Religion & Spirituality - 30 October 2006

About 40% of those (99%) scientists that believe in evolution are also religious or believe in a god like Kenneth Miller (professor of biology at Brown University, testified against intelligent design, and Orthodox Roman Catholic) or Francis Collins (Director of human genome project, against ID, and Born Again Evangelical Christian).

Explain to me how most of you (people without a college degree in life science) know a lot more than the 99.9% of scientists that have Ph.D's and M.D.'s in those fields and would win the Nobel Prize if they disproved evolution. Please enlighten me as to how this global conspiracy is done. Let me guess? Satan?! Wow, I guess you throw out Free Will out of your religion if you invoke that Satan controlled the mind of nearly 500,000 scientists for most of their life and research.

2006-10-30 14:31:59 · 11 answers · asked by Alucard 4

2006-10-30 14:30:29 · 15 answers · asked by The Method 2

Seriously, people, the bible was not inspired by any God. It was written by men who thought they had the right idea on how to live your life and what was morally acceptable according to their culture. Some scriptures were decided to be left out of the bible by a group of men. Where is your proof that it is credible and true?

2006-10-30 14:28:05 · 46 answers · asked by Anonymous

note: dont answer with "the bible is not fiction" unless you are too stupid to not understand what assuming means....

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2006-10-30 14:27:52 · 11 answers · asked by lnfrared Loaf 6

Medieval philosophers usually thought we would all be 33,the ideal age, the age of maturity,as of Christ's earthly maturity.I take it this is symbolically accurate:we will all be fully mature.Infants who die prematurely will be given,by God (perhaps through the mediation of their own parents!),all the maturing they missed on Earth.Geneticists say that the aging process is not inevitable;that a live organism could theoretically be immortal,never age,never die.Cancer cells do not die unless they are killed or their host dies. The aging and dying process began at a certain time in our history,after the Fall.God did not make death, but he unmakes it.In Heaven no one will be old.Yet in a sense everyone will be both old and young, as a reflection of the God who is the Alpha and Omega, oldest and youngest,"beauty ancient yet ever new."Even now we sometimes see the wisdom of old age in the musing face of a baby or the eternal freshness of youth in the twinkling eyes of the very old.

2006-10-30 14:26:43 · 15 answers · asked by I-C-U 5

Does your name mean anything in the bible?

2006-10-30 14:26:19 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am deeply rooted in the thought that the mind is powerful. Illness is not a necessity. Yet because I am in the public I still pick up flu's and colds from time to time. Why with the knowledge I have gained can I still not fully overpower germs? I can however remove a cold or flu from my system faster then usual. Examples a cold virus known to affect most up to 3 weeks or more I was able to remove from my body within 4 days. A stomach flu known for terrible affects briefly touched me and I had it removed in just over 12 hours. Most have it for about 3 to 4 days. But it bothers me that it touches me at all. Any ideas?

addition information: I was a sickly child but as I grew into spiritual thought I became very healthy. Only after I got a job that puts me out into the public daily did I find I started to pick up colds/flu's again. Before the job I went over 3 years of no colds.

2006-10-30 14:21:08 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Guess what, I have great news...scientists have actually found the remains of human-like creatures, not ape and not modern man but somewhere inbetween.

This link says it all, its shows the many different skulls of the hominds found and how creationists try to label them:

"As this table shows, although creationists are adamant that none of these are transitional and all are either apes or humans, they are not able to tell which are which. In fact, there are a number of creationists who have changed their opinion on some fossils. They do not even appear to be converging towards a consistent opinion. " http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/compare.html

2006-10-30 14:20:49 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

I don't think so. If it were, you could get there by rocket ship. It is another dimension, not another world. Yet, in a sense, it is continuous with this world, somewhat as this one is continuous with the world of the womb. From the viewpoint of an unborn child, this world is distant and outside the womb; but from the viewpoint of a born person, the womb is in the world, and the unborn child is already in the world—the child just doesn't see this until after birth.
I suspect that from the viewpoint of Heaven we will truly say that Earth was part of Heaven, Heaven's womb. But you cannot get there by rocket, only by faith and death, just as the fetus cannot get into the world outside the womb except by birth.

2006-10-30 14:19:11 · 13 answers · asked by I-C-U 5

The lord is my shepherd.I thought the lord was our GOD

2006-10-30 14:17:05 · 36 answers · asked by colin050659 6

Jeremiah 19:5 talks about the views God has on burning children alive in fire. Is this consistant with his views on hell???

2006-10-30 14:17:00 · 7 answers · asked by Sparkle1 6

2006-10-30 14:16:22 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-30 14:15:10 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

"You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say God is love, they will claim that *you* are taking things out of context!"
-Dan Barker,
Losing Faith in Faith

2006-10-30 14:13:09 · 27 answers · asked by Toronto 3

The Vedic knowledge is so ancient and comes in a dicipllic succession all the way down from the appearance of Lord Krishna 5,000 years ago. Everyone is talking about the Bible, but if they read the Bhagavad-Gita they could see the truths in the Bible and the misenturpertations also. You really should all read it and not deprive yourselves of the Vast Spiritual Knowledge.

2006-10-30 14:11:37 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I think so.Even now, great music seems like an echo from Eden, a souvenir, a memory from Paradise—something not merely pleasant but profoundly meaningful in an ungraspable, unformulatable way, a high and holy mystery. Once again I refer (only as a clue) to numerous visionaries who have said they heard music in Heaven, but of such a different quality from earthly music that it was incomparable—like comparing a toddler's banging on a toy xylophone with a symphony orchestra.
Music, according to widespread tradition, was the first language, the language God spoke to create the universe. I strongly suspect there is more to this than we think. We usually think of music as ornamented poetry and of poetry as ornamented prose. But God is not prosaic. I think prose is fallen poetry and poetry fallen music. In the beginning was the "music of the spheres," and so it will be in the end.

2006-10-30 14:11:14 · 35 answers · asked by I-C-U 5

To meet you maker.(As in prepare to meet thy maker)

2006-10-30 14:10:31 · 18 answers · asked by colin050659 6

do you have any stories about how you met ur bf/gf, husband or wife....?? Did you know it was 'to be' when you met them? Like a gut feeling?? Cuz I have a gutt-ish feeling, and I don't know if it's just me, or if I'm just being ignorant....

2006-10-30 14:09:49 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

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Did it strick you odd when the parking lot on sundays was full of european cars?

2006-10-30 14:09:02 · 17 answers · asked by Harry J 1

I am dismayed that so many preachers campaign for the Republicans from the pulpit. To me, they represent all that Jesus preached against. They are intolerant, pompous and legalistic. Jesus preached tolerance, humility and choice. Am I wrong?

2006-10-30 14:08:39 · 18 answers · asked by Carl 1

I think with a different kind of bigness. Now, space contains us, confines us, defines us. But we can transform space into place by humanizing it, spiritualizing it. A house becomes a home, a space becomes a place, by our living in it. Heaven will be both as intimate and as unconfining as our spirits want.
No one will think it too small or too large. In a sense, it will be in us rather than we in it—not in the sense that it will be subjective, but in the sense in which stage settings and props are in a play, or part of a play, rather than the play being in or part of the setting.

2006-10-30 14:08:38 · 5 answers · asked by I-C-U 5

Asalaamu alaikum. I'm a convert and i go to a private christian school. The uniform skirt is too short. I feel really embarrassed to bring up this problem with anyone at the mosque. Well I decided to come to some compromise even if i'm not ready to wear hijab yet- i got permission from an authority figure to wear high socks. But my school principal (who has had it in for me for 6 years) today said that permission is denied, even for religion. I can understand that i signed a contract about the uniform policy, but it's not like i have bad intentions or anything. So my question is what should i do about it? I didn't want to make a big deal out of it since it is an all-girls school and seniors only wear the uniform one day a week. I also have a bad history at this school, and they have threatened to kick me out a number of times. Now that i'm getting good grades, i don't want to blow it. I also feel that getting kicked out is no way to respect my parents who work hard to send me there.

2006-10-30 14:08:25 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

if ever?

2006-10-30 14:07:11 · 10 answers · asked by -skrowzdm- 4

My wife Debra M. is interested to become Christian Martyr so.

2006-10-30 14:06:54 · 48 answers · asked by WhyNotAsk Holy Ghost 1

This word is really quite useless when you think about it.

2006-10-30 14:06:43 · 9 answers · asked by pillabrut 2

Why is it kinky to use a feather, but perverted using the whole chicken?

2006-10-30 14:04:04 · 10 answers · asked by Kim W 2

2006-10-30 14:03:47 · 22 answers · asked by Ted T 5

according to a recent survey, Americans distrust atheists more than any other group of people, but ...

as 9/11 makes clear, the threat is from a major organized religion - not atheists.

we are also statistically much less likely to take your money or bash you in the head than your fellow Christians.

So, what's up?

2006-10-30 14:02:54 · 19 answers · asked by Brendan G 4

If so, my next question is, how stupid are you?

2006-10-30 14:02:33 · 9 answers · asked by cdrfish5000 1

Proverbs 24
21 Fear the LORD and the king, my son,
and do not join with the rebellious,

22 for those two will send sudden destruction upon them,
and who knows what calamities they can bring?

2006-10-30 14:01:42 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous