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I apologize if it looks as if my quotes are off (I quoted your entire post and tried to insert my answers, so it got messed up, but I didn't alter one word of your post, it's just in italics as well as my response) I'll just respond point by point here: I believe in the possibility of god...

What is "A" exactly, and how has it been demonstrated to be true? True to whom exactly? You? The entire world?

Yes, I have told a lie in the past, and? Stalin, Pol Pot, Hitler, etc, etc, - am I morally aligned with any of them? Does a lack of belief in a deity mean that I want to rise to the top of a political party, starve and kill my own people, murder millions of Jews, etc? i am just as disgusted...

I agree that it's a fear of finding out, which is why it is a shame that there is an enormous movement to block evolution from being taught in schools. What we have to remember is that evolution is a theory in the sense that relativity is just a theory. Why block someone from learning...

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Would persecuting non-believers (outside your group) be considered moral? You have to admit that you yourself treat your family (immediate family as well as other Christians) different from someone outside your family, right?

I do have evidence. Frans de Waal is a primatologist with many published journals linking morality with our primate ancestry, Marc D. Hauser (Harvard biologist) has a book called "Moral Minds" which does the same, and it is all linked to evolutionary by-products. Would you suggest that...

Thank you! I wasn't sure if that information was available somewhere on the site. Can you play the blessing game if you're an atheist?

I'll begin by giving myself as an example: I live an extremely moral life out of respect for other people, and for humanity in general. I would never ever do something or not do something out of fear of someone else's god. I can't speak for every atheist, but I can tell you that I know a lot...

You're starting off by assuming that "A" is true. How do you not accept the possibility that if "B" contradicts "A", then maybe it's "A" that is false?

A bit of a lighter topic than the others today, lol, but I was just curious as to why people say "god bless you" when someone sneezes? I have heard the theory that your heart stops being for a second when you sneeze, therefore there is a chance you might die from a sneeze, but regardless of...

No need to apologize for your answer. You're speaking (writing? lol) honestly, and that is all I can ask. I guess the fundamental issue is that if you accept the bible as literal truth, there is nowhere for a debate to go, do you know what I mean? For example, my next question would be, what...

thank you for the honest reply, Tansy. The follow-up to that would be: how,then, do you know that Baal isn't the one true god and that your god isn't one of his/her demons doing the masquerading?

Where in your response did you specifically answer the Jesus question? If I missed it, I apologize sincerely, but I re-read your answer and I can't seem to find it... 1 John 2:19 says that I was never a true Christian. Sounds like a pretty easy out. Instead of learning why someone gave up...

Ok, then, I appreciate your honest reply. you have made me realize that the correct term for my lack of belief in a god is agnostic, given that nobody can prove that god does not exist. We can just state that there is no evidence. i am more than willing to accept that. So then, are you...

"more likely" ? According to......?

Does this mean that I am going to turn into a monkey? We share a common ancestor with monkeys, apes, orangutans, etc, etc,etc,. We did not evolve out of them, that is a popular misconception. Agreed?

If you say, "there is evidence for the existence of God", that's a truth claim and you must provide evidence. The onus is on you to provide proof for your particular deity, same as if I were to claim that I have a gnome living in my basement.

OK, then I will clarify: there is no evidence for the existence of a god. I believe in evidence, and if your aim is semantics here - technically every atheist is agnostic because what we are demanding is evidence for any god's existence, and there just simply isn't any. Do you believe in...

To clarify, what do you mean by the external witness of creation? Do you believe that animals demonstrate moral behaviour? But what about Jesus? I can see your point about god having given man the necessary tools (although I can't say I agree, I can respect that answer), but what I'm asking...