Relativist

A high death rate in blue states is win-win for Trump: fewer Democratic voters and he can blame Democrats.

Agreed.

I don't thing there are any good arguments for God's non-existence. I also don't think beliefs are formed that way. Atheists like me got there by ques...

LOL! Hi momo! You had told me the screen name, but I had forgotten in. Good luck!

If you're really interested in exploring the standard arguments for God's existence, join the forum at "Reasonable Faith" website. There are links to ...

Got it - you believe truth is established by majority vote. Setting aside that argumentum ad populum fallacy, this has absolutely nothing to do with t...

What does that have to do with proofs of God's existence?

My point is the arguments for God's existence do not have the power to convince anyone God exists - only Theists accept them. Why bother?

That's not true.Goldbach's Conjecture is not "semantically empty": all the terms and relations are well defined (prime number, even number, sum). If t...

I don't understand your point. If you're just saying that it's reasonable to make metaphysical assumptions, that may be - but then it's equally fine t...

The general problem is that they depend on questionable metaphysical assumptions. Theists often don't see that these are questionable because the argu...

Fair point, but this leads to the question of what constitutes reasonable justification? Most beliefs are not provable by deduction - we make inductiv...

But it demonstrates that conceptually, propositions can be true but unprovable.

No. Consider Goldbach's conjecture(GC):Every even integer greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two primes. GC may be true even if it cannot b...

That's often true, although sometimes it refers to comments that were truly intended innocently. e.g. my wife (a special ed teacher, not of the intell...

I once read a book about the Amos n' Andy radio show. In its earliest days, the white actors who portrayed (racially stereotypical) black characters w...

Washington Redskins News White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters during Monday's daily press briefing that President Trump "believ...

If you think Trump corrected a miscarriage of justice in pardoning Stone, that's going to need some support. This article makes a pretty good case for...

The facts belie what Stone says. Here's some quotes from the article that you agree is factual: Trump clearly knew about and encouraged Stone’s outrea...

I'd love for you to fact check this article: Roger Stone's Commutation is Even More Corrupt Than It Seems It looks pretty solid to me, but my judgment...

Setting aside your partisan viewpoint on the events, every innocent person who has ever been arrested has been treated unfairly. That does not give th...

Why is it unjust to charge him with perjury, when he lied under oath?

You're jumping to conclusions about my motivation. I'm focusing on the fact that Stone committed crimes and was convicted. Any possible problem with t...

What an odd thing to say, considering that you asserted physicists have been impaired by their ignorance of metaphysics, and your examples were a fail...

Yes and no. Metaphysicians are better equipped for conceptual analysis, including developing general metaphysical frameworks, but they would be abysma...

You're spouting the Trump line about the Mueller investigation being a farce. Even if there were problems with the FISA applications, the investigatio...

If you're going to label as "metaphysics" any work physicists do that is outside the box of established physics, feel free - but it doesn't change any...

You can call it philosophy if you like, but understand it's the sort of philosophy that can only be done by physicists. Personally - I don't see any v...

No, I do not agree that Einstein went beyond the accepted principles of physics of his day. He was addressing some outstanding problems in the physics...

He started yesterday.

This is the nature of scientific revolutions. Without science investigation, metaphysicians would be spinning their wheels and getting nowhere.

What is "proper time"? This paper, The Problem with the Problem of Time, similarly argues that something more is needed - the passage of time is not a...

Stone was charged with, and found guilty of, lying to Congress and witness tampering. Even if the investigation was inappropriate, that does not excus...

No. It was the implication of theory. Page and Wooters considered the implications of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. Subsequently, the Page-Wooter's eff...

I agree the "problem of time" implies deficiencies in our concept of time, but my point is that metaphysical analysis would never expose the deficienc...

I'm open to considering the value of metaphysical analysis in this regard, but it was physics - not metaphysics- that showed time is not absolute, tha...

And if the administration says so, it must be true. ROFL! It's pretty ludicrous to think Schiff's staff would have been given the information, but tha...

It IS negative for Trump. It highlights the fact that he doesn't read the written intelligence reports he's given. We knew this previously only becaus...

If you truly believe the intel was not credible, why did you blast Schiff? The publicly available information on this intelligence does not support yo...

I agree with everything you said.

Yes it's the case, and yes, it's more complicated than that. It's not mysticism, it's confirmed physics.

It would take a lot more than radio waves to direct evolution toward the development of intelligence.

I don't think metaphysical analysis can provide definitive answers about time. On the other hand, physics may develop insight into its nature. The Pag...

Suppose Schiff was derelict. Does this somehow imply Trump was not? The bounty issue was conveyed to Trump in his written intelligence briefings - whi...

IMO, the biggest problem with the KCA is the equivocation on "begins to exist". Premise one (Whatever begins to exist has a cause of its existence) is...

Even if you could cause life to appear on exoplanets, there's no reason to think intelligent life would develop. That is, unless you're a theist and b...

I vote "none of the above" because you are reifying an abstraction. Consciousness isn't a thing that is housed, nor is it an illusion. It's a process ...

Your comment brings me back to my left-wing student days: same old, same old from the right-wingers: ignore the legitimate protests by grouping it wit...

This answers your question about whether or not its ethical: of course it's ethical, since it will keep her perpetually young.

ROFLMAO! I picture the petulant child that is our President sticking out his lower lip and crying, "They started it!" Which is sad enough, but that fa...