decreasing diversity as we move further out. This isn’t the case. In order for the Noah’s Ark story to be true, when the ark came to rest on Mount Ararat in modern-day Turkey, the penguins would have had to waddle to the South Pole whilst the Polar bears all went north. The armadillos, sloths and anteaters all headed for South America, whilst the koalas all headed for Australia, presumably crawling across Iran, Pakistan, India, Myanmar, Thailand and Malasia before reaching the Java and Timor Seas. They’re very poor swimmers, so at this point they would have needed to hitch a ride the rest of the way – on a kangaroo, perhaps, because they are good swimmers and - as luck would have it - were going the same way. Crucially, not one of these species stopped off anywhere along their various routes to set up breeding colonies, there being no fossil record of any of them outside their current ranges. Nowadays it really doesn’t bother me that people believe this stuff – their beliefs are their business, not mine. I wouldn’t dream of trying to ‘convert’ Buckster, and I hope he doesn’t think that’s what I’m doing. But by the same token I am a scientist and he isn’t, and if he’s going to piss in my pool he’s got to expect a response.
  7. Marcel

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    Agree...but I think this guy has been around the block a few times..
  8. Marcel

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    Don't get involved in this Pedro...it's above your pay grade...lol
  9. Nute

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    Happy Easter one and all. I view myself as a Christian but I hesitate to get involved in this. You are never going to change someone’s core belief in an internet argument. Several people have referred to the “other forum” - which one is that for us relative newcomers?
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  11. Marcel

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    The account could have been created by intelligent desigh...just saying...lol.
  12. Six30

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    you reckon its skyrider ?
  13. Buckster

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    Don’t get excited, the account was only created so whoever it is can have an anonymous argument on the internet. No intellect involved.
  14. Six30

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    Happy Easter to one and all may the Lord be with you and bring you lots of chocolate and that .
  15. Marcel

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    I tried to warn him not to go down in this rabbit hole by being gentle without attacking his beliefs ..but no..he kept on pushing it. Again I have no idea who you are but hope you stick around...without getting into religion I would love to know your thoughts, it seems to me you are directly in some sort of scientific field of study.and must of had chats with your peers at times on this kind of subject... Here's my question. Do you think everything life in particular is just a random accident or part of some intelligent desigh? I'm a man of faith cause without faith we would just be another animal ..I even belief in the Noah story..but it happened long ago when a giant space rock smack the earth ..
  16. Seriously a tribute bike should have something of the first bikes spirit in it, maybe a triple tipped muffler or something, where's the heritage, that things a pile of shit. This one on the other hand was owned by a certain Giacomo Agostini.
  17. It looks like a Honda 650 engine has been transplanted to a Nuda frame with a Svartpilen tank, is this the best of Brirish ?
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  19. Given that your current understanding of evolution is that fish can evolve into cows, I don’t think we need to concern ourselves unduly with your pronouncements on my scientific credentials. What I will say though is that this particular piece of idiocy would at least explain why you believe there to be no transitional fossils: I can only assume you have been wandering the palaeontology galleries of natural history museums expecting to find something akin to a haddock with udders. I want to be clear on one thing: I’m not interested in belittling your religious beliefs, or even in ‘proving’ that evolution beats bronze-age creation myths. There was a time, way back in my postgraduate and early postdoc days, when I would have gleefully indulged in precisely the sort of ritual ‘mauling of the unwary’ that some scientists specialise in, but my only intention here is to make sure that the gibberish you have presented as science is not allowed to stand unchallenged. That would be a disservice to all.
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