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Claim: Every event has a cause. The universe itself had a beginning, so it must have had a First Cause, which must have been a creator God. Response: 1. The assumption that every event has a cause, although common in our experience, is not necessarily universal. The apparent lack of cause...

Has anyone seen an abortion? It's suprisingly not that bad. Certainly not repulsive or anything at all.

Alrite. There are 3 issues there. Firstly, there is whether or not Jesus died and rose again. There is a lack of evidence of this. Secondly, even if he did (and that is a BIG if), it still doesn't mean that a God did it. If something as supernatural as a god exists, surely we can think up other...

Dealing with Noah's Ark claims Claim: We can expect to find Noah's Ark on Mt. Ararat. Response: 1. Mt. Ararat (known locally as Agri Dagi) is very likely the wrong place to look. Genesis says only that the Ark landed on the mountains of Ararat, where Ararat is not a single mountain but...

Maybe because people keep unnecessary chains on tolerence - perhaps society needs a bit of a nudge. Well their relationship not being equal is a right that is being denied, hence they are being treated unequally to those who have that right recognised. Social relativism is a very dangerous...

Yes sorry.. I shall nitpick now Yes That seems straightforward: if Jesus existed, and everything that he said was true, then Christianity is true. But the supressed premise there is that Jesus said everything that was recorded of him. And even if Jesus did say everything that might be...

That sounds interesting... a tolerant religion.. who would have thought

The vice-chancellor of the University of Sydney, Professor Gavin Brown, said he found the rankings list "totally mystifying". HAHA

haha well there is an oh-so meaningful thread in non-school called "What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?" with over 11,000 posts.. I'm sure there are more like that

Well I didn't intend as an anology, it's just an example to show a point: society's values change. What is your point with these single parent adoptions? I don't see the relevance. There are two parents in gay relationships.. Hold on, they are both humans. If you want to say that all humans...

yep... lets all state our opinions and leave it there shall we! pretty exciting

I was developing my own philosophy of that a while back, to do with agnosticism. For instance, when I say that I don't rule out the possibility of God, I don't mean Christianity. I think religion has mostly nothing to do with God. In fact I think if God were real he'd be pretty mad at all the...

I'm legitimately curious!

Fair enough I disagree

How old are you?

It is very sensible to reserve judgment on something you know nothing about, rather than asserting baseless views that drastically direct human behaviour. I believe we have no way of knowing, at the present time. If someone manages to prove the existence or non-existence of God, there we go...

Well my uni course is Arts/Law; some of my subjects include philosophy. I'd say that there are mostly agnostics/atheists in philosophy (though there is usually at least one religious person in the class). There are considerably more Christians in first year philosophy though (although still...

The Egyptian slaves. ANY SLAVES. You're missing the point, which is to say that simply because something is currently rejected doesn't mean it always will be (and additionally, it does not mean that it is right). Um, why? Woah... some really bad reasoning there. You assume that because few...

Addressing a point about the divine command theory post -- The good causer then. That means before God created morality, there was no good or bad. If the decision as to what would be good and what would be bad was God's, then surely that is both subjective and arbitrary! If good and bad can...

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