The term, "When does life begin", is often used in discussion surrounding when to afford specific rights to human embryos or the human fetus. This came up for me in another thread.
In an off-the-cuff remark I stated that life began billions of years ago and life has been a continuum since that...
The living Earth happens to be in a sphere with N lifeless planets.
The probability of this event to happen was P=Q*V, where Q<1 is the probability of life to emerge on an Earth-like planet, V=(1-Q)^N is the probability that life has not emerged on N planets. Hence, by increasing the size of the...
Can God create a stone that He cannot lift?
Answer: no, the Omnipotent One cannot make
such a stone because it is a suicide, and the latter is sin. Any sin is an act of non-existence.
Because sin is emptiness, the absence of
any meaning, the God of Existence and living
does only existent...
There is absolutely no evidence that intelligent and/or complex life exists elsewhere in the universe. So we must assume that we are alone in the universe and must be the only intelligent life that exist in it. Couple that with my belief that God does not exist, I feel somewhat sad and more...
Is there a greater purpose than personal happiness? What is that purpose? And how is it greater?
This is happiness in the sense of contentedness, or fulfillment.
"Are you happy in life?" is not asking if you are always merry. It is asking if your life is, on balance, a fulfilling one.
The Whole Ordeal of Segregation is to Keep People in Context Whereby in Which they Can be Seen, Diversed to the Knowledge of the Privileged, Theirby Formally Known of the Sadducees and Pharisees of This Common Age Upon Which Enlightenment is Permitted in Grasp.
Through it The Understanding of...
I put this in the general debate section, not that it needs to be debated, but it will indeed bring about a lot of clashes of differing opinions. As such, I do not want to restrict comments by putting this elsewhere.
Reflecting on my time here at RF and the demises I have faced fro my own...
This question revolves around a statement Christ made
“ whoever loses his life for my sake will find it... of what benefit is it, if a [person] gains the whole world but forfeits his life? (Mat 16:24-26).
Following consideration is an attempt to understand those words. Your thoughts on this...
Good morning, it’s a new day. Whether sunshine, rainfall or clearness, you must begin to advance with time. The first step in every dimension must start with a solid foundation. If you’ve been working for several years and are desperate for a Brand New Level, what can you do?
With everything...
Hi guys (I’m french sorry for my english)
I Want to share a throught who really confuse me.
The selfishness is the ennemy of the « Good » and especially the source of all the bad right ?
You are a good person who want to spread joy, great, I am too, but when you believe in god, it’s...
23 weeks, smallest baby yet weighing in at 8.6 oz.
It was supposed to be a fetus of just a mass of brainless cells, but OOPS! IT'S A BABY AFTER ALL!
San Diego hospital announces birth of world’s tiniest surviving baby
Congratulation to the mom and dad!
:hugehug:
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This short video describes perfectly, and quite optimistically I might add, the existential dilemma an atheist may face. I'm not sure how theists feel about it, but it would be interesting - said the bear.
You know what good is, if humans were really good, do you think they’d ever die? All humans are truly evil beings because all humans die someday. You know that the wages of sin is death. Humans are all obviously sin. The fact is out. If there’s no God, do you really believe that humans and their...
A lot of the time when I'm reading posts and replies on this website of forums, I think to myself why are ppl so hostile?o_O:confused:Aren't we all just afraid...... From Atheists who believe in science and in what they see or can be proven, with all their facts, scientific theories, formulas...
Why is it that all humans die someday? Even the Christians say “Jesus” died, but not: “God” died. In the Bible, Mark 10:18 says only God is truly good. I can believe this because all humans die and God does not. Humans are beings. God is a being. One dies, the other doesn’t. If you’re honest...
Everybody dies. Assuming you could choose your time and do not want to live forever in this temporal existence, at what point would you decide turn out the lights and close the door behind you?
Do you feel the need to accomplish something or leave your mark on the world?
Would you leave with...
When we look closer to the holy quran, and serach to understand the divine message in the holly text, anyone will surely discover so many wonderful facts which may change his life:
Please be patient to hear the presentation of Pr Jeffrey Lang, an eminent American Mathematic Professor and his...
Everyone wants to live and enjoy life right? Who doesn't enjoy eating an apple, or mango, or grape, or....? The things on this earth that can satisfy man, are almost endless, and the beauty about is is that we never tire of those things - They always seem fresh, and the experience always seem...
I was speaking with my brother on a number of topics and he more or less accidentally blurted something out in a fit of thought that got me thinking.
In the case of belief in multiple gods that each attend to an area of reality - for example a wind god, sun god, sea god, etc., the humans...