That's really difficult to answer. If one was to go back in time say 50 years ago, and changed a major part of our history then that alone would disprove fate as you are changing everyone else's path. However if you have re-written the past it has changed the future and is accepted as our present. As everybody is none the wiser, you could argue that they will see fate in the way they do now, so for them fate does exist. The only person fate would not apply to is the time traveller, maybe giving him the role of a god. So people would continue to believe in fate, but if one person has the ability to change somebodies fate, then it an not exist as an entity in itself. Perhaps the time traveller is then deemed fate.
Who's to say our version of what dinosaurs looked like is correct? The images we've constructed using a dinosaurs fossils only take us so far. The rest is imagination. How do we know that a t-rex wasn't purple? That they had huge hunches on their backs that actually doubled them over? They could very well of imagined what they would look like. There are too many variables and uncertainties for anybodies opinion to be right or wrong as it's simply guesswork.
I see what you're saying, though i doubt these figures represent what country they are from, if they have destructive personalities or not and whether their parents have an alcohol problem. There are many different factors involved in addiction aside from the person and whatever it is they are addicted to. I believe a persons life experiences have a huge impact on addiction (or lack of).
You've definitely got a point when it comes to legalization opening doors to non users. But we could maybe draw some parallels with binge drinking. In the UK we have a serious problem with binge drinking, especially minors. If we look over the pond to France, their children are introduced to alcohol at a fairly early age, and because they are educated on the matter, figures show they don't really have a problem with excess drinking. I know it's different, i'm not encouraging mothers to feed their child a rock of crack on their tenth birthday, but maybe education and awareness of drugs (plus a little experience of it) would allow people to draw their own conclusions and make the right decision. I'm aware this would certainly not work for everyone and would create new addicts, but if drugs were an accepted and monitered part of society it could have a real positive impact!
From what i can see these are pictures drawn by humans, correct? Pictures can be used in various different ways, for example hyroglyphics - to pass on information, or can be used to express someones creativity and emotions. Whats to say that maybe these paintings rank alongside works like Picasso's in what they "mean". History is the most vital part of an evolutionists work, so denying history would be a pretty futile excercise for them to carry out. Sure they probably bend a few facts to suit their theories, but denying history. No.
Totally true, obviously an innocent man sent down for a crime he did not commit is a huge injustice. How can his time in prison be repayed to him? If a man is wrongly imprisoned for, lets say murder, then he is unfairly serving another persons time, and in certain parts of the world he could be facing the death penalty. A loss of an innocent life. Though what's worse is the actual murderer is free and could commit a massacre in a shopping mall. Say if that happened and 80 people died. Simple maths, i'd rather one innocent person died than 80.
I don't know where you got those statistics young man! A third of all muslims are terrorists? I highly doubt that. I can see what you are saying - the closed communities for muslims in the UK is actually unbelievable. To be banned from a certain street or area in our own country, because it is "sharia controlled" is a disgrace. However thats as much the governments fault for allowing that to happen as much as the muslims trying to implement it. I may not agree with everything you say, but with people like Anjem Choudary spouting their bile, i can understand why some people react negatively towards Islam.
If i look at this from an objective point of view, then without doubt theory is essential in practically everything. Knowledge is much more powerul then hindsight. Having the prior knowledge guides us through the actions. However from a personal point of view, practice has guided me through life. In my first job i was thrown from being a waiter to a chef one night, coped on instinct and then stayed in the kitchen - learning on the job. After a year or so I learnt the theory at college and i improved. So they go hand in hand really, another example is playing bass. I played on it without theory, got OK and then learnt theory. Practice starts you off and takes you so far, but theory carries you to the next level.
Hell no! I'm firmly against ending the life of someone who has yet to live, however if there is no heartbeat then the foetus has nothing to feel. It is, at that point, not a human being. So it's all about the timing of the abortion as to whether it is morally right or wrong. However for all those who believe it should be banned, how on earth could u force a rape victim to give birth to her rapists child? It is up to them, though i'm sure if they were all forced to give birth a fairly high percentage of those mothers would feel a degree of resentment towards their child AT LEAST. I'm also sure it would be a huge strain to any relationship, if not a relationship ender! How is that a fair start in life for a child? Not recieving the full amount of love that it should from the day of it's birth.
Although i don't personally believe in a God, religion has served an important role in our history. Religion helped to form law and order and help people diferentiate between good and bad. However religion is now obsolite. People no longer need to fear going to hell for their crimes, they need to fear the police. Fair enough religious teachings may instil good behavior in it's pupils, but to seriously believe in a God with all the scientific facts about evolution and space, in my opinion is ignorance. Sure there is a lot yet to be explained by science, but it will explain more than any God will.
I personally feel that to brand a whole religion as this or that, is wrong on the highest level. It's persecution. However i can understand why people aim their fears, anger and frustrations at Islam. It's a religion that often contradicts itself and the morals it stands for! Not to mention that extremists promote hatred and violence towards the USA the UK and the world. They are obviously not the only threat, but how do we deal with extremist muslims in a way that is sensitive to their religion, but also comes up with a solution to this cancer? I'm firmly on the fence.
