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Rather than start yet another new thread, I thought I'd post the following which concerns Neanderthal remains (not fossils, but, close enough to on topic). https://apnews.com/article/science-travel-genetics-caves-d0a0791fc74c9a4de98ba4104152cd2d? Key excerpt here: "[Neanderthals] died out...

Is what we believe fictional or not. Fictional symbols and words don't refer to anything nonfictional, such as concrete objects and abstract realities like patterns. A perfect circle doesn't exist in nature or in the laboratory, nor can it, but that doesn't mean a perfect circle is fictional...

Catholicism doesn't believe in the Big Bang and evolution, Catholicism just doesn't make cosmology a matter of communion. We're supposed to fellowship with Catholics no matter our differences in our personal, private cosmologies or cosmological philosophies (origin theories). Catholicism is...

The fundamental difference between lifting and any other exercise in order to make it very plain, is that weight lifting cannot be done in the thousands of reps range. We can walk, we can hike, we can jog, but we can't sprint for thousands of steps. It's too hard, it's too taxing on our...

I do, I have. The right amoung of granite explains why there are continents with their shelves in the first place. The HPT satisfactorily explains mountain ranges to me, but it does not explain satisfactorily to me the existence of the continents. Why did these massive granite structures...

He and Bishop Barron are the online video celebrity Catholic voices. Except for non-clergy. The biggest celebrity Catholic voices outside of the ministerial priesthood (Bishop Fulton Sheen from a couple generations ago was a Catholic priest celebrity, like Father Mike Schmitz and Bishop Robert...

Here's an article today that says two is better than one. https://us.cnn.com/2022/10/17/health/strength-training-live-longer-wellness/index.html I'm definitely seeing gains in the weight room since I expanded from one day a week to two day splits.

You don't have to teach them, that's the secret (that all groomers know). All you need do is expose them to R-rated content, and then the children will do the rest themselves. And by that I mean, they will immediately commence falling directly into a deep pit, that they will be unable to climb...

I'm interested if he'll convert. And if he does convert, to which tradition will he convert? Even if it's evangelical that's still a tradition by now, even though it's younger than Lutheran, Church of England, and Holy Orthodox, evangelical church is its own tradition by now. This is a...

Those are not hard to come by. It's completely well within his public character. If you're suggesting that he "turns on the water works" as a rhetorical device OK, but so do actors and actresses, for a living. Are you suggesting that their pursuit of career success is nefarious, just because...

Pretty awesome.

Are you defending, going to church weekly, and chastity, or not? Are you, iow, OK with people freely promoting not going to church, and not being chaste, as absolute values?

Wow. I've never heard of desiccated liver pills, and idk why raw eggs would be better than cooking them. Hard core. :cool: I mean, we're very similar in our way of thinking about things, the only slight difference between your view and mine is that "free markets" are not the primary concern...

Apparently I'm not the only one who enjoys watching Trailer Park Boys.

Logic makes things easy to see. Is the Flood literal? The whole idea that you can learn to be a Christian from studying the Scripture alone is like thinking you can become a Mason by studying their lodge manuals. At some point you do have to enter the fray, and meet people. Catholicism, and...

You can't use logic to talk Christians out of our faith. Logic's on our side. The most successful way to talk Christians out of their faith is through ethics. It's through persuasively arguing to the Christians, and typically to Christian youngsters, the children of Christians, "Hey...

Isn't it k-o-h-h-o-g? ;) Where did you learn the concept of 'contraries' as compared to 'contradictories?' I ran into that reading a book by a nun. I know it wasn't her original invented work, she was just interpreting an older tradition, do you know where you first found that? I'm asking...

Of course you do: You are basically a good guy.

He either doesn't think passive aggression is a sin, or he doesn't think he's passive aggressive. I haven't figured out which one yet, but cf. the following thread where he comes in on the first page and we discuss it...

The New Covenant was made with all Israel, represented by the 12 Apostles. There were zero Gentile representatives in the deal. They were all Jews. The 12 Jews represented all Israel. (12 tribes, descended from Jacob, aka Israel.) They also represented all the Gentiles. The Gentiles are...