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    Jesus is not God

    From the meaning of the word "Messiah". As to whether Jesus was a descendant of David, claimed to be a requirement, (a) Paul (Romans 1.3) and the author of John (7:42) assert that this is the case but give no details, not even naming Jesus' parents (b) the author of Mark denies that such...
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    Can Atheists Call Life A Miracle?

    Then the existence of the miracle-worker would be itself a miracle, no? ─ one performed by an earlier miracle worker. And the existence of this 2nd miracle-worker would itself be a miracle, no? ─ one performed by a still earlier miracle worker. And the existence of this 3rd miracle-worker would...
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    A lot Of People Talk About Needing Evidence To Believe There’s A God

    Alas, you and I will never agree on the reality of the paranormal ─ at least, not until there's a satisfactory demonstration of it in reality.
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    On Evolution & Creation

    Well, most of us breath, eat, drink, seek company, seek sexual companions, by instinct. But beavers have never been noted for developing an advanced civilization, and honestly, their cooking is rubbish.
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    Let's Talk About Arthurian Legend

    Yes, White's book was on the shelves at home when I was a kid and I loved it. You'll recall Wart's education where eg he's an ant learning the totalitarian lesson, "Everything not forbidden is compulsory!" ─ I notice that the editions I've seen later have edited out the section where the stones...
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    On Evolution & Creation

    We humans have witnessed the process of evolution. You can find videos of experiments with bacteria on the net. I'm surprised you haven't found them already.
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    If God has free-will, then he's less likely to be attached to any single religion

    But before there are words there must be brains capable of sending them and receiving them, and that occurs late in the history of the earth. Perhaps the first word was the mating sound of a land animal (birds included) that was recognized by its fellow creature and drew a response. Or perhaps...
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    If God has free-will, then he's less likely to be attached to any single religion

    But my question is directed to HOW ─ by what process ─ God's brain, or thinking equipment, makes decisions. For example, the decision-making processes of the human brain are much studied, and feature complex biomechanisms, but they're all sequences of cause+effect (though some eg Roger Penrose...
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    Jesus is not God

    The minimum requirement is anointing by the Jewish priesthood, something that the NT never attributes to Jesus. "Anointed" is what "messiah" means, as does its Greek translation khristos, Latin Christus, English Christ. Paul and the author of John each briefly assert that their Jesus is...
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    Jesus is not God

    I've already given you a sample, but here again are all five versions of Jesus denying that they're God ─ Philippians 2: 8 And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the...
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    Jesus is not God

    Yet Jesus was neither a civil, military or religious leader of the Jewish people, nor ever anointed by the Jewish priesthood ─ qualities defining a genuine messiah. Nor did he relieve the Jews of their Roman servitude and restore their political independence, one of the main themes of those...
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    If God has free-will, then he's less likely to be attached to any single religion

    But unless God's brain (or brain-equivalent) provides God with the mechanisms and procedures for decision-making, all of [his] decisions will be random. Is it the case that all of God's decisions are random?
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    On Evolution & Creation

    No, that was the view of one particular group in one particular region roughly 2,500 years ago. They were followers of a god who first appears in history around 1500 BCE. There is good evidence ─ of a standard satisfactory to science ─ that life existed on earth more than three billion years...
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    On Evolution & Creation

    But at least they're actively looking for the explanation, the practice of reasoned enquiry. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you truly do not know how life started, and you have the additional complication of not knowing how magic works either.
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    The Flood & Worldwide Festivals of the Dead — the connection.

    Yo, mio amigo! I fear we'll never agree that the flood in Genesis ever occurred in reality. I think I've already mentioned what to me are the three leading arguments against it ─ the absence of any universal geological flood layer, over all continents and islands and the ocean floor, the...
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    Mother mary without sin?

    There are five versions of Jesus in the NT and each of them both denies that he's God and never claims to be God. Jesus doesn't become God until the politics of the early church lead to the adoption of the Trinity doctrine in the 4th century. And you didn't answer my question, relating to the...
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    Some scientists believe the universe is conscious

    That's fun to read, but it's all notably fringey. I read Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind shortly after it came out, and I thought his idea of brain functions relying on quantum interactions was completely unsupported by evidence, even if elements of it are ever shown to be correct. And perhaps...
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    Mother mary without sin?

    No. As I said, the NT states that's only true of the Mary of Matthew and the Mary of Luke. It isn't true with the others. Such a remarkable feat, as I said, is only remarked by the author of Matthew and the author of Luke. Paul never suggests such a thing for his Jesus, the Jesus of Mark is an...
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    Mother mary without sin?

    Only the Mary of Matthew and the Mary of Luke, the alternative apparently being that they were raped. There is no Mary of Paul, the Jesus of Mark is a straightforward Jewish man until God adopts him, and John is silent on the matter.
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    A lot Of People Talk About Needing Evidence To Believe There’s A God

    Do they know what real entity they intend to denote when they talk about it? Or do they mean simply a god who's a concept, notion, thing imagined in an individual brain? Perhaps if you undertook to inform yourself on what we know about biology, and what we're still seeking to know, that would...
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