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Re: Does marrying in churches in the UK strengthen the churc I can't help but feel it continues to give the church some kind of validation in society. The church (or religious leaders at least) still have a preposterous amount of influence in British society. While ever church resources are...

Re: AronRa's challenge, which are related? Which are created Always amusing to see creationists make actual statements, since it takes about 15 seconds to show the idiocy. But no matter. One thing that has always puzzled me is why people find it difficult to accept that a cow is more closely...

Sowwy Locust, life events took a turn of a somewhat dramatic nature, nearly now resolved (but not quite)

Lulz, I must be psychic. I don't have to justify the ability to reason, or perceive, because in order to even postulate the notion that I can't perceive or reason I have already accepted that I can do so. Your entire argument here is self-refuting.

I'm going to presume that's a typo of theist when addressing it, as I don't see how it can make sense otherwise. I contend that, should you happen to accept the idea that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence then claims of omnipotent, omniscient and transcendent gods can never...

That's the only part I don't really like. One could be atheist despite there being evidence for a deity.

You promised you'd never tell!!!

Excellent question. In short, I dunno. Ok, having gotten the "I dunno" answer out of the way, we look at plausible hypothesis of abiogenesis. What you're looking for really is the first replicator, something that could replicate itself with a decent degree of fidelity so that it's descendents...

Hey Bob. I hear you're looking for a person who criticises the posts of people who are supposed to be on the same "side". Lets check my status around here, then go read some of my posts. Now how did I become a mod after so much disagreement with people?

Catholic. Was well past my religious days when I turned up here, but membership of this and the RDF forums forced me to consider my position to a far greater extent than I would have done without the input of others.

why oh why oh why oh why can't this be the mantra taught to kids in school.

No more of that please. Hmm, probably should put this in big green writing or something.

The definition of the word marriage is not really the issue with that interview. I've actually spoken in favour of the preservation of the word marriage to refer to a man and woman in the past due to the explanatory power the word marriage actually has (ie, refer to a married couple and you...

Best interview I've heard from a religious figure. This interview can't help but have shown the idiots in the church to be exactly what they are, a set of bigoted and outdated morons. Love the stuff about "natural law", when what he really means is "what my book says". I listened to this live...

Couldn't agree more re IRC, irc.oftc.net, #lor (same thing as the chat link above, just doesn't use the mibbit web client). Welcome to the boards