i am 20 years old. when i was 12 i was obsessed with magic tricks and my father being very religious would tell me to get rid of all those tricks and toys because supposedly "god hates that" stuff. i didn’t buy it, i simply told my father "dad they are just tricks, all for fun". after this, id say a few weeks later, when we were all asleep i woke up in the middle of the night, between 2 am to 3 am, i felt hot and was sweating a bit, everyone else seemed to be sleeping fine, i tried hard to go back to sleep but it got hotter and more sweat followed. so i decided to go downstairs to the kitchen and get myself some milk or water to cool off but for some reason i was afraid. so i woke up my younger brother who was 8 at the time, and i asked him if he would accompany me downstairs so i could get a quick drink, he agreed. when we returned back upstairs to bed, i was still feeling the same, but then i got a little surprise my brother came into my room and told me he felt hot and couldn’t sleep, i responded by saying "yeah me too!" so i jumped out of the covers and we both went out into the hallway between the rooms. at this point we were fully awake. it was an awkward moment for a few seconds, us just standing in the hallway, i finally asked a simple question "so what should we do?" he replied "i don’t know" and i immediately got an idea and said "hey! i just bought a new box of magic tricks from toys r us yesterday, you want to play with them?" and he got excited and said "sure!". so i pulled the box of tricks out of the closet and we started trying out and experimenting with the tricks while sitting on the hallway floor upstairs. i all of a sudden got the feeling of using the restroom so i said "jason keep playing, ill be back, i have to use the restroom", now the restroom is located right next to this hallway, i didnt see the point in closing the door because all i felt was the need to take a leak. now here is where i need explanations. as i headed for the faucet to wash my hands, while looking into the sink i saw out of the corner of my right eye toward the counter what seemed to be the toothbrushes moving or being dragged to the right on their own, i also heard the dragging noise with it, as soon as i reacted to the movement and focused my attention at the toothbrushes, they were now motionless, i stood there asking myself "did i just see what i think i saw?" then without warning the toothbrushes were thrown at me, im not sure if "thrown" would be correct because nobody but me was present in the bathroom, but they did "flew" on their own, one brush hit my face while the other hit the wall above the bath tube then landed on the floor, i quickly looked outside to the hallway to find my brother staring into the bathroom with a frightened look. i asked him "did you see that?!" me thinking i had done real magic, he said slowly "yeah", then he took off running to my parents room, i stood there thinking about it, and i realized that this was strange, so i took off to that same room. we ended up sleeping on the floor of my parents room. we still discuss this with each other and we try to figure out if there is any explanation for it. keep in mind that there are no windows in the bathroom. what could this have been? is there any scientific explanation? i really want to know. and no i didnt make this up, this really took place.
captain america, no, it was one of those sets that come with all kinds of card tricks, magic dices, colored scarfs, vanishing boxes, coin tricks, etc.
everyone keep in mind that i am NOT religious, i always seek after knowledge, and this is about the only event in my life that i don’t have an answer to.


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Just a few questions I have for you guys and gals…

1. Do you think Humans will ever master DNA? (making our own creations from scratch)

2. If yes to the first question, why is it so far fetched that you might have a creator?

Or is it just the "invisible man and or woman above" kind of creators you don’t believe in?

I’m asking this question again because i was unsatisfied with the answers you had given me last time. You either tap danced around the questions or just rambled on about magic or sky daddy’s. Yes, I want to hear your arguing statements and facts but please answers the questions first.

Arguing Statements / Facts
So, if I made a robot with a true A.I. (or another living organic creature using DNA) I would be it’s creator but since I’m a living, breathing, organic human… I can’t have a creator because who created the creator? Even if it’s improbable that doesn’t make it impossible and shouldn’t be thrown off the scientific table.

Using Drake’s Equation you can see that our Galaxy alone could be teaming with intelligent life. Add to the equation "Could they master star travel? Could they also master DNA? Improbable maybe (I say maybe because that’s just our Galaxy and not the entire universe) that doesn’t make it impossible.

http://www.classbrain.com/artmovies/publish/article_50.shtml

Look at all the machines and tools we have made and entrust our lives to. Sometimes they break down because we the creator who made them are not perfect and therefore none of our tools or machines will never be either. Yes, I know evolution is fact. I’m not THAT stupid but am I going to follow it down until there is nothing left to follow…

Let’s say somehow the 20 different Amino acids that form proteins, formed the proper proteins that became a simple one celled life form.
This is a big stretch, since the simplest bacterium has 30,000 different proteins. (and all these came together by chance, under the right conditions? What are the odds of that?)
DNA is the coded instructions for replication, growth and assembly of all future generations.
The most efficient information storage system in the known universe.
In the original bacterium, there would not have been any DNA to evolve since it was the first of its kind and DNA is inherited.

Where did it come from?

You can’t argue it evolved since according to evolution there must be a originator that was then acted on by the forces of natural selection.

What originated the DNA?

That is no different than saying well if we had a creator who made the creator or what made the thing that made the big bang. It’s funny actually. I love to see Christians and Atheists go at it, I am Agnostic btw. Christians think an invisible man created us and Atheists believe that Energy came from nothing. If you by any chance still reading this I just want to say I know for 100% fact that life comes from life and it happens 100% of the time! Can life happen by chance?
Sure it could anything is possible but since the conditions on earth are perfect, why don’t we see new strains of bacteria springing up all over the place from nothing?

Think for yourself, question authority! – Timothy Leary

A complex creature in a complex ecosystem? who’s to say that we are not part of a bigger even more complex ecosystem known as the universe?

And if you made it down this far I wish I could just give you a million points. If anything I hope it was a good read and you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed typing it…. :) lol
Everyone keeps saying the same thing… yes Humans can master DNA and can become creators…. but we can’t have creators because that’s just ridiculous? You do realize how vast the Universe is? It’s sad to see such closed minded people. Almost as bad as Christians!
Earth is 4.5 to 4.6 billion years old… yet we’ve been around 10,000-20,00 years or so…. Thats a big time gap in there people. If we are around for another 1 billion years or so… will we traveling the stars and seeding planets?


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The more I delve into the world of science, the more convinced I am that an infinitely intelligent mathematician is behind all of the formulae and constants which make up the laws of nature.

Take the genetic code: this tri-nucleotide, four letter sequence specifies how every protein molecule used in every cell, which may consist of many tens of thousands of amino acids, is to be constructed. It is simply the most efficient and remarkable information storage and encryption system there is.

Moreover, the shape and structure of DNA is in near perfect alignment with the "divine proportion", phi the golden ratio, which like the other irrational constants, e and pi, can be seen in things ranging from anatomy to cosmology.

This all makes me realise that it took some serious math to work out the finely tuned and balanced nature of reality without which there would be an anarchic chaos.

The Atheists may think of God as an invisible magic man….I like to think of him as a brilliant mathematician, working secretly and silently.


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I think according to that book the Bible shouldn’t atheists also not be allowed to marry.

Should we ban marriage between gays, atheists, while we are at it, since we are basing are legislation on the Bible, Jesus called a Canaanite woman a dog in Matthew 15, and in Rev 22:15 it says dogs don’t get into heaven. Should blacks repent of their sin and be saved and go to church as white people before they get married?

Jews too, I think we should base our laws on the Bible and not let gays or jews or blacks or atheists get married.

Can I get a RAmen from the Congregation?
FYI – this is an attack on the bible, not on jews, blacks, christians, gays, atheists, or canaanites, and no dogs were harmed in this question which is an attempt to show the absurdity of trying to ban gay marriage.


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