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    On Evolution & Creation

    Not quite. It appears that the Big Bang, marking the beginning ('creation') of our universe happened something like 14 bn years ago. Our solar system formed about 4.5 billion years ago, including of course the sun and our earth. There is evidence to show that the earliest life on earth appeared...
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    The Garden of Eden

    You can see from the headline on that link that five were killed, which is the only matter in contention. If you want their names, and you can't read them there, simple google for them, Why were their eyes opened, do you say, if not because of the fruit? Why is that stated at that point in the...
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    Evolution, maybe someone can explain?

    The alternative explanation is magic, the alteration of reality independently of the rules of reality. Magic doesn't work in reality, but it's not short of fans.
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    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    We can have any kind of God we care to imagine ─ omnipotent, omniscient, perfect, eternal, infinite &c &c &c &c ─ but it will remain purely imaginary, purely conceptual. In the real world gods never appear, never say, never do, but they continue to appeal to a great many people. It seems to me...
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    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    Never know what, exactly? Have you ever met a real God, one who exists in the world external to you whom you perceived via your senses? Or is it all internal, various brain states and imaginings?
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    If we ask God for Proof we must be content with one proof.

    I'm in the same quandary as ever. I don't need proof for the existence ─ in the form of concepts, notions, things imagined ─ of supernatural beings. I can conjure up as many as I wish if ever I should so wish. But if God is said to be real, to have objective existence, to be found existing...
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    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    Why? I've never understood why Jesus was on a suicide mission at all, let alone why such a thing was necessary when an omnipotent God could bring about any state of earthly affairs that [he] pleased, just with one snap of those omnipotent fingers. And if the intention was to spread the message...
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    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    Yes, none of the NT authors ever met a real Jesus. And Mark, the template for the other gospels, is clearly a construct using selected parts of the Tanakh and (so I read) Greek literary forms. The trial scene is modeled on Josephus' account of the trial of Jesus son of Ananias. What seems to...
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    The Garden of Eden

    As to the five who died, you can read about them here >These Are the 5 People Who Died in the Capitol Riot (Published 2021)<. As for not knowing what executive orders are, you can likewise read about those here >Executive order - Wikipedia<.
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    The Void, Emptiness, and Infinite or Eternal

    I'm reminded of Hamlet's words (II.2.240) ─ O God, I could be bounded in a nut shell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. Personally, I doubt that anything literally infinite does or can exist in reality.
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    The Garden of Eden

    And what objective test will tell us whether any alternative version of the folktale gives the actual reason? Or are you saying we're free to rewrite bible stories any way we please? Gimme a break! Have you read the text? Gen 2:25 And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not...
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    The Garden of Eden

    That's true, but fortunately they're not that common. We know from studies and experiments that humans are born with evolved moral tendencies, which make living in tribes / communities possible. These are dislike of the one who harms, like of fairness and reciprocity, respect for authority...
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    Jesus is not God

    The sense in which John's Jesus is one with the Father is explained, for example, in John 17. John's Jesus, like Paul's, but unlike the synoptic three, pre-existed in heaven with God, created the material universe (because their gnostic version of God was exquisitely pure spirit who'd never...
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    Jesus is not God

    The question is easily settled. In an earlier post, I set out the NT quotes where each of the five versions of Jesus denies he's God >Jesus Failed Right?<. And I've previously pointed out the absurdity of the Jesus of Mark and the Jesus of Matthew saying on the cross, "Me, me, why have I...
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    The Garden of Eden

    So tell me why, when they ate the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil "then the eyes of both were opened" (Genesis 3:7). It can't be because God had earlier endowed them with that knowledge, can it. Why do you demand that the story mean something other than what it says? It's only...
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    Hundreds of free articles & books all about personal development!

    The proper study of mankind is man, said Sandy Pope (rather finessing the case that the proper study of mankind is mostly womankind), and often enough the student can form a reasonable impression of what the processes of other individuals are, and equally are not. Of course, all...
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    Hundreds of free articles & books all about personal development!

    No ─ at the very minimum each person dies sooner or later, Some of those will have shown no personal development for decades, whether by their own nature or by mental disorder.
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    The Garden of Eden

    You keep ignoring the datum that in the story God has denied them knowledge of good and evil so it's IMPOSSIBLE for them to choose to do wrong. Until afterwards. And I don't recall your responding to my question whether (although it's only a folktale) you think it's a good idea that humans...
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    Professors, PhDs, Lecturers and all Peer Reviewed Scholars!

    I do both. I debate according to my own opinions and understandings, and when a technical question arise I may if it seems useful or required link a page in Wikipedia or some other accessible work.
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    Trump Slams His Attorneys Then Spends 45 Minutes Defaming E. Jean Carrol AGAIN, and Her Witnesses.

    I suspect the combination of incoherence and irrelevance is costing him votes, so I trust he'll keep on doing it.
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