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Recent content by madbear

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    Scriptural Evidence?

    Nowhere. I would urge anyone who is told that to consider that YEC is a relatively new doctrine, based on a particular mode of translating and intepreting the Bible. You don't have to take my word for this... some of the earliest and most respected Christian thinkers who ever lived absolutely...
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    The Bible Right Or Wrong!

    Well, we can go to church any day; but it's not every day you can get to watch an oil refinery burn :) The most amazing thing (in a non-very-nice way) about this business is that work on putting out the fire was held up yesterday because there was a 3-million gallon tank which no-one knew the...
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    How to make a your posts scientific.

    Indeed. Polkinghorne is aware of this objection. In Beyond Science (p.92ff) he explains the anthropic reasoning of John Leslie which leads up to his conclusion ``God is real and/or there are many and varied universes''. He then goes on to say that if nothing else were to be said, either...
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    Harry Potter and Narnia

    Just cast the first stone, already! :) Best wishes MadBear
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    Us and who else?

    That's easy -- it would be like The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe :) Best wishes MadBear
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    Harry Potter and Narnia

    So far as I know, there is only one direct Christian reference in the Narnia books. It's in The Last Battle, where somehow the whole of Aslan's kingdom turns up in a stable. Lucy says ``In our world too, a stable once had something in it that was bigger than the whole world'' However, the...
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    Harry Potter and Narnia

    No, as I said before, Lewis's purpose was to present the Christian story in a fresh way to children who would already have known it from school, etc. With respect, this is not my opinion -- it is documented in Lewis's published letters. This is the way the new film is being marketed, to...
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    Teen banned from wearing Crucifix.

    The school in question, like most British state secondary schools, forbids pupils from wearing jewelery as far as it can. I feel reasonably sure that the school would forbid the wearing of kara bracelets if it could do so without falling foul of the Human Rights Act. Unfortunately for the...
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    How to make a your posts scientific.

    It's nothing personal :) It's just that anything I am likely to say about the rational basis for Christian belief has already been said by people who say it better than me. I feel I'd be selling you short by offering a second-rate argument when a first-rate one is available. However, I'd be...
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    Holiday Tree or Christmas tree

    There's more to this than meets the eye :) What you call your Christmas/holiday/winter tree, if you have such a thing, and if you care, is up to you. Personally, I refer to the bug-infested droopy-needled monstrosity I dug out of the woods last week as a Christmas tree; what other people call...
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    Harry Potter and Narnia

    Well, the standard conservative Christian argument is that the children in HP have supernatural powers. The children in LWW are just children. Personally I think this argument is a load of codswallop. My objection to the HP books is that the characters are one-dimensional. :) Best wishes MadBear
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    Harry Potter and Narnia

    Lewis was writing for an audience that would almost certainly have known the basics of the Christian story. This was 1960's England, after all, and his audience was schoolchildren. We have no separation of Church and state in England, and at that time all schoolchildren would have taken part in...
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    How to make a your posts scientific.

    I respect your right not to be convinced by the things that I find convincing. I don't think it would be right for me to argue the point, because I would just be doing a second-rate job of something that others do so much better. It's just a shame that there aren't many of them in here :) Best...
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    Is worldly military service, being like Jesus?

    The views of Jesus on organized warfare, if he had any, were unrecorded, and therefore unknown to us at this time :) We know that he was tolerant of individuals who represented what might be seen as an occupying army. We know that he did not condemn soldiers as individuals. But we know also...
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    Direct triangulation shows the universe just older than 6000 years

    Well, before we all start popping the champagne corks, it might be worth bearing in mind that the most that be claimed from this data is that the universe is 6000+ years old. If it turned out to be, say, 7000 years old, it would still be a lot closer to the young-earthers' assumption than to...
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