The Hall of Fire

Face it. We are still a territorial species. We are concerned and interested in what happens to the "others" but it will never affect us the same way as if we were the ones facing the direct threats. Millenia of the same sorts of events have shown this. I did not say it was "moral&quo...

A s-i-l of a very good friend was told that the reason that she and her husband of many years were infertile was that because they were genetically too similar but with enough variation that her body/genetic makeup simply rejected her husband's sperm. That can't be true. We'd have run out of Europe...

I read a study years ago that postulated that while a male contributes the sperm that determines whether a fertilized ova becomes a male or female, that the female also has some "sayso" over the matter in that the receptability of the egg, the conditions in the vagina and cervix, etc. may ...

You know, Ax, reading your post makes me feel I'm being put in the same class as the people who refused to believe Galileo when he insisted the earth rotated around the sun, instead of the other way around. Yeah, I know you probably didn't intend to make me feel that way... Okay, after reading Viso...

Random chance would do it, Sunny. The early Earth was chemically much richer than what we see now—much more opportunity for chemicals to combine—and it was full of energy from the crust, from impacts, from lightning. . . . And, again, you have to allow for the tremendous impact of time. It's not in...

(I am a Christian, married to a molecular geneticist who is also a Christian. Accepting evolution as true, as we both certainly do, does not change that for either of us.) Your husband's a molecular geneticist, Prim? COOL!! 8) My main problem with evolution is this: The way I was taught in school, ...

I fear that I am like Maria, and when this has been discussed in other places, there is always speculation that some humans are "wired" for "experiencing the divine" and others seem to lack this ability, desire, or what even is the accurate term to call it. I certainly can ration...

spd -

Can I swoon for you?

Humorously, of course!!

I Cross-posted with Watcher. Watcher, I agree about the exclusivity of truth... that has always been my biggest problem with religion. In practise, whenever I have met someone deeply religious, the stand has always been "It is this way, this is the truth". Which is probably why I am so no...

My gaffe

My thoughts are going out to 'Stella" and Lidless:

Take a bit of a break, both of you, life is so very worth living at the slower pace sometimes!!!






[Edited to insert username. —Prim]

George Weigel is, among other things, a proponent of the Just War doctrine; he is not a pacifist. I just thought that remark may bring some clarity to his comments on violence. (And lest that be skewed, he [along with everyone else] commends non-violent resistence). I don't think there is any reaso...

Mith - Here is the UCC credo: United Church of Christ Statement of Faith—original version We believe in God, the Eternal Spirit, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and our Father, and to his deeds we testify: He calls the worlds into being, creates man in his own image and sets before him the ways of l...

Jny - I think you are brushing what is lumped together as "Christian moderation" in still an entirely too narrow a viewpoint, if I may address your most recent post. There are MANY, I repeat, MANY people out there who have been raised Christian, who accept much of the religion, but in no w...

The hardliners in both camps view their religions as being the correct path for all humanity (I recall the radical Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir telling people in the west that all they need to do to not be terrorist targets is convert to Islam). And hardliners in the Jewish camp say that all ...

I wish I never started this thread :cry: one day I will learn to keep my tiggerty feelings to myself, here are people I care about hurting, and I am hurting too. For my sake, I'm glad you did start it. Even though no one commented upon my words, it felt good to me to say them, and then mull over th...

Tiggy, Thank you for your kind words. You are correct, there is very little that can take away the sting and the pain that my particular situation incurred. For the rest of it, well, whatever. It is there, it is my past, it is mine to deal with and handle. I simply cannot cope with these antiquated ...

Watcher, I'm finding your comments really out of line, in spite of the difficult and personal nature of the issue. First of all, no one here has condemned you. On the contrary most of us have offered agreement and sympathy that the system does go out of control and hurts innocent people. Secondly, ...

But on the other hand, the need to protect victims is so great, IMO, that considerable inconvenience has to be accepted in order to clear up such a case and if you have a man who is undoubtedly a pedophile and this man is married, then I'm afraid that in most cases I've ever heard of the wife was f...

But on the other hand, the need to protect victims is so great, IMO, that considerable inconvenience has to be accepted in order to clear up such a case and if you have a man who is undoubtedly a pedophile and this man is married, then I'm afraid that in most cases I've ever heard of the wife was f...