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		<title>By: Chris de Vidal</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chris de Vidal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oops, I came looking for an email address but I guess you don&#039;t have one on your blog. So email me when you get this.

You wrote this on Ray Comfort&#039;s blog: &quot;We have one, single starting point, an organism that initially didn&#039;t reproduce via male-and-female sex. So how did that turn into the two sexes? Since I&#039;m not a biologist, I can&#039;t explain this, but I can tell you what the advantages are of this particular method of reproduction. Asexual organisms, who don&#039;t have male and female variants, can only produce &#039;clones&#039; of themselves. Since only one specimen is the source for the offspring, there can be no major variations from generation to generation. However, mutations could account for evolution still happening, although at a much slower pace. Negative mutations happen all the time, but wouldn&#039;t be carried on. Only those few positive mutations would be copied into later generations. Then comes sexual reproduction, which solves this entire problem. We now have a male and female with different DNA. Instead of exact copies of organisms, we get &quot;blends&quot; of the male and female DNA which greatly enhances the possible variations between generations. This means that evolution can happen quicker, and also that positive traits in the DNA can be carried over in more complex ways.&quot;

Would you please explain this in more depth? I want to try to understand the atheist&#039;s mind. I promise this is not a hidden attack, just trying to understand those who disagree with me. Email me, please. Remove the @NoSpam.com. Thanks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oops, I came looking for an email address but I guess you don&#8217;t have one on your blog. So email me when you get this.</p>
<p>You wrote this on Ray Comfort&#8217;s blog: &#8220;We have one, single starting point, an organism that initially didn&#8217;t reproduce via male-and-female sex. So how did that turn into the two sexes? Since I&#8217;m not a biologist, I can&#8217;t explain this, but I can tell you what the advantages are of this particular method of reproduction. Asexual organisms, who don&#8217;t have male and female variants, can only produce &#8216;clones&#8217; of themselves. Since only one specimen is the source for the offspring, there can be no major variations from generation to generation. However, mutations could account for evolution still happening, although at a much slower pace. Negative mutations happen all the time, but wouldn&#8217;t be carried on. Only those few positive mutations would be copied into later generations. Then comes sexual reproduction, which solves this entire problem. We now have a male and female with different DNA. Instead of exact copies of organisms, we get &#8220;blends&#8221; of the male and female DNA which greatly enhances the possible variations between generations. This means that evolution can happen quicker, and also that positive traits in the DNA can be carried over in more complex ways.&#8221;</p>
<p>Would you please explain this in more depth? I want to try to understand the atheist&#8217;s mind. I promise this is not a hidden attack, just trying to understand those who disagree with me. Email me, please. Remove the @NoSpam.com. Thanks.</p>
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		<title>By: Chris de Vidal</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chris de Vidal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi, born-again Christian here. Just trying to understand the atheists&#039; mind, not attack it.

I&#039;m here because I wanted to ask you another question, but since I read your blog post above, I have a question about what you said in item #5: &quot;Morality isn’t objective, it’s highly subjective.&quot;

Really? Have you thought about this: When is rape ever correct?

Or to ask the question another way, if a dictator took over the world and brainwashed all of his enemies into believing that anti-Semitism was OK, is it OK?

Frankly, I just don&#039;t understand statements like the one you made. Not criticizing you, just saying that I don&#039;t understand. Would like to hear a plausible answer.

If you want to email me, remove @NoSpam.com.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi, born-again Christian here. Just trying to understand the atheists&#8217; mind, not attack it.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m here because I wanted to ask you another question, but since I read your blog post above, I have a question about what you said in item #5: &#8220;Morality isn’t objective, it’s highly subjective.&#8221;</p>
<p>Really? Have you thought about this: When is rape ever correct?</p>
<p>Or to ask the question another way, if a dictator took over the world and brainwashed all of his enemies into believing that anti-Semitism was OK, is it OK?</p>
<p>Frankly, I just don&#8217;t understand statements like the one you made. Not criticizing you, just saying that I don&#8217;t understand. Would like to hear a plausible answer.</p>
<p>If you want to email me, remove @NoSpam.com.</p>
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