Right. Such ulterior motives for (not) publishing ain't cool. There's a separate problem involved, let's call it tunnel vision. Say, if 90 studies sho...
Some journalists have found some names, money, events, ... The Big Money Behind the Big Lie (Jane Mayer, The New Yorker) The Georgia runoffs later con...
Seems unlikely that we could dig up a complete continuum of past life. We're also burning some of the remains in our cars. In a sense, every species w...
Bit of July reading 6th — Anthropogenic influence on extreme precipitation over global land areas seen in multiple observational datasets 8th — NASA's...
A taunting torturer can use empathy for bad. Empathy itself does not entail doing the right thing, but can just help understanding others. (At least t...
Because people shouldn't replace morals with Leviticus 20:13 (for example)? Incidentally, inquiring into possible readings of Leviticus 20:13 was run ...
The problem with “doing your own research” (Thinking Is Power (2021), has a couple of further references) Makes good points. Of course, by all means, ...
Suppose we did find ... some explanation. Then what of explaining that explanation? Can there be an explanation that does not admit further inquiry, e...
Quit the rambling, . Someone (a few) declared that God is a necessary being. And that's what the thread is about. If you come up with some different d...
, they have to justify their claims proportionally and relevantly. "scientismists" :D A new word added to my vocabulary Science is descriptive, morals...
I beg to differ on one peripheral account, though of course anyone is free to believe whatever. Until the diverse preachers indoctrinators proselytize...
, yep, same old, except hardly ever downtown any longer, pandemic'ified. Things are well hereabouts. Managed to grow corona hair. Don't think it's bee...
Unless you include the abstracs that were presupposed by the logic itself in the first place (like consistency), I guess. But who the heck ever worshi...
FYI, there are all kinds of (lengthy) docs about modal logic out there. Modal Logic (SEP) Modal logic (Wikipedia) Modal Logic: A Contemporary View (IE...
, Anselm's God was a self-identical intervening/interacting intelligence. Most are. Tillich and Eagleton, on the other hand, have abstracted all life ...
Well, these aren't proof, just some musings of English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822): , I'd suggest digging around out there for various comme...
, is it worthwhile mentioning that people do jump ship? Be it between faiths or to/from nontheism? What you mention exemplifies doxastic involuntarism...
, yeah, the apologist gap. Two categories of deities: Stories: Here gods/God are various narrated characters, found in all kinds of (diverse, mutually...
Right. So indoctrination works. (y) And, taken as a methodology, indoctrination doesn't differentiate the target faiths, any will do, and it works jus...
(necessary and possible are terms in modal logic, like the possible worlds formulation thereof) The bare necessities: Is R3 (or Q3, doesn't matter) se...
I thought that us suddenly popping into existence :sparkle: was your sort of thing? Well, who says we did anyway? 1. we already know that more complex...
In other news ... • ‘Birds Aren’t Real’ rolling rally makes first stop in Missouri (Ivie Macy, Frances Lin, Nexstar Media Wire, 25 Jun 2021) • 'The Bi...
Who goes to shit where their kids eat? Or their kids' kids? Climate impact, pollution, increasing extinctions, ... Perhaps now is a good time to consi...
Religion should inform ethics? No. Divine command theory, theological voluntarism, ...? No. Accountability to an imaginary friend rather than your fel...
I thought political correctness was over in ethics. After all, that's what it's about, regardless of what the wording may suggest. Religion should inf...
, so G is a simpleton, simpler than a raindrop. :) Well, minds are at least complex enough to express things like ... I have a feeling that various wo...
, you're free to believe whatever (ir/rational alike). If you want others to believe the same, or take you seriously, then they may ask you for justif...
But why? (agree, predict, ...) Minds are parts of the world, there are things that depend thereupon, but (literally) everything? :brow: @"Nelson E Gar...
I take my previous statement back, the plot is now diluting. If things were wholly of my own making, actualized, then I couldn't really misunderstand ...
What would then happen if we "actualized" the Moon (or each other) differently? What about new discoveries? Are they somehow actualized unconsciously....
Just ran through Debate: The Logic of Atheism, kind of short, a quick read. So, @"3017amen" was going to prove that disbelief or lack of belief in the...
I guess so? Presently, "don't know" seems to be the honest response, the only honest response, at least as far as any comprehensive understanding goes...
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