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  1. Autodidact

    Christians: Why aren't you Muslim?

    Exactly; I commend you for your honesty.
  2. Autodidact

    Five Reasons to Believe in God

    There is no I that is separate from your physical body. There is an I. It is made of cells. That is what chooses. The process of choosing is a physical/chemical/electrical/whatever process. This process = choice. btw, I don't think we can predict from input to output, and don't know that we...
  3. Autodidact

    Creationists, please provide evidence

    Archeology.
  4. Autodidact

    Christians: Why aren't you Muslim?

    This is what happens when your brain has been shaped from infancy in a certain way. Look at what this person is saying. God could have just forgiven your sins, but that would not have been just. So He impregnated a virgin and arranged to have His son killed as a sacrifice for you, and now...
  5. Autodidact

    Christians: Why aren't you Muslim?

    Christians aren't Muslim because they were raised in Christian families and Jesus has been built into their brain from infancy. Muslims aren't Christian because they were raised in Muslim families and Muhammad has been built into their brain from infancy. The exceptions are too few to matter.
  6. Autodidact

    The problem with religious morality...

    I would say that religious morality tends to focus less on compassion for suffering, and more on purity taboos. So e.g. the Yemeni recipient of Norwegian assistance would criticize Norway's low marriage rate, use of alcohol and other drugs, tolerance for nudity and depictions of nearly naked...
  7. Autodidact

    Speciation

    That's what I thought you said. Yet you classify a placental mammal and a marsupial in the same kind, which doesn't meet your definition at all. Earlier, you classified creatures as being the same kind, although they were not in the same family at all. You seemed to say that any two creatures...
  8. Autodidact

    Speciation

    Because a couple months of poking around on Google enabled you to know better than all the Geologists in the world. On account of scientists being idiots. How do you know? btw, where are you getting 8 my? My Googling finds more like 30 my.
  9. Autodidact

    Five Reasons to Believe in God

    I have a different view of this. There really REALLY REALLY is no I. There is no little person sitting in the cab, driving the meat-mobile. The sum total of all of those chemical/neurological/atomic/whatever interactions is us. There is no other you than that. So yes, you have free will, in the...
  10. Autodidact

    The problem with religious morality...

    How about the poor guy who reached out to steady the Ark of the Covenant, and got, IIRC, killed for his trouble?
  11. Autodidact

    The problem with religious morality...

    You believe that God has communicated certain things to us. 99.9% of humanity believes He has communicated quite different things. You believe that God has been clear in His communication. What accounts for everyone else being wrong about what He wants us to know, and you being right?
  12. Autodidact

    Five Reasons to Believe in God

    Again, you seem to see reason as a separate, somewhat mystical realm, discrete from the physical world. As I said, I think you're a Platonist. Our brain does things, and produces results, and we call it reason. Sometimes it even is. It doesn't cross over from a physical world to a non-physical...
  13. Autodidact

    Speciation

    If you don't know what a kind is, how can you tell whether any two creatures belong to the same one? (7)
  14. Autodidact

    why would anybody want to be catholic?

    What's one and the same? The Church and the Bible? Not really. The Bible is a compendium of writings from many centuries, by many authors, written in several languages, and containing history, poetry, theology, commandments, barbarity, absurdity, and beautiful literature. If it is a teaching...
  15. Autodidact

    why would anybody want to be catholic?

    Other than being factually correct.
  16. Autodidact

    The problem with religious morality...

    Yes, and the 99.99% of humanity who thinks they are different from what you think are just...mistaken?
  17. Autodidact

    Five Reasons to Believe in God

    Oh, I see. I thought you meant something else. I guess I don't see "reason" as an abstract substance or object. Many organisms have functioning brains, and we have the highest functioning, in most ways. I see it as more of a spectrum. If you have a functioning brain, it is able to process ideas...
  18. Autodidact

    The problem with religious morality...

    Too bad he doesn't let us know His views, so we're left to muddle through on our own as best we can. So if you're convicted of a crime you did not commit, and sentenced to life in prison, you cannot see that as unjust? And of course, suffering is part of our existence, so no reason why not...
  19. Autodidact

    Do you support marriage rights for homosexuals?

    Actually, as this poll shows, both Catholics and Jews are more supportive of gay marriage, with a large majority of Jews supporting it.
  20. Autodidact

    Do you support marriage rights for homosexuals?

    They believe that discrimination harms everyone, and ending discrimination benefits everyone? They're fundamentally decent people?
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