Yet we have environments that haven't changed and species that haven't evolved for millions of years because they are already the pinnacle of evolutio...
Not. The fact that species are no longer suited is because the environment changes, and continues to change. Environments come and go, the same enviro...
Manage life? Most of the species ever to exist are now extinct. If what you claim is the case, then humans are just fodder for other species. It seems...
We used to think that we were separate from nature, and not animals. It is only when we took a more objective look at ourselves and nature did we real...
Sure it does. It shows that there is no intelligent design. We are not intelligently designed. We are a hacked attempt at surviving in our environment...
Evolution by natural selection is one theory, and one I believe is accurate. The problem with the god idea is that 1) there is no evidence like there ...
It used to be absurd to think that humans could land on the moon. It seems to me that we are simply talking about how we see the glass as half-empty o...
Right/Wrong and good/evil have to do with our goals and how they are either promoted are inhibited by others' actions. Since we are members of the sam...
Sure we do. Squirrels and cancer weren't created. They evolved from prior, extinct species. Most species that have existed are extinct and all of this...
But you were the first to compare us to animals - namely squirrels. So, I'm not suppose to take you seriously now? The God idea is ONE proposal about ...
I would argue that human reasoning isn't "small". So far, humans have the greatest capacity to reason than any other animal. Also, our ability to reas...
https://vimeo.com/72072873 I have used The Man Without Words as evidence that people are conscious without language many times on these forums and it ...
What if the individual basis for believing something is based on how it makes them feel, as opposed to consistent observations and experimentation? Ho...
If self-awareness is a linguistic habit, people that speak the same language would have the same sense of self, but that isn't the case. People that l...
Is there a difference? Are we not being the process of observing? We must be our own processes or else how can we talk about the differences in what w...
I couldn't agree more with you, prothero. People have come to treat their political party/ideology like a religion - with their side being "righteous"...
"Know" isn't a term I used. Knowledge can be wrong, so "knowing" either way wouldn't be rock-solid. We can still be skeptical of what we "know". You n...
I currently accept the fact of an extrrnal world because that is exactly how it seems. When someone provides a good explanation as to why it seems tha...
None of these questions have anything to do with solipsism. Solipsism is the absence of any other minds, not the existence of other minds that might e...
No, it's not. How can an experiment using "classical" causation provide evidence of a different kind of causation? If you perform a experiment in the ...
No it doesn't. It seems like the other way around to me. Believing in a merciful God allows you to do whatever you want because you will just be forgi...
Atheists are not necessarily materialists or physicalists. Materialism (whatever that means) isn't the only kind of objective reality that can exist. ...
If QM can undermine causality, then how can physicists actually say that they did an experiment (the cause) that made them think differently about cau...
Sorry, I'm not searching the forums for your incoherent nonsense. If you can't post your position here then I guess it really isn't that important aft...
"Creator", "ruler of the universe", and "unlimited" are terms that imply complexity, not simplicity. You keep contradicting yourself, but that isn't s...
No. You have a bad habit of doing the things that you accuse others of doing. I have never mentioned materialism nor used the term physical. Of course...
The whole point to why theists claim that a Designer is necessary is because of the beautiful and complex "design" of the universe. So it would be a c...
How do you know that other people's beliefs in something indescribable and undefinable is a "theism"? You have a big problem of putting your words in ...
It's odd because you've conflated my post with some other belief and put words in my mouth that I never said. But I said that they are indescribable a...
No, I'm only talking about Humpalumps. Do you believe in their existence? You should. They created the universe. Humpalumps are also indesribable and ...
Ok. For example, let's say that I make the claim that humpalumps exist. According to you, it would be up to you to define humpalumps, not me, in order...
You mean like how there was a logical basis for the idea that the Earth was flat and the center of the universe because the Earth really is flat and t...
Strange that these theists have no problem using reason to reject the existence of all other gods - except their own. If the existence of the Norse go...
"Supernatural" could just be advanced technology. Advanced technology can appear to contradict the laws of physics as we understand them. What would t...
But it isn't reasonable to believe that. It isn't reasonable to believe that because believing that requires you to believe in another being that crea...
Exactly. When we are wrong, we admit it. Has any religion ever admitted that they were wrong, or have people simply come to reject that for which ther...
You have yet to speak for yourself. These aren't atheist definitions of God we are putting forth, that would be inconsistent with being an atheist! Ho...
We consider ourselves apart from nature because we consider ourselves as specially-created by some omnipotent entity. It's like our belief that Earth ...
This is the same nonsense I read in the "Gender" Identity thread - that gender is subjective and means different things to different people. The probl...
Environments change. There is no established structure except that things change. Therfore it is natural for environments to change and species to ada...
"Faith" isn't an accurate term. Faith is for those where reason does not give the desired results. I used reason to come to the conclusion that scienc...
But, I already said that in my previous post where I pointed out how I don't experience fear, rather I experience curiosity. I just didn't use the wor...
It seems that your first and second paragraph contradict each other. If existential anxiety is a natural consequence of how our minds evolved, then ex...
Speak for yourself. It seems to me, thanks to the knowledge science is providing, that everything is interconnected. I don't experience a fear of ever...
Simple. Claims that are made without any evidence (like the claims of the existence of some god (like the god of the Jews)) are placed in the heap wit...
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