The best thing about Finance Minister Bill English\'s latest Budget is that it does finally signal a much greater role for the private sector in the New Zealand economy. And another step along the way to extract this country from the political cul-de-sac in which Helen Clark\'s Labour Government parked us.
Can science please explain why humans think and act differently from each other?
lol what a stupid question, can religion explain why humans think and act differently from each other?
can religion explain why humans think and act differently from each other?
Why did god leave it up to man to write his teachings down in a book for all to follow when since he is surposed to be all knowing he would know man would fuck it up and people would all read into it differently, translate it differently, ignore some peoples additions or add in new parts (islam) which would create a whole bunch of different sects creating religous turmoil for 1000's of years to come.
man didn't "write" the bible, we just transcribed it, the same way the receptionist didn't "write" the letter.
I can also see the comfort in believing in god, you don't worry so much about death.
Btw I have no problem with people believing in a higher being or creator or whatever that they have come up with thier own thoughts.But I have a big problem with religions setting rules and telling people how to live, especially when it is forced on childern who aren't yet able to come up with thier own ideas.
Why didn't god just send down an already written book or a massive pile of them so people couldn't add in parts or ignore some of them because they think the person who wrote that part didn't recieve orders from god.
Why? If you don't believe in God, then you would have to believe theres nothing after death, except blackness (or maybe reincarnation, if you're crazy). Thus, what is there to be scared of, other than finality.
Damn edits while I'm replying! As Bruce says in Bruce Almighty: 'How do you make someone love you without affecting Free Will?" If God were to send down a book by some kind of miraculous means.
team bell wins!
(or maybe reincarnation, if you're crazy)
:disappoin now you've turned to insulting the beliefs of another form of religion. And both of you have no way of proving that your the "one and only religion"
Richard Dawkins puts it succintly
Because not every brain is the same. Hence why mice can think and act differently.
As Bruce says in Bruce Almighty: 'How do you make someone love you without affecting Free Will?" If God were to send down a book by some kind of miraculous means, there would be no denying that He existed, thus it would be affecting free will. God wants us to have Him as part of our lives, He doesn't want to force us into it (even though some religions would have you believe that).
But that doesn't cover it. For instance, identical twins tend to have the same thoughts and feelings, so why don't we all have the same thoughts and feelings? For instance, for any given situation human cogniscense should dictate that the same answer would be derived by every person on every occasion, but it's plainly not so.Which means that environment plays a part - and that environment includes religion. You are therefore assuming that science has shaped religion, which means that in order for science to be right, religion must be right in which case most of you here are wrong.
