You must believe we are not an eusocial species and that antisocial sociopathy is the norm rather than a pathology afflicting less than a twentieth of...
Quite astute of Baron d'Holbach considering the state of physics, astronomy, religious / cultural anthropology, etc in the late 18th century. Again, h...
Richard Dawkins is a biologist by profession and education who also happens to be a very vocal atheist (without much philosophical credibility). Is he...
Habit. Substitute maintain homeostasis for "do good" and healthy for "ethical" and the question need not be asked. Of course not. Consider fairness an...
Perhaps. Still, I challenge you, Vera, to name at least one major world religion that completely lacks idols, superstition, conformity and/or scapegoa...
"Norse gods" aren't depicted looking like "Yoruba gods" or "Aztec gods". "Egypyian gods" aren't depicted as looking like "Roman or Celtic gods". "Abor...
:up: In other words, more broadly, science concerns forming explanations which we can mathematically agree on about nature in contrast to religion whi...
:up: Btw, I'm not actually interested in what Kant thought about reality (noumenon) because his phenomenon-noumemon distinction seems to me one of Kan...
Isn't that the "reality beyond the 'for us'" – the limit or horizon of our reasoning, namely that reality necessarily encompasses its conception such ...
Neither. :roll: "The output ... response" is physical. Another rhetorical question; you have no interest, Gnomon, in what anyone else, especially who ...
:100: Yeah, like "the brute existence" of g/G ... Keep in mind these few bon mots while reading what follows: Besides, Andrew, why must reality as who...
Actually, IIRC, Einstein was a pantheist (in what he, like many, wrongly believe was aa Spinozist position) and not a pandeist. Many are pantheists; f...
So if "sacred scriptures" contain claims about human beings, the natural world, moral / social values, history, etc which the majority of non-literali...
Agreed, like theistic religions, based on imaginary deities (i.e. fictions), which are nihilistic. This is more like "Law" – permissible public conduc...
What makes these "moral issues" instead of political issues? What I'm trying to get at is what you mean by "moral" or "ethical" because that's where I...
What explains "god"(-of-the-gaps)? If non-evident "god" is unexplainable – (the) brute fact, why not begin with the evident existence (or universe) as...
No, as Daniel Dennett demonstrates, "the Cartesian Theatre" (i.e. homuncular theory) is completely incoherent. Also, contemporary neuroscience rules t...
Not true. Just because you do not accept my argument — you certainly haven't refuted it – doesn't indicate I haven't made an argument. Another showing...
Nothing I can add to the post you've replied to. My position remains that the OP's demonstration is invalid. If it makes sense to you, Astro Cat, then...
Even the most veridical perceptions or experiences, I think, are virtual insofar as apprehension of the world is mediated. Illusions, biases, and othe...
No. I know that theism is not true (i.e. theistic deities are imaginary). I am irreligious because I think, in the wake and wreckage of millennia of s...
Come back from irreverdible brain death with corroborable memories of an "afterlife". That would be proof. Anecdotes – eyewitness testimonies – are no...
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