Religion & Spirituality - 27 September 2006

And has an emphasis on your particular belief.
Come one, what knowledge makes you unique.
Please don't state an experience, but knowledge one can discover easily, but might not have ever tried.

If you choose to elaborate please add a link or cite a source, book...etc.

Even if it sounds completely crazy.

2006-09-27 07:16:36 · 10 answers · asked by Corey 4

Why can't I get a straight forward "scientific" awnser from all you evolutionists. Parrot - at least you tried in stating that the human eye is "flawed" because of the retina that is inside out. You make a good observation, yet your conclution is "typical". Did you know that if the retina of the eye was not "inside out" as with mammals, the UV light from the sun would cause tremendous damage. Yes, thats why fish and other water living creatures have the blood vessels on the outside, the water they live in already blocks the UV light.

As for the fossil records: Why has anyone never found any fossils of "transition" species, thats to say the missing link between fish and reptiles for example?

As for the experiment they conducted in a lab "creating life". You are refering to an experiment by Stanley Miller in 1953. In this experiment sparks were discharged into an apparatus which was circulating common gases. These gases reacted to form various organic products which were collected and analyzed. The experiment succeeded in producing only a few of the 20 amino acids required by itself. Furthermore, the dozens of major problems with this experiment as an explanation for the formation of life are seldom reported.

For instance, our early atmosphere was assumed to have no oxygen because this would stop amino acid formation. However, with no oxygen, there would be no ozone shield. With no ozone shield, life would also be impossible. Furthermore, oxidized rocks throughout the geologic record indicate that oxygen has always been present.In addition to this, the same gases which can react to form amino acids undergo known reactions in the presence of sunlight which remove them from the atmosphere. The required gases would not have been around long enough for life to have developed! In addition, a cold trap was used to keep the reaction products from being destroyed as fast as they formed.
"Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a phantasy" (*Charles Darwin, Life and Letters, 1887, Vol. 2, p. 229).
“As by this theory, innumerable transitional forms must have existed. Why do we not find them embedded in the crust of the earth? Why is not all nature in confusion instead of being, as we see them, well-defined species?”—*Charles Darwin, quoted in H. Enoch, Evolution or Creation (1866), p. 139.

2006-09-27 07:15:11 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

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2006-09-27 07:15:05 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

“Some help others in order to receive blessings and admiration. This is simply meaningless. Some cultivate themselves in part to serve others, in part to serve their own pride. They will understand, at best, half of the truth. But those who improve themselves for the sake of the world -- to these, the whole truth of the universe will be revealed”
- Lao Tzu -

If you disagree please back it up with non-circular logic, thank you!

2006-09-27 07:14:10 · 15 answers · asked by Shinkirou Hasukage 6

Piledriver, full nelson, body slam?

2006-09-27 07:13:22 · 14 answers · asked by Salami and Orange Juice 5

When you hear about another church being burned down?

2006-09-27 07:13:21 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Has your church or religious group ever told you or intimated to you that you are not allowed to masturbate even just a little nor even one single time?

2006-09-27 07:11:33 · 7 answers · asked by devotionalservice 4

2006-09-27 07:09:51 · 5 answers · asked by Norman D 1

It is a fact that 82% of americans consider themselves a Christian. On the surface it appears that they are a unified group who follow the same belief system.

However, when you look at the numerous different sects, practices and interpretations, you can reach a much different conclusion about their unity.

Isn't it true that only small percentages of christians are actually unified in their belief system and most sects have conflicting ideas about what it takes to "get to heaven" and what god expects of us?

For Example, think about all of these different groups who interpret the bible differently and argue about what god's word means:

Apostolic,Baptist,Catholics, Churches of God,International Churches of Christ,Jehovah's Witnesses,Latter Day Saints,Messianic Judaism,Pentecostalism, Seventh-day Adventists, Unification Church
...and the list goes on and on.

If god's word is perfect, why can't all christians agree on it's interpretation?

2006-09-27 07:08:01 · 42 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is it just to keep people from touching the body or does it have more significance?

2006-09-27 07:07:50 · 7 answers · asked by MagicEyeCS 2

In response to the large part of Jesus Camp, and my own little paranoias, I want to ask you all a hypothetical question:
Christians: if there was a holy war to remove all non-christians from America, what would you do?
Non-Christians: if the same happened, would you fight to protect the people you loved, or would you stand back and die peacefully.


No, I'm not promoting this kind of thing. No I don't think all christians are war-mongering fools. No, I don't think all these disclaimers should be necassary, but hey, people get really offended and post stupid irrelavant comments if I don't. no I don't want it to happen.
I just want people to think about where they stand.

2006-09-27 07:06:39 · 20 answers · asked by shinai_inaozuke 2

2006-09-27 07:03:37 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

If God is the only thing that ultimately would satisfy the human soul, that resonates with their awe that bring them lasting peace and hapiness... would it be unloving NOT to call people to come to God and find an inexhaustible sourse of enjoyment there? If somethings the best thing there is, woud it be selfish NOT to offer it to others to enjoy?

The Blazing Center from www.desiringGod.org

Quest for Joy

http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/Articles/ByDate/1995/1546_Quest_for_Joy/

2006-09-27 07:02:25 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

basis. I'll go first. I won't call anybody any names or speak in unkind words...Will You?

2006-09-27 07:02:13 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

ya way to do the impossible

2006-09-27 06:59:45 · 16 answers · asked by Aaron c 2

:)

2006-09-27 06:58:38 · 20 answers · asked by Fia 5

2006-09-27 06:57:16 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

i met this lady that is a minister at her church we became fast friend's until i went to her house and i did not like what i saw her home is not run the way you would think that it would show she was a christian she has been dating on the dating sites she has four foster children that she mistreat and i feel i should report her to foster care what do you think? i will not go to her house again because i feel for those children

2006-09-27 06:55:30 · 10 answers · asked by mishoney 4

It seems like they're on to us. What is the best way to accelerate our plan to force our religion upon them? How can Christians, Muslims, Jews, and Krishnas unite to bring them into SUBMISSION!?!

2006-09-27 06:54:45 · 15 answers · asked by Salami and Orange Juice 5

Will you comply?

2006-09-27 06:54:16 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-27 06:54:13 · 10 answers · asked by Corey 4

I mean, where to men get off thinking they can have more than one wife? If that's the case, then why can't women have more than one husband?

2006-09-27 06:54:00 · 11 answers · asked by Mia M 1

(i.e. carrots, peas, minorities, France, life, etc....)

2006-09-27 06:52:07 · 9 answers · asked by Seme K 1

My mom told me I am going to hell my whole life. Everytime I did something wrong or made a mistake. Now I really think and believe I am going to hell. How do you throw away what you have been taught and really believe that you aren't destined for hell? thanks!

2006-09-27 06:51:40 · 12 answers · asked by tina*21 2

2006-09-27 06:51:09 · 12 answers · asked by S 4

2006-09-27 06:49:14 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

People have been reading the Bible for ages. It has achieved a status in our culture assigned to no other single body of text. There are more copies of the Bible on the face of the planet than any other single book. It is quoted (and misquoted) more often than any other book. It is translated into more languages than any other book ever written as well. More people in recorded history have read it, studied it, taught it, admired it, argued about it, loved it, lived by it, and killed and died for it. It is the singular document at the heart of Judaism and Christianity, and yet the common man doesn’t really seem to ever ask: Who wrote it, really? They think they know: it is divinely dictated, revealed or inspired

http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/biblewho1.htm
http://www.witness-pioneer.org/vil/Books/MB_BQS/default.htm

2006-09-27 06:48:21 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

If prostitution is wrong, why are there so many examples of it in Genesis? (For instance, Gen 19:8, where Lot offers his daughters to a mob so that his guests can avoid gang rape).

2006-09-27 06:47:59 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-27 06:45:45 · 22 answers · asked by MalibuSun 2

2006-09-27 06:44:55 · 19 answers · asked by MalibuSun 2