Yeah I just read through only the first page. I keep coming back so I understand. EDIT: I just realized that I put the link in the middle of the thesis. Here is the link from the start.
I don't think folks should accept or discard ANY viewpoint based on whether or not all of it's proponents have been fully respectful on internet forums. Do you realize where that criteria would leave us?
Don't know why I don't understand what you're saying. Kinda flew over my head, and I just read it over 4 times.
If we discarded a way of thinking every time we saw one of it's supporters be disrespectful on the internet, what would we be left with? Nihilism, Dude. And nobody likes a nihilist!
this age of the earth/evolution debate is about scienctific evidence. it doesn't even involve the bible. and in any case i'm intimately familiar with the bible.
whether the cambrian explosion is an illusion or not is a matter of contention at the moment within the scientific community, and few believe "more or less" isn't at least over tens of millions of years.
not sure what you're trying to say here, but denny, TT, and I all have the same views of your beliefs for almost entirely the same reasons.
You are the extremest. Even if you saw God, you wouldn't believe (Yeah my opinion on you). I have a feeling if TT and Denny saw God, they would actually believe.
I think that establishing the criteria for changing one's mind is a crucial step in being an honest thinker. There are actually several events that could happen that would change my mind about God. For example, if we were to somehow discover human life on another planet, I'd be sold. Ironically, of course, this discovery would also be a devastating blow to a number of Earth-centric religions...
The unfortunate situation is everything is so far away. Aren't certain galaxies millions of "light years" away? Wouldn't that mean the telescope captured 100,000,000 million years ago or something? So there could be planets just like ours that are just as developed and we don't even know. A weird "Catch 22" if you know what I mean. Who knows civilizations could be at our level and have no phathom of life on other planets too.
sure you aren't confusing me with maris again? i haven't been saying anything intellectually different than TT or denny. what god? i would believe in a superior being if i saw it and had the means to be sure i wasn't hallucinating. if that superior being appeared and told me the earth is 6000 years, or that the christian plan of salvation makes logical sense morally, i would think he was lying to me.
he said humans specifically on other planets, not other civilizations at our level. if we found humans on other planets it would be clear evidence humans were the result of intelligent design.
And still the same response. I've seen a few solar systems known to be inhabitable; that are 20 light years away; but no life yet to be seen. I think 1 is 10 times our gravity and each year is like 3 days or something; so even if they were human; they would probably look much different.
Some say that God can make anything possible. But the key word up there is "if", of course -- I don't expect it to happen any more than I expect a flaming hand to inscribe words upon my office wall. (That would also be an event that would change my mind, by the way, assuming others could confirm that I hadn't suddenly gone bonkers.)
