Sure, do you have any relationship to assembly language programming? If so, you will understand the concept of 'stop bits'. A stop bit serves the function of terminating a machine reading sequence. It is necessary so that the computer can make sense of the code and execute its instructions properly. It conveys no information but provides a means of controlling how the computer reads the code. For example, it's a little like the spaces we leave between words. Each space serves to separate the words making reading easier. Withoutthem,thesentencemaybe understoodbyahumanbutisunintelligibletoanautomaticprocess.

Genes work the same way. When a gene is missing the 'stop bit', instead of making a nose like a parental nose, it could make a nose that just keeps growing, or is modified in other ways, depending on what genetic coding was crashed into because of the missing stop-reading instruction. It could result in a nose whose nostrils open sideways or one with no nostrils at all or one on top of the head instead of in the middle of the face. Major changes may take millennia but once started in a particular direction, the flow is established. The history of whales is a great exemplar of the processes involved because it has almost no missing links.

At least, that is my understanding of it.

How about the 120,000 odd WI v**ers registered and v****g, all born on 1/1/1918? Whether a legitimate issue or not, we deserve to have it cleared up and not by some official or erstwhile fact checker saying it's nothing to worry about.

I don't care for Whoopie. Never have, but suspension for an opinion expressed honestly, however incorrectly, Is lunatic behavior from her employer!

Go for it!

Then why do you object to a comprehensive audit to get the proof? I'm willing to be proven wrong, if that is really the case. Why aren't you?

A video of Trump, on e******n day, shows him talking to some of his e******n workers and he can be heard saying that losing is hard for him to deal with. He stated more than once prior to e******n day the mail-in system would guarantee c***ting and it would cost him the e******n.

We are getting close to revelation day. Be patient. The t***h is on its way.

You are definitely having difficulty comprehending what I have written. Let's assume it is my writing. Hypocrisy retains its fundamental meaning irrespective of the version of religion you appeal to... or appeals to you.

Get it?

Are you asking what is my objective? To learn, to see the other side of the coin.

Whether or not we are inhabiting spirits, I can't say, but it is one question I would certainly like to see answered. I resent dogma; it is intellectually confining and counter to understanding.

I have no objection to the insertion of any idea if it is relevant to the discussion. I am not able to see how a constant appeal to Biblical authority can be useful... or tolerable.

Not the topic but certainly, the process, yes. We do not know for a certainty what is t***h and what is perception. Perception may be reality, but it is not necessarily t***h. We are dealing in perception. Inference is the means by which reality is measured. T***h is the hoped-for eventual result.

I also see intelligent design in the systems of life on Earth. However, and this rests on my understanding of the difference between consciousness and awareness, it is not necessarily external to the life itself. The ability to apply a new capability successfully is essential for survival. That is an intelligent action. It requires consciousness but does not require awareness until the complexity of the organism can itself become a stumbling point.

Regarding your three points:

1) I think I addressed that already. There are no fossils older than about 3.5 billion years extant on planet Earth. Life clearly had to start before that since the oldest animal fossils we have (Burgess shales) are already fairly advanced.

2) This is where I get into my hottest arguments with atheists. Mathematical impossibility has nothing to do with life. If the rules require that specific chemical/physical reactions will always produce predictable results, and they do, then the generation of life is a foregone conclusion because life does exist. That may sound like begging the question and it might be. I see it more in the light of not denying the obvious and working backwards from there.

Simply stated, the universe exists. We are still learning but we know things like when 2Hs bump into an O, we get water. There are vast clouds of water in the galaxy. There are vast clouds of organic molecules, like ammonia, floating around out there. There is an extinguished sun they claim is one huge diamond. All of those things occur by natural means because the processes are regular and predictable. Life is the same. Our appearance on Earth was inevitable because the rules make it so.

God gave us brains and a desire to understand creation. We're trying. We're here because God's rules make our presence mandatory.

3) Orfan genes make irreducible complexity impossible and an upward drive toward complexity a certainty.

hypocrisy
[həˈpäkrəsē]
NOUN
the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense.

Just what I said!

Hypocrisy is hypocrisy in every one of those variations.

A lot of that on the Left now-a-days.

Hypocrisy is not a religious fault. It is applying rules and standards to others from which you exempt yourself.

Comprehension problems? I said "liars', plural.