I think he helped set the tone of the debate with this type of comment: “I challenge you to find one good or noble thing which cannot be accomplished ...
It depends on how you are defining morality. What does morality mean and where did you learn the notion from? You seem to be assuming morality refers ...
Do we not all have an ancestral mother/female in common? This is not usually how people reason though in my experience. They have a rational common se...
Initially most atheists I have spoken to have accepted morality on no grounds whatsoever. They just believe in moral entities and moral facts. They do...
Atheism would be a less compelling stance without evolutionary theory because how would people explain the existence of billions of plants and animals...
I am not personally advocating God or gods as explanations. I am only asking for an explanation. If there is a breakdown of casualty that undermines e...
Is that a quote from The Selfish gene? Because I can quote from the Selfish Gene to prove my points. This is how he starts the book: "Intelligent life...
Because all around me things have causes. Cause and effect works and things don't pop into existence for no reason. There is no requirements on the ex...
I think lack of evidence is a good reason for disbelief. But what counts as evidence for God? I think the burden of proof is on the atheist because so...
But there was in other countries I don't know about Hungary but the rest is well documented. There is footage of churches being destroyed and priests ...
I am not advocating religion. I tend to advocate agnosticism. I assume you are ruling out communist atrocities as being unrelated to atheism? Doing an...
If morality is all about cooperation strategies then why do you need to use the term morality at all. Why not just say what are the best cooperation s...
You seem to be doing the same thing as 180Proof and selecting natural behaviours you have a preference for. But you are not being explicit enough. How...
Do I have to read the articles? I am well aware of pro-social animal behaviours but we are talking about humans and their well documented history. Hum...
They have tried it under communist regimes and in revolutionary France it could be argued to have had a worse effect than religion with a higher death...
Are you referring to cooperation among animals? No one is denying that as far as I am aware we are talking about human societies and the history of hu...
I didn't claim otherwise I was just pointing out the some opposed it including the most prominent abolitionists whereas David Hume philosopher and fam...
Can you provide evidence for this claim most human societies that have been recorded have been religious, or superstitious, had gods of some sort. Lot...
Why is the truth about what causes harm a moral claim? I don't believe that atheists have ever started a society from scratch without the influence of...
Yes but now we have science which is being highly successful but does not justify social norms. So we have society based on something similar to a rel...
The point I am making is that atheists do make claims and do actions caused by their atheism. I think the problem of doing away way with gods is then ...
I think Atheism would be praiseworthy if it was simple lack of belief. It would amount to awaiting evidence to alter ones beliefs. But instead we Have...
But he wrote a book could the Selfish Gene and in it he specifically tried to put the worst interpretation on altruism because he was determined to ma...
I meant to post this in general discussion but it somehow ended up here there is a similar thread called "Belief formation" that I successfully starte...
This is the first dictionary definition I found of belief. Strangely... "An acceptance that something exists or is true, especially one without proof....
Based on personal subjective preferences Which is the deciding factor in belief formation, it seems, not evidence. One's prior beliefs leading to ones...
But the question is how did you come to have the trait of being a good runner? How can something be selected for if it does into already exist. Rubbis...
Did you forget my quote from Darwin himself earlier and if not how does it not invoke value and how do terms like "advantageous" and "fittest" not inv...
Here is my criticism of natural selection I don't see what the relevance of the "selection" process is for explaining an organisms traits. For example...
How many issues can be resolved by evidence? I would agree with you if we could agree on our interpretation of the evidence. What happens is people wh...
Is your standard of truth divorced from morality or ethics? If something is a fact it is a fact. If something inspires bad behaviour I would want to k...
I thought Calculus involved infinities? We can imagine infinity because we can always imagine a larger number than the previous large one we created. ...
Everything is classed as evidence for evolution. Some things are seen as puzzling to evolution such as exclusive homosexuality since it is an evolutio...
That is not the argument. The argument is concerning the the harm of rejecting evolution versus the harm of accepting evolution and it being interpret...
When you shine sunlight on a broken cup it does not rebuild itself. Plants have mechanisms to utilise the sunlight, the sunlight itself is not reducin...
I don't see our position as insignificant. The universe apparently doesn't know it exists but we do because of our individual consciousness that allow...
I somewhat agree with this. I believe we can present all manner of arguments and evidence for why we believe something. There can be a battle between ...
Understand it in what sense? As a history of our origins up to this date? As something that should guide future human development? There is a limit to...
Well it has been accused of either being a banal tautology (ie anything that survives is fit) or a dangerous prognosis and value judgement (we should ...
Here is some Polemics From Richard Dawkins Describing us as Gene machines and Robots: "Now they swarm in huge colonies, safeinside gigantic lumbering ...
Here is an academic article on The Nazi beliefs on Evolution. https://www.csustan.edu/sites/default/files/History/Faculty/Weikart/Darwinism-in-Nazi-Ra...
Who is going to be making the requests of you. Usually the most common request I face is "can you spare some change" Giving away my change would proba...
I wasn't responding to the opening post in this thread because it was somewhat confusing but I defend the right to raise questions about evolution, it...
The Robert N. Oerter article you linked to misrepresents the problem. The system involved in evolution is the individual organism (and to some extent ...
John B Watson went from pioneering Behaviourism with B F Skinner to using behaviourist techniques in advertising. We are bombarded with advertising an...
In the light of entropy and the second law of thermodynamics. Current species replicate inbuilt complexity. We have massive diversity and interdepende...
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