Recent content by Clete

Those old Fátima photos don't even count as evidence, by the way! The Cottingley Fairy photos, which were completely fake, were taken the same year as the Fátima photos, 1917! Two girls used paper cutouts and completely fooled the public. Even Arthur Conan Doyle believed them! At the time...

Why is it that miracles always seem to happen to people out in the middle of nowhere in places no one who's supposed to believe the miracle happened has ever been or has any means to get there or any access to anyone who was supposedly there. In short, there's never any means by which to confirm...

I screwed up when editing the OP and had two paragraphs in there that said almost verbatim the same thing. I've reworded it to reduce the redundancy and consolidated three paragraphs into two.

"Cop out", is too kind. He is intentionally, knowingly and blatantly dishonest... WITH HIMSELF!!!! A completely total waste of time (unless the interaction is just sort of practice, for you own benefit, with no expectation of having a substantive two way exchange.)

In addition to the essay in the OP, I've written a 4700 word essay for the purpose of establishing that every distinctively Calvinist doctrine derives from the doctrine of Immutability. I can't decide whether to post it here or not because it reads like a Calvinist apologetic, and could...

Of all the things I said in that post, the rhetorical questions that practically answer themselves are what you chose to respond to? How about Hindus? Are there some saved Hindus? Perhaps there are saved members of NAMBLA! What about atheists? Are there any atheists that manage to get saved...

Calvinism: Inconceivable! The system of Calvinism presents itself as a faithful exposition of biblical truth. It is, in reality, a philosophical framework imposed upon Scripture. At its core lies not a devotion to the Word of God as it stands, but a prior commitment to a concept of God that was...

I've literally lost what it was we were talking about but in response to this specific statement... If someone who identifies as Catholic has come to trust in Christ alone for salvation, apart from the sacraments, apart from Mary, apart from the priesthood, apart from papal authority, etc, etc...

Good bye.

Which is the reason I'm not interested in discussing the age of the universe with you. A point you will not understand, nor care to.

No. You're as dishonest as the day is long. You don't respond to substantive posts and intentionally waste people's time. We can discuss the following article, if you like. (You won't even read it!) Contact: A Eulogy to Carl Sagan Written by Dr. Ray Bohlin The Paradox of the Movie Contact At...

@Avajs, You keep appealing to science and to experts as if that settles something, but what you are actually doing is outsourcing thought. You are invoking authority, not applying reason. That's not science, that's scientism, which is an issue I became familiar with back in the 80's when Carl...

No. I would agree that math and physics (i.e. logic/sound reason) breaks down if you presuppose your theories about the start of the universe. That's a statement about your theories, not the start of the universe.

Logic, that's how! Put some Cool-Aid inside a pitcher before anyone makes the pitcher. Take a photo of it and post it here. Go ahead, give it a shot. Whatever you do, don't drink the Cool-Aid!

What I provided was an argument showing that evidence cannot be recognized as evidence without presupposing the existence of God. Thinking itself, the very act of cognition, including the perceived need for, investigation and recognition of evidence is a series of actions that could not happen...