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IS THERE A GOD GENE? (VANITY)
Me | 11/02/02 | Van E. T. Fair

Posted on 11/03/2002 11:00:15 AM PST by Old Professer

I've been here for so long I have begun to feel like this site is a substitute for the real world.

I read everything and anything until I wear out my eyesight and my wife's patience and I lately have noticed that there are but two types of people posting here:

Those who will believe in spite of evidence and those who believe that belief itself is suspect.

Biologists are coming up everyday with the notion that virtually all behavior and all disease is somehow related to a gene inherent in the human body; sometimes it is treated as a proclivity and other times it is treated as a proscript.

Is all of Science no more than the search for the essential?

If there is no God then there is nothing beyond waking, breathing, doing, sleeping and dying; the doing ranges from the works of genius inventions to the tedium of service to the sluggishness of the congenitally impaired.

All the while, the search for reason leads back to first things.

Does unrequited passion drive us all? The genius looks forward to the future and what could be; the sluggard looks not at all; that leaves the rest.

Do we search because we want to or because we have no choice?


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Monster vanity, I know. But, do we have true will or is that just a vanity itself?
1 posted on 11/03/2002 11:00:16 AM PST by Old Professer
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To: Old Professer
IS THERE A GOD GENE?

hmmmmmmmm, could be.....


2 posted on 11/03/2002 11:04:50 AM PST by hole_n_one
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To: hole_n_one
I like chicken and GEORGE BUSH! I hope that he never touches a durn pretzel again.

man, this thing has really become MY world.
3 posted on 11/03/2002 11:07:22 AM PST by ConservaHottie
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To: Old Professer
" the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" (Hebrews 11:1).

Is this genius?

4 posted on 11/03/2002 11:09:22 AM PST by DainBramage
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" the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen"

That sounds like my last date.

5 posted on 11/03/2002 11:10:53 AM PST by hole_n_one
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To: Old Professer
Does unrequited passion drive us all?

Maybe our desires and our feelings drive us.

If there is no God then there is nothing beyond waking, breathing, doing, sleeping and dying;...

That's a giant leap that makes no sense at all.

6 posted on 11/03/2002 11:12:56 AM PST by Consort
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To: ConservaHottie

ZOT!!!

7 posted on 11/03/2002 11:13:01 AM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: ConservaHottie
Back to DUmmyland with you. LOL Jeb Bush is up 57-42 so go cry over tha.
8 posted on 11/03/2002 11:15:19 AM PST by finnman69
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Ya just gotta luv an Admin Mod with a sense of humor.
9 posted on 11/03/2002 11:16:31 AM PST by hole_n_one
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To: hole_n_one
THATS FRANKUNSTINE
10 posted on 11/03/2002 11:16:41 AM PST by weikel
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LOL. Great graphic.
11 posted on 11/03/2002 11:17:49 AM PST by finnman69
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To: hole_n_one
Does unrequited passion drive us all.......to take a cold shower?
12 posted on 11/03/2002 11:25:37 AM PST by DainBramage
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Does unrequited passion drive us all.......to take a cold shower?

Of course it does.....amongst a myriad of other options.

14 posted on 11/03/2002 11:33:42 AM PST by hole_n_one
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amongst a myriad of other options.

Don't go there, I will never give her the remote control!

15 posted on 11/03/2002 11:39:26 AM PST by DainBramage
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To: Old Professer
IS THERE A GOD GENE?

Sure there is. All of them.

16 posted on 11/03/2002 11:40:02 AM PST by William Terrell
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To: Old Professer
Faith is hard to grasp, and harder to hold on to. It is, however, the most powerful thing in the world, if you have enough of it.

Even the smallest amounts return large rewards. Those that have had faith have seen. I have been blessed many times in my life; some circumstances were beyond belief. Yet, I still struggle with faith at times.

17 posted on 11/03/2002 11:42:15 AM PST by ImaGraftedBranch
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To: William Terrell
IS THERE A GOD GENE?

Sure there is. All of them

I take it you've never seen Match Game.......


18 posted on 11/03/2002 11:45:43 AM PST by hole_n_one
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To: Old Professer
"There is nothing wrong with me agent Starling. I simply am. I am what I choose to be. You can't deconstruct me into a series of first causes."

Dr. Hannibal Lector, culinary genius

19 posted on 11/03/2002 11:45:54 AM PST by Ahban
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To: Dutch-Comfort
I saw Lawrence of Arabia on recently. The train scene really stood out. Turned to my wife and said, "Predecessor of the WTC attacks".
Frightening.

"Do you realize Peter O'Toole is a double phallic name?" -- Groucho Marx
20 posted on 11/03/2002 11:50:33 AM PST by dyed_in_the_wool
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