Recent content by WolfAU

I've stated my relative indifference to the issue of gay marriage in other threads (and not wanting to get the thread sidetracked). But one must just smile in glee at the beautiful irony of this ("You can't take marriage from us straights, its a fundamental right... we can take it away from...

An absolutely wonderful idea, though this is needed alot less in Australia, I would definately like to see a similar idea in Australia (to keep it that way), and in alot of other countries in the West, though I think in America, it would do little, it may be enough to get a bit more sense into...

Video 1 of 7. Pretty worth watching if you've got an hour.

Such comments by creationists are not "theories" or even "hypotheses", they're speculation, make believe and wishful thinking, calling them anything else is dignifying them and giving them way more credibility than they deserve. When discussing such matters with a Creationist, start by asking...

My attitude is that a charity, to be considered a charity must be secular, if its a "religious charity", it is forced to choose which it is, if it stays religious than its a "religious advocacy group" (and thus, get no tax breaks), and if it remains a charity its a secular charity. This is...

Not so much the wickedness of the church, but how easily the bullshit loopholes the church created can be abused by others (ie religious figures using the trust and authority given to them to abuse children). Example; the church makes a virtue of blind faith and trust and condemns skepticism...

I'm wondering if many people here are familiar with these South park episodes. I haven't seen them personally though... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_God_Go http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_God_Go_XII Leading to this famous scene from it. Basically Richard Dawkins (not his voice) comes to...

The issue is WHY we hold these beliefs. Religious people believe they are dictates by their one and only true God, and therefore not open to debate, discussion or compromise, they are equally true and relevent, regardless of society or context. They believe that all other religions are false...

In some ways we've already hit a brick wall, obviously how disasterous the effects will be of not finding alternative fuels or addressing issues of pollution/waste will vary depending on what your criteria is for such a catastrophy. Re the issue of fuel, my cut off mark would be international...

I hope you realise that with every post, the likelihood of any of us converting drops considerably (copy and paste jobs = lazy and ignorant), every time you display how paper thin your adherance to your beliefs is, and how easily swayed you are. No, just acceptance that the term "absolute" is...

Hence why I usually try to discuss such topics face to face. Many will stick through with it out of some desire to convert you, and you can often make real progress on them in the process (don't generally try to convert them, just to address their misconceptions, and hope they value truth enough...

Depends at what level you mean by "looking into this", our knowledge of how to repurpose and breakdown various products (organic waste, plastics, metals), and making it more efficient and cheaper is improving. The main feature that I'm familiar with was research into the practicality of...

I doubt I would have the time to "pen" (I always feel strange saying that in the digital age) such a piece, but I would be interested in discussing what one could add and talk about in such a thing, size, target audience etc, though it sounds like other people have already done similar things...

There are no words, there is only... We're not getting any "new energy" and you accuse me of being ignorant of thermodynamics. Also considering humans (ie the Japanese around World War 2) have done so, I think its safe to say there is a reason to synthetically create oil. And for the record...

Its more a value set than a belief set. The word atheist is really just akin to a "none of the above" option on to a "which religion are you?" question, it has no greater significance than that, as such an atheist shouldn't define themselves by their atheism, but moreso what their atheism leads...