My choice as yours is irrelevant and No, I don’t know who may agree or disagree with my beliefs, we’re all different individuals with different views/choices. Every one is free.
I’m only trying to provide some insight with respect to the question of this thread “is there more?” Yes, there is...
True, but you cannot make this leap directly from atheism to accepting ethical teachings of religions. To shift a naturalistic/materialistic mind towards the acceptance of the ethical teachings of religions, you must first address the fact that there are aspects of reality beyond the limited...
The principle of causality.
Every time you repeated “How”, you acknowledged the principle of causality and the need for explanation. Causality is a self-evident logical principle that governs all entities (of all kinds) in our realm. Without it, there wouldn’t be any basis/meaning to our...
If you believe in God, then you believe that everything in existence other than God is a creation of God. No exception.
If you believe that things (such as pathogen, parasite, disease, pest, volcano, earthquake, tsunami, hurricanes, tornado, extreme weather, venomous insects/snakes, poisonous...
As you said, “mediated by changes in genes”, that is exactly true.
In an article dated 2013, James A. Shapiro, a biologist and expert in bacterial genetics said, “Research dating back to the 1930s has shown that genetic change is the result of cell-mediated processes, not simply accidents or...
What interpretations? There are no interpretations. The NDE studies are concerned with the documentation of the NDE experiences and the verification whether the reported experiences are true or mere imagination/hallucinations.
The evidence proved that the reported events/details and visual...
Evolution is a false interpretation of the observed adaptation.
The evidenced directed adaptation phenomenon was incorrectly understood as random microevolution, which in turn led to the speculation of the unevidenced macroevolution.
Mechanisms of the assumed macroevolution were initially...
It’s not the same. “Born/gradual growth” ≠ “started from non-living matter/evolved".
Birth is as an execution of a very complex plan that give the creature all required system for survival from day one. If any of the essential organs (heart, brain, lungs, liver, kidney, etc.) doesn’t exist or...
I already did but you don’t want to accept it.
Contingents (relative) entities of all kinds are not explainable without a non-contingent entity (absolute entity) at the end of the chain. Here is a quote from a previous post.
“Since all items in the entire chain of causally dependent entities...
No, without a self-evident reference, nothing can be defined. Evidence itself has no meaning without getting defined through the reference of logic (principles of inference). But what defines any principle/logic? What defines "common sense"? without an absolute, nothing can have any meaning.
You are still talking about relative references as they interact; a relative perception is not a defining reference. I’m talking about the independent self-evident absolute that defines all relatives
If you go further back in time, the common ancestor of tetrapods (including humans) is allegedly Tiktaalik.
Let alone that there is no established lineage (coherent evolutionary developmental line of gradual transitional variants) from the alleged common ancestor to modern humans, but there is...
No relative entity of any kind would have any meaning without a defining reference. At the end of the chain, relative entities may get its meaning by being referenced to each other but collectively, at the roots, it must be grounded in an absolute.
A rational argument is not about which position would better help you to win a false argument, it's about acknowledging the facts when/if you are aware of it. A rational/ethical argument wouldn’t be doomed; it would be respected and appreciated. The purpose of the forum is to share...
I never advocated for the EES. How many times should I repeat?
In a nutshell, Neo-Darwinism/Modern Synthesis (MS) contradicts empirical evidence of latest science, the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES) is not agreed upon. This is where the ToE stands today.
Without an agreed upon, coherent...
Sure, we are different individuals and what you do has to make sense to you not me, but as individuals, would it make sense if everyone of us maintains his own different answer to the exact same question? Is it merely a matter of a relative perception of an individual? If this is the case, what...
At the crossroads, it’s not enough to know that you have options. You have to make a choice. If you don’t, you stay stuck at the middle of the road. You don’t get anywhere.
If you are really neutral about the subject matter and open to possibilities, check the line of evidence in the link below...
It’s actually refreshing to see ethical, rational argument from the opposite side. I appreciate it.
Mere denial/dishonest tactics to force a flawed view without any willingness to understand the subject matter only reflects that the person is neither confident about his own position nor can...