Advocatus

I’ve seen many discussion forums dry up over the past twenty years.  I assumed that it was because people were moving to Facebook and Twitter.  If you do manage to find another one, count me in, too!

I’m glad to see a topic on this by someone who follow politices.  I haven’t been following the “hearings” this week.  I’m not saying I don’t believe Christine Ford, it’s just that to me it’s sort of beside the point.  If he’s going to considered for Supreme Court, he should be judged on his interpretation of the Constitution, not for something he…[Read more]

Gosh, this is a very long article so forgive me if I don’t do justice to the whole thing at  one sitting.  One section that jumped out at me was “Efforts to Prove or Debunk”.  Er, where does the “debunking” part come in?  You’re talking about TAPS, which is a group of amateur “investigators” who are embarrassingly gullible about the existence of…[Read more]

There is a Zen koan that goes something like this:  Two students are watching a flag fluttering in the breeze and arguing about it.  One says the it’s the flag moving, the other says that it’s the wind moving.  A master strolls past and says neither.  “Your mind is moving.”

From what I understand, Zen is all about mindfulness, that is not mov…[Read more]

Welcome, Julie!  Unfortunately you’ve hit us at an awkward time.  The forum was just upgraded recently and a lot of us old-timers are having trouble making the adjustment.  That’s the reason it looks so “dead” here just now.  Hopefully things will pick up again.

Christopher Musante — There are too many ‘holes’ in the theory of evolution – based on the idea that over time we… well – ‘evolved’.  We have yet to find any transitional species and the fossil record itself just EXPLODES onto the scene with regards to earths ‘timeline’.  It’s seems more plausible that – or at least as per the fossil record – eve…

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This entire post reminds me of the way some people will take a random factoid about quantum physics and claim that therefore “science proves” that the paranormal is possible. It’s nonsense. It looks to me like you’re desperately hunting for something, anything that the Bible may have managed to get right by accident.

For example, take the theory…[Read more]

Given the vastness of the universe and the consequent profusion of life, what must the ultimate consummation of the process of evolution be?
It is my contention that the inevitable and ultimate result of evolution is this: <u>that</u> somewhere, sooner or later, <u>an entity would be evolved</u> through either natural or artificial means <u>which…

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It has been realized by students of the Bible for more than a hundred years that the parable of the fig tree meant that Israel would become a nation again.
Israel became a nation again on May 14, 1948.

So are we to take it that any random story or parable that someone tells [I]might[/I] be a prophecy, if only we wait long enough?  This is an…[Read more]

I probably shouldn’t have made the gratuitous comment about the paranormal. I didn’t mean to imply that people unintentionally create false memories, or that ALL paranormal accounts are the result of false perceptions.  But once you decide upon a narrative for an extraordinary event — for example that you saw a ghost — you tend to stick with…[Read more]

I must have done the same Google search you did, because I did not find anything about Dawkins defending the multiverse theory either.  If memory serves, he briefly mentioned the multiverse theory in his book “The God Delusion”, but only as an example of other possible theories.  I’m pretty sure he didn’t defend it or endorse it.  I’ll go home an…[Read more]

We are a story-telling species.  When something astonishing happens to you, don’t you immediately start thinking how you’re going to tell your friends about it, what words you will use to describe the experience?  And as soon as you do, the actual memory of the experience in your brain gets altered to conform to the story you just told.  (This ac…[Read more]