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ORIGINAL: BenevolentM

Misspelling words is an addiction.

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ORIGINAL: BenevolentM

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ORIGINAL: chatterbox24

Entrophy or entropy?

I misspelled it earlier. It is spelled without the h. It is spelled entropy.

A shepard or Shepard knows that if you fail to tend to your flock, given enough time your flock is going to disperse. Entropy will take hold. The same is true for a gardener. It is also true for business and it is true for government. It is a fact of life. If you give up much as the atheists say you should and just live your life, entropy will take over.

What did King Henry VIII want? He wanted the right to divorce, but what did that give us? After several centuries of neglect marriage as an institution has fallen apart. It took awhile, long enough for the Protestants to think that no harm was done.

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ORIGINAL: chatterbox24
Well yes, I get that, of course one needs to use their brain. Be careful of hunches. Of course they can be wrong.

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I have a beautiful example of correlations through faith in God.
GS you posted two objects a round stone and a feather. Within hours I recieved a phone call. It was from the counsil of indian nations wanting a donation toward impovished elders and poor water quality and supply. The emblem they use is a round symbol with a feather on top. I have never recieved a call from any indian organization before. Coincidence? Some will say yes, but not for me. Its proof.

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ORIGINAL: GotSteel

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ORIGINAL: chatterbox24

I have a beautiful example of correlations through faith in God.
GS you posted two objects a round stone and a feather. Within hours I recieved a phone call. It was from the counsil of indian nations wanting a donation toward impovished elders and poor water quality and supply. The emblem they use is a round symbol with a feather on top. I have never recieved a call from any indian organization before. Coincidence? Some will say yes, but not for me. Its proof.

Excellent, Gary the Unicorn has finally sent you a sign that I'm a true Profit. Welcome to Atheism!

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Excellent, Gary the Unicorn has finally sent you a sign that I'm a true Profit. Welcome to Atheism!

Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events as meaningfully related, where they are unlikely to be causally related... Following discussions with both Albert Einstein and Wolfgang Pauli, Jung believed... that life was not a series of random events but rather an expression of a deeper order, which he and Pauli referred to as Unus mundus... It has been asserted that Jung's analytical psychological theory of synchronicity is equal to intellectual intuition ~Source

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. ~Albert Einstein

K.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Higgs#Political_and_religious_views

Higgs is an atheist. He has described Richard Dawkins as having adopted a “fundamentalist” view of non-atheists, (although Higgs had said that Dawkins in a way is almost a fundamentalist himself).

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins#Advocacy_of_atheism

Dawkins is an outspoken atheist and a supporter of various atheist, secular, and humanistic organisations. Although he was confirmed into the Church of England at the age of thirteen, he started to lose his religious faith when he discovered Darwin. He revealed that his understanding of evolution led him to atheism and is puzzled by belief in God among individuals who are sophisticated in science.

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http://www.nature.com/horizon/proteinfolding/background/importance.html

What is remarkable is that the more than 100,000 proteins in our bodies are produced from a set of only 20 building blocks, known as amino acids.

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ORIGINAL: BenevolentM

Since this thread is about what the atheists get right and atheists feel that biology is their subject it makes sense to ask some questions about biology.

Unsolved Problems in Biology/Protein folding
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Unsolved_Problems_in_Biology/Protein_folding

What can you tell me about protein folding. What makes protein folding so important?

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ORIGINAL: BenevolentM

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http://www.nature.com/horizon/proteinfolding/background/importance.html

What is remarkable is that the more than 100,000 proteins in our bodies are produced from a set of only 20 building blocks, known as amino acids.

Biology has the flexibility of a computer in that it can simulate anything within limits; hence, biological processes in some respect mimic computers.

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ORIGINAL: BenevolentM

Since this thread is about what the atheists get right and atheists feel that biology is their subject it makes sense to ask some questions about biology.

Unsolved Problems in Biology/Protein folding
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Unsolved_Problems_in_Biology/Protein_folding

What can you tell me about protein folding. What makes protein folding so important?

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Protein folding is the process by which a protein structure assumes its functional shape or conformation. It is the physical process by which a polypeptide folds into its characteristic and functional three-dimensional structure from random coil.[1] Each protein exists as an unfolded polypeptide or random coil when translated from a sequence of mRNA to a linear chain of amino acids. This polypeptide lacks any stable (long-lasting) three-dimensional structure (the left hand side of the first figure). Amino acids interact with each other to produce a well-defined three-dimensional structure, the folded protein (the right hand side of the figure), known as the native state. The resulting three-dimensional structure is determined by the amino acid sequence (Anfinsen's dogma).[2] Experiments [3] beginning in the 1980s indicate the codon for an amino acid can also influence protein structure.

The correct three-dimensional structure is essential to function, although some parts of functional proteins may remain unfolded.[4] Failure to fold into native structure generally produces inactive proteins, but in some instances misfolded proteins have modified or toxic functionality. Several neurodegenerative and other diseases are believed to result from the accumulation of amyloid fibrils formed by misfolded proteins.[5] Many allergies are caused by incorrect folding of some proteins, for the immune system does not produce antibodies for certain protein structures.[6]"