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    Sexual abuse and cover up in the Catholic Church

    From post 102 of the thread "U.S. Backs Homosexual Groups at United Nations" I thought PaladinDoodler had a problem with the present tense form eastcoast_bsc's statement, i.e. "are ignored". So in post 103 I responded: They were covered up for many years by the hierarchy. I have hopes that...
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    testing list

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    test, please ignore

    This is a test of my memory Which failed.
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    Universalist-leaning: The Great Divorce

    A question to those who are universalists (i.e. believe God will save all people) or leaning in that direction: Have you read The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis? If so, how does it affect your theology? For those not familiar with it, Lewis describes a number of ways in which people...
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    History of Theistic Evolution

    Another CF member asked if I had any information about the history of theistic evolution. I couldn't think of anything so I did some poking around and jogged my memory a bit. However I didn't really turn up much new. The only direct reference I could find was of "Woodrow Warfield theistic...
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    Doesn't a 4 billion year old Earth invalidate the Bible

    [revision of earlier thread] If the earth is 4.5 billion years old, doesn't that disprove and invalidate the Bible and Christianity? I will not debate here whether evolution / the 4.5 billion year age of the earth is true, I am only interested in exploring, explaining my position on the...
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    enforcement of homosexual posting rules

    The rules as I read them call for warnings and bans on users, not locking down discussions. If a discussion is descending into repeated name calling I can see locking it down, but if people are just not providing enough "documentation" then the individuals should be dealt with, not the entire...
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    Evolution of the brain

    This is old news but I hadn't seen it before and I've occasionally seen questions about the issue. http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/genome/genesandbody/hg07f008.html Researchers had found a gene which, damage to which is responsible for a disease that results in very small brains. They went...
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    I am not asking you to compromise.

    I was bemused by the "Did You Compromise?" thread as I was planning this thread but didn't get to it 'til now In Vance's "Why the geocentrism analogy is useful" thread the following was written: While I have been known to use the geocentrism analogy, my problem is not with special...