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[quote]Originally posted by NoahJ: Read, unlike the theory of evolution which some smart man came up with and sounded reasonable enough, more so than things just being created by a supreme being. Evolution may be real in certain circumstances, …
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[quote]Originally posted by Fluffy: ummm... I'm not quite sure how to interpret this. If I have offended or otherwise upset you, I am truly sorry. I have tendency to be overly blunt at times. btw, I hope that wasn't you driving that mo…
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[quote]Originally posted by Fluffy: A Christian is one who accepts Jesus' sacrifice on their part, nothing more, and I never meant to imply otherwise. However, I have seen evolution and our clergy's inability or unwillingness to defend Genes…
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[quote]Originally posted by Fluffy: If someone wants to use Christianity as a moral code or philosophy, then the origins debate is irrelevant. But I am in search of truth, not philosophy. Without creation Christianity has no truth. [ 03-14-2…
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[quote]Originally posted by Fluffy: ** deleted ** Actually, I'm not going to get into the creation/evolution debate here. [ 03-14-2002: Message edited by: Fluffy ] Thank you! I find most debates along those lines futile, anyway. Al…
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[quote]Originally posted by Fluffy: I agree. However, the truth is absolute... belief does not change what actually happened. In that sense, science and religion converge or, more specifically, science and the correct religion converge. By exam…
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[quote]Originally posted by Fluffy: I assume you are speaking of the Old Testament apocrypha. Catholics do indeed venerate the apocrypha, and I don't know enough about them to comment authoritatively. I also do not know on what they base their …
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[quote]Originally posted by Matsu: Damn it! Between atheists on the one hand and theists on the other, ya'll aren't leaving much room for reason. PS. the references to Satan in the Bible and associated apocrypha evolve over time. Most of the '…
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[quote]Originally posted by Fluffy: The apocrypha are not scripture. Whoa, there. The Apocrypha certainly are scripture if you are Catholic or Eastern Orthodox. They were scripture for all Christians until the Reformation when Martin Lut…
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[quote]Originally posted by Fluffy: What is your evidence that the immortality of the soul is derived from Platonism? What is your evidence that dualism is derived from Zoroastrianism? The similarity of two belief systems in no way implies that o…
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My own (somewhat unorthodox) viewpoint: Part of the problem is that the Bible portrays conflicting images about what "damnation" means. There are a few places where it is described as a place of eternal torture, but there are many other places t…
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Stimuli: I just caught your sig. You have a way of quoting the wisest, most intelligent people ever to walk this planet. Thanks for the compliment.
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[quote]Originally posted by psantora: 5¢ a page? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? that is the price you pay at staples...it basically comes down to the cost of paper, which is miniscule, and ink, which is also miniscule--even if you are printing 400 pages …
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Well, as an educator, I have been there with this issue. The real catch is that photocopying costs money, too - about 5 cents per page. So, if you want to run off a 400 page book (smaller than most school texts), that's $20. If you want it bound,…
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I think I oversimplified. What I wrote made sense to me because I filled in a lot of gaps mentally, but I can see it isn't terribly accurate as written. My apologies. My point is that if we follow those two commandments, we will naturally follo…
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[quote]Originally posted by nonhuman: Blame-shifting isn't really what I meant, I was originally going to say something different, but changed my mind and I forgot to change that one line. My point was just that I won't support any organizatio…
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[quote]Originally posted by BRussell: BTW: 6-10 reviewers? Maybe more? Are there really journals that use more than 10 reviewers? :eek: Well I'm not that familiar with the social sciences and psychology end of things. 4 - 6 is more…
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[quote]Originally posted by BRussell: finboy has personal experience with peer review, as do I and probably quite a few of us here. But thanks for the lesson. Based on what he has been posting, that did not seem at all obvious. …
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[quote]Originally posted by finboy: I think if you'll look you'll find that "peer-reviewed" can be shaped into whatever you want it to mean. Peer-review means a lot more than passing it around to your buddies for an opinion. In scientific c…
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[quote]Originally posted by finboy: And 50 years ago, there were Nazis who had produced studies that said that Jews were inferior. And Soviets that produced studies that showed the New Soviet Man to be advancing. We know now that all of those…