Well, Robert, you have stated relatively accurately the position which I am going to call into question. When I have done so, it goes without saying that you are free to review my arguments, and either accept them or reject them as you see fit. While I am formulating my next installment, perhaps as ...

BTW, this record has garnered a reputation in certain circles as being overly pretentious. One reviewer asked and answered his own rhetorical question, thusly: "Is it possible for a band to be nerdier than Rush, the Buggles, Devo and Jethro Tull combined? Artificial Intelligence proves that the...

>>> Introduction Lately, I have found myself in contentious discussions--generally with theists of one stripe or another--about what the fundamental laws of the universe actually are. It is pretty much unanimously held that there are fundamental laws of Aristotlean logic which are taken to be applie...

I hate the 12 tone scale, or at least I think I do. Let me say that what you hate is the twelve tone ROW, not the scale. Virtually all western music uses the same twelve tone scale as Schoenberg used, including your favorites, Rimsky-Korsakov and Stravinsky... Also, Stravinsky played around with 12...

If you like acrostics and hidden messages, perhaps you'd enjoy "Gӧdel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid". It won a Pulitzer, so I guess that would qualify it as a quality book.

2) I am not interested in convincing you of anything.

Good, because if you were, you'd be failing at it.

But what exactly are you trying to do? Demonstrate the rampant illogic of your stance?

All Christians are saints, one is not above another.

And I take it that all Christians are above all the rest?

Presumably it's only the golden, saintly, Christian prayers that get answered, right?

stahrwe, The more you talk, the more I lump you in with people who make no sense, your self-proclaimed saintliness notwithstanding. You are welcome to your delusions, but if you expect others to jump onto the "crazy" bandwagon, you are going to need some more convincing presentation skills...

It is God who has chosen not to have a relationship with me! Your "answer" isn't useful to me. In fact, it simply muddies the waters. And anyway, according to my cousin, He gives me the same answers he gives her, regardless. At risk of making things even murkier, I ask again: What makes t...

<t>stahrwe,<br/> <br/> You missed McGraph's & Dawkins' discussion on this matter, apparently. Dawkins' wanted to understand why and on what basis that God would intervene in some cases, but not others. Why would God play favorites, in other words?<br/> <br/> Everyone except you apparently has no...