Recent content by Derf

Greenland, Alberta, Venezuela and Cuba?

I took a philosophy/logic class in college where the professor presented his reasoning for why God doesn't exist. He said that if God is omniscient, omnipotent, and (I expected omni-present, but it was) omni-benevolent, then there would be no evil in the world. It was a new concept for me then...

It depends on what one means by omnibenevolent. If you think it means God always does what we think is good, then no, He's not. But if He does what is really good, including destroying those who fight against Him, then yes.

Or even 1973.

Maybe there's a better term. "Retard" implies someone who is slow, or kept back from progress, not through his own efforts, but through a lack of actual capacity. If someone in that condition shakes his fist at God, it doesn't reflect poorly on that person. But if they knowingly shake their fist...

True, but expecting consistency and reason from judges is, well, expected! So when that's not what we get, we know we have some horrendous judges.

"The Hegseth policy is both arbitrary and based upon animus"? It can't be both, can it?

All shotgun blasts stabilize into recognizable systems. Try it. Shoot a shotgun into the air. All of the pellets will return to stable equilibrium when they hit the ground, passing around the earth at the altitude of zero. Shoot the shotgun at greater than escape velocity and the pellets will...

Two Wongs don't make a right.

I'm not sure on the radiometer effect description where the "hot gas molecules striking the hot side" are coming from. Are they from other objects also being heated by the sun? If so, to push the asteroid away from the sun, they would have to be coming from the cold side of other objects, and...

I agree that early flood would have poor visibility, but see no reason to limit the high meteoric shower times to early flood--the larger pieces, maybe. And trying to think like a scared family under catastrophic conditions, I doubt I would open a window as long as there was constant heavy rain...

Nested footnotes? Why not just leave them out?

Then He didn't even start building His church? Second question, whose are the churches that were started by Paul? Are they Jesus' church(es)? If they are, then Question 3: why does Jesus talk about only a single church and not another one, since both the one built on Paul's foundation and...

So how did Jesus build a new church on the foundation of the apostles, or the apostles' understanding of who Jesus was, that was also the church in the wilderness 1400 years before?