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Infinite but not boundless simply means that the Universe may have parts that we will never be able to even 'detect,' so in that sense it has very rea...
April 25, 2022 at 17:48
They have proven themselves to be a very resilient movement. Give them time. The only way to prevent them from achieving their goals is to kill them a...
April 25, 2022 at 17:33
Good luck searching for that nonexistent mask. Keep feeling for it! At the end of all your efforts, you will be left with hands covered in face skin p...
April 25, 2022 at 17:26
Yes, I know. I disagree, I think the prevailing view is that the Universe MAY BE infinite. Another view is that it may be infinite but not boundless. ...
April 25, 2022 at 17:20
I held similar views in my youth. I was brought up in tough part of a city. We had many words for homosexuals you are probably familiar with. When I w...
April 25, 2022 at 15:52
Hello, I checked my inbox and found no PM from you. I will try to send a quick PM to you to establish a connection.
April 25, 2022 at 15:28
Cause: energy/mass 'falls into,' the black hole. Effect: the spherical expanse of the black hole increases. Nothing more than that afaik.
April 25, 2022 at 15:25
are you suggesting the brain does not/cannot perceive? Perceive seems a perfectly good label to me and seems like a sufficient umbrella term under whi...
April 25, 2022 at 15:19
I know you are not convinced that transhumanism is a progression and I don't agree with you or understand your logic or your viewpoint. If science and...
April 25, 2022 at 15:06
Earlier, you posted: Now you say: So the notion of proper time and proper length are used is special RELATIVITY and are 'relative notions.' So do you ...
April 25, 2022 at 14:55
Theists have been able to live without proof of their beliefs/feelings about gods since we left the forests. I don't think a man who identifies as a w...
April 25, 2022 at 10:22
I actually agree in part with this viewpoint but for a different reason. I think the fact that space is expanding shows that it is not infinite. The i...
April 25, 2022 at 09:59
But this is the vital point. Within their frame of reference, their motions are relative. I accept all of this but my first sentence holds. Proper tim...
April 25, 2022 at 09:53
Would you accept that your viewpoint is very fringe? How would you explain observational and experimental results that confirm general and special rel...
April 25, 2022 at 09:48
This is just a small side question, for my own internal databases. Do you think dualism is on the rise, stagnant or on the wane or does the number of ...
April 25, 2022 at 09:33
If those who vote against it are a majority then their representatives in authority must vote against also and then scientific endeavours in the direc...
April 25, 2022 at 09:00
I will answer this in another thread as I respect @"Philosophim"'s request to stick to the OP and discuss causality.
April 25, 2022 at 08:52
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April 24, 2022 at 16:23
Ok, I appreciate your complaint. I will humbly bow out of the thread. You are the author.
April 24, 2022 at 16:10
Causality......first cause......science versus god.
April 24, 2022 at 16:05
At least life offers us both a moment to have a wee laugh together now and then. Viva la vida!!!
April 24, 2022 at 16:03
Yeah, I was too young to know what was going on anyway so I and my sister were relatively unscathed by the experience. I try not to conflate what some...
April 24, 2022 at 15:59
:lol: I hope that's just your bad English! Don't tell me you believe that Deer have gods as well as your previous claim that Dino gods once existed or...
April 24, 2022 at 15:54
That's just woo woo in my opinion. I am no more concerned about that than I am about magicians doing tricks I can't figure out. I think I do understan...
April 24, 2022 at 15:40
I remember getting dragged by my big sister along to a church group when I was about 10 years old, she was 12. I remember a lot of singing and handcla...
April 24, 2022 at 15:36
I even had a person who earned his living as a theist of Protestantism say to me that he knew a secret truth that was not known by many but was accept...
April 24, 2022 at 15:27
I disagree and would suggest that atheists defend much more than they attack. Atheists don't have to attack, they just let theists put their god posit...
April 24, 2022 at 15:17
Yours? Or what you claim is theirs?
April 24, 2022 at 15:07
Please continue to try! I know it's not. I think scientists are happy with the scientific method, but sure, you can ask. I think they will ignore you ...
April 24, 2022 at 15:01
What a convenient excuse for the outrageous behavior of theists preachers, such as, "join us, or suffer in hell for eternity." I find the fact that yo...
April 24, 2022 at 14:58
The gods in your head! No, I just could not understand the context of your words in English? It was your English that made little sense to me.
April 24, 2022 at 14:49
Yeah, good luck with that! Turn, turn that table until you can turn that table no more. Perhaps all that table turning will make your gods appear and ...
April 24, 2022 at 14:47
This makes little sense to me.
April 24, 2022 at 14:45
The devil is just god dressed in red, wearing a mask with a couple of horns. You are on the correct track with 'I don't believe in the devil.' Perhaps...
April 24, 2022 at 14:44
They did not take it, they exposed its lack of evidence and in doing so have freed some of its enslaved/duped/conned minds. The balance is in the favo...
April 24, 2022 at 14:39
As I said, you are engaging in emotional sophistry and what is the difference in teaching maths privately to publically? I taught maths as well both i...
April 24, 2022 at 14:36
You offer an imbalanced position. I agree that atheists wish to engage theists in debate and are 'happy' when a theist declares that they no longer be...
April 24, 2022 at 14:25
No that would be a contradiction of the term 'preach.' I was a teacher of 30+ years and I taught computer SCIENCE. I did not preach the subject to my ...
April 24, 2022 at 14:05
I of course completely disagree and would say the same regarding your arguments for polytheism.
April 24, 2022 at 13:36
No, I was referring to more extreme political or social views. Science is not a religion so it cannot be preached. The empirical evidence for a scient...
April 24, 2022 at 13:33
Nonsense! Atheists suggest there is close to zero evidence of the god posit. The word 'preach,' refers to delivering a sermon or religious address to ...
April 24, 2022 at 13:25
"Einstein found that if one object was at rest and other object was moving at a uniform velocity, their proper time in relation to each other would be...
April 24, 2022 at 13:20
I did not and do not say that individuals should not or cannot preach/advocate theism/capitalism or even more extreme views. I stated that I would str...
April 24, 2022 at 13:16
That's what a true humanist/socialist/democrat must be and must demonstrate. If the people put their trust in you and give you power then you MUST do ...
April 24, 2022 at 13:03
https://study.com/academy/lesson/special-relativity-proper-time-proper-length.html?msclkid=2b6077ffc3cb11ecbb608f3cc403a4cc "Special relativity is the...
April 24, 2022 at 12:45
Photons don't experience time and they move at light speed. Any time measure is subject to the observer's reference frame, time dilates. Movement like...
April 24, 2022 at 08:48
I read the article and looked for some info on the salon news group and its owners. I always listen to warnings from left-leaning groups against indiv...
April 24, 2022 at 08:13
New atheist is a dumb commercially invented term. It's just the same atheism but now they are a lot less afraid of the traditional threats from religi...
April 23, 2022 at 09:10
I think you have just given a very honest and frank example of a 'different ball game.' A person has their own pathway through life and their own expe...
April 23, 2022 at 09:00
What IS is what is most important. The LHC has just been switched on again and it's a new enhanced machine (Yea!) so let's see what it finds. Perhaps ...
April 23, 2022 at 08:44