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The point is that we don't REALLY know in a world where we're willing to accept magic. If God transcends time/our understanding then why can't a tooth fairy do the same? Why can't it take some of our teeth away, supplant us with the "real" myth that our parents are doing it and do all of this...

I'm fat, unattractive and probably fairly boring. To be honest I probably wouldn't want to date myself, certainly not for an extended period of time, so it wouldn't feel right forcing that onto someone else. Nevertheless I still manage to get a date every now and then.

None of that matters. I could come up with convaluted theories connecting pixies to explain why we feel 'love', does that mean it's some sort of worthy hypothesis? What you have to understand is that when something is given supernatural, magical traits... such as a tooth fairy, it doesn't...

On transformers... maybe not... but I doubt it'll be the optimus prime we all know and love. Looking at michael bay: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000881/ # Untitled Friday the 13th Sequel (2007) (in production) (producer) # The Birds (2009) (announced) (producer) # Transformers (2007)...

You've misunderstood what these artifacts are... and as far as christian artifacts go, we really don't have that much from early christianity, certainly nothing solid to connect to jesus.

Number of people that actually 'wait until they're married' ? lawl.

Hey there KFunk, just wondering whether you've read that contraversial book "The God Delusion". If so, have you read Terry Eagleton's critique http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n20/eagl01_.html ? What do you think of it? I find it to be less of a critique of his arguments (though many from the book do...

Thanks for that (really more sensible) response. This is all that I wanted to hear: Alot of muslims seem to challenge vigorously the idea that like all texts their koran/hadith are susceptible to interpretation.

or leper gnomes :) and it might as well not exist. No, god either exists or doesn't exist... our belief/disbelief doesn't really affect the outcome at all.

How? Ok, relevant how? Not really, abiogenesis generally starts with the assumption that we have the earth and it is made up of these different materials. How? My point wasn't about the "quantum mechanics of it all", it was simply to encourage you to go down a path whereby there is some...

Yep, that I'd actually be fine with. Fazlur Rahman, perhaps the greatest link between Islamic and western philosophies (not someone who's views I support from my short reading..) put forward the idea that the core message(s) of the hadith still come through, despite the difficulties that arose...

1) That has nothing to do with big bang theory and has everything to do with abiogenesis. 2) If the Big Bang theory relied upon the existance of 'the primordial ooze' to be correct and there was no evidence of the primordial ooze then IMO the big bang theory would require more evidence. However...

He was wrong at the first point, if he came over to my house I would have an answer instantly to why the big bang theory is more rational than genesis and it doesn't require me to have even a meagre grasp of physics. Anyway, let's see your arguments for God bshoc... I'll begin. -------------...

You must be confused, you asked why we can't believe hadith was recorded during muhammad's life (I'd take recorded to mean written and not 'recorded' orally/mentally). I pointed out that we know muhammad did not want that done (if you are a sunni you'll accept that) at that time... Honestly...

When you know reductionism is correct and chemistry can merely be reduced to physics >:/

Well it states there that the hadith which we have today are dated to 130 years after his death. Maybe, find my some muslim website/book that disagrees. Well for starters I'd disagree with your first claim there, but that's something I don't think I can even begin to collect evidence on...

Yea because we all know if they weren't virgins that'd devalue them, right? I'm sure the majority of people that have lived through rape are probably strong enough to see past such archaic notions.

I can't find a contrary view anywhere on the web. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Hadith

Yea and I agree, that's why I wanted to label it as working off a greek foundation instead of essentially 'taking credit' for their work as bshoc seemed to be claiming. I simply mean that while it's true an oppressive regime could halter scientific advancement the amount of funding going...

Er no much longer after his death, try 130-150 years.