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Ok, so something is a non-issue if it doesn't change the status quo viz. Muslims hating our guts. So I could come to your home, waterboard you,...
Who says we're overpopulated?
Other animals have emotion.
The scientific method is well defined and universally accepted by those who use it (i.e. scientists). Religions do not share this quality, as...
It something is observable it is necessarily measurable.
I'm really curious as to what criterion you are using to distinguish between 'issues' and 'non-issues'. To this point you've basically been...
And some recognize it and are still cynical enough to call it a non-issue.
Is this supposed to be some kind of "nothing-to-see-here" type of attempt to defend torture? Because, as a legitimate criticism of the...
LOL at a snake oil salesman calling out a lawyer for his career choice!
basso, Do you have a response to my post #23? Specifically, why should we believe what Urbahn (the guy you quoted) says when he's already been...
Actually, it's the position of a current Rumsfeld aide, Keith Urbahn--a detail basso conveniently left out of his post. The guy is a hack who has...
Sure, but we can't infer anything about the supernatural God from the natural Jesus. Basically the idea that we can empirically observe anything...
If that was the intent of the passage you posted, it did not succeed. To know something in a natural world you have to be able to observe it by...
What does atheism have to do with luck? Or the Big Bang? Do you even know what atheism is? (HINT: it is very simple and has been explained to...
You already do pay for other people's health care.
Or overcoming it! ;) Beautiful. And this also shows quite nicely how science differs from religion. In science, theories are strengthened by...
Very cool stuff. We can empathize with others' emotions because we are experiencing those same emotions ourselves.
Probably the smartest thing written in this thread so far.
Some religions are like that. Some aren't. I was raised Jewish (of the Reformed variety), and we were often encouraged to question what we were...
No it hasn't. Science, by definition, is nothing like religion.
