My topic for a persuasive essay : Good yes? Discuss^^

[AquaEyes]

I'm sorry if you said but I missed it -- when is this due?

 

[Royd]

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Ditto with science. Lots of scientific myths get displaced by other scientific myths, and sadly, the purpose of many of them is to dissuade the believers of the so called religious myths.....Yes, the planet, just like Earth is a big, in your face Aha, we told you so.

 

[AquaEyes]

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A "scientific myth" is, by definition, an oxymoron.

 

[Moochie]

It's due on the 14th of this month. There's going to be other debates too I'm guessing. One of my friends is doing gay rights (for it), someone is doing the death penalty (against it), someone else is doing racial related issues. I think someone is also doing online dating, not sure what their side is though.
Some deductive reasoning I did- Adam and Eve (if they exsisted) must of been around at 10,000 B.C. because the bible mentions one of the sons had flocks. Even though wolves were the first animals to be domesticated into dogs, wolves/dogs are in groups called packs. Also some other factors don't quite fit in, as hunter-gatherers used wolves to accompany them.. Anyways, it's very likely that A and E were not the first, but represented the early people in the age of agriculture. Farming and animal husbandry. And probably the bible wasn't written all at one time. Whoever wrote Genisis may have not been aware that there was other humans in other parts of the world. They may have not even known that there were other parts of the world.
I didn't read the whole book of Genisis because I'm not writing about Noah and whatever else is in there. I just took notes.
^This is a reasonable idea. I've already checked with my teacher and she said it's okay to use because no one would know the absolute truth. If the bible meant they were the first humans, the bible is kind of right. (There was probably other humans elsewhere in the world too). They (a and e and their children) were the start of the neolithic period. So yes in a way we descended from them. And folks who wrote the bible wouldn't know that there was hominids or evolution. They may have not even known the earth was round at the time. They just saw what they saw and wrote it down, and believed their god was the cause of it.
I wonder what the whole god thing is about though. Other ancient humans in other parts of the world had god(s) too. Intresting thing I must say. I guess we (modern humans, because of you people that keep asking who's we, just clarifying so you know now) all seek a higher power.. Like a good leader. Must be something from our ancestry aswell. When we were more chimp-like millions of years ago our groups must have had dominant males or something like that. A dominant figure that provided the rest of the group with shelter and food. I suppose the more brainy we became we lost the urge to be in groups and have a dominant leader, and we turned to a higher figure that may or may not be real. Just something in our brains.

Talking about this stuff is very fun for me, by the way,

 

[Moochie]

I have a strange religion family by the way. Dad is Catholic, mom is Buddhist, I was born Catholic but I hopped around different religions to see what I liked best. Buddhism, no, when I went with my mom to the temple I had to do this praying thing which just about killed my knees. I only did 6 of them but still it hurt.

I tried the mormon religion. I went with my friend for a Halloween event for the kiddies and all I was intrested in was exploring the church. Friendly people but nothing really intrested me about the religion. I went to a Baptist church alot when I was young (because my friend went) and the singing was too much. I wanted to sit down so badly all the time, I didn't want to get a song book like everyone else, and I didn't want to sing along. >:| I didn't want to hear the songs the lady sang, she had a good voice, but jeez I was bored almost all the time. I remember doing a coloring activity with Jesus doing something in the water and I colored him with purple skin, yellow hair, and I drew in bears into the picture. I really liked bears back then. Then my most beloved best friend told me she couldn't see me anymore when I told her I didn't believe in God. I was maybe 6 or 7 and I didn't believe. That started a riot between my parents and her grand-parents. Haven't talked since. To be honest the only reason I went was for the good times, not for worship. They had games for certain holidays, secret santas, dinners, and field trips. Fun times. I also went xmas singing with some other kids for the church. I was yelling all the words at people, not singing, I was making the other kids laugh, I felt happy about that, so I continued yelling the words until the leader lady told me to stop. So I stopped completely and threw the xmas song book into a trashcan and I said I dropped it somewhere. Bad thing I know. I could have used that paper for drawing but no I wasted it.

I was athiest for awhile after that. Then I looked into ancient egyptian religions (LOL) and started worshipping ancient egyptian gods. I wasn't commited enough and forgot to pray to the many different gods each night... I told the gods that I didn't want to be punished after death so I left the religion. I'm serious too. When I was 10 years old. When I turned 13 I looked into being a pagan. I was a pagan for a long time. I just quit being a pagan in March of this year. I was a Neo-Pagan. Yup.
And now I am agnostic. Just felt like rambling.

 

[lowry075]

I had to respond to a thesis suggestion you were given. Please, do not write a statement like "I am gong to talk about..." If you present your thesis without "I" statements you sound more convincing.

I relate to the nerves, and no matter what, you'll feel nervous until you speak publically long enough and often enough to get accustomed to it. Remember, that you aren't the only nervous one in the class. Make sure you anticipate your opposition's arguments and you may feel more "together." I would suggest, if it goes to debate, to write the affirmative and negative points about your topic out on a notes sheet so you have them accesible at a glance.

Good luck to you.

 

[Royd]

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A "scientific myth" is, by definition, an oxymoron.

Sort of the Global Warming Myth, Oh, wait, that's the Climate Change Myth....Science at its mythiest.

 

[RHRanch]

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I didn't literally mean that she should write that. Its a basic way to organize the content of the paper, in steps! LOL (OP, I hope you didn't think that!)

 

[Moochie]

I understand. I don't think I'm allowed to use "I" anyways. I know contractions are a letter grade so I'm being very careful about what I put.

 

[chickened]

Moses wrote the first 5 books of the Bible, they are called the Pentateuch during the wilderness march 1450 bc or so.