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It is not a sin to use perfume. It's a sin to believe that some lunar goddess or whatever will make the perfume better if it's made a certain way. But if you just buy the perfume because it smells nice and not because you believe it has some kind of blessing in it, it doesn't matter how it was...

And in the 1800's, people said the same thing, except they said it about reading instead of TV. I believe Aristotle or Plato, one of those two, talked about how as kids they had to memorize facts and pass them orally instead of simply writing them down.

The series has its own story of how everything was created and who the gods are and everything. It's entirely fictional and takes only a little bit of influence from Japanese mythology. If anyone wants to call that Satanic, then they must say the same about the Chronicles of Narnia and LOTR...

It's not what you eat, it's how much of it you eat. Believe it or not, you can have a perfectly healthy diet eating nothing but McD's. All weight is is your body storing surplus energy for the winter, except you aren't losing that weight over winter. If you want to stay healthy, avoid trans...

No. Not at all. Youth know the difference between science and science fiction. If you look through history, every generation has said similar things about the next fad. It's been said about writing, reading, TV, the Internet, video games, smartphones, etc. The problems with our public school...

Well unless you want to go back and read the Old Testament in Hebrew, the context doesn't carry over in English. The Angel of the LORD speaks in first person. Therefore, the Angel of the LORD is God. That's the end if you just look at the Old Testament. When you consider the New Testament, God...

I think he's saying that that sign does not give you the authority to override the various laws that prevent you from refusing service to protected classes. After the Civil Rights Act of 1964, no amount of signage would allow you to refuse service based on a customer's race, color, religion, or...

Sexual orientation, depending who you ask, is akin to a medical problem or a sex, in that you can't change it. One could easily argue that it should be a protected class. Political affiliation, and indeed any opinion that you hold, is not a protected class.

I disagree. If I owned a coffee shop, it would probably be in my best interests to ban, for example, the local branch of the KKK.

I have a degree in Biomedical Science. I'm not allowed to use my preferred word to describe Assassin's Creed's "science" on this forum, but it involves the end result of a bull eating grass.

Rising obesity rates, an increase in allergies (likely due to environments that are too sanitary), and a LOT more people with crippling illnesses living past the age of four are all going to bring down the percentage of people who qualify. The solution? Better health initiatives (mandatory high...

I think both should be taught. The creation story is an important aspect of every religion, and every religion should be taught in schools. Learning about other religions helps people to understand other cultures, and understand why some things in history happened. For the sake of religious...

I believe the "Angel of the LORD" was the aspect of the Trinity that later was made man in Jesus. The Trinity is divided into the Father, who creates, the Holy Spirit, which is the influence of God on man (by whom Mary was with child, etc.), and the Angel of the LORD, AKA the Son, AKA Jesus. It...

Think of it this way: Two men are seeking to stay in your home. One of them is a murderer, who has killed several people in cold blood because he enjoys it. The other is a thief who will probably just run away with your TV. Which one do you allow in your home? Obviously the thief, right? But...

Think about what those things ARE though, not just how simple they should be. Eyes are an incredibly useful tool for survival. If you register light to learn about your environment, that's an eye. Mammary glands are one solution out of many for the problem of providing your young with nutrients...

Potentially capable of interbreeding is right in the definition. What part of that definition makes you not accept them as separate species?

If three finch "species" converged into one, then they were not species. They were subspecies, which is like what breeds of dog are. Species cannot converge into one group without human intervention. Also the mule is not a species. It is a hybrid between two species. And the reason they remain...

Scientists can sway their data to show what they want, yes. But they cannot make up where they found something. The fact of the matter is scientists determined where they should be able to find a fossil with certain characteristics, then looked there and found it. You can either claim that it...

Pretty much, yes. Although you seem to be missing the part where some genes get duplicated before they break. For example, a snake's salivary enzyme gene can duplicate and then one copy breaks, so now it has both that salivary enzyme and a venom.