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Comment on Who Created God? Where did God Come From? by Karl Koz

Karl Koz — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:46:18 +0000

I notice one answer that you haven’t explained away: Everything that has a beginning has a cause. If God created the universe, then God created time. He is therefore outside of time, and has no beginning. Therefore, God doesn’t need a cause. It can be concluded from the first two laws of thermodynamics that the universe had a beginning, and so something had to create it! And the universe can’t have created itself, as that would require it to exist before it came into existence.

Comment on The Ineptness of Guardian Angels by P. Sethna

P. Sethna — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:30:57 +0000

Spot on!
My ex-girlfriend, a fervent Catholic who revelled in the most extreme and superstitious interpretation of her faith, believed wholeheartedly in guardian angels. Apparently these supernatural beings were constantly protecting and guiding her, even with the most trivial of life’s events such as helping her find a parking space.
She seemed nonplussed when I asked her once that if these Guardian Angels were so proactive, where were they during times of real need in history, such as during the extermination of the Jews in the 1940’s, or in recent times, saving people from the Tsunami? Even if these wonderful beings only helped Catholics; couldn’t they have at least saved good Catholic children from the clutches of paedophile Catholic priests?
What supernatural rubbish all of this is and what an insult it is to people’s intelligence.

Comment on ‘Lost’ — The Last Rites by Mark Stouffer

Mark Stouffer — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 03:06:18 +0000

I have the sneaking suspicion that it was not about the purgatory-style afterlife. The entire sideways time occurred while Jack lay on the beach dying. It was the rest of his life although to us, or rather an observer on the island, it would have appeared to last only seconds. To Jack it lasted for the rest of his life.

I thought the show was about reason, rational thought. The light was identity, expressed by the identity principal a=a, the primary example of which is existence exists. The narative is the continuity of the rational mind. The source is identity and the river is the river of individuals who have preserved the human race and rational thought. The island is reality. Everyone arrives there ‘by accident’ from ‘accross the sea’. False Locke is mysticism and collectivism.

Am I way off base? Why is no one talking about the reasons? The rational view that ‘everything that happens here happens for a reason’ and that we needed ‘everything that happened’ to get where we are, talking about LOST.

Maybe I am wrong, but it is not far-fetched to think that a show with characters named John Locke, Hume, Rousseau, Faraday, Richard Alpert (Ram Das), Christian Sheppard, and The Nameless One, may have actually been about philosophy.

Comment on Stephen Hawking Warns Against Making Alien Contact by Jakki

Jakki — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:16:26 +0000

Here’s the thing he is touching on, and there is plenty of evidence to support this. Look up “The Dulce Files” and see what you find. The suggestion is that aliens are not in outer space…we keep looking to the skies, when in fact, they may be under our feet….

Comment on Karen’s Spiritual Journey by devin

devin — Thu, 27 May 2010 16:18:52 +0000

Brilliant show!

Comment on Anti-Abortion Ad Distortions by Brandon Scott

Brandon Scott — Tue, 25 May 2010 19:16:06 +0000

I am always against abortion because it is a sin to kill an innocent child.;-,

Comment on Anti-Abortion Ad Distortions by Rational Dreamer

Rational Dreamer — Wed, 19 May 2010 19:43:29 +0000

Hey Charles,

Actually, I believe I am correct. 25 abortions per 100 live births is a ratio, not a percentage. Thus, the total number of pregnancies in this example is 125, 100 or which are brought to term, the other 25 end in abortion. And so the percentage of pregnancies that end in abortion is 25/ 125 which is 20%.

In reality there will be some variation from this number because it doesn’t include miscarriages. It’s likely that some percentage of the pregnancies ending in abortion would have ended in a miscarriage anyway, given that some are carried out for medical reasons. Either way, at most it’s still only 20%.

Comment on Anti-Abortion Ad Distortions by Charles Dexter Ward

Charles Dexter Ward — Wed, 19 May 2010 10:22:19 +0000

Erm, “25 abortions per 100 live births” is 25%! Not that I disagree with what you’re saying.

Comment on Question of the Day by Charles Dexter Ward

Charles Dexter Ward — Wed, 19 May 2010 10:20:17 +0000

No.
Asked and answered.
(smug grimace)

Comment on Are Religious People More Charitable than Non-Believers? by The Atheist God

The Atheist God — Mon, 17 May 2010 07:58:23 +0000

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