NNS,

Although I expect you have had quite enough of my obstinacy and lack of ‘faith’, I feel obliged to proffer the following suggestion.

I would expect that I hold the credibility of the factual accuracy of many of the offerings in the St James bible (Old and New Testaments) and in the ‘Gospels’ in no greater regard than you would hold in regard to:-
. Albert Einstein’s ‘Theory of Relativity’;
. Charles Darwin’s ‘The Origin of Species’;
. Evidence for this Earth of ours being 4 Billion Years old (and the Universe much, much older);
. Scientific Evidence that Homo Sapiens (us) was preceded by a number of earlier evolutions of ‘Hominids’, evidently ‘evolved’ from even earlier ‘Anthropoid Apes’;
. Scientific Evidence that puts the initial habitation of Australia by our Indigenous tribes of Aboriginals at some 60,000 years ago (as against the ‘belief’ of some ‘true believers’ that the world, universe and everything was ‘created’ by God not more than some 6,000 years ago;
. Scientific Evidence that dinosaurs predated ‘human’ existence on this planet by very many Millions of Years;
. That the larger dinosaurs became extinct due to a global catastrophe some 65 million years ago – but some of the smaller dinosaurs survived to become today’s birds;
. That life on Earth originated in a ‘primordial soup’ of organic (carbon-based) molecules in aqueous solution in a primarily methane atmosphere, giving rise to single-celled bacteria-like lifeforms – the chance collision of two of which gave rise to a multi-celled lifeform which is held to be the forebear of ‘all life on Earth’ (you, me, plants, animals, the whole damn thing);
. That DNA and RNA are the foundation of ALL life on Earth.

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My God exists in all I see, and not in any book. (The True God is love – no Hell here.)
The loss of an unborn is shameful - but so many of the ‘sins’ of Man are far more horrendous.
Concern for the existence of (even possibly the necessity for) abortion is understandable, but so many elements of human existence clearly demonstrate the 'unholiness' of humanity's current 'evolution' that I can only conclude that Mankind has yet a long way to go to reach any true figment of God's ultimate reflection (let alone image).

No judge, no court, no man, should have a right to commit 'domestic' or any other violence against woman - and that includes any 'dictation' over her right to sexual, gestational and procreation-al rights and freedoms (over her own body).

Woman is the foundation of humanity, and deserving of due respect.

To SaltPetre.

So you're not Christian, but a philosopher with a few Christian like ideals. Good to know. Whatever your standard and foundation for God though, make sure it's on solid ground. Otherwise you'll be swept away by sweet sounding philosophies or jarred away by persuasive talk, regardless if it has merit or not.

Many sciences of today is worth looking into and studying. But the science that can't be used or tested to check it's conclusions, that's not science. That's hypothesis without follow through to see if it's right. To pair evolution like theories to the beginning of life on earth is only scientific sounding philosophies. It is not science because it is only hypothesizes with no real way to measure if they are true or not.

Combining Christian like philosophies, and science like philosophies together is not a solid foundation for either. What makes Christianity Christian is the words and acts of Jesus. What make science science is observations and measurements. When you remove Jesus from Christianity you are no longer talking about Christianity. When you remove the ability to measure, observe, or test something in science, then it is no longer science. Evolutionary philosophies have steered away from evolution, a biological study, for some time now. Evolutionary philosophies geared towards the beginning of life on earth is outright philosophy, no science in it.

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Where I agree with your philosophies is that God is love. And by that, the importance of loving one another is huge. Without love all things, no mater how great, are worthless. Being tolerant of evil in the world though is not love. Nor is abortion a kindness to women. It is justification for ignoring so many wrongs in the world because when a kid gets involved, just kill them before they are born. The unfair treatment of women is not solved by killing a baby before it's born. The over sexed lust in society is not cured by having abortion "cure" the baby problem. Abortion is not a solution, nor is it a kindness. It is an industry built on the fears and desires of society. It is an industry that makes it sound like abortion is the only answer, and without abortion a woman's life is thrown away. ("Don't throw away your life" kind of reasoning).

To put it another way. Killing a baby is never an act of love. Regardless if they are born or unborn, if they die, it's tragic.