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Is the universe designed for life, or life evolved for the universe?

However unlikely a life friendly universe may be, isn't this Creator then, even more unlikely?

Let's hope Mr. Midgley doesn't see this remark about drinking beer. Honestly though, I wonder what is more apostate, drinking an occasional beer or denying the reality of a Global Flood? I think that denying the Global Flood puts one in a far more vulnerable position to apostatize than having a bee...

There will always be those that believe in [ Leprechauns ] and those that don't. My personal observation, however, is that those that disbelieve tend towards stridency in defending their position. They will still be there at the end of the day after all the conversation has died down pounding their...

The sporting Mormon could counter with (1) "one eternal round" (2) many gods traversing the eternities teaching themselves line upon line greater complexity out of their created complexity (3) Joseph Smith could not have made that brilliant teleology up, therefore he was a prophet (4) the...

The fact is, a person or two or three on this board might be able to point out something that...to them...seems illogical in Craig's writings on The Teleological Argument and the Anthropic Principle. But that doesn't discount the volume and potency of his overall work and writing in this area of in...

So we have North America, Central American, South America, and Italy, and the Ancient Near East, and I have yet another location that might be plausible about where the Book of Mormon events took place. In Joseph Smith's head. And the cool thing is the evidence for this is the strongest of all. We ...

But.....but....





It's complex!

Chiasmus.

As I saw the argument Smith was making; it went something like this: If Coe was just more familiar with the Book of Mormon and apologetics he would have seen the correlations. Which to me is a hubris filled position, based on correlations made by casting the net as wide as possible, sharpshooter any...

From someone named Robert f. Smith, in the OP linked thread: It is clear as a matter of direct fact that Coe never bothered to compare his work with the Book of Mormon. Had he done so, it would have been impossible for him to have missed all the normative archeological correlations -- which John L....