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Thumbs up to you too, Packrat.
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Originally posted by EdwardC:
Thumbs up to you too, Packrat. I'd rather have a cookie. Can I have a cookie? 
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Originally posted by Dan Nixon:
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.. I agree with most of the things you said Dan, but not about humility. This myth is more prevalent among scholars themselves than it is among common people. However, there is a myth that increased knowledge brings greater humility. As Dan said, the reasoning goes like this. One who has learned many things knows better how much there is to know and therefore understands his ignorance more than those less knowledgeable. This learning humbles him. As with many lies, this myth has a little truth in it. Increased knowledge does reveal better the vastness of truth and brings certain awe to the scholar. However, it does not keep him from comparing himself with others less knowledgeable and feeling superior to them. Knowledge tends to puffs up its possessor with pride. “How could they be so dumb! That's such an easy thing to know.” I have seen this happen many times. *cough* EdC *cough*
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Originally posted by J-Lab: Originally posted by Pollo_loco69: [b] Originally posted by EdwardC: [b] quote:
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.[/b]
Rock on Hoser!!!!
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Originally posted by J-Lab: Originally posted by Pollo_loco69: [b] Originally posted by EdwardC: [b] quote:
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.[/b]
I appologize if it came across that way. I was just saying that most organized religion tells people that they have to do the things mentioned to go to heaven. People can live good lives without religion. What I was trying to say is why not live good lives just in case there is a God and then you will be rewarded after this life. If there indeed is no God then you will make your life and others life here on Earth more enjoyable.
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It's funny because I caught the meaning in the Crazy Chicken's reply without having it explained to me.
Maybe some of you are simply trying too hard to be singled out or offended.
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Ahhh...Pascal's wager...Unfortunately, it doesn't work with a God who requires real faith.
Believe in God because he IS, not be cause he MIGHT BE.
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Originally posted by T-red2000se:
Ahhh...Pascal's wager...Unfortunately, it doesn't work with a God who requires real faith.
Believe in God because he [b]IS, not be cause he MIGHT BE.[/b] Well done, T-Red. I couldn't have said it better myself.
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I really wanted a cookie! 
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Ya want a cookie? Here's your g_ddamn cookie!  Ingredients: 532.35 cm3 gluten 4.9 cm3 NaHCO3 4.9 cm3 refined halite 236.6 cm3 partially hydrogenated tallow triglyceride 177.45 cm3 crystalline C12H22O11 177.45 cm3 unrefined C12H22O11 4.9 cm3 methyl ether of protocatechuic aldehyde Two calcium carbonate-encapsulated avian albumen-coated protein 473.2 cm3 theobroma cacao 236.6 cm3 de-encapsulated legume meats (sieve size #10) :p
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