Michael

FYI, this is in the Debate Proposals category. @"creativesoul" is asking if anyone would like to argue against him in a formal debate. This isn't the ...

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Never watched any. But a cursory Google search suggests that Stephen Law and Shelly Kagan both won against Craig.

I definitely do. But I acknowledge it.

And 180 won? Then atheists don't always lose. Game, set, and match.

Every debate on here between an atheist and a theist.

There's a rather lengthy answer here that explains Craig's "successes": Within debates, Craig uses the Gish Gallop, presenting a hailstorm of misrepre...

Do they? Or do you either a) forget the debates where they won (confirmation bias) or b) disagree with the atheist and so side with the theist as a ma...

There were 250,000,000 eligible voters. 66,000,000 voted for Clinton. That's 26.4%. Buxtebuddha is pretty spot on with saying that Clinton wasn't supp...

I'm a well-known histrionic. :roll:

The country isn't just one religion, or race, or gender, or age. So let's let the minorities have a disproportionate say!

Precisely because, if, say, 75% of the population of the US are Christian, it would not be right for Christians to decide for all other faiths - Chris...

What's so special about one's residence that it should determine the weight of one's vote? Maybe I should say that it's unfair that the white majority...

So it's fair for 10% of the population to have an equal (or otherwise disproportionate) say to the other 90%, simply because they live in a less popul...

In a popular vote each vote counts, and counts for 1. How is that not fair? What does the state the voter lives in have to do with it? How many times ...

Presumably brain structure, as shown in this study. No. I believe there are transgender people who have no desire to undergo a sex change. They're hap...

Apparently it's possible to win the Presidency with only 23.1% of the vote.

Hillary won the popular vote, Trump won the electoral college vote. The President is chosen by electoral college vote.

I have no idea what this question means. In the context of the medical diagnosis of somatic delusion, by "defect" they aren't referring to the sort of...

Nope. He just feels that it's 50%. He thinks he's Nostradamus: There's really no way to argue with someone who refuses any empirical evidence that con...

That's where you're stretching the definition. That's not what psychiatrists mean by "defect". By "defect" they mean something like a mole being a har...

Because you're pulling a number out of your ass, whereas Gallup use proper statistical analysis.

Your feelings are real feelings, but what you feel Trump's support to be isn't what Trump's support really is. Gallup's method of determining his supp...

Which then will break the Good Friday agreement. And I think the politics of that is far worse than reversing Brexit (or at least staying a member of ...

I know that the Good Friday agreement is causing all such of issues with Brexit. Somehow the UK and the EU need to ensure that there's no border betwe...

It's more interesting than what's going on here in the UK. Theresa May is such a bore.

Ah, so you're just making it up. Feels before reals, eh?

No. The issue is one of incongruence between their gender identity and their biological sex, not in believing that they have some illness or physical ...

How have you come to your figure? And why is your method more reliable than Gallup's?

Plenty of people do care. His approval rating is 39%. His approval among Republicans is 87%. He lost the popular vote last time by ~3,000,000 votes. I...

If Mueller finds that Trump committed crimes I doubt Trump would win the next election, or if the RNC would even select him as their candidate.

No they won't. Pence will take over.

I know how power works. I also know how self-interest works. If there's a significant amount of anti-Trump sentiment (among Republican and swing voter...

It'll need a majority in the House and 67 senators. I think the Democrats have a chance of taking the House in November. Even if we assume that the Se...

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Actually, no, I'm confusing Pompeo for Wray.

I don't know if Tillerson was competent, or if he was I don't know if he was doing the right thing. He hadn't spent any of the $120 million given to c...

He said something bad about Russia, and Trump seems to love Russia for some reason.

Oh, and he fired the State Department official who issued the statement saying that Tillerson wasn't aware he was fired till the tweet. Although that ...

Is it surprising? Everything about Trump's administration is a joke. He found out he was fired because of the tweet, too.

No I'm not. I'm saying that the psychiatric definition of somatic delusions doesn't cover cases like transgenderism. It covers cases of thinking that ...

Yes, but the reverse isn't true. The illness is specifically in believing that you have a disease you don't have, which isn't the case for the transge...

Nobody confuses their mental state and/or behaviour with their genitals.

I know. But that's not a somatic delusion. A somatic delusion is where you wrongly think that your body is infested with parasites, or that you're ove...

But it's not to have a somatic delusion. You're stretching the psychiatric definition, given the ambiguous language in saying that one's body is wrong...

A somatic delusion is where you think that your body has certain (abnormal) characteristics that it doesn't actually have. This isn't the case for the...

Is there not something inappropriate about children seeing up a woman's skirt when she's sat down on a public transport with her legs open? Of course....

You want a line somewhere? How about a line that says that if it is acceptable for people with one type of genitalia to wear a particular item of clot...

No. Death isn't funny.