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  1. Lux rationis

    I want to know what people think (Free will VS Determinism)

    Life is like a card game. We have free will to the extent that we may play the cards in our hand the way that we see fit. However, the game occurs within the framework of a deterministic outset wherein we were dealt a certain hand to begin with and we're not free to change that. Some people...
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    Are the details important?

    But here, Yid, you're leading us down the very slippery slope that you were initially railing against, i.e., substituting conceptual adherence for strict adherence to Torah law. Your premise question was whether or not the details were important. Inference replaces details with generalities...
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    Who Believe the Earth is 6000 Years Old???

    Sorry. That leaves us with an average family size of only 39 children per couple. But that includes modern times right up to today. Since we know that global average family size has been under 8 throughout the common era, we'd have to have families with more than 50 kids prior to the...
  4. Lux rationis

    Who Believe the Earth is 6000 Years Old???

    The planet's current population is 6.8 billion. Running the geometric progression backwards over 325 generations (13,000 years) gives us an average family size of around 87 children per couple. Does that sound reasonable to you?
  5. Lux rationis

    Is God a Woman?

    Sex isn't necessary to produce offspring; there are plenty of organisms that produce either by division or by parthenogenesis. However, sex is necessary for genetic variation of progeny and consequently for evolution of species. I see no reason to assume that God would have chromosomes at all...
  6. Lux rationis

    Are some Christians "really" humanists?

    I think there is a fundamental difference in how progressive and conservative Christians view the Bible and what its function is. Progressives are much less likely to take the Bible as a monolithic word-of-God authority. They recognize it as a collection of 66 to 73 books that was written by...
  7. Lux rationis

    Zygote to Person

    If fundamentalists can accept the materialistic miracle that an individual human can develop from an individual cell over a period of 9 months, why can't they accept the materialistic miracle that humans as a species evolved from single-celled organisms over a period of 4 billion years?
  8. Lux rationis

    Baha'i Apologetics Anyone?

    Apologetics and science are in some sense dialective opposites. In science, the method of arriving at conclusions -- rationalism -- is presumptively valid and nonnegotiable, but the conclusions of scientific inquiry are tentative and subject to revision. In apologetics, the conclusion is...
  9. Lux rationis

    Are the details important?

    Hmmm...okay...I'll keep this in mind next time I catch myself coveting my neighbor's ox.
  10. Lux rationis

    What is the purpose of our lives on earth?

    I think that you're confusing entity and purpose. Physical entity is that which exists as a particular and discrete unit. Purpose is the intended outcome that guides one's actions. Both flowers and bees can function for a number of different purposes depending on which agent of purpose we...
  11. Lux rationis

    It really isn't possible is it?

    That is surprising. A reasonable person would have different levels of confidence based on mutual confirmability. Most people are inclined to be more certain about that which is reinforced by universal witness. No sighted person in the world would deny the existence of the red binder, if you...
  12. Lux rationis

    Existence of God

    The question presumes that belief is voluntary, which is a highly questionable assertion. We often speak about the existence-of-God question as if it were the entry-level test for becoming a person of religious conviction. But that happens for only a few. For most believers, it is a moot...
  13. Lux rationis

    Prove that humans aren't blind to God's existence

    Not really. One of the basic tenets of ontology (the branch of philosophy that studies the nature of existence and the distinction between empirical existence and conceptualized existence) is that reality must be based on mutually-shared observation. If I hold an apple in my hands and put it...
  14. Lux rationis

    Broadcast coverage of Olympics as religion

    Having just finished watching 2 weeks of NBC's coverage of the Beijing Olympic Games, I feel like I've seen a short-lived religion in the making. The games themselves are what they are: highly-conditioned primates running, jumping, somersaulting, cycling, and hitting or throwing a variety of...
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    What is the purpose of our lives on earth?

    Yes, I think that is the definitive answer. One must draw a distinction between that which really exists and that which we have legislated into being through conceptualization. Humans are inexorably drawn to story. We desire a conflict-filled narrative with protagonists and antagonists that...
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