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Neanderthal Man and Cro-magnon Man are not mythical creatures. Cro-magnon is just a particular group of ordinary human beings (Homo sapiens, that is). Even if they didn't exist, that does not make them mythological creatures.

I don't think that this is true. I remember not long ago there was a big bruhaha when a Muslim congressman was sworn in on a koran. And although the Constitution says one must swear an oath or make an affirmation to do their jobs, &c. it never mentions a Bible as a reqirement.

Why don't you believe in evolution? What weaknessess are there in the evidence for evolution that you are not convinced? What evidence against evolution have you encountered?

The way I see it, if there is no right and wrong without God, there can be no right and wrong with God. To do good is to maximize happiness. To do evil is to cause suffering. That's how I see it, anyway. If morality can't exist without God's command, then morality is totally relative and...

Cabal didn't insult your character. He pointed out what he saw as flaws in your position. His age doesn't seem relevant here. Can you explain why you think he was acting immaturely? How old are you? What does it mean for someone to abdicate his intellectual power? How was his comment trite...

Don't you think it's a little much to compare creationism to mental illness? I'm getting rather sick of people doing that on these forums. Most people believe strange things, and that probably includes you and me.

Well, I think that you probably do believe what you say. I don't think though that anyone is arbitrarily accusing you of not being able to defend your views properly. For instance, I find your explaination of embedded age to be completely illogical. It's not arbitrary at all, but rather is an...

That might explain why he always talks about the "software" we supposedley use to come to our decisions.

Have a good day, yourself. :) You are probably right about this argument being a waste of time. In all the years I've been reading this forum, I've yet to see you explain how embedded age is not YEC without also making it into literal nonsense. The argument may have been a nice distraction...

You may agree, but I'm not sure who you are agreeing with. A sense of justice is the same type of sense as a sense of humor. Justice and injustice are products of the relationships of human beings to one another. So, yes, justice does exist externally, for without an external world, there...

Both. :P "The gods [planets] that go down must also increase so the balance is maintained." -- Scopiolious Francescolino Byronisipion, philosopher king, 2257 (Are you taking me seriously, Doveaman?)

But you don't believe in an old Earth, AV. You believe in an Earth that has been in existence for roughly 6,000 years. You've made that plain as day. That's the same thing as saying the Earth is roughly 6,000 years old. Your notion of the Earth having a physical age of 4.5 billion years is...

Actually, if nothing is impossible, then that does, in fact, mean that everything is possible. If anything isn't possible then it is false that nothing is impossible.

Who says donkeys don't pollute?

Bad puns are one thing. I love a good bad pun. But... what? :scratch:

It certainly looks that way to me. True. I think that beyond the fight to keep creationism out of classrooms, the only thing a non-creationist Christian can do to give creationists a "hard time" without being a complete jerk is to post in forums like this one and debate (or do it in person)...

Sorry, I got mixed up. I meant to say that shrinking is the result of expansion.

Why do you think that? Why would non-creationist Christians get a feeling of superiority from creationism?

Atheists rest their morality upon the same thing as you: Their inate sense of justice combined with the values instilled in them by parents and culture.

Personally, I had always considered that it was quite likely that there actually was no such thing as a Christian, even back when I still believed in Jesus's divinity. :)