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I love /sic/ your candidness. For one person to have different beliefs than another does not mean one is igniring or "denying" science. It means that different people, with different backgrounds and experiences, looking at the same bits of evidence, reach different conclusions. That happens in...

A little. There were one or two organized groups in the UK a few decades ago, but I lost contact with them. Likewise with USA Faithists. One was liturgical, which I hadn't expected. At least a couple of them published newsletters. But they all seem to have diminished in size and activity. Wing...

I have eaten insects, worms, spiders, and scorpions. All very unexciting. The issue for me is not whether I would eat them again, but whether someone plans on forcing me to eat them, overtly or covertly.

Thanks for clsrifying, Thinking Required. My apologies. I wasn't aware you were asking for something other than '[radically] changed', nor of the difference between 'changed' and 'transformed'. I have seen people (atheist, apathetic, cultural Christian, Muslim in name only, Mormon) undergo very...

I have to believe the Adi Granth also radically changed lives, uniting some who were formally Muslims and some who were formally Hindus. It, too, and the deuterocanonical Dadam Granth, were written in multiple languages by multiple composers and compilers. This and Zorastrianism and...

I have also heard testimonies of several people who said their lives were completely changed for the better by accepting the Quran. Of course Islam, like Christianity, has an incredible diversity of sects. Not just ones like the Ismaili, but numerous Sufi groups that show little similarity to...

I have found that reverently held Zoroastrian writings are interesting, probably no more self contradictory than the Bible, and in my opinion fairly consistent. Hymns, laws, letters, prophecies, cosmology, creation, future salvation are areas addressed by these writings. I don't know how many...

Church of the New Jerusalem? Faithists (Oahspe), New Apostolic Church, I AM, Scientology, Church of Man, Mahikari, Soka Gakkai, Unity, Subud, Vang Chu, Tonghak/Donghak, from which have come many new Korean religions - Chondogyo, JeungSanDo, Shincheonji, more. China has many new also, many with...

Those usages are not attributions of partners to Allah, but references to the concept of Allah having partners, which the Quran consistently denies.

Hi Muhammad Isa. I am very confident that consciousness continues after the brain ceases functioning - "ceases" as currently defined. Even "anecdotal" accounts had me almost persuaded. As I poured over the few methodological studies I had found, I was persuaded more and more. I was skeptical...

Hi, Muhammad Isa. I can imagine some people reading your post may think of hunger as not having much to eat or missing a couple of meals in a row, rather than going a week or two with no food but grass and seeing no help in sight, watching people turn into skin-draped skeletons; and lack of...

Finally, I am confident that no one living today, including my own hyperpositive expansive openminded self has any better chance at correctly predicting human conditions and capabilities as they will be one big billion years from now than our unimaginative protoancestors of one billion years in...

Obviously, I wholeheartedly disagree. Not being an atheist, and believing humans are more than animals, I do not share your sense of hopelessness and despair. But to each his own.

Nothing to contribute at this point. Just wanted you to know I will be looking into his writings.

It doesn't make sense!? Wow. That's remarkable. Anyway, I was not addressing the overall affect of one species on others, but on the relative indispensibilty of kingdoms in relation to one species, and of the alleged dispensibility of one species in relation to other kingdoms combined. And I...

Okay. It would be a pity, though, if before one thousandth of that time will have passed, mankind would not have brought life, including its own, to other planets. In a billion years, which is for me an unimaginably huge number of days and nights and generations and incredible discoveries and...

I don't know. I suppose indispensible to each other and possibly to whatever the Grand Purpose of the Universe is. That wasn't my point. My point wasn't "to", but "for". A relation 'to' might be for the purpose of possession or self gratification. The examples I gave were of the nature of...

But if all the bears were taken away, or all the deer, or all the frogs, or all the turtles, or all the gophers, or all the giraffes, or all the armadillos, or if all the bison were taken away, life on earth would still flourish. So would humanity. That is how insignificant four legged creatures...