tom

Do you think Islamic states kill apostates, kill atheists, kill blasphemers, kill witches, kill gays ... because they are states or because they are I...

Alternatively, you could just try to give a talk against FGM and violence towards women in AUSTRALIA and see what happens.

Here's another limelighting uncle tom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr47iC-VnE4

Meanwhile, let us spare a thought for this guy, sentenced to death for something he said on social media when he was 19: http://www.independent.co.uk/...

Seems like an accurate precis to me! Interestingly, while Muslims protect their religion through violence, the Left defends Islam by labeling its crit...

Are you sure? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-39475462 Another victory for the "Religion of Peace".

This Imam has the answers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp_1JvRsCYE

The clue is in the Modal Realism and the Quantum Mechanics. If the statement agrees with the laws of physics, it is true - there is a world in which i...

I'm solving your problem, or rather Modal Realism and Quantum Mechanics are independently solving your problem, and many other problems.

Translating the statement slightly: "In all the worlds where I opened the box at earlier time t, I discovered the cat to be dead" Is a false statement...

Or you could just stick to Unitary Quantum Mechanics, and you can keep your determinism, solve the problem of counterfactuals, explain probability, di...

The laws of nature state that deterministically, that is only "half" the story. "Half" being used as shorthand for the proportion determined by the la...

Please don't abandon reason! You just need to index yourself against the outcome of a quantum measurement. The subjective perspective of a particular ...

It depends how precise you insist on being with your language and the particular history you are in. The laws of physics state that the proportion of ...

For any statement to be true, it must agree with the laws of physics. This goes for factual and counterfactual statements.

Let's ignore verification, which is irrelevant and impossible, but the counterfactual nature of falsification is even worse (or better if you like the...

It's called decoherence.

Maybe you think you are in charge, or that physics doesn't apply to you because you are special? For the rest of us, Unitary Quantum Mechanics solves ...

I don't think you have exhausted all possibilities there. You may have noticed that our best physical theories do not mention causation. They can't be...

Perhaps it would be better to frame the experiment explicitly in terms of a particle whose spin is prepared in superposition? According to the laws of...

Could you point out where in the Bible sex tourism is promoted? I notice that you didn't employ the obvious reply of asking me to point out the verses...

Could you point to the verses in the Bible that promote sex-tourism?

If you are into paedophilia, beating your wife, and sex-slavery maybe you should.

So you admit to being more concerned with the irrelevancy of to whom I prefer to apportion blame, than to the atrocity of Islamic practice. Now that w...

I see. You are more concerned with who I choose to blame than solving a growing problem. Who I choose to blame is irrelevant. The only way to progress...

The only way to bring an end to any destructive inhumane ideology is to subject it to criticism. In Canada, that is now a crime. In UK it is a crime. ...

It is alarming that you think that finding that list of atrocities abhorrent needs defending. The very definition of an apologist.

Maybe we could clarify matters by listing the religions that encourage: 1. Death to apostates. 2, Death to atheists. 3. Death to homosexuals. 4. Death...

Islam allows the rape of children. Their perfect moral example married a 6yr old. What has abhorrence at such behaviour got to do with atheism?

I think these days you have to append -icism otherwise you are racist. I presume you support death to apostates and atheists?

I think this is a bit cheap. Any decent theory of cosmology will, in the long run, have to take account of what sentient knowledge-bearing entities, f...

OK, but the list of laws that underlie chemistry are universal, plus there are the universal constants and the non-universal initial conditions of the...

Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that SOME of the laws of chemistry are approximations?

Actually, you can't reduce chemistry to quantum mechanics. Chemistry is highly dependent on the history of the universe and the particular values of c...

None of the theories I mentioned seeks to protect itself from falsification by the adoption of any ad-hoc restrictions on where and when they might ap...

I think this misses the point. Explanations at any level of emergence can be fundamental. We think of quantum mechanics and general relativity as "fun...

Which one of those requires superstrings as part of the explanation? Quarks?

But there is another error of reductionism, which maybe even deeper: the misconception that our theories form a hierarchy.

A good example of this is the theory of Computation, specifically the theory of computational universality. Computational Universality cannot be deduc...

It's quite simple: A theory that explains sets of phenomena in their own terms, without analysing them into their constituent entities such as gluons,...

Given that you have purposefully left out the beginning of the sura, which explicitly states that the verse is about the Jews, I've got to ask: What a...

It's also a lie. Or to be more specific, it is taqiya. This is Quran 5:32 Quran 5:32 is about the Jews! Next of course is Quran 5:33 Beautiful?

It really hasn't. DNA replication in the biosphere involves animal behaviour: finding a mate, being sexually selected, fighting off rivals, creating a...

In 1095 you say? Meanwhile in Muslim countries, atheists are killed, children are raped, homosexuals are thrown from high places. In the putative Cali...

Nevertheless the fact remains that in the 21st century, people are put to death for questioning Islam.

It would be wrong. The niche of these genes also includes animal behaviour. As to what is encoded in the genes, as I have already alluded to, it is in...

For your benefit, I'll point out the distinction between a methodology and the misconception that higher level explanations cannot be fundamental.

...that encode the information required for them to remain instantiated in their niche. Would be more accurate I think.

Here it is again: http://www.daviddeutsch.org.uk/wp-content/deutsch85.pdf This paper is more accessible: http://www.daviddeutsch.org.uk/wp-content/ItF...

I'm not concerned so much about resisting reductionism in this case, as being wrong. Given any particular gene, it can be sequenced. The sequence can ...