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Jim_Baur
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Yes!
I now see it.
All of the quotes, your’s included, are great.
I now see it.
All of the quotes, your’s included, are great.
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You
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Pretty obvious where the dinosaurs went.
Humans came long after the extinction of dinosaurs.
What is the significance of your questions?
What would the answers mean to you?
Yes, its obvious they are dead, but nobody knows how they died.
Possibly, but how do we know this?
Significance is seen in the answers, not the questions.
They would mean whatever they mean, I am thoroughly impartial on the matter.
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karaleigh
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Barney?
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karaleigh
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They need this little fella at Pella! Really get the mind juices flowing.
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StAnastasia
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Indeed! It is a little known fact that Barney was a purple companion of Cain and Abel as they played in the Garden of Eden. After Cain murdered Abel, he traveled across the Bering Land Bridge to North America, where he spent some time in what would later become Arizona. Pining for his childhood, and sadly recalling happier days with Barney and Abel, he scratched an image of a T-Rex in the wall of Havasupai Canyon. Creationists have made hay with this image!Barney?
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tonyrey
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It’s not my conclusion! It was a reply to your statements:Do you believe the existence of God - or your mind - is nothing but pious hope and philosophical speculation?
“Some people are always trying to “prove” there is life after death. We have nothing but pious hope and philosophical speculation on this one.”
My point is that the reality of God is closely linked to the reality of the mind - which goes far beyond wishful thinking…
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Curious_Seed
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Your original question is where did dinasours go, now how.
No one knows how, though the best thinking is extinction from the fallout the earth experienced, after being hit by one or more asteroids or comets.
No humans lived, during their reign: hollywood hype, only.
I didn’t ask where signifcance lies, I asked what the significance was.
Your insight that answers mean whatever they mean leads me to withdraw my questions.
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You
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Lets say the former encompasses the latter
One asteroid would not kill every dinosaur on the planet, two or more asteroids is careless.
But that is not a scientific argument.
The significance is unknown until the question is answered. It may be important, it may not.
No, you must continue your questions until they are answered.Your insight that answers mean whatever they mean leads me to withdraw my questions.
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Sair
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How do you get from the propensity of humans to imagine the future and remember the past, to assimilate information from the environment and use it for our various ends, to the existence of an ultimate intelligence who planned it thus? It’s all very well to say that our intentionality must have an origin, but to suppose this origin was an ultimate and eternal intelligence seems like a huge leap of faith.
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karaleigh
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Thanks for the info. I would never had known if you hadn’t relayed it back to me. I will have to spend time for a expedition into the far artic in search of yetenother footprint. Blessing and good humor.
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grannymh
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Of course philosophical speculations exist as people seek the meanings of life and death.
If there were real humans with a real human nature living at the time of dinosaurs, there would be philosophical speculations because real humans are capable of rational, intellective thinking. We know this because we descended from Adam as the founder of the human species. Not only is he the first person whose nature consisted of spiritual soul and material anatomy, he also existed in true friendship with God, his Creator. At that time, speculations were not necessary.
Neither are philosophical speculations about life after death necessary for Catholic living, because Catholic doctrines based on Divine Revelation from the Creator are clear about eternal life. Of course, philosophers are free to speculate about the joys of heaven; however, Catholicism, itself, does not speculate about the existence of heaven. Catholicism offers truth in addition to pious hope.
Of course, one can always say that philosophical speculations help to explain articles of faith. True. But to imply that we, currently, have nothing but pious hope and philosophical speculation on life after death is to misunderstand the purpose of Jesus Christ.
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StAnastasia
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karaleigh, you’re welcome. Do let me know how your arctic expedition in search of dinosaur footprints or drawings fares! I have a colleague who works on “crypto-zoology”, exploring people’s beliefs in dinosaur-human coexistence, in Bigfoot or Yeti, in Nessie or other maritime monsters.Thanks for the info. I would never had known if you hadn’t relayed it back to me. I will have to spend time for a expedition into the far artic in search of yetenother footprint. Blessing and good humor.
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StAnastasia
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Sair, it is a huge leap of faith. Faith is central to religious belief.
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StAnastasia
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I agree!
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TEPO
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I disagree. I would argue that it is a huge leap of faith to believe that there was no intelligence involved in our design considering that humans do in fact display “intelligence”.
…Or are to believe that matter is capable of generating new things, such as intelligence, all on it’s own -from nothing…? Therefore ruling out intelligence as one of the key ingredients in our makeup…?
I’ll agree that imagination foresight and memory are not the best examples… but how about our ability to transfer thought accross thousands of miles, and space…? Yes we can transfer THOUGHT using electricity… Such as we are now.
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StAnastasia
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I agree with you TEPO, but the problem with the “intelligent design” movement is that they replace faith in God w2ith a futile attempt to prove that God exists. ID will never prove the existence of God, and really misses the point of religious belief.
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buffalo
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Nope - ID the science looks for evidence of design. Philosophers have to decide who this designer is.
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inocente
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Got you, ID is a way for philosophers to get more funding, say no more.
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