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The way I see it, natural versus spiritual life isn't an either/or proposition. God gave us natural lives in a natural world, and surely you wouldn't suggest that God would do so to prevent us from being fulfilled spiritually. So there isn't necessarily any need to "demolish man made creeds"...

Your proposed explanation says nothing about how stars can fall from the sky. That's because we all know that stars cannot fall from the sky. We obviously should not base science on errors like that. Actually, we are doing people favors when we correct them. I for one love to be corrected--it...

I have no idea what any of this has to do with the mistaken notion that the stars can fall from the sky. Only if they are wrong. Correcting the errors I see on these boards keeps me very busy. Of course the Bible has some errors in it. The God of truth would never deny that because the truth...

Oh sure. Five-year-olds tend to be experts on demons as causes of illness. From what I've seen, conception leads to death. Sin and death--sin and death---rah Rah RAH! But are there any clinical trials demonstrating that demons cause illness? Preferably trials conducted by five-year-olds.

Let's take a look at that context. From Mark 4:30-32 (KJV) we have: So where's the problem? The context doesn't make that error any less wrong. I have no idea what any of this has to do with my pointing out that stars are too big and far away to fall from the sky. You'll need to explain. So...

Go ahead and be mean. I enjoy the laughs. The mustard seed is not the smallest seed. Stars are too big and too far away to fall from the sky. There is no ocean in the sky because rockets have been sent into space and remained completely dry. Yes. Of course. I'm afraid that's wrong. Error...

What scientific errors do those books make? They are works of fiction, so any apparent scientific errors they make are merely the result of artistic license. Besides, when I mentioned "any good book" I was referring to nonfiction.

LOL--Your comments are so mean it's funny. Yes, the Bible isn't a science book, but any good book, science book or not, should not contain scientific errors. You'll need to explain what you mean by this. Probably not. I first learned both science and the Bible including the nature of disease...

Yes. So how could modern science be based on that kind of ignorance? I learned that disease is caused by bad genes, bacteria, and viruses when I was in elementary school. The Bible writers evidently were completely unaware of those actual causes of disease. Matthew 15:11 tells us: If you...

Some people credit Galileo. Others credit Aristotle. Take your pick! Why? I don't see the logical necessity of a God to do science. Oh sure--it informed us that the mustard seed is the smallest seed and that disease is caused by demons not to mention that hand washing is unnecessary. What...

Aside from the times when the science was done, no, the way science has been done has been remarkably consistent throughout history. Nevertheless there is one key difference I should emphasize is that science as we do it today is essentially atheistic in that no divine revelation is appealed to...

I'll need to know what you mean by "show." Do you want me to post a link to an article or a video? I've found a ton of good material on cell evolution online. Cells must have evolved because geologists have found that early in earth history there were no cells and no life on our planet. Cells...

Really. Yes. It makes perfect sense to me. Is that why you think evolution doesn't occur? Yes--you said that. More than once before. You know what they say about people who keep repeating themselves. You just have no good evidence to argue that evolution does not occur. That's because it...

What you're saying here is not only just a matter of opinion but is irrelevant to who was doing science first; we're not discussing the quality of a culture's science but it's history. It was clearly many cultures that predated Christianity including the Greeks who practiced science. Sure, if...

But that's beside the point I was making. You challenged the view that fins can evolve into legs (or was it vice versa?), and I made a very good case for the plausibility of that kind of evolution. You don't even need fossils for it because we have living creatures that show their evolutionary...

I've never seen a miracle aside from the miracle of people believing in miracles. And neither am I! But seriously, I think it's honest and sensible to admit error and correct it. I know I do. In a sense reality is hopeless. I accept that truth. In a way I like the fact that the cosmos will die...

But how can the energy that was put into the two waves that cancel each other out have been reduced to "nothing"? The answer is that the sum of the energy in the universe is zero. The energy we experience is either positive or negative energy that has not yet been canceled out. Some day all that...

I think the belief that self-creation from nothing is impossible arose from our everyday experiences in which things are apparently always created from something else. It's just counter-intuitive to conclude that self-creation happens. But the universe doesn't care what we think is reasonable...

Yes, I'm familiar with Hawking's work. I know that two waves undergoing destructive interference cancel each other out into what is essentially no wave at all. So if two waves can be no waves, then can no waves be two waves? I don't see why not. So yes in a sense something can come from nothing...

If you interpret the Bible literally, then no, the God I mention is not "the God of the Bible." It seems reasonable to me that the existence we experience has a basis, and I call that basis "God." Since the universe exists, then its basis for existence is God. I am borrowing the "creation ex...