God or Not?

Needing help…Queries about Atheism :

Posted on September 30th, 2008 by admin.
Categories: Ranting.

On Sep 30, 10:55 pm, Drafterman wrote:
> On Sep 30, 10:52 pm, Smoley wrote:
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> > On Sep 30, 7:12 pm, Answer_42 wrote:
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> > > On 30 sep, 17:35, Smoley wrote:
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> > > > > > What is the purpose of having both male and female genders in EVERY
> > > > > > species?
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> > > > > There is no purpose you fucking dimwit.
> > > > > Furthermore there are not separate male and female genders in all
> > > > > species in the natural world.
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> > > > I thought you weren’t talking to me anymore, Psycho.
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> > > > I’ve been reading about the evolution of reproduction on the internet,
> > > > which is like a modern library, and I haven’t seen any legitimate
> > > > explanation.
> > > > It’s apparent that you have no explanation either judging by your
> > > > above post.
> > > > Certainly, it’s one of those mysteries that we can only trust will
> > > > come to light one day. In the meanwhile, we can apply the “evolution
> > > > in the gaps” theory. We know evolution did it, but we don’t need to
> > > > know how.
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> > > Well, you did not look very hard.
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> > > It took me all but 1 minute to find the following page.
> > > It is just an introuction on the topic, but from there you can access
> > > other sources and use some of the key words in the text to make more
> > > in depth research.
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> > > There is no gap, no mystery.
> > > We basically know how it evolved.
> > > The only msytery is why bisexual (or even trisexual!) creatures
> > > evolved from asexual creratures. We know how, but the advantage of one
> > > over the other is not all that evident, so there is still, I believe,
> > > some contention regarding that aspect.
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> > At least you didn’t get your it’ses confused.
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> > >http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/sex/advantage/index.html
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> > Thanks for the link, but I have actually been to that page before.
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> > The article states:
> > “The Red Queen hypothesis for sex is simple: Sex is needed to fight
> > disease.”
> >  In favor of sexual reproduction over asexual reproduction.
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> > This still does not deal with the male/female debate.  A single gender
> > could have developed both “male” and “female” reproductive organs.
> > This would give a single gender all the benefits of sexual and asexual
> > reproduction.
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> You are aware that hermaphrodites exist, right?
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Yes, but true hermaphrodites are extremely rare.
Intersex creatures can have partial organs of the opposite sex, but
they do not have full function of both sex’s organs.
Other creatures can change from male to female or visa-versa, but do
not have both abilities at the same time.

The fact that these actually exist does not help the argument.

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Smoley

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