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Hopefully I am not coming too late to this philosophy party, but let me start by saying both Wormwood and Ozspen raise some good points. I don't think that ya'll are as far off as you or someone might read this thread might think. I see even your sort of slants or takes on philosophy reveal your...

Valid arguments on both sides here, but there a couple points to be made: 1) There is already a pretty robust backlash to GMO crops and animals. We've created, as one example, very specific chickens which grow bigger and faster. However, because of the increase in size, these animals cannot...

I still wonder how much of this is a language barrier. One of the things that I don't see factoring into both sides in the debate is the atemporal nature of God. We sometimes talk about Calvinism/Reformed Theology's intramural debate vis-a-vis Infralapsarianism and Supralapsarianism, but...

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/11/crispr_genetic_modification_should_not_be_used_on_humans.html I agree with the (more informed) author's assessment. It's time for ethics to be given a chance to catch up to the technology. It's easy to point at every new piece of...

The two issues (the debate theatrics and the Trump phenomenon) are inexorably intertwined. It's all part of the kindergarten binary narrative posed as pseudo-intellectualism in that the other side doesn't really have a valid opinion merely because it differs from mine or my (supposedly larger)...

Kasich (whom I happened to support early on) was just doing the obvious tactic to generate debate minutes for his campaign - which I will remark that it worked quite well yet he still seemed unable to "break through" and get to the serious contender level. (I'll add that I've actually watched...

I don't necessarily fully disagree with that assessment though it is notable that it comes from a left perspective; CNBC obviously thought that they'd go for ratings and fireworks over substance, but that still goes back to the point that a group of men and women who largely indeed will not vote...

RJ, that's a bit of an understatement. There was a ton of sniping designed more to draw candidates into shouting matches with one another or play off of media oversimplifications. The question I think you're referencing went to Senator Rubio and it wasn't a question about the math, it was an...

I look at it this way, there is a unique degree of unity in what all three claim. All 3 branches fall flat on their face if Jesus is not a historical person. Paul recognized and admitted as much from almost the beginning in 1 Corinthians 15:14. In this reality, at least, they are unified to a...

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Welcome Brother Joe! May Christianity Board aid in your walk with Jesus!

Allegiant, I'm 28 so not too far behind you! According to our statistics, we actually skew towards older more experienced ages 40s-60s. :) One of the things I will share with you is that becoming a Christian and being a Christian will never yield of feeling of having arrived. In fact, when you...

The danger in all of this -- and we are all susceptible to this lie of Satan -- is that we think possessing the right amount of knowledge will alone save us. I'm not at all saying that the Professor here made that mistake, but the danger of having the form of head knowledge will not suffice for...

Have you attempted contacting the Lockman Foundation (who, I believe, still owns the NASB translation) and asking them? In my experience, most of the nonprofit publishers will work with you to license a translation (some free, some for a fee) unless this is just a personal app. If that's the...

We can all war game and Monday Morning QB, so I am as guilty as the next here, but I think WWIII would be more of a regional low intensity conflict that flares up to something greater around the Middle East. A war with China would be a regional war, complete with the asymmetrical elements of...

The potential for the US would be a costly regional war to push the US out of the neighborhood (the Pacific), and I think this is something that China is working towards in possessing the capability with the plan to exercise it at some point in the future. At issue here is I don't think many...

Well, the difference is that China did this while the President was visiting Alaska and going above the arctic circle for the first time ever (a sitting President, that is). There's show and tell, then there's more deliberate messages from a country where the male population will soon well...

Welcome to the community Dave! An agreement amongst brothers and sisters is not a bad thing every once in a while. ;)

But then Christ would also not say that everyone who proclaims Christian status is actually a Christian? I'm pretty sure we have verses about that. We submit to the will of Christ, but we are not Christ in our determinations. In fact, your beliefs about the other person are no different from a...

And I agree with both #1 and #2. This topic is now closed. This thread places us in a difficult position, so as I close it out, I will make a few notes for future reference: I will say that we are decidedly not here to police every single doctrine of the Christian faith. We have a Statement of...