I'm with Koldo on this. Lego isn't sentient. Lego can't drown and experience pain and fear whilst doing so. If you take a literal reading of the story, then this is what your god did. All because of 'sin' entering one species??
I didn't watch it. Over the last few days (weeks? months?), this is all we have had to put up with. It dominates the news, the papers, and every second programme on TV is some wedding-themed nonsense. Now that it's all over, hopefully we can actually hear about what's happening in the rest of...
Good question. I've wondered why non-humans had to perish in the Noachian flood for the apparent sins of humans. If god wanted to wipe out sin in humans, then surely it would have been easy enough to get rid of just the humans. Why the biocide?
Mike, you seem really torn apart by this. It truly is worrying. Please don't forget that it was humans who have calculated this date, and is thus prone to error. Keep that in mind that it could be wrong.
Get through the next few weeks and when the day comes and nothing has happened, please...
I'm the same. Obviously you are going to protect the children in this scenario, but it doesn't lessen the feeling of remorse that another family (albeit non-human) has been killed.
I would either remove the animal to another location, or avoid the area in which they inhabit. I couldn't kill...
No, it's a creationist-bashing thread (!). Plenty of believers accept evolution. The evolution professor at my university was also a part-time Anglican minister. He saw no conflict between his science and his faith.
Yes, that sums it up for me, too.
The debates here on evolution vs creationism are long-drawn out affairs, with no middle ground. I read them simply because so many interesting links to current evo research are given by Painted Wolf, Auto et al. The creationist camp merely tries to pick holes...