re: #189 Walter L. Newton

What is Genesis? If you are going to quote Genesis to PROVE that god created the universe, than you need to prove to me Genesis is the word of god. Otherwise, you still haven’t proved anything.

re: #229 Walter L. Newton

No… you know me well enough… I get a chuckle out of people who will mock someone like O’Donnell for her religious beliefs… when in fact, many of these people mocking her are as gullible as she is… it’s all a matter of degrees… my beliefs are not as crazy as your beliefs… even though all those beliefs are not better than discussing fairy tales.

Yet all will claim to be rational players.

LOL.

re: #243 Walter L. Newton

You have all the right you want to be… hypocrites have rights too. If you can believe in such a fantastical concept such as a god, then you cannot claim (without some proof) that that god is not capable of doing anything he/she/it wants to do… including fooling everyone with this thing called science.

I think it is possible to be rational and have a belief in god, as a rational person may understand quite clearly that a belief in a higher being, while not provable, fulfils some need, that may itself not be rational but may be emotional. In other words, the human condition may be served by both a rational discourse and an emotional one. The trouble seems to come when one seeks to define rationally that which could only be explained emotionally. Does god exist? Hell if I know, but if it makes you feel good to believe god exists, it may be quite rational to hold that belief. Allowing that belief to guide endeavours that are more verifiably served by science seems a little nuts to me though. That seems to be irrational.