Religion

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What I would like to do is treat religion as a behavior, and look at this behavior in the context of evolution, to see if this new behavior brought selective advantage. Instead of treating religion as pro or con, I am treating religion as a new human behavior that suddenly appears. Here is the scenario; it is 10,000 years ago or so and humans are an extension of the apes and evolution, things moving slowly forward. Suddenly a new behavior appears in some of the pre-humans. Did this bring these humans a selective advantage? One way to answer this is to compare the two states of mind. The one with the religion or god effect will begin to see some version of divin…

Hello, I'm going to prove God exists and in the process disprove science. Whether you believe this is up to you, I don't wish to place my beliefs on anyone. Existence is composed of opposites existing between opposites - everything in existence follows these rules. A singularity does exist however, and it comes in the form of a black hole - this is what makes everything 'tick' so to speak. An example can be achieved through numbers; where 0 = opposite/duality and 1 = singularity. Although 1/singularity cannot exist on its own, it can exist between opposites, as the black hole proves so well. 0 = Opposite 000 010 = Opposite 000 The God in the bib…

I'm probably one of the most devout agnostics you'll ever run across. But even I wonder at times, did I stump my toe? Do I honestly understand what's going on around us? Am I really so smart as not to acknowledge there may be a GOD? Take a look at this short video and ask yourself, is evolution all that there is? http://www.tangle.com/view_video.php?viewkey=bb31a5d87b3b44397869&sp=1

Hey, 1) Recently I've been doing a lot of research on Religion and previous civilizations - during my efforts I noticed reoccurences in the pyramid symbol. I was wondering if anyone here could help me decipher what religion the Egyptions followed. My first guess was 'Jewish'; this is purerly arbitrary as the pyramids came up whilst I was decoding what I believe the bible to represent. 2) Seeing as the religious books were written years ago, way before the advanced diction we have today, could we have misinterpreted the word 'God'? The definition of 'God' today is: the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of…

Just about everything we see, feel, smell or sense can be explained. But then there is the inexplicable. The following three or four minute video gives me pause to think. Is it God given, or just an act of nature? You be the judge. http://wimp.com/dolphinbubbles/

Gentleman-farmer (PLEASE NOTE This subject is very complex and the proof lays in some evidence not commonly recognized - so in order to make this presentation as contiguous as possible would you all restrict your responses to questions and not google counter proposals - we can entertain those at the end of the thread - thank you The short answer to what religion did the Egyptians follow? Is given by Champollion-Figeac On another thread Klaplunk asked Ju gf) I've studied that question for many years - my interest stemming from initial studies of the Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, where we'll find some of the answers. We'll find other parts in the Book…

Do you believe in GOD? If so, I think this is for you. If not, don't be nasty. http://www.openmyeyeslord.net/UltimateFreedom.htm

Did Jesus teach faith only salvation(like Paul), or did He teach that works are necessary? I tend to think the latter, despite much opposition by most Christian sects. In my defense, it's one of the major themes of Matthew. "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till ALL be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach [them], the same shall be called gre…

I think the YEC may possibly have a point for once. In non-YEC Christianity, how does 'The Fall' work? Was man just always in a sinful state of being. If so, what is the point of the genesis fable?

Is it necessary to believe in a Creator other than that which we find in our minds? At night, have you ever stood on a mountain, walked along a river or lain in bed and felt absolute contentment while looking out into a creation no one can explain? Then, have you not wondered? This is GOD in his infinitesimal(ism). Many well intended people will try bending your mind to their way of addressing this supreme power; but you are the only one who can make that decision. GOD is real, it's just a matter of pacifying your mind in dealing with such an enigma.

Not only death by a thousand cuts, but death by a million views. Enjoy. 0Rqw4krMOug

Here's a link to the various translations of Exodus 21:22 Exodus 21:22-25 22 "If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely [a] but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows. 23 But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise. [a]: Exodus 21:22 Or she has a miscarriage It's not entirely clear whether this passage is talking about the woman or the child being seriously injured. Is it saying that if someone accidentally kills a…

I was thinking about this the other day, what attributes can we ascribe to any religion and their "good works" that have quite honestly improved the world, in addition to the problems they have caused (as all have, as all human organizations of any age have) to their leaders or founders as philosophers, versus their leaders or founders as prophets and gods? From my vantage point, that is anything but unbiased (I should get that out of the way) it strikes me that all the great things about Jesus or Buddha Mohammad or whomever exist as a result of their efforts as philosophers or, just generally leaders. The negative aspects associated with any of today's religions tha…

This is probably the first question that runs through my mind when talking about God(ignosticism ftw). What is a god? Is a sufficiently powerful man a god(like Pharaohs)? If the alien-god hypothesis is true, are the extraterrestrials really gods? What are the qualifying characteristics of a god? I hereby present my candidacy for godhood.

...goes something like this: God is that than which a greater cannot be conceived. Either God exists only in the understanding or He exists in reality also. God does not exist only in the understanding. God exists. Now, let's support premise 3 with a separate argument: If God exists only in the understanding, than a greater can be conceived; namely, one with the same properties as God, but with the additional property of existing. Then God would not be that than which a greater cannot be conceived. Thus, God cannot exist only in the understanding. Objections There's quite a few objections to the argument. The first, brought up b…

Buddhism is perhaps one of the freest religions along with Taoism because Buddhists (and also Taoists to some extent) do not believe and do not worship an external coercive God. http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma3/budgod.html

In certain religious sects having lots of facial hair in the form of a thick flowing beard is necessary or is indicated as being necessary to being a man. What if you were a male with very little facial hair. Could you still be a member? I'm just curious because I have very little facial hair but all the Taliban seem to have long full beards, is this religious or cultural or both? Americans who work closely with people from Afghanistan all wear the full beards to gain the mens trust. It occurred to me I would stand out like a sore thumb! So what is the real status of the beard thing?

Hi. These art paintings, famous or not, show Adam, Eve : http://www.bestpriceart.com/vault/michela7.jpg http://courses.cit.cornell.edu/nes263/student2007/jml248/titian.adam&eve.jpg http://www.oceansbridge.com/paintings/artists/c/cranach_lucas_the_elder/oil-big/adam_and_eve_1533_XX_staatliche_museen_berlin.jpg http://www.oceansbridge.com/paintings/collections/museum-thysssen/big/hans_baldung_grien_xx_adam_and_eve_1531.jpg http://www.lib-art.com/imgpainting/9/0/11109-adam-and-eve-jan-mabuse-gossaert.jpg http://schriftman.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/adam-and-eve-palo-alto.jpg http://www.city-data.com/forum/attachments/atheism-agnosticism/30416…

In a recent thread, there was a comment that seemed to imply belief that the Bible has no contractions. I, however, see no reason why that would be the case. It's a collection of texts from different authors living in different places in different times; they're likely to have slightly differing beliefs on some things and they're likely to have heard slightly different versions of the stories. Many people think that the existence of contradictions means that the Bible is wrong or that it can't be trusted at all(much like the YEC's 'If you can't believe the beginning, why believe the end?'), but I also don't see any justification for that view. Not being inerrant does…

Based on clear moral superiority, I've found the one True religion. All others are manifestly false. "Be excellent to each other"-Bill & Ted

Has there actually been calculations done, or is fine tuning all baseless speculation?

The Kalam Cosmological Argument goes a bit like this.

This question comes up somewhat often on religion boards. Personally, I think it's rather irrelevant as truth does not depend upon whether or not it benefits you. However, this question can, imo, be given a satisfactory answer. Atheism offers the same thing theism offers; an response to a metaphysical proposition. Neither offer any more or any less. Neither offer hope, freedom, love, morality, etc. Neither offer a framework for belief; They only offer a metaphysical proposition that informs a framework that the (a)theist may adopt. Everything else are just add-ons that depend on the person and further clarification of their belief. You can't tell anything about a …

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/paul_tillich.html http://www.amazon.com/Courage-Be-Paul-Tillich/dp/0300084714 browse the ToC and look at headings for pages 155-186 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tillich ==quote== Tillich's criticism against the traditional theistic God is that: He deprives me of my subjectivity because he is all-powerful and all-knowing. I revolt and make him into an object, but the revolt fails and becomes desperate. God appears as the invincible tyrant, the being in contrast with whom all other beings are without freedom and subjectivity. He is equated with recent tyrants with the help of terror try to transform everythi…