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-The earth is young(6,000-10,000 old) years/old ( about 4.5 billion years old)

Save for that ranking system (N/received/granted), this idea can easily be handled with electing a judge to just vote based on the scores they gave each other. Which would be a fine way to test it out.

- There was a Global flood, as described in the Bible

- the book if Genesis is to be interpreted literally/not literally

- Jesus was born of a virgin

I'm not here to start a debate(since this is a forum, and not a debate)

- God created the universe

- Jesus rose from the dead after his crucifixion

A debate I was recently in. "Government is necessary to perform several basic functions." In my opponent's last speech, it felt like most of his arguments were "this is a strawman, moving on" without any analysis as to why.

That's the city's fault; it's the department's fault and others should be held accountable -- not just the tax payers who have to pay 12 million dollars to the family because law enforcement failed to do their job properly. I'm tired of tax payers footing the bill for this shit. 

Well right off the bat the black lawyer starts saying Breonna Taylor's apartment was a stash house. There is zero evidence of that. He says there is surveillance of cars going to her house, picking up drugs and then going back to the trap houses. That is  wrong.  Cops have video surveillance of her and the ex bf driving somewhere together - there is no proof at all whatsoever of drug deliveries.

Self-moderating debates are an interesting idea. In an ideal world, where everyone is willing to honestly consider other people's ideas, it would work well. In the world we're actually in, I see some problems with it. A lot of people here are more interested in debating as a competition  (which is fine). The current system lends itself to this, with win records and ratings. Adding self-moderating debates where the goal is to convince and to learn wouldn't jive well with that system. Debaters interested only in winning probably wouldn't assign a fair number of points to their opponents. On the other hand, self-moderating debates might appeal more to people like UpholdingTheFaith, who want a more discussion based format than a formal debate. I'm not sure how the two formats would mix. It could work if self-moderating debates were unrated or in their own rating system,  but those solutions seem clunky to me.

...when I have defined eternity as not even just a line,

2. There is no "first" God. See my description of eternity in my #63. There is no beginning, so, no "first." 

These are moral dictates not a basic moral standard.

It could work if self-moderating debates were unrated or in their own rating system,  but those solutions seem clunky to me.

I think it's an interesting idea, but it seems a bit difficult to implement maybe.

I think it's an interesting idea, but it seems a bit difficult to implement maybe.

Maslow's Hierarchy, seems a decent, if basic, measure, to me.

My core position is simple and unchanging: there is no right to use the body of another without consent. Also, I don't determine anything from an "atheistic framework" Atheism is not a moral philosophy.

What is the "other" cause?

Other causes. Plural. Satan is a cause. We, ourselves, are each a cause. The nature of all creation and our interaction with it, and its interaction with its various elements, are all causes.

There are many Gods; one to Whom even God has deference. He, too, is on this path of eternal progression, and there are Gods ahead of, and behind Him.

You are saying that the people who voted Dimezzo are all to blame but why?

Doesn't the omnipotent god($) control mutation?

Control, as in manipulate, and not allow it its agency? Nope. Hear what I said. Control would imply being the only cause.

demiurge, sandbox god($).

Nope. God is fully involved in our affairs, if we let Him in.. I talk to him all the time. In fact, I've become so familiar with such conversation, I frequently call him, "Dad." Respectfully, but familiar, because He is, to me. No, I don't hear his words; but we have so many means of communication; so does He. The ears are not the only recipients of inbound communication, just as the mouth is not the only outbound communicator.

He can always decide to not use that power in a given situation.

God did not retire. He is overseeing the evolution of beings through those permutations of their existence, until we reach the permutation we arbitrarily call God.

Mutation happens.

Could it extrapolate its own existence from that bok?

Enoch, who, with his entire city, were taken up from Earth for their righteousness, but they achieved perfection before their being taken to God, while still on earth, and, therefoere, had His full autonomy.

And you are right, it wasn't achieved by being complacent. It was achieved by forcing politicians to do what you want, or forcing them to lose their job. Which is exactly what the left needs to do. 

wow, that is exactly the mentality of the democratic party. That the left needs to shut up and vote the way they are told. That it doesn't matter if the democrats will do almost nothing for the left, will actively spit on the left. They should just be grateful for their right wing rule. That is complete bullshit. 

True. which is why all of the left should start voting 3rd party. Because you also do not encourage a party to move left by blindly supporting them when they keep shifting right. 

I  definitely respect voting thirdparty more than not voting.

What is the electoral college and what does it do?

Yeah I will definitely add it but at this point we have so few people here those counters will not be much of a help, I imagine :/