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Drifting wrote:
God must exist because people can paint.

What a brilliant new apologetic...

You seem to understand this apologetic as well as all the others. Yes, you've got it correct. God exists because people can paint... how, what's your critique of that?

Dr. Shades wrote:

Hoops wrote:Then I went to the art museum across the street and converted back again.

Isn't art even easier to explain than science? By orders of magnitude, even?

then it should be easy for you to explain art. Go ahead.

This made me smile. I will also add that after the MTNA Music Festival I had the opportunity to host last weekend, I am especially right there with you. I am STILL on a high from how well my students performed. This type of talent is God-given. good for you and good for them. They are blessed to ha...

Sports - the physical expression of life

huckelberry wrote:

because I fell into a public fishy spelling gaff, I am not resisting the evil temptation to point out the rocky spelling outcrop you have stumbled on.

Well placed, my friend, well placed.

Excuse me for having no substance to contribute.

I've never see this happen.

Our city has a wonderful science/natural history museum. I happened to be there today and I was amazed at all the science I had been missing. I walked along the lake in front of the museum, thinking and pondering, and wondering about how much I don't know and how much I do. I now realize that there ...

When you say "religions included" you mean Christianity too, right? No. Religions included obviously does NOT include Christianity. Because words really have no meaning, and they can represent a whole range of ideas that are seperate and different from how those words are commonly used. I...

Corpsegrinder wrote:In which case the sticking point would be all that improvable supernatural stuff.

Uh... no. The stickingpoint, specifically, and completely, is the Diviinity of Christ.

Corpsegrinder wrote:But you're unwilling to agree, in principal, that pious fraud occurs specifically in Christianity, as well?

I thought we agreed that if you're going waste my time with ridiculous parsing then we'll just go our different ways.

I don't know how you can make that accusation. I've stated exactly that.

You seem to be tap dancing around the question of whether the fantastical accounts recorded in the Bible are actually true. Or, whether they’re examples of pious fraud. Uh.... no I'm not. I've answered the questions you've given me. I think they are true. Will you agree, in principal, that pious fr...