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  1. Elessar

    The What Are You Listening To? Thread - Part Three!

    A Jew Born Anew - Marty Goetz
  2. Elessar

    Science proves Creationism is false.

    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...
  3. Elessar

    Science proves Creationism is false.

    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...
  4. Elessar

    Science proves Creationism is false.

    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...
  5. Elessar

    Afterlife of the non-believer in your faith

    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?
  6. Elessar

    Afterlife of the non-believer in your faith

    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...
  7. Elessar

    Science proves Creationism is false.

    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...
  8. Elessar

    Why Did Science take off in the West?

    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...
  9. Elessar

    Science proves Creationism is false.

    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...
  10. Elessar

    The What Are You Listening To? Thread - Part Three!

    "Everyone's a Hero" - Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Nathan Fillion
  11. Elessar

    Why Did Science take off in the West?

    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...
  12. Elessar

    Afterlife of the non-believer in your faith

    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...
  13. Elessar

    Paul's says "..it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in church

    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...
  14. Elessar

    The What Are You Listening To? Thread - Part Three!

    "Idiot Road" - The Arrogant Worms
  15. Elessar

    The What Are You Listening To? Thread - Part Three!

    "They Will Bow" - Sharon Wilbur
  16. Elessar

    The most ANNOYING misconception about YOUR faith?

    Theologically, in some forms of Christianity, you are a devil-worshiper by default if you don't believe in single monotheistic Creator G-d. In other forms, monotheistic faiths post-Christianity, such as Islam, are devil-worshiping by default. Heck, in some forms, you are a devil-worshiper if...
  17. Elessar

    The What Are You Listening To? Thread - Part Three!

    "We Are The Beaver" - The Arrogant Worms
  18. Elessar

    The What Are You Listening To? Thread - Part Three!

    "I'll Never Tell" - Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Once More With Feeling; Emma Caulfield and Nicholas Brendon
  19. Elessar

    The What Are You Listening To? Thread - Part Three!

    "A Man's Gotta Do" - Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion, Felicia Day)
  20. Elessar

    Senator Kennedy has Died

    What? Is there something about Sen. Kennedy so terrible that he shouldn't rest in peace? Considering that I can count the number of people on one hand that I honestly think should never rest in peace, I apparently have much lower standards than you. I mean, whatever good or bad Kennedy's...
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