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Maybe it should be re-phrased as a fool questions God..... If a deity exists or not...a question is the only way one can obtain an answer. Which is better? To remain silent and live with a misconception or to ask and have that misconception corrected? Question everything - even authority.
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Originally posted by EdwardC: Maybe it should be re-phrased as a fool questions God.....
Question everything - even authority.How does believing in God hurt us? It doesn't. Most of us that believe in God believe that we need to live good and decent lives to go to heaven. I think most people would rather do that just in case there is a God then not do it and find out later that you are going to hell. So why question it?
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Originally posted by Pollo_loco69:
[QUOTE]Maybe it should be re-phrased as a fool questions God..... Nah, if you believe in God you have to believe that he gave us the ability to reason and question accepted knowledge
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Originally posted by cpurser:
1. That Education Can Be Bought With Money
As one who is literally leaving the office in ten minutes to drop off my graduate school application, let me assure you that this one appears to be true...they seem to want quite a bit of money, in fact....
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Thumbs up to you gwellington! Sometimes I want to go right back to graduate school.
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Originally posted by gwellington: Originally posted by cpurser:
[b]1. That Education Can Be Bought With Money
I take your post as a joke, but I will respond anyway. Does giving the school your money and registering for their classes guarantee that you will become more knowledgeable and wise? Absolutely not! The only way you will learn anything is if you apply yourself and actually learn what they are teaching you. The school could care less if you learn it or not - they already have your money! Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it? – Proverbs 17:16 True learning requires a person to give their heart to it. It does not come because you attend class, or cram and pass a test or even because you receive a degree. You gain wisdom and learning by diligent application of the heart and mind to the subject at hand.
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Originally posted by Pollo_loco69: Originally posted by EdwardC: [b] Maybe it should be re-phrased as a fool questions God..... If a deity exists or not...a question is the only way one can obtain an answer. Which is better? To remain silent and live with a misconception or to ask and have that misconception corrected? Question everything - even authority. How does NOT believing in God hurt us? Your statement makes it sound that those who don't believe in God don't live good and decent lives. I beg to differ. While I myself don't participate in any organized religion, I still live a good, decent, and just life, and I don't do so under the pretense of being a good Christian, nor out of fear of eternal damnation, but because I was taught what is right and wrong.
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FWIW, I'm going back to school part time starting in the fall.
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1)"Theory" of evolution is nothing more than our current best attempt to reconcile all the anthropological/archeological/historical information currently available.
2) As with all other areas of science, new data is constantly being added, changed, or varified - which often forces a modification of current theory OR the developement of new theories..scientific theory is constantly in "flux".
3) Thus, one CANNOT say that evolution and creationism are not compatable or even the same. One can ONLY say the views are compatable or not compatable based on todays data. By tommorrow, new data will exist. So to say that one or the other does not exist is not logical.
Education IS a humbling experience - it forces you to realize the finite limits of man's current knowlege BUT it drives us to expand those limits. School is but the begining of life long education. It is not SRTICTLY nessesary but like a good roadmap it makes things easier..
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