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Re-read that post of yours that I first responded to. You may have intended for it to be read as sarcastically but good naturedly pointing out the previos poster's statement was perhaps broader than he intended, but that is not how it came across. It came out in favor of no restraint, no...

All of the definitions of burglary that have been posted require the intent to commit an offense. We don't know what the victim's intent was. It may have bee to steal the purse, or it may have been to move it out of view from the street, so it would not be stolen, or it may have been something...

That's the kind of lie that the people funding the Prop 8 campaign spread , confusing people into believing that if they didn't vote for Prop 8, the government would destroy their churches. That is beneath you. You are better than that. Or at least you were, earlier in the week.

Agreed. Science does not require consciousness. Consciousness is an unnecessary assumption for the working out of the laws of science.

If it were random, (assuming randomness exists) there would be no pattern, no predictability. My evidence is right there in the box in your signature. Randomness could never bring about order.

You are the one claiming they are random. What is your evidence?

Exactly my point. You claim that it is random. I don't. Prove to me that random exists. Otherwise you are arguing abot angels dancing on the head of a pin.

JustLookin -- Since you are the one who claims "macro" evolution depends on random events, why don't you prove to me that random events even exist.

It does not matter. the other, more obviously non-random factors outweigh it either way. But I didn't simply say it's non-random. I objectively showed it is predictable. So it can't be random. It does not matter, but it is non-random It is not random, it is evolution. As a...

Or what about seeking to safeguard the purse by moving out of direct view?

A crime requires both a guilty act and a guilty mind. The shooter had both. The victim, we'll never know.

But they did want random strangers wandering into the garage. They admitted it was a ste-up.

If a woman dresses like a hooker, hangs out on the corner, solicts a fellow into her crib and shoots him is she responsible for him being dead in her apartment? A pile of gold bullion looks like a trap, a purse looks like it might have been dropped accidently. If you saw it, would you just...

It was baited with the open door and the open purse.

But he admitted that he set and baited a trap specifically to shoot someone. The open garage door and the open purse were deliberate.

Assuming that random events even exist,It does not matter, The clearly non-random elements involved in the complex event which is evolution far outweigh any random elements that may exist. We can see and predict the way evolution is trending. If it is getting colder, fur and/or fat(blubber) will...

Do they serve only a specific religious community? No. They hire employees of all religions and of no religion. They sell to the general public

Neither is a wedding feast Were they or were they not open to the public? A business only has a religion if its market is exclusively to that religion. And they crossed it. And so was I in the bodega example. He did not sell the condoms because he did not want to endorse adultery. The...

Why does no one want to address the fact that the garage was specifically set up as a deer blind, specifically to entice and kill a person for sport?

As I posted earlier, I am no longer certain that there is such a thing as a random event. However, a complex event can incorporate random (if they exist) and non-random elements, and if the non-random elements predominate and the trend (if not necessarily the specifics) is predictable, the...