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Comment by Alex Donovan on March 9, 2009 at 7:54am

The Fundy Mentality:
No stem cell research, but brain-dead vegetables like Terry Schiavo should be kept alive indefinitely.
"Pro-life" when it comes to fetuses, but let's execute mentally retarded people when social programs are cut, and, left without resources or rehabilitation, a mentally retarded person commits rape or murder.
The Christian 'right to die' plan: If you are in the final stages of a terminal illness, and would rather die than suffer or put your family through the financial hardship, then simply kill the guy in the bed next to you, and they'll ship you to Texas for a free ride on the electric couch.

Comment by Marc Draco on March 6, 2009 at 5:06pm

"I strongly support expanding research on stem cells," he said on the campaign trail.

"I believe that the restrictions that President Bush has placed on funding of human embryonic stem cell research have handcuffed our scientists and hindered our ability to compete with other nations."

-- President Obama, quoted on BBC News

Comment by Marc Draco on March 6, 2009 at 5:02pm

WASPs all over America are now dropping to their knees and praying. Hopefully, those prayers will be answered the same as all other prayers are.

Comment by Leslee Love on March 6, 2009 at 3:36pm

Yes! And isn't it fantastic! Obama!!

Comment by Dr. Terence Meaden on March 3, 2009 at 5:34pm

Re Claudia's comment, below:

These matters are very tricky.
They are at the cutting edge of advanced cosmology and mathematics, and are in the course of being solved.
The answer, though, should lie in quantum mechanics as Vic Stenger, physicist, proposes.
Before the Big Bang. because the implied void is so unstable, there could have been a Big Crunch.
Crunches and Bangs could alternate.
Universes exist in real time. Big Bang starts as real time. Big Crunch ends as real time.
The one leads towards the other and to the implied void and instability. This would be timeless chaotic emptiness, but immediately quantum mechanics suggests that a new Universe formed because a new BB would immediately follow. The situation could well continue ad infinitum. Universes always were. In REAL TIME universes are all there can be. They are eternally present, forever existing, because their absence would imply an unstable state of the void that cannot exist in time.
Therefore, a universe–or universes—must be. They always were and always shall be.

It is best to raise these deep questions on the open discussion board, to allow expert mathematicians and cosmologists to expand the argument. Try doing that. Other promising approaches involve string theory, multi-dimensional states and colliding branes.
Terence.

Comment by Franrose O on February 17, 2009 at 12:15am

The book that was established by Charles Darwin explained the theory of life sciences. On his 50th birthday, he unleashed the idea that species evolve and adapt to their environments. He investigated the changes of species and considered his theory of natural selection. Natural selection is one of the hottest points of discussions in the world, never mind payday loans. No other idea has been so praised and vilified perhaps in all history.

Comment by Tedster on February 6, 2009 at 10:32pm

You guys. could I also request that you follow Dr. Terance's request? This also gives me a headache.

Comment by Alex Donovan on February 6, 2009 at 8:17pm

Once again, when Claudia is refuted, she simply goes back to stating the already refuted argument in yet another form (yawn).

Comment by Richard Francis on February 6, 2009 at 12:11pm

Hi Claudia,

What Einstein was talking about when he said that imagination was more important than knowledge is that you need to think outside the box to stretch beyond what we know at the moment.

That is the difference between faith and science. For science, imagination (hypothesis) is the starting point for learning the truth, and for faith, it is the end point.

A scientist will look at a phenomenon and 'imagine' how it could have happened. They will then test their hypothesis, redefine if necessary, have it independently tested and only then will they call it a fact (with a caveat that some measure of doubt is always healthy)

A religious person will look at a phenomenon and fabricate a story that vaguely fits...... and then they call it the absolute truth. "The only way"

This latter practise is an unhealthy, weak way of living and limits further understanding.

"The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses"

Albert Einstein (from letter written on January 3, 1954)

Thanks for your thoughts.

All the best

Richard

p.s. Sorry Dr Meaden. I will paste this to the above discussion.

Comment by Dr. Terence Meaden on February 6, 2009 at 11:35am

Dear Claudia
Thank you for writing again.
May I gently ask you to copy and paste your latest comment into the discussion called ORIGINS OF FAITH (see above). I am just trying to tidy up the discussion comments so that it is easier for everyone (especially visitors and new members) to find. Terry.

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