Hello everyone. I would like to share something I found about human evolution. We have found many Neanderthal fossils and have been able to sequence their DNA and compared it to human DNA. The result is that their DNA is shown to be distinct...
The bible describes a place where bad people and unbelievers will be tortured for eternity. So I have a few questions. First, is hell really what most people think it is? Second, is is ethical to torture people forever?
I am wondering what your views on the ethics of the Ten Plagues of Egypt. Is it right for God to take it out on the Egyptian people for the stubbornness of their leader?
I am wondering which arguments are most convincing. Could you list them in an ordered manner from most convincing to least? Here are some famous ones:
Argument from Morality
Teleological Argument
Fine Turing Argument
Argument from Creationism
Cosmological Argument
Ontological Argument...
I have some questions for religious people. Do you base your religious beliefs purely on faith? To some, faith is belief without evidence or with insufficient evidence. To others faith is really trust because of past experience with God. The second definition is really based on evidence. What is...
This is an important question to me.
According to this source, we share 7.
29+ Evidences for Macroevolution: Part 4
According to the below source we share 16 class-K ERV's alone.
Online Debate: Resolved: Endogenous Retroviruses (ERVs) confirm common ancestry (evidence for evolution) |...
Hello, I have never really been exposed to Islam a lot so I am wondering why you believe in Islam. I will not try to prove you wrong or anything, I just want to listen, ask questions, and maybe collect some sources with further information.
I would like some examples of how the process of natural selection and mutations created new information. This must not occur by playing around with gene switching.
Preferably this should occur by mutating a protein to gain a new function.
Examples must be specific in exactly what gene...
The Tyrannosaurus Rex is an iconic dinosaur and is arguably the most famous.
One curious feature of this lizard are its tiny arms. They are about 3 feet long, about the length of a human arm and have two fingers.
They are probably not vestigial because they are connected to large...
On strange creature that we find is the whale. Surprisingly whales are genetically far more similar to mammals than to fish even though they look like fish. Whales may look like fish on the outside, but they are far different on the inside, and are actually mammals.
Whales have hair, a...
I want to ask creationists what problems you find with the theory of evolution, then I will make topics about these problems. We can also discuss these problems if you want.
In Obama's thanksgiving speech he did not mention God even once.
"Holy cow! Is that one screwed up or what?" columnist Sherman Frederick of the Las Vegas Review-Journal wrote in a Thanksgiving-morning blog post.
"Somebody ought to remind Obama (and his speechwriter) that when Americans...
A person in the Cosmological Debate thread brought up the teleological Argument, so I will address it in this thread. This argument states that because of the complexity of the universe, the universe must have been created by a designer. Random forces could not produce the complexity we see...
Many people make this claim however I doubt that they have actually gone over the evidence for evolution. I mean, we have plenty of evidence for whale evolution.
(1) Everything that has a beginning of its existence has a cause of its existence.
(2) The universe has a beginning of its existence.
Therefore:
(3) The universe has a cause of its existence.
(4) If the universe has a cause of its existence then that cause is God.
Therefore:
(5) God exists.
Are...
The purpose of this thread is to address the accusation over whether God is sexist if the bible is God's word. This thread will also brings out the details of God's sexism, and how sexist he is if it is indeed found that he is sexist. This thread is not about debating whether sexism is right...
Epicurus said: God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Whence then is evil?
I suspect that he was right. Do you think he disproved God?
"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence."
Christopher Hitchens
Who needs tons of evidence to not believe in religion? if religion cannot give us evidence of its truth, then why believe it? Why shouldn't atheism be the default position?