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  • #91
    Re: Richard Dawkins interview with Bill O'Reilly

    Originally posted by KanadaHye View Post
    Depends if it's from a Hebrew source... I've seen it spelled genisis before in sites like this...

    http://forum.richarddawkins.net/view...=98996&start=0

    btw... Genesis/Genisis means "birth" in Hebrew. So why is science using words from the bible to explain the origins of life?
    I've never seen it with that "i." And I don't know what you mean by Hebrew source or by a meaning in Hebrew because I'm quite confident that it comes from Greek. Many words used in science or English in general come from Greek in a similar fashion, like "psychology" or "biology."

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    • #92
      Re: Richard Dawkins interview with Bill O'Reilly

      I dont mind a frank discussion about any legit topic but arguing against evolution definetly puts you in the religious nutt catagory because those are the only people who still argue against it. Their argument is based on a bunch of garbage usualy of religious origin and like everything else these nutts do, it can't be substantiated or even discussed without rational people bursting into uncontrolable laughfter. It is sad to see that religion still can put the blinders on people like that but it reinforces my earlier statement that the USA is not a secular country, thats right all the sexual permisquity and other "evile" things some clowns here like to talk about are happening in a chrystian country! Go watch some great pbs documentaries about evolution research (there are some great ones) and if you still arent convinced then by all means go join mr huckabee and sara paylin in your endless rants on sexual permiscuity while your underaged daughter is bussy gettin pregnent.
      Hayastan or Bust.

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      • #93
        Re: Richard Dawkins interview with Bill O'Reilly

        Originally posted by Stark Evade View Post
        I've never seen it with that "i." And I don't know what you mean by Hebrew source or by a meaning in Hebrew because I'm quite confident that it comes from Greek. Many words used in science or English in general come from Greek in a similar fashion, like "psychology" or "biology."
        Words in English are derived from Greek. Most translations were made from Hebrew to Greek.

        Originally posted by Haykakan View Post
        I dont mind a frank discussion about any legit topic but arguing against evolution definetly puts you in the religious nutt catagory because those are the only people who still argue against it. Their argument is based on a bunch of garbage usualy of religious origin and like everything else these nutts do, it can't be substantiated or even discussed without rational people bursting into uncontrolable laughfter. It is sad to see that religion still can put the blinders on people like that but it reinforces my earlier statement that the USA is not a secular country, thats right all the sexual permisquity and other "evile" things some clowns here like to talk about are happening in a chrystian country! Go watch some great pbs documentaries about evolution research (there are some great ones) and if you still arent convinced then by all means go join mr huckabee and sara paylin in your endless rants on sexual permiscuity while your underaged daughter is bussy gettin pregnent.
        Now you're comparing people who have world experience to clowns who were raised in the farms of the USA? Every time I have to enter that country for business, it's like entering the twilight zone.

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfSN4...eature=related

        Originally posted by hipeter924 View Post
        America can't call itself that Secular, since the only religion that seems to be represented in government is Protestant, Catholic and Evangelical Christianity, and no agnostics and atheists exist there really either. In addition Atheists (and therefore Buddhists) are bared from political office and the Presidency in some states. Also there is a strong anti-science movement, and ever since 9/11 there is a lot of discrimination against Muslims. The list goes on, but I wouldn't call the US model that Secular.
        Wow... people have seriously lost all perspective on things. The USA is extremely secular, it's just controlled by J3ws. Evangelical Christians are the nutts that get paid by the J3wish lobby to do their dirty political work. It's not hard to make people believe anything when they've never left their own state. The world to them is about as big as the cardboard box that they would be living in if it weren't for the government holding their hand through life.
        Last edited by KanadaHye; 11-30-2009, 05:52 PM.
        "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." ~Malcolm X

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        • #94
          Re: Richard Dawkins interview with Bill O'Reilly

          Originally posted by KanadaHye View Post
          Words in English are derived from Greek. Most translations were made from Hebrew to Greek.



          Now you're comparing people who have world experience to clowns who were raised in the farms of the USA? Every time I have to enter that country for business, it's like entering the twilight zone.

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfSN4...eature=related



          Wow... people have seriously lost all perspective on things. The USA is extremely secular, it's just controlled by J3ws. Evangelical Christians are the nutts that get paid by the J3wish lobby to do their dirty political work. It's not hard to make people believe anything when they've never left their own state. The world to them is about as big as the cardboard box that they would be living in if it weren't for the government holding their hand through life.
          Good point, but publicly at least (in the right) they aren't that Secular and want a Christian state with the equivalent rights and privileges of the Taliban run Afghanistan. http://www.theocracywatch.org/biblical_law2.htm
          Last edited by hipeter924; 11-30-2009, 06:34 PM.

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          • #95
            Re: Richard Dawkins interview with Bill O'Reilly

            Originally posted by hipeter924 View Post
            Good point, but publicly at least (in the right) they aren't that Secular and want a Christian state with the equivalent rights and privileges of the Taliban run Afghanistan. http://www.theocracywatch.org/biblical_law2.htm
            They aren't going to pay off the debt by letting people act like 45 yr old children anymore. With freedom comes responsibility... anybody can run up a credit card then declare bankruptcy. It doesn't take much skill to do that.
            "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." ~Malcolm X

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            • #96
              Re: Richard Dawkins interview with Bill O'Reilly

              KanadaHye i love some of your humor man o and congradulations on your national igloo lol.
              Hayastan or Bust.

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              • #97
                Re: Richard Dawkins interview with Bill O'Reilly

                Originally posted by KanadaHye View Post
                Words in English are derived from Greek. Most translations were made from Hebrew to Greek.
                Translations of what? The bible? Translation doesn't mean that the word translated comes from the original word. If I translated the Armenian sentence "Seghanuh medz eh" into "The table is big" that would not mean that the word table is derived from seghan. Hebrew is a Semitic language and Greek is an Indo-European language. Two different branches. I never read the bible so I'm not going to claim to have known this already but I researched it a bit and it seems that the Hebrew title of that book is something like be'reshet. Linguistically, that has nothing to do with "genesis." The Greeks translated that Hebrew word which means "in the beginning" with there own word from which the English word genesis is derived. There's no reason to believe Hebrew had a monopoly on the concept of "a beginning." That's all I will write on this because it has nothing to do with the topic.

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                • #98
                  Re: Richard Dawkins interview with Bill O'Reilly

                  Originally posted by Stark Evade View Post
                  Translations of what? The bible? Translation doesn't mean that the word translated comes from the original word. If I translated the Armenian sentence "Seghanuh medz eh" into "The table is big" that would not mean that the word table is derived from seghan. Hebrew is a Semitic language and Greek is an Indo-European language. Two different branches. I never read the bible so I'm not going to claim to have known this already but I researched it a bit and it seems that the Hebrew title of that book is something like be'reshet. Linguistically, that has nothing to do with "genesis." The Greeks translated that Hebrew word which means "in the beginning" with there own word from which the English word genesis is derived. There's no reason to believe Hebrew had a monopoly on the concept of "a beginning." That's all I will write on this because it has nothing to do with the topic.
                  I know what translation means seeing that I know 4 languages. The point is scientists use the word genesis to explain the origins of life or "in the beginning" because they were influenced from the bible.

                  Originally posted by Haykakan View Post
                  KanadaHye i love some of your humor man o and congradulations on your national igloo lol.
                  Stupid politicians in parliament decided to put in a fireplace and the whole thing melted down!!!
                  Last edited by KanadaHye; 12-01-2009, 02:23 PM.
                  "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." ~Malcolm X

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                  • #99
                    Re: Richard Dawkins interview with Bill O'Reilly

                    Originally posted by KanadaHye View Post
                    The point is scientists use the word genesis to explain the origins of life or "in the beginning" because they were influenced from the bible.

                    #1: You are making this statement without etymological support of any kind. It's an assumption to satisfy your desire to give importance to religion.

                    #2: It's just a word and has no relevance to the concepts at hand. Even if it were true that the usage was influenced from the bible (which it probably was not) that hypothetical fact wouldn't make science more religious or make religion more scientific. It would just be an indicator of the evolution of language. This is a meaningless argument that you instigated to make yourself better after the failure of yet another pathetic and ignorant creationist argument.

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                    • Re: Richard Dawkins interview with Bill O'Reilly

                      Originally posted by Stark Evade View Post
                      #1: You are making this statement without etymological support of any kind. It's an assumption to satisfy your desire to give importance to religion.

                      #2: It's just a word and has no relevance to the concepts at hand. Even if it were true that the usage was influenced from the bible (which it probably was not) that hypothetical fact wouldn't make science more religious or make religion more scientific. It would just be an indicator of the evolution of language. This is a meaningless argument that you instigated to make yourself better after the failure of yet another pathetic and ignorant creationist argument.
                      You're right. Except that many great minds in history had religious upbringings and all that oppose it are armchair scientists arguing on the internet.
                      "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." ~Malcolm X

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