Chemicals ... that just bespeaks of the 1960's, hahaha … all those mind altering drugs.

It was a problem for those 2 who commented a year ago...

 Martyn comments: 

It seems Martyn would agree. 

Sure.

True science is truth whether it manifests in theology, which deals with God and the laws of God, or experimental science which deals with nature and the laws of nature.

Jumping to a conclusion rather quickly don't you think? I think Martyn (whoever that may be) is simply referring to a single amino acid and not the entire realm of chemical compounds that exist.

Well those chemicals don't spontaneously appear from no where, your cells make them. And if you're arguing that these things don't have a material presence, then why would your "soul" or what have you produce physical results? It is because its all in your mind somewhere

But I don't care about the CC, my point was about the Catholics themselves. They have to decide to follow the CC or not, and in which way they do so. That is their independent decision. That means people ultimately decide what they think god is. Many may accept the Catholic version in some form or another, but they still had to make the decision.

You're free to reject what you will. Just as your infallibility of a church run by men is utterly incomprehensible to me. But I accept that for whatever reason you have faith in it.

Certainly added spirituality to many who have visited the desert or the cow pasture.

“One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody-not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms-had the smallest idea what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge (as well as for comfort, reassurance and other infantile needs). Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and one would like to think-though the connection is not a fully demonstrable one-that this is why they seem so uninterested in sending fellow humans to hell.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Yep, I'm arguing they don't have a material presence. Can surgeons operate and remove chemicals that are love, memory, good and evil? No, they can't. Nor can Surgeons operate and inject chemicals that are love, memory, good or evil. 

However, you are consistent in adhering to your strict naturalist worldview ...reducing immaterial realities to matter hasn't been demonstrated but assumed to be true! 

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I believe you are the only one who thinks I made any statements about the Church. Just Catholics and my opinions.

My world view is consistent, I think it has been sufficiently proven. It is not my fault that you choose to reject my evidence. I think that any open minded individual who takes a real look at the evidence would agree. But I am not here to convert you, so I don't care what you do with it. But likewise, don't make incorrect statements about my worldview.

I've already answered this exact same talking point. We do not have the technology yet for manipulating something so small, complicated, and in a very sensitive area. You clearly overestimate surgeons if you use them as the basis for all of your "proof".

There are many proofs of the existence of Almighty God but before I get to them, please tell us....

If there is no God, where this universe we live in came from...where did the lands, the oceans, the orderly planetary system come from? Did the vegetable, mineral, and animal creation and man, come from nobody, from nowhere? 

What makes you think there has to have been a state of nothingness? I believe just as time going forward is boundless that it is also boundless going back so everything material we know of in life and everything that exists which we will never know of has existed in one form or another going back in time and will exist in one form or another forever going forward in time. There is simply no state of nothingness for the entirety of the universe as we know it and beyond for which I can comprehend.

Lula says that Love, memories, and the perceptions/opinions of good and evil are immaterial realities. 
 
GoaFan77 says that Love, memories, and the perceptions/opinions of good and evil do materially exist. They are in chemical form in your mind.

What evidence was that?  Didn't you say that the evidence was "not yet"?

First you make the naturalist claim that love materially exists (is matter in chemical form) in the mind. Then you claim that the brain creates chemicals that is not love, but rather that makes us FEEL love.

Anyway,  as the Beatles song goes, I say yes and you say no, .....

I say the mind is distinct from the brain. I say that the mind is the soul thinking (our intellect), a gift from Almighty God. 

The soul is related to the body and the mind is related to the brain. The soul and the mind are immaterial realities and the body and the brain are material realities. 

I said we do not have the technology to manipulate them. The evidence exists. We do not have the technology to manipulate plate tectonics but the evidence is clear it exists.

To me there is no difference. Love is what we feel, that feeling is caused by chemicals in the brain. You can talk about your love for someone in an abstract sense, but what created that love in the first place is chemical. The abstract thoughts that you are thinking about love physically exist. Your memories of love are chemical.

Where does this come from? I don't think that. I believe that nothing existed prior to God creating, except God. So there cannot be a state of nothingness because Almighty God is eternal, He always exists.  

God created time. At the commencement of Creation is when time began. As time and space are co-terminous with created existences, they too had a beginning. 

There was not time before Almighty God created things into existence. The universe had a first moment, before which it did not exist. And referring to that moment, we say that the world was created at the beginning of time.  

As far as time being boundless going forever forward, time as we know it will end when Christ comes again at the end of the world and we'll all enter eternity...eternal life in Heaven or Hell.

Then I would say that science points to God for God created love. What's more God is love but that's taking love into the theological side of science.