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At a number of malls here in Australia, we are starting to see, alongside the parking spaces reserved for the disabled, parking spaces reserved for "Parents with prams" (prams == strollers). I (a non-parent) happily park in these spaces, ignoring the reservation, whenever I can (note: the...

A few interesting things about the US and war: - In the 230 years since the Declaration of Independence, the US has invaded other countries on more than 200 occasions, according to the Congressional Research Service. - the US has invaded another country an average of once every 14 months in...

Although this was posted in another forum on this site, I thought it worthwhile to mention here, as well. The background: Lisa0315 started a thread in which she said, basically "Non-believers, how do you explain this?" and posted a site which she believed supported her beliefs. Later in that...

Watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM I don't really know if it demonstrates anything relevant, but it's so cool I had to share it.

Imagine, for a moment - the horrible. Imagine the holocaust - the huge pogrom against Jews - is taking place around us, now. Police are rounding up Jews and hauling them off to concentration camps for extermination. Imagine how we'd all be acting - we'd be hiding Jews, families living in our...

I've been thinking and, in regard to the happening of a global flood, I can only come up with three possible alternatives: 1. There was no global flood. 2. There was a global flood, but God removed the evidence of it and, in fact, planted evidence that it had not happened. 3. There was a...

I've many times heard creationists say that we should 'teach the controversy' - ie., teach school students the two differing views, creationism and evolution. I've come to think that this point of view is entirely reasonable. We should teach students the controversy. However, because...

I have a question about which my wife and I have been arguing, and I'd appreciate it if anyone of the many on these forums who know more about physics than I could answer it conclusively, along with an explanation as to why: Imagine you are standing on a perfectly flat plain. In one hand, you...

Philip Johnson and his cronies at the Discovery Institute have made a lot of noise about changing science to include the acceptance of God - what they call 'theistic science'. My question is this - how would 'theistic science' work? Imagine the following scenario: A scientist discovers...

There has been a great deal of discussion over the last few years of the 'materialism/naturalism' paradigm, particularly in science. In brief, this paradigm states that the natural material world is all that exists. Many theists have complained about this paradigm (and its usage in science)...

Whatever you think about the theory of evolution, there are a couple of facts that, I believe, everyone will concede: - since its inception, the theory of evolution has been accepted as accurate by the vast majority of scientists, particularly biologists, the world over, - the scientists who...

Here in Australia we have a TV program that dramatises the days of lifeguards on our most famous (and busiest?) beach, Bondi. On a recent show, the lifeguards were alarmed to detect a man on the beach surreptitiously taking photos of women on the beach, many of them topless (as is quite...

I was once in a course of some kind (I can't even remember what it was for) and this exercise was given to us. The instructor said doing it incorporated every moral decision a human being could make. I don't know if that's true or not, but I thought I'd try it out here. First, read the...

After a number of posts in another thread where I put forward the viewpoint that the ONLY valid reason to make an act illegal is if it harms someone other than the performer of the act (ie., moral opinions about the act are completely irrelevant), here's a list of things currently illegal in...

What follows is what's known as a 'hypothetical'. It's not meant to be a real situation (so please don't bother with posts saying it's not realistic or could never happen - it's not supposed to be realistic). It has two possible outcomes, and only two - this is a condition of the hypothetical...

Michael Schiavo is a ghoul - a man who beat his wife, stood idly by when she collapsed and then did everything he could to kill her. He is the lowest piece of scum on the earth. Or so I've read on here recently. However, all of these claims about him seem to have one thing in common - they...