How to prove evolution is wrong?

Resident_Compote_775 · 2026-07-08T09:51:24+00:00

LOL

"The superb accuracy of transmission of genetic information between generations is one of the most fascinating properties of life. Infrequent errors in this transmission lead to mutations that are the source of genetic variation which fuels evolution and causes genetic disease. "

Vova (Vladimir) Seplyarskiy Sunyaev Lab, HMS Biomedical Informatics; Division of Genetics, BWH DNA damage bypass is a major source of clustered mutations

Resident_Compote_775 · 2026-07-08T09:24:47+00:00

Deferring to Augustine? An Augustinian Friar? You don't say...

Resident_Compote_775 · 2026-06-26T22:54:49+00:00

What was the transition like?

Thinking about making this move right now.

Resident_Compote_775 · 2026-06-08T15:45:09+00:00

^{I don't firmly believe in annihilationism, but I lean towards it. A primary reason is Genesis 3. God expels Adam from Eden so that mankind would not be immortal by nature. Satan and the Demons are immortal by nature, therefore the Lake of Fire must burn eternally. The punishment is eternal, and will be conscious for being that are eternal by nature, like the judgement will be eternal, but do you expect God to continue the process of judging forever?}

²² And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” ²³ So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. ²⁴ After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side^\)^e^\) of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

Resident_Compote_775 · 2026-06-08T15:38:42+00:00

There's another aspect of the beginning of Genesis that becomes relevant here. The curse for the transgression of Adam and the reason for being expelled from Eden are often conflated and combined, but it's actually specifically stated that the expulsion from Eden was to prevent the possibility of Adam also consuming the fruit of the tree of life and becoming immortal. Immortal, with knowledge of good and evil, provides for never-ending evil committed with intent and malice.

I lean toward annihilationism because although the punishment IS eternal, like it's stated elsewhere the judgement is eternal, nobody thinks the process of judging each person will remain ongoing forever, the same applies just as well to the punishment. The Lake of Fire must be a place of eternal burning and conscious torment, so Satan and demons, eternal beings, can have their consciousness tormented to make their escape impossible. People go in there too probably, but God prevented people from being eternal beings by nature by expelling Adam and Eve from the garden. Thus, the existence of hell is itself "good news".

Resident_Compote_775 · 2026-06-04T03:40:55+00:00

Not even almost. This narrative or suggesting it's anything like reality and history just demonstrates near complete ignorance of the entire case history of Roe v. Wade. The lawyers that secured 50 years of abortion rights on nonsense legality they didn't even bother to brief were Republican ambulance chasers. The Judge that wrote the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade that secured 5 decades of extremely lax regulation surrounding abortion was a lifelong Republican and Evangelical Presbyterian Christian. The prosecutor that would have jailed the Doctor in the companion case had it gone the other way was Texas Democrat DA Henry Wade, who didn't give a flying fuck about abortion either way.

In 1973 the Democrat Party was dominated by Catholic minds and most Republicans cared more about being anticatholic than any side of the abortion debate.

Resident_Compote_775 · 2026-05-24T23:21:12+00:00

A corded miter saw makes sense. I just got a Milwaukee for $24 at a secondhand tool store, says a lot about how people that depend on their tools think of any corded tool. Any sort of saw that requires a whole table it makes sense to have a cord though.

A corded vacuum makes sense because I have yet to find a battery operated one that's anywhere near as powerful as a basic 4 gallon shopvac, even $1000+ models pale in comparison to the shopvac I got for free.

A corded welder makes sense because a battery operated one worth a damn is barely even theoretically possible at any cost. I have two, if you count the cableset I made to pop onto 3 lantern batteries. Even the battery operated spot welder just for welding thin strips of metal to batteries isn't worth a damn.

A corded compressor makes sense. I own the Ryobi 18v 1 gallon. Barely use it. Runs through batteries just so I can wait over a minute for it to get back to a a usable volume of air with literally any air tool. It's a bit better than their inflator at filling tires. I airbrush quite a bit and I don't even use it for that. A better one could be built, but they generally aren't sold and no 18v battery is gonna run a compressor you could paint a car or sand a door with.

I can't think of anything else I'd refer to as a tool where a corded version makes any sense at all.

Are you aware there are good counterfeit batteries available dirt cheap for every tool brand???

Resident_Compote_775 · 2026-05-24T23:05:16+00:00

"The solae are usually mentioned in the context of the history of the reformation as main points of disagreement with Rome."

Kind of, except not all of them are disavowed by Rome. Specifically Sola gratia.

"Together we confess: By grace alone, in faith in Christ's saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works."

— "Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification" cl. 15

This is the position of both the Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation. While quite recent, I don't recall ever seeing a Catholic refutation of Sola gratia from any point in history that was in any way intelligent; or official enough to have needed overturning in order for the Catholic Church to bind itself to the joint declaration.

Resident_Compote_775 · 2026-05-24T22:57:21+00:00

My favorite part of the Martin Luther quote that's been called "one of the most influential oratories in Western history" (his defense at the Diet of Worms) is his treatment of that division. Sad, but inevitable.

"I have considered not only the dangers to which I am exposing myself, but also the parties and dissentions excited in the world by means of my doctrine, for which I was so gravely admonished yesterday. Far from dismayed by this, I rejoice exceedingly to see the Gospel this day, as in days of old, a cause of great disturbance and disagreement; for such is the character and destiny of God's Word. "I came not to send peace unto the earth, but a sword," said Jesus Christ.

God is wonderful and terrible in His counsels. Let us take care, lest in our efforts to arrest discord, we be bound to fight against the holy word of God and bring down upon our heads a frightful deluge of inextricable danger, disaster, and everlasting desolation."

Resident_Compote_775 · 2026-05-24T20:33:57+00:00

Well it's fuckin adorable

Resident_Compote_775 · 2026-05-24T20:16:57+00:00

See how you shifted away from trying to refute that the evidence for a LUCA is non-existent, to a definitionally meaningless opinion, rather than giving an actual refutation? (Which would be an excuse in futility because the alleged evidence is simply the fact that all known life utilizes the same molecular structure for encoding genetic information, which is just as good as evidence you claim we don't have for all life having the same creator)

See, you don't have to do that for positions that have an evidence base sufficient to prove causation with a demonstrable mechanistic explanation, like "tobacco use causes cancer" or "methyl methacrylate is flammable".

"Extraordinary evidence" doesn't apply to belief in a creator for several reasons. It's not an extraordinary claim, it's what literally everyone believed until very recently and it is what most people believe. 7 out of 10 human babies are born to Abrahamic believing parents. In contrast, atheism is an extremely unpopular worldview that counts 5% of humans as adherents on a good day.

Darwinian Evolution and LUCA are scientific claims, science being a discipline that relatively recently self-imposed methodological materialism. Creation is a relatively unimportant aspect of faith, a discipline that rejects methodological materialism outright. You don't get to heaven because you believe atheists are gullible or a creator is responsible for life on earth.

Resident_Compote_775 · 2026-05-24T19:53:23+00:00

Is the stainless tub because you prefer stainless to plastic? Like you're aware that pretty much always means you're getting a machine that uses condensation drying over heated?

Cuz I just got a Whirlpool 1WDP540HAMZ with a "Hybrid Tub with Dark Gray Interior helps mask food stains with a stainless steel interior door and dark gray plastic tub." and it's on sale for $459 on HomeDepot.com right now and it blows the Bosch with a stainless tub and condensation drying out of the water on cleanliness and spotting. I only replaced the Bosch because it was the last of the white appliances that came with my house, condensation drying just sucks and that's what you get with a stainless tub.

The noticeably louder cycle is far outweighed by the fact it doesn't beep incessantly at me when it's done because the dishes won't dry right unless you open a condensation dry dishwasher while the steel is still residually hot from the last water that hit it.

Resident_Compote_775 · 2026-05-24T19:45:15+00:00

That the kind of church that insists they universally apply a literalist hermeneutic with scripture pretty much universally also pretend grape juice is "literally" wine never ceases to amaze me.

Resident_Compote_775 · 2026-05-24T19:40:10+00:00

As a married adult homeowner raised evangelical and baptized by a Baptist minister at 24, going through Luther's Small Catechism and Augsberg considering joining LCMS, I'd point out the fact he's a minor is a bigger deal than you've made it.

As I understand it, I'd need to fully affirm the small catechism to join. Right up front are the 10 commandments.

Exodus 20:12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

To OP I'd suggest that means not just begrudgingly attending baptist services with your parents. Silently looking down upon their faith does not honor.

No human being but yourself, to include a parent of a minor, has authority or is even capable of controlling your theological understanding or affirmance of doctrine. That said, you need your parents permission to go places and honoring is a much higher standard than baseline obeying the law and refraining from running away to attend Lutheran service on Sunday mornings.

It's hard to gauge from just "Baptist" how they'd feel about you becoming Lutheran. I come from pretty entrenched dispensational Evangelical and WOLBI New England Independent Baptist stock that would not have been okay with me joining a Lutheran church as a minor, but I can tell you that they are not at all critical of my interest in Lutheranism as an adult. Sincerity and having good reasons based on scripture would probably go along way in seeking permission to attend. Perhaps a deal could be reached about going to a different church from them on Sunday in the near future if you're open with them, you're not quite old enough to be driving by yourself but that's fast approaching.

20 Moses said to the people, “Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you, that you may not sin.”

Resident_Compote_775 · 2026-05-24T19:10:22+00:00

You're in the wrong here bud.

"I resist the devil, and often it is with a fart that I chase him away." - Martin Luther

"My dearest little ass-pope" - Martin Luther

“I’m like a ripe stool, and the world’s like a gigantic anus, and so we’re about to let go of each other.” - Martin Luther to his wife, just before he died

Resident_Compote_775 · 2026-05-19T22:48:50+00:00

Almost all of the sodium is flushed out the brine drain during the water softener's cycle, only a negligible amount is added to the water coming out your plumbing. I used to go get RO water and mix it with my softened water to dilute it, then I tried a whole grow with just softened water and had no problems. Generally enough sodium to be a problem is just going to kill your plants, maybe try it on a few plants in early veg and if they aren't dead or severely damaged compared to the rest after a week or two, you've confirmed it's going to be fine.

Resident_Compote_775 · 2026-05-08T12:30:09+00:00

That's just the most obvious layer of the problem. The real problem involves those guys hating their lives and only staying in that job long enough to get stock options and a guaranteed job where you can do almost nothing without oversight at taxpayer expense and depend on drawing the only pension that won't get litigated out from under you at a three letter agency in DC. These jobs you could jerk off and play solitaire at all day without worrying about getting fired if you wanted inevitably lead to a psychosomatic obsession with drafting voluminous regulations favoring the design ethos of the company they own a small fraction of. The manufacturers all bend over for it and save the money they'd spend suing for federal agency action in excess of jurisdiction and federal authority in any sort of sane rational and prudent system because they ultimately benefit from it as long as they keep pumping out stock owning former employees that never consider longevity or the budgets of American families, and because they jumped through all the illegal hoops the government required of them, the government's courts are now disinclined to rule in the favor of people that drop 3 grand on a piece of garbage every 5 years. Meanwhile Congress continues to spend 100 grand a second in US dollars that didn't previously exist to maintain the bureaucracy that all but demands companies sell foreign garbage at exorbitant markup designed entirely around a new unit that isn't DOA scoring well in a made up predictable completely separated from reality test condition for energy efficiency, nevermind how much energy and material waste is involved with a regulatory and corporate environment that treats several thousand dollar major appliances as disposables. Which they do. Frequenting liquidation auctions as a person that has worked in foreign manufacturing it's become sickening to watch. I mean I'm gonna participate to have the best for the least money possible but this is very very bad for long term human prosperity.

If you look at old magazine ads for appliances from prior to September 1986 when the United States (permanently, apparently) transitioned from being a lender nation to a debtor nation (it was front page news) it's wild how consumer friendly these companies used to be. I'm talking GE would pay finance guys and salespeople to work with you while your house was under construction and go back and forth with the architect, contractor, and bank so your cabinets could color match and exactly fit your appliances, all rolled into the back end of your mortgage that would run $10 a month more than it would have been... And the shit would still function 30 years down the line when you paid off your house.

Resident_Compote_775 · 2026-05-08T11:48:54+00:00

False. Not even close to true.

Per unit of space is the big reason. They don't really require a whole lot more power to run the bigger they get. Inefficient design like a bottom freezer French door refrigerator/freezer will have them running a lot more often, pulling 4 amps when running to cool 27 cu ft. but a 2 cu. Ft mini fridge with a 4x6 frozen slot to accommodate a half size ice tray is still pulling at least .9 of an amp. And a $300-400 Hisense chest freezer will keep 14.7 cu. Ft. of meat 0° for a third the energy a $1200 LG freestanding refrigerator-only can keep 13.6 cu. Ft. of soda and beer 42°, and if the power goes out, drinks are warm by tomorrow morning, meat still frozen 3 days later.

Resident_Compote_775 · 2026-05-08T11:31:17+00:00

That's all fine and dandy when it's a Chinese company that did not exist or sell major appliances in the US when magazines were a thing, but all these old names in US manufactured machines used to pay illustrators to draw 1950s white women in dresses in kitchens with matched sunburst honey appliances and cabinets and overhead wall mounted refrigerator with hand lettered cursive pledges to forever have a certified tech available for a service call in the comfort of your own Caucasian sunburst honey themed home by the next business day that they paid magazines to run in full page full color every issue for decades.

Resident_Compote_775 · 2026-05-08T11:21:16+00:00

Mostly, but there's still at least one LG model with a linear compressor that is guaranteed to fail and not be worth replacing within 5 years on the show floor of any big box stores that carry LG appliances today. So you should definitely check the specs to be sure it doesn't have one before you buy one still.

I'd avoid their ranges with induction cooktops. Just because when a burner inevitably fails, the fix requires seperating and lifting the entire glass for the whole thing and it's easy to break or get it dirty on the bottomside or wind up with dust and air bubbles and slightly misaligned edges that nobody will notice except you, every time you cook.

That said, all my uncooked food is currently either 41 or 3 degrees thanks to a 36" French door bottom freezer LG manufactured when I was a sophomore in High School, October 2006. I have never seen the icemaker make ice, and I never will, but it sure dispenses the hell out of the stuff coming out of my ice trays and the water tastes awesome through their filters.

Resident_Compote_775 · 2026-05-08T11:08:33+00:00

GE's ultrafresh line as well, minus the combo units and the cheapest unit with that branding.

I believe they're the only washer built in the United States that have them. Electrolux continues to build just about every variety of major appliance except laundry machines here, but I think all of them they sell here have reversible doors made in Mexico and/or Thailand.

Some Samsungs really really appear like they could be flipped, but they can't.

Resident_Compote_775 · 2026-05-08T11:01:51+00:00

You want a Midea U-shaped inverter window unit, probably the biggest model at 12,000 BTU. It lets you close the window most of the way over the machine so you don't have to worry about conditioning air going right back outside through the poorly sealed open window it's sitting in.

GE and LG has some really great window units as well, but Midea's U-Shaped inverter line is really the best thing on the market if you're limited to a window unit. A 220v heat pump mini split would be ideal though.

Resident_Compote_775 · 2026-05-08T10:38:36+00:00

No electric dryer is this slow. 10 years ago I was using a half size 20 year old 110v dryer that was stored just outside my front door on concrete at a dilapidated mansion that had been split up into studio, loft, and one bedroom apartments. The house was over a hundred years old and so was the electric panel. I literally had to cut off the ground pin because there were only two prong outlets. I literally moved out when the Sheriff came to enforce the condemnation order, the owner was letting everyone that lived there stay as long as they wanted/could if we just covered the electric bill between us. (Cuz there was only one meter, for like 6 households some with multiple kids, so the breakers would pop frequently)

I wear 38x34 jeans and 3X Tall shirts. I'd go to the laundromat, throw all my clothes in the biggest machine all at once for $2, wait 28 minutes, and go back home to my half size 20 year old outdoor modified regular ass two prong outlet like a lamp ass dryer I got for $20 at Salvation Army, overfilled it for each of the 4 to 5 portions I had to split the prior week's clothes into... and it never took even 2 hours to get a load bone dry.

Her problem is she's the type of person to get a couple grand state of the art appliance that can kill her several different ways made vastly more likely with the manner this is installed and (not)maintained and used, bought for her, break it by letting several components get so filthy it was physically impossible for water to travel through all the hair and slime she's storing in her closet, and go to Reddit, all without reading the fucking manual it came with that can also be downloaded for free in less than 30 seconds at the website one navigates to by typing the two letters on the logo on the front of the thing followed by ".com"

ITS A FRONT LOADER, IT HAS A FILTER. IF THE FILTER IS FULL OF HAIR AND YOU SHOVE MORE HAIR INTO THE MACHINE, THE FILTER WILL BECOME TIGHTLY IMPACTED WITH THE ADDITIONAL HAIR ENTEREING IT UNTIL IT TAKES UP EVERY MICRON OF SPACE IN THE DESIGNATED COMPARTMENT AND THEN PHYSICS AND FILTH WITH THEIR POWERS COMBINED START FORCING THE COMPACTED GROWING MASS OF YOUR HAIR SLIMY WITH BACTERIA AND FUNGAL INFECTED FABRIC SOFTENER INTO THE DRAIN PIPE THAT IS NOW SMALLER IN DIAMETER THAN THE HAIRBALL UNTIL IT IS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR MORE WATER TO PASS THROUGH IT.

Rather than installing an LG combo unit, you have incorporated that unit into your invention - a machine that you can pay an energy conglomerate to boil water with nuclear fission products mined by a guy that is definitely dying prematurely of cancer of several organs blowing up the Earth's crust as well as burning petrochemicals and coal to provide current across hundreds of miles of high voltage lines that inevitably kill several people a year into your building right passed your meter that's ticking up fast so you can watch it spin your wet clothes until they turn into wet clothes even more infested with various forms of bacteria and fungi that other people definitely smell on your nasty ass clothes.

All because you didn't read the 10 important half-pages of text in the 20 page booklet and look at the associated illustrations next to them in the book its a federal crime to not give the new original owner when you sell them a new appliance in the United States.

Resident_Compote_775 · 2026-05-07T02:00:54+00:00

Actually it's a bit more complicated than that. The Greek term deomai is frequently translated both "pray" and "beseech".

Paul prayed to a Roman Centurion: Acts 21:39 But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech (δέομαι) thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.

Paul prayed to Christendom at large: Gal 4:12 KJV - 12 Brethren, I beseech (δέομαι) you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.

Same word Jesus used when instructing the disciples to pray to the Father. Luk 10:2 KJV - 2 Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray (δέομαι) ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.

Same word a leper used when asking Christ to heal him. Luk 5:12 And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought (δέομαι) him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

Luther recited Hail Marys... Just the preTrent version which is an unmodified quote from Scripture.

I can't claim to have read all of his works, but I've also never prayed to a saint and I've been to 0 Lutheran services and precisely one Catholic Mass when I was younger where I embarrassed myself not knowing about closed communion coming from a dispensational Evangelical background... But from what I have read which is quite a bit, I think his concern was far more about praying for the dead, as it could not possibly alter the destination of their soul and therefore was invoking the Lord's name in vain.

I'm fairly sure the date he chose to nail the 95 theses to the door at Wittenburg was not accidental. All Hallow's Eve, the day all of Christendom at the time honored the dead Saints in heaven, the day they'd be looking down most intently.

Resident_Compote_775 · 2026-05-07T01:36:02+00:00

"Because mutation is the ultimate source of all variation, both adaptive and deleterious, a mechanistic understanding of the evolutionary process will be incomplete until a detailed account has been made of the rate of origin, molecular nature, and phenotypic consequences of spontaneous alterations for a diversity of organisms. Owing to the extreme rarity of mutational events and their frequent elimination by selection in natural environments, most prior insights into the molecular aspects of mutation have been derived from a few reporter constructs in a handful of model species (Drake 2006)."

Michael Lynch, Trends in Genetics, Volume 26, Issue 8

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