a black woman had 7 sons and named them all Domanic.

how did she tell them apart?

she called them by their last names

"Then why does a person with barely a scratch dies and somebody with terminal cancer continues to live? Science since is supposed to hold all the answers"

there are many variables that influence things like that. if you had all knowledge of every variable, then you would be able to predict everything, but we dont have knowledge of all variables. that doesnt mean science is faulty, it means we dont know all the variables

Faith: if im supposed to just blindly believe in something, why shouldnt i just blindly believe in islam or scientology or atheism? and what is so bad about doubting? shouldnt god want us to reject ridiculous claims that go against evidence? shouldnt god want us to think for ourselves? how is faith a better way of determining truth than weighing evidence, using logic, and testing hypotheses?

isnt that a given? it's not like you are going to have macro evolution over a short period of time. if you think that a species can evolve slightly over a short period of time, then it only follows that it might evolve much more over a much longer period of time if the environment continues to change. every big change happens gradually. whales still have some remnants of feet bones. humans/apes still have remnants of tails.

so you say it's fine because the kids arent intelligent enough to understand other forms of guidance? children respond to other forms of guidance much better than to hitting, and even if they only understood hitting, could a teacher hit his/her students? could i hit a random child because i think they are too loud? what difference does it make if its their parents or someone else? you dont own your kids anymore than i do. also, if children having poor intelligence is the reason behind your position, then you must think its okay to correct mentally handicapped children and adults by hitting them, because "they cannot be expected to understand why [they] should do or not do something". thats horrible and not effective. it's even worse to hit someone if they really cant understanding something. you sound more concerned about abusive parents being put in jail than you are about defenseless children being abused

i would give a rebuttal to your argument, but you didnt state an argument.

i suppose it can be more or less, but what would be more selfish would be to demand that someone live their lives in emotional or physical anguish because it might inconvenience you for a while if they died. we are all going to die at some point anyway. if someones suicide hurts you so much, you can always kill yourself too. were Romeo and Juliet selfish?

in a way, yes. a secular class that teaches logic, or religion, or any science helps people learn facts. the more educated people are, the more likely it is that they will become an atheist, especially when they learn that god didnt create man out of thin air - man evolved.

its illegal to hit an adult. if anything, wouldnt it be worse to hit a child? if youre going to have a kid, learn how to parent effectively and give them a happy home. when i was a kid, i preferred when i was in foster homes to living with abusive "discipline"

using such methods only increase excitement levels. if your child is misbehaving you need to calm them down, not escalate the situation. it's like screaming at someone "CALM DOWN!!"; it just makes their emotional state more intense. resorting to those kinds of desperate techniques only teach the kid that you are not in control of them or the situation. you need to show that you are in control and calm, so they can be calm and give you respect and trust. if they respect and trust you and see you as powerful, they will do what you want.

did you choose your orientation? even if people arent born gay, that doesnt mean that it's a choice. orientation is like enjoying a certain type of music...people arent born liking country music, but at some point in your life, when you hear it, you might like it. liking something is not a choice, its an automatic response from our brains. you dont eat something and then decide the next day whether or not to like it, its just how our brains and bodies are wired and it can be traced back to our DNA and how our brain developed in the womb. its been found that 52 percent of identical twin brothers of gay men also were gay, and when he isnt gay like his identical twin, it is because he received more testosterone than his brother in the womb, which often happens with twins. so obviously our DNA and the level of hormones during our formation in the womb are huge factors towards if we will be predisposed to same sex attraction later in life.

religious people pay their taxes already. we dont need to tax people through the nose in every way possible and have a bunch of hidden taxes. money that goes to churches are donations. do you think donations should be taxed? if a person gets an income from a church, or the church sells stuff, then tax in those instances, but lay off the donation money. you people are like the evil sheriff of Nottingham in the animated Robin Hood movie, trying to steal as much as you can from churches. im an atheist and i still think that crosses the line

i dont accept that reason. i dont think its against the constitution, and even if it were, so what? if the constitution said to jump of a cliff, would you? also, a ruling that polygamy isnt protected by the constitution doesnt mean that polygamy is banned by the constitution, it just means that it isnt a guaranteed right. the contstitution doesnt grant us the right to fly a kite, but that doesnt mean that we cant fly a kite. also, they get rulings wrong all the time

so lets say a guy has a thousand wifes and girlfriends, and each of his wives has a couple other husbands and wives and those men and women have some other husbands and wives, and many of these people have kids...how do you decide who gets which legal rights? if a woman dies, which of her husbands/wives gets her kids? or her money? will hospitals have to let in 100 different wives/children, if they have them? what about tax benefits, etc? i already tend to think that relationships shouldnt have a connection with the government, but if you want to have a bunch of relationships recognized by the govt, then youre pushing your luck. you already have more benefits than you should as a married person...i say thats all you get, just live your life. stop demanding society to give you special treatment. your relationships should be about love, not government contracts

well you cant let them do whatever they want. airline personnel should be allowed to put them to sleep with a tranquilizer or tie them up if necessary

the reason they commit "terrorist" acts against us is because of our horrible foreign policy that plagues their countries. if we stopped fueling wars in the middle east and propping up dictators, and shipping over heavy artillery, and torturing, and establishing foreign military bases, and flying killer drones over their cities, and enacting kill causing deaths of millions of civilians, etc, then they wouldnt be trying to terrorize us, and besides, terrorist plots are rarely successful and even when they are its usually 5 or 6 people killed. compare that to the amount of innocent deaths caused by these wars

give them a trial, and execute them. all they will do is cause pain to good people the rest of their lives. bullying is one of the worst actions i can think of. at least with other abuses like mugging someone, the perpetrator may feel some empathy for the innocent victim, but mug them anyway because they care more about the money, but when it comes to bullies, they dont just reluctantly cause the abuse, they are TRYING to abuse innocent people even though the bully has nothing to gain. you can argue that they might change later on, but even if a few did, think of the cost: many good people being subjected to emotional and physical anguish and living in fear and maybe even driven to suicide, just so you could potentially save a couple of people who have only themselves to blame for any justice they face

Andrew Jackson because he killed the bank, as impossible as that was

give more tax burden to the rich. it doesnt hurt the rich and it helps everyone else. the worst that would happen is some billionaires have a little less money in the bank (but probably will make more money anyway from a more stimulated economy), and many people in need can afford to feed their children. if it is really so bad to be taxed highly as a rich person, then we should do you a favor and seize (tax) ALL your money so you can be poor if you think the poor are so much better off.

EDIT: i think the question details may have been changed. when i answered it i thought it said "are you for raising taxes on the rich and lowering on poor?"

improvements can be made. for example, requiring universal background checks for ALL gun sales

we are spending an insane amount of money on bad people in prisons. who would rather use that money on prisons than on saving good peoples lives, feeding innocent hungry people, curing diseases, spreading access to healthcare, etc? you can save and improve thousands of good peoples lives for the amount of money that it takes to imprison 1 bad person for life.

no. maybe 70%, but not 99%. there is always going to be 3rd world countries, and even if there werent, there is hardly any position that 99% of people will agree on. also, i dont think nanobots are going to improve everyones intelligence

the government is responsible for just about every kind of civilian violence. thats what we have police for. that doesnt mean they should ban guns necessarily, but the police are the right hand of the govt, and are there to help prevent violence

i say outlaw professionally run gambling institutions, but let individuals gamble with each other. my reason is that i cant stand evil rich people who prey on weak people. yes, no one is forcing you to gamble, but the worst that happens if you outlaw it, is there are fewer victims of huge evil corporations. if someone wants to gamble with their friend, without making a business out of it, thats fine. i just dont want to pave the way for bad people to get more opportunities to ruin peoples lives