It is also interesting to note that the story of Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis (which was more about sexual assault than homosexual love making) is used by anti-gays as proof of biblical condemnation of homosexuality. Yet even if Sodomy, per se, is sinful according to the Bible, it is not ...

Not entirely true, that entire section deals with the prohibition of any act that will not result in procreation and did indeed apply to lay persons as well as the priesthood.

These acts, including but not limited to masterbation, same gender sexual relations and eating any animal that was deemed ...

That's the equivalent of saying that the the Universe only exists in front of my face as far as I know. The Logical Positivists are relics from the last century.



So you are what, ten years old? Logical positivism may be discredited within the field of philosophy but philosophy itself is ...

You perplex me. You seem incapable of logic, yet you throw in references to Karl Popper. If you can follow Popper's arguments then you know that your conclusions and reasoning are preposterous and are putting us on. And if you are incapable of logic, arguing is probably futile. But I will try one ...

I see the possibility that instead of a drive to believe in a supreme being that and the desire to believe in space aliens (or whatever other mysterious beings one may believe in) are both manifestations of a drive to reject finite limits - ie: this can not be all there is, there must be something ...

BossTamsin (imported) wrote: Sat Jan 08, 2011 4:30 am Hmm.... According to some aspects of quantum physics, he may be right. I'm willing to accept his assertion, with the hopes that he is willing to reconsider his position should information change.

Absolutely not! Even if they beam me up I will continue to deny their existence.

I would suggest that the absence of evidence of life elsewhere than earth is more likely to be a failure to detect the evidence than the complete lack of evidence. It says more about the state of practical science than it does about the state of the universe. --FLO--



What strikes me FLO is the ...

I just thought of a compromise assertion that might cool this debate:

"Life exists nowhere else in the universe except here on Earth as far as we know."

You need to use your "little gray cells" a bit better. You are the one who has made a universal statement We are under no compulsion to produce evidence of alien life, you need to support your statement. To say that there is no evidence of alien life here in front of me, is absolutely no evidence ...

Obviously, you didn't do too well in metaphysics because it is impossible to prove a negative assertion (we are not alone). All that can be said at this stage is that no convincing evidence for extraterrestrial life has yet emerged; however, Titan has the same conditions (methane, ammonia, water ...