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A Rene Descarte disciple huh? If my awareness is all that's real, maybe I'm the "God." But working from the position that reality may not in fact be real and resorting to view mired in solipsism gets us nowhere. The given we should all agree to start with is that reality is in fact real. From...

Why do you equate seeming orderliness with a need for a deity? How exhaustive of a search did you do before establishing your PREFERRED conclusion? Have you considered other ways order may have come about? Have you researched how order can arise from chaos? How do you know this to be true? Are...

As an agnostic person as it relates to theism as well, I too can speak to this. First, I am agnostic because I have not been presented with any convincing evidence that the god(s) of religious texts actually exist. With that being the case, there is no anointed one (Christ) since no god has been...

I'm once tried to rationalize hell myself. As it turned out, my studying of the bible led ME to believe that hell as an eternal place of torment was not fully backed by scripture. The Rich Man & Lazarus

There are some variables. Are you aware of the ones listed.

How familiar are you with how evolution and genetics go together?

What about genetics?

I get that you assert this. My question is why do you. Do the geologists and other scientists make this claim that "things were exactly as they are today" in the past?

Speciation is the evolutionary process by which populations evolve to become distinct species. The biologist Orator F. Cook coined the term in 1906 for cladogenesis, the splitting of lineages, as opposed to anagenesis, phyletic evolution within lineages. It is further noted that speciation...

How so?

Micro and macro evolution aren't scientific distinctions. Why do you separate them?

Please elaborate on this assertion.

Genuine scientific inquiry should not accept any narrative as a starting point. Science starts with data and follows the story the data tells.

The words above paint the best picture for why faiths of all kinds came to exist. We are so very arrogant when it comes to discerning what (namely us) is truly valuable. If there are gods, they made us in their image or they made us to partake in a special divine purpose. We are either innately...

Why do you view it that way?

Just an FYI "When the animal or plant dies, it stops exchanging carbon with its environment, and thereafter the amount of 14C it contains begins to decrease as the 14C undergoes radioactive decay. Measuring the amount of 14C in a sample from a dead plant or animal, such as a piece of wood or a...

Micro Evolution is not a thing outside of creationist sects. Evolution via natural selection is just, evolution.

Carbon dating is but 1 form of radiometric dating and it is very accurate for more recent (<50,000 years if memory serves). There are many other radiometric dating methods.

Thanks for the insight @marks

I have heard this phrase uttered countless times related to all sorts of things like relationships, a child going off to school, and various other endeavors. I know the roots come from Matthew 6:33, but I'd like to inquire of the forum what each of you who say this mean when you say it. Is it...