To be consistent, you'd have to also hold that contraception, masturbation and menstruation are also murder. What do you think about test tube fetuses? Is killing them murder, too?
It's the popular works in particular that need to become public domain. Should the Tolkien estate lord over adaptations of the professor's works for all eternity?
Wow, the first really good set of recommendations. I don't know why the big Russian classics get a reputation as being difficult. My limited experience is that they are readable and entertaining.
Tough action against illegal immigrants lowers wages. Tough action against those who employ illegal immigrants would raise wages. Giving rights to illegal immigrants would raise wages. Only one of those is national policy. I wonder why?
Where did you get this garbage? Scientists may try to answer any questions, not even just how questions, but why questions, too, and what, who, where, even yes and no questions.
Faith doesn't answer any questions, it's unreasoned belief. It's almost the opposite of asking and answering why.
Religions have typically got a maze of specious explanations for any kind of question. They built the maze up through the millennia. The explanations are so varied and numerous that it can be very difficult for people that are inside that religion to see through them. This is, of course, their purpose.
Archbishop of Canterbury, leader of some 85 million Anglicans in 160 countries:
From 2006: "I think creationism is... a kind of category mistake, as if the Bible were a theory like other theories... if creationism is presented as a stark alternative theory alongside other theories I think there's just been a jarring of categories... My worry is creationism can end up reducing the doctrine of creation rather than enhancing it,"
Sounds good now, but creation was once the dominant explanation. This quote is a major retreat for the Anglican church.
From 2010: "“Belief in God is not about plugging a gap in explaining how one thing relates to another within the Universe. It is the belief that there is an intelligent, living agent on whose activity everything ultimately depends for its existence. Physics on its own will not settle the question of why there is something rather than nothing.”
He's just hoping. He's drawing another line in the sand and hoping science won't cross it. They may not in his life, but this type of line has been drawn and crossed many times before.
If you want religion to avoid conflict with science by restricting religion to only those categories where science has not dominated, then you must recognize that it's scientific advancement that restricted religion to those areas when once it encompassed all of human experience, and you should acknowledge the danger, the obvious fact, that this encroachment continues.
That's a short term static view of things. 200 years ago, reasonable people assumed God made the species, then Darwin broke that down and now reasonable people see things different. Yeah, at any given moment reasonable people will agree on a lot of these questions, but in the long term, science is just destroying religion one idea at a time, showing positions previously and widely thought reasonable to be unreasonable.
For starters, if you actually accept all scientific conclusions, you wouldn't really be a Christian but a Deist. And even deists are in trouble. What will you do when one of the many scientific explanations for the creation of the universe starts to gain credence do to mounting evidence?
The scientists are just talking nice to lull the lambs before the slaughter. In the last 500 years, science has written out God as the mover of all things, as the creator of a all life, as the creator of the earth and the sky. It has demonstrated the ridiculousness of pretending that you know for sure anything about how the universe really works. Now, science is wiping out the concept of the soul. How's that going to work out for religion?
I disagree. For many people, susceptibility to magical thinking leads them to evil. If you place more value on a fantasy than on reality, you can be tricked into doing evil when you think you're doing good. It's the role of priests and magicians to exacerbate this disconnect.
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That's funny, I always found Tom the most serious part of the book.
"I've never heard of a wheel coming off"
Then I guess it never happens. Jesus.
Oh boo hoo, you have the power to go buy some decent congress folk, go do it or quit whining.
To be consistent, you'd have to also hold that contraception, masturbation and menstruation are also murder. What do you think about test tube fetuses? Is killing them murder, too?
It's the popular works in particular that need to become public domain. Should the Tolkien estate lord over adaptations of the professor's works for all eternity?
And they felt they needed to keep labor happy through that period. That's all gone.
Alien was a horror flick. Aliens was a lost patrol flick.
It'll take psychopaths to get rid of all the psychopaths.
Wow, the first really good set of recommendations. I don't know why the big Russian classics get a reputation as being difficult. My limited experience is that they are readable and entertaining.
Even then, you're probably already taking bear-attack-preventative action before you even consciously notice the bear.
Christianity: Sadly sstuck in second in the struggle to be the world's worst religion.
They could end this any time by flipping the Weed Legal and Coke Legal bits in the congressional computers from zero to one.
The soul isn't metaphysical, the soul is a verb.
Tough action against illegal immigrants lowers wages. Tough action against those who employ illegal immigrants would raise wages. Giving rights to illegal immigrants would raise wages. Only one of those is national policy. I wonder why?
It's a free ride as long as the economy is weak, but is stupid if the economy is strong. We should be digging ditches now, not in 2003.
Just because you're to the right of 99.99% of the world doesn't mean people far to the left of you aren't also way to the right.
Cause we don't have the ability to firebomb 1000 cities in 30 minutes.
Vic 20s DO look like skate boards. I think he's just being modest.
What happened to Rosetta Stone?
Where did you get this garbage? Scientists may try to answer any questions, not even just how questions, but why questions, too, and what, who, where, even yes and no questions.
Faith doesn't answer any questions, it's unreasoned belief. It's almost the opposite of asking and answering why.
Religions have typically got a maze of specious explanations for any kind of question. They built the maze up through the millennia. The explanations are so varied and numerous that it can be very difficult for people that are inside that religion to see through them. This is, of course, their purpose.
Archbishop of Canterbury, leader of some 85 million Anglicans in 160 countries:
From 2006: "I think creationism is ... a kind of category mistake, as if the Bible were a theory like other theories ... if creationism is presented as a stark alternative theory alongside other theories I think there's just been a jarring of categories ... My worry is creationism can end up reducing the doctrine of creation rather than enhancing it,"
Sounds good now, but creation was once the dominant explanation. This quote is a major retreat for the Anglican church.
From 2010: "“Belief in God is not about plugging a gap in explaining how one thing relates to another within the Universe. It is the belief that there is an intelligent, living agent on whose activity everything ultimately depends for its existence. Physics on its own will not settle the question of why there is something rather than nothing.”
He's just hoping. He's drawing another line in the sand and hoping science won't cross it. They may not in his life, but this type of line has been drawn and crossed many times before.
If you want religion to avoid conflict with science by restricting religion to only those categories where science has not dominated, then you must recognize that it's scientific advancement that restricted religion to those areas when once it encompassed all of human experience, and you should acknowledge the danger, the obvious fact, that this encroachment continues.
That's a short term static view of things. 200 years ago, reasonable people assumed God made the species, then Darwin broke that down and now reasonable people see things different. Yeah, at any given moment reasonable people will agree on a lot of these questions, but in the long term, science is just destroying religion one idea at a time, showing positions previously and widely thought reasonable to be unreasonable.
For starters, if you actually accept all scientific conclusions, you wouldn't really be a Christian but a Deist. And even deists are in trouble. What will you do when one of the many scientific explanations for the creation of the universe starts to gain credence do to mounting evidence?
The scientists are just talking nice to lull the lambs before the slaughter. In the last 500 years, science has written out God as the mover of all things, as the creator of a all life, as the creator of the earth and the sky. It has demonstrated the ridiculousness of pretending that you know for sure anything about how the universe really works. Now, science is wiping out the concept of the soul. How's that going to work out for religion?
I disagree. For many people, susceptibility to magical thinking leads them to evil. If you place more value on a fantasy than on reality, you can be tricked into doing evil when you think you're doing good. It's the role of priests and magicians to exacerbate this disconnect.