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I haven't met that many theologians running around busily deceiving little children. The work of theologians is to train preachers, evangelists, relig...

Acknowledging that theologians are experts on theology does not mean that theology is "true". The Genesis theogony says God made the world in 6 days. ...

I was an English major, so this is way out of my field, but I think you are referencing losses at low voltage. Transmission across long distances is a...

You're right: the seams of gold or oil wells analogy doesn't work, so I'll edit that out. One would need specialists for that sort of thing from the g...

EDIT: bad example Whether something exists (or not) is the first question we ask about items for which this is not known with certainty. Anyone can th...

Sure; it's none of my business if you prefer Bach or heavy metal. It's your own affair. I have no stake in your becoming a vegetarian or a Methodist. ...

Most likely, but the question upon which Prof. Hawking expressed himself was "does god exist?", never mind what the nature of the existing god is. Eve...

Professor Hawking is no more qualified than anyone else to express his opinion about god, and no less. I have thought god did exist and I have thought...

From Wikipedia: Antiquity The Latin phrase relates to an old Greek principle of justice which translates literally into English as "to each his own". ...

Praxis, surely you see that there are more choices here than between nothing and Nazi book burning? Societies have generally proscribed some knowledge...

Karl, you are obsessed with hydrogen! Take the simplest possible approach. Your plan is too complicated, too rococo, too many parts, processes, and po...

What about ships running into the floating solar plants and wrecking them. Ships? What ships? Do you think there will still be shipping once we're red...

I don't know for sure -- so why am I bothering to respond then, one might ask? Just to say that it is my impression that hospitality has been part of ...

Of course the BBC programs you are listening to come from the BBC world service, so there should be a lot of international news there. What the local ...

If I remember correctly (it's been a long time) Freud's concept of the ego was the "I" who negotiated between the rude impulses of the Id, and the dem...

That is one of several achilles heels we have. "Seeing is believing" also works the other way: "believing is seeing". What we believe, wish, want, fea...

In a way, I think everyone can feel that way at times. Nothing is as real as your own experiences, and other people's experiences are only presumed to...

Yes, of course. So is your liver 100% human and 100% alive. What else would a fetus be, but human and alive? Yes, and that doesn't make it less import...

Yes. The rate of genetic defects among the animals that live in the forest around Chernobyl are apparently quite low. There are some genetic defects -...

I beg to differ that the window is closed as a consequence of humankind's nature. The window is closed because some human beings have decided that the...

Ask the people who lived in Chernobyl and Pripyat about "social stigma". The trouble with fusion is that getting it to work on a controlled basis has ...

Posty wants to be one with the forest, but he is barking up the wrong tree.

Everybody likes a hug, so I don't have a problem with embrace. Maybe we should have sex with climate change. You could say "Acknowledge" instead of em...

The world is currently producing about 18 terawatts of power. Solar had better get busy. 1 Terawatt Hour: Electrical energy consumption rate equivalen...

No more than happiness, contentment, and optimism. Everything is pfodder for philosophy. Encourage people who have those attitudes to deal with it, if...

More may not be better but bigger is definitely superior, up to the point where one starts tripping over it.

Darwin published Origin of Species in 1859 - a volume not received at all kindly by the religious. What about Helmholtz, Christian Doppler, Paul Ehrli...

Well, of course I'm not saying that religious thinking was no barrier. It was and it still is a barrier, whenever people take faith as fact, doctrine ...

Whether one expresses a high give-a-shit rating or not depends on the opportunity--a place and a time. Khashoggi is getting "official outrage" so that...

That Jamal Khashoggi was a "guest" in the Arab embassy makes little difference to me. What is appalling is the Saudi's willingness to silence a critic...

I do not see a paradox, and I don't see an obvious connection either. The cause of me not seeing what you find glaringly obvious likely has something ...

It's even worse on a global scale.

Your view that the Church (already ruptured by Luther, Henry VIII, Calvin, et al,) held so much intellectual sway over Europe in the 17th century that...

Hey, in the 1960s the rate on big wealth was 91%. What do you mean, the government can't effectively tax wealth?

Really? Marx was describing the historical processes he saw at work. He didn't save capitalism -- it didn't need saving. Marx predicted, he didn't pre...

In so many ways this is true. It's true because we are, after all, only very bright primates. We have drives which push our behavior in ways that our ...

Hey, I'm not an electrical engineer either -- nor do I know anything about finance. (I was an English major.) I think you've brought in quite a few te...

Merciful Greece: fat tourists on the island of Santorini will no longer be able to ride donkeys up the mountainside. They will have to walk. Too many ...

It is becoming clearer, but I am not becoming happier about it.

From Marketplace (NPR) But for now, interest rates are still low. The markets continue to gobble up our debt. The U.S. dollar is the world reserve cur...

We already send electricity all over the place. Yes, there are some losses during transmission. Electricity made by Manitoba Hydro may end up turning ...

Here is your problem: You are assuming that "the truth" is crisply, concisely, and clearly stated in clean Helvetica text and that the upshot of seein...

For god's sake, don't be such a literalist. Of course I understand that only a certain kind of money (paper currency) is actually printed.

If adding to the money supply is so harmless, then why don't we just pay the interest on the debt with freshly created money? Or is it the case that t...

You don't have to respond, but I honestly don't see how you derived your conclusion from what you quoted. I would think that calling the constitution ...

The United States IS able to raise taxes. The fact is the politicos in Washington don't want to raise taxes. It wasn't that long ago that the wealthy ...

I understand that personal or corporate debt isn't the same as national debt. However, the fact is that national debt is a recurrent item of discussio...

Here is the 2015 US budget chart (from the Science web site) https://www.sciencemag.org/sites/default/files/images/BG2.jpg According to this chart, 6%...

There seem to be dramatic different ways of interpreting the significance of national debt, varying from crisis to indifference. Some kinds of debt ma...

Yes, I know who Malthus was, and that his predictions did not pan out. However, I didn't reference Malthus, and neither did Kunstler. Our situation to...