Friday, May 18, 2012

Questions to people who support banning abortion

I am soliciting responses, but I ask that you read all the questions and think about them a bit before you respond.

1.  Is your goal to reduce abortions?

If so, how do you explain the fact abortions have fallen consistently in the United States ever since Roe v. Wade made abortions legal in 1973?

How do you explain the fact the United Nations study from a couple years ago that looked at abortion in scores of different countries found a consistent correlation between tolerant abortion laws and low abortion levels, and tough abortion laws and high levels of abortion?

2.  Why would a women want to abort her fetus that will grow into a child?  Could it be because her fear outweighs love?

Could it be economic fear - that she won't be able to support the child?

Could it be relationshipship fear - that she doesn't have people in her life she can rely on to help her raise the child?

Could it be lifestyle fear - fear that a child will force her to change their lifestyle?

How does passing laws forcing her to have the child address any of these fears?

Could it be that a society that is tolerant and loving alleviates fear better than a society that is strict and demanding?

3.  Does cutting the budget for social programs that help people in need alleviate or aggravate fear of pregnancy?

4.  If you are Christian and build your life around the teachings of Jesus, what do his teachings tell you about whether you should chose loving guidance or strict laws enforced by authorities?

Monday, May 14, 2012

IDP - Questions for those who think Creative design is an alternative theory

1.  Who wrote Genesis?
     Did they know the earth was one of a number of planets revolving around the sun?
     Did they know the sun was just one small star among a galaxy of stars?
     Did they know what DNA is?
     Did they know the Western Hemisphere, or Europe or Asia existed?

2.  Are we intelligently designed?
    Why to we have cavities in our teeth, or clogged arteries?
    Why are children born with birth defects?  Design defect?

3. How were we designed and built?
   Where is God's workshop where he built the earth?
   What tools did he use?
   How do you know evolution isn't the tool God used?  God gave us a brain, don't you think he wants us to use it?