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  1. Forever_Catholic

    The flaws in Intelligent design

    One of the growing disadvantages to evolutionists ever since the theory was published has been all the scientific progress that disputes it. But since the scientific community wants to keep it viable despite that, new theories must be introduced to support the old one. So now we have theory...
  2. Forever_Catholic

    The flaws in Intelligent design

    Maybe she'll put one together. Meanwhile, thanks for your support.
  3. Forever_Catholic

    The flaws in Intelligent design

    Did I say I was? I'm saying I don't buy it and explaining why not. Try putting forth a real argument.
  4. Forever_Catholic

    The flaws in Intelligent design

    There can be remarkable variations within a species, as we have learned through selective breeding of plants and animals and as we have observed in the natural world. This property enables adaptation, and survival, so it's obviously part of the design and already within the genetic code as...
  5. Forever_Catholic

    The flaws in Intelligent design

    Darwinism is contrary to Catholic teaching, but the Church does not prohibit Catholics from believing that God has used some form of (unspecified) evolutionary process(es) in creation. I don't. The Church is infallible in matters of faith and morals, but the Pope is not infallible in his...
  6. Forever_Catholic

    The flaws in Intelligent design

    If you ever decide to seek God with a sincere heart and a receptive mind, then you will come to know Him as a reality. You will recognize his responses to you. You might even have a miraculous conversion experience. This sort of first-hand knowledge is definitive proof for any individual who...
  7. Forever_Catholic

    The flaws in Intelligent design

    We disagree on all these points, of course, but the statement above is worthy of special notice for how it cracks me up. "... the evolution of life is virtually assured" -- That's funny!
  8. Forever_Catholic

    The origins of religion

    Looks like It goes back 300,000 years or more -- probably more. Fossils of Neanderthals have been found in graves along with stone tools, animal bones, and flowers. The flowers have been disputed by some because only the pollen has been detected so far, not the flowers themselves. This is...
  9. Forever_Catholic

    The flaws in Intelligent design

    These arguments do not avoid the existence of the intelligent designer. That's the core of the whole debate. You might expect that His existence would more clearly be the central focus, but the arguments for and against go all over the place by necessity. "God exists - He does not; Does too...
  10. Forever_Catholic

    Why did God give us physical body if spirit can live?

    And we will have new bodies, as described by Saint Paul.
  11. Forever_Catholic

    God - Is this knowledge the ultimate aim?

    There can only be one truth. Truth is known in Christian Faith, and tons of truth has been revealed by science, but it has also been selectively ignored, suppressed, rejected, and disputed by the scientific community. This is not only as pertains to creation, but to a wide variety of...
  12. Forever_Catholic

    Why did God give us physical body if spirit can live?

    God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent. He doesn’t need a body. God the Son does have one, being that He is both fully human and fully divine, but that is for our benefit, not for His own. As for us, we are immortal souls, whether in or out of the...
  13. Forever_Catholic

    Can the dead be contacted according to your tradition?

    Right. They are spirits. The human soul is everlasting, and does not lose consciousness or enter into a state of nothingness after physical death. Jesus, has both divine nature and human nature. Although he is God the Son, he was born as the Messiah like a human. He also died like a human...
  14. Forever_Catholic

    Can the dead be contacted according to your tradition?

    Then you should unite your will with God's will and use the gift as he intends. Sure, if a demon has attached itself to you or your house, you can tell it to get lost. And then what?
  15. Forever_Catholic

    Can the dead be contacted according to your tradition?

    And it is convenient for Protestants to explain Catholicism as though they have some expertise on it when they know absolutely nothing beyond the ignorant propaganda that other heretics have fed them.
  16. Forever_Catholic

    Can Satan be reconciled with God?

    The root of his evil is his pride. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, who didst rise in the morning? how art thou fallen to the earth, that didst wound the nations? And thou saidst in thy heart: I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, I will sit in the...
  17. Forever_Catholic

    Can Satan be reconciled with God?

    Satan will never be reconciled with God because his will to oppose God is fixed in place forever. It is the same for all of the demons. And the angels in heaven will never decide to stop serving God because their will to serve him is fixed. Angels and former angels lack the option that humans...
  18. Forever_Catholic

    Can the dead be contacted according to your tradition?

    Well okay, I guess you could call it a blessing as the term is used in the general or earthly sense, but not as in to sanctify, in the sense that a priest is given Christ's authority to bless a person or house or object, etc. We know from a private revelation given to Saint Faustina that even...
  19. Forever_Catholic

    Can the dead be contacted according to your tradition?

    Conjuring, magic, witchcraft, taro cards, and all that stuff are intended to satisfy some desire without God or even in opposition to God's will. The occult is part of Satan's world, and it is Satan who makes it work.
  20. Forever_Catholic

    Can the dead be contacted according to your tradition?

    Jews believed that all the dead went to Sheol, which they did. Every human who ever died prior to Christ’s crucifixion went to Sheol. No one could go to heaven because it was closed to mankind due to the disobedience of Adam and Eve. And no one went to hell because God, in his mercy, did not...
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