Recent content by Myles

I would suggest that any wars sanctions by an omnipotent, omnibenelvolent god were ridiculous. Especially considering they were the ones that started the wars just because they wanted land. They weren't in defense. God should be doing better than what America can do anyway. Everyone knows...

The slippery slope is that you were equating reproduction -> overpopulation with murder. I didn't say exploit it as much as we want. I think it would infringe on human rights to outlaw it. Discouraging it and limiting it to one child per person would be a good idea if we get out of control...

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I know why the wars were sanctioned (the Israelites were chosen and so were more special for some reason). That doesn't mean they weren't still wars. God of war comes from phrases in the Hebrew bible like Yahweh Sabaoth (meaning Yahweh God of Armies). The ridiculous amount of wars approved by...

The OP says there's no trade. A world with trade would be our own. That we have currency doesn't change that. It just organises it.

Yes, the cells would probably save them. From a biological point of view. Life is reproduction. Since that's all it does. There is even controversy over whether a single molecule being able to replicate itself is life. Traditionally it's not considered that, but so are viruses, which have DNA...

So it also means that the world becomes bland and without sentimentality?

Actually scholars have ideas about the history of the bible too. The various dialects and word usage used in the law books suggest multiple sources and revisionism. It's thought that Yahweh (the god of the bible) was part of polytheistic myths where different countries had different gods...

Not ignoring the logistics, that wouldn't work very well. Who works to get all this stuff in the first place? Whoever they are, they don't get anything that the people who don't do. Unless you were in the middle of nowhere, you would constantly lose all your stuff, even your most prized...

I think twocows gave that link because the way you phrased it, it sounded like you were saying no one had even made objections before. There are lots of contradictions. The most famous ones are probably: Premise I: God is real Premise II: God is omniscient (all knowing) Premise III: God is...

Reproduction is a basic function of life. In some definitions of life, not being able to reproduce could practically exclude you from the definition being alive. The fact that you're individual cells can reproduce inside your body is probably the only thing that would save you. From an...

Ugh, saying we can't have kids would be infringing on human rights. I guess you could make a case for if people had more than a kid each (two for two parents). But I'm not sure you could really put the overgrowth in terms like that anyway. Since countries right now seem to be very strict on...

But that 'some people believe it' is a fact. So it fits in sociology, history or religious studies.

Evolution is both a theory and a fact. It's as much a fact as gravity or the fact that the Earth isn't flat (which both conflict with literal biblical interpretation creationism just as much as evolution).

I would say most teenagers would probably drink as much as adults. If they could get the money that is. I'm above the legal drinking age in my country and I don't touch the stuff.