Sure, they are real. It is the understanding of them that matters. I think that the results of careful work by thousands of scientists is preferable to the scribblings of ignorant savages and to the scams of professional liars.
You have been had. That can happen to anyone. The honest thing to...
You have my deepest sympathy. You have been conned by scoundrels.
One has only to read the statements of faith subscribed to by proponents of creationism to see that they are admitted liars.
Such a farrago of word salad from the religious here!
Energy is not a substance but merely a shorthand for describing states of particles.
Why do none of you refer to the notion of process?
As far as I can see, consciousness is just a process happening in certain configurations of matter...
I don't see that that follows. Those organisms that suffer unlucky accidents (eg mutations, disasters etc) get filtered out. Only the lucky survive. Just think of the many, often trivial, happenstances that could have prevented our ancestors from producing any one of us.
I agree that such a...
It's pretty clear. Christianity is pretty clearly cobbled together from multiple other popular religions of the time and massaged to match old testament prophecies to boot. Also, the NT books are clearly not independent accounts but merely cumulative propaganda.
It's just a massive scam. There...
Bah, this guff is just part of the old, old scam.
Believers would have us still ignorant, backward and under the jackboots of greedy clerics.
See what has happened to the Muslim world since they let their clerics get the upper hand.
There is another honest answer , "no one knows yet", that is superior to turning to ancient superstitions and con games.
It may be that insufficient evidence remains to permit an accurate answer. Made up stiff is invalid in that case too.