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  1. Forever_Catholic

    "Many U.S. Catholics Question Their Membership Amid Scandal"

    The Catholic Church has been under attack by evil influences from within and from without since Christ established it. But widespread abuses by some members of the clergy have been intentionally overlooked and/or addressed only in efforts to hide offenses rather than to confront them and...
  2. Forever_Catholic

    The flaws in Intelligent design

    I have found that it always goes about the same way in these debates. One particular guy on another forum is the classic example to me. Wasting no time in our interaction, he basically limited his whole argument to little more than two statements repeated over and over. 1. There is no...
  3. Forever_Catholic

    The flaws in Intelligent design

    We could just say that evolution is the evidence, which is pretty much what is said already. But it isn’t. What we see for certain in every fossil ever discovered is a result. What we have not seen is the cause. Nobody has observed it. If the evolution theory were a crime that generations...
  4. Forever_Catholic

    The flaws in Intelligent design

    No evidence is not a negation. There have always been innumerable physiological features common throughout the animal kingdom in different, more or less developed forms appropriate for different species in their respective time and place. That can indicate intelligent design with at least as...
  5. Forever_Catholic

    Book of Revelation, what is it? Good, or bad? [Vote

    It is an immensely valuable book of scripture and has excellent references for backing up Catholic arguments in religious debates (provided that the person being debated believes the Bible).
  6. Forever_Catholic

    The flaws in Intelligent design

    Okay, these articles have to do with Meckel’s cartilage; its development from the cartilages supporting the branchial arches in early fish to the mandibles in vertebrates. The primary focus here is on its development from reptiles to the Eutriconodonta order of early mammals. The articles were...
  7. Forever_Catholic

    The flaws in Intelligent design

    Thanks, I'll read those.
  8. Forever_Catholic

    The flaws in Intelligent design

    And what you're doing now is throwing out a line of atheist BS.
  9. Forever_Catholic

    The flaws in Intelligent design

    He did. You know who he is yourself, evidently well enough to prescribe what his duties are.
  10. Forever_Catholic

    The flaws in Intelligent design

    I'd guess you have no real interest in communicating with God at all. But if you do, you couldn't go wrong with "Father." That's what Jesus calls him. That's what he gave us in the prayer. "Our Father who art in heaven..."
  11. Forever_Catholic

    The flaws in Intelligent design

    I said no other pope but Pope Francis "made a case" for evolution. Pius XII did not make a case for it. The Catholic Church does not stand in the way of people believing that God put some form(s) of evolution to work. This may be regarded as not conflicting with Catholic belief, but the...
  12. Forever_Catholic

    The flaws in Intelligent design

    I don't recall asking or seeing that question. But now that I know where you're coming from -- according to Catholic teaching, no one is held accountable by God for things beyond their control or knowledge. That does not mean that ignorance of God is any fault of His.
  13. Forever_Catholic

    The flaws in Intelligent design

    Alright, God could present Himself in such a way, so as not to interfere with our free will. He surely could. Apparently he does on a case-by-case basis. Many people have reported having had miraculous conversion experiences, but none of them were in a state of denial at the time. None of...
  14. Forever_Catholic

    The flaws in Intelligent design

    Do you think this stuff is conclusive enough to validate the theory?
  15. Forever_Catholic

    The flaws in Intelligent design

    What's arbitrary about related species vs unrelated species?
  16. Forever_Catholic

    The flaws in Intelligent design

    It seems to have become fashionable among atheists to use the "it" pronoun in reference to God. I'm seeing that a lot.
  17. Forever_Catholic

    The flaws in Intelligent design

    I know for myself by his response to my prayers. That's where we really get into something that one person can't prove to another. The proof is in the one-on-one interactions with God. And the proof is not generally available as an up-front sort of thing where God must validate himself in...
  18. Forever_Catholic

    The flaws in Intelligent design

    You can see for yourself that your will is a primary component of your being. Your will is basically the boss that presides over desire and intellect. If God created people pre-wired to believe, love him, and obey his commandments, he'd just have robots. It would be like using a love potion...
  19. Forever_Catholic

    The flaws in Intelligent design

    Sounds okay so far.
  20. Forever_Catholic

    The flaws in Intelligent design

    I'm certain that God does care about you. He loves every soul and wants each one to believe and love him back, but he doesn't "make" that happen because he wants it to be by their free will.
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