John Dub

It is in fact very reasonable to regard DNA as being designed

You’ve been leading toward some definition for what it takes to indicate something is designed. Some fairly straight forward answers were given months ago, but maybe they weren’t detailed enough for you. Maybe you should give your answer to that question. What definition of “must be…[Read more]

only something profoundly beyond our comprehension could serve as an explanation.

How can you know it’s beyond our comprehension? How can you use your comprehension to determine that it’s beyond our comprehension? Seems like you wouldn’t even recognize it as something distinct. You would comprehend it in terms of what you know and mis-identify it.

Matthew 10

Luke 14

Mark 7 

The Lectionary avoids your Mark passage, which is a clear sign that they don’t think it is redeemable.

Romans 13:8

Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.

Genus;

The Bible itself is people quibbling about what God is. Why do you think there are 4 gospels? Because there were multiple sects from the beginning. Those four just made the somewhat arbitrary cut. Religious belief didn’t “become tribal” it is defined as tribal from the beginning. Knowing you from earlier posts, this might just be seman…[Read more]

This looks like a good book for Xian. Only 99 cents on Kindle.

The genius of this book is the way it brings us inside the mind of it’s main character, an Italian man named Vitangelo, who becomes obsessed with the notion that his version(s) and understanding of himself are not at all the same as the personas that others believe him to be–nor are…

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Thanks for the link Tee. That’s very similar to Ryan Bell’s story of the God Box, where he kept trying to fit everything he was learning about inclusivity and justice into a box he called “God”, then he realized that everything he believed and understood about the world was in that box, and he didn’t need God anymore.

Isn’t that what you must agree to if you’re an atheist?

Atheism doesn’t require anyone to agree with anything, but yes, a naturalistic approach to biology would lead to this conclusion.

I think a lot of people get that.

I think this is my quote, but I can’t find where I said it and don’t remember what “that” was. Not sure what the question is here? Are you asking why they don’t get your “missing key”.

Libraries also bridge the digital divide. Ask a librarian to tell you some stories

Libraries also bridge the digital divide. Ask a librarian to tell you some stories

Just because something happened before you were born, that doesn’t make make it long ago

Okay,well, good luck with that

So you agree with me in that it is valid science to seek or recognize

It’s valid science to seek and recognize things. The problem with ID is that there are people who say that DNA is a signature of a designer. They don’t contribute to science with experiments, reason, logic or evidence, they just take what others do and claim it is evidence for…[Read more]

you are recovering from the toxic effects of religion and church indoctrination. It’s usually the case that when people have a 100 percent certainty about such matters they’re under the sway of stifling, mind numbing religious orthodoxy.

Not to butt in, but I don’t see this as a productive way to go when talking about someone specifically. I thi…[Read more]

FYI Xian, that quote does not appear to be from bendedbrains. I like it though, even though it contains the usual logical problems that you can’t seem to spot.

Edit: Ahh, found it in the comments. Apparently those are indexed anywhere. So, it’s an anonymous commenter on an anonymous blog. Neither of which site any of their “science”.

Those are darn good. Not to abuse your services, but I need a bikable road or trail going right next to one of those. This is research for a novel, which may not sell more than 100 copies, but you’ll definitely get a credit. These look more like the formations caused by the melting and washing down of the crushed stone. I think the place I’m…[Read more]

A friend of mine who is ADD showed me a website that had some good google tips, it was something like “life hacks”, but now I can’t find it!! Hopefully I can still find that friend.

Okay, Tee, here’s one. I had a book on bicycling southern Indiana 20 years ago. There was one route that I didn’t do and I tossed the book without taking notes on it.…[Read more]

In essence the “truth” of Buddhism isn’t something that can be written down and why you can’t read about it.

I’ll give you this one Xian. In fact, the Lao Tzu quote I altered is actually,

The Tao that can be expressed is not the eternal Tao; The name that can be defined is not the unchanging name. Non-existence is called the antecedent of heaven…

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It’s more like a step to ease people in but then must be discarded. The Buddhism you see being talked about in public isn’t the deepest stuff.

So, we haven’t been talking about the “real” Buddhism. You know about the “No True Scotsman…”, oh forget it. I think Lao Tzu said the Tao of the internet is not the real Tao.

You know that what you des…[Read more]