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Where did you hear that from?

Apologies if this has been posted before. I have a high respect for Prof. Dawkins and he obviously understands evolution much better than I do but often when he talks of evolution, he often speaks of 'Darwinsim' or refers to himself as a 'Darwinist'. I find myself cringing every time he says...

I'm not sure about that: a deist god could quite easily leave the speed of light in a vacuum to 12 decimal places in every non coding gene in chromosome 4 and do the same for other constants in other chromosomes. how about the number of pulsars around circa 1970 when the voyager was sent out in...

only if it was a personal god.

Sorry, the water in to wine thing was just a poor attempt at humour : P Thanks for the replies guys. Firstly, from a post hoc, prediction kind of view, in a 'holy book', I'd like to see a really concrete prophecy. Not some rationisation after the discovery had been made, but the real deal eg...

Can't agree more with that. I would also add repeatablity. But then the skeptics are going to run the risk of saying, 'God of the Gaps my friend, God of Gaps'. Unless it was water in to wine maybe.

Stalin's atheism was state enforced. Religious groups were actively persecuted at this time (despite the Russian Orthodox church). Therefore the specious 'moustache' argument doesn't work. A far cry from secularism though, where the government is neutral to these persuasions. Remember guys, an...

What do you mean by a verifiable manifestation?

Neph and other armchair reality denier's will always move the goalposts. Mosquitoes in the London underground diverging to become a new species? Doesn't count, it's not morphological therefore it's not evolution. Thunderf00t asked on TMS show - well if it was shown that if two isolated groups'...

I'm pretty sure most of you guys have seen this clip on the Atheist Experience where Matt Dillahunty is asked about the evidence he would need to accept a 'God' or God(s). Now I liked some of his and his co-presenters' (well known) rejoinders namely: 1.) The God of which religion and further...

As well as the above recommendations, a pretty decent introduction is offered in the Bryan Magee interview series. They only cover western philosophy. The series was made in to a book...

regarding question 1 you said that it's not a moral motivation but it is a justifable motivation to beat someone to death. what do you mean by this? do you mean that you would have the chance to beat a guy and as a bonus you would score points with society? question 2: so basically you'd be a...

if the poster answered yes, it would mean he agrees with the proposition?

but i wasn't asking what *they* would get out of it. i was asking if you yourself would sit there on the pavement with broken legs and be in complete understanding that nobody would save your life because they might reason that they'd get nothing out if it (or your shouts of help for money...

It's not really karma dude, it's how you'd expect to be treated in life. are you saying that if you got hit by a car in the middle of the day, you'd be nodding in agreement as people walked past as you lay bleeding to death?