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Title: Scientific paper which says the human hand was designed by a 'Creator' sparks controversy
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URL Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s ... -one-creatorgate-a6910171.html
Published: Mar 4, 2016
Author: Doug Bolton
Post Date: 2016-03-04 09:35:58 by Ada
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The paper's perceived references to intelligent design have provoked anger and calls for a boycott of the journal The language of the paper references a 'Creator', which some saw as an endorsement of intelligent design Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images A recent scientific paper on the movement of the human hand has faced strong criticism for referring to a 'Creator' throughout. The paper, titled: 'Biomechanical characteristics of hand coordination in grasping activities of daily living' was written by a team of four researchers, three from Huazhong University in China, and one from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. Published in the PLOS ONE journal, the fairly conventional study looked at the mechanics of how we grasp things, and involved the measurement of the hand movements of 30 participants. However, members of the scientific community have demanded the paper be retracted, for its several perceived references to the pseudoscientific theory of intelligent design and a possibly divine 'Creator'. In the opening sentences of the study, it claims the link between muscles and hand movements is the product of "proper design by the Creator." Later, it says human hand coordination "should indicate the mystery of the Creator's invention," and concludes by again claiming the mechanical architecture of the hand is the result of "proper design by the Creator."
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
If that capital C is their work, bad mistake unless they were trying to be provocative -- in which case good for them! The upper case necessarily looks religious -- very -- like when our deist and hedonist founding fathers refer to "divine Providence" etc. in their writings. This discussion shouldn't be necessarily in the first place -- but it is now that we're Babylon. The very existince of our hands, eyes, ears and even fingernail clippings screams creation! Take the simplest unicellular organism and it's prolly still way more complex than the most advanced computer or whatever. Hope the 4 heroes above prevail....... oh, no. As I write, a positively TALMUDIC outrage emerges from the Romanist crypt: near the end of this WRH, the revelation that a Bishop Robert Cunningham is claiming in effect an age of consent of SEVEN YEARS OLD for the priests' kiddie victims!?!??!?!!???! OMG..... THIS mere hours after we finally wound down last nite's RCControversy! I'm really not trying to stoke it up again, but what can you do? I've been saying forever that RCism is simply Judaism for goyim -- the beanies, the doctrine that the traditions of men and the hierarchy are of ultimate authority, not the Scriptures, the radical-chic politics. This monster is all but QUOTING Rabbi(d) ben Yohai... sorry, Mart, but it's got to be charted! -------------------------------------------------
Oops, meant to aim that at "Ada, All".
Hahaha
m.youtube.com/watch? v=DE3OYSVpycY
And 3 of them are Chinese from a Chinese university.
Remarkable, isn't it? Heard years ago that 1/10 of the Chinese in China are Christian. Course you hear a lot of things.
The fool says in his heart that there is no God. Might have been true 100 years ago. Today the figure is approximately 2%-4%. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religi on_in_China
I recently heard a missionary say that 25,000 Chinese per DAY are coming to faith in Christ Jesus !
I didn't think the Chinese government allowed missionary activity.
Not legally.
I would say there is a critical mass of native leadership there now that it's self sustaining.
The progressives have found no substitute for virtue. They can offer only such morbid stopgaps as contraception, abortion, and euthanasia. The Dark Ages understood virtue built a civilization; the progressive age doesn’t understand virtue and is tearing down the civilization it inherited. Euthanasia is a fitting symbol: the last sacrament of a society that cannot aspire to heaven, but only to painless annihilation. Joe Sobran "The government ruling us draws its authority not from the principles of the Declaration of Independence, or even from the delegate powers listed in the U.S. Constitution, but rather from the war to re-conquer the independent South. That conflict, usually referred to by the artfully misleading title “Civil War,” established the fact that the government in Washington is willing to kill Americans in whatever quantity it deems necessary in order to enforce its edicts, and then sanctify the slaughter in the name of some suitably “progressive” social objective.
I knew a guy in Illinois that got in a fight with his girlfriend. He punched the wall and hit a stud. He broke a bone in his hand and was wearing a cast with his fingers spread out. Talk about dumb. LOL "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Nice quote thanks.
#2. To: All (#1)
#3. To: Ada (#0)
"Define yourself as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion."—Brennan Manning
#4. To: NeoconsNailed (#1)
#5. To: NeoconsNailed (#1)
Hope the 4 heroes above prevail..
#6. To: Ada (#5)
#7. To: Ada (#0)
Psalm 14:1
"Define yourself as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion."—Brennan Manning
#8. To: NeoconsNailed (#6)
Heard years ago that 1/10 of the Chinese in China are Christian
#9. To: Ada (#8)
"Define yourself as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion."—Brennan Manning
#10. To: Rotara (#9)
#11. To: Ada (#10)
"Define yourself as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion."—Brennan Manning
#12. To: Ada (#10)
"Define yourself as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion."—Brennan Manning
#13. To: Ada (#0)
#14. To: Ada (#0)
the human hand was designed by a 'Creator'
#15. To: Rube Goldberg (#13)
"Define yourself as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion."—Brennan Manning
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