god must be atheist

This is what it boils down to in this thread: We're critically thinking about critical thinking. Critical thinking all by itself, without a solid, tan...

a Few examples of primal words - ouch - mamma - dodo - poopoo - kaka - yummy - pipi (or peepee) These are the first words a baby hears, repeatedly hea...

I would have written the above as "No natural cause has been found for the outcome of any individual particle event. Therefore, whenever someone says,...

If your faith is strong enough, you can discard the entire history of human endeavour to get to know how natural forces operate. "God made it happen,"...

Then there is only materialism. I agree with that. I said that already. Precisely the same thing as you are saying. I said in a post here, that scient...

I may venture to say that you just hain't got there yet, to that point with @"Bartricks". Have you experience with debating him?

So totally right. I think everyone 'round here laughed inwardly, not in written words, but by moving their paragraphm or diaphragm or whatever it's ca...

Gregory, are you a Gregorian by conviction of faith? You switched topics several times in your post. Ugliness is not the original sin. first switch. S...

I'm afraid it's you who's missing the point, @"A Seagull". The point being that any debate involving @"Bartricks" leads to irritation, frustration, an...

Bartricks, I would give you the perfect answer from my point of view, but why should I bother engaging you in a debate? I'll only do that if you can g...

From inside every big and learned word there is a small, stupid word trying to come out. That's how new words get born. Then they grow up, and they al...

Bush's lies were transparent, and whether he believed them or not we can't know. But more to the point, is your story about the peasants and the castl...

Please look at and read Pantagruel's post just before yours. A sane scientific materialist would never argue what you suggest they would argue. In fac...

In fact, you and I could form a formidable writing pair. I would provide the ideas, and you, the precise and exact references.

Everything I think of has been thought of before in philosophy. The difference between you and me, Pantagruel, I think, is that I think of these thing...

For the closing of each gap, ten new gaps are opened. Scientific materialism states that everything CAN be explained in the physical world, by physica...

How do you pronounce "Michael"? After all, you ought to be the ultimate authority on that. ===== OOps. I realized that you have already said that. Alz...

I would say it bogged up, not down. If you mean different things with the same word, there is bound to be differences in expressed opinion. If you can...

My solution would be to make everyone dumm. The present public education system in North America is doing a superb job at it. It makes sure that peopl...

things considered for competing in politics between religion and state: 1. Income. 2. Military power. 3. Abortions. 4. Votes. (Everyone loves them.) T...

I would have mentally substituted "morally obliged" or "due to feelings of gratitude" for "compelled". Compelling does not necessarily involve law; bu...

You just discovered the elixir of eternal youth. (-: That has a business angle, too, you know.

Concurrently, behavoural research suggests that swearing releaves kindey stone pressure, restores dead hair follicles to life (Hallelluyyah!) and mixe...

Why not? He may have feared that a private email would not have been intercepted by lurkers everywhere, and read by thousands of complete strangers. T...

Consensus by the body of users on these forums which supports the banning of one or another may be 1. a guidance on pinpointing offenders and 2. an in...

This is true.

His theories were mere word salads. Speedtime and timespeed and such. He used physical concepts that had not been defined by physics, his theories wer...

Baden, I appreciate that rules are made to be broken. But there are some other users who have a proven track record of making even less sense than the...

I was hesitant whether to leave a snide remark, with cutting sarcasm, or do nothing. I think I did both. The guy was not a total waste, he had valid t...

I was simply doing a pun on the sound of "your call" as opposed to "my call" as in "Michael". I've been savouring to crack that pun for a long time. L...

Serves us right. Humanologists (Psychologists) usually write books about rat behaviour.

There are a huge number of problems crapping up. Overpopulation; polluting the environment; climate change; rich getting richer; poor getting poorer; ...

I guess it's your call, Michael.

The trash can was the Auschwitz of forum posts. Gnashing of teeth, a sea of burning sulphur. Souls living in eternal suffering. Those who got out of t...

Very smart. I always thought that the religious fight and fear atheism because of tribal patriotism. But there is more to it; in fact, the truly relig...

Here are things that are self-contradictory in Stoicism. Things I control are my actions. Things I don't control are things. Ergo I don't control my r...

NO, but the way anyone can understand pregnancy without being pregnant. Are you just trying to make conversation? Why don't you and I rent a room inst...

I meant aspects of it. Not the entire thing. I think I expressed that in the post. Otherwise you're right. But then again, otherwise everyone is alway...

Absolutely.

Well, some aspects of it may, but there are aspects that you can internalize with limited wisdom, and the overview of the concept itself does not requ...

Again, you are speaking of a starting point. But there is no starting point in infinite space in any direction. Every one of your arguments involves a...

,,,unless it has always existed. The clock that has always existed shows an undeterminent time at present. Whatever it shows now, it will show five mi...

Religion is not right or wrong, it is based on nothing. It may be right on target, or it could be totally off. We don't know. Religions talk about the...

Well, maybe it would if only it had its own grandfather. :-) Which served in the war. :-) And had experience-ready capabilities. :-)

Well, this stands on a purely logical platform. You need to examine specific religious dogma to see if it stands in a given religion. You see, the god...

The Physics of Metaphysics 1. Facts are solidified opinions. 2. Facts weaken under extreme heat and pressure. 3. Truth is elastic.

Well put, but I don't see why all aliens must lack in ability of human-like mirroring. Some aliens may have had experiences and developments in their ...

This is a false argument. You might as well challenge the infinity of the three dimensional space with a similar mental experiment. "Infinite directio...

It has been said that some qualities of eternity can be known, without experiencing eternity. To try to experience eternity will certainly make a huma...

Reductio ad absurbum is a proof that has a premise: "Nothing can both be and not be at the same time and at the same respect." If you claim that trees...