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Any thoughts? Yeah. I wouldn't trust this Trudeau guy any farther than I can throw a piano with three full-grown elephants sitting on it. And, yes, I have seen some of his "infomercials". He's a con-man, pure and simple.

I've long referred to this theory as "everything is true". And I'm awfully fond of it sometimes, because I tend to be intellectually allergic to the idea that there is only One True Way and anyone who does not choose it (which ever "it" the individual latches onto) is doomed to eternal torment...

I was interested to know your reasoning for including The Book of Mormon on this list.

You've forgotten a category in your poll: Major portions of both the Old and New Testaments, in depth, but not the whole thing. Certainly, if the Gospels and Psalms but not the rest gets a category, this should as well.

Thank you. That is just the sort of thing that I was getting at, although I'm not sure that Catholicism is larger than all the other Christian denominations combined. Still, a lot of other denominations also do not accept YEC. You are also correct that I wasn't making any judgment as to who...

I'm not quite sure what you mean by that, Quahom. I'm not "speaking for" anyone. I was just commenting on the statistics as I understand them to be.

As far as I am aware, literal belief in the Genesis stories of creation is a minority position as far as Christian belief worldwide. It sometimes seems like there are more adherents to the literalist view than there actually are because those who do accept Genesis as the literal truth tend to...

Nah, juantoo3, I'm still here. Only I'm living much closer to McLane High School now. ;) I was actually on campus once last summer, visiting my best friend, who teaches history there during the summer. I get over here to the boards once in awhile, but not as much as I'd like. Quahom...The...

Quahom...The thing with science is, if something is left out of an experiment, not thought of, or otherwise wrong with it, that will likely be caught, if not in the first instance, then when another scientist replicates the experiment - which is the hallmark of science. A result must be...

I haven't read everything in this thread (because I want to respond to the issue raised without being swayed by other responses), so forgive me if I am revisiting ideas that have already been covered. It makes me uncomfortable to put science and religion in exactly the same category. I would...

Sounds like good news all around.:)

I thought all three of those were funny, Bob. I do have to say that I liked "...and they're still gossiping about it" the best, though.

Just a gentle reminder to all you merry-makers...most Eastern Orthdox churches celebrate Christmas at a different time than most Western Christian churches, and not all Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate on the same day. So, "how many days 'til Christmas" is sort of a relative question.:)

I am a complete believer in the six degrees of separation (or the six degrees of Kevin Bacon, as it is sometimes called:) ). I wasn't when I first heard about it, in an article in the late, lamented Omni magazine. I think it was on the games page, but I can't remember for sure. It was a long...

I don't mean to be disrespectful, but the above idea is as much a misunderstanding - or a deliberate misstatement - of what the theory of evolution says as is the idea that it teaches that humans evolved from apes. I really wish that people who want to refute evolution would have at least a...

There are a couple of different ways to look at this. First, from the perspective of how can God know what we will do, but we have free will to choose what we do: These two conditions are not necessarily contradictory if God is outside of time. We choose what we do, but because God is outisde...

Well, I guess I just don't accept your premises then, Chela. So I suppose that there is no point in even discussing it any further. I most certainly do not believe that humanity is a cancer. I choose to see the good in humanity, and I choose to believe that there is more good than evil. I see...

I did not say that the civil authorities should get involved in church attendance. I was merely stating the historical fact that in some of the American colonies before the American Revolution (that was before the Bill of Rights and separation of church and state), the civil authorities did in...

You know, I don't mean to be argumentative, but I firmly believe that God wants people - including children - in church because they want to be there, not because someone is forcing them to be there. Certainly, you don't think we should go back to the bad old days, such as in some of the...

My suspicion is that calling this or any other sexual practice between consenting adults or by an individual on his or her own "wrong" or "evil" has more to do with human insitutions, such as religions or governments, wanting to control individuals than it does with God disapproving of them. Of...