Keith Robison doesn't achieve his goal here, in my opinion. He shows that once a moustrap HAS a base (the floor in this case) you can improve upon that base. Granted, but it doesn't make a moustrap reducibly complex. Once a mousetrap has a spring, you can replace it with a better spring. So what? Ev...

Design would not necessitate a falsity of evolution. Absolutely granted. And also, if I have not made myself clear, I believe in Natural Selection and Evolution. We should separate the issue of whether a scientific theory is true from the philosophical implications of that theory. When Darwin publi...

Even if you determined that something couldn't have evolved, that doesn't necessitate that it was designed. I am curious as to what your alternative is. To assert "ID is science" reveals utter incompetence, but more importantly and disturbingly, a thorough disrespect of true science. Why?...

Lets assume a tiny alien walks around between these snowflakes. He would immediately assume that these beautiful creations were designed by some intellegence...but it was not. Actually, your snowflake IS a good example, but of how objects with little information do not imply design. How much INFORM...

In order for Evolution to be a science, ID must be. No, really, science DOES require that a theory be Falsifiable. If it isn't, that doesn't necessarily mean it isn't true (or false) but science can't do much with it. It isn't SCIENCE. So, our question is, is EVOLUTION falsifiable? Yes it is, and Ch...

To you faultless sentinels and high priests of tolerance (the essence of which you define, and which - slightly contradictive - does not include me I, for one, DO include you. I think you have every right to believe that homosexuality is deviant. I will defend your right to preach it from the pulpi...

I don't think it's very helpful to constantly come with extreme examples that actually distort any reasonable argumentation, and avoid half of what I write. Guilty of coming up with extreme arguments, but I didn't intend to avoid anything you wrote. The extra JW stuff wasn't there when I started my...

The way you put it to give the impression 'poor' Jehova's Witnesses would be unrightfully persecuted, when in fact they at least tend to violate human rights. How? By worshiping the way they choose? Or do you mean because they don't take blood transfusions? I disagree with the JW's on this, but sho...

EXCEPT in the case of adoption. When placing a child, the government should require a very high standard, and that means evaluating such things as religious belief and involvement, sexual behavior, etc. I know that's totally politically incorrect, but when it comes to ensuring an adopted child's we...

As far as freedom of raising your children every way you want goes (apart from open abuse): I think there are bounds and limits for this, too, and if somebody is going to raise little Hitlers (or little Terrorists, how about that?), something needs to be done about it. But lets take it to it's logi...

Let me give you an alternate point of view. A conservative Christian who is in favor of legalizing gay marriage. A long time ago, there were two kinds of marriage. Marriage in a church, and Marriage by a Justice of the Peace. BOTH were legal marriages. BUT, to get married in a church, you had to mee...

when programs mess with my setup they're toast. I have to agree. The only setting that Mozilla changed on my system was the default browser. (and that was optional) they have windoze port? i thought that was unix/linux Mozilla will run just about anywhere, including windoze. I use it under XP and 2...

By the way, if you were to replace nasty old MSIE with cool nifty Mozilla Firefox... :) You could get the BBCode extension. Mega nice, it does all the work for you. Highlight some text, rightclick and on the pop-up menu you see "BBCode" as an option. You can use it to set font colors: http...

I'm going to agree with woodchip here. I'm a bit confused as to exactly what kind of material you wish to be discussed in "Ethics and Commentary" if we are to avoid politics and religion. And it does seem to me that anyone who browses an "Ethics and Commentary" forum should hardl...

We will never come to an agreement on this, so this will be my last post on this topic. Well, I've had fun (and learned a lot) discussing it, thanks for participating! And also, how incredibly generous of you to give the Trinists the last word! :lol: Jesus is, and why this whole mess exists. All th...

Firefly was THE best SF to ever hit TV. Bar none.

I lost a couple friends in separate car accidents. It sucked. Sorry if I was insensitive. I've lost friends to auto accidents as well. Probably everyone on this board has. I was attempting, (and failing!) to be humorus about the daily risks we all take. But the fact is that NOT taking those risks i...

that one in a million chance could happen to me too Find the web site for the "Department of Highways" for your state (or equivalent) You will probably find a "risk per mile" assement of safety on the roads in your area. I have comforting news for you! The chances that you will ...

C. S. Lewis was a great writer, who had his opinions, but to separate truth from falsehood we should always return to the Bible to define meaning. I agree, I was quoting him because I thought he explained the idea well, not as an authority above the Bible. People saw Jesus (the Word), and yet John ...

Hey Shoku, I don't know if it's been discussed before, but are you a Jehovah's Witness? The Witnesses are not the only group that question the divinity of Christ. Arian said "there was a time when he was not" a long, LONG time ago. And that particular belief has never really died out. The...

Intelligent debate is good for everyone because we can all learn something no matter how much we already know. I agree! Discussion is always good. If someone challenges something you believe and you attempt, with an open mind, to defend it, how can you help but learn? Either you find good support f...

The fact is, different translations can seriously change the meaning of various scriptures That's why I always study with multiple translations, and a Strong's Exhaustive concordance at hand. Using Strongs you can look up the definitions of the greek and hebrew words and see if you agree with the t...

the Old Testament... and the New Testament... The themes of these two portions of the Bible vary significantly. The theme of both the old and New Testaments is salvation through the death of Christ. The difference is that the old testament is looking FORWARD to the death of Christ, and the new Test...

Never attribute to malice, that which can be explained by stupidity.

I am forced to pay local school taxes yearly even though neither of my children have ever set foot in a public classroom. Yet another place we are in agreement. My kid goes to private school as well. :) Actually, I have grave misgivings about the entire public school system. It is simply impossible...

My understanding is that the sequance can vary, and specifically that it varies depending on the skill level you are playing at.

even if the scientist admits that some process/phenomenon is impossible to subject to reduction - this does not mean that there is not a naturalistic explanation. it may merely mean that man is not equipped to ever arrive at the explanation. in other words, there is a naturalistic explanation, but ...

One things that you two seem to have forgotten(Palz/Kilarin), that is, this country was founded on Christian principles. It's only in the last 30 years that those principles have been challenged.Ironically, in the last 30 years things have gone terribly awry. So you wouldn't say that things were ba...

The point of Separation of Church and State is NOT just to protect the state from the Church. It was to protect the Church from the State. Religion is SAFEST when it operates in the free marketplace of ideas, without any kind of state support or interference. It's quite simple. Right now we conserva...