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    Thread: Who's Who in Hell?
Post: RE: Who's Who in Hell?
I've always wondered why belief in Hell persosted for so long. Most people hold religious beliefs for comfort. Most religious people shift their beliefs to suit themselves. Hell does not seem like a c...
 MyelinSheath Christianity 65 8007 January 19, 2017 at 3:28 pm
    Thread: Heated debate on evolution with brother
Post: RE: Heated debate on evolution with brother
(January 4, 2017 at 7:37 am)Alex K Wrote: Jerry Coyne Why Evolution is True He writes very well and is a world expert on evolutionary genetics, arguably a researcher of greater scientific import th...
 MyelinSheath Life Sciences 182 42742 January 4, 2017 at 11:11 pm
    Thread: Heated debate on evolution with brother
Post: RE: Heated debate on evolution with brother
(January 3, 2017 at 9:44 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Get him Richard Dawkins "The Greatest Show On Earth."  It's pretty hard reading for a bible-thumper but it is more compelling than some shitty bible ver...
 MyelinSheath Life Sciences 182 42742 January 3, 2017 at 10:51 pm
    Thread: Heated debate on evolution with brother
Post: RE: Heated debate on evolution with brother
He speaks to me like I don't know crap. Its one of those situations where he's the one with a higher level of education, I'm the less accomplished one, so it's talk down to me all the time. I'm going...
 MyelinSheath Life Sciences 182 42742 January 3, 2017 at 9:31 pm
    Thread: Heated debate on evolution with brother
Post: RE: Heated debate on evolution with brother
(January 3, 2017 at 5:52 pm)paulpablo Wrote: I'll give two predictions for the price of one. I think my debate with mystical knight and your exchange with your brother are going to be quite similar...
 MyelinSheath Life Sciences 182 42742 January 3, 2017 at 7:12 pm
    Thread: Heated debate on evolution with brother
Post: RE: Heated debate on evolution with brother
He's not going to believe a source coming from an atheist author who he perceives to be "liberal". Francis Collins is about the only scientist I know to point him to as an example of someone who is no...
 MyelinSheath Life Sciences 182 42742 January 3, 2017 at 5:45 pm
    Thread: Heated debate on evolution with brother
Post: RE: Heated debate on evolution with brother
(January 3, 2017 at 10:23 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: Maybe he was trolling you? All the fossils are fabricated sounds a little like he's messing with you, like older brothers do to younger brothers.Nah, ...
 MyelinSheath Life Sciences 182 42742 January 3, 2017 at 10:30 am
    Thread: Heated debate on evolution with brother
Post: RE: Heated debate on evolution with brother
He considers all evidence to be bogus, made up, conspiratorial, etc. It doesn't seem to click with him that fossil and DNA evidence is about all you need to prove it as fact. He's simply not going to ...
 MyelinSheath Life Sciences 182 42742 January 3, 2017 at 10:05 am
    Thread: Heated debate on evolution with brother
Post: RE: Heated debate on evolution with brother
(January 3, 2017 at 5:27 am)robvalue Wrote: It sounds like it. Ultimately, he has to want to learn about it, to make any progress. Otherwise he's just looking for more reasons to reject it, without ...
 MyelinSheath Life Sciences 182 42742 January 3, 2017 at 5:45 am
    Thread: Heated debate on evolution with brother
Post: RE: Heated debate on evolution with brother
I think his head is fucked up beyond repair. He's got it in his mind that evolution is an evil, made up concept. He is very hidebound and ignorant.
 MyelinSheath Life Sciences 182 42742 January 3, 2017 at 5:20 am
    Thread: Heated debate on evolution with brother
Post: RE: Heated debate on evolution with brother
I tried to offer him recommendations of books on evolution. He said it would depend on the author and who they were/what they stood for etc. as to whether or not he'd accept it. Erroneous reason, but ...
 MyelinSheath Life Sciences 182 42742 January 3, 2017 at 4:38 am
    Thread: Heated debate on evolution with brother
Post: RE: Heated debate on evolution with brother
His thinking is screwed up beyond belief.
 MyelinSheath Life Sciences 182 42742 January 3, 2017 at 3:54 am
    Thread: Heated debate on evolution with brother
Post: RE: Heated debate on evolution with brother
He apparently accepts that change has occurred. He's like "I see how dogs have changed over time, but I don't see dogs becoming cats."
 MyelinSheath Life Sciences 182 42742 January 3, 2017 at 3:38 am
    Thread: Heated debate on evolution with brother
Post: RE: Heated debate on evolution with brother
(January 3, 2017 at 3:26 am)Aoi Magi Wrote: If all scientists in the world are conspiring against christianity then I don't think anything that a scientist says in any website or paper will convince...
 MyelinSheath Life Sciences 182 42742 January 3, 2017 at 3:31 am
    Thread: Heated debate on evolution with brother
Post: Heated debate on evolution with brother
So, my older brother and I were were on a lengthy road trip tonight and we were having deep conversation along the way. He is significantly older than me and often talks to me in a sort of domineering...
 MyelinSheath Life Sciences 182 42742 January 3, 2017 at 3:13 am
    Thread: Being atheist in the Bible Belt
Post: RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt
(January 2, 2017 at 6:40 pm)Minimalist Wrote: It doesn't have to "die."  It merely has to decrease to the point where it no longer is a factor in governance.  Europe and Canada are already there.  W...
 MyelinSheath Atheism 37 8903 January 2, 2017 at 7:07 pm
    Thread: Being atheist in the Bible Belt
Post: RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt
(January 2, 2017 at 12:28 pm)Minimalist Wrote: And yet, we are growing and they are dying out.I think your hopes and dreams will never be realized. Religion will never die. The religious are very sp...
 MyelinSheath Atheism 37 8903 January 2, 2017 at 6:35 pm
    Thread: Being atheist in the Bible Belt
Post: RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt
(January 2, 2017 at 8:56 am)Whateverist Wrote: Would you say your opposition to dogmatic thinking is dogmatic? (I guess mine is.) It's a charge I will accept if you must label it that. However, I s...
 MyelinSheath Atheism 37 8903 January 2, 2017 at 9:02 am
    Thread: Being atheist in the Bible Belt
Post: RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt
I suppose I'm less reserved, and more committed to being in the trenches fighting against non-reason and dogmatic thinking.
 MyelinSheath Atheism 37 8903 January 2, 2017 at 8:55 am
    Thread: Being atheist in the Bible Belt
Post: Being atheist in the Bible Belt
I'm sure there are plenty of fellow Bible-Belters here who share my disdain for the staunchly religious component of this region of the world. I was raised southern baptist. My family was (and still i...
 MyelinSheath Atheism 37 8903 January 2, 2017 at 8:39 am