Recent content by Nightmare060

Interesting point. If we go by this definition, then I would be anti-theist. But I probably would not be one to turn the dial (a more fitting physical analogy, but I digress) all the way back. So to some extent I am an anti-theist, but I still think that Secular Humanist describes my views...

Greetings one and all! This is something I have been thinking about for quite a long time. I was never very religious, and even when I did consider myself a Neo-Pagen, I never took it very seriously to begin with. However I have dramatically changed my stance on religion in the past few years...

While it does not serve a direct function in terms of biological reproduction, the concept of "Love" towards another human being and the indirect benefits to sociaty do make homosexuality as usefull as hetrosexuality. For example; If a gay couple adopts a child, they love each other and the...

Well put! I would also add that the probability argument is bogus because science refines on what we know and explores more possabilities, going with what there is the most evidence for. Supernatural explinations are answers without backing and have no procees. Science does. And thus showing...

Hey everyone. This is something that has made me repeatedly facepalm in my debates with a theist freind over skype (the same guy who the "shark jesus" meme seems to have started from). He frequently keeps pointing out that because scientific naturalism can only work with physical properties...

Huzzah for indirectly inspired parodies! XD

Perfect, that clears up what I was wondering. Thanks for the info, to you and the previouse posters :)

Ah yes, I've seen that video, deffinatly is usefull. This just leads me back to my origional question of wether we can give any solid defanition of a "begining" that applies in science.

I think I perhaps didn't quite make my wording clear enough. So I'll rephrase; Yes, we do draw conclusions based on experiance and evidence in science. The theist argument is that, if we have a track record of things "begining" to exist, then we can safley say that the universe did "Begin" to...

Hey all. After numerouse debates with a theist freind, one thing that he kept pushing was the goold old Kalam Cosmalogical argument and that everything MUST have a "begining" and that it's impossible for an infinate to exist. And this is somethong I would like to discuss; When we talk in...

And thus we witness the birth of a thousend conspiracy theories!

http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-4.12&soc=-4.26 Pretty much. Some questions I wasn't sure on, but I gave my best guess. Probobly wouldn't make much of a difference I still disagree with some key things that alot of libertarians strongly push on people. Mostly that I am for...

I see your point. However I do think that we are perhaps pushed by the media to find more unrealistic levels of skinny as attractive. If you've seen the process wherebye they photoshop supermodles to make them look a certain away, then you'll know what I'm talking about. It also seems that alot...

Well said. Hence why I would say that our reactions and attitudes to nudity are nurture rather than nature. And when you think about it, is it really a rational desicion to want to hide away or avoid seeing shapes that do not comform to this fantasy? I'm willing to bet that if I said I don't...

No worries, it's a common mistake.