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  1. Ernesto

    Evolution is no more science than Creationism is.

    How do you think those facts come about? Through the gradual exploration of theories!
  2. Ernesto

    Evolution is no more science than Creationism is.

    So are you saying it's not science just because it's not 100% proven? Is religion thereofre not religion, as God isn't 100% proven?
  3. Ernesto

    Evolution is no more science than Creationism is.

    Right, before I get into the nitty gritty of the argument I am about to put forth, I'll just say first off that I agree, partly, with this bit of what you said. I say partly because I personally believe that - as schools teach by subjects - evolution should be taught in science lessons and...
  4. Ernesto

    When Did Religions First Begin?

    I'm not offended. I offered a theory; you proposed a different one.
  5. Ernesto

    Should science be considered a religion?

    Is philosophy a religion? No. It's too broad. And so is science. Science is but the systematic development of theories based upon observable evidence. There is no faith involved. Religion is the belief that - no matter, the circumstances, one's own arrogance will always triumph.
  6. Ernesto

    Belief and reality

    We all experience reality through a personally biased 'grid'. It is biased because of our experiences, our genes and our assumptions. No two people experience the same world (although some intimate couples may appear to come close); in this sense, all that we perceive is only one's own...
  7. Ernesto

    When Did Religions First Begin?

    The origin of religion is an interesting topic. There is much evidence displaying that religion is a psychological by-product of something else. (Huzzah, using evolution to explain religion!) Most psychologists agree that the brain is a collection of modules for dealing with sets of needs, such...
  8. Ernesto

    Can Creationism Ever Become A Science?

    Creationism could never be a true science because any study implemented would have to have God as the dependent variable. How does one measure God scientifically? People tend to believe they experience God through personal experiences and mostly indefensible 'proofs', such as the argument from...
  9. Ernesto

    Proof Against Evolution

    You're making the biggest mistake that most people make in your understanding of the theory of evolution. Nothing in Darwin's 'Origin of Species' (have you actually read it?) suggests that things came about by 'chance'. As long as we're talking about how likely or unlikely things are, what on...
  10. Ernesto

    Buddhists: Leave a Post

    Yup-yup! 16 years old, been a Buddhist for three years :)
  11. Ernesto

    Meditation.

    Myself, I meditate for roughly an hour every morning and evening; sometimes more, sometimes less. The morning exercise tends to consist of contemplation meditation, and the latter of the insight kind.
  12. Ernesto

    Local Elections 06

    Good for you, the BNP don't deserve to be running anywhere, at all, ever. It shocks me how racism can be tolerated even to that extent in what is supossed to be a multi-cultural nation.
  13. Ernesto

    Time For National Health Care In US?

    A lot of people moan about our health service over here (in Britain), but I'm not sure why. I think it's a fantastic idea...not having to pay every time you have an operation? Great!
  14. Ernesto

    Why bother praying?

    Mmhm, I think the only point Pullman is really making is that you shouldn't spend oyur life in solitary prayer for fear of an afterlife when you could be spending oyur time instead enjoying the only life you know for certain exists.
  15. Ernesto

    Why bother praying?

    In the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman, he makes a very good point about people submitting themselves to a religion and therefore spending their entire life praying and inevitably wasting the beauty that there is aorund us, out of mere fear of the possiblity of the existence of hell.
  16. Ernesto

    Proof that Jesus lived?

    You must remember that if there is proof of Jesus' existence outside the Bible (and I think there is), it still doesn't prove that he performed miracles or that he was the son of God and died 'for our sins'. There is no proof for these things.
  17. Ernesto

    Do Children Need Religion?

    But merely because it's not the nicest of thoughts doesn't make in untrue. It is by thinking "oh, how gloomy" that a lot of people convert to a religion. It seems to me that if a lot of people - even if it's not most of them - who belong to a religion do so because they're scared of what will...
  18. Ernesto

    collectivism & individualism

    How about...so that everybody has an equal chance in life, as one very good reason?
  19. Ernesto

    collectivism & individualism

    Right, firstly, this is the most common mistake people make when analysing capitalism in action. Growing up in a capitalist world, you are instantaneously forced into whichever class you were born in, which is far from fair and equal. People may fail themselves, yes, but only because of the poor...
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