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Mohsin, there are so many factual errors in this paragraph alone it would take several posts to correct them. Basically, you have a flawed understanding of what the theory of evolution actually proposes. For example: 1. The theory of evolution does NOT propose that there is no God or that...

So far, so good, by both samabudhi and juantoo3. Carbon dating cannot be used on fossils for two reasons: 1. The half-life of carbon 14 is very short. We probably would not have any carbon 14 in nature at all if it was not being continuously made in the atmosphere through a chemical reaction...

Probably the best way to understand these creatures is as modern descendants of species which were cousins to ancient transitional species. Lungfish especially. Did you know that lungfish appear in the fossil record before fish with swim bladders? And the early land-vertebrates appear to be...

Thanks for the corrected link, samabudhi. I have appreciated your posts as well. But I must take issue with you here. It is untrue to say science is "not on God's side." Science is entirely neutral on the question of God, since God is not of a nature to be apprehended by scientific inquiry...

Actually, Brian, you are referring again to the study of abiogenesis, not the study of evolution. Evolution assumes that life already exists. Abiogenesis is quite a new field of biological study aimed at determining whether and how non-living matter could develop replicative powers and...

No, quite the opposite in fact. There is nothing wrong with trying to live the right way or doing good works. In fact, if one is not doing such works it is a clear sign one is not on the right way. But the motive is important. The atheist who lives the right way can often be closer to...

Indeed, BINGO! and Amen! Also love your interpretation of the Flood.

Oh, I agree with barefoot girl or rather her boss. The right way IS the easy way when all is said and done. Though often it doesn't look easy at first. That is also the philosophy of Tao. When you truly follow the right way it turns out to be the easy way, because it is in accord with the...

Oh, I am glad somebody said it. We fall too quickly and too easily into dualistic oppositions like harsh OT God vs. loving NT God. In fact, all that the NT says about God's love is said in the OT too, and some of what the OT says about God's wrath and judgment is in the NT...

According to Richard Friedman (Who Wrote the Bible?) you are both right. The split between the two accounts is in the middle of verse four, like this: 2:4a "These are the genertions of the heavens and the earth when they were created." (end of first account) 2:4b "In the day that the...

Since I am not committed to a doctrine of inerrancy, it doesn't matter much to me that there are a number of contradictions in the bible when various writers mention the same event. Most of them are quite minor, the sort of thing one expects when oral tradition is passed along different tribal...

Usually it takes more courage to resist the use of violence than to take up arms. Gandhi encouraged his followers to develop the spiritual capacity to oppose evil without violence. But he also said that if one did not have the strength and confidence to be non-violent it was better to resist...

That was Einstein's position. He was a religious person but did not believe in a personal God. More of a pantheist. Sounds to me like you are disagreeing with Einstein on this point. Other scientists with spiritual leanings as well. Those I have read (e.g. Chardin, Capra, Polkinghorne)...

Well sama and luna, You are both quicker than me. But I think we have all come at the defects of the article in different ways and made different points. Sama, I tried the link in your post and got a dead end. Would you check it out and see if a good one can be made? It sounded very...

With all due respect Mohsin, you have derived your information from sources which appear to have mis-understood the theory of evolution. I have studied the theory of evolution (as an interested lay person, not a professional) for 40 years and I have found many errors in the articles you have...

Three cheers for Gellman and Hartman. A really great response. We need more people like them. I saw only a small factual error, here: "Darwin thought genetic mutations made people, animals and plants different," Darwin didn't think that, because he didn't know about genetic mutations...

Your information is correct. The first Christians, like Jesus himself, were all Jews and observed the Jewish sabbath. When non-Jews were accepted into the church (and there was a huge controversy about that) they were exempted from keeping the sabbath, but Jewish Christians continued to do...

For Juantoo3 No I was not properly quoted, nor was I quoted in context. Whether you have my name attached or not is irrelevant. I would prefer, in fact, that you leave my name attached. I am prepared to stand by my words. Whether I misinterpreted what you intended or not, I don't know...

There is some good and some erroneous information in the quote. It is true that "the diet of any animal corresponds to its physiological structure. " and that the human digestive physiology is similar to that of our evolutionary cousins, the hominids (which she calls by the earlier term...

I am not vegetarian myself, but both my kids are. They are very aware of the factory farm issues you raise and for that reason try to use no animal products at all. In other words they are not just vegetarian but vegan. And it is precisely the moral issues involved in the treatment of farm...