Posts by 7mcg

Separation of church and state isn't in the Constitution.  The founding fathers wanted to secure our religious freedom; something they didn't have in England.  The constitution and the laws that governed our land were born out of our Christian heritage.  There are a lot of bad people out there; Christians, athiests, Muslims, etc., however, there are a lot of good ones, too.  To lump any group together and make a blanket statement is bigotry.  

Here is what the constitution actually reads concerning state control of the church:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...

The point of such an amendment is twofold. First, it ensures that religious beliefs - private or organized - are removed from attempted government control. This is the reason why the government cannot tell either you or your church what to believe or to teach. Second, it ensures that the government does not get involved with enforcing, mandating, or promoting particular religious doctrines. This is what happens when the government "establishes" a church - and because doing so created so many problems in Europe, the authors of the Constitution wanted to try and prevent the same from happening here.

I am a Christian.  I believe that every one will answer to God for their own decisions, not someone else's.  I don't really care if you've had an abortion or want to teach sex ed in school.  It really just doesn't matter in the long run because I'm accountable for ME.  Not you.  

Christ is the Son of God sent to save.  Salvation is for everyone, not judgement.  He didn't come to condemn the world, but that the world, through Him might be saved.  

I'm sorry for any pain you've ever had to suffer at the hand of a bad person.  And judging a group of people based upon a generality is wrong, no matter who you are.  It would be like saying all Muslims are terrorists.  That's simply not true.  

Ok, I'm late to this but I want to loose those last 9 pounds. 

SW 147

CW 134

GW 125

I'll be logging on every morning to check on you all.  No cheating and no binging.  Ok?  If you won't I won't, deal?  

You're on your own for exercise, though.  I can't do it.  Also, can T-day be a cheat day???? 

Hi all.  I finally reached 140.  It kinda took a while (what a surprise)

I think I should celebrate...

How do any of you celebrate (without binging, of course)? 

Back on topic:

Adaptation and natural selection are a biological fact; evolution is not. Natural selection can only work on the genetic information present in a population of organisms—it cannot create new information. For example, if reptiles have no genes for feathers, no amount of selection will produce a feathered reptile. Mutations in genes can only modify or eliminate existing structures, but not create new ones. If in a certain environment a lizard survives better with smaller legs, or no legs, then varieties with this trait will be selected for. This might be more accurately called devolution, not evolution.

Ok, now we're getting kinda off topic, but to the one who said that the Bible said the earth was flat, um, no it doesn't.

Isaiah 40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

Just FYI.  

Sorry to interrupt.  Please continue........ 

Fresh,

I calculated what I'm gonna eat for dinner and saw that I'd need a scoop of pico de gallo to get it right there.  teehee.

I had a quaker oats breakfast cookie, 1/2 cup of soy milk for breakfast

"Smart Ones" frozen entree for lunch

chex mix - turtle flavor (is that what turtles taste like?)

and for dinner it will be mexican (Qdoba)

no dessert and no snacking

for total calories of 1200 

Molly,

That's A.M.A.Z.I.N.G.!!!!!!!!!! Way to go.... 

getting back to micro/macro evolution....read this:

http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/files DB-download.php?id=118

before you emphatically state that evolution (apes to men) is/has in fact been accepted just as much as gravity.

It's thought provoking and not religious. I promise....

Hi everyone.  Just wanted to share from my reading today.  I tried to pick one verse that really stood out, but they were just all too good. Fasten your seatbelts.

From Psalms 146
[1] Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.
[2] While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
[3] Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
[4] His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
[5] Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:
[6] Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:
[7] Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:
[8] The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:
[9] The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
[10] The LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.

Ok, I'm still a newbie, I think....I've been almost 2 weeks and I still don't get the calorie thing.  I was raised on biscuits and gravy. 

So, I have logged my calories and logged my calories.  I'm making better choices, more bang for the buck, so to speak...Whole grains, lean chicken, veggies (interesting, I've never liked them before I was starving....) but even by midafternoon, I am at about  700 calories.  I get the other 600 (without junkfood) by really PUSHING in the food at dinner.  I'm just not loosing.  I lost my first 6 pounds during the first 2 days of this dieting, and from what I've read, it's probably water. 

I can't exercise, physical problems and all, but someday hope to get out there and do it.  If I eat by hunger alone, I only get around 1000 calories, and per your advice I should probably try to shoot for 1300.  The little calculator thingy on this site says 1270 so that sounds nice and round.  

How do you all do it? 

And this all happened from a rock.  Remember? 

Rats have similar DNA, as well.  But in the 6000 or so years of recorded history that we have, we can't see the missing link?  I just don't think so.  The burden of proof has to be there.  Even the fossils don't prove it.  It proves that there were mammoths.  Now there's not.  The fossils prove huge dinosaurs and humans walked in the same layer of earth.  Now there's no dinosaurs.  Did they evolve?  Maybe into geckos? hmmmmm

I just don't see how we can have this theory that we have a common ancestor then have it not happen now.