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Matthew 5:28 "[b]ut I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart." So, if God doesn't know what it's like to feel lust than he is not omniscient. If he does, then he (by his own criteria) is not all-perfect. Is there any possible way around this?

I've noticed that the same people who say that God doesn't want us to allow abortion are the same people who say that this same God gave everyone free will. Did he somehow make a mistake? Does he want us to break his own rule? I mean if it's a legitimate break, the heavenly body has ways to shut that whole thing down.

If just one of you has the faith of a mustard seed, this shouldn't be too much of a problem. It's keeping out the sunlight that would otherwise shine into my window so that I could read the Bible. Thanks so much! A few inches to the left should be fine.

I'm thinking along the lines of creationism. With modern DNA techniques (proven effective by being consequential in genetic testing and engineering) you can take any number of species of plants or animals and compare their genomes they fall into a perfect hierarchy or family tree. This hierarchy shows patterns of resemblance-for example the fox, wolf, and jackal would be shown to be closely related. If we're all supposed to believe that they were created then the creator would have had to have deliberately set out to deceive us. Could it be that the catholic church opposes acting on what we can find from the study of this type of science because it would get people to study it and realize this?

You can probably guess which word I'm talking about, but for these purposes I'm going to abstain from saying it to avoid getting my question removed.

I'm asking this because I see racism as a spectrum. We're all familiar with the side of it that's spawned human rights violations but what I'm trying to do is point out the other extreme. I think it's just as racist, by definition, to try to socially control what kind of race-related things certain people can and cannot say. That's why I'm especially interested to learn your perspective on this if you're black-when white people act shocked or personally offended when they hear another white person say that word (in the context of referring to it) but laugh hysterically at people like Chris Rock do you not find that insulting and annoying? I see it as a load of disrespectful, arrogant garbage to act like we need to protect you as if you were inferior to us somehow. They might as well be saying that they need to scold the bigger kid on the playground that called you a stupid head. My point is that THAT'S the new face of racism in the U.S. It's not the small groups of powerless KKK members or skinheads in the south that sit around drinking beer and telling racist jokes. It's the greater majority of people both black and white that act like "the-word-which-must-not-be-named" is some kind of unforgivable sin when talked about by white people.

Before you bite my head off, understand that I'm not some kind of uneducated religious nut who thinks that being straight makes him better than everybody else. I'm actually an Atheist in college with several gay friends and acquaintances. I don't think there is anything morally wrong with two consenting adults acting their sexual urges, nor do I think that those urges are a choice. I am, however, a biology major and know how genetic traits are passed on from one generation to the next. I also know 3 people with lesbian mothers. None of them are related, one of them had a gay sperm donor, and all of them are straight. I don't know their siblings, but the point is that people like that have about the same gay;straight ratio as anyone else. Why would that be true if sexual orientation was genetic? Wouldn't it act like any other genetic trait such as a cleft chin, hitchhikers thumb, or a genetic disease? Gay people seem to get offended by this for some reason, but it seems obvious to me that it's psychological rather than genetic or environmental.

Any biologist will tell you that the Y chromosome is passed on unchanged from father to son from generation to generation, and that the same is true of the mitochondrial DNA passed on from mother to daughter. I'm not trying to be disrespectful to anyone. On the contrary, I respect those of you who profess to believe in a literal interpretation of the creation story enough to assume that you're not all uneducated idiots who haven't taken a high school biology class. All I want to know is this: why you continue to say that everything in the book of Genesis is literally true when you know perfectly well that it isn't? We might as well be challenging an ostrich if all you're going to do is bury your head in the sand and pretend that the things you don't want to see aren't there.

I watched a news show about this yesterday. Now I have no problem with the fact that some people in the city spoke out against it. We have free speech in this country. But I kid you not-there were people that were legitimately concerned that the existence of mosques in the U.S. They insisted that this was going to pave the way for sharia law replacing the constitution. Do people not realize that that's insane? Ya we're all opposed to radicals in government but who are the radicals here?

I came across the term when I saw a diagram of an angiosperm. The arrow pointing to a picture with a developing zygote (2n) said endosperm (3n)

I'll read all the answers so take your time. Feel free to go to your refrigerators to grab some processed food and a beer while you think about it. You've probably had hard a hard work week, especially if you have to commute long distances in cars, buses, or trains. You may even want to do what I do when thinking over a difficult question, which is to go outside and think on it for awhile. I hope the streetlights don't block out your view of the sky. Sometimes you can see airplanes this time of night. Oh that reminds me! Be sure to turn off all your lights to save electricity! Just trying to do my part in being eco friendly. After all, there's a limited supply of fossil fuels made of the remains of life forms that lived billions of years ago! Anyway regardless of when you answer, I'm just dying to know why we're so evil and how you'll never apply any of our nonsense to your everyday lives. Thanks so much!

Verily I say unto you that the same logical process was used to create the computers that thou usest to answer this question was used to develop the theory of evolution. Theory in the sense of the word that is likened unto the theory of gravity, music theory, and indeed number theory. Yay though we walk through the shadow of idiots that surround us, we shall heed not any fear of that which can be simplified to mathematics, for our brains art with us.

For those of you who don't know I'm talking about that Christian fringe group that goes around protesting military funerals saying that they died because the U.S. supports gays and that they're going to hell. They were recently backed by the Supreme Court because of the first amendment. But wouldn't that same logic also apply to a group of Atheists, gay people, Jews, and basically everyone else that radical Christians hate following them around antagonizing them? The idea would be to provoke them into assaulting somebody or stopping the protests. Either way they'd cease to be protected as a "peacefull assembly."

Wouldn't that be as irrelevant as a drop of water in comparison to the ocean?

Or is there maybe just the slightest chance that being an Atheist doesn't make you a political extremist, organized criminal, or morally ok with child rape within society? (just as some examples of what some of you have said about us from the past couple of hours). Does the meanest shadow of a possibility exist that rejecting your beliefs and having our own doesn't make us some kind of horrible plague upon mankind?

Just within the last couple of hours I've heard Atheists compared to drug addicts, organized criminals, and I even heard that we shouldn't have a moral problem with child rape because we "think that humans are animals." Can we make the discussions a little more about the questions and a little less about petty insults based on nothing? One can't reason with the unreasonable.

Somehow I'm picturing a lot of you staring at your computer screens getting madder and madder because the rest of us don't have the sense to realize that a female chimpanzee never gave birth to a human. Would it change the discussion at all if you realized that what we're talking about is change in species over long stretches of time and land mass due to mutations that give them a reproductive advantage?

We all know these people. People who say they are Catholics but only ever have anything to do with the Church when they're baptized, get married, and die but deep down don't really believe any of it. Or life long Atheists that convert while they're on their deathbeds, then go on to lament about how they wish they'd spent less time at the office or built orphanages for kittens. The list goes on and on. Do these people see religion as some kind of birthright comprised of a bunch of insincere, meaningless rituals? Or are these just pathetic displays of indecisive hypocrisy? It seems very cowardly to me that somebody would want to do something but instead just save it for a soundbite.

I'll bet a lot more lives are lost from those than abortions or doctor assisted suicides.

By that I mean something other than bible verses. A high school student must have outside sources to support what he/she writes in an essay, and cannot prove it true by reading from it. Likewise, one cannot prove what's written in the bible to be true by quoting it.