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:clap: Science offers us protections that encourage us to leave the cave and face those big scary animals and those very 'human unfriendly' conditions...

Right back at you. I am willing to express my reasons for my personal atheism. It seems you are totally unwilling to explain why you have theistic bel...

:lol: I would love to see the rather posh Bertrands response to you calling him bert! Science WILL offer all sorts of transhumanism in the future and ...

I am glad that you find my position so obvious and compelling that you support it with the same affection that you obviously have for puppies and moth...

So much to choose from, articles like: https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/religion-based-fear-twr/ https://medium.com/spiritual-psychology/3-...

The Islamic theocracy in Iran continues to demonstrate its willingness to murder its own citizens to protect the theocracy they impose on their popula...

Great quotes from a great physicist, Steven Weinberg. I have the book he wrote with Richard Feynman, called elementary particles and the laws of physi...

Watching some of the televised material on such like God TV, or even TBN in the UK. The hysteria you sometime see within audience members is incredibl...

:lol: Have you been watching James Bond movies again. Perhaps if you watched some of the debates I mentioned or the phone in shows I mentioned you wou...

That just reads like sour grapes on your part. I know you cannot provide me with 'proof.' I only require more convincing/compelling claims than those ...

I appreciate that but I reject it, as you have not convinced me that your faith is not fear based. I fully accept that you have no imperative to convi...

Great question Vera! There maybe a very big difference and it's simply 'which group is correct?' Is your humanist convictions the way forward for the ...

What about the legal ones? Marital vows have serious, life changing financial and social consequences. What is a 'treaty' between countries if not a p...

I think it does, under the wise suggestion of 'be prepared!' It's your primal fear of the 'alpha male.' Your world is not under collapse only if you c...

I don't think Noah and the flood (from the Sumerian Gilgamesh fable) is the main pivotal problem for Christianity. I think the 13+billion years of the...

I certainly agree that a human is a much more rational proposal for an existent that can give purpose to this universe, compared to an omnigod. We can...

Yeah but are you really suggesting that there is never any price to pay if you break a 'sacred vow?' There is power behind such labels as 'sacred vow....

Science offers an unbias search for truth imo. Religion offers comfort to help to sate primal human fear. I think some prefer religion as it offers yo...

The 'I am that I am,' god words, as you know, were just an attempt to make god seem ineffable but omnipotent so compliance is required on threat of he...

:smile: I am glad you will reject the offer in the future and hopefully the irrational thinking behind it.

Perhaps you could reword this as I cannot make much sense of it. Are you an advocate of the 'ignorance is bliss' approach to living your life? The pro...

So, are you suggesting that the expansion of space over time, directly affects the local measurement of 22 cm of paper? Galaxy structures are not expa...

The opening phrase of the ten commandments is: "I am the LORD thy God" This is claimed to be the spoken word of god to Moses, is it not? It what way a...

Such a common reaction! Mostly happens when folks see what's under a scotsman's kilt! Or perhaps when Hanover's sweetie first saw him disrobed!

No, that would be very bad indeed, as you rob people of the truth of their own origins. The best way people can live, in my opinion is to fully know t...

Yeah, you would think if it existed it would at least tell such morons, to stop doing that. I assumed dimosthenis9 was suggesting that such reasons fo...

So, you would choose to create beings which were inferior to yourself and then you would leave them ignorant of your existence and then you would watc...

I think 'the bible,' literally translates to 'the book.' So, yeah, its about time 'the book' or 'thee book,' was reconsidered in the West.

Fictional, biblical or scientific?

I can but 'ditto' Banno's responses. If you are omniscient then you have no purpose and I cannot perceive why such would have a desire to create and o...

One of my problems with the omnigod posit lies there. I cant think of a rational reason for an omnipotent/omniscient god to have desires, can you?

@"jamal" :smile: Ok!

I thought you might consider this quite balanced viewpoint (imo), from Victor Tosh, helpful. Question posed: The First Law of Thermodynamics states th...

As long as it defeats the aspirations of the antinatalists!

It's human tradition to abuse innovation. Like nuclear energy abused to produce nuclear bombs! Extendable wrists to 'cop a feel but don't reveal,' bar...

:lol: Sounds like a pickpockets dream. Young men in crowded bars with lot's of women would also challenge each other to games called 'wandering hands,...

I wonder if the mercians or the saxons of wessex or the northumbrians etc considered their little country, the best country in the world? :roll:

Ok we won't eat you Shawn! As for the pig ......... the empty roll beckons! Vegan bacon does not look appetising. I have never tasted it though! https...

The best hangover cure there is! https://cdn.theculturetrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/shutterstock_153635582.jpg https://images.ctfassets.net/6jp...

The time dilation formula is: t=to/?(1-(v^2- c^2 ) t would be the time passed on Earth. to would be the time passed on the ship. v^2 would be the squa...

Is this a prediction of the future, if humans go extinct? https://i.ytimg.com/vi/V4OnJ5LBNjI/maxresdefault.jpg

Right back at you. You should stare into a mirror and repeat the words above to yourself again and again. Perhaps your fog will then lift. Well, you t...

:up: Especially when the basics are present. Evil empire, lots of good special effects, the voice of James Earl Jones and the reassurance that the goo...

:lol: Which Jackie Collins novel did you steal that crap line from?

Not after he found out she was his sister. Make up your mind Tom, in one post you think the films are shit and in this one you type 'what's not to lik...

I appreciate the points you are making regarding nuanced nomenclature, but I don't really care about the difference between sci-fi and space opera or ...

Yeah, I'm sure he did. Probably to cast the Star Wars net as far as he can, to attract folks like yourself and any other folks not attracted to the sc...

Yeah, but as I already said, that's the NHS under the capitalist tories. It is no surprise to me at all, that the NHS is constantly under attack by ca...

Yes, you did, and this is due to your own misunderstanding of the complexities of the physics involved. I found the points made by those who fully acc...

The NHS is never safe in the hands of tory governments as they covet profits much more than people. If the choice even became as poor as waiting for 4...