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Well Chaz; You have done it again. Your post shows that you are so clear in your reasoning, so accurate in your logic, so sharp in your insights, that I am just blown away, stunned, awed. It is clear that I will never be able to keep up with the intricate twists and turns of your mind. So I want to ...

Chaz is correct here, but to clarify, the "Scientists" who claim evolution is 'random' would be those who are trying to discredit evolution as a scientific theory, and many of these are creationists masquerading as scientists. This seems to be a very biased explanation. I am not a creatio...

NO way. All science is based on determinism; that for everything there is a cause. Granted. But that cause is not always physical matter. Evolution is not random selection - and I challenge you to find ANY scientist that says this. I can't even find a scientist that will state that other species ha...

I'm a bit puzzled by what you mean by this sentence; "Third, I believe that "random chance" is nonsense and science is not going to find any answers as long as they keep putting their faith in neurology." Are you asserting that these two things are connected? I don't think scien...

Hello Members; I have been here for a while, mostly lurking, and think it is time to introduce myself and see if this is a place where I can continue my studies. For the last year I have been looking into philosophy forums for answers and information; been banned from two of them, once by my own req...

Is it helpful to draw a line between experience and knowledge? As example, we can experience the sun on our face, without having any idea what the sun is. Maybe it's a star, or a god, or magic, or an alien being, or a force, or something beyond our understanding, but the sun on our face still feels...

Felasco and Thedoc;

I have enjoyed and been studying both of your responses, but am tired so I will respond tomorrow.

Thank you for your interest,

Gee

Hello Gee, Sorry for the delay in answering. . . There is no need to apologize, as I am often slow myself. I have good days and bad days and can take up to a week to answer a post, but always appreciate a considered answer to my questions. I do not try to justify the Bible, I believe it is very int...

Great post Gee, thanks. We're on much the same page. You are very welcome, and thank you for saying so. Sorry it took me so long to respond. Basically, what they are saying is, based on this "invalid" information, something that I know nothing about can not possibly exist. That kind of th...

Hello NIkolai and Arvind 13; This is a very interesting thread, and I have enjoyed reading it and thinking about the ideas contained within. I do have some questions and thoughts that I would like to share, so I pulled various statements out of your posts to address them here. Indeed, but Christian ...

Thedoc; I have actually enjoyed your posts and had hoped to have some discussion with you; but I don't really like to argue about religion. If I have misunderstood your motives, then I sincerely apologize. There are a lot of people who try to justify the Bible and religion by drawing comparisons bet...

The 10 Commandments - Christ's Summation in the New Testament About 1,400 years later, the 10 Commandments were summed up in the New Testament at Matthew 22, when Jesus was confronted by the religious "experts" of the day: "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"...

Mike: Thank you, but please note that it was not my intention to outline a "Do It Yourself" instruction to create a new religion. Rather I intended to offer an understanding as to why religions become so diverse. Often people will take the diversity in religions as evidence that they are i...

Hello Gee, I was in a conversation a week or so ago with a person who stated that there is no law that is not included in the 10 commandments in some form. If you can think of any law on the books, apart from obvious technological details, let me know. Thedoc; Please note that I am not a lawyer, I ...

Hi everyone; I was just skimming this thread and found the statements regarding secularization interesting, so I thought that I would relate a conversation that I had in another forum about law. We were discussing how the "old common law" of England was brought to the US as a base for our ...