Just to echo revoltingest's post but take it further, what about amputation of ear lobes? Little toes? Other body parts which no longer perform a significant function and can, rarely, get injured/infected?
In essence circumcision is a medical procedure. Medical procedures performed on people...
I think that reasonable moral grounds could be raised from the hospital scenario.
You have 2 partners, both go into different hospitals with serious conditions, where do you go?
Either way you have someone in need of their partner, in need of love and compassion who you are forced to let down...
I find it interesting how little of this discussion ahs focussed on belief.
"Following Jesus's Teachings" is all well and good but plenty of people follow an interpretation of them without believing in Jesus's divinity or any divinity at all. Surely believing that there is a god and that Jesus...
The only argument I've ever heard in FAVOUR of young infant circumcision is that it hurts less and heals better. So assuming someone is going to have it done, it's better to have it done before they're old enough to choose.
However, other than in specific cases (frenulum breve, phimosis etc)...
I may have missed it while scrolling through the thread, but i assume the point has been argued that if the future is indeterminate (ie we have free will, there is more than one possible future) then an omniscient beings foreknowledge is necessarily probablistic at best?
Agreed, this directionality was in the public conciousness before ToE was conceived properly and then when it was dumbed down for the public became co-opted into it. It's a pain.
The best way to talk about evolution is not about what evolves or what survives but what dies. In a population...
No, I have a hunch that there will be sausages in the grill when I get home. I'd say It's slightly more likely than not that there will be. But I don't believe there will be sausages. I'm so unsure about it I wouldn't call it a belief. You can think something is slightly more probable than not...
Just my two cents but this is how it has best been described to me.
There are two claims, linked but seperate
1 one (or more) god(s) exist(s)
2 no gods exist
If you believe the first you are a theist and necessarily disbelieve the second.
If you believe neither you are an atheist (weak...
Umm, I'm not sure that's quite right. I think believe might be higher than "above fifty" because There are thniks you think are probably more likely than not that you wouldn't say you believed were true, just kind of had a hunch. And everything below believe is not believe btu an equal distance...
In answer to the OP. I think a teacher needs to be careful with mocking beliefs. Even when those believes are absurd to the point of self ridicule.
Stating the facts "No scientists accept creationism", "Creationism is a veiled attempt by the religious to subvert science" etc. and possibly a...
Ok, the use of the term evolutionist marks this out as a post the almost certainly had an agenda to being with, however, the point your making is false.
While it is true that there are assumptions made in all the sciences the difference in the type of assumption made between science and...
Hello, thought I'd pop in and say Hi.
I'm new to these forums and so doing the whole, reading the rules, learning the terms, signing onto the new members threads etc. etc.
I've not lurked here so It's all fresh and I'm sure I'll get to know a few of you.
I'm a young (18-25 age bracket)...