I think you will find if you spoke to any Jehovah's Witness they would know a GREAT deal more about evolution than any other person you are likely to ask. People often confuse being well educated with being wise, I have met many well educated fools.
Out of all religions if there is a God and if...
I love Ecclesiastes as well, it is so 'human', nevertheless I am not convinced by your explanation, he actually says, "the dead know nothing" sometimes things are meant to be taken as they are without looking for other explanations.
It appears from the other verse that no-one had gone to heaven...
I find your thread thought provoking but I would like to ask you to consider a possibility.
For the sake of argument let us accept there is one God, a creator of everything.
In the Old Testament God choose the Jewish people and gave them laws to keep them 'separate' from the pagan religions all...
If you believe we have a 'soul' which continues to exist after we die I would be interested to know what you make of these verses.
“The dead know nothing . . . There is no pursuit, no plan, no knowledge or intelligence, within the grave.” Moffat Ecclesiastes 9:5
When they breathe their last...
I think if you look up the 10 poorest nations on Earth you'll find in the population has a very small percentage of Jehovah's Witnesses.
I don't think they are told to seek higher education means one is arrogant or haughty. From their point of view it makes sense not to waste time on such...
One could use the same argument of any denomination not least Catholics many who live in the poorest nations on Earth. The one's I have met have been kind, genuine and yes there's even doctors and scientists among them!!!
You are correct, no bible I can find says it was John, I assumed that to be the case because of what metis said, I should have checked.
From what I can discover it is an assumption because of what is said in other scriptures that John was the favourite of Jesus but really there is no evidence it...
I think in better translations.... a person is fined if no fatality occurs to either child or mother but if either child or mother is fatally injured the assailants should be put to death.
Why would anyone want Mary to pray for them, surely the sacrifice Jesus made should be good enough, it paved the way for people to pray to God through Jesus.
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:6
I think you are...
I did not say Joyce made a statement that life could not have arisen from RNA, what I said was he has admitted this hypothesis is not accepted by everyone in the scientific community, find statement on p.147 I think.
Sorry, still not fearful, if as you seem to believe when we die there is nothing then none of us will know we didn't go to heaven or that we are not going to live forever.
Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould labeled the fossil record an “embarrassment.” This is why Gould and Niles Eldredge had to come up with their fanciful theory of “punctuated equilibrium,” otherwise known as “punk eek.”
Of course there is the Cambrian period when there was a huge explosion...
Yes NASA actually employ astrobiologist's who are exploring asteroids to try and explain the chirality problem.
Creationists may misquote but I am discovering that many here are bullies, some of us do have a life outside of this forum and other interests on other forums.