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You're missing the point SamAckery . Genetic errors are 100% guaranteed if an organism lives sufficient long! If they dont come from ionizing radiation exposure they will be caused by oxidative damage! I used to think(as did many scientists) that its our genes that kill us but the fact of the matter is that entropy, a pervasive and ceaseless "force" of the universe, does not permit a highly ordered system to remain ordered eternally.

Life itself is anti-entropic. Whether it's radiation or chemical problems there are back-ups that can cover and correct errors. Provided there are sufficient backups life can be extended extensively. Admittedly forever is a long time and the universe itself as a totality is not immune to entropy so eternity is out of the question. I personally would settle for a couple of hundred thousand years - at this point, anyway.

Evidence, please?

BTW, FYI, I actually studies a bit of biochemistry AND classical thermodynamics as an undergrad. DNA isnt as stable a molecule as you seem to think it is! It CAN be damaged beyond repair by means of prolonged oxidation by free radicals. DNA replicates to ensure its survival because if it didnt it would be degraded beyond usefulness by superoxide radicals. If DNA were as stable as say, teflon, then there would be no need for cells to divide.

You're missing the point SamAckery . Genetic errors are 100% guaranteed if an organism lives sufficient long! If they dont come from ionizing radiation exposure they will be caused by oxidative damage! I used to think(as did many scientists) that its our genes that kill us but the fact of the matter is that entropy, a pervasive and ceaseless "force" of the universe, does not permit a highly ordered system to remain ordered eternally.

See http://www.nih.gov/sigs/dna-rep/whatis.html

What? To me it doesn't matter if they were naturally occuring, I drifted from conversation into that of radiative materials, and anyway, do you really think that if you ingest Polonium-210 that you would survive for more than a year? doubtful, the half life is unimportant in such a case, alpha particles cause far to great amounts of ionisation compared to say gamma, and in the ONLY case in which it is harmful, either ingested or similar, you would die farely quickly, no doubt about it

The general argument is that accidents happen and no structure, no matter how elaborate, is totally immune to accident and eventual destruction. I will grant that, but no one can say with security how long a secure system will endure. Some are better than others and I maintain that structural integrity can be made much more endurable than now exists.

Yes I am asexual and its not sinful. Its better to be asexual then impure and have sex before marriage and or sodomy.

I read something last night in 1 Corinthians about it.

1 Corinthians 7 1-7

1Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good for a man not to marry.[a] 2But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband. 3The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. 4The wife's body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband's body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife. 5Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 6I say this as a concession, not as a command. 7I wish that all men were as I am. But each man has his own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that.

8Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I am. 9But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

Sexual Immorality
12"Everything is permissible for me"—but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"—but I will not be mastered by anything. 13"Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"—but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. 15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh."[b] 17But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit.

1 Corinthians 6 18-20
18Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.

God would be neither man, male nor female. There would be no need. Why would a God have the need for a gender and sexuality?

How would he get Mary pregnant?
Momoms believe that god had actual sex with Mary, so I guess at least they believe god is male.

Anyway if there is a god, I highly doubt that we appear in god's image, the people who made up the bible probably wrote that becasue they lacked imagination

My main question to Christians: How can you adhere to such a silly religion?