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Some do some don't. Different religions just have different ways of packaging and presenting evolved morality. Hindus call it Dharma.

"Morality (from the Latin moralitas "manner, character, proper behavior") is the differentiation of intentions, decisions, and actions between those that are "good" (or right) and those that are "bad" (or wrong)." Wikipedia Living together in groups enhanced our chances of survival and...

For people without logic, reason and common sense, empathy, compassion, trust, pride, altruism, love, duty, responsibility, respect, dignity, conscience, a sense of obligation, the Golden Rule, morals and ethics etc. everything is permissible. So how do we stop these people from doing immoral...

There are six major different versions of the Bible containing anywhere from 24 to 81 books. http://bessel.org/bibles.htm Shouldn't a Jew be skeptical about the protestant Bible and a protestant be skeptical about the Catholic Bible? If not, why aren't they all using the same Bible?

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I am an atheist. We are debating Christianity and the Bible.

What does that mean exactly? It is the application of our logic, reason and common sense and wisdom and compassion and empathy and conscience and altruism and the Golden Rule that guides our interaction on a daily basis with our fellow human beings.

What does that mean? And you reveal you don't understand. It is not the Bible that is unsafe. What is unsafe is not applying logic, reason and common sense to everything including the Bible. I came here to promote the application of logic, reason and common sense to the Bible, belief and faith...

Yes. My favorite theologian is Georges Lemaître, the Belgian priest who is credited with coming up with the idea of the Big Bang. Georges_Lemaître I have not come here to promote evolution and secular thinking. I have come here to promote reason, logic and common sense. I have no other...

True. But that doesn't involve evolution. That would be abiogenesis or Biblical Creation or panspermia or aliens creating life on Earth or any number of theories. Yes. The difference between belief and science is simply that science uses evidence and belief uses faith. Put simply it is the...

And if He did where does it say so in the Bible? And what was the point of the Ark if He can just manufacture animals anyway without evolution? In Genesis it says that He created the animals. Does it say that after the flood He started over again creating animals? And when did He stop creating...

There are 6.5 million species of land animals here today. For a population to have a chance of survival in the wild the average number of animals is 4000. We are talking species. That gives 26000 million animals on the boat. Or if there were a lesser number of animals, evolution must have...

That is ok. My point has been made. The only way you could get to 6.5 million species in a few thousand years is with evolution producing them. So people who speak against evolution better hope they're wrong otherwise the Noah story is wrong.

No offense. BornAgain said "I was explaining this to my 6 year old granddaughter the other day...." and I got the impression she meant Genesis. If not I take it back. Yes that is my major problem. Six different Bibles containing anywhere from 24 to 81 books 11 different Creationisms and between...

You forgot Genesis 7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take thee by sevens, the male and his female. 26000 million Then there is no way those animals could possibly repopulate the world if not for evolution creating millions of new species in a few thousand years.