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  1. fireof god98

    ipsum esse subsistens

    I was having a discussion with an atheist friend about the existence of God. He asked me for scientific proof and i replied that if God is defined as a being,or the ground of being that is neither composed of matter nor confined to a spatial location then science cant find God seeing how how...
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    The statement "Marriage is a human right" makes absolutely no sense.

    who decides what is a human right then? access to water and food are seen as human rights but who said that it is? though i agree marriage is more of a legal right then a human right.
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    The statement "Marriage is a human right" makes absolutely no sense.

    so Wikipedia is the ultimate authority on marriage? is Wikipedia an authority on anything? you can make the slim argument that it is a human right and i will give an example in my own country,in the Canadian charter of rights and freedoms under fundamental freedoms in section a it states-freedom...
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    Inequality: Should the government be concerned about it?

    is finical equality a right? I think if you work harder than you should have more to show for it then someone who did not. When you are in a competition those who work the hardest get the medals.However we should all be equal when it comes to health care meaning the quality of your treatment...
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    should we bring back public captiol punishment

    i don't think by killing the murderer that the pain will go away and it probably wont go away. of course it would be up to the justice system to decide the right punishment for the murderer and would not let He or She go on his or her merry way. i find it interesting that america has more of a...
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    The Problem of Omnipotence?

    yes he does. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit--fruit that will last-john 15:16. the glory of god is man fully alive
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    Ex-Christians (2)

    i suppose we can say it is designed because something came from nothing.The Greek natural philosophers were quite correct in saying that from nothing, nothing comes. But by comes they meant a change from one state to another which requires some underlying material reality. It also requires some...
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    Ex-Christians (2)

    what about the apparent conflict between notion of creation from nothing and the scientific principle that for every natural motion or state there is an antecedent motion or state?
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    Ex-Christians (2)

    well we are in a Goldilocks zone just far away enough so water can exist to create the chemicals of life. if the earth were father away though it might become like mars.if we were closer we would be like Venus.our moon is also the right size to to stabilize earths orbit. also Jupiter,because of...
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    Ex-Christians (2)

    The material universe resembles the intelligent productions of human beings in that it exhibits design.The design in any human artifact is the effect of having been made by an intelligent being.Like effects have like causes. Therefore, the design in the material universe is the effect of having...
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    should we bring back public captiol punishment

    the main complaint i have heard from people is that we pay for the serial killer and rapists to live in the prison and so on. i suppose we have a problem with capital punishment because we still don't know what justice is
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    i would say that the universe itself is.
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    Are gun free zones death traps?

    i wonder why people assume the military would just blindly follow government orders. any body could in essence go mad with emotional and start firing and so back up checks would not help entirely
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    Ex-Christians (2)

    who said?
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    second languages?

    can anybody here speak more than one language? i can speak English and i am learning Japaneses
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    Ex-Christians (2)

    how do you know if something is beautiful may i ask? is not beauty just subjective truth? usually when we see works of art like the last supper we know it did not just pop out of nowhere. at the moment only humans with thought and feelings can make works of art that are designed
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    Are gun free zones death traps?

    Canadian culture is a lot different than the american for example where it is part of their culture and world view. one of the problems with gun control may be with it interfering with rights of the metis and aboriginal rights.
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    Ex-Christians (2)

    both are beautiful and very complex
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    Ex-Christians (2)

    depends what philosophy you hold to. Plato would hold ideas are not in this martial world and stoics would say that they are.please explain to me how a thought is formed?
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    Ex-Christians (2)

    i like to think of it like this. an idea is not a material thing but can still shape the world.