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The story goes that the old man in the mountain took orders for the deaths of others. He needed assassins (as they were called) who had no fear and would strike their targets - even at the cost of their lives. What he did was he built a sumptuous garden retreat at the top of the mountain he...

Well, how about the Assassins? The original ones, I mean, who were supposedly shown paradise. They saw something false with their own eyes and committed suicide based on it.

Oh, is that how it works? You have to be in the club to see the miracle? What's the point then? Actually I don't think your definition jibes with your own book there. Pharoah didn't believe, but you can bet he saw the plagues AND the sea rushing in. Many of those who saw Jesus's miracles were...

Not exactly the way I would have phrased it either - that's the marathon runner of run on sentences. :D Ah well. The message communicates itself, I hope.

This is excellent news - welcome to your new roles, the three of you.

Every dripping blade held by panting person turned maniac killer by emotion untrammeled by thought tells us that the secret to a good life is emotion bound by reason. Not the other way around.

So do Muslim suicide bombers. The willingness to die for something doesn't increase it's certitude.

Because I have seen a man cured of cancer by science.

Knowledge = a gift from Satan. Pretty much sums up my problem with fundamentalist religions in one sentence...

*blinks* Obviously? Given the historical errancy of eye witness accounts, why is their reliability assured? Now, if - as you said - they can back it up with facts. Provable and hard facts. Then that's different. But at that point it's not just an eyewitness report, is it?

See there you go with your eyewitness bias again. All that the scenario you describe would prove is that this being CLAIMS to know the age of the Earth.

Actually, he doesn't have faith that there isn't a God, he just doesn't have faith that there is one.

I think that's hillarious. Victimed minority compared to who, exactly? Honestly - you should try being a pagan sometime.

My guess is that the County Prosecutor would probably not prefer charges. Quite likely the young detective would be told to go away until he could come back with some objective proof, not subjective testimony.

I'm glad about that Goose, I'm really glad that faith in your God helped you through. One of the reasons why I'm so uncomitted to a religion, even the loose one I currently seem to believe in, is that when my life went to pieces I didn't have that safety net. It was up to me to hold my guts...

Well, look at it this way. It seems likely now that there WAS once life on Mars. Unfortunately for the Martian's their climate was too inhospitable to support complex organisms, and so life's hold on that barren rock appears to have been tenuous at best. So tenuous that we can barely detect the...

The force of History cares not for who is right, it cares for who is left. There will come a day, when your religion is the downtrodden minority too, you know. I only hope the Starchildren or whoever it turns out to be are more benevolent than you are.

I too am glad he serves the Lord. ;) Now, regarding the shock over my dismissal of anecdotal evidence. Ask a cop which he would rather have - DNA evidence linking the suspect to the scene or an eyewitness linking the suspect to the scene. He'll take the DNA evidence everytime and twice on...

The Earth isn't exactly where it needs to be to support life, it's within a broad habzone. There are similar answers to the rest of your points. Earth is where it is because it is what it is. A sun this size and density will naturally collect terrestrial planets within the habzone area. There...

Mmmmm.... Sciency goodness. Unfortunately I don't have time to do the reading to get the background I need to debate / understand that as fully as I'd like. I'll wait until educated men from both sides start generalising in a manner which I understand.