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| Naive Behavior | 11/5/2009 | Clint |
Q: My name is Zach Shanks and I'm 18. First off I just want to clarify i was raised as a Methodist ...
A: Faith is the key word your looking for as to why people cling to religion no matter how strong a ...
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| Superstition Taken To Far | 11/3/2009 | Austin Cline |
Q: My name is Zach Shanks and I'm 18. First off I just want to clarify i was raised as a Methodist ...
A: There are a couple of reasons: 1. The truth of evolution is incompatible with a literal reading of ...
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| Questions about Gurdjieff | 10/31/2009 | Clint |
Q: I was introduced to the teachings (and a handful of followers) of Gurdjieff in the middle seventies. ...
A: I myself have not studied G.I. Gurdjieff's beliefs or teachings until you just mentioned him but ...
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| raising a daughter while hiding my athiesm | 10/31/2009 | Margaret Placentra Johnston |
Q: For what I consider to be "moral" reasons (meaning I believe the major tenants of Christianity to be ...
A: Two further thoughts come to mind. 1) we have in our town an amazing church run by a guy who, as ...
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| raising a daughter while hiding my athiesm | 10/30/2009 | Margaret Placentra Johnston |
Q: For what I consider to be "moral" reasons (meaning I believe the major tenants of Christianity to be ...
A: This is indeed a difficult dilemma you face, and of course it is made all the more difficult by the ...
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| Afraid to own up | 10/21/2009 | Jeffrey Eldred |
Q: I have moved from the UK to Barbados, I am married to a bajan man and although he is a believer in ...
A: Freedom: This is about human freedom, plain and simple. You lose time, energy, money, and influence ...
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| Humansim, Atheism, and Other Questions | 10/14/2009 | Austin Cline |
Q: I'm Davis, I'm 14, and I have flipped and flopped between Atheism and Agnosticism since I was about ...
A: 1. Atheism and agnosticism aren't mutually exclusive - a person can be an agnostic atheist or an ...
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| living thing | 10/10/2009 | Clint |
Q: Sir, Why there are two kind of things in this world -living things and non-living things. When ...
A: The corrosion or rusting of aluminium is extremely slow because the resulting aluminium oxide forms ...
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| school bible interview assignment | 10/6/2009 | Margaret Placentra Johnston |
Q: "1.how do we know the bible really came from God?2.didnt the authors just say whatever they wanted ...
A: Well, Amber - if your teacher assigned those questions, I certainly commend them for encouraging you ...
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| living things and non living things | 10/4/2009 | Jeffrey Eldred |
Q: Sir, Why there are two kind of things in this world -living things and non-living things. When ...
A: "as the science believe that the life has come out of non living things? How did that actually ...
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| living thing | 10/3/2009 | Clint |
Q: Sir, Why there are two kind of things in this world -living things and non-living things. When ...
A: Sorry to take so long to answer, busy. Your generalizing the whole issue by dividing everything into ...
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| living things and non living things | 10/3/2009 | Jeffrey Eldred |
Q: Sir, Why there are two kind of things in this world -living things and non-living things. When ...
A: (Links are denoted by [x] in the text and are a reference to the URLs at the bottom of the page). ...
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| Religion ruining our friendship | 9/22/2009 | Vincent M. Wales |
Q: I am in a bit of a predicament, and I wondered if maybe you could offer some advice? I am almost ...
A: Yeah, entire books have been written on that very question. Why DO so many people believe what (to ...
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| Religon coming between us | 9/22/2009 | Austin Cline |
Q: I am in a bit of a predicament, and I wondered if maybe you could offer some advice? I am almost ...
A: I honestly don't have a good answer to this question because I don't think that there can be a good ...
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| Religion coming between us | 9/22/2009 | Clint |
Q: I am in a bit of a predicament, and I wondered if maybe you could offer some advice? I am almost ...
A: If you ever notice, the average religious person doesn't go around trying to convert non-believers ...
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| Religion ruining our friendship | 9/22/2009 | Vincent M. Wales |
Q: I am in a bit of a predicament, and I wondered if maybe you could offer some advice? I am almost ...
A: Julie... First, my sympathies to you regarding your situation. It's obvious how much this is ...
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| atheists | 9/20/2009 | Aupmanyav |
Q: Regarding my last email, i was how you explain this idea to atheists because i find it quite ...
A: Yes, the idea is difficult to grasp for theists and well as atheists. The atheists reject God but do ...
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| Why is their anything at all? | 9/18/2009 | Jeffrey Eldred |
Q: I am not religious at all. I am not an athiest but I am just curious why is their something rather ...
A: Note: ([x] is a reference to the links listed at the bottom) EDIT: Lawrence Krauss gave a very good ...
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| Creation | 9/10/2009 | Vincent M. Wales |
Q: How is creation explained in atheism? Also is it assumed that consciousness originated from inert ...
A: Raja: I'm afraid you've misunderstood something very basic about atheism. It is not a set of ...
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| energy= brahman ? | 9/3/2009 | Aupmanyav |
Q: my physcis teacher told me that everything in the universe is juts energy and matter arises from ...
A: Your physics teacher may not be very wrong. I also hold the same views. I do not know what are your ...
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| Religion | 8/29/2009 | Clint |
Q: 1. Can you tell the lists of all religions out there? 2. How do emails all experts at once? 3. How ...
A: 1. See list below. Religions come and go but this should cover most of them. 2. This question is ...
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| Religion | 8/29/2009 | Jeffrey Eldred |
Q: 1. Can you tell the lists of all religions out there? 2. How do emails all experts at once? 3. How ...
A: 1. No. I cannot list all religions of the world- no one can. The estimated number of religions ...
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| Religion | 8/29/2009 | Aupmanyav |
Q: 1. Can you tell the lists of all religions out there? 2. How do emails all experts at once? 3. How ...
A: http://www.allexperts.com/cl1/15/religionspirit/: This page gives you the names of all religions for ...
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| Evidence for God. | 8/10/2009 | Philip A. Stahl |
Q: I am a recent convert to Catholicism and rather firm in it and I have been studying various ...
A: May I say, Thomas, that I certainly enjoyed reading your 'Summa Theologica'? On a serious note, it ...
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| reincarnation | 8/5/2009 | Margaret Placentra Johnston |
Q: What are your thoughts on reincarnation? What about, reincarnation as related to the Bible?
A: Joanna. To be honest, I am anything but an expert on scripture, so anything I tell you about how ...
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| Morals for Atheists? | 7/29/2009 | Margaret Placentra Johnston |
Q: Where do Atheists drive their sense of morality? if it is not developed by the church, and without ...
A: Some atheists, to be sure, are without morals. But many/most who have actually thought through ...
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| what am i to believe | 7/27/2009 | Margaret Placentra Johnston |
Q: "Hello i am very confused on religion, i do not believe there was a jesus mary etc..i donot think ...
A: Since you say you were not educated in this department when you "should have" I think you mean you ...
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| Solar eclipse | 7/18/2009 | Jeffrey Eldred |
Q: In some religions watrching sun during solar eclispse is considered a sin. To accentuate their claim ...
A: OVERVIEW: There is a real danger from goes blind from staring at a partial eclipse, but it tends to ...
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| hindu philosophy | 7/17/2009 | Aupmanyav |
Q: May I know the origin and meaning of the theory of karma and punar janma? ANSWER: Dear David, ...
A: Vedic hymns were not written by one person. They were written by hundreds of people. They are ...
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| does science approve predictions | 7/12/2009 | Austin Cline |
Q: Does science believe in intution and predictions. Can a person foresee or predict ones future in a ...
A: "First of all i would like you that this is not a court of law where only the claimant has to proove ...
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| intuition and predictions | 7/12/2009 | Jeffrey Eldred |
Q: Does science believe in intuition and predictions. Can a person foresee or predict ones future in a ...
A: This Egyptian women sounds like a cold reader to me. I've included more links to cold reading ...
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| does science approve predictions | 7/9/2009 | Austin Cline |
Q: Does science believe in intution and predictions. Can a person foresee or predict ones future in a ...
A: "Why do you just make statements? Why don't you explain why my suggestion does not follow "logically ...
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| are predictions scientific | 7/9/2009 | Vincent M. Wales |
Q: Does science believe in intuition and predictions. Can a person foresee or predict ones future in a ...
A: Your hypothesis is certainly one that others have considered a possibility. The problem is that ...
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| science behind predictions | 7/9/2009 | Philip A. Stahl |
Q: Does science believe in intuition and predictions. Can a person foresee or predict ones future in a ...
A: Science is firmly committed to predictions, since their confirmation is ultimately what validates a ...
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| intuition and predictions | 7/9/2009 | Jeffrey Eldred |
Q: Does science believe in intuition and predictions. Can a person foresee or predict ones ...
A: Note: Numbers in square brackets refer to links at the bottom of the page. OVERVIEW: There is a ...
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| Atheism | 7/8/2009 | Margaret Placentra Johnston |
Q: I know what atheism is but I'm not sure what atheists believe in terms of who or what created the ...
A: Actually, your first paragraph made me think of something that never occurred to me before: if not ...
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| does science approve predictions | 7/8/2009 | Austin Cline |
Q: Does science believe in intution and predictions. Can a person foresee or predict ones future in a ...
A: "Does science believe in intution and predictions. Can a person foresee or predict ones future in a ...
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| Atheism | 7/8/2009 | Margaret Placentra Johnston |
Q: I know what atheism is but I'm not sure what atheists believe in terms of who or what created the ...
A: Hey - thanks for the interesting question! Since, unlike religion, atheism is not a group of ...
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| surity of athiesm | 7/7/2009 | Austin Cline |
Q: How can we be sure that no god exists anywhere in this whole universe. Scientists usually can't tell ...
A: "I never heard about athiests who are religious. Sir, kindly inform me more about the religious ...
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| surity of athiesm | 7/7/2009 | Austin Cline |
Q: How can we be sure that no god exists anywhere in this whole universe. Scientists usually can't tell ...
A: "However before completely renouncing the religion, i want to be sure that no god exists in any way ...
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