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  1. David M

    Is the POPE really HOLY?

    Would you like to provide evidence on whether all 1 billion Catholics actually hold that the Pope is more than just a man chosen by men to head the Catholic Church? As to wether he is holy that would depend on the definition chosen.
  2. David M

    The Golden Rule and the Punishment of Crime.

    Because if I committed a crime I would want others to impose an appropriate punishment such as imprisonment.Which conforms with the Golden Rule.
  3. David M

    God Recreated the Earth 6,000 Years Ago!

    Strata with marine fossils interspersed with strata of land fossils do not teach a flood, they teach a long geologic history of changing environments. That 98% figure is pretty meaningless as the overwhelming components of that number are marine shellfish. What it essentially shows is that...
  4. David M

    The Value of Life

    It is absolutely more expensive to execute someone in the US than to imprison them for life. Figures from the Utah Legislative Fiscal Analyst's Office show it costs Utah an additional $1.6 million per inmate from trial to execution compared to life-without-parole cases You have to take in to...
  5. David M

    The Value of Life

    My objection to the death penalty is "Why do we accept killing people who haven't killed other people to show that killing is wrong". If killing an innocent person is morally wrong then the government killing an innocent person is also morally wrong, and the facts cleary show that innocent...
  6. David M

    An email I sent to an evolution prof at my alma mater

    And you fall at the first hurdle, science does not claim that we are the top of any "evolutionary chain". The rest is typical creationist ignorance and misinformation.
  7. David M

    Challenge for atheists/ atheist position

    Wrong yet again. Agnostic theists certainly do exist and have always existed.
  8. David M

    Challenge for atheists/ atheist position

    Made up words are not going to change the fact that the terms I used do already have definitions. There are gnostic theists, agnostic theists, gnostic atheists and agnostic atheists. If someone has not heard of a deity then they lack belief in that deity, which makes their position on that...
  9. David M

    Challenge for atheists/ atheist position

    Nope, gnosticism has to do with whether the answers to things can be known (rather than believed). No detail is required to be an atheist, for example there are certainly a large number of proposed deities that I have never heard of, my position on those deities is one of atheism as I lack...
  10. David M

    Theocracy vs Secular State

    I think its more that they have not even considered the possibility that it won't be their specific brand of religion that is in charge.
  11. David M

    God Recreated the Earth 6,000 Years Ago!

    Neither Suetonius or Pliny wrote anything like "There are a bunch of Jews following Jesus, whom they say resurrected." which was your contention, and in any case Pliny's writings about Christians are 2nd Century, not first. So you are still stuck (at best) with a single first century historian...
  12. David M

    Show me definitive proof your religious text isn't entirely made up.

    I said I was being pedantic. No its not entirely made up, it references things that are historic. To be entirely made up it would need to contain zero references to real places and events.
  13. David M

    Evidence showing evolution from one species to another

    What evidence do you have the he did so for "future less biased generations", that tombstone dates from 2 decades after his death. The "status quo" was not "energetics", there were 2 schools of thought at the time and both had supporters, Maxwell and Gibbs certainly supported Boltzmann. You are...
  14. David M

    Evidence showing evolution from one species to another

    Strange how you omit to mention the scientists on that list did not question the status quo and still committed suicide. Boltzman was well regarded, his position had a lot of support from other scientists. It was not popularity but the evidence that led to his equations being confirmed as correct.
  15. David M

    Show me definitive proof your religious text isn't entirely made up.

    Which just establishes that that Bible contains a whole load of stuff that was made up. Jericho was a real place, as was Jerusalem and just as Pilate was a real person and was Prefect. So the Bible is not entirely made up.
  16. David M

    Show me definitive proof your religious text isn't entirely made up.

    No one disputes the Jericho was not an actual place, so the OT is not entirely made up. What is purported to have happened there can be entirely fictional but the place itself isn't.
  17. David M

    There is no evidence god does not exist

    Crap, thread necromancy. Nvm.
  18. David M

    There is no evidence god does not exist

    No, we don't all agree these are wrong. I only agree that one of these is morraly wrong under all circumstances and that is because the definition of the act can only entail harm to another without their consent.
  19. David M

    Show me definitive proof your religious text isn't entirely made up.

    Just to be pedantic, if the religious text references even one historic event or place then it can't be entirely made up.
  20. David M

    Evidence showing evolution from one species to another

    Again your demonstrate your ignorance of what the Theory of Evolution actually states, its the "My Grandparents are dead so my family is extinct" argument again. Were you even remotely aware that some genes are highly conserved (those related to vital metabolic funtions for example). A new...
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