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Race based slavery was not an American idea. I was not new during the Civil War, nor even when the United States was founded and had certain compromises not been made, America would not have abolished slavery at all (not for at least another whole generation, anyway). Had Lincoln failed to...

Well, like I said... "Straining out gnats." By your definition of "mindless" there isn't anything anyone ever does that is mindless.

I was not being snarky at all. I meant precisely what I said and wasn't trying to be sarcastic or insulting, although I can see why you might have read it in that way. My intention was merely to make an observation. No, that's what the word "mindless" means. Certainly it is based on nothing...

It is true! "Believe what we tell you to believe!" is precisely what which doctors do to those who follow them. It is exactly what the local con artist asks you to do when they "read" your palm. It isn't about actual science where what they believe is the result of asking real questions, doing...

Funny how you say it isn't completely true and then give a counter example that is completely in keeping with what you said wasn't completely true.

I wasn't trying to be particularly clever. I said it to make a point. Of course you do. If this were your real stance you would not be an atheist. Abiogenesis is only one of thousands of things in the natural world that simply cannot have been created by undirected, mindless, natural...

I couldn't ever muster the faith that it would require to be an atheist.

Give or take 100 years? That seem like a very strong assertion. Could you give the evidence for such a dating?

And some survived the flood as well. There's evidence, both biblical and secular, of creatures that lived along side humans but that "science" would have believe died out millions of years ago.

I do not believe that anything roamed the Earth hundreds of millions of years ago but certainly do not deny that dinosaurs existed.

The flaws in radiometric dating are beyond belief! Here's just a taste... Scientist Realizes Important Flaw in Radioactive Dating Excerpt... "As someone who has studied radioactivity in detail, I have always been a bit amused by the assertion that radioactive dating is a precise way to...

I don't understand why this is so difficult to get across... You are making a claim here. It isn't an argument, it's simply a claim. What I've presented isn't just a claim but an actual argument, and a quite formal one at that, which has very clearly stated premises and each step of which...

Saying it doesn't make it so, Derf. The plain reading of the bible, where you simply read the words on the page and take them to mean what they seem to mean lands you with the idea that if you add a spirit to a physical body you get someone who is physically alive and when one gives up their...

Was this intended to imply that Jesus, the one with a physical body, is the one who breathed life into Adam? Was this also intended to imply that the Holy Spirit is no more a real thing that you say our spirits are but was instead the wind that came out of Jesus' lungs? That's my line, Derf...

So, my comments about "spirit" and "breath" was me doing a bit of fishing. I suspected that you were one of those who somehow think that God has lungs with which physically breathed life into Adam. I still cannot figure out where this 'unconscious dormancy' definition of death is coming from but...

Close enough. Good bye.

A lot of "blah blah blah" and exactly nothing that refutes on single syllable of the actual argument.

I'll "paste at you" all I want! One person posts a link and you tell them not to post links but post the relevant information. Then you tell me not to post the relevant information! Information, by the way, that is DIRECTLY relevant and responsive the "argument" that you previously claimed...

A rose, by any other name, is still a rose. Right? Since we are talking about what it means to die, I think this, more or less semantic point, only serves to muddy the water but it is true that He whom we call Jesus was not always a man but became a man at the incarnation. The point is...

Umm, did you mean you have scientific theories? This might be the case for many Christians but I can assure you that it isn't the case with most any young earth creationist on this website. Quite the contrary in fact. Group think is about as far from what we do as it can get. As it turns out...