Punctuation might also help.
That of course is beyond empirical confirmation. Maybe so, maybe not. I suspect that my level of subjective self-awareness exceeds that of a rock,...
I don't think Chalmers goes that far. He is agnostic on the subject of whether or not consciousness is a fundamental force that exists on its own....
Terrible idea! You're apparently channeling the ghost of the late demagogue Ross Perot, who ran on a similar proposal. The Founding Fathers...
Unfortunately, we don't have recall at the federal level. We're stuck with the legislators we elected until the next election, if there is another...
Not to me. What historians are you talking about? Gibbon? How exactly did Christianity cause the Dark Ages? Most mainstream historians avoid the...
The animist or polytheist practices we call "pagan", of which there are a wide variety, are similar to earlier pre-Christianhuman religious...
Your explanation is consistent with Buddhist metaphysics. The Buddha, having rejected the notion of "self" as an illusion, had to grapple with the...
Easy peasy: from an omnipotent deity Who can supply infinite energy. Einstein proved that matter and energy are interchangeable, but that doesn't...
I happen to share your (and Jimbee's) view that "the mind is an emergent property of the brain". But as I pointed out, many folks, including New...
How do you know?
The fact that Cleopatra claimed Julius Caesar as the father of Caesarion is well-documented, so I'd rule that out as a possibility for Christian...
Yes, the so-called "higher criticism"of the Bible (aka, the historical-critical method), which denies supernatural inspiration, made a case for...
Well, if Freud said it it must be so, eh.? I still find some of Freud's theories insightful, although his reputation has suffered in recent...
Where to begin? Much of what you say you learned is inaccurate or misunderstood. The Tyndale Bible was the first English translation of the Bible....
I doubt that will do it. Christians already separate Body and Soul. Separating them has no logical bearing on the doctrine of the virgin birth,...
Interesting. Sam Harris, a neuroscientist an one of the New Atheist "Four Horseman", seems to disagree. In The End of Faith, he writes: "...the...
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I agree with your main point, although I might quibble about a couple of details. It might be the case that some Hindus recognize Issa as a...
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