Isaac

Does anyone who disagrees with you? Just as an possible way of approaching this problem, can you name, and outline the argument of, an author who you ...

Oh god, this is going to be another one of those threads where the OP cannot understand the simple self-evident fact that what seems intuitively obvio...

I should add, for clarity, the quote I replied "Exactly" to was... You said... ...and proceeded to cite a study which demonstrated exactly what @"Arte...

Yes, but IQ at 11 years is the only measure we have been given (in your previously cited study) to show a correlation with future measures of life ach...

Are you reading these studies? This latest put heritability of intelligence by 12 yrs at 0.46, less than half. Ie intelligence at 12 is caused more by...

This is not unique to human consciousness, but common to all complex systems. Physics cannot account for how it is now raining either. Weather systems...

How. What law of physics/nature prevents things from appearing ordered by chance. By definition, a chance event can result in any consequence it is no...

I can't possibly speak for all atheists because your questions have nothing whatsoever to do with atheism, but by existential questions, I assume you ...

It makes no difference what its name is or where it started it's unworkable. It's not that they're perplexing. I'm asking you about where you stop wha...

I can't possibly answer that question within the framework you've set up. If I answer "because of X", you'll say "but why is X?", then I answer "becau...

I've just explained that... That is why I care to take a position about the subject. If there's something there you don't understand, then ask about t...

Exactly. One of the many studies, no doubt, which form part of the "virtually all measures of social mobility previously developed by other researcher...

You asked me why I cared about the atheim/theism propositions. As has been painstakingly explained to you an infuriating number of times atheism is no...

I don't really care what other people believe unless it justifies actions which I think are immoral (which religious beliefs sometimes does). I care v...

Care about what, you're not making any sense.

It's useful because it is elucidating the falseness of the problem in the first place (although that may well not have been Terrapin's intent). Why do...

Where did I say atheists aren't concerned with asking questions?

You've just re-posted. I was asking what it was about my statement which seemed contradictory to you.

How so?

Do you have a link (or have you already provided one?)

Yes, I gather that, but you said... It does not. It demonstrates a correlation between IQ and future wealth. It shows a alack of correlation between c...

Ahh. Back to this again. Another common theme here "you don't understand". Basically half the threads here could be summarised as "I feel like X is th...

Where? I've already asked you for the information you're referring to proving that social factors don't have a causal relationship with wealth. All yo...

This kind of approach suffuces philosophical discussion here "it seems obvious to me, therefore it's a fact of reality" It seems obvious to you that b...

Subjective opinion. If we accept this is true, we've already accepted that 'meaning' is not physical in any way, which is the crux of the matter. Re-a...

No you don't though. This is a pet peeve of mine and its happened twice in this thread now (I restrained myself the first time). You don't 'argue that...

Absolutely priceless @"fdrake", you couldn't have elicited a more satirical response if you'd scripted it deliberately.

I'm confused by what you're saying here. You first make a claim that outcome is a function of ability, with very little difference in opportunity betw...

Well, that speaks volumes. Come back to the conversation when you've managed to get laid, some of your misogyny might have worn off.

Yes, but based on ancestry which it specifically then goes on to demonstrate does not reveal itself in any identifiable collection of physical charact...

Right, but in those cases belief in God has not caused the questioning, as you claim. It is doubt in God that causes the questioning. Yes, and there a...

Yes there are. None of which are questions atheists do not ask, many of which are questions religions claim to answer. So I don't see how they demonst...

You claimed that atheism is untenable, I'm an atheist. I'm obviously concerned to check that my beliefs are not actually untenable. Did you not expect...

I don't know if you've visited the 21st century at all, but women can earn money for themselves now...

I asked you what questions religious beliefs cause one to ask that were not present before. It's not a complicated request, it doesn't require prelimi...

I personally think God isn't an ineffable, genderless electromagnetic force (i.e. EM fields of consciousness or light). How is your statement any bett...

What part of that is a question?

But why would you even think that? Did you not cover statistics at school? The set of {all things which have order and we know to have a designer} is ...

If you can't explain the nature of those mysteries ( and many other Existential phenomena) then how can you explain the nature of your belief (system)...

Well... They try.

Well, perhaps you can answer the question I put to Wayfarer then. What are these questions which a belief in God causes you to ask that were not there...

It's here. In some respects, yes, but those characteristics will very unlikely be visually identifiable and most will be derivable from several unique...

That's an interesting thought. What kind of questions might arise out of a faith in some particular god, do you suppose, that weren't there before?

Because... God did it. It's really much easier this theist philosophy. I don't know why I didn't convert earlier. I'm reviving Quetzalcoatlism... Zeus...

What? Why would me pointing out that you have provided questions not answers have anything to do with my atheism? Is atheism a belief in discourse now...

I think you've gotten confused between an answer and a question. What you've provided here are a series of questions. The clue is in the little mark a...

No you haven't. Unless it consists of "god did it" written on the back of a copy of 'Watchtower'.

Of course a deontologist has rules on marriage, its the same set of principles which govern all their other interactions, no reason why marriage need ...

In the interest of some rhetorical comprehension help... I know that's what he was probably after, but he said "Is there one example of a documented, ...

No. No sense at all. You've just done some vague hand-waiving along the lines of "I don't know what 'red' is... therefore God" which doesn't even make...