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The two hottest threads here in American Politics at the time I write this are about the cross, and the so-called "mosque" -- both in or around Ground Zero in lower Manhattan. The attitudes of some posters who have contributed to both of those threads appears to me to be somewhat...

Sequence A 1) Are Great Danes, Greyhounds, Basset Hounds, Poodles, and Chihuahuas one "kind" or several different "kinds"? 2) Are Herring Gulls and Black-backed Gulls one "kind" or several different "kinds"? 3) Are Chimpanzees and Bonobos one "kind" or several different "kinds"? 4)...

One thing that has been confusing me about Creationist arguments about mutation is that even though they agree that retrovirus insertion and replication errors can produce new sequences in the DNA, they do not produce new "information." Some of them, the more easily dismissed, argue that there...

A mother was teaching her son to count. She would line up a number of checkers on the table and they would count them together. Soon, the boy was able to count up to ten checkers without much prompting. One day at lunch, the mother lined up five oreo cookies, and asked her son to count them. He...

How Straight People Paved the Way for Gay Marriage An interesting look at the accusation that gays are trying to "redefine" marriage in a way the threatens traditional marriage. It looks at some of the laws that defined "traditional" marriage, and how overturning them in the last half century...

The CF-wide no-homosexuality rule was relaxed here in American Politics for the express purpose of discussing the legal and Constitutional issues involved in the subject of same-sex marriage. Only the legal and Constitutional issues. The moral issues of homosexuality are still off limits, and...

This question/challenge seems to get derailed a lot. I'm going to try it again. One major problem with derails is that many Creationists take exception with any attempt to use the concept of "kinds" to argue taxonomy and/or phylogeny. If you are a Creationist who believes that, then this...

So many of your challenges begin "I create xxx ex nihlo in front of you ..." Well my challenge is for you to do just that. Create something ex nihilo in front of me. In fact I'll make it even easier. Create something ex nihilo in front of any skeptic of your choice.

.... to campaign to pervert the Constitution in order to persecute sinners who are doing nothing illegal? Whose own religion/philosophy does not see sin in those actions? Is it Christian to champion laws that tax these sinners unfairly compared to other citizens in similar circumstances...

Is condemning "Vigilante Justice" the same thing as promoting the crimes of which the victims of the violence may or may not be guilty? A recent post asked about approving violence against people perceived to belong to a certain group. The condemned activities are not illegal, and the...

Drunkenness is a sin, and (despite Paul advising Timothy to take an occasional sip of wine to aid his digestion), many Christians feel that it is better to abstain altogether. And that is certainly true for alcoholics. Still, many of our cities have homeless people sleeping in cardboard boxes...

... during her niddah. Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness. Leviticus 18:19 And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath...

One argument by Creationists against "Darwinism" is that life could not have developed from non-living chemicals by "blind chance." This claim is often followed by a calculation of the odds against it happening by "blind chance." In my probability thread, I examined the way those odds are...

In my thread about the probability argument, Greg 1234 posted a link to an article and video that discussed two other arguments. One of them was that most mutations are detrimental, and evolution requires beneficial ones; the other is the Entropy argument: the claim that evolution violates the...

In my thread about the probability argument, Greg 1234 posted a link to an article and video that discussed two other arguments. One of them was that most mutations are detrimental, and evolution requires beneficial ones; the other is the Entropy argument: the claim that evolution violates the...

This subject came upon another board, and I said that, rather than derail that thread I would post a response here. The argument usually goes: The chances of X happening (say, an eye developing in steps A, B, C, D, ...) depends on the chances of A happening, and then B happening, and the...

I don't "live" in this forum. I only come check it out occasionally. So I don't know if this question has been covered. If it has, I apologize. Many Creationists divide evolution into two parts. "Micro"Evolution is the change within a species, which can be demonstrated, and can be...

When I was growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, women always wore hats in church -- except for the old ladies, especially the Italian and Hispanic grandmothers, who usually wore full-sized "shawls" (mantillas) covering their entire head and shoulders. This was, of course, in response to...

If, as is claimed, the purpose of Romans 1:26-27 is to condemn "homosexuality," Then why did Paul go to great lengths to obscure the fact that the women in the example were having sex with other women?

Many posters on here seem to think that "unrepentant sinners" aren't worth trying to reach with the Gospel. That the mission of the Church is to first get them to repent and thus become worthy to hear the Gospel. But is that what the Bible teaches? There are two different Greek words that are...