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  1. J

    Which presidential candidate are you voting for in the 2012 election and why?

    Yes, it's true; Romney committed a gaffe. Do you know what a gaffe is? A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.
  2. J

    Which presidential candidate are you voting for in the 2012 election and why?

    Yes, we are good; not perfect but pretty darn good. Ask yourself a question: Whenever there's trouble anywhere in the world like earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, etc, who's the first on the scene with medicine, food, blankets, doctors, amd all sorts of relief? Is it China? Russia? Saudia Arabia...
  3. J

    On the origin and function of minds

    It may not make any sense, but we have 150 plus years of evidence resulting from the work of top-notch scientists in many fields which indicates that that is indeed the case.
  4. J

    Which presidential candidate are you voting for in the 2012 election and why?

    Which presidential candidate are you voting for in the 2012 election and why? I will vote for Mitt Romney because Mr. Romney, like me, believes that free market capitalism is the road to prosperity amd economic health for rhe U.S. This is in stark contrast to Mr. Obama who is an anti-capitalist...
  5. J

    What makes religious people convienced that god(s) exist?

    there has been much give and take here regarding the existence or non-extistence of God or a deity of some sort. There has been no mention of the hereafter or an afterlife. Is it reasonable to assume that a belief in God goes hand-in-hand with a belief in an afterlife? Is it reasonable to assume...
  6. J

    I don't trust religious people anymore

    Certainly!!!.....Highly intelligent folks are not immune from being deceived. Wily politicians deceive people all the time who are far from stupid. And when it comes to deception I think a case can be made that theologians and churchman are as good at it if not better than wily politicians!
  7. J

    I don't trust religious people anymore

    I think the important thing to remember is this: religious people are not stupid. That is quite true; religious people are not stupid, they are deceived.
  8. J

    What makes religious people convienced that god(s) exist?

    Let me provide some food for thought concerning this matter. Let's ignore beliefs for the moment and focus on what we know. We know, as a result of scientific inquiry, that the universe we live in came into being some 13.7 billion years ago in a brilliant flash of radiant energy known as "the...
  9. J

    I don't trust religious people anymore

    I tend to agree completely that there is not a shred of evidence to support the God claim of theists, theologians and religionists. These beliefs are based on so called holy books such as bibles, korans, talmuds, etc which are believed to be of divine origin. The fact is they are not of divine...
  10. J

    I don't trust religious people anymore

    It would be helpful to know how you arrived at your present belief system. You indicate that your mother was a person with religious beliefs. Therefore it would seem to follow that you were raised in something of a religious environment and had a religious faith as a child and perhaps well into...
  11. J

    The bible "It's own enemy"

    It seems to me that believers in the bible make certain distinctions they ought not to make. For instance information therein which they like, is interpreted literally. On the other hand, information which conflicts with their cherished notions is dismissed as metaphor, parody, allegory, etc...
  12. J

    The bible "It's own enemy"

    The bible is its own worst enemy because it promotes as fact that which recent discoveries in various sciences have shown cannot be true. For instance: the story of Adam & Eve, the story of Noah's Ark, references to creatures that have never existed such as talking snakes and donkeys, unicorns...
  13. J

    The bible "It's own enemy"

  14. J

    The bible "It's own enemy"

    Mythology?.......Yes..........Proof positive that a creator or first uncaused cause does not exist?.........NO!!!!
  15. J

    what makes a scripture true ?

  16. J

    what makes a scripture true ?

  17. J

    what makes a scripture true ?

    If we take the position that the brain is the originator of consciousness and that consciousness is merely a property of matter, then, yes, there is nothing further to say. But the problem for that is that these cases of near death experiences keep popping up; cases where there is no measurable...
  18. J

    what makes a scripture true ?

    Well, yes, near death experiences are one piece of evidence. Investigations into the paranormal by physicists, doctors, researchers, etc are yielding startling results. One of the most powerful pieces of evidence is the Scole experiment which was a rigidly controlled scientific investigation...
  19. J

    the right religion

    Sir, when you get you get to be my age, you'll use large type also. Now, to business. The idea that biblical prophecies coming to pass and "scientific claims unknown at the time" prove divine inspiration is false. All this proves is that thousands of years ago, there were people, just like there...
  20. J

    what makes a scripture true ?

    it is a fact that at some point in their lives, intelligent, insightful people arrive at the conclusion that the bible is mostly mythology and that the theologies of the world's major religions consist of error. Unfortunately at this point these folks become either agnostic or atheistic and...
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