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Reference was to authors of genesisYou are probably right. But if there was such a wedding, let's forget where the wine came from. The context clearly tells us that it was alcoholic wine.
Are we plants as well?
4) The human soul works through its functioning human body.
Nope. Where's the authoritative citation? Perhaps because it does not support your conclusion.Any general estimate of global religious affiliations. The recent estimates are that the largest group (Christians) has an estimated 2 billion adherents out of a global population of about 7 billion. So
N(Christians) < N(humans)/2
Since other religions have non-compatible god concepts, the number of people who disagree with Christianity is larger than the number of Christians.
N(Christians) < N(non-Christians)
It's not hard.
The honest ones do. "Intelligence must have been involved in getting these extraordinary diverse elements together".So why aren't atheists "seriously doubting their lacks of belief"?
... You're not alive, then you're born, then you die, then you're not alive anymore.
Pretty simple, really.
In a previous post, your response indicated you do not grasp the Principle of Sufficient Reason. Without agreement on the those principles, reasonable explanations become unconstrained and become anything one can imagine or speculate.Frankly, we don't need to be explicit about the First Principles of Philosophy to have a reasonable discussion.
A summary table is inadequate to critically judge the claim that a speciation event is evidenced.The following lists speciation lab experiments. Results are in the "Reproductive Isolation" column, with "Pre-zygotic" or "Post-zygotic" indicating successful speciation. References are listed in the table if you don't trust Wikipedia.
Laboratory experiments of speciation - Wikipedia
Looking forward to your casual dismissal!
There were many questions about Flew towards the end of his life, and how much of those books he actually wrote.The honest ones do. "Intelligence must have been involved in getting these extraordinary diverse elements together".
World's foremost academic Atheist changes his mind (Antony Flew)
A summary table is inadequate to critically judge the claim that a speciation event is evidenced.
Take from the references given, the lab experiment that you believe best demonstrates a speciation event and make your case. Also, kindly give us your du jour definition of "speciation".
A summary table is inadequate to critically judge the claim that a speciation event is evidenced.
Take from the references given, the lab experiment that you believe best demonstrates a speciation event and make your case. Also, kindly give us your du jour definition of "speciation".
You appear to be mocking my faith. That would be just another indicator that you have no further arguments.OK, so some people told you it's true and wrote it down, so you believe it - and 'divine revelation' - was that a personal epiphany? the voice of God?
Citation to support your claim "biology has shown" that idea of the soul is false. (If a thing is "at best metaphorical" then it must be untrue.)So, it's the 'animating principle' of the human person in a functioning body, which makes the difference between living and non-living - IOW what used to be called the 'breath of life', life force, or élan vital. The study of biology has shown that idea is, at best, metaphorical.
When the blood supply to the brain ceases (permanently), brain cells stop functioning due to lack of oxygen, and coherent brain function also ceases. Most of the cells in the body will continue to function for some time before they too succumb. The human body is no different from that of other mammals in that respect. The concept of a human 'soul' as an animating force is redundant. I was hoping for something more interesting.
The soul has always been postulated as immaterial. Your claim that an immaterial substance is merely a redundant material substance is nonsense. All of science's attempts to disclose the supposed and imagined life force as a material substance have failed. How can a thing be called "redundant" when the referent that makes it so has never been demonstrated. Wishful thinking, I suppose.There's no need for a rational alternative - as above, a literal soul is as redundant as phlogiston; my question concerned the various other soul concepts, some of which are held by Christians whose specific beliefs differ from yours.
Another sign of an exhaustion of arguments.But never mind.
You have obviously never performed an even mildly sophisticated measurement like a titration. There is a reason why spreadsheets have functions like the standard deviation.If the multiple methods all rely on sophisticated apparatuses and highly skilled technicians then the decrease in uncertainty is minimal. Have you ever heard that doing the same thing twice and expecting a different outcome is a definition of insanity?
Please let us know when the consensus reduces from the current 26 definitions of speciation to, let's say, just a few.Typically biologists with expertise in relevant fields will come to a consensus view. It is not necessarily fixed - as is normal in science, if new data becomes available (including new analyses of existing data), a species designation may be revised.
The really basic stuff to remember is that "invention" is not "discovery".Well... no. It is no different from any other observational categorization in science; at some point, the data may suggest a tentative novel category. As more data arrives and is analysed, the categorisation may be more or less well supported. The categorization may change as a consequence.
This is pretty basic stuff.
"Meaningless posts" = "Meaningless posts" + 1So the anonymous people expose themselves in the anonymous book that they wrote.
Got it.
AV has a real aversion to alcohol, and he stretches the stories to fit his myopic interpretations of scripture.
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