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Nice looking bull! thanks!

Congratulations! Great job getting it done and making memories with your father!

Great looking bull! Thanks for the video. Time to go plant a lily food plot in unit 9!

Thanks for attending and sharing your update from the meeting. Glad to hear G&F is updating their website to a portal and that there wasn't much support for the "club." Many things to consider if they allow tag surrender. Thanks for sharing several of the things that need to be considered. Wonder what technology they're using for the new portal.

Thanks for the clarification American Thunder. This is where we can agree to disagree. I believe micro evolution, or adaptation, can and has been proven within species. However, I've researched and found no evidence of evolution from one species, or kind, to another. I would appreciate any links to empirical evidence showing otherwise. Again, we can agree to disagree on this point. Thanks for the link on a possible origin of RNA and DNA. I glanced through it and understand the hypothesis being set forth. As you said, there is still a debate as this is just a hypothesis without any real empirical evidence. Again, we can agree to disagree and still respect each other for coming to differing conclusions. Personally, I can't come to believe that something happened out of nothing or that life just happened out of inorganic material. That's just me as I spent a few years in the "Show Me" state of Missouri. I'm a numbers guy and I can't come to believe that all of the cosmic constants required to sustain life here on earth just happened out of random chance. I don't have the numbers handy, but the probability of all of this happening and life being created is so astronomically small that in any other situation we would claim it is impossible. I realize that many people believe otherwise and that's ok as we're all entitled to reach our own conclusions based on the evidence presented (as was evident the past 2 weeks when i was a juror on a criminal case in Superior court). Again, thanks for the information and insight American Thunder. Appreciate your taking the time to articulate and share your knowledge and understanding! I really enjoy these discussions as they make me think through what I believe in light of additional and sometimes new information.

Appreciate and like all of the good dialog here. An intelligent and respectful discussion of opinions and ideas. As a creationist, believer in intelligent design, I really don't see it as a science vs. creationism. I think we all need to understand and determine our belief system in light of the scientific evidence. If you are blindly believing something, whether you believe creationism, agnosticism or atheism, or??? without studying the evidence, then you can easily be deceived. The challenge is always determining what is scientific fact vs. scientific hypothesis vs. scientific theory. Macro Evolution (one species evolved to another, like monkeys evolved into mankind) is often taught as fact, yet the evidence isn't there. I don't believe the fossil evidence supports the theory of macro evolution. There is plenty of evidence for micro evolution (where there are adaptations within a species like birds' beaks growing longer or shorter based on the environment). That said, when I look at the workings of the human body, from the eye or the blood clotting mechanism or the internal workings of cells and proteins, I see "irreducibly complex" machines or mechanisms (meaning the entire mechanism has to be in place in order for it to work). If the blood clotting mechanism "evolved" over time, any injury causing bleeding would have been fatal. The biggest reason I believe in Intelligent Design has to be DNA. I'm old enough that we didn't know about or study DNA back when I was in school. Having studied it some recently, I just can't believe it just happened randomly. DNA is the information, the complex set of instructions, telling the body how to create and reproduce cells. Per the National Human Genome research institute (http://www.genome.gov/25520880): "DNA contains the instructions needed for an organism to develop, survive and reproduce. To carry out these functions, DNA sequences must be converted into messages that can be used to produce proteins, which are the complex molecules that do most of the work in our bodies." You can't have a cell, organ or a body without the DNA. DNA is information, instructions, messages. What do we know about information and its source of origin? As far as I know, the only source of information is intelligence. Some form of intelligence has to be present to generate the instructions and messages contained in DNA. I don't see this happening on a random evolutionary basis. Based on DNA alone, I believe there must be an Intelligent Designer/Creator. Again, this is my personal viewpoint based on my observation of the scientific evidence currently available. I wish all of you the best as you study the scientific evidence and come to your own beliefs about the origins of the universe, mankind, etc. Thanks for reading and may all your arrows and bullets shoot straight and find their mark. May your freezers be full of game at the end of this year's hunts!

Congrats and thanks for sharing!

Welcome to AZ and the site. I see there are 3 AZGFD job posting tonight at: http://www.hr.az.gov/azstatejobs/

Great looking bull! Thanks for the pics!

Lots of nice pics!

Good reads. Not surprised by the bias of the Republic. Thanks for sharing!

Great cat pics!

Nice pics and great that you were able to share the experience with your boys! Looking forward to following your adventure!

Nice bear!

Great pics! I'm ready to go fishing!

Had no idea! Thanks for sharing.

Nice looking bulls! Thanks for posting.

Great pics, especially the elk eye and bears. :-) Thanks for sharing

Great pics. Thanks for sharing.

LOL, that was great!

Congrats to your dad! Nice place to be living too!

Awesome! Great story and pictures. Thanks for sharing!

LOL, great story. Thanks for sharing.

Very cute. Thanks for sharing.

Very nice! Would enjoy seeing elk from my patio!