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Mr_Eon
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If I ask you what a horse is, then you would know what one was, wouldn't you?
Yet you might be thinking of a Shetland pony, an Arabian Stallion a Shire Horse or any of an awful lot of breeds of horse. Different people would instantly think of different horses, the drayman from the Dales of Yorkshire would think of the Shire Horse. The Sheik would think of his racehorse - all are horses, yet apply one in a situation designed for the other and you have disaster. A Shire horse wins no races, and the Arabian Stallion will pull beer for a very short distance.
Horses, by the way, were originally forest browsers. When the forests became plains, then horses became larger to adapt. Why aren't horses STILL getting larger? Well, to my knowledge there aren't the same ecological pressures on them that there were then.
Onto the idea that YOUR God's take on morality is somehow more definitive than anybody elses... Well, that's an OLD argument, isn't it? And it's been used by every single religion once it got into a position of power and tried to undermine competitors.
Eon
Yet you might be thinking of a Shetland pony, an Arabian Stallion a Shire Horse or any of an awful lot of breeds of horse. Different people would instantly think of different horses, the drayman from the Dales of Yorkshire would think of the Shire Horse. The Sheik would think of his racehorse - all are horses, yet apply one in a situation designed for the other and you have disaster. A Shire horse wins no races, and the Arabian Stallion will pull beer for a very short distance.
Horses, by the way, were originally forest browsers. When the forests became plains, then horses became larger to adapt. Why aren't horses STILL getting larger? Well, to my knowledge there aren't the same ecological pressures on them that there were then.
Onto the idea that YOUR God's take on morality is somehow more definitive than anybody elses... Well, that's an OLD argument, isn't it? And it's been used by every single religion once it got into a position of power and tried to undermine competitors.
Eon