What is this evidence, please?
I'd like to see it.
So all we have is your claim that you have evidence. How do we know you are not lying? Why should we believe you are telling the truth?
That is false. Most of we know is FACT is because of observation, experimentation, and reproducibility...
At least in the United States, civil unions are legally inferior to marriage, and any will, trust, or other legal instrumentation created in a civil union can be broken by 3rd parties, especially if they are blood-related. In contrast, marriage creates iron-clad legal instruments.
So if my gay...
I'd call it more monarchist than totalitarian, but sure.
I personally see no reason for an American response. Not on the North American continent, not our problem.
1) I think you are conflating ideology with the goals of a nascent nation-state.
2) That's really up to the adherents of that...
That's called "faith". Faith is trust in an idea, or a belief that is unsupported by evidence or lacks proof. Faith is set apart from reason in that the latter uses deductive reasoning from evidence to inform beliefs, while the former relies solely on assertion to state beliefs are true.
1) Because He felt like it? Whim is a good enough answer for me on that.
2) There could always be a purpose for it that we are unaware.
I've honestly never understood why personal whim is not acceptable for what God does. It's good enough for free will for humans.
No, that's not what's being...
I think that if God is omniscient, He knew how it was going to end up in the first place, and therefore no guidance or influence was necessary.
1) No.
2) I disagree that the evolutionary process is blind, goalless, and without purpose.
3) The evolutionary process, as per current scientific...
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I really need to see your theological references for that, because that sure as shooting ain't anywhere near correct Catholic or Protestant doctrine. Excluding Mormons, because they're a different kettle of fish altogether, and they keep secrets.
There is no evidence for a global flood wiping out most of humanity a few thousand years ago. I quote:
"The archaeological record of 5,000 years ago would be replete with Pompeii-style ruins the remains of thousands of towns, villages and cities, all wiped out by flood waters...
Then all one needs to do is point to the Lenski experiments and the argument becomes settled.
Oh God, baraminology, really? Talk about a pseudo-science. That'll drive one crackers.
How about a definition instead? "Apes (Hominoidea) are a branch of Old World tailless anthropoid catarrhine primates native to Africa and Southeast Asia and distinguished by a wide degree of freedom at the shoulder joint indicating the influence of brachiation. There are two main branches: the...
Old Earth Creationism as espoused by the Roman Catholic Church definitely has no issue with evolution as the mechanism, due to the lack of sola scriptura.
From my time as a Roman Catholic, the doctrine is decided by the Magisterium of the Church. Determination of literalism and allegory is...
Roman Catholic Answer: The Bible is not literal, but allegorical. Claims in early Genesis are allegorical, thus it did not happen in literal days nor independently of one another; it's just the narrative frame for the actual scientific processes that God put into place over billenia.