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(Alpha and Omega;53851) Is this the only occurrence? No, it is not. Some other examples of observed speciation are the Scarlet Robin splitting into two species (Petroica boodang and Petroica multicolor), the Evening Primrose, and the Drosophila, to name a few.(Alpha and Omega) Furthermore, this...

(Alpha and Omega;53773) I have one. How about the fact that God said Adam and Eve were the first people on earth. good enough? If you believe in the absolute inerrancy of the bible, that would settle the matter. However, the fact remains that there is no coherent scientific objection to...

Interesting that people seem to have so little to say about their actual reasons for not believing in evolution.

(waquinas) So the physists is in no better a position than the theologian; IOW at that point it becomes a matter of faith to him that cyclical universes are possible and that it explains it all. So you are admitting that belief in God as the creator is unfounded, and purely a matter of...

(waquinas;53447) Some people are just not happy no matter how full the cup is. I think you can sympathize with them since only two people have ever experienced that full cup. Most of our cups are quite empty by comparison.(waquinas) Common on, there was ONE THING, ONE THING in the whole world...

(waquinas;53331) Actually that would change the entire physics of the world we know - if an egg were to cook on my stove at 100 degrees F, then we would need different bodies to keep from cooking ourselves when born. When asking these questions (valid as they are) it is often useful to consider...

(waquinas;53291) Happen to think burning my hand on a hot stove or biting my lips are bad things. In that case, God allows this bad thing (evil-not good)in order to prevent me injury. But I doubt that is what you were referring to. IOW when we say evil we could mean many different things. The...

(waquinas;53288) Lunar,Do you have children? No, I do not have any children; I'm gay.Why do you ask?

(kriss) It is our contention God created everything that's why there is not random chaos in the universe. As I said above the only other explanation is it all came together, by accident that's not an explanation its a lack of any other explanation. kriss:What you are doing is looking at how the...

(waquinas;53286) Before philosophy went crazy in the "modern" era the ancients arrived at the existence of a soul using pure philosophical logic, totally outside religion. I tend to believe they were correct in this logic. Out of curiosity, which argument are you referring to?

I am not trying to convert anyone "away from God." I'm just hoping they'll better come to understand scientific fact. Evolution is not mutually exclusive with God.

I see a lot of Christians criticizing evolution, both on this board and elsewhere, but very seldom do they offer their reasons for it. There are a few standard criticisms of evolution, but very few of them hold any weight. I'll go over them here.Evolution is just a theory.This criticism confuses...

kriss: Your post claims that Russell's argument "falsely sneaks in the assumption that God is in the category of things that require causes."Why must the universe be in the category of things that require causes? Isn't it just as plausible to believe that the universe is uncaused as to believe...

treeoflife: That's a lot of preaching, but you didn't actually address my point. I know what the Bible says already. You still didn't offer a response as to how preaching the Gospel could possibly be good if the only unforgivable sin is its rejection. And the only insight that you've offered...

(treeoflife;52889) To me, it is a mystery. All I know is that we ARE SAVED if we have believed in our heart that Jesus is Lord, receiving His payment for our sins that was done as a perfect sacrifice for us. But you go to heaven even if you're ignorant of Jesus in the first place, so what's the...

(thesuperjag;52881) Not exactly true either. It sounds like a hpocritical statement to me. Well, that is what I am getting from treeoflife's post. The only way for someone to go to hell, according to him, is to first hear the gospel properly, and then reject it. If they do not hear the gospel...

(treeoflife;52867) Have they? I won't make any doctinal statement on the matter... but if a person hasn't heard or properly been given the gospel... how can they reject it? How can they commit that sin without an oppertunity? No sin... no condemnation. No condemnation... no hell. Jesus has...

(treeoflife;52853) I also believe there is but one sin a person can commit that would keep them out of heaven... that is blapheme of the Holy Spirit--rejecting Christ for the atonement of your sins. Like I said - sheerly by virtue of the fact that they aren't Christians, at least 4.7 billion...

(treeoflife;52796) Well, we know that God allows evil to exist obviously. You said God necessarily allows evil to exist. Did you mean unnecessarily? You could have said either one and I sincerely don't know which one you intended, but thought you might have meant *unnecessary*, since it would...