Evidence for God from Science

Take this to its logical conclusion, and try to look at it objectively. If certain ethnic groups, or races, whatever you want to call them, are considered "less evolved", such as black Africans and aboriginal Australians, then tell me logically how that doesn't lead to racism. Rick, yes, ...

I'll give a couple possible reasons. The first has to do with demographics. Atheists and agnostics and other secular people dominate the younger/current generation like never before. Hence, the people most commonly using the internet (young people) are more likely to be atheists or agnostics than th...

Well, yes. It doesn't act like birth control pills, but it attempts to get to the same end (or lack thereof, depending on your perspective). Birth control pills contain hormones to prevent women from releasing an egg cell, and therefore sperm cannot get to it to fertilize it. The morning after pill ...

I realize that some conservative Christians will say that any form of contraception is not ok to use, but many (if not most) Christians have reconciled the use of condoms and birth control pills as means of reducing unintended pregnancy. But I rarely hear anyone talk about the so called "mornin...

Well for the record I was referring to BW's posts about Darwin, not yours, Lunelle...

I'll get to this later, but you flatly calling Darwin a racist bigot without any context (and cherry-picking quotes while you are at it) is just dishonest at best. Perhaps it would be pertinent to mention that Darwin, despite social attitudes of the time, opposed any form of slavery and said that th...

This looks extremely premature. Like it says in the article, the cosmic microwave background is totally unexplained by this model (whereas the big bang model predicts it perfectly). It's true that big bang cosmology doesn't explain everything currently, but this one has just as many, if not more, ho...

As a student of biology (specifically one who has taken high-level courses in evolution and genetics), let me start by saying that overall, race is a non-biological concept. Yes, different races have different physical structures, some are more predisposed to illness or genetic defect, and some grou...

Probably because it is by far the most popular belief among Christians in the US, and since there are more Christians in the US than anywhere else, it makes sense that YEC and literal interpretations of Genesis are everywhere here, too.

Haha, Rick, I'm confused...I mean, obviously I don't believe the flood was global or killed all life on Earth. Were your questions purely hypothetical? And yes, I suppose Noah's flood could in theory have happened ages ago. But for it to happen long enough ago to re-populate the Earth and spread to ...

The only problem with the idea of Noah and his family repopulating the Earth after a global flood is time. The genetic bottleneck I referred to happened tens of thousands of years ago, before humans even left sub-Saharan Africa. Unless Noah's ark somehow occurred many thousands of years before human...

And I wouldn't say Adam and Eve couldn't be based on real people, either...though, like Neo, I don't see it possible to say that they were the first humans ever. Actually, on an interesting note, genetic evidence suggests that at one point in the (relatively) recent past, the species homo sapiens we...

Ivellious, If Adam was not historical, why would Christ be historical? When Christ is compared and contrasted to Adam, how can Adam be symbolic, and Christ be real? Ivellious, I'm only asking you as a reader, how that makes sense. Easy. Other parts of the Bible have been backed up by non-biblical s...

What is your interpretation of Genesis then Ivellious? Well to be fair I don't really need one, per say, seeing as I'm not a Christian. I think Genesis in general, especially the very beginning with creation and Adam and Eve and all that, is not really that different than other creation stories fro...

Which problem is a big problem to you, the one about Adam and Eve or the one about evolution not being able to make anything? Both are solvable concerns, one through theology and one through science.