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    Article on Dead Sea Scrolls, SBL, ASOR meetings

    Some of the readers of this forum might be interested in an article that has been posted by someone I admire, dealing with the Dead Sea Scrolls and the conduct of the organizers of the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and ASOR that recently took place in San Diego. The link...
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    Freewill compatible with materialism

    In that case I'm happy to agree. Nature will have determined its own self-eradication.
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    The Body of Jesus

    "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as you please." Mark Twain (see the first posting in the thread -- hopelessly off-topic, eh?)
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    Jesus, Judas, Dead Sea Scrolls

    I just read an article about a number of current controversies that might be of interest to some of the readers of this forum. Here is the link: Jesus, Judas, and the Dead Sea Scrolls: peddling religious sensationalism in America | The News is NowPublic.com
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    Good article on Romney, religious sensationalism

    Here's the link: Jesus, Judas, and the Dead Sea Scrolls: peddling religious sensationalism in America | The News is NowPublic.com
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    New antisemitism

    This interesting article (particularly at the end) touches on some of the issues raised here: Jesus, Judas, and the Dead Sea Scrolls: peddling religious sensationalism in America | The News is NowPublic.com
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    Interesting article on Romney, religion, etc.

    Here is the link: Jesus, Judas, and the Dead Sea Scrolls: peddling religious sensationalism in America | The News is NowPublic.com
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    Science came from Christianity?

    See this article for interesting details on the absurd claims of Dinesh D'Souza. Apparently, Einstein doesn't qualify for D'Souza's list of "great scientists" because he wasn't Christian! Jesus, Judas, and the Dead Sea Scrolls: peddling religious sensationalism in America | The News is...
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    The Body of Jesus

    I love the quotation from Mark Twain.
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    Global Warming

    clearly, global warming results from massive amounts of pollution being chugged into the atmosphere. unless we stop, we are heading for utter disaster. yet we are too childish to stop.
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    Reality Cannot Be Directly Known So We Must Model It

    I agree with the Einstein quote, but I think the mechanism is behind our own eyes -- there is always a blind spot.
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    Common misconceptions about the big bang

    something I have never understood, is how they can say that something (say, an exploding sun) is "happening right now" billions of light years away. didn't that sun explode billions of years ago?
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    Freewill compatible with materialism

    certainly, but our actions are not all determined by that fact, unless we are prepared to admit that nature determined the destruction of nature
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    Does science prove the existence of god?

    the idea that science proves religion is, in my view, highly unscientific
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    Beyond Disbelief: Religion as Human Invention

    religion is a human invention, to the extent anything unconscious can be an invention.
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    Is the Concept of God Necessary To Explain Anything?

    as a class problem in philosophy, I would say the concept is not necessary
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    Freewill compatible with materialism

    Clearly, we can destroy nature (and may even be doing so right now). Therefore, nature doesn't determine all things.
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    Challenge to Evolutionsts

    This seems quite incoherent to me, but I am perhaps influenced by an exhibit on Darwin that I recently saw.
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    The hope for the Democrats

    Either Obama or Hillary will win.
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    Do you believe the last two elections were fixed?

    Yes, they were clearly fixed.
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