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The religious implications of climate change Current rapid climate change and ocean acidification is due to the rapid increase of green house gasses, primarily carbon dioxide although other gasses such as methane, water vapor, nitrous oxide, and ozone are also involved. The release of these...

I have “known” since I was 16 that religion was invented by humanity, rather than humanity being an invention of a supernatural god. I have lived a life in science, examining and explaining reality without reliance upon supernatural doctrine and justifications for religious beliefs. I do not...

Thank you all for your replies to my questions, sorry that I do not have the time right now to fully engage in a discussion. I know I shouldn’t have started it if I can’t follow through with it. But from your answers I get the pretty much general impression that religious people know that God...

This is interesting and informative, but what I was looking for, and maybe it doesn’t exist or is so diffuse that it can’t be described, is what it is that prayer provides that cements the certainty of the existence of a personal and caring God in the mind of the believer? One can look at the...

I am not a believer in any religion. In my opinion, based on what I know through science, reason, and observation of humanity, religions were and are created by humans. I also know that many, if not most, Christians (to pick a religion) have a sincere, actual Belief, that their religious...

...for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God.. God doesn’t handle rejection very well, in fact if one rejects God, that is the ultimate sin, yeah, He’ll take you back, I think, although there seems to be some confusion on that particular sin, but basically, if one says, Gee, God, maybe you exist...

Thanks, I was not aware of that site, it looks interesting. Maybe when I retire, I'll have more time to explore the internet.

Not sure where to put this, maybe some will find it of interest Jesus and Muhammad, 2015 The camel was cranky, but then what camel isn’t? As it plodded on through the hot sand Muhammad swayed with the rolling gait of the camel and it felt familiar and good. He wondered why the Celestial High...

Something we seldom realize or consider when we take a position on, well, pretty much everything, but especially on matters of politics, culture, and religion is that, to use an old and hackneyed phrase, ‘Perception is Reality”. And human perception depends on many things, including the culture...

Thank you Goonie, Dr. Francis Collins is an excellent example of a very accomplished scientist who seems to fit comfortably in that narrow tidal zone between the raging currents and waves of the ocean of scientific knowledge and the solid, very slowly changing shores of religious belief and...

Can a scientist be a Christian? or of any other supernatural faith? I am sure that the answer is yes. I think it is possible for a person to be a good scientist, by that I mean one that is committed to the use of reason and analytical thought within the methodology of modern science to further...

Why is slavery in the Bible? This is a lot of interesting but needless discussion, the answer is very simple if you simply remove all the supernatural hocus pocus from the equation of human existence. Then the Bible and the Koran become actually what they are; a collection of myths, legends...

Evolution is just the very tip of the iceberg. If one is a “true believer” in the fundamental tenets of almost any religion that has a basis in the unquestioned existence of a supernatural world inhabited by supernatural beings (usually with one of these beings as the creator and controller of...

As the old saying goes, “Be careful what you wish for”. If starvation and poverty are eliminated (lets pretend that that’s possible), then the intensive reproductive drive inherent in the human species, coupled with an uptick in infant and child survival, and combined with the inherent...

I have read these comments with great interest. They have stimulated a lot of thought and introspection on my part and I thank you for them. Unfortunately, my life has suddenly become very complicated and I just don’t have the time to collect my thoughts and explore the questions and analysis...

Hedreck, Thanks for your reply, You have really “cut to the chase” here. Christianity in all it’s flavors is amazingly diverse. Jesus is the connecting thread, and I certainly don’t understand how an “upstart” Rabbi in an obscure religion 2000 years ago has made such wave in the ocean of...

Job8, If God’s truth is “much that is supernatural”, why does it only exist in the minds of human beings? Some of my friends claim a “personal relationship” with Jesus and/or God. I can not understand what they are talking about. I am of sound mind and I have never heard voices within my...

Hi Dave, You, and the article by Rich Deem, present a very cogent and persuasive argument against the element of pure chance in the establishment and interaction of basic particles of matter in the formation of the universe, something with which I am not unfamiliar, but have not studied in depth...

Thank you for your comments, I appreciate them all. As to my sources as asked by 2PhiloVoid, “May I ask what some of the sources are which contribute to your (several) conclusion(s)?” Hoo Boy! For 2000 years, actually more than that, but that’s when the Christian Era began, human being have...