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Re: Problems with Christianity
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Fri, 22 Dec 2000 17:22:09 GMT
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SRC wrote:
> > Can you prove that someone having an abortion is being selfish?
> > What if by the abortion, the mother could live to produce more children?
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> I was referring to the 99% of abortions where only the life of the
> unborn child is in jeopardy.
Show the statistics saying that it's 99%.
> I find "David morality" fundamentally flawed - it is based upon an
> evolutionary foundation of sand. I doubt you would be surprised that I
> reject evolution as a baseless theory for which there is no scientific
> evidence.
So instead you believe in Creationism, for which there is ZERO evidence? Just the
word of a 2K year old book?
Fossil evidence points very highly to evolution being right.
I suppose you believe that the fossil evidence of dinosaurs and other animals that
existed far before the written word were just put in the ground for kicks by a
being creating us out of nothing?
> A similar point to above - Are you now going to try to defend
> evolution while I scientifically dismantle it, or will I be expected to
> defend attacks on creation? Past experience would suggest the latter, but
> I don't want to go down that "branch" - that's not the debate I joined.
Well tough, you brought it up ;-)
> > You keep trying to suggest that the only benefit I'd get is some
> > sort of physical benefit. Mental benefit is actually...
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> I'm not suggesting there is benefit, either physical or mental or
> anything to doing good. Again - I don't "give" in order to "get",
> I help someone because I love them.
I doubt it, or you'd "love" a lot of strangers. I give to strangers I'll never see
or hear from. It's not because I love them.
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| Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp
| Please do not associate my personal views with my employer
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| I made a print-out of your post to read over - Do you realize we're up to six pages even before I reply? :-) (...) I'm trying to show the difference between these court "proofs". No I wouldn't say that case proved O.J. guilty or innocent, but let's (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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