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Evolution: Producing Better Humans?

By and others ⋅ January 3, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Subject: Re: 8c a week to cancel world's debts Date: 20 Sep 1999 22:09:31 GMT From: Chris Ho-Stuart Organization: Queensland University of Technology, Australia Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian,aus.religion,nz.soc.religion In aus.religion.christian Tigger wrote: > George Politis wrote in message … > >> >> If you can't make the payments, don't take the loan. > >> > > >> […]

Baptists And Freemasons

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Subject: Re: Free-Mason Ministers Date: 9 Aug 1999 02:46:19 GMT From: Bill Maddox < > Organization: http://www.handteam.com/maddox Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Kenol Noel wrote: > Peace! Peace unto you Kenol – to perhaps save you some time, I want to let you know I have been a Freemason for 15 years, and a United Methodist nigh onto […]

Science And Reason

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Subject: Re: sun Date: 24 Aug 1999 23:44:39 GMT From: Chris Ho-Stuart <> Organization: Queensland University of Technology, Australia Newsgroups: aus.religion,aus.religion.christian,nz.soc.religion In aus.religion.christian Allistar Melville < > wrote: > On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 09:51:14 -0700, "beyond.help" > < > wrote: > > And are you going to pretend that science has a problem with […]

Creation: A Literal View?

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Subject: Re: was the universe/earth created in 6 solar days ? Date: 24 Sep 1999 02:31:28 GMT From: (Ken Smith) Organization: University of Queensland Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Since I have lectured to students over many years about continuum mechanics, and the movement of glaciers comes under this heading, I was struck by some conflicting statements in […]

Atheism

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Subject: beyond.help Does NOT Exist! Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 22:48:03 +1200 From: "Tigger" <> Organization: Inet Ltd, Christchurch, New Zealand Newsgroups: nz.soc.religion,aus.religion.christian beyond.help wrote in message <37B0>… >> What evidence would convince you? > A theory that meets the criteria of the laws of probability, for >starters. Do you realise that according to the […]

The Edge Of The Universe

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Subject: Re: Reasons for Christianity (was Re: Gay Mexicans Endure Hate) Date: 27 Aug 1999 04:03:50 GMT From: Chris Ho-Stuart <> Organization: Queensland University of Technology, Australia Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian,aus.religion,nz.soc.religion In aus.religion.christian Brendan <> wrote: > On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 05:46:24 GMT, (Allistar Melville) > wrote in message [< 37c4d407.27110]: > >From what I've heard […]

Usury

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Subject: usury Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 20:10:06 +0100 From: David Bell Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian I have not participated in this group for a couple of years due to some major breakdowns in my life. But for many years I have been exercised about the problem of usury. In the context of the debate about forgiving […]

Religion In Schools

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Subject: Re: Use of 'Lord's Prayer' in secular settings Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 02:16:02 GMT From: (Nigel B. Mitchell) Reply-To: Organization: iiNet Limited Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian,nz.soc.religion,aus.religion   (Allistar Melville) wrote: >In my opinion they shouldn't be forced to do either, religion should >be kept out of public school. Fullstop. It is perfectly OK for you […]

The Disease Factor In Biblical Morality And Prostitution

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By David J. Hathaway E-Mail 9/8/99 MY THESIS Biblical moral and spiritual teachings on sex and prostitution come out of an attempt to stop the spread of disease in general, venereal disease in particular. ( They were probably also to prevent genetic problems of inbreeding and other factors mentioned at the end of this paper, […]

The Killings In East Timor

By and others ⋅ January 3, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Yahya ‘Abd al ‘Alim wrote: > Do you have no shame Rowland? Must you bring religious affiliations into > places where the consensus is that they are not appropriate? Should I say > that the holocaust was a CHRISTIAN issue, because most Germans were/are > christian? What about Vietnam? No, because neither has anything to […]

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