Recent content by jasonwrites

Thanks, I've been around a while but only occasionally comment :)

The irony here is that it's science that enables you to be typing your responses. Science has improved your life in so many ways that telling it to "take a hike" seems ill-advised.

No, science isn't "worshipping" anything. That is not the purpose of science. One doesn't "believe in" or "have faith in" science; one may believe in its value, but science itself has nothing to do with belief, but only with what is verifiable through empirical evidence and repeatable...

While I concede that the KCA only requires a cause for the universe to exist, the OP was asking about its validity as evidence for God. The thread seems to have transformed into a discussion about how something is created from nothing, and whether or not such spontaneous creation is the result...

In Genesis 1, it's difficult to determine if God is creating everything out of nothing. It starts with saying "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth" but then goes on in the next verse to say that "the earth was formless and void" and the spirit of God was "over the waters."...

Temptation is a two-way street. If it's only a one-way attraction, then it should remain harmless as long as the person feeling the attraction can be mature enough to put it aside to focus on the advantages of a strong platonic friendship. Of course, it will work best if that attraction isn't...

I grew up in Georgia, then lived in Colorado for 11 years, from ages 27-38, so my native Southern drawl diminished somewhat, but not that much. Then I moved to central Texas, and it's probably returned to full strength. I've always disliked how some hear such an accent and automatically assume...

I have a female best friend. She's been married 16 years. I lived with them briefly when I moved here. She has another male friend who, like me, moved here from out-of-state. He has stayed living with them, however. He and her husband are my closest male friends here. I realize that situation...

Although it is good to contend with opposition to arguments put forward and we should be concerned with the validity of the same, we should be careful about putting to much stock in the position of fools who simply want to keep the foot of God out of the door. I agree. I suppose, for me, I...

I'm not quite sure what you mean by alter my position. There is indeed an entirely different sort of discussion when you are engaged in an inter-faith dialogue-- Christian to Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, etc., versus a theist vs. atheist discussion. The strain of American atheists who like to argue...

I very much respect your disagreement with my position, but allow me some elaboration... I state this position as I do as a result of much back-and-forth with atheists on a certain Q&A site and it has become painfully clear to me that no atheist is going to accept that "there is enough...

If God is not sovereign, if He is not omnipotent, then he is not God but just a god. As noted above, Jesus said His kingdom is not of this world. We still have to live in the world though, and that means living under a government. Personally, I think Jesus made it clear that he was not in favor...

The argument is logically unsound as it contains an assumption: that anything exists that did not begin to exist. Of course, it only works if that assumption is true, i.e. that God never began to exist, His existence is eternal. Otherwise you get trapped in the causality loop of "If God created...

There are multiple issues at play here. "Hell" is an English word. The modern understanding of Hell in the English-speaking world dates from the King James Bible, which used this single word as a translation for a number of Hebrew and Greek words including Sheol, Hades, etc. Earlier comments...

It's possible that God means us to learn more about how the universe actually works. Science is our means of slowly discovering the wonder and mystery of Creation. The Bible is a collection of writings composed over the course of a few centuries, the most recent of which was written over 1,900...