Recent content by Jack

Shoot, even I don't like being watched while working. But I like public speaking. Watch me! Love me! Lol!

"We can't have a discussion" "Discuss." I am seeing a problem here.

Can you affirm the Nicene Creed? Well if so, that qualifies you as a Christian notwithstanding who whines about it. As for witches, you have got me, just don't be like that white witch In Narnia. Try something more uplifting, and maybe tropical. A Christian tropical witch. That sounds like fun.

I kind of like Buddhism, and the Baha'i. I am a Christian.

Non-violence isn't necessarily meek and mild. Martin Luther King Jr. For example was not exactly meek and mild, but he certainly advocated nonviolence. Gandhi on the other hand could be considered meek and mild... but that guy had guts and sure rocked the boat. As intelligent as Nietzsche...

So because you don't know how to sort through ethical nuances, moral relativism must be true? That's intellectually lazy, and irresponsible.

I don't know if you'll catch the irony in your having said this, but that's the exact same thing that the Apostle Paul said about his faith. Personally though, I'm more interested in something being "set apart" by its de facto truth than whether it's satisfying to a few of it's proponents...

Unfortunately, religion for a lot of people tends to be like a mirror. They see in their religion the teachings that they want to believe themselves, even if it doesn't jive with the actual teachings of said religions. Anyway, I'd find an atheist world pretty depressing. While it's true...

Rift, those are a lot of interesting positions, but could you give me a brief bit of meta-narrative about how the current state of our universe came to be according to your plasma cosmology? Or would you say things are more or less as they are now into eternity past? Also, do you mind...

Hey, I'm always interested in alternative ideas. I saw this pretty late, so I'm probably not going to have the time to watch the video until tomorrow, but the first thing I generally think of when I hear about an eternal universe is Heat Death. In other words, a state of maximum entropy...

The gravitation waves provide evidence for inflation, not a multiverse per se. Some theories of inflation have a multiverse, some don't. Rift, if you don't mind my asking, (I'm not trying to start any kind of argument rather just curious) if you believe the universe is more or less eternal...

You're aware that most "space scientists" believe in the big bang though right? Big Bang aside though, I hope you can see that when a philosopher asks the question "Why is there something rather than nothing?", a cosmologist stating "Nothing is really a quantum vacuum." doesn't really...

You mean cosmologists? I haven't heard what a lot have to say about philosophy, but I have heard some pretty poor attempts at philosophy by some. Lawerence Krauss for example has had an issue with a lot of philosophers lately because he's been trying to say nothing is not nothing.

Regarding the bible verses cited in favor of predestination, (text from romans 9) simply citing verses that sound like they mean individuals are predestined doesn't shed any light. There is serious scholarship done on these texts and in particular that passage, and the majority of the relevant...

I'm wayyy too social to have asd.