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ethics conflict with Natural Selection for they tell us not to kill, not to steal, and not to do things that may benefit us individually.
The fittest is not always an individual; e.g. humans who are able to coordinate with other humans are more successful in hunting.
If a human steals from another and is shunned from the group, their chances for survival/procreation are diminished.
1. Do you have any concrete examples? In other words, something that actually happened? Evidence.
Honor killings, forced marriage to rape perpetrators, etc. happen somewhat often - do you not get out much?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StoningofDu'aKhalilAswad
http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2008/08/
Spousal rape is still legal in many countries.
"If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found, then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days." - Deuteronomy 22:28-29
1. Give an example of a society that would match your statement.
Basically any country that is a democracy where each vote is counted equally.
there would be no dilemma if morality were relative
Incorrect - there is still dilemma in not knowing which course of action will have the more desired outcome over time.
The existence of moral dilemmas proves that either a God with objective moral values does not exist or that God judges us based on a morality that we can not access.
A simple moral question such as "Is murder justified?"
Even the ones that appear simple really aren't. Is the death penalty murder?, how about mercy killing?, killing Hitler?
If Osama bin Laden is in a bunker with 10 innocent pregnant women and you can't send in special forces, can you morally bomb the bunker? does the equation change if it is 1 pregnant woman, or 1 million? Would everyone come to the same conclusions as you?
The old testament allows eye for an eye, the new testament does not, which one is objectively right?
It says that in less than 1700 years God went from "Let us make man in our image" to "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them."
It says that a 600 year old man built a 32,000 sq ft, 4 story high wooden boat
In Gen 6:19-20, it says that Noah should bring 2 of every animal on the ark, but only 4 verses later in Gen 7:2, it says that Noah should bring 7 pairs of all the clean animals and 2 of all the unclean animals
It says that, for a second time, all of mankind is the product of incest amongst one family
It says that all land animals were killed except those on the ark which came to rest on Mount Ararat; yet somehow land animals came to exist on islands and continents that those animals could not reach on their own.
It says that, according to the Usher dating, this all happened just 4362 years ago, even though there is no evidence of a worldwide flood and there is evidence of contemporaneous civilizations that were unaffected.
But thankfully, it also says that god creates rainbows so he will remember not to kill us all again...
-- From Genesis 6:5 - Genesis 9:19: (though people should definitely read the verses right before and right after for even more weirdness...)
Wow - you get an A for tenacity even though you still get an F for reading comprehension.
People have repeatedly told you that you are wrong. We have linked you to the actual bill text from the Library of Congress website and others (like opencongress.org, senate.gov, gpo.gov, etc.) and to places like snopes that specifically debunk you.
You have consistently posted links to bills that never passed and misread the bills that you link to.
The wording is different from the last bill
You still haven't posted any wording that would require RFID implants.
How are they going to make it mandatory
Through the IRS - by having people include information on their taxes and assessing a penalty if they did not have coverage.
The affordable Care Act is nearly completely implemented http://www.healthcare.gov/law/timeline/
So, by what date are you required to get your chip?
I'll meet you back here on that date and tell you we told you so...
Ah - the good old false equivalence.
You paste a large blob of opinion (which no longer exists) from a wikipedia page and somehow that is the same as a wikisource page where you can click and see the original document.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/
Wikipedia is a possible starting point - not an ending point.
It is useful when someone posts a fact with a verifiable link to a credible source;
when you read paragraphs of nothing but opinion - caveat lector.
Yes, the war was largely about protecting the institution of slavery - see my posts on the other side for the reasons the Confederate states gave for secession
The Confederate constitution outlawed the slave trade
It did not outlaw slavery
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/
- "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed."
- "1. The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states, and shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any state of this Confederacy, with their slaves and other property: and the right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby impaired."
- "the institution of negro slavery as it now exists in the Confederate States, shall be recognized and protected by Congress, and by the territorial government: and the inhabitants of the several Confederate States and Territories, shall have the right to take to such territory any slaves lawfully held by them in any of the states or territories of the Confederate states."
Your argument only goes to the grammatical deficiency of the debate creator who also created the positions: "Yes its racest" and "No its heratege"so it's taking a bit of the easy way out.
Would you like to address the question as to whether people who fly the confederate flag today and are so enamored with that particular part of American heritage derive any of their admiration from the racial stratification of the civil war era?
The same place you will almost definitely go when you die - the ground.
he is ahead in everything
Since Dean Chambers, Dick Morris, Karl Rove, Michael Barone, etc. were all wrong, do you feel you will trust them less in the future?
Your profile says you are only in high school, so maybe you really don't know how citizenship works, but having muslim blood does not mean you cannot be american.
Not liking someone does not make them the anti-Christ - I'm glad to see some people over on the no side who agree.
Jesus says nothing about gays (and neither testament actually discusses voluntary abortion), but Obama could believe everything you do and just believe that it is not the proper place for government.
Also he wants war in Libya
Are you high? He already helped overthrow Gaddafi without the lose of any American life.
Many Libyans spoke out against the attack at the embassy and it was Libyans who took Ambassador Stevens to the hospital.
Obama called Libyan President Magariaf to express "appreciation for the cooperation we have received from the Libyan government and people in responding to this outrageous attack"
What part of that sounds like Obama "wants war in Libya"?
Actually, Jesus said it was good to be a eunuch.
What would happen after 100 years if every man was castrated...?
He even took Cincy...
"President Barack Obama made history in Hamilton County on Election Day as the first Democrat to achieve back-to-back victories in the county."
http://www.wcpo.com/dpp/news/political/
He won the popular vote by more than 3.2 million
- more than Goerge W Bush in 2004
- more than George W Bush in 2000 and 2004 combined! (ok that was a bit of a trick since GWB lost the popular vote in 2000...)
“I earned capital in the campaign, political capital. And now I intend to spend it.”
- G.W. Bush after 2004 election
some old dude in his parent's basement who found a pic on the web...?
just wanted to click Support on whatever this is....
But that is not the question - "Christians don't believe the old Testament is true"
3 downvotes with no comment for just a statement of fact?
that's keeping it classy...
1. Of course, the President can only collapse the economy, right? If it doubles he had nothing to do with it...
2. Companies do not have to offer insurance right now, but they do; cost is not the only reason employers offer health insurance. It is likely that your company was exaggerating, though even if they weren't, having exchanges available to those whose employers do not offer insurance (and the self-employed, etc.) is a better option than that which existed prior to Obamacare. Also, if you lost your job and could not afford COBRA insurance you would lose coverage of preexisting conditions in the old system. And insurance companies have to spend 80-85% of premiums on actual medical costs instead of commercials and other overhead. And plans won't have annual or lifetime caps. And it limits waiting periods for coverage to 90 days. And, and, and....
3. Or, maybe they were thinking that the Republican House of Representatives has been intentionally obstructive even to ideas they used to support. And yet
- Unemployment has gone from a high of 10% to now under 8%
- housing starts and home values are up
- car companies are thriving
- the deficit went down $200 Billion dollars this year
- consumer confidence is up
Or, maybe they like the President's steadfastness about getting out of Afghanistan
Or, maybe they thought Romney had changed every position he has ever had and was willing to lie about Jeep moving jobs to China - therefore they decided they could not trust him.
Or, maybe they thought his mathematically impossible economic "plan" was just a list of mutually exclusive bullet points
Or, maybe they thought Romney was not deft at articulating a coherent foreign policy
Or, maybe they thought that he would appoint justices to the supreme court similar to Scalia
Or, maybe they thought he would be beholden to the Tea Party wing of Republicans (and the Republican party platform) which wants the 14th Amendment to the constitution to apply to blastocysts - and would criminalize in-vitro fertilization and most hormonal birth control and force women to have the children of their rapist.
or, maybe they were just happy or sad that day and voted based on emotion...
4. He didn't "create" them in the same way Romney wasn't going to "create 12 million new jobs". When he came into office the economy was losing 800,000 private sector jobs a month - over the last 32 months (of consecutive private sector growth) the economy has added 5 million jobs - I only require that you assign as much credit for the positive as you would blame for the negative.
5. which economic indicator do you look at that shows a melting down of the economy (besides the Fox News oh-shit meter)?
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