Quote (Stu @ Mar. 07 2010,20:39)13% of anglican vicars do not believe in god. They probably believe that Jesus was a decent bloke who said some uesful things. Are they christians?They are not believers if that is the case. They are atheists who have infiltrated an organisation that is suppose to promote God. However, I don't really care about…[Read more]

Ad hominem (people want it to be true and don't like god)Answer: Stu and others like him.Category error (that anyone would think you could use “evolution to disprove god”) Answer: Stu and others like him.No True Scotsman (only atheists promote evolution)Answer: Stu and others like him with a few God believers thrown in.Ad populam (billions believe…[Read more]

Quote (Stu @ Mar. 05 2010,15:28)How many new schisms and irreconcilable differences in doctrine have occurred within the christian cults since 1859?A man called Derek Prince once said, Christians tend to divide over the variables and ignore the absolutes.One thing I can derive from that is that all Christians believe in God. They believe that…[Read more]

Quote (Stu @ Mar. 05 2010,15:28)However, evolution by natural selection has never changed!  There have been shifts in emphasis on the various factors, but Darwin was basically right.  What makes it even more astonishing is that the revolutionary new information about genetics provided by Mendel, Watson and Crick has slotted straight into the f…[Read more]

Quote (Stu @ Mar. 07 2010,12:21)So, at this stage of things, we have an hypothesis.  It is a suggestion based on application of laws of physics, of how a large mass might behave under very high gravitational forces. There is no such thing as proof of black holes, however the visible member of a binary star system that is in oscillation, or the…[Read more]

Quote (Stu @ Mar. 07 2010,12:21)But the fact that you are not telling us what the evidence is speaks volumes about your claim.I could spend hours explaining that, and in my experience, unless a person experiences God for himself, then it doesn't actually change a man because what person is going to change his life based on the words of another…[Read more]

Quote (Stu @ Mar. 07 2010,12:09)We are both apes t8,Are you trying to be friends?

Quote (Stu @ Mar. 07 2010,12:23)Quote (t8 @ Mar. 07 2010,12:14)Yes, the gospel is crack-pottery to those who are perishing.And let's face it, you believe you are perishing too, so no argument from both sides on this one.1 Corinthians“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the…[Read more]

Yes, the gospel is crack-pottery to those who are perishing.And let's face it, you believe you are perishing too, so no argument from both sides on this one.1 Corinthians“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the…[Read more]

Quote (Stu @ Mar. 07 2010,12:09)Sorry to disappoint you with reality then. Not sure about the 'dirty' part.  We are both apes t8, and you have never said what problem you have with that fact.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HominidaeStuartI gave you video evidence that apes are dirty. Do you require proof to be observable or not?

When Black Holes were first hypothesised, it was done so by detective work, not observation. The idea of an object with gravity strong enough to prevent light from escaping was proposed by a guy called John Michell. In 1795, Pierre-Simon Laplace, a French physicist independently came to the same conclusion. So just as the idea of the existence of…[Read more]

Very true.

Quote (JustAskin @ Mar. 07 2010,04:09)Gene,Where?(My thoughts…)From going about converting others from their pagan religions.Because the pagans already believed in multiple gods it was easier to convert others by allowing them to continue believing that anyone who came from, or was associated with, heaven, was a god.Possibly, these were 2nd…[Read more]

Quote (Lightenup @ Mar. 01 2010,13:23)Irene,How do you know that immortality isn't one of the things that the Son gave up, ya know, one of the qualities that He emptied Himself of.KathiGood point.

1) Biological traits involve genes. A gene is an instruction written in the language of DNA code. It has four chemical letters (bases): A, C, T and G. The genetic code which is encoded information, is translated into proteins by living cells. If there was no code Stu, then we wouldn't be able to read it or break it. We wouldn't be able to know its…[Read more]

Quote (Stu @ Mar. 05 2010,15:00)I am extremely privileged to have beaten the odds and been born at all, and especially born of a species with a brain that makes me capable of reflection on my place in the universe. Even better, I have been born after 1859, so I have the further advantage of a complete, evidence-based scientific explanation for my…[Read more]

Quote (Stu @ Mar. 06 2010,21:35)Quote (t8 @ Mar. 06 2010,13:03)Quote (Stu @ Mar. 05 2010,15:00)I am extremely privileged to have beaten the odds and been born at all, and especially born of a species with a brain that makes me capable of reflection on my place in the universe. Even better, I have been born after 1859, so I have the further…[Read more]

Quote (Stu @ Mar. 06 2010,21:48)Translation: If I, t8, can make all this seem too mysterious to bother trying to understand, then I will appear more convincing when I claim that goddidit.Not sure what you mean, but traits are coded genetic information. Whatever the coder has allowed in the code is what is possible with each species.Code like…[Read more]

Quote (Stu @ Mar. 05 2010,15:00)I am extremely privileged to have beaten the odds and been born at all, and especially born of a species with a brain that makes me capable of reflection on my place in the universe. Even better, I have been born after 1859, so I have the further advantage of a complete, evidence-based scientific explanation for my…[Read more]

Quote (princess of the king @ Mar. 06 2010,10:51)p.s. I cannot wait until you become part of the kingdom also, we could play backgammon.If more than 2 can play in the heavenly version, I could join in.