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I think if you truly want to believe something, science will make a way for it to be explained ... at least on paper.
I asked, didn't I?Pretty much. I think we're living inside of God.
Do you seriously think a question so stupid deserves reply?
You WILL get your proof and you WILL kneel. The only question is whether it is before you die or after.
Then discard it. ALL proper nouns are capitalized. If you say a god it is not, but if you say God it is capitalized.
Personal eyewitness testimony is not hearsay.
Between any two allegedly transitioned fossils we should see hundreds of "tweeners." We don't. We see fully formed life forms with no evidence whatever of transition. There shouldn't be fossils in deserts or mountain peaks, but there is. There shouldn't be fossils where there are other predators because they would eat the remains. We still find them. We find millions of animals buried quickly and encased in sediment, which we would expect from a global flood.
We can observe a color wheel in motion. Increasing complexity has never been observed.
False. Multiple claimants giving the same testimony in the absence of an alibi or any exculpatory evidence will send you to prison every time.
Burned any witches lately, or do you just revel in anachronistic metaphors?
Blasphemy is not allowed.
You nearly drowned. Drowning is a cause of death.
Actually, NDE's that include encounters with a deity are extremely rare. It's also rare to see an angel or demon and survive, because that means you're clinically dead. You're more likely to see a bright light or a loved one.
You knew my ex wife?
Who sent the atheist?
I notice you're still alive.
Why did Job?
They usually do not.
God didn't apparently need to appear to her to give her peace, the image of her daughter was quite sufficient. Here's the lesson you need to learn. It's the secret to it all.
Sorry, but no.
Well, there were eggs before there were chickens.
Did you know that in honeybees, the males develop from unfertilized eggs? They are not XY, they are just X, and they are missing not just the X chromosomes but have just half the usual number of chromosomes. And in chickens, the males have ZZ chromosomes while the females have ZW. What was your question again?dcalling said:
Well if I understand that sentence fragment, I would simply point out that a lot of them aren't missing anymore. We've found a great many since Darwin wrote.dcalling said:
Evolution is not revolution. It takes a very long time to observe speciation in long-lived species, with long generation times. It has been observed in viruses, bacteria, mosquitoes and fruit-flies though.dcalling said:
We have observed new traits in species. In some desert rats for instance we have observed the appearance of mutations that change fur color from tan to black and because the species has been so well studied, we can, tell just how often the mutation will appear in a population of known size.dcalling said:
someone please shoot me
I would like to point out that there is no clear and definite line between the chemistry we call "life" and the chemistry we do not call life. When you look really close, there are things like viruses that seem alive only when in the special environment of a living cell, where specialized chemical processes are taking place. None of these processes are unique to life. The same rules of chemistry apply. "Life" is just a convenient way of loosely relating some sorts of chemistry. So, for that matter, is "psychology". Scientists have mapped the "spiritual" activity of the brain. "Knowing" is like an emotion. It can arise with no reasoning at all.
We do what we do. Sometimes we know why, and sometimes we just make up a story to tell ourselves about why we did what we did, and like Flip Wilson's Geraldine, we might say, "The devil made me do it!" Paul of Tarsus made himself wretched because he would do what he "knew" he shouldn't. It's no devil. It's just one part of our brain, the amygdala, acting before the reasoning part of our brain has even figured out what's going on. And sometimes the anterior cingulate cortex where such reasoning as we are able to do takes place, can actually change how we react. Mostly though, it just makes up stories and excuses.
And most people, for most of human history, have believed what made them comfortable, what society wanted them to believe, because if they didn't at least pretend to believe, there was the rack, and the stake, and the gallows, and the stoning field.
I have walked nearly seventy years through the horror that is the human race, and I learned early on to keep my mouth shut if I wanted to live un-tortured. Here I can speak with out alienating my family.
Religion is delusion, and if you back a religious person into an corner, he will react viciously, just like any psychotic person. I cannot blame people for being religious. They are, in fact, not sane, because of their beloved, self-protecting delusions.
"The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point dhonneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion. Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo."
