Is their a God?
Rev_Blair @ Wed Aug 18, 2004 4:22 am
Yeah, forty this year and I don't feel a day over seventy-five. I never said I was young, just that you were old. 
Stats on religion in the US and Canada are pretty interesting. There is a trend towards Canadians moving away from organised religion and what the religious right refer to as traditional values. Americans are still really very close to where they were in the 1950s on both aspects.
Johnnybgoodaaaaa @ Wed Aug 18, 2004 8:48 am
Zenfisher Zenfisher:
Johnny, I am not attacking you I am just curious. If you don't base what you see, hear, feel and touch as a basis for shaping your opinions and all you rely on is stats, aren't you missing the point of what the stats actually mean? Stats are a tool, no more than a hammer. It s what the carpenter has feels & has experienced, which allows him to build and create something of value.
Rev...Forty this year,
, eh? You ain't no spring chicken anymore.
Rev...Forty this year,
, eh? You ain't no spring chicken anymore.I don't only rely on stats, if you noticed I also said that stats lie, but I also said that personal experience can lie and is very dependent on perception and your view of the world.
polemarch1 @ Wed Aug 18, 2004 3:31 pm
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Johhny I've known atheists that have donated kidneys,while the Christian relatives that were a donor match to the person that needed a kidney, their own fllesh and blood, turned them down. That doesn't mean that all Christians are like that.That's what I mean by selfless.
Just wondering what sect of Christian they where? I know some sects/religions don't believe in organ donation or blood transfuasions for various reasons. Now if that is a person belief is it really being selfish to refuse to give blood or organs?
For the recorded I don't think evolution denies the existence of a God. I think a person can be religious and still believe in evolution.
Rev_Blair @ Wed Aug 18, 2004 4:41 pm
Most evolutionists believe in some sort of god or higher being, Polemarch. Even the pope has said that the teaching of evolution is scientific and does not interfere with religious matters, although when I was in school not all the teachers agreed with him.
It is only those who insist that the Bible is to be taken literally that dispute the science, and they have shown themselves to be less than honest over the years.
Zenfisher @ Thu Aug 19, 2004 12:02 am
Anglican...Polemarch.
mike2277 @ Thu Aug 19, 2004 4:27 am
The question was "Is there a God?" I can't prove that there is, but if the best arguement against the existence of God we can come up with is "I know some atheists and they're really, really nice" I think I'll stick with the "pro-god" side.
