Judoc

@ Oskar Oh my science. I watched the whole debate, and that moderator was so clearly pro-god it was almost sad.

You cannot prove or disprove creationism, because there is no evidence to disprove. You cannot prove evolution. Nothing can be definitively proven in science. Science is a bout logic and reason, and both of those rely heavily on doubt. However, you can disprove evolution. Darwin himself said "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down." But he he then added,"But I can find no such case." Evolution could also be disproven: If it could be shown that mutations do not occur. If it could be shown that, although mutations do occur, they are not passed down through the generations. If it could be shown that, although mutations are passed down, no mutation could produce the sort of phenotypic changes that drive natural selection. If it could be shown that selection or environmental pressures do not favor the reproductive success of better adapted individuals. If you can do this, please, collect your noble prize. You will go down in history as one of the world's greatest biologists. Your name will be in big letters in an elementary school textbook. You might get an exhibit in a trustworthy science museum. If you can't, please, and I mean no offense by this, shut up and let the scientists do their research. Essentially, evolution is more scientific and valid than creation simply because it can be disproven.

I have been taking a hiatus. I don't know when I will return, but I probably will. I will still be active on the forum.

I am still here, just not been doing much in the village.

By my interpreatation, he basically says human beings are smart enough to figure out their own morals, though he believed god kind of checked to make sure they were getting it right. He believed true biblical revelation of morals only existed when it mentioned how morals affected the Christian afterilife.

Points have been made about a connection between religion and morals. This quote from the stanford encyclopedia of philosophy shares Saint Thomas Aquinas's view of the subject. "Detaching Aquinas' philosophy from his theology is compatible with distinctions he firmly delineates at the beginning of his two mature theological syntheses, the Summa contra Gentiles and the Summa Theologiae. (i) There are truths, he says, which are accessible to natural reason, that is, to ordinary experience (including the specialized observations of natural scientists), insight, and reflection; and these include practical truths about good and evil, right and wrong. (ii) Many of those truths of natural reason are confirmed, and even clarified, by divine revelation, that is, the propositions communicated directly or inferentially in the life and works of Christ, as transmitted by his immediate followers and prepared for in the Jewish scriptures accepted by those followers as revelatory. (iii) Some of the truths divinely revealed could not have been discovered by natural, philosophical reason, even though, once accepted, their content and significance can be illuminated by the philosophically ordered reflection which he calls theology. The philosophical positions in ethics and politics (including law) that are explored in this article belong to categories (i) and (ii). The moral and political norms stated, for example, in the biblical Decalogue are, in Aquinas' view, all knowable independently of that revelation, which confirms and perhaps clarifies them. But the propositions that he holds about what the true last end or ultimate destiny of human beings actually is belong to category (iii) and cannot be affirmed on any philosophical basis, even though philosophy, he thinks, can demonstrate that they are neither incoherent nor contrary to any proposition which philosophy shows must be affirmed."

I would be willing to play any role. I have been playing humans on this server for 7 months, and I have played a noble at one point.

((Really sorry I couldn't come to the feast and all. I was far from home and the internets for a week, but I have returned now.))

-1012 on the east-west axis, -3114 on the north-south axis. IS anyone else here besides me an raphael? Bism? Grogos? Someone?

I will get you the coords in a sec.

((I was on vacation for the past week, and will be for another, sorry I didn't tell anyone, I was in the mountains without internet. HAs anything important occurred?))

The village is still active as far as I know. Send a pm to Bism, or post on the community thread.

Also, what is the gmt time for the meeting? I hope I didn't miss it.

What does UTC mean?