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Dan said "I don't know if you can successfully choose to believe anything you want." Actually they can. We see it all the time. In intellectual processes there is not usually any drastic results. In the physical realm it is a different story indeed. One can believe they can jump out a ten story...

Just out of curiosity. How do you know that the oral tradition was translated into the written word without any change whatsoever? We are talking almost 1400 years ago. How can anyone possibly know what the oral statements were? Also, once the Quran was canonized, didn't ibn Affan order all...

So passion is the cause of evil? There are no 'good' passions?

According to Hat and me, too! It would be of great interest to find out where you learned your version of logic. Cause there is nothing logical about it. Plus you continue to simply ignore anything you don't want to hear. Like the definition of what a 'scientific theory' is. Who says so...

I do not pray though I do meditate. And yes, to meditate on something is simply a tool for focus. The something, whatever it may be, has no part in the end results.

Thomas said "Blaming institutions is easy. It's also usually inaccurate. People are the problem." Sort of like that old saw "I have nothing against with humanity. It is people I can't stand." Eh? ;) Your comment interests me in other ways too. Blaming the institution = wrong. Blaming the...

An attempt to use causation to decide whether an uncaused thing exists leads to circular reasoning. Shib this is where you lose it; where your version of logic is faulty. This is why you cannot understand or believe your big questions have been answered. Your If/Then statement is flawed - I.E...

According to him all matter has an essence - even a piece of rock that contains "life" or divine spark (which is the same). This certainly fits with our current understanding of the foundation of this reality within which we live. All the Cosmos is energy. Many different forms of energy to be...

Are you saying that love of self is wrong? I do not understand.

Hello and welcome. Many traditions here. Sample to your heart's content!

It's simple. Combine Daltor and Ulak and what do you get? Daleks! Dr. Who is always having problems with them.

Uh. No. Not just like that at all Wil. The Founding Fathers were mortals last time I checked. They could not know what 200 years in the future would bring. God is eternal. All knowing. He did know what moral problems would pop up 2000 years later, or 2 million years later. He's God! He could...

What now indeed! From what I can tell, they are making it up as they go along when it comes to modern ethical dilemmas. The all knowing, all seeing, all everything everything God knew this stuff was coming. Why didn't God cover modern ethical issues as well in the good book?????

All the really good miracles happened thousands of years ago, where they are safely removed from any scrutiny.

Okay I see what you are saying now. Lots of religions say their way is the only way. Their religion above all others. Their version of God above all others. Shib is not doing anything differently, except being a bit more pompous about it. Is that racist? Maybe it is. I'm not sure.

Shib I specifically pointed out the day to day reality of proven science that opens up all the amazing things we can do. My point, which seemed kinda obvious to me, is that there is an enormous amount of science we take for granted in our day to day lives. You go back to your old and tired...

Hat, According to Snopes.com, a site I trust to have the straight scoop, the frog staying in the boiling water is completely false. It is an old folk tale, no more. As the water gets hotter and hotter a frog will make more and more attempts to jump out, and if the rim is low enough the frog will...

Maybe. One has to remember that the extinction event of the dinosaurs was but the latest of mass extinction events. There were four mass extinction events before the dinosaurs. Each event led to new forms of life taking the main niches. What new form life might take after an extinction event...

Interesting you should put it that way. The way I perceive social conditions, it is the lack of affluence that is causing complacency. Most folks in what used to be called the Middle Class are fighting for their lives. Making enough money just to keep a household afloat has become the norm, and...