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[quote="WootahTo my mind if evolution is true then the Christian God chose a process that has taken hundreds of millions of years of death, of animals eating each other, killing each other, destroying each other to randomly arise at the human animal and to then decide to pick that animal to hav...

You only have to start reading. Ignore anything that says God did it, which is basically talking about the global flood and replace it with a major catastrophe such as a meteor, whatever makes it more palatable so you can look at the science. You start to see that the world was formed by catastroph...

He was also baffled by the fact that people who are most against abortion are also most against any sort of social assistance for single mothers. What you describe is true of the US Southern Baptists and their ilk - who unfortunately represent Christianity for many people. What you describe does no...

One more thing about me. I am Catholic. Many sociologists and philosophers think that neither discipline is compatible with being religious. I don't have too many problems with people claiming that my beliefs are irrational, but what is the deal with people who claim to have no irrational and unexam...

Hi all. I am a university student with a double major in philosophy and sociology, so I have to put up with a lot of questions about what I will do when I graduate. I joke that I plan to marry someone wealthy to take care of me for the rest of my life, but more likely, I will go to Japan to teach En...