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Learn Latin.
By the by, and whatever you decide, there are plenty of excellent, free, on-line language courses simply a google away.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?I think we need to bring back smoking in pubs. It’s killing them – especially the decent ones. Besides, they’ve all started to smell a bit of wee since the smokes were banned.
I did. I took it all back a few minutes after I posted because I realised I was behaving like an idiot.
204? Oh do try and concentrate, you twit:
‘…the annual number of such deaths fell by 38% from 136 to 84’
Please come back, Geoff. I know I was never your biggest fan. I’m prepared to forget it all. It’s just that I heard he disappears if you come back. At least give it some thought.
@minim wrote:
@pikey wrote:
It’s not my intention to dampen anyone’s righteous indignation at tragedies of this kind and, of course, one case is one too many, but it should be remembered, I think, that the country is actually making good progress with this sort of thing: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8497277.stm
I am sorry but I cannot go along with the let us pat ourselves on the back because our violent death rate amongst under 14s has gone down! The population has gone up, so the actual incidences are going to be higher. They are saying statistically the incidences have gone down, but they are talking about 17 children per million children. Thats still a hell of a lot of children dying violent deaths! My guess is that the actual figures haven’t changed that much in the last 30 odd years. I hate people who massage figures to make things seem better than they are.
No. You are quite wrong. I’m afraid you didn’t read the article properly:
‘In England and Wales, between 1974 and 2006, the annual number of such deaths fell by 38% from 136 to 84. As a proportion of the child population, violent death rates almost halved from 32 to 17 per million children.‘
We are making progress. However, as I said, one death of this kind is too many and each one is an awful tragedy.
It’s not my intention to dampen anyone’s righteous indignation at tragedies of this kind and, of course, one case is one too many, but it should be remembered, I think, that the country is actually making good progress with this sort of thing: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8497277.stm
@pete wrote:
No other law is more fundamental to nature than the second law of thermodynamics. The most fatal objection towards the theory of evolution is that it completely contradicts the second law of thermodynamics. This law is central to every aspect of modern science. Nothing ever breaks and nothing has ever been known to break this fundamental law. It can be stated in many different ways. For our purpose, it essentially means that natural processes always tend towards disorder. Another expression of the same process is entropy. That is, all ordered matter will eventually approach disorder.
This is a very poor position for a Bachelor of Science to hold. Very poor.
Just out of interest, has anyone happened upon any of these evil babies that are knocking about? I confess to not having noticed any.
It seems a shaky concept to hang things on, evil. For example, is a shark being evil if it eats a child on her holibobs in Florida? I don’t think it is. It’s just being a shark. It hasn’t considered whether eating children is morally reprehensible or not. It knows no better.
Now, surely, if it can be demonstrated that these children are imbecilic or come from a place and time that leaves them without the ability to distinguish right from wrong in these matters, shouldn’t we let off with all the frothing evil stuff and try and find something constructive to do, as Mr Gazlan suggests?
Incidentally, if you think we may need to return to a Victorian method for an undoubtedly superior and more orderly society, you may be correct. Perhaps not in the way you might be thinking, though:
13th December 1847 WILLIAM DENYER, feloniously carnally knowing and abusing Martha Emma Crouch, aged eight years.
MR. HORRY conducted the Prosecution.
GUILTY. aged 15.— Recommended to mercy. — Confined Two Years.ª
Now, obviously, the Victorians weren’t averse to some proper hard punishment when the mood took them, but it does show that these sorts of things have always gone on and that even one hundred and sixty years ago they had recognised that a more sophisticated approach was sometimes called for.
