Recent content by King of NH

The big problem I have with this 'outside of nature' argument is what they mean by it. If God is outside of nature, then he obviously didn't create nature, nor does he interact with it. The reason being that as soon as he attempted to interact with nature (what I like to call reality) there...

I think there needs to be stricter definition for 'natural' for this argument. Natural childbirth as opposed to un-natural? Like demon babies with 9 legs and 17 arms? Everything is natural, even man made things. We are a product of nature, and if what we create is termed "un-natural" than so...

I would have to say I'd flip a coin or do "eenie meenie meiny moe." Religion doesn't make someone bad, though it allows good people to do bad things. Ghandi was religious, but I'm happy he lived. Ditto for Newton. I would rather suffer the hypothetic consequences than choose. I am...

I don't find Dawkins heavy handed at all. I know a lot of people do feel he is, my wife included. But I think he's very polite to the theistic curious mind. Close minded people might be insulted, but then they wouldn't be reading his book, would they? Hitchens... Now there's a heavy handed...

:?: I was hoping to find some sources to cite, but I can't seem to find them now, so if anybody can help out? Okay, there is a type of particle that is formed when high energy strikes our upper atmosphere. This particle is extremely short lived, far too short lived to reach the ground even at...

When you're young, it is eternity before you'll be a tenn, a driver, a college student, or a legal drinker. When you're old, you have to remind yourself these things didn't happen last month. Life is very short when we remember the good days. So just make great plans for the future. If...

I don't know. :shock: I would say that needle smarts. I really don't enjoy giving blood at all. I don't want to scare anybody away, but if it wasn't for knowing what the blood can do, I would chicken out. But while I would say it does hurt, it hurts less than a hundred other things I do on...

For many years, I thought I had a severe social disorder. I hated people. Not the kind of hate that gave me any impulses to violence, but the kind of hate that made me sit at home and read books. I even hated the TV talking heads. I had a few close friends that I could deal with for a few...

I think you did an excellent job. Some changes I would make: Thunderf00t is obviously an academic of some merit, but due to his popular fame, I would avoid using him as an academic source. Citing his 'Mirror Video' was quite appropriate though, since he made a very strong case without...

I'll have to check that out. It sounds neat, thanks. Just a side note: humans are also referred to by some biologists as the third chimpanzee. Chimp, Bonobo, Human. I'm completely uneducated on the ratio of difference between chimps and bonobos and chimps and humans, but I would love to know...

I would say for the majority, no. "God did it" means just that. I've noticed myself making a disastrous mistake debating creationists and theists. I often assume they can understand how very weak their argument is. They cannot; or rather, they cannot without going through the steps most of...

Perhaps a Christian spy sent in to find out what we really talk about. "Yeah, creationists are dumb. Ha ha... So... Hey, fun to kill people with no God to worry about, huh guys?"

I disagree, to an extent. I am not a group selectionist, though this argument may sound like it. "Humans are different from our ape cousins in many ways," so says Captain Freakin' Obvious. But one area we are different is interesting to me. Human males (we'll call them 'men' for short)...

I agree with ImprobableJoe. I fail to see how GM food (unless you mean made by General Motors, in which case, fuck off, I'm not even going to smell it) will be any different in my stomach than any other food. I am convince of the safety of GM crops and would really need evidence on what...