Citizenschallenge-v.3

@dad1.      If you claim science has support for ridiculous whoppers like that four hour thing it is up to you to provide/post it. Whether the four hours ‘really’ meant millions of years or whatever doesn’t change anything. Just admit defeat.

Dad1, please take a moment to read the following, it explains that understanding Evolution demands…[Read more]

@Lausten.     Any conversation needs a basis.

The most serious discussions I’ve had about human nature began with an agreement that there is no certainty, that some things aren’t known and aren’t provable. When the discussion turned in that direction, everyone had to recognize it and turn back to what can be demonstrated, and if not that, have so…

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List of titles, authors to all the links embedded within
Pageant of Evolution, part two:

¶ 1 …
the first half = Pageant of Earth’s Evolution (in 24hr) part one
pageant of Evolution = video_The Emergence of Life on Earth, Robert Hazen, March 15, 2012
first = Paper_Unearthing the First Cellular Innovations, Nick Lane
enduring Life = video, Ho…

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Take any of those titles and do a google, a world of potential learning will blossom before your eyes.

Oh and that was part one of a two part essay – “Pageant of Earth’s Evolution In 24hr”

Dec. 7, 2019

In the first half of this look at Earth’s 4.6 billion year old pageant of Evolution, scaled down to 24 hours, Earth’s first enduring Lif…

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The point is it’s too complicate for any to give you one simple convincing answer, you need to do your own good-faith homework – if you refuse to take the initiative to honestly learn about it, you sort of hopeless, which leaves me hoping to connect with someone else in the audience, so my effort is still worth it, even if perhaps you…[Read more]

3 minute response – you are a speed reader who comprehends nothing.  What a shame.

I lit up the second essay with over 160 links that range from published scientific papers, science articles and YouTube videos.  Below I have listed their titles and authors in the order of their appearance.  That is because I can’t do the learning for others, they must make that choice.  I can only do as a cowboy does, lead the horse to wat…[Read more]

Rather than spam foolish and godless and baseless fables as if they were science, you need to support your claims. Do not rattle off long stories when you can’t defend a single aspect of them.

(Funny that, you don’t even know what I was sharing there.  Must be some miraculous insight you’ve been gifted with.)

Actually, the thing is you want ea…[Read more]

This essay and the other one I shared were written 2008, and I’ve learn much since then.  At the time I was actually dating a Methodist Minister for a while, so attended her Church, to hear her speak and get to know her congregation.  These days I’m not near as conciliatory and wishy washy about trying to relate to the Christian mindset.   More in…[Read more]

@philip456
What leads you to believe that the Bible has got anything to do with God, rather than The Vedas, The Book of Mormon, The Quran, The Agamas or any of the world’s other holy books?

Christians tell me so.  But to your point, my answer would have to be: Nothing.

God is a product of the human mind trying to comprehend an infinitely co…[Read more]

Recently it occurred to me that one key to understanding the problem with religion and “god” is appreciating where our gods come from.

We have two options:

Believing that God is something that shines down upon you and flows into your being from somewhere out there in the universe.

Or appreciating that God is something that originates from…[Read more]

I was pointing out that all the reasons old ages are assigned to the layers are faith based.

@Dad1.  I wonder if  you realize you’ve reduced faith to a joke.  Those layers of rocks have been measured and catalogued, so you are claiming that believing in the reading an instrument gives us is FAITH.   Or that a scientists who’s conducted a ser…[Read more]

@Dad1.     Evolution, for example means squat

To you apparently it doesn’t.  I imagine you have never actually studied it.   Have you?

Who Says Understanding Earth’s Evolution is Irrelevant?

Sadly all too many.

I often hear people, not just the religious with their thoughtless rejection and outright contempt for our Earth and her story, but a…

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@sabolina, could share a link?

I looked up https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org, trawled around a little, found some sad facts, but didn’t stumble on the numbers you shared at #346503, which truth be told, don’t seem believable.  I put “SCF data by Matt Bruenig” and only found

Without the Family Car Black Wealth Barely Exists
Antonio Moore and…

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@Lausten.  @ #346431

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@Dad1.  @ #346433

God wishes no man to die.

What a bunch of out-of-this world malarkey.  Death is an inherent part of life.  If you can’t come to terms with the simple reality – that is that death also possesses a degree of sanctity and is a necessary part of life’s survival, it’s no wonder you turn your back on phy…[Read more]

@mriana    but the bottom line is all definitions are human creations and as the Tao says the Tao that can be defined isn’t the Tao at all.

So however one defines it, it is all just a human definition and isn’t a god at all.

I like that.

It would be impossible to understand the essence of the Creator as we are his creation and the idea of the c…

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Neil DeGrasse Tyson:  WE ARE PRECONDITIONED TO BELIEVE MORE THAN WE ARE PRECONDITIONED TO QUESTION.

See Neil DeGrasse Tyson Debunk ‘Alien Believers’ After Biden Pentagon’s UFO Report – Jun 30, 2021