Society/Culture Nobody has anything new to say about God.

[Snake_Baker]

You will be a lot happier with people who share your values than those who are indifferent.

 

[Milkshaker]

Skeptical

 

[Roylion]

Ahh, the old 'wedge strategy'.

The above video is from the Center for Science and Culture which is part of the Discovery Institute, a conservative Christian organisation that lobbies for the inclusion of creationism in the form of intelligent design (ID) in public school science curricula as an explanation for the origins of life and the universe while trying to cast doubt on the scientific theory of evolution.

The Centre's key aims are:
"To defeat scientific materialism and its destructive moral, cultural and political legacies" and to "replace materialistic explanations with the theistic understanding that nature and human beings are created by God."

CSC director, Stephen Meyer has acknowledged most of the Center's money comes from wealthy donors from the Christian right such as from the likes of Howard Ahmanson Jr., who provided $1.5 million in funding that established the Center and has said his goal is "the total integration of biblical law into our lives."

Scientific facts are actually determined by the published work of scientists and whether it’s accepted by the scientific community, not the number of dissenters which in terms of all credible scientists is still incredibly small. In twelve years the Discovery Institute has only been able to add another 300 names from the 700 it had in 2007, which even then only represented less than 0.023 percent of the world's scientists.

Unlike the Discovery Institute who appear to rely on lists to somehow refute or cast doubts on evolution, the NCSE doesn’t use lists of scientists to support the truth of evolution.

Even so, in response to the Discovery Institute "list", the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) published their own lighthearted list of scientists named Steve who have a Ph.D. and support evolution. 1,400 Steves alone, compared to the 1,000 scientists that the D.I. has taken 18 years to collect.

Here’s what the 1,400 Steves signed:

"Evolution is a vital, well-supported, unifying principle of the biological sciences, and the scientific evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of the idea that all living things share a common ancestry. Although there are legitimate debates about the patterns and processes of evolution, there is no serious scientific doubt that evolution occurred or that natural selection is a major mechanism in its occurrence. It is scientifically inappropriate and pedagogically irresponsible for creationist pseudoscience, including but not limited to “intelligent design,” to be introduced into the science curricula of our nation’s public schools."

 

[Snake_Baker]

 

[Snake_Baker]

 

[Snake_Baker]

Man who helped draft laws ordering adulterers to be flogged is flogged

Mukhlis, who is a member of the Aceh Ulema Council and only goes under one name like many Indonesians, was given 28 lashes of a rattan cane on Thursday after he was caught having an affair.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Snake_Baker]

 

[Boston tiger]

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What would a devine and benevolent creator want you to do about it? That's the question Snakey . That's what you should be asking your self.

 

[Snake_Baker]

What would a devine and benevolent creator want you to do about it? That's the question Snakey . That's what you should be asking your self.

A "divine and malevolent creator" would never manufacture such perverse games for their own amusement.

This is what you should be questioning your faith about.

 

[M Malice]

Existence is brutal, it's only been the last 100 years of so that we humans have become relatively safe and comfortable in the 1st world, that's what you get with evolution via natural selection, it's dog eat dog survival of the fittest out there.

Shit happens.

 

[Total Power]

Existence is brutal, it's only been the last 100 years of so that we humans have become relatively safe and comfortable in the 1st world, that's what you get with evolution via natural selection, it's dog eat dog survival of the fittest out there.

Shit happens.

True, however if you choose "no consequence for action", then you are choosing a mindset to allow you to seemingly act freely of consequence. It's a deliberate veil. Our collective actions will have consequence. Whether it's colonialism, nuclear war, capitalism, communism, socialism, left right centre or whatever -ism you subscribe to.

Alternatively, there are countless people from established religions who do the same thing, only they passively hide behind their misinterpreted belief. My religious nut family, claim to be hardcore Christians for example, but I'd suggest that despite the facade, the "I believe in Jesus and she'll be right mate" attitude allows them to behave how they behave!

In perspective, it's people who are causing suffering to others. It's people hurting other people. It's people arguing and killing over real estate/commodity rights (ie. materialism). People are responsible for their own suffering. It's people who are giving an ego to the "collective unconscious" (i wouldn't use the word God) to propogate their own materialistic desires.

The first of the Hermetic Principles is this: 1.The Principle of Mentalism: "The All is mind, the Universe is mental."

I know it's hard to fathom, but we are, where our minds are at.

 

[Snake_Baker]

 

[Snake_Baker]

 

[Andrew Birch]

 

[Snake_Baker]

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There may be copyright issues.

 

[Snake_Baker]

 

[Andrew Birch]

 

[Admiral Byng]

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Sorry to quibble, but shouldn't that read "...Noah's boat" ?

 

[Snake_Baker]

Sorry to quibble, but shouldn't that read "...Noah's boat" ?

If it was big enough to house a pair of every organism on the planet then it's probably best described as a FFFFFFF-ARK!

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Sorry to quibble, but shouldn't that read "...Noah's boat" ?

For over 40 days it was a houseboat.

 

[Snake_Baker]

 

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[Boston tiger]

A "divine and malevolent creator" would never manufacture such perverse games for their own amusement.

This is what you should be questioning your faith about.

Plenty of answers for that one. Death and suffering has been going on for a fair while.

 

[Andrew Birch]

 

[Snake_Baker]

The presidency is only one more strategic move away.