In a nuclear reaction, some matter does indeed transform into energy - that is the source of the explosion. But some matter is obliterated. And science does not understand how something turns into nothing. Science only records the undeniable fact that it does so. The fact that we don't...
During the Manhattan Project, they took measurements. Matter was obliterated. It ceased to exist. It ceased to be. It expired. It was gone. It was no longer there. It was gone.
In numerous nuclear tests done by all sides of the Cold War, every nuclear explosion showed that small amounts...
Tell me, which part of the Bible has been explicitly disproven. Please, do so. The science textbooks I refer to state thus -
Matter cannot be created nor destroyed.
This is a lie. This is a falsehood. This can be proven incorrect, and has been, through careful scientific experimentation...
I was, honestly, simply answering the question put forward honestly. That is what happens, in my belief, to the nonbeliever in the afterlife. That was the explicit question put forward in the opening post, and I answered it honestly. Really, how else was I supposed to answer the question?
Oh, no. From a Messianist point of view, all of us have sinned. I am no better than a nonbeliever in this perspective. I am no more or less guilty of having broken the Law than any other Jew, and no gentile is innocent of having broken the Noachide laws.
The difference being, as a...
And, of course, Runewolf, there is the other factor I mentioned - the closer you get, timewise, to the creation of the universe, the more that the physical laws of the universe break down. The physical laws, themselves, predict this phenomenon. We don't know to what extent the physical laws...
Mongols were a definite factor, as well. There are so many dozens, perhaps hundreds or thousands, of factors that led, eventually, to European ascendancy, from its own geographical location, to the Mongol conquests, to favorable weather patterns, to the many small states...and, of course, one...
Of course, if G-d is the omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent force that Abrahamic faiths believe he is, physical laws cannot possibly restrain him. If we can believe that he can stop the rotation of the Earth (see Joshua) or bring plagues down on Egypt (see Exodus), why can't he create...
A combination of cultural development and geographical determinism. The most basic forms of scientific inquiry - developed by philosophers - existed in many different early civilizations, including India, Greece and China, among others.
In each of these three regions, a scientific form was...
There isn't any really solid answer to this question in my own faith, but, myself, I think that nonbelievers must do some form of penance for their sins in the afterlife before being allowed into paradise, or, alternately, for the worst of sinners (and I mean mass murderers and the like), their...
Uh, yeah, I think it's pretty obvious, to me, at least, that Shaul is not stating this as a mitzvah or truth. In fact, it seems to me he's mocking it. The 'command' is placed with other practices of the Corinthian congregation which he is condemning in no uncertain terms, so why is this...