Michael

Thanks for the article. I've struggled to find a rigorous way to show that determinism isn't entailed by foreknowledge, so that's helpful. Although I ...

He's a Republican, so he must be a bad choice.

I think the claim that we can choose who to love is as mistaken as the claim that we can choose who to be attracted to.

Right, so what about spider interference? Is that natural selection, or artificial selection (or spiderficial selection)?

Well, I agree that webs don't evolve (as webs don't reproduce). But I think the analogous question to the OP's is "does using webs to aid survival pre...

I don't really understand this claim. What do you even mean by saying that webs are not evolution? I think the relevant question is whether or not tak...

I don't know what you mean by significance, but the relevance seems to just be a matter of terminology. Marchesk's claim is that we don't (and wouldn'...

This is clearly a strawman. "gufflefloomps" and "flufflehoomps" aren't English words, but "natural", "artificial", "biological", and "technological" a...

Perhaps a tangential issue, but assuming that one's character is not a choice (I can't choose to be the kind of person who desires to harm others), an...

England, actually (if you're referring to the hosting company).

It does. They're external protections which an animal uses to overcome its biological limitations. Just like medicine. If you don't include making use...

That's not necessarily true. If free will is itself a good then it's imprecise to say that God values free will over good; rather you'd have to say th...

Yes, because "evolutionary rejects" doesn't seem to mean anything. Evolution is simply "change in the heritable characteristics of biological populati...

This seems like saying that an aeroplane interferes with the natural process of gravity.

Clitoris? A woman's orgasm? What nonsense is this?

But you're like French-American hybrids.

Why would the state as the single authority be better than the federal government as the single authority? Why not an independent military for each co...

I'm sure this isn't entirely accurate. Would you object to vulgar language in a kid's show?

Including the UK, as of now. After Brexit? Who knows.

So it's not that they're opposed to government, just opposed to government being involved in certain areas (e.g. welfare and regulation?). Presumably ...

Opposed to government? Republicans aren't anarchists, are they? I always thought that anarchy is closer to liberalism than conservatism.

No, no, no; his inauguration was FAKE NEWS!

3rd, behind Maldives and Qatar.

As far as I'm aware, hate speech is a criminal offence, so your examples would probably result in punishment. But according to this, the Netherlands i...

Nah, that'd probably be Putin. He's pretty good at his judo from what I hear.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IlqbGRqOg7g/maxresdefault.jpg

Here's my pitch for the UK: We spell words like "colour" and "mum" properly.

Well, I was actually referring to not having to worry about health insurance and out-of-pocket expenses (except the £8.40 cost for any prescriptions)....

I think the NHS alone is enough to make my life better in the UK than it would be in the US.

According to this, the Netherlands ranks higher than the U.S. in quality of life.

Isn't that figure just based on the words of a hedge fund manager?

Why is that surprising?

It might not be grounds for overturning an election but it can be grounds for questioning its legitimacy. Legitimacy isn't just a matter of all the ru...

I don't know enough (anything) about the U.S. law to know if the Russia accusations, if true, would make the election - or at least his continued pres...

He said that if he lost then " will look at it at the time". Although the cynic in me is inclined to agree with your belief that he would have contest...

I thought he only said that he would accept the result if he wins, not that he would accept the result only if he wins.

I don't see why one should have to be happy with, or at least silent about, a result that one believes to be a bad one. Is there some sort of grace pe...

The "sore, hypocritical losers" are just doing what they can to protect their interests. That's what politics is about. It would be crazy to expect pe...

Ah, gotcha.

What's DDHH?

When Corrections Fail: The Persistence of Political Misperceptions. Related: Why Do Humans Reason? Arguments for an Argumentative Theory.

Yeah, so he resigned before he was impeached.

Nixon resigned before he was impeached.

He'll probably cost the taxpayer less though. Doubt he'll take weekly trips to play golf.

Probably only if he does something that even the Republican voters can't support. Or if the Democrats manage to win both houses next year.

Nobody is denying that Trump really won, and I don't see how this would relate to thinking that impeachment is a possibility anyway. Surely you'd alre...

You're seriously saying that a film about a young girl who has to bathe ghosts to save her parents who have been turned into pigs from being eaten is ...

I am trying to be precise. I'm trying to bring to light the fact that the thing referred to by "red" in "it appears red" is a property of appearances ...

None of what you say there addresses my points. If the "red" in "it appears red" means/refers to something different to the "red" in "it isn't red" th...

Again, your criticism only works if the "red" in "it appears red" means/refers to the same thing as the red in "it isn't red". But you haven't provide...