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Bob the Atheist
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BTW, Bob, I hope all is well and continues to be so. I know you don't pray (and that I have hardly earned your good favor), but wish me luck. I've been through a rough year, and it's about to get worse (and better, my second son will be born in about
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Science
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To jg167, Yes, the parts of science that have resulted in technology can be said to be unlike religious faith, but other parts of science, such as evolutionary theory, the historical sciences or some parts of the social sciences have not yet "
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Bob the Atheist
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Lao Tzu: Quote:How? I mean, I'm wondering how you found it. It was mentioned in a podcast, if I remember correctly. Quote:They quit. Their entire subforum was deleted. Not just "disappeared" into the back room, but totally gone. Ouch!
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Quodlibet
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Yankee42: since you where there, could you answer this for me? Originally Posted By: jg167The theme [and title] of this event in DC was "restoring honor". Ok, so far no one has explained what honor is in need of being restored, what aspect
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Science
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Originally Posted By: Ralphtjg, I think you've done well in correcting Avalon about natural selection. Originally Posted By: RalphtMoreover, if consciousness doesn't have attached to it a "fifth force", then an evolutionary process would
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The Bible
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Just because someone can't prove that the universe was uncreated, doesn't mean that it was created. You can't prove that it was created, does that mean that you are not a creationist? I don't see why the logic flows your way only. I am agnostic on t
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The Lounge
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As an atheist I can't offer prayer. I can't offer sage wisdom since what the heck do I know about what ever it is that is going badly for you (and have the feeling i wouldn't even if I did know what it was). Given the internet I can't even offer fo
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God
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But at times Jesus did exhibit omniscience. At times he didn't. Still the specific objection was why Jesus refers to God as the Father. In my analogy that's like the director on stage acting a cameo appearance and talking about the director of the
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Quodlibet
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Dan: Quote:I see that you've really taken my "most rigorous" statement and ran with it. You're grading me on how well I stated your position? How well did you think I could do?! If you say I did a terrible job, I'll believe you, but d
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Ethics
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Originally Posted By: BasilWas this the specific scenario I was intending? You gotta be kidding. How moral is it for a businessman to pay his bills first and starve his kids? Of course its not the same scenario. I'm just considering the principle
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Science
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Hi Kingdomseeker, Quote:I believe that the mix up may be in the belief that consciousness and self are material. You posit that they arise from the material information that resides in the brain. I would posit that they are immaterial and are respons
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Books
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There is an apologetics book written by a group of influential evangelical scholars that bears just the same title.
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Bob the Atheist
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Meunier: Quote: What are you out to? I'm just giving examples of Poe's Law in action. I'm not drawing any big conclusions here, and I'm certainly not painting this as apologetics' best efforts (as the title of the post makes clear).
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Books
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Epic Center by Joel Rosenberg. I'm looking forward to reading all of his books, especially his upcoming release in October called "The Twelfth Imam" Does anyone have any suggestion of other books with similar reads? Thanks
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The Bible
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Originally Posted By: RalphtOriginally Posted By: mrandrew Why stop there? All areas of science are just lacking in authority. I agree! I'm the one who gives them authority by testing them. Having tested them myself, I then trust them. But you ar
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Bob the Atheist
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Originally Posted By: RalphtOriginally Posted By: GeekDaddyHm. Haven't had a spammer on here in a while. Wow GD, I would have thought mcandrew, jg and a few others fit that description pretty well!!!!!!!!! Au contraire, if I were a spammer
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Quodlibet
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Nick67, You have it backwards. Your doctrine of Hell comes more from Dante than it does the bible, but you don't know that. So when you read the bible, already accepting Dante's version of hell, you read that version of hell back into the bible. Th
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Ethics
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There is the view within liberalism that an embryon has no right to life since it is unconscious, and therefore has no personal interest in going on living. This view claims that an unconscious (or at least, not yet conscious) human being is deprived
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Movies
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Ya Inception is somewhat like Matrix. But it is a great movie. Quite challenging movie for a viewer.
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Quodlibet
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Originally Posted By: f6lOriginally Posted By: jg167Uncertainty says nothing about the interior of the sun either(if your definiton of uncertainty is correct) , as you seem to suggest... Also, if the principle of uncertainty bears no relation whats
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Science
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Originally Posted By: Random_FunctionQuote: RF: We have been talking about (among other things) the existence of the supernatural and whether or not it can be detected, you mentioned you think it can, I'm only asking how. I'm not sure where you get
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Religions and Other Beliefs
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President Reagan appointed Greenspan as chairman of the 1982 National Commission on Social Security Reform, and they had worked together prior to that. He was a major economist in the Reagan orbit prior to his appointment to the Fed. Quote:The dolla
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