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So, before we discovered the existence of the geomagnetic field, pigeons weren't following it because we didn't know that's what they were doing? Claiming that you believe in God, doesn't mean anything. Do you believe the people who say "I'm a good person" are always good people? It's fine if...

I posted this before, but I'll post it here again. I see "survival" as a self-centered animalistic instinct that we're all saddled with, "conscience" as a divine instinct that keeps reminding us of our true nature, the part that's made in the image of God. There always is a tug-of-war between...

Care to elaborate on what 'all else' is that influenced us (humans) and shaped our mentality beside "survival of the fittest"?

Then please explain how humans have developed genuine compassion on their own thru the law of natural selection, aka "Survival of the fittest".

That is not what I meant. One doesn't have to believe in a god to have genuine compassion. But God has to exist for genuine good to exist. Unselfish compassion that does not seek returns is one of them.

Lumen Christi

How do our social conscious perceptions manifest ultimately? Because there are so many different social perceptions in the world. Would they be the most popular opinions/mentalities of the particular time and in the particular culture that the majority of its members agreed? If this is the...

This is a very different way of seeing the universe from mine, but I like it. It makes me kinda imagine a whole universe as a living body and we are the cells of the body. Just like our body has an immune system to fight against diseases and repair, healthy parts of the body help restore the...

This may be an apt quotation for militant atheists from the great Einstein. “The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against traditional religion as the "opium...

So, you believe like I do that our lives on this earth are not a random event? Bear with me, I still don't quite have a good grip of what the Deism/Pantheism is that you believe in. I'm trying tho. If it wasn't random, there has to be an 'intention', does it not? If it wasn't random...

Oh I believe many have. People who lost their loved ones, people who became penniless or are buried in massive debts, people (especially kids) who are bullied, often in the cyber-world ... the list goes on. Well okay, you could say that those people are also "in pain", not physically but...

This is a spin-off from another thread "In the beginning". Since I think the discussion has shifted outside the topic of the said thread (from around post #57 - Page 3), when I made the comment below : So ... Why is everyone's life valuable? Some would say, "What? Do you have to ask? That's...

DA, Tea, I've created a new thread in Belief and Spirituality

DA, I gotta run. Let me reply to your thoughtful post in a thoughtful manner it deserves, sometime in the next week. ;)

We are so sick of a binary choice, aren't we? (Hillary or Trump :p) I'm always interested in hearing other choices that I did not think of, as to why all our lives are valuable. The part I made bold, that's "your own personal perception", which means yours only ... ? Another person can...

DA touched upon the very reason I was forced to change my mind about the existence of God. What I mean by 'forced' is that 'logic forced me' to reconsider my worldview. DA is spot-on on this point. And my question would be "Why is that?", "Why do we feel that way?" ... I'd think humans are the...

K ... then we're even.

Is it any better to believe in multiple universes when there's no evidence then?

Since when do you worry about hurting my feelings? LOL ... I am touched tho ;) My example of a bonfire and fish, is not completely impossible to happen by chance. It can, theoretically, happen if all those wind, lightning, a twister happened exactly the way described in the story. It is 99.9%...

A new friend of mine is a Sunday school teacher. He explains about our 'miraculously precisely-tuned planet' to kids giving an example like this one. Even though this is too simple of an analogy intended for kids, I'm kinda impressed with the simplicity of the story. There's this deserted...