Recent content by ShootMyMonkey

Hm. I was under the impression that most Muslims knew that Mohammed was illiterate. I recall that the story goes that he dictated to teams of scribes, who also went on to write their own narratives and hadiths. Moreover, most of them seem to remember him as a warrior first, which is a...

Another example that I'm aware of that actually occurred on the market was the the Starlink corn incident where the engineered protein was supposedly linked to the allergic reaction in some people. In reality, it was only shown that the link was a definite *possibility*, but not a certainty...

Well, there are two things about this -- one is that it technically leaves room for a non-physical *anything*, not just a god. Part of the tail end of that is that it raises the question of how you define the predicate of "physical." If it merely pertains to the existence within our universe...

I suspect that your adversary's intellectual capacity is poor enough that this may work. However, just to play devil's advocate here, I think the actual case here is that the argument need not necessarily rest on non-physical causation of non-physical things, but rather that non-physical things...

Send this guy back to math class. Perfect? 6 and 28 are perfect numbers, but pi certainly isn't. Perfect numbers are always integers. infinitely recurring? I think he's confusing the idea of having infinitely many digits, and actually having infinite recurrence. There isn't any significant...

Oh, really? I mean, he voted in favor of banning abortions even for rape victims. Though I'll admit that he does the Santora of the field one better by saying that abortion is okay in the cases where it is life-threatening for the mother. Still, he has voted for, or at least drafted motions...

I've seen the video where he talks about it, and he loads up on phoney-baloney jargon and throws in something about "hyperprotons" and homeopathic remedies being proven to be radioactive because they were captured on beta-scintillation film... Really? Really? He seems to think that clathrates...

I think his most basic problem is simply that he's thinking of a "thought" as a very real and distinct "thing"... However, how he makes the connection from a thought being an indivisible, non-physical "thing" to saying that we are not the same as our brains is a complete non-sequitur. There...

Harmful to the environment? Absolutely. Everything about organic growing practices is less efficient than modern practices in terms of cost, resources, and efficiency. You need to use more fertilizer, more irrigation, more everything to ultimately get poorer yields. Organic farming is less...

A lot of the "Frankenfood" worries are also a confusion between the study of genetics and some of the gene-splicing that takes place there, and the food that is actually created for consumption. You hear people talk about splicing "cuttlefish genes into tomatoes", and they think that Monsanto...

I left the spelling as is. Hmmm... nobody blasphemes science? He needs to spend an hour in Texas... where people demand Newtonian gravitation no longer be taught in school because astronomers caused 9/11!

The nature of the quantum field is one which necessarily refutes his assertion that actual infinities cannot exist because it is merely a potentiality field. Since potentiality opens itself to probabilities of infinite support, you have an infinitesimal (though technically non-zero) potential...

Too bad it's not real, though. However, considering that it's Bill O'Reilly, I wouldn't put it past him. It's actually part of a series of parody images from a Huffington Post comedy article about Other things Bill-O doesn't understand. Much in the same spirit as the "Can't Explain That" meme.

Dealing with those particular questions, you can find very good and straightforward explanations from good ol' cdk007 -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6QYDdgP9eg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtmbcfb_rdc Best part that at least the stuff covered in the first video is not merely conjecture...

Well, his classical argument against that is to say that other animals like lions, and tigers, and bears (oh, my!) have no souls and therefore no sense of the moral or ethical dimension, therefore you cannot base anything on what other animals do. The thing is that he's commiting something he...