Its explicitly a self-contradiction. "A doubting theist is not a theist" is like saying "a doubting racecar driver is not a racecar driver". If they'r...
No, nothing about the definition of theist or atheist says anything about their level of commitment, certitude, or open-mindedness. These terms denote...
Just calling a spade a spade. If you don't like it, stop doing... spade-like stuff? And its telling how NOT ridiculous it is, once you're being self-c...
Assertions which we both* know perfectly well to be true (and which have been amply demonstrated in this very thread). *Also, anyone else who's read m...
Yeah I'm not interested in making shit up, I'm interested in what can observationally be shown to be the case... or at least theoretically, within a t...
Its not a matter of imagination, but of what is the case. And it is the case that we don't presently have a successful theory of quantum gravity. Mayb...
What, if anything, preceded the Big Bang remains an open question. Not only open, but necessarily so, given that we lack a theoretical framework to ta...
Sufficiently aware, at least, to distort it into to something which you can call "absurd". Of course, what it actually says is far from absurd, but ag...
You might try reading what Dennett actually says, rather than Nagel's ridiculous and tortured exegesis (i.e. strawmen)- as some posters have already u...
This isn't anything special or unique to agnosticism, there's nothing about atheism or theism that prevents one from investigating further or changing...
The irony is that Nagel and Wayfarer are doing precisely what they accuse Dennett/the eliminativist of doing: blindly holding onto a thesis in spite o...
I mean, you're not exactly being coy about it, you've probably already racked up about a 50 on the Baez crank index between those two posts alone. And...
No, the essential part is the hot dense early state of the universe, from which it expands and cools, and no, you don't. Well, you might have a pet id...
Taken from ourselves, you meant to say. Not "others". And this isn't unique to healthcare, the same is true for all other public expenditures- it come...
No, the fundamentals- of a universe expanding/cooling from a hot dense early state- are as close to unshakeable as you get in observational science. T...
Can't believe I forgot Hume. I am embarrass. Read Hume. Read either of his Enquiries. Read his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. The man was bril...
Yep. And the fact that universal programs outperform our own system at a lower price tag is why its such a no-brainer. Like I said, the only real argu...
Sure, I figured I'd leave areas where I'm less familiar/well-read to others, and existentialism is definitely one of those areas. But definitely read ...
Not in itself, but the fact that all our peers are doing means it should be considered. The real argument for it, is the fact that it delivers better ...
He said "pretty much" (not "every single one"), and if the best counter you can find is China, you're pretty much conceding the point. Here's a list o...
As far as philosophy goes- Plato's Republic. Aristotle's Metaphysics and Nicomachean Ethics. Descartes Meditations. Kant's CPR (or better yet, a summa...
Better in what sense? I assume you mean "better" in the sense of being more rational in light of the available evidence, but maybe you mean "better" i...
This is a pop-science description of the Big Bang model. The standard cosmological model of a hot Big Bang is nearly universally-accepted, on extremel...
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