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Not to be pedantic, but the vast majority of acorns probably never become oak trees, so in a sense it would be surprising if any given acorn became an...

That's all well and good, but don't you think said criticism should be based upon an accurate understanding and presentation of his position? Because ...

You are of course free to critique his philosophy, but when you misrepresent basic tenets of Dawkins's thinking, it does you no service, and it makes ...

I was referring to your characterization of Dawkins's position that life (or its adaptive features) is an "accident," which, again, you pretty much ad...

Thanks, Tiff. You are as sweet as ever, my dear.

You don't believe you consistently misrepresent his position, or that you don't misrepresent it simpliciter? If the former, then we can debate that, i...

Someone needn't be Jewish or Christian to believe in God. One could be a non-denominational theist, a deist, a pantheist, etc. Ok. Is there any reason...

I can't believe that a just and loving God could allow one of His followers to make such an atrocious argument, so I'm forced to conclude that God doe...

I didn't say anything about the Bible or the Judeo-Christian tradition; I was asking about the existence of God. Is it that nature provides "suggestio...

Indeed. For example, a talented chef like Rick Bayless is castigated for specializing in (and profiting from) Mexican cuisine...because he's white. Ne...

Nothing in that quote really answers my question, sorry. I don't even see what it has to do with supernaturalism, specifically. What does "suggest" me...

No offense, but you have screamed bloody murder of the position of some scientists (e.g. Dawkins) who have claimed that the existence of God can be in...

Does supernature "contain its ground or explanation"? If so, what might that be? At some point, we may well just bump up against brute facts, right? I...

I'd consider them to be lying.

You may be using the word "proof" in an idiosyncratic way. Generally, one speaks only loosely of "proof" in empirical disciplines: true "proofs" only ...

Natural selection is a theory, you are right. It is a scientific theory, which (in a slight deviation from the term's meaning in normal parlance) is a...

I actually do believe that concepts inhere in minds (or at least their products), and all else that follows from that: I'm not sure where else they wo...

I wasn't joking when I said I was done with your nonsense. If you wish to continue to respond my posts "for the eyes of God," please feel free to do s...

If one posits the existence of a God who interacts with nature in some way (i.e. is not wholly "transcendental"), then it is perfectly legitimate to i...

I will give you the benefit of the doubt and just assume that you are breathtakingly ignorant and not just trolling. Either way, I'm done with your bu...

I agree: Darwin described the origin of species, and not the origin of life (his speculations about a "warm little pond" notwithstanding, its safe to ...

I have no idea what you are talking about. You seem unacquainted with what "natural selection" even means. And reading your other comments on this thr...

The problem is that nothing about evolution seems that it was directed, designed, or orchestrated. If human beings were the desired endpoint, then God...

Your description of the "anti-religious" crowd is similarly unnnuanced (and I see that the conservative/Republican obsession with "elitists" continued...

I think I have a better idea of what you're driving at. A couple of questions/points: what does it then mean to say that a concept exists? That the co...

Calling all Muslims terrorists is bigoted and stereotyping. Giving an honest description of Islamist violence and not copping to the false equivalency...

Something seems awry here. The concept of Hobbits exists. Hobbits don't exist (at least not outside of the fictional media depicting them). Under your...

You seem to be walking a rather fine line here. The state or nature of the universe "suggests" the existence of God, and yet the existence of God is n...

Ok. So, the existence of God is fair game for science, just as long as it doesn't purport to explain "everything"? The ontology of the most basic phys...

Assuming the reliability of the senses and assuming the existence of natural law are not the same thing. As I said, science is in the business of fall...

I agree that science isn't in the business of "proving" the existence of God. But that's because I don't believe that science is in the business of "p...

Why would that be in favor of theism, rather than, say, deism, pantheism, etc? If scientific findings can be brought to bear in service of demonstrati...

Ok. Not sure what that has to do with the "telos" of the positron, though.

Firstly, let me thank you for that interesting quote; it provided a rather succinct definition of "telos." Yes, although in some small corner of the l...

I think that science can answer "why" questions, provided that the "why" is shorn of any teleological baggage ("why is the sky blue?" is a common ques...

I think I know my ready-made excuse should my wife ever catch me looking at porn: "Honey, I was just trying to watch the Three Stooges: honest!"

I think that token identity could accommodate multiple realizability, but type identity less so. Based on the description of Smart's position summariz...

I had assumed that "Heister Eggcart" was a play on medieval theologian "Meister Eckhart."

Third parties in American politics tend to either remain obscure or to be absorbed into one of the 2 major parties (which is why you didn't see a Tea ...

Why not? It's been done before: Obama flipped some longtime Republican voters, just as Trump flipped some longtime Democratic voters. Though people do...

IIRC, Priebus's was the shortest or second shortest tenure for a presidential chief of staff in history. The COS job is notoriously brutal, and can ch...

Fire bad.

This picture depicts the scale of the size difference between the Sun and Earth (as well as some other planets). Even assuming that our solar probe wa...

"Since the dawn of time Man has yearned to destroy the Sun." -Mr. Burns of The Simpsons

I largely have stopped reading your awful posts, though I plan to make that total and permanent. (My request for an "ignore" function was motivated so...

You have no idea how many of your posts are dumb, arrogant, and don't know what they're talking about. Your Trumpian invocation of "fake" to dismiss a...

I recall Dawkins or someone describing a paleontologist who was actually a young Earth creationist, but whose PhD dissertation was on the distribution...

Interesting point. Would it change anything if the duplicates each said, for instance, "I am raising my western-most hand" as opposed to right/left? H...

Capital-T "Truth" does trump "truth." Luckily, we atheists can now avail ourselves of Truth Premium (patent pending), which trumps Truth.

Not necessarily. Yes, natural science generally adheres to methodological naturalism in its day-to-day work: phenomena under study are presumed to hav...