Recent content by Selaphiel

That some groups emerging from a movement entertains something that is wrong does not invalidate the origin of the movement, the principles of the movement or the movement as a whole. That would be a weird form of a genetic fallacy. Nor does the abuse of a principle prove the invalidity of the...

Lutherans aren't protestants? Lutherans very much do believe in the real presence in the eucharist. What lutherans reject is transsubtantiation. Not because they deny the real presence, but because Luther rejected the reduction of the mystery of the eucharist to a rational explanation tied to a...

I'm good. Just had to check in here. Been so long. How are you?

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Ah, the old information schtick from creationists. Too bad it relies on a misunderstanding of information theory. The problem with your nonsense conception of an original pure genetic code that simply degenerates through changes into a more and more disordered state, is that it assumes that the...

Can you scientifically demonstrate this essence of lizardness or E.Coli'ness? If fairly drastic physiological changes can evolve in less than 40 years, what stops it from evolving and diversifying further and diversifying into new species? Can you scientifically demonstrate this limit to...

I do not read the diaries of the delusional in an asylum as evidence for their delusional claims either. I'm an atheist? Then my occupation is quite weird. Of course, whether I am a theist or atheist is absolutely irrelevant when evaluating the validity of a scientific theory. Actually, we...

128 pages of discussing whether the earth is flat or spherical in 2017. That is really unbelievable. Granted, all the threads claiming that the earth is 6000-10000 years old and that the theory of evolution is false is not much better. If your religion requires you to dismiss empirical facts...

That seems to be the necessary conclusion that one must draw from the doctrine of limited atonement. If the disobedience of one man lead to death and sin for all men, how is the obedience, sacrifice and resurrection of Christ not leading to the restoration and salvation of all men? Or even to...

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