Not sure if you noticed, but I'm not really doing the same thing over and over again. I've asked different questions and have gotten some interesting responses on at least one of them. I'm doing it all for my own benefit--if it helps somebody else, that's a welcome side-effect.
In case you didn't notice, it's a reference to the "religious intelligence" survey that's been posted ad infinitum by atheists in the last few months. Remember seeing something about "atheists know more about religion than religious people?"
I didn't name it that because it was an IQ test. Nice try, though.
The only reason I'd be against it is that with all the red tape in our politics, it wouldn't be practical. The bad guys would succeed in getting to put it off indefinitely (and waste money as you pointed out), and the good guys might get killed, because our laws aren't perfect in that they don't always convict the offender.
So practically/realistically, I'm against the US adopting a generic law on the topic. I'd have to see what crimes they'd be reserving it for before I threw my support behind it.
Ideally, I'm all for it. Again, that's assuming we could actually determine with 100% accuracy someone's guilt. See paragraph above. :)
Not despite the undeniable facts, but in perfect alignment with them.
A 4.54Ga old earth is not an undeniable fact, but an interpretation of the evidence, by using a faulty starting point, and thus an incorrect conclusion.
I disagree. You're not a Christian. So I'd say that the truth of Genesis is utterly relevant. Also see my last response to a lady on here. What's her stumbling block for not believing? Evolutionary philosophy.
Clearly, Genesis being true has a huge impact on whether or not someone trusts the Bible, and ergo, God.
SoldierByte, I definitely don't want to insult your intelligence, but I think you missed the quotation marks in my comment. If you look farther up the thread you'll see that those words are NCC's.
.. Do you believe that people should be tolerant of all other beliefs?
.. Why do you expect people to be tolerant of your beliefs?Just mull those over a bit in your collective head."
And you don't see the double standard? If all people should be tolerant of other beliefs, but you're not tolerant of mine, then you have two options: 1. I can be intolerant of yours 2. You have to stop being intolerant of mine.
That's it. You have no other conclusion to make.
"Because it is the mature thing to do ....not doing so is dissrespectful not only to those following a faith, but to people like me that served in the US military to give the ignorant a free country to be able to study and learn the truth if they want."
Hm, wonder why you won't do the mature thing yourself? Instead you're being disrespectful and ignorant (by your own words)
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RE: God or Santa Revisited
Santa can't give you eternal life, so that kinda answers itself...