Evidence for God from Science

Hi touchingcloth - That excerpt from Darwin reveals his thoughtful, gentile, and humane nature - not something generally talked about. He was a meticulous scientist who reported what he found, with a sort of unspoken truce with his wife not to discuss with her what he thought she thought might be un...

Hi AOK - Until I get that whole chapter (maybe tomorrow), I found a summary of it on the net: Chapter 16, In Black and White Summary and Analysis When European settlers first arrived in Tasmania, they found it inhabited by an estimated 5,000 black native inhabitants. Those inhabitants were entirely ...

Hi AOK - The city library told me they had the book on order - interesting since the first edition was written over 10 years ago. Anyway, they'll email me when it arrives. I'll try to find a used book store tomorrow.

Hi NG - I can't argue with the validity of your scenarios.

DB

Hi AOK, In my search for those charts, I ran across this little summary - about that book and cogent to that chapter - by Amazon book reviewer, Dennis Littrell: A recurring theme throughout the book is the human propensity to kill and our hypocrisy about that killing. From the mastodons to the child...

The information i'm relying on is in graph and chart form in Part IV of "Third Chimpanzee" by Diamond. There are four chapters in Part IV but I can't remember which chapter. What I've found on the internet so far isn't quite what I'm looking for, but I'm looking. This data, compiled by Dia...

You left out stats on other centuries. The 20th and 21st centuries, compared to their populations, was much less.

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Diamond's info came from "Third Chimpanzee," his previous book. He had a whole chapter about this very subject - an extremely fascinating chapter. Even including Hitler and WWII, more people live in peace this century than in any previous century. Of course, there continue to be genocides ...

The inspired New Testament has phrases suggesting the imminent second coming.

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Hi Zoegirl - At least according to the author of "Germs, Guns, & Steel" percentagewise to the population, we have less genocide than ever in history...and each generation thinking the younger generation is worse than they were goes back at least to Aristotle.

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Note, I said "with a few exceptions." In primitive societies, maybe the cheaters got murdered. Everybody knew who they were. Maybe it was their version of capital punishment. Below 50 to 100 tribe members, peer pressure took care of cheating and they didn't any other police system. With a ...

>>That raping, stealing, and murdering are considered wrong is simply the current fashion in social mores<<

Haven't these acts (with a few exceptions) been considered wrong in virtually all societies, in virtually all ages, and in virtually all religions?

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Great video zoegirl!

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Perhaps they thought the second coming was so eminent that there was no sense in writing what noone would be around to read.

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Hi Proinsias - very interesting posts. Do you mind if I ask the derivation of your nickname?

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Hi Gman, I just hate to see people dismiss what might be good evidence on account of preconceived ideas from another tradition. I know we - including me - are all susceptible to this. Whether what we lean toward at any given time is called a belief, a fact, a hunch, a gut feeling - I don't know how ...