Nothing dies on the internet; it just becomes legend :)
Damn, how I miss this place!
That story stinks. I wonder where they keep the standard measurements on file.
This is still going? How long has it been now? Did I miss anything?
First the one, then the other. Not everyone attends a good Bible study group, or study the Bible at all. And even fewer people appreciate the...
(EDIT: Replace 'the bible' with 'science' and you'll see the problem with such a statement. While scientists and theologians are fallible and their...
It's obviously been a while since you've read the Bible. An immortal God isn't ridiculous - there's nothing wrong with the internal logic. What you...
Like you said, this is the role the Bible plays - it's the record of a people's experience with a specific God. Israel trusted this God because He...
If with 'religious authority' you mean God, then why not trust Him? If you mean man ("a man"), then why trust him? Or more importantly, why do you...
Religion forms around belief like culture around a country; it's inevitable. It's good. It's bad. It's people.
That's highly ironic, since the definition you're using for 'the universe' was used by medieval philosopher and theologian (double irony?) John...
Hi Jan It is not satanic, demonic, wrong, or any worse than other attempts to explore the ultimate truth behind reality. From what I read, I found...
Laws are codes of conduct that are socially expedient. They fulfil the same function within religion as without, so if anything, religion itself is...
That would be true if that was the definition we agreed on for "the universe", but that is not the classical definition nor the one I had in mind. It...
@Third City The doctrine of the Trinity was an attempt to bring together diverse ways in which God has been encountered and perceived. It is very...
@Fraggle Rocker The apparent strength of cosmological arguments for the existence of God is specifically that they avoid a problem of infinite...
I just found an article in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on some of the relevant points (such as the notion of immutability): Wainwright,...
I was pointing out the fallacy that perfection must be measured on a needs/wants axis. I used the example of eating to show that action does not...
Are we using Aristotle's definition of "nothing to add or subtract", or Empedocles' "potential for development and complement"? (wiki). Even a state...
That you think she can know what you're talking about betrays an assumed reality where your words in fact do not mean something different to her than...
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