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		<title>By: Gern Blansten</title>
		<link>http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/blog/?p=423&#038;cpage=1#comment-16813</link>
		<dc:creator>Gern Blansten</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By the way, #11 is from Talk Origins, just to be clear.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By the way, #11 is from Talk Origins, just to be clear.</p>
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		<title>By: Gern Blansten</title>
		<link>http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/blog/?p=423&#038;cpage=1#comment-16812</link>
		<dc:creator>Gern Blansten</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;( By the way, atheism killed more people than any religion will ever do( just think of Stalin ), so … forget about that crap with the damage produced by religion. It’s just non-sense. )&quot;

That&#039;s rubbish. 

The Crusades

The Inquisition

Witch hunts

Suicide bombers

9/11

The &quot;trouble&quot; in Ireland

It goes on and on. 

Didn&#039;t your god drown all of humanity with a great flood? 

Aren&#039;t there immense crimes against humanity in your bible?

Rape. Incest. Murder. Slavery. The killing of children. The stoning to death of gays, infidels, adulterers, blasphemers, palm readers. 

Doesn&#039;t it sound ridiculous?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;( By the way, atheism killed more people than any religion will ever do( just think of Stalin ), so … forget about that crap with the damage produced by religion. It’s just non-sense. )&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s rubbish. </p>
<p>The Crusades</p>
<p>The Inquisition</p>
<p>Witch hunts</p>
<p>Suicide bombers</p>
<p>9/11</p>
<p>The &#8220;trouble&#8221; in Ireland</p>
<p>It goes on and on. </p>
<p>Didn&#8217;t your god drown all of humanity with a great flood? </p>
<p>Aren&#8217;t there immense crimes against humanity in your bible?</p>
<p>Rape. Incest. Murder. Slavery. The killing of children. The stoning to death of gays, infidels, adulterers, blasphemers, palm readers. </p>
<p>Doesn&#8217;t it sound ridiculous?</p>
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		<title>By: Gern Blansten</title>
		<link>http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/blog/?p=423&#038;cpage=1#comment-16811</link>
		<dc:creator>Gern Blansten</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stalin rejected neo-Darwinian evolution in favor of Lamarckism.

Mendeleyev&#039;s &quot;periodic system of elements&quot; clearly shows how very important in the history of nature is the emergence of qualitative changes out of quantitative changes. The same thing is shown in biology by the theory of neo-Lamarckism, to which neo-Darwinism is yielding place. (Stalin 1906, 304)

More specifically, Stalin rejected the ideas of August Weismann, a 19th-century German biologist, in favor of Trofim Lysenko, a pseudoscientist who based his ideas on Lamarckism. Weismann, who accepted Darwin&#039;s theory of evolution, disproved Lamarckism and proposed that germ cells pass on hereditary information; his work was an early variant of the modern evolutionary synthesis which unites evolutionary theory with genetics. Stalin appointed Lysenko head of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the Soviet Union, where he had great political power. (Rossiannov 1993) 

Stalin and Lysenko rejected evolution and genetics for ideological, not biological, reasons. (Stalin was quite ignorant of science in general.) The class struggle of Marxism contradicts the individual competition implied by natural selection. More importantly, genetics, implying that traits were fixed at birth, contradicted the ideal of moulding and improving traits. Stalin proclaimed genetics a capitalist pseudo-science. 

Stalin was, first and foremost, a Marxist dictator, far above any allegiance he might have had to any theories concerning the origin of species, whether Lamarckian or Darwinian. Stalin distrusted scientists as being prone to free-thinking. Though his persecution of biologists and biology were particularly egregious (causing appalling damage to Soviet agriculture), he imprisoned and killed thousands of scientists and engineers from all fields. 

Oppression and murder have been used as tools of statecraft long before Darwin published his work. 

There is no evidence that Darwin&#039;s work was used as a justification for oppression and murder. Stalin doubtless accepted Newton&#039;s theory of gravity, but creationists do not claim that Newton&#039;s theory should be suppressed because Stalin believed it.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stalin rejected neo-Darwinian evolution in favor of Lamarckism.</p>
<p>Mendeleyev&#8217;s &#8220;periodic system of elements&#8221; clearly shows how very important in the history of nature is the emergence of qualitative changes out of quantitative changes. The same thing is shown in biology by the theory of neo-Lamarckism, to which neo-Darwinism is yielding place. (Stalin 1906, 304)</p>
<p>More specifically, Stalin rejected the ideas of August Weismann, a 19th-century German biologist, in favor of Trofim Lysenko, a pseudoscientist who based his ideas on Lamarckism. Weismann, who accepted Darwin&#8217;s theory of evolution, disproved Lamarckism and proposed that germ cells pass on hereditary information; his work was an early variant of the modern evolutionary synthesis which unites evolutionary theory with genetics. Stalin appointed Lysenko head of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the Soviet Union, where he had great political power. (Rossiannov 1993) </p>
<p>Stalin and Lysenko rejected evolution and genetics for ideological, not biological, reasons. (Stalin was quite ignorant of science in general.) The class struggle of Marxism contradicts the individual competition implied by natural selection. More importantly, genetics, implying that traits were fixed at birth, contradicted the ideal of moulding and improving traits. Stalin proclaimed genetics a capitalist pseudo-science. </p>
<p>Stalin was, first and foremost, a Marxist dictator, far above any allegiance he might have had to any theories concerning the origin of species, whether Lamarckian or Darwinian. Stalin distrusted scientists as being prone to free-thinking. Though his persecution of biologists and biology were particularly egregious (causing appalling damage to Soviet agriculture), he imprisoned and killed thousands of scientists and engineers from all fields. </p>
<p>Oppression and murder have been used as tools of statecraft long before Darwin published his work. </p>
<p>There is no evidence that Darwin&#8217;s work was used as a justification for oppression and murder. Stalin doubtless accepted Newton&#8217;s theory of gravity, but creationists do not claim that Newton&#8217;s theory should be suppressed because Stalin believed it.</p>
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		<title>By: Hermes</title>
		<link>http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/blog/?p=423&#038;cpage=1#comment-16809</link>
		<dc:creator>Hermes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry!  I posted the last message.]]></description>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DYO, to reply thoughtfully would take time and effort -- much of it in untangling what you don&#039;t know before we can even get to addressing what is valid in your main comments.

Is it worth my time to spend that effort?

If you think it is, let me know by posting in the forums;

http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/forums/index.php]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>DYO, to reply thoughtfully would take time and effort &#8212; much of it in untangling what you don&#8217;t know before we can even get to addressing what is valid in your main comments.</p>
<p>Is it worth my time to spend that effort?</p>
<p>If you think it is, let me know by posting in the forums;</p>
<p><a href="http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/forums/index.php" rel="nofollow">http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/forums/index.php</a></p>
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		<title>By: DYO</title>
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		<dc:creator>DYO</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey, I have a simple question for you:
What if your atheistic theories are just a product o human imagination and nothing more?
Forget about proofs: nobody could proove that God exists or not. Atheism that claim it can proof the non-existance of God is simply childish.
And, one more: why don&#039;t you fight against Santa Close? What difference it will make?
( By the way, atheism killed more people than any religion will ever do( just think of Stalin ), so  ... forget about that crap with the damage produced by religion. It&#039;s just non-sense. )]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey, I have a simple question for you:<br />
What if your atheistic theories are just a product o human imagination and nothing more?<br />
Forget about proofs: nobody could proove that God exists or not. Atheism that claim it can proof the non-existance of God is simply childish.<br />
And, one more: why don&#8217;t you fight against Santa Close? What difference it will make?<br />
( By the way, atheism killed more people than any religion will ever do( just think of Stalin ), so  &#8230; forget about that crap with the damage produced by religion. It&#8217;s just non-sense. )</p>
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		<title>By: Gern Blansten</title>
		<link>http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/blog/?p=423&#038;cpage=1#comment-16794</link>
		<dc:creator>Gern Blansten</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;so what do you say to the scientists that have the proof?&quot;

Darrell, this is a joke, right? Proof of god? Where? Why isn&#039;t this proof available to everybody? 

Oh, wait. You probably have a different definition of &quot;proof&quot; than everybody else does.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;so what do you say to the scientists that have the proof?&#8221;</p>
<p>Darrell, this is a joke, right? Proof of god? Where? Why isn&#8217;t this proof available to everybody? </p>
<p>Oh, wait. You probably have a different definition of &#8220;proof&#8221; than everybody else does.</p>
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		<title>By: Hermes</title>
		<link>http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/blog/?p=423&#038;cpage=1#comment-16792</link>
		<dc:creator>Hermes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Darrell, got facts supporting the errors you mention?

If you do, we have something to discuss, and if I agree I&#039;ll bring them up with the moderators who can contact the owner(s) of this site.

If you do not, then you have no facts yourself and as such your opinions can be ignored.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Darrell, got facts supporting the errors you mention?</p>
<p>If you do, we have something to discuss, and if I agree I&#8217;ll bring them up with the moderators who can contact the owner(s) of this site.</p>
<p>If you do not, then you have no facts yourself and as such your opinions can be ignored.</p>
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		<title>By: Mimi</title>
		<link>http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/blog/?p=423&#038;cpage=1#comment-16791</link>
		<dc:creator>Mimi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wait a minute...Darrell, I re-read your comment carefully again. You are not representing God, you are simply being neutral, no wonder the bad language. Forgive me, I thought you were a brother in Christ, truly sorry.I don&#039;t blame you for using bad language because you are not a believer...sorry, my bad.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wait a minute&#8230;Darrell, I re-read your comment carefully again. You are not representing God, you are simply being neutral, no wonder the bad language. Forgive me, I thought you were a brother in Christ, truly sorry.I don&#8217;t blame you for using bad language because you are not a believer&#8230;sorry, my bad.</p>
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		<title>By: Mimi</title>
		<link>http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/blog/?p=423&#038;cpage=1#comment-16790</link>
		<dc:creator>Mimi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Darrel, people who represent God do not curse and swear, that only places you in the same category as the &quot;idiots&quot; on this website. Rather speak to them with love. Pray for them if you must. Or maybe you are not a believer because believers do not use that kind of language to Minister to unbelievers no matter how nasty and rude they are (at all).]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Darrel, people who represent God do not curse and swear, that only places you in the same category as the &#8220;idiots&#8221; on this website. Rather speak to them with love. Pray for them if you must. Or maybe you are not a believer because believers do not use that kind of language to Minister to unbelievers no matter how nasty and rude they are (at all).</p>
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