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Donald Trump held a rally (or was it not a rally?) in South Carolina. Trump kicks off presidential campaign in New Hampshire, South Carolina Look who showed up.

Another evidence for an old Earth is the Grand Canyon Supergroup, which is the layers of rock circled in red in the picture below. This is a set of rock thousands of feet thick at the bottom of the Grand Canyon that has tilted. These tilted layers show every indication of having been deposited...

In a recent online debate (here), Inquiring Mind asked me to consider a different view of geology. Perhaps most of those rock layers and fossils down there had been formed in a single global flood in Noah’s day. Really? Do we still need to answer this argument? Flood geology, as this view is...

OK, you sat through diversity training. There you were told that, in your workplace, you will be expected to treat everybody with respect, regardless of race, creed, gender or national origin. OK, yes, you can put on a cheesy smile and put on a show of respect. But do you also feel a sincere...

It is estimated that over 3% of the population suffers from depression at any one time. Where can the troubled soul turn for hope? Is the Bible an authority on this subject? Or would we be better off turning to science? Or is it a case where both say the same thing, and thus, we can use both...

I am going to spin this off as another thread, because this topic might have a mind of its own. ;) Regarding free will, it is molecules that do the thinking. Since those molecules together make up a person, Daniel Dennet says that we, that is, the physical collection of matter that makes up our...

I think with my brain. My brain is made of molecules. Therefore, molecules, when arranged in a certain way, can think. But how can that be? After all, you are alive, and you feel what it is to be alive. You are experiencing conscious awareness. How can this awareness be nothing more than the...

How can an animal we would class as an ape walk out of the forest and become human? It’s a long story. It appears that, in The Great Rift Valley in Africa, a unique stretch of grasslands opened up as the continents moved. Certain apes ventured out of the woods, perhaps searching for food. They...

The Bible speaks frequently of pride. Here are verses on pride; here are verses on the proud; and here are verses on the haughty. The Bible condemns pride. Many Christians trust these verses but also value high self-esteem. How is pride different from high self-esteem?

A Pro-Religion Court How about us nones? Don't we have rights also?

As a Christian, can you support both the doctrine of Total Depravity, and an approach to life that seeks to build your self-esteem? Or must you choose one or the other? Here is an example of what I read about Total Depravity from a Christian site: The doctrine of total depravity is an...

Why does the universe exist? Why is there something, rather than nothing at all? For a minute, let's think about Nothing. When I will use the word "Nothing" with a capital N in this thread, I will refer to a state of reality in which there truly is nothing. No matter. No energy. No spacetime...

Years ago I was fighting the good fight of creation on the Internet. I argued that evolution was impossible, for it required that the genetic code had to be changed to make new kinds of animals. It did not seem feasible to me that evolution could do this. I argued in the CompuServe debate forum...

I am a creature that descended from a speck of magnificently successful blue-green algae, or something like that. Who are you?

In another thread we are discussing the requirements to go to heaven. Several people have emphasized that yes, Christians must live moral lives if they expect to go to heaven, but that is not a problem for them. I am told that those who have become Christians just naturally become good people...

A man once said, "I am come to set a man at variance with his father and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.” Do you consider this to be a good purpose in life? Who said it? See Matthew 10:35.

In Matthew 19, a man asked Jesus an important question (red text below). And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt...

Please name one country, anywhere in the world, any time in the last 7000 years, where libertarianism has succeeded and produced general peace and prosperity. See Texas Proves Libertarianism Doesn't Work | Thom Hartmann .

In a thread that will not die, evolution has been thrown into the mix. That topic deserves a thread of its own. I am talking to a biologist. I mentioned the 29+ Evidences for Macroevolution: The Scientific Case for Common Descent (talkorigins.org) . He responded: OK, I will start with two...

In the thread that will not die (Where's God? | Christian Forums , AKA "Hitler, gay sex, human evolution, the basis of morality, the Big Bang, and all other questions about Christianity") we have added Noah's flood to the mix. That thread is too big. I am moving the discussion here. I am...