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@jamison20000e, don't take this the wrong way, but sometimes what you post just makes no sense whatsoever. If what you're saying isn't immediately obvious, you should clarify. Just sayin'.
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And: "what-on-earth can you use," to guide you in those oh-so-many(!) places where "science" can find no guiding light?
"Faith" is not "science," and "science" is not "faith." However, this "rather-obvious observation" certainly does not invalidate either of them!
Fact is, these two "modes of human(?) inquiry" are not mutually-exclusive; nor are they even particularly in competition. One of them seizes upon "human observation, intellect, and reason" and drives it just as far as it can go; while the other chooses to (more or less ...) abandon this self-same thing. While some might ask, "which one is right?,"I suggest: "why [must we] choose?" As for me, I don't think that we do. In fact, I rather think that our lives will be that-much richer if we specifically don't! Do not both of these things have merit?
As a kid I was taught at Saint Matthias plus by grand and parents &c, not to put faith in false profit$!
Keep reality x 7,000,000,000 x infinity *** in mind now: the religions—churches—saints—people—fables—books so on are the false profits!!! Blind faith is control and . You will not stone me alive for this because you and me evolved but if you go crazy and are "possessed" (by yet another false profit) you may?
I love scary movies so when you die let me know (but if you go crazy first? Don't! )
I world without sin will come from evolution for that has reality on it's side!
You will not stone me alive for this because you and me evolved but if you go crazy and are "possessed" (by yet another false profit) you may?
Those people who "stoned"... were PEOPLE, not chimpanzees. So where is the "evolution" you speak of?
People still "stone" others today - in a wide variety of different forms.
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I world without sin will come from evolution[/SIZE] for that has reality on it's side!
So, going from "stones" to "knives" to "guns" to "nuclear bombs" is "evolving" AWAY from sin? Premeditated murder of 60,000,000 babies in just 40 years is evolutionary progress AWAY from sin?
In my book right and wrong have a difference. In your book it is written in stone they are the same because you can not have god without devil, heaven without hell or an uneaten make believe apple inbred to the core on fairy tails! (GoT, anyone?)
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Also I saw this cat video today, that convinced me once again, that human is above animal only by quantity, not by quality. Or the quantity of the brain is so much above the anmimal that only by that he becomes a new quality. But other than that it is rather a difference in quantity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw4KVoEVcr0 Another pro for relatedness animal/cat/ape-human
A whale's brain is six times larger than a human's.
The simple shrew has the largest brain-to-body-size-ratio.
If it is only a matter of "quantity", then how do you explain the existence of morality in humans but not in animals? The ability to reason abstractly? The desire to worship a God? The ability to communicate abstract ideas via language? The ability to invent new languages? The sense of a "soul"? Conscience?
Surely these things can't be a function of the percentage of grey matter? If so, the shrew would be ruler of the planet, and whales would be building rocket ships.
We are related by means of a common DESIGNER, not a common design. The reason for similarities between creatures is so they can relate to each other in a common environment.
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