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Hope you have better luck than we did here: http://www.christianforums.com/t1664741-chicken-or-the-egg.html

Wow! My Bible doesn't have any of that. :scratch: Strangely, none I've ever owned have had that. (And I've owned an awful lot!)

Not sure how this will figure into the discussion.... More people were killed in the 20th century than in previous centuries because 1) there were more people available to kill and 2) there was the technological means to kill many more at once. I doubt it could be shown that Hitler or...

Have you visited the Creation & Evolution forum. This kind of question is dealt with all the time over there.

I watched that. It was awesome. I'd seen Hatton in a couple of other fights and in both he so overwhelmed the other guy that I was was dumbfounded to hear that the odds were so lopsidedly in favor of Tszyo. But that Hatton kid is all heart. He just wasn't going to be denied. You Brits are...

Because we don't like to be fooled. We instinctively understand that being fooled can lead to bad consequences. But we can never reliably know the consequences in advance, so we just take as much care as possible never to be fooled.

Better than I could do. But, then, I never was much of an artist.

The right to live, by virtue of being alive, and the right to live by one's conscience. Perhaps nothing more. And none is "inalienable."

Whoa! Where did I say all of our instincts are to survive? The race dies if we don't. So, yes. It's nothing of the kind. The issue here is sin, not right vs wrong. It's wrong we're talking about. Indeed, I suspect it would be impossible to point a single real wrong that doesn't arise...

Batman's pretty smart. Even as a Christian I came to see Original Sin as an absurdity. Our instincts aren't to sin, they're to survive. When those instincts come into conflict with the next guy's instincts, that's when the trouble starts.

I composed two long responses, but trashed them both. The truth is, I'm a little conflicted about this myself. Should such things as enforcability ultimately decide for or against legalization? Sometimes the object is just to send a message. It's to say, "We as a society frown on that kind of...

What you actually said is not so much the issue with me. It's the implications of what you said. Prostitution = infidelity if the johns are married. And to the degree johns would be married, it would be infidelity, right? It would almost certainly cause harm, right? So, you'd be willing...

It isn't infidelity when a married man visits a prostitute? You don't believe a high percetage of "johns" aren't married or in some other way sexually attached? Yes. In fact, I'm arguing for both. If we're going to use harm as the criterion, infidelity should be illegal. But the usual...

So, would you have laws restricting visits to prostitutes to only those "unattached"? Have fun justifying that!

What were my "claims"? Do you remember what I said? "But prostitution can be said to be harmful for purely pragmatic reasons. Does it weaken or break up families? Does it make sexual committment more difficult to achieve for those who frequent prostitutes? I'd say there's a good chance it...

Well, of course not. You only have to convince yourself. I use "proof" in the sense of "compelling evidence," not "true beyond a possibility of doubt." I believe in received wisdom. In other words, I think wisdom handed down to us is to be clung to until there's good reason to discard it...

I find it all but impossible to conduct a fruitful debate over what does and what does not cause harm. Perhaps it's because there's no consensus about what harm is. To many Christians, harm comes simply in anything that might lead one contrary to the Faith. Thus, if prostitution, for instance...

Yeah, I think I would've noticed, too. Sure sound like me, though.

;) Are you sure you're not just me in disguise? :scratch:

I think you made some good points, but there's nothing among them that makes the nonexistence of God an inevitable conclusion. At best, perhaps you've rendered God unnecessary.