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Subject: Re: Fossil Record is LETHAL to Atheist Beliefs
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On 6 Nov, 14:28, Meteorite Debris <epicurusboth@YOUR_SHOESaapt.net.au>
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> Last time that great scribe Devils Advocaat <mankygo...@gmail.com>
> chipped away at his/her stone these gems of wisdom for posterity ...
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> > On 4 Nov, 20:05, Jeanne Douglas <hlwdj...@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:
> > > In article
> > > <1babfe7b-c3f4-4dba-b3f5-28d87e824...@p11g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>,
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> > > =A0Wombat <tri...@multiweb.nl> wrote:
> > > > On Nov 2, 5:07 pm, WangoTango <Asgar...@mindspring.com> wrote:
> > > > > In article <MPG.2afe074b3153e928989...@news.iinet.net.au.>,
> > > > > epicurusboth@YOUR_SHOESaapt.net.au says...
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> > > > > > Last time that great scribe Father Haskell <fatherhask...@yahoo=
.com>
> > > > > > chipped away at his/her stone these gems of wisdom for posterit=
y ...
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> > > > > > > On Oct 31, 5:10 pm, BroilJAB <DesignDen...@wmconnect.com> wro=
te:
> > > > > > > > The fossil record annihilates The Theory of Evolution
> > > > > > > > at the very outset of life on earth. Before the Cambrian
> > > > > > > > we should have seen a number of steps: differentiation
> > > > > > > > of cells, of tissue, of ventral and dorsal. But in fact we =
do
> > > > > > > > see that none of this had taken place. Instead the fossil
> > > > > > > > record shows immediate Intelligent Design." --Dr Adams
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> > > > > > > How "intelligent" a design was the dodo?
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> > > > > > Or the appendix in humans?
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> > > > > The appendix has been shown to be a reservoir of beneficial flora=
 that
> > > > > helps to repopulate the gut after intestinal illness.
> > > > > People that have their tonsils removed have more sinus and throat
> > > > > infections.
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> > > > Up to about 25 years ago I used to get bacterial throat infections
> > > > almost at the drop of a hat, several times a year for almost 20
> > > > years. =A0My GP looked at the back of my throat once during an atta=
ck
> > > > and said "How pretty. Such a nice red colour with those lovely whit=
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> > > > flecks of pus"! =A0Finally, almost in desperation, my ENT consultan=
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> > > > removed my tonsils. =A0I still get the infections, but very rarely.=
 =A0The
> > > > last one was 9 years ago! =A0I've also never had a sinus infection.
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> > > And I'm the queen of sinus infections, with my tonsils. And this is t=
he
> > > time of year when I'm most likely gonna get one. The last 2 years I'v=
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> > > had multiple colds and sinus infection between October and January, j=
ust
> > > one cycling right after another. The last time I was at the doctor, w=
e
> > > thought I was on the verge of another sinus infection so I have an
> > > antibiotic prescription just in case; my doctor knows I have the prop=
er
> > > respect for them and won't fill the Rx unless I'm certain it's a sinu=
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> > > infection and not something allergy- or virus-caused.
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> > > I actually had tonsillitis 6 times in 18 months when I was in high
> > > school and into my freshman year at college, and I still have my
> > > tonsils. Our family doctor didn't believe in removing them in anythin=
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> > > less than a life-threatening situations.
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> > > Turns out they've been my early warning system for an oncoming cold,
> > > which gives me a chance to try to knock it down before it starts, wit=
h
> > > massive doses of Vitamin C. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn=
't.
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> > > --
> > > JD
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> > > "Osama Bin Laden is dead and GM is alive."--VP Joseph Biden
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> > I am in an "at risk" group regarding influenza due to having kidney
> > failure.
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> > I'm going to be 54 on November 7th, but I've not had flu since I was
> > 16 years old.
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> > But since I've been diagnosed with ADPKD, doctors and pharmacists keep
> > telling me to have the flu jab.
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> > And I say to them what's the point? When it's flu season people all
> > around me drop like flies.
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> > All I get is snuffles, or a head cold. Real flu lays you out in bed
> > for at least two weeks.
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> > I've not had flu like that since I was sixteen years old.
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> > Do they wonder about why? No they don't.
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> > They just shrug, that's all.
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> I have a family history on my father's side of polycystic kidney
> disease. My grandfather and uncle died young with it. Various Kelly
> cousins have died young with the disease. Fortunately my father is free
> of it and so are his children. I suspect my great great grandfather had
> the disease dying young and with with his daughter dying young. His son,
> my great grandfather didn't die from it as he died under the wheels of a
> tram instead but he passed the gene on to his descendants.

I'm sorry your family have suffered so many losses to this condition.

You say they died young, can you elaborate on that please?

That is so long as its not too upsetting for you to do so.
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> Remove both YOUR_SHOES before replying
> apatriot #1, atheist #1417,
> Chief EAC prophet
> Jason Gastrich prayed for me on 8 January 2009 and nothing happened.
>
> "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make
> you commit atrocities." - Voltaire
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