Personally, I do too find taking one's wife's naked picture unwise and risky. However, the answer contains many stupid arguments that contain various insults to prophet Muhammad, his wife, and God.

Indeed the answer to the question is an authentic one; it reflects all the webs of spiders in the brains of both the typical Sunni or Shiite clergyman and the one who considered him an enlightened one. The most disturbing part, however, was this

"Allah has a greater right that one should observe modesty before Him."

As if it was not God who created all our bodies including our sexual organs. What God has to do with our covering our bodies? They conceive a god like a human being that would be aroused by watching a naked woman. Their god has the same vision as their eyes; cannot see beyond fabric! Don't do those spider-men take shower? Do they take shower by covering their bodies? Don't they go to restroom and open their buttocks?

Indeed religions make people stupid. An average person's intellect drops 81 points when he engages in religion. Religion is harmful for your intellect. Marks was so right.

Peace,
Edip

Agreed Mr. Yuksel.
Althought the part about your intellect dropping, I think it has more to do with you being willfully ignorant, not actually shrinking your brain...unless thats what you meant.

Humans have some sort of superiority complex that stops them from believing that they could have ever been "lowly apes."
Sad that we have to impede science so that some people can feel good about themselves.
By the way, Philip Johnson is not a scientist, and has no idea what science is (like Behe). All have their arguements have been adressed YEARS ago but they keep posting them everywhere.

Johnson even made a "think tank" (as if any thinking goes on in there) called the Discovery Institute that attempts to knock down evolution. The problem is that you cant fight something like evolution using half baked ideas. Sorry if I sound harsh, but Johnson really ticks me off.

House MD

Between 1930 and 1933 many Jews living in Germany fled, including people like Einstein.
Jews were forced to wear yellow stars in order to identify themselves, and they often lived in special "ghetto" areas of the city.
It wasnt hard to round them up, and it certainly wasnt hard to pump a room of jews full of gas.

salam all,
i wonder if people still want to take the flu shot?

http//www.infowars.com/%E2%80%98accidental%E2%80%99-contamination-of-vaccine-with-live-avian-flu-virus-virtually-impossible/

I don't know much about this infowars site but the Canadian newspaper they've cited is known to be dubious (I live in Toronto)

Okay... my misunderstanding then... thnx for clarifying... peace

It was interesting to see, I'll try to find you the report. I guess this is why people used to worship golden cows!

Rami, I love how you make it sound as if the whole cosmological community is in some sort of uproar or something. If it is proper proof, then the current theories will be modified to make it fit. I'd like to see the other side of the arguement to the massive copy-pasta you just pulled.

Arent the verses that say "x number of days of human time = y number of days of god time" metaphorical? Otherwise you would have to admit to a contradiction.

I think the experience quoted above has more to do with conditioning of the mind.. And has no relation with the initial post... Since the initial posts says that the tendency to look for God is natural.

A similar experience regarding the conditioning was done with dogs... Each time a bunch of dog were fed, a Bell was rang to call them... After some weeks, just ringing the Bell alone was inducing salivation of the dogs, even if no food was given to them. This is a generic conditioning example.

No, the experiment was to show that animals (and by extension humans) will look for meaning and higher cause in anything that occurs. Also, Pavlov's experiment on dogs is similar, but not the same. Pavlov showed how he could trigger any response using external stimuli, even if the stimuli had nothing to do with whatever the dog was being offered. Conditioning is a response to external an external stimulus. The birds were attempting to influence the dispensing of the food not the other way around - not like the dogs.

Of course it is. Even Darwin admitted he couldn't explain many things with evolution

Ofcourse he couldnt, evolutionary theory doesnt rest upon Darwin's work, that was over 200 years ago. There were tons of things he got wrong, but modern atomic theory isnt wrong because Niels Bohr was wrong about things in the 20th century! We've made advancements in leaps and bounds in areas like genetics. Genetics itself is a proof, among others, of evolution.

The fact is that evolution took place.
The theory attempts to explain how it occured.
Similar to how the fact is that atoms exist,
the theory attempts to explain how they work.

Psychologists noticed this when they were studying habits in birds. If birds were given food while they were looking over their shoulders, then they would think that the act of looking over their shoulders had caused the food to be served. After this they would keep looking over their shoulders, even if they didnt get food, but if in the rare chance they were looking over their shoulders and food was given again - they would be even more convinced of their actions.

Some people go as far as to claim that we arent.

Pretty creep.y

Dude, this is a really old math trick, you can't divide by zero.

Harun Yahya's work is complete pseudoscience. Please don't use his authority to argue a point.

Check these out.

http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4d-eshn3fc&feature=related

and then

http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAVqEA6JO0o&feature=related

and finally

http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZukpFNS5cs

Wow, alot of this is speculation. He doesnt source any of his claims about Hawkins or anyone else... time to do some research. eat

Is it not possible that we just have a case of two tribes with similar names here?

Peace Diem,
?How can someone deserve to go to heaven/hell for ETERNITY for doing sins/good deeds for about 60-80 years of his/her life??

Because the amount of damage caused by the crime is infinity. On the other hand worshiping one God and doing good deeds amounts to infinite joy and happiness.

Um....No.

How is damage done by anything last for infinity?

e.g.
Is something moral because God says so or
is something inherently moral?

Are you sure it has to be one or the other?

So I've set up a false dichotomy?
What is the alternative, I dont really see one...

Nope..

Remember the golden rule
"So whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them; for this is the Law and the prophets." (Matt. 712)

If there's a "God" who said to me go rape, murder and kill.. i would suspect of what kind of "God" is this?
And I will take my side to protect and defend those who's being raped, murdered and killed by those who think they said that their God ordered / granted them the right to rape, murder and kill.

Why? because I don't like being raped,murdered or killed.. and I don't wish my fellow mate to do that on me...

Salam / Peace

I think I wasn't clear in the question, my mistake.
What if you were set in the position like Abraham was? If God told you to kill your son. Would you think, oh gosh thats not God, its probably satan or I'm hallucinating or would you go ahead with it? & How would you know? What would you do?

peace Diem,

Since I made my post over 40 days ago, and you have replied in this thread after, have you been pondering over my statement since, but cannot come up with anything?

Perfect health implies nothing ever goes "wrong" with a human being, e.g. they cannot develop conditions such as high blood pressure/diabetes/etc, no virus/bacteria/fungus affects them, no mutations ever take place (if so, disproving evolution), they do not age etc. To have perfect health would require a re-writing of nature's laws, because as it stands, it would invalidate logic.

I'm not entirely sure of your point here, but the splitting you refer to is for simple cell organisms, not complex ones such as humans.

Excellent question. Any ideas? Let us know your thoughts then we can discuss further.

Oh please dont look deep when there is nothing there to see, I simply forgot about this thread. And please dont turn my question back on me, I was the one asking you for an answer... confused Why does a lack of evil mean there is no free choice. Isnt there supposed to be no evil in heaven, will there be no free choice there? Just some questions I have, you dont have to become aggressive, simply adding peace does not hide anything.

I like the way he/she implies human design "flaws" somehow disprove God.

Let's take away the "flaws" then... oh wait, that means perfect health forever, thus invalidating logic and laws of nature.... doh!

Reminds me of the question why is there evil in the world?

Let's take away evil then..... oh wait, that means no free-choice, thus invalidating logic and any purpose to life whatsoever.... doh!

Hilarious. Ahh, to be a philosopher eh.... tis the dream.

How does perfect health invalidate logic, what law of Nature says that I cant simply split in two like an amoeba does when I'm about to do?
How does taking away evil mean no free-choice?