Artemis

:wink: Phew!

Annnnd with that weird remark we've come to the point of no return for the conversation :roll:

Where exactly is the difference except for degree of change? Once you realize that there are only so many traits that differentiate one species from a...

Well, I disagree fundamentally with the idea that any idea has to have monetary benefits to be worthwhile. Knowledge is an end in itself. But apart fr...

A working theory can't just be usurped because you're dissatisfied with some very minor evidenciary gaps. You need to find an alternative better theor...

But you're not demanding that something just cut wood. Because the examples I gave do that. You're demanding it down the whole dang tree into matchsti...

You haven't explained why it would be necessary though. Neither have you given me a good or better, evidence-based alternative theory.

Atheists are robots now? Hah, that's a new one, I gotta admit. :rofl:

Why is evolving an apple out of a fish the kind of proof you need? When clearly it would just take too long and too many resources to do? I mean, you'...

Bernie Bro or no, every American citizen should be up in arms if the DNC blatantly refuses to accept the will of the people.

What exactly about being able to change the attributes of species from generation to generation (as we do when creating new apples) is not convincing ...

Nice article. Very accurate about Buttigieg, whom I've nicknamed Petty Pete after last night. I think The Onion really nailed it though. :joke:

It's a theory, actually.

Boot-ih-judge. :wink: I'd love that, but I think they're all probably courting Booker and Harris right now. I prefer Booker, myself, but Harris would ...

Red Delicious Apples Dalmatians Scottish Fold kittens modern wheat Lettuce Cold Hardy Kiwi plants etc. etc. etc. Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

I've encountered over and over again that religious and spiritual people want to co-opt aesthetic and sublime experience for their own ideologies. I t...

From a selfish personal kind of perspective, I'm with you. I'm of the type, I'm ready to get my brain transferred to an android body. Death has no ben...

If this argument were ableist, which I'm not sure it is, but if it were, then that would be a problem with the individual atheists using the argument ...

I have repeatedly told you I'm not interested in that tone or vein of interaction. Please excuse me, but I have better things to do with my life than ...

Contact with twins? Are you suggesting we rely on arguments from anecdote now? Once and for all, stick to any objectively verifiable data you can pres...

When did I ever mock your qualifications??? The self-evident part was in reference to the mechanism twin studies are supposed to to suggest similariti...

That's Ma'am2U, thank you very much. Seems to me odd to insist your five years of observing a couple of twins are worth more in information than the r...

I explain that by it not being a controlled study and just your observational anecdote. Leave the snark. As I've repeatedly said, nurture is a factor....

Your brain structure is determined by your genes, your brain structure determines your personality, your personality is the key to everything that is ...

It's not self-evident to you?

Well.... Then even atheists would need a culture that has things which fulfill those needs in a productive way.

Nurture is a factor, but probably not as great of one as people like to think. Twin studies have shown that even adopted into different families, peop...

There are too many people whose lives clearly lack independent, internal meaning for that to be a major misconception.

And, you know, I agree with that. That's how I live my own life. But I've come to realize over the years that this is possibly just a psychological tr...

I wasn't talking about morality. I was talking about filling your life with meaningful content.

I think the Unitarian Universalist church is a good example of how relatively non-theistic religion can and should work. I'm an atheist, but I think a...

Keep it up, Quixote.

Like I said, I'm not arguing about your particular position, but about your statement that: "In the academic world it is understood that an atheist is...

I second Dingo. Bravo.

Those are not the only words I quoted from the entry. I really really cannot chew your food for you. You're just going to have to figure it out on you...

Uh-oh, all-caps, so you know he must be right. :joke:

1. He's the person quoted in a peer-reviewed article by an actual academic published in a well-respected philosophical encyclopedia through a verified...

Sorry, but you're just not reading carefully: "No doubt both senses of “agnosticism”, the psychological and the epistemological, will continue to be u...

Well, as much as I'm sure you have more knowledge on the matter than the SEP :lol: .....you're still just not reading carefully. Perhaps a little back...

:clap: :wink: I approve. Happy Reading!

I want to revise my statement earlier in this thread re: a/theism in babies. I was thinking about it, and I decided that the entire analogy is nonsens...

Why don't you reread that section over again more carefully. The article clearly explains why agnosticism is NOT just a version of theism/atheism, but...

Recognizing that women are being treated as a homogenous group is not the same as treating them as a homogenous group. A logic to which you yourself m...

Except that in academia it's really not that simple: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/atheism-agnosticism/#DefiAgno

Babies don't believe in tooth fairies or Santa either.

Marx is not specific to a conversation about the Marxism in late Sartre? Who knew!

Okie dokie.

At this rate, by the time you finish them, I'll be dead.

The next step is to actually do your homework. I'll probably be around somewhere once you have and we can take up this conversation again. Happy Readi...

But you haven't read the later works. And you're somehow not willing to accept that these contradict even a segment of your own ideology. So neither w...