Science has shown in a very convincing manner that humans evolved from animals.
What theory is now the convincing concept that is now being taken as the correct theory? I always see and hear this argument, but the theories are always evolving faster than the speices?
thanks
Mark
Don't take life so seriously in that " sooner or later we are just old men in funny clothes" "Tom 'T-Bone' Wolk"
Science has shown in a very convincing manner that humans evolved from animals.
When were the first tools used by monkeys?
I'm not sure that monkeys, per se, have ever used manufactured tools in the sense that you're probably asking. Early hominids did, however, and the wikipedia article on human evolution says that they did so as far back as 2.5 million to 2.6 million years ago. There are a number of articles and books cited by this article, and you can probably find more information by following up with some of them.
Why do you keep asking this question? Do you really want to know, or are you making some kind of point that I'm just not getting?
Mormonism ceased being a compelling topic for me when I finally came to terms with its transformation from a personality cult into a combination of a real estate company, a SuperPac, and Westboro Baptist Church. - Kishkumen
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
I think that Gadianton Plumber ought to do a little reading on what Cognitive Dissonance is. The fact that (as he puts it in the OP), "So, my apologist brethren, my apostate people, or bored folks, is this ignored for a reason?", the fact that it is ignored suggests that there isn't any significant amounts of cognitive dissonance caused by the issue which he raises.
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:I often wonder what kind of noise occurs inside a non-evolutionist's head when he or she comes across an article like this one:
The voices tell me to start lighting things on fire when I read things like that.
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo
Or ignoring it could be a mechanism of reducing cognitive dissonance.
I don't think you could actually support this notion from cognitive dissonance theory. In fact, it seems to be quite a problematic idea, since with this model of understanding, everything would be cognitive dissonance, and most of these issues where we are currently experiencing cognitive dissonance, we are simply ignoring them (as a coping mechanism) to the point that we are simply unaware that every single cognition we experience is causing dissonance that we are (for the most part) merely ignoring.
But since I don't assume that we all live in wonderland, I think that your answer is pretty unlikely.
Nightlion wrote:Adam and Eve's resurrected and glorified bodies were placed into the Garden. They were only tethered by adding the dust of this earth so that they could not hie to Kolob at their wim. This dust also took away their memory.
Awesome.
It's stuff like this that makes me wonder if you aren't just pretending to be a Mormon so that you can showcase the oddities and thus scare people away.
But I still like you - I'm still trying to figure out your puzzle contained in the play. I'm stuck between thinking one of the characters is your brother, but it gets sticky when compared to his relationship with the rest of your family.
Sorry about this personal aside: Almabound must a certain East Millcreek Road neighbor back in the day. I will not tell anyone whom I think you are. But I think you remember me playing the piano loudly in a Church near the Uof U. I am admitted to being excommunicated so I am not a legal Mormon howbeit I will say that I am the only remaining real Mormon and true apostle of Jesus Christ I know of.
Niac is the brother of kasemaj and yes he is based upon that brother who most betrayed me.
Nightlion wrote:Adam and Eve's resurrected and glorified bodies were placed into the Garden.
So wait, their resurrected and glorified bodies were placed in the Garden, and then they fell again so that they could work their way towards becoming resurrected and glorified bodies again?
Um.
Ok.
Yeah. It has to do with the continuation of the seeds both in the world and out of the world are they to continue. so you got to come into the world and do this one then return to out of the world to continue those and return again into the world to continue those and on, and on. Just as Christ said of himself I am, was and will be. What? Christ! The Eternal God, including all three, continue on their eternal round of a course and repeat each of the thre stages in turn as they follow each other around. See my New Mormon Theology thread a few months ago. Eternal life means that you also lay down your life and take(or better you recieve it again subject to Christ) it again. That is how men get the tag of little "g" god.