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    Online Reference: Selected Sites Denying the Theory of Evolution

    First, like the whole of science, the mapping of evolution is a work in progress. Science doesn't make absolute statements. But its statements from time to time are backed by examinable evidence, and explicit reasoning from that evidence. Second, the alternative to science is magic ─ the...
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    Online Reference: Selected Sites Denying the Theory of Evolution

    Not really. The case for creationism is totally unsupported by examinable evidence and is no more difficult to refute than any other folktale of magic.
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    By the way -- if you claim to be a Christian...

    Paul, if I recall aright, used the wind as an example of an unseen force. But as you know from all those hours you've spent testing things in wind tunnels, just add smoke and you can see what the wind is doing. (Or as a song from my infancy put it, Who has seen the wind? / Neither you nor I /...
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    The Pursuit of Knowledge vs. The Pursuit of Wisdom

    They're not insults. They're statements of the problem you're continually not addressing. There is no substantial difference between the manner in which God exists and the manner in which any character in fiction, including Mickey Mouse, exists ─ namely as a concept, notion, thing imagined in...
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    By the way -- if you claim to be a Christian...

    Hmm. Interesting theology. From my PoV the problem is to pinpoint any real examples of such an 'unseen force'.
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    The Pursuit of Knowledge vs. The Pursuit of Wisdom

    The same thinking that tells me Spiderman and Mickey Mouse aren't real. Named Spiderman? Or named Mickey Mouse? Yes, unfortunately for your argument, it is. When you say or suggest 'supernatural being', I continue to reply 'If you assert that this being exists independently of anyone's concept...
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    Cain's Sacrifice.

    That simply means that our perception and our understanding of reality alter over time and place. Reality remains the same. So as I said at the start, we are going to disagree.
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    By the way -- if you claim to be a Christian...

    The rûaḥ (often transliterated as ruach and various other ways) in the Tanakh is, I gather, the 'spirit' of God, not as a distinct entity ─ though after the adoption of the Trinity doctrine the Christian 'Holy Ghost' became such ─ but simply a manifestation of God [him]self
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    The Pursuit of Knowledge vs. The Pursuit of Wisdom

    The question of the manner in which any supernatural being exists, of course. Either God is real and so can be found in reality, the world external to the self which we know about through our senses, or God exists only as a concept, notion, thing imagined, in an individual brain. If God is...
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    By the way -- if you claim to be a Christian...

    Just read the definitions again and make a decision,
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    By the way -- if you claim to be a Christian...

    Without taking sides between you and @Trailblazer, I note that the NRSVue (the latest version of the good ol' RSV) translates Ecclesiastes 12.7 as ─ 7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it. My point is that the Hebrew of the original, rûaḥ...
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    Why is there anything at all?

    It seems to me to have the virtue of being fairly brief, but it's entirely indecisive. My reply to it would be to point out that nothing about the universe appears to require any kind of overarching intelligent being, so it's at best an argument from ignorance. The only people who are actually...
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    Cain's Sacrifice.

    You rely on your sense perceptions even when you're asleep, to keep you safe and to achieve your purposes in the world external to you. You know that we have instruments to detect for us and to measure phenomena that our senses aren't good at, eg light frequencies above and below our evolved...
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    Cain's Sacrifice.

    Reality, aka objective reality, is the world external to the self, which we know about through our senses. For the entities you speak of to be real, they must exist out there in reality, and not merely as notions in particular brains, indistinguishable (as to their category) from characters and...
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    The Pursuit of Knowledge vs. The Pursuit of Wisdom

    Yet I've pointed out to you what seems to me the major problem with your argument, and you've made no reply to it. Perhaps if you were to clear that up, we could move on to lesser problems.
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    The Pursuit of Knowledge vs. The Pursuit of Wisdom

    In my respectful submission, if you can't show God has objective existence, is more than a notion (very usually acculturated), then the only thing God can be is purely conceptual / notional / imaginary. And since on my part that's the result of careful and informed thought across quite a few...
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    The Pursuit of Knowledge vs. The Pursuit of Wisdom

    God never appears, never says, never does, has no definition appropriate to an objectively real entity, and is only known to exist as a concept, notion, thing imagined in an individual brain. So if you're arguing that God is a concept / notion / thing imagined in an individual brain, then yes...
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    How can YHWH be the FATHER?

    According to my reading, the Tanakh was written mainly in Hebrew with some parts in Aramaic. And the NT was written only in Koine Greek (the language of administration and commerce in Roman Judea &c, and also influential in literature). There was formerly a claim that the gospel of Matthew (in...
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    What do you like better?Showering?Or bathing?

    Though I stand in the bathtub to shower, I don't think I've had a bath for many decades, certainly not this century. A shower is much quicker and more convenient, and effortlessly can include a shave too.
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    Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr exposes democrats for what they really are.

    It doesn't make Trump a fit human to lead the US in my view ─ but yes, it sounds like a benefit.
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