Why do religious people need to create a god to explain life, when chemistry can explain life without magic?
The bible fits neatly into the back pocket where as the entire human knowledge of chemistry would require a truck to cart around. Understanding chemistry to any great depth takes years of study. People can decide to 'understand' God in an instant. One system is obviously much less difficult than the other so....
How do you explain transsexualism to non transsexual people?
I am a transsexual woman who has been slow coming out to close friends and family. I keep getting the same themed questions ask over and over. "How do you know you are a transsexual?" "Whats makes you think you are a transsexual?" "What do you think you can do as a women that you can't do as a man?" "I just don't understand." I know I am a woman on the inside, and I try to tell them it is about making my outside match my inside. But that is not clearing it up for then they are still confused. They mean no disrespect, they just want to understand. So they keep asking the same themed questions over and over. I feel I must not be explaining it clear enough. So does anybody have a good simple answer to help me explain transsexualism to non transsexual people?
I believe the theory of Evolution is nonsense, why do people believe it and require students to study it?
Hi, Your Rabbi is incorrect and perhaps being dishonest or he has been grossly misinformed. DNA analysis has not disproved Evolution, in fact it has done much to support it. It is clear from what you say that you have already made up your mind on the issue but since you did not appear to be sufficiently informed about evolution to suspect that the Rabbi was wrong I think you would do well to re-examine the issue with a open mind. Firstly Darwin's theory of Evolution does not contradict scripture, it is perfectly compatible with it. So, before you dismiss it out of hand as nonsense, please consider it more carefully. There are two separate issues; does evolution take place and is it sufficient to account for the diversity of life we see. To the first we can confidently answer yes. Evolution has been observed in micro-organisms, the fossil record of horses and in recent history on the Pepper-Moth. To second question is not properly a scientific one, since it is not repeatable or falsifiable. Neither is it a question that can be answered with certainty. However, there are good reasons to believe that it might have been sufficient to account for all life. Such reasons are to detailed to go into here but if you have more questions feel free to mail me and I will do what I can to present the evidence to you in an impartial manner as possible. I must also point out one error in the other answers; fossil b claims evolution is wrong because acquired characteristics are not passed on to the next generation. This is not what Darwin claimed fossil has failed to grasp the basic concept of how evolution occurs, this is common when people dismiss ideas out of hand. In, fact, their used to be a competing theory of how species changed involving acquired characteristics being passed on, it was called Lamacism and Darwin was arguing against it.