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True; but I was sorta talkin' about statements.
Fall will stop being winter someday.
I dont really say "morality is objective". In fact I dont even know exactly what that would mean.
Objective is that which is based on fact. Beliefs, opinions, extenuating circumstances are not taken into consideration when determining that which is objective.
What are the enduring parts of morality? Can you give some examples?
Well the definition you chose happens to work well with my assertion that the enduring parts of morality are based on the objective facts about human well being.
Yes, but I am talking about the origin of biodiversity. See above about macroevolution.
Didn't you read that Wikipedia article where it stated that that is what the singularity basically is?
Huh? Logical reasoning is a MAJOR part of any scientific theory. You do know that without logical reasoning science is impossible, right?
No, they would just say that there has not been enough time for it to occur.
I am referring to the general public's understanding of evolution, IOW Macro-evolution. Microevolution is not in dispute. It has not been proven that macroevolution is "a natural result over long periods of time". Natural selection is actually a way to MAINTAIN the existing organism and its population, not change it into something radically different. We know that almost every mutation results in significant losses of genetic information thereby placing limits on how much morphological change can take place. Also, there is not enough time for the beneficial mutations to make major changes in morphology. Mathematicians at Cornell recently determined how hard it is to get a binding site in DNA. They determined that it would take 60,000 years for a mutation to arise, and 6 million years for it to become general in the population to go from an apelike ancestor to humans. And that is just one mutation, if you need two coordinated mutations it would take 216 million years. So that makes it basically impossible to go from australopithecine to human since you need a lot more coordinated mutations than that.
Don’t kill people outside of self defense.
National defense. Defense of others. Those are basically wrapped up in the concept of self-defense. If you disagree, then just make them 2 additional enduring morals of their own. I wasnt trying to give you the complete comprehensive list.
Here is the Wikipedia page; I see where it says it is the earliest known period, but I don't see where it says nothing existed prior to it.
No; scientific theories include “Abductive reasoning.
Or they would say this species is no longer evolving. Like with humans, they say it is assumed human evolution ended with the origin of modern man
Subjective is not about arbitrary, or emerging from changing moods. It can be that, but it's usually much more than that.
Sometimes subjective is exactly about moods. I do agree that there can be more too it as well.
It is true that people are not vilified for sitting next to someone of a different race, but that has only occurred due to social pressures based on Judeo-Christian principles that began to be accepted by the majority in America after Christians like MLK fought against it. God uses His people to sometimes change human nature, but without those changes going along with His principles they will not take root in a significant way.
In order to be the judge of the universe you have to have created the moral laws of the universe and since those laws are part of the universe, you would have to be the creator of the universe, but it can be shown that you are not, but the Christian God is. Also, you are another human whose moral standard just exists in your mind just like any other human and does not exist outside your mind, objectively.
All of the major societies, I have read a great deal about ancient history.
Not just somebody, Moses said it, who had demonstrated that He was chosen by God as their leader and God's prophet thru miraculous events, including hearing the voice of God Himself on Sinai.
No, they knew she would have a much better life living as a Hebrew. They knew that women were treated much better than other nations in the area. Women were commanded to be treated as spiritual equals as I demonstrated earlier from Genesis 1. It would be similar to rescuing someone from living in the old Soviet Union or East Germany.
In case you didn't notice, that is not chapter 32. But we already dealt with this when we discussed Deut. 21:14, she cannot be treated brutally, which obviously includes rape. You need to learn to stop repeating the same refuted claims. The reason young women were chosen because they would be less committed to the degraded culture of their old nation and more likely to learn the more advanced ideas of the Hebrew culture.
What are you? A god? I guarantee with the right drugs you could be made to do many things and believe things that you would not normally believe.
With diversity being taught and advertised, more and more people are looking for the company of those different than themselves. How many atheists do you see going to religious sites (rather than atheist sites) for discussion and visa versa? How many people of different races and cultures attempting to learn about other races and cultures, even traveling abroad to different lands just to learn about people who are different? Most of the people I associate with are this way. After all; how can you learn or grow if all you do is hang around people who are just like you?
I agree humans like being around each other.
That is changing. I know many people who don’t want children, and though many want relationships, they don’t necessarily want a spouse.
At first you called them “Unchangeable facts of human nature” now you say God can cause humans to change it. Yeah right. Is the fact that more and more people don’t want to have children, and less people are choosing to get married another human nature God is causing us to change?
So…. let me see if I’ve got this straight. You spit out a bunch of empty absurd claims with nothing to back it up, then I counter with a bunch of empty absurd claims of my own with nothing to back it up, then you counter my counter by spiting out even MORE empty absurd claims with nothing to back it up. Wow! that went absolutely nowhere.
Let me see if I’ve gotten this one straight. Moses wrote a book claiming he was chosen by God, and as his prophet he preformed miracles and heard Gods voice when he was alone on a mountain? Lemme guess; nothing other than the book he wrote to back any of this stuff up right? I could do that!
What Moses and his band of slaughters did was wrong; those women should have been allowed to live with their families. Shame on you for defending genocide.
Alter my mind with drugs and I’m liable to believe all sorts of things; I wasn’t talking about that. As long as I am in my right mind, I know the difference between emotional and physical pain.
