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Just a little sample of what I've been talking about with regard to the GOP's anti-intellectual streak. http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-08-02/policy-e...

I never said you were lying. I said what you said wasn't true. A person can be in error without lying. Though, to be honest, your empty tu quoque stat...

No, this is not true. Republicans have demeaned intellectuals for decades now, and have an outright contempt for facts and evidence. (This was exempli...

No, but the GOP has in the last few decades had a decidedly anti-intellectual streak, with an almost vitriolic contempt for facts and reasoned analysi...

Of course, that vast American left, who wields so much power in this country. All of those Congressional leftists! If only there were someone on the r...

I'm just going by the percentage of the party who are supporting him. A vote is a vote, whether it's done with the utmost eagerness or reluctance. And...

Come on, Brain. Can't you actually see that, actually? It's actually as clear as the nose on your face. It's all the Social Justice Warriors, of cours...

Trump wouldn't be polling at nearly the numbers he is if he weren't backed by a vast majority of the Republicans. Last I checked, the figure was aroun...

Nah, I have to wear a suit for the apple part...but my steady diet of Crisco and deep-dish pizzas will help me to fill out.

Trump has the support of the vast majority of Republicans, for one thing, perhaps down slightly from other candidates, but the party and the electorat...

It actually jibes quite nicely with my career as a candy apple impersonator, so very well, thank you.

So Republicans are getting the short end of the stick because...they nominated Trump for president, and he's a jackass? I'm not following.

A devastating rebuttal. I can see you've obviously given this subject a lot of thought.

How so? Republicans enjoy congressional majorities as well as majorities in many state legislatures and governors' offices. They have effectively drag...

Yes, it does seem that way sometimes. Sometimes I think that Roe v. Wade was the best thing that ever happened to Republicans.

You could have fooled me, as anyone who wishes to run on the Republican side must whore themselves out to the religious right kingmakers. Even McCain,...

Indeed? Perhaps you have access to some sort of information which I lack, then. I was under the impression that, if elected, candidate Hillary Clinton...

Huh? I wasn't aware that my quipping was excessive, but you seem strangely put off by it (one might even say "infuriated"). Could you point out some i...

Defunding Planned Parenthood is a conservative hobby horse, and extends beyond the most recent Republican primaries in which lies about what PP does w...

Because the arguments appeal to observable aspects of nature in order to bolster their case for the existence of God (as opposed to relying upon revel...

Then you and I have a different notion of empiricism and rationalism.

I doubt that Behe and company also look to ID to "validate" their belief in God. They likely believed in God long before the ID movement began. They p...

Perhaps you're thinking of Laboratory Life by Latour and Woolgar. In any event, is it any surprise that scientists are humans? Did anyone really think...

Perhaps we do perpetually inhabit the present, but we arguably only experience the past, given that our sensory organs and brain require a nonzero amo...

Nope. That would be gravity. You can read all about the scientific studies of this amazing force, which can tell you just how fast and how hard you'll...

Try jumping out of a window and then tell me about the "myth" of gravity. :D Nope: this is almost exactly backwards. Scientists make their bones by re...

I don't think this article is saying quite what you think it says. For instance (bolding added): "ID theorists are often perplexed—and even a bit put ...

Indeed. It's possible to be a Catholic priest who molests children and a law enforcement officer who breaks the law: it doesn't follow that those acti...

Yes, Pence is what political scientists refer to as a "steaming shitbag" (a term first coined by Hugo Grotius, if I'm not mistaken. Or maybe it was Ha...

Ok now. But virtually any naturalistic phenomenon could be termed an "alternative to the presumed intentionality of divine creation," wouldn't you say...

Uh, what? Stochasticity and randomness are hugely important concepts in all of the sciences, including biology. (You do realize that, in statistical h...

I'm sorry, but this is just not true. Hardly three posts ago, you (again) linked to this article as evidence that "many scientists" believe that Dawki...

Oh, please. I've already responded to this baloney (for your convenience, I repeat it, below, since you apparently didn't read it the first time, or j...

But they think that religious belief does cause harm (Hitchens rather stridently thought that "religion poisoned everything"). As for "respecting" rel...

But this is what Dawkins believes. What should he do: lie in order not to scare the rubes away? He's a scientist (or at least a science writer), not a...

That summary is very misleading. From the article (bolding mine): "The Religion Among Scientists in International Context (RASIC) study includes a sur...

Someone else on this thread referred to what the New Atheists do as "persecution," to which I replied that that poster is either prone to extreme hype...

Then you are apparently unacquainted with the notion of "divine simplicity..."

Ok, this doesn't sound any more sensible to me (it doesn't help that you claim to have shopped this idea around to the CEO of Google...), but, as I sa...

:-| Wuli, I admit that this isn't my field, but this really sounds to me like the ramblings of a person with mental illness. The Tao Te Ching theoreti...

I don't disagree, but I would question how many evangelicals subscribe to ID per se, which, as I pointed out, is largely shorn of theological doctrine...

ID is a relatively theologically stripped-down version of creationism, at least with regard to its published theories. Though I don't have any polling...

You said such "divine watchmaker" notions of God "doesn't match any conception of deity found in any of the world's religious traditions." I pointed o...

Cavacava, if you don't mind, we're talking about vaginas here. Please get with the program.

This is argument by assertion. You have no basis for your claim, with all due respect to your "common sense." (My "common sense" says it was not done ...

Well, it's technically referred to as a "pussy," and it's the part of female anatomy which Trump professes to love grabbing without permission. (Such ...

I love The Onion article during the Bush administration, the headline of which was something like "White House celebrates Five Straight Years Without ...

Please don't distort what I said in such a childish fashion. I said that the insertion of objects into lovers' vaginas is part of normal (i.e. consens...

Of course it's different; no one would mistake the 2. However, my point is that inserting objects into a lover's vagina can be part of consensual sex ...

Yes, however, I believe that would be a result of the House of Representatives voting him in, which would almost surely never happen (but possible, as...