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Evidence, not belief or faith

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  • Queen 9 years ago

    U this trumu trumu lover don't want to give up on your quest to introduce atheism to Ghana abi?

  • SolJa 9 years ago

    well well well.people like Queen are still living in the dark.even in 2014.they refuse to accept the fact that its difficult to analyse critically what we've all been brought up with, irrespective what it is.
    that its a done ...
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  • Yamed 9 years ago

    Religious belief is NOT for everyone! Obviously not for you!

    IF you reason critically per your assertion, you'll arrive at the conclusion that NOTHING comes into being by accident.

    When you see a beatiful car..... some ...
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  • Freethinker 9 years ago

    And who created God?
    obviously something complex must have a more complex creator!!!

    Go think and when you are ready come back!!
    And pls dont give me the bull about it having no creator!!!!
    if you can think about no cre ...
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  • atheist 9 years ago

    If god has no creator, then his existence is meaningless!

  • kwaku ba 9 years ago

    Christians are mocking us for accepting the big bang theory. Saying how can something come from nothing. WEll that is not what the big bang theory teaches. But even if it did let us compare to the claims by the religious. Whe ...
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  • Ebro 9 years ago

    Your belief is based on assumption that because the world exist it was created by God, a God you certainly cannot prove exists. You can point at the person or company who manufactured the car but can you do the same to who cr ...
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  • For Christ 9 years ago

    Science is limited to the five senses. beyond this science can never explain anything. Has science ever attempted to explain what results in LOVE, something all humans experience. this is because it is outside the five senses ...
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  • kwaku ba 9 years ago

    Actually we know what causes love. The specific region of the brain tissue where love occurs has been identified. There are also biochemical processes that go along with it. Plus various hormones. NO magic or gods are needed. ...
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  • Kobby 9 years ago

    We need more of your kind Graham. I like your approach and the way you analyse issues. The problem with most of us is we bring our religious biases to bear during such discussions. The educated ones who are supposed to educat ...
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  • Kweku 9 years ago

    I think the problem of religious people like myself a Christian is that, religiosity do not dispute the argument for science proving where we may be from or who we are because every person who is physically present and alive ...
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  • ADONGO 9 years ago

    Kweku,questions you raised in your last paragraph are very insightful.I however reserve my comment.Third world inhabitants are the most religious but look at us.......poverty,disease,etc etc etc etc the list is endless.For me ...
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  • Kwatso 9 years ago

    Kweku, you've got it all wrong Christianity is not a religion it's a fact, Jesus Christ is real, please read your Holy Bible before reading, try to ask the Holy Spirit to enable you to pray in spirit ask Him to fill you wi ...
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  • Kwatso 9 years ago

    correction: I wish you

  • Yamed 9 years ago

    You are your best evidence for God's existence! What more evidence do you need UNLESS you are spiritually blind....

  • Freethinker 9 years ago

    the rock is evidence for gods existence!
    the ebola virus is evidence for gods existence!
    boy if thats how you think then im sorry.
    dont find reason for everything!!!

    the next time you trip and fall know that its you and ...
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  • MUHAMMAD KAAMIL. 9 years ago

    ALLAAH AZA WA JAL.gives all of us freewill.so Graham Knight enjoy yours.we ask Allaah for safety and well-being.

  • PROF 9 years ago

    SO WHICH ONE IS TRUE ? ISLAM , XTRIANITY, BUDDHISM, HINDUISM?

    SCIENCE HAS ONE TRUTH, BUT RELIGION HAS MANY CONFLICTING TRUTHS. SO THEY CANNOT BE ALL TRUTHS. CHRISTIANS SAY JESUS IS GOD, JEWS SAY JESUS IS A LIAR.

    WHICH I ...
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  • Yamed 9 years ago

    All religious entities are from the same source and have aspects of the truth......Their differences are minor because all believe there's a higher being unlike you who don't even know who you are, where you came from and whe ...
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  • Nisperos 9 years ago

    Life begins at conception. A fetus is the unborn young of an animal. Life should be protected from the womb. Why do some NGOs promote abortion? It's not just a woman's body. Once the sperm and egg unite, it's a separate hu ...
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  • Freethinker 9 years ago

    abortions are needed to provide family planning if your parents gave birth to more children and kept you all in one room what would happen?? same with the world.overpopulation is a strain on resources!!!
    what would you say a ...
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  • Nisperos 9 years ago

    Actually, yes, I have a child with severe disabilities; mid 20's, in diapers, transported in a wheelchair which she cannot operate herself, and quite limited mentally. And, she is the most beautiful wonderful person in the w ...
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  • kwaku ba 9 years ago

    You are stupid. Do you realize you are also using free will to worship islam which Christians condemn and claim will lead you hell? Do you realize on the day you die if you have not accepted Christ you will very sorry for it, ...
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  • Akua Kafir 9 years ago

    "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good" (Psalm 14:1).

    "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoso ...
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  • kwaku ba 9 years ago

    Akua.

    if you were born in India you would be telling me about the Hindu gods. if you were from Japan you would be warning me to believe the Shinto god. But because you are from Ghana you are talking about Jesus. This is ho ...
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  • TITHER 9 years ago

    Present Evidence that u exist Kwaku ba

  • Akua Kafir 9 years ago

    Proof of existence
    All creation exist as living or nonliving. I am part of Living things and I exhibit living characteristics such as respiration, reproduction, excretion, sensitivity to external stimuli, nutritional, and c ...
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  • Kululu 9 years ago

    I must acknowledge that a journey to faith is a personal one.Not all believers share or walk through the same experience.My first 'spiritual' encounter was in a dream. At age sixteen, I saw a headless person who gave me instr ...
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  • YAW 9 years ago

    SCIENTIST SEE BEFORE THEY BELIEVE

  • Kwatso 9 years ago

    That's what faith is all about not seeing but believing.

  • Yamed 9 years ago

    Do you think your scientists created the world, the sun, and the kenkey or fufu you eat? Now use your brain!

  • C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

    Ever heard these ones before?

    Mohammed flew on his horse to Jerusalem and landed at the present Dome, and the horse left its hoof-prints on the rock! That's why Jerusalem is the 3rd holiest cities of the Muslims.

    A pr ...
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  • Thomas 9 years ago

    How comes everything Qur'an said about sciences is correct. A book came trough a person who can not read and write Mohammed .

  • kwaku ba 9 years ago

    Jesus did not read or write either. The new testament was written in Greek. None of Jesus or his followers were literate in greek. Christianity just like Islam are made up anansesem. Grow up, no god exists anywhere

  • atheist 9 years ago

    From the Quran (36:38): "We strip it of the day, and lo! they are in darkness and the sun runneth on unto a resting-place for him."

    Resting place for the sun? Did the author of the Quran understand that the sun doesn't r ...
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  • koo nimo 9 years ago

    deaf dumb and blind, therefore they cannot see. try to read the commentary of the meaning of those words in Arabic. please stop hating.

  • atheist 9 years ago

    I just looked at the tasfir ibn Kathir, a well respected commentator on the Quran. He claims that the verses mean that the sun goes and rests under the throne of God and then asks God for permission to rise again in the mor ...
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  • Freethinker 9 years ago

    hahahaha

  • koo nimo 9 years ago

    What we have to understand from the above Hadiths is that the Prophet, peace be upon him, was rather aiming for more Glorification and Praising of Allah Almighty. Since every created thing that GOD Almighty created recognize ...
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  • Yamed 9 years ago

    The Quran is not a story book...
    Literal translation will get you lost and confused.... And you are confused right now!

    Ask people who know the Quran to expalain what it means... If you really want to know, but interpret ...
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  • Yamed 9 years ago

    but interpret it in your Athiest mindset

  • atheist 9 years ago

    SO if the Quran is metaphoric than anyone can intepret the Quran any way they wish, meaning that the Quran is useless.

  • NICECLAT. 9 years ago

    Did you quote from your head or from elsewhere because that is not from the qur'an.

    Here is the qur'an 36:36-40
    Glorified is He who has created all pairs of that which the earth produces, as well as of the owns(human)ki ...
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  • atheist 9 years ago

    I'm looking at the Sahih international edition of the Quran, a highly respected tranlation. It is there, you left out part of the verse.

  • NICECLAT. 9 years ago

    Atheist.i'm Muslim.upon Tawheed and Sunnah.i believe that Hell-fire is true.i also believe that Jannah is true.i fear Allaah for His punishments.so how can i left out part of the Ayah???"
    Atheist.do you know what AL-Munabath ...
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  • atheist 9 years ago

    And I believe that if there is a god and he created a hell for us then he is not worthy of respect or worship. I am enjoying my free-will; I hope you are enjoying your predestination!

  • NICECLAT. 9 years ago

    Atheist.i believed in Allaah Aza wa jal.not god Gods.Dieu.Dio.Dios.Tigaare.Antoa Nyama.nyame.and other than them."
    Anglo called their Deities god or goddess.Allaah is Allaah.can you show me where i said god? in my comments?. ...
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  • Oyibaba 9 years ago

    Thomas, if you read my posting you would have noticed this excerpt from CARM.
    "A contradiction occurs when one statement on a subject excludes the possibility of another. Here is a good example. In Surah 19:67, it states tha ...
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  • koo nimo 9 years ago

    Hahaha. What about if i say you are nobody. Does that means you dont exist? come on.

  • NICECLAT. 9 years ago

    The ayah(verse) is very clear. You should seek knowledge before making conclusions about the word of Allah.

    Surah 19:67 Pointed out to creation of adam. He was solely created from clay/sand.

    Surah 15: 26 This is abou ...
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  • Akua Kafir 9 years ago

    Equivocation and fluidity of the Koran
    is the problem.

    [19:66] The human being asks, "After I die, do I come back to life?"

    [19:67] Did the human being forget that we created him already, and he was nothing

  • Yamed 9 years ago

    The Quran is beyond your middle school grammar......

    What you alluded to as contradiction is false...... You'll need a whole year of Quranic theology to understand those verses..... Again it's beyond your class 5 grammar

  • Frank Okine 9 years ago

    Mr Graham, it is also possible for some one to be rational, educated, a professor or a scientist and hold none religious belief like yourself but it does not make what you preach here true. People like you rely heavly on mill ...
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  • Akos 9 years ago

    Thank you a bunch Frank! Very well said. This are many anti religion articles circulating on this website in numerous days & most of us know exactly what this writer is desperately trying to accomplish & he won't succeed in h ...
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  • oyinasky 9 years ago

    But Frank I am afraid that you have lost the argument right there in your last sentence.
    Are you saying without religion one cannot be moral? I am sorry religion does not guarantee moral behavior! Jimmy Swaggart et al.The 9/ ...
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  • kwaku ba 9 years ago

    How is this author just as bad as those he is challenging? he is educating the massive ignorance afflicting our people. It is only Africans that worshiop the religion of their colonial masters, and they believe it even more t ...
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  • TITHER 9 years ago

    The way u reason is beyond believe. Why did u travel to ur colonial masters country? why dont u stay in ur own country.
    "It is only Africans that worshiop the religion of their colonial masters, and they believe it even more ...
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  • YAW 9 years ago

    Your argument is the mos nonsensical ever made on this topic. People live their lives based on what is good for them. I prefer not to live in Ghana because of extreme corruption, filthy environment, lack of basic amenities, b ...
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  • TITHER 9 years ago

    "I prefer not to live in Ghana because of extreme corruption, filthy environment, lack of basic amenities, bankrupt leadership etc".

    I prefer to believe and see with the eyes of faith. if u are entitled to ur opinion so is ...
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  • Kojo Billy Duncan 9 years ago

    Exactly.

  • Nisperos 9 years ago

    -Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.” --Dr. Dionysys Larder (1793-1859), professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, University College London•

    -"L ...
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  • kojo 9 years ago

    chinese, germans etc have no deep attachments to religions but there r high moral standards there. our corrupt churches and malams in ghana are not the way to high moral standard. did we not hear and see pastors rape and dup ...
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  • Oyibaba 9 years ago

    Even an evidence collected is not fool-proof; it may have serious issues which may not be apparent at the time, and lead to wrong assumptions, or conclusions-- be it science or religion. Case in point are the claims of false ...
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  • HRM 9 years ago

    The Bible is riddled with repetitions and contradictions, things that the Bible bangers would be quick to point out in anything that they want to criticize. For instance, Genesis 1 and 2 disagree about the order in which thin ...
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  • Reasonable Faith 9 years ago

    Often times, when you set out to critique something, it's best to have all the facts. In this case, your so-called facts that lead you to conclude that the Bible is riddled with contradictions is not necessarily true. For, in ...
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  • HRM 9 years ago

    funny how you defend the indefensible.
    Order of creation

    Here is the order in the first (Genesis 1), the Priestly tradition:

    Day 1: Sky, Earth, light
    Day 2: Water, both in ocean basins and above the sky(!)
    Day 3: Pla ...
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  • Reasonable Faith 9 years ago

    You may have a little case, but not as strong a case as you think you have. Again, like I said, Genesis 1 is presented as a general, comprehensive creation while Genesis 2 is presented as a snap shot of day 6, which more or l ...
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  • NICECLAT. 9 years ago

    Unfortunately, a disbeliever like you have been asking the same question for a very long time. Little wonder you neglected that part. Surah 19: 66-67 >>

    "And disbeliever says : When i am dead, shall i be raised up alive?"
    ...
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  • Yamed 9 years ago

    Sceintific evidence is NOT the same as Religious belief.

    Crunch numbers in Sceince= Evidence

    Religious belief= The sun will always rise

  • Samson 9 years ago

    Thank you Graham for your attempt at proving Science is greater than religion (metaphysics). I dare say to you that it is a very feeble attempt indeed. I will recommend that you get the book titled 'The Nine Freedoms ' publi ...
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  • Akua Giaour 9 years ago

    "Believers tend to regurgitate a series of logical fallacies to justify their beliefs - circular arguments and appeals to authority."--Knight.

    Life as we know now is not the same as when God created it. The steady deterior ...
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  • CICERO 9 years ago

    Basically, funny enough my sister, your own posting indicts you of the very crime you are high-lighting. You are regurgitating what your "ascended masters" have laid out for you. So to speak, you are caught in their frame of ...
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  • jay 9 years ago

    This is a very interesting article....what I find about such writers is that they have investigated the scientific 'world' but not the faith or belief 'world'......faith or belief does produce evidence!
    Graham, please take s ...
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  • GIDEON ATONGO 9 years ago

    Even their big bang theory which they rely on as proof that God does not exist has been revised only recently. The latest scientific discovery as was published on the CNN website a few months ago is that the universe was crea ...
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  • kwaku ba 9 years ago

    yOU ARE LYING. None of what you wrote is true. Who said universe was created in stages as you presented it? The big bang theory is the best theory ever presented by humans. In fact it is the ultimate scientific achievement we ...
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  • Yamed 9 years ago

    If you absolutely believe in the Big Bang Theory as the beginning of this universe, go and have your head examined.. because Nothing comes into existence by itself... Put on your thinking cap... Did your fufu fall from the sk ...
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  • PROF 9 years ago

    Nothing comes into existence by itself..

    BUT YOU SAY GOD CAME INTO EXISTENCE BY HIMSELF.
    YOU ARE CONTRADICTING YOURSELF.
    WHO CREATED GOD?
    IF THE UNIVERSE CANNOT COME INTO EXISTENCE BY ITSELF THEN GOD CANNOT COME INTO EX ...
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  • Yamed 9 years ago

    Your athiest mind can not comprehend the Almighty...

    Stay in your delusion...

  • YAW 9 years ago

    Then stop talking because you make illogical arguments and when someone points it out to you, you only default into garbage religious references.

  • PROF 9 years ago

    YAMED SAYS:
    Nothing comes into existence by itself..

    BUT YOU SAY GOD CAME INTO EXISTENCE BY HIMSELF.
    YOU ARE CONTRADICTING YOURSELF.
    WHO CREATED GOD?
    IF THE UNIVERSE CANNOT COME INTO EXISTENCE BY ITSELF THEN GOD CANNOT ...
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  • OSAMA 9 years ago

    This Guys is a bigot.... Ignore his punk ass

  • GIDEON ATONGO 9 years ago

    If your article is to rebut Babalwaiz and the quran then why rack in the bible? Which statement of the bible is a scientific fallacy? I understand the point you are coming from. Muslims will never forgive atheists/anyone who ...
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  • OSAMA 9 years ago

    Gideon, take a timeout and access Islam. I encourage you to read about Islam, and ask Questions. You will come to a conclusion that Islam is not against anyone.

  • Frank Okine 9 years ago

    Osama, A young soldier was hacked to death on the street of the United Kingdom. A pregnant young woman is on death roll in Sudan. Hours gone by, a Pakistani woman was stoned to death in front of a court house.Islam calls it ...
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  • me 9 years ago

    an american killed a ghanaian pharmasist in u.s and more of such happen on daily basis,pastors defiling babies and homo,as it is also christian way.by the way there is nothing like honor killing in islam.

  • Yamed 9 years ago

    You are completely ignorant of the Islamic faith. Your brain is full of the crap you read and listen from the media. Read critically and make up your own mind, not some brainwashed money-crazy idoit calling himself a pastor(w ...
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  • me 9 years ago

    if only there is going to be religious violence in ghana,bet you this guy gideon will be among the cause,always typing hate and offensive comment which does not relate to the topic and turn out to pretend christianity is peac ...
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  • oyinasky 9 years ago

    Great piece Graham. Short , clear and straight to the point.

  • Yamed 9 years ago

    His 'gra8' piece exposes his ignorance

  • Manny Anab 9 years ago

    Religion by the common man is true, by the wise is false and by the ruler is useful

  • Yamed 9 years ago

    By your post the world has more common men than wise men and the populoation of the common men who are religious is increasing.... Think for a moment why is that?

  • YAW 9 years ago

    But is it true that there are more common men than wise people. So what is your point?

  • HRM 9 years ago

    in the end you and your co-scientists fail to explain the origin of the "nothing" that exploded to form the universe. You better start asking yourself the simplest questions as to "what" brought you into existence, why is it ...
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  • Toyib 9 years ago

    This Atongo guy has a fundamental problem, a non-believer condemns our faiths, making illogical conclusions and you say your common enemy is Islam. Such fickle mindedness does not give room for proper religious discourse. It' ...
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  • Toyib 9 years ago

    Now Mr Graham why wouldn't you give us the names of those who have left or are leaving Islam? Your understandng of religion and Islam for that matter is as shallow as Atongo's. If I weren't a Muslim, I certainly wouldn't wors ...
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  • Kweku 9 years ago

    Just Google ex Muslim.

  • Hussein Y. Babalwaiz 9 years ago

    Graham, the blind and myopic atheist, it is obvious that u are now in diametric opposition to the very scientists whom u arrogated Prophecy to...because in spite of the facts I showcased in my last piece, u still think that ...
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  • Freethinker 9 years ago

    The Bible talks about a well trodden road!!! Fastest growing religion can be a false religion as well!!Lets not forget that they breed faster than any other religious group, hence the 'growth' in followers!!!(what is the aver ...
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  • atheist 9 years ago

    The number of western scientist who have converted to islam can be counted on one hand.

  • C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

    It is rather surreal to brand Graham blind and myopic, whereas those descriptions best fit you the believers. You are the only people who close your minds to all forms of Reason and Rational Thought based on even empirical ob ...
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  • Yamed 9 years ago

    Every Tom Dick and Harry can post lies on Google.... We want to read what you've researched not what is on google..... Come on ......

  • YAW 9 years ago

    You are incredibly stupid it is beyond salvage. For your information, nobody posts anything on google, you re just a waterhead!

  • Reasonable Faith 9 years ago

    Graham, while it is true that most religious folks do not necessarily know how to argue as they often resort to quoting scripture and commit logical errors, your conclusion that science and belief are incompatible is bogus be ...
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  • Yamed 9 years ago

    Come out from your hiding place and defend yourself. You lair!

  • YAW 9 years ago

    Theism cannot present any framework for science. Theism is belief without knowledge. Theism offers the most appeal to authority fallacy to explaining things that by their nature are thought-provoking. That is why illiterates ...
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  • Reasonable Faith 9 years ago

    Haha, Yaw, do you even hear yourself? There is no need to trust our experiments, our instruments, and our thoughts? You cannot have science without assumptions or beliefs or trust! You have to trust your thoughts in order to ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

    This question has been addressed very thoroughly by scholars, believers clerics alike. One interested book on the subject I have in my collection is Maurice Bucaille's translation of his book from French (poor job at that, bt ...
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  • Kwesi USA 9 years ago

    God existing is a myth.

    Every religion on earth claims theirs is the way to God. Which tells me they are all full of bullshit

  • Yaw Effah Baffoe 9 years ago

    Poor Graham, I have prayed to God the creator of life to open your eyes to see clearly and know that God exists wherever there is life. Saul the brilliant learned lawyer initially did not believe in the Christian God in Jesus ...
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  • Muhsin Ibrahim 9 years ago

    What religion does is to make us miopic and unintelligent. Not to question the origin of god and to create conflicts in society. Religion should tell us the origin of the creator. If the universo was created by God then some ...
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  • Just passing by 9 years ago

    Go read 2nd Corinthians sometime.

  • Kwesi USA 9 years ago

    Whose faith?

    IS the Muslim God more powerful than the Christian God?

  • Adam 9 years ago

    Proverbs 3:5-6
    King James Version (KJV)
    5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

    6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

  • BLAK 9 years ago

    https://lorenskobb.pythonanywhere.com/lorensblog/default/mindViruses

  • crorkz 9 years ago

    JJaD9F Im thankful for the blog article.Really looking forward to read more. Keep writing.