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Re: Evidence that atheism is accurate and correct. (no reall 1. Phenomenons or phenomena are both valid. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/phenomenon http://www.yourdictionary.com/phenomenon# 2. I've seen ark spelled arc as well but yeah I should have said ark. 3. Yeah that is true but...

Re: Evidence that atheism is accurate and correct. (no reall Finally got around to making the video :)

I hadn't heard of him but those guys make me absolutely sick. The worst offender I know of is Mathias Rath. You can read about him here. http://www.badscience.net/2009/04/matthias-rath-steal-this-chapter/

The rat test showed a 50% mortality rate among baby rats fed GM soy as opposed to 10% among rats fed non-GM soy. I support GM tech 100% as long as it is done safely, intact I think it will be vital to our survival as a species if our population raises much more. I'd like to make a video pwning...

I used to conciser anti-genetic modification advocates to be a bunch of crazy uneducated scaremongers. However This website does appear to make some valid arguments against GM foods such as tests showing baby rats dying after eating GM food. It does make some bold claims such as GM food offer NO...

Been thinking about these issues a lot recently. What do you want to happen at your funeral? If you chose to get married, do you have any particular plans?

I can run 100m is 8.9 seconds but refuse to go in to the Olympics because I don't want the attention. Do you believe me? Is it possible you could be wrong? Does admitting that there is a slim chance you're wrong mean that you are agnostic about my running ability? No. It's the same with...

I was going to include a fairly similar point myself. I was going to say that complexity of form is only necessary to a point then efficiency is more important. Computers are a good example. The layout of a computer in 1995 is nearly identical to one made today (though the number of transistors...

My take. An atheist is someone who doesn't believe in God. Personally I wouldn't try to convert anyone but I'd like to get people to at least question why they believe. I am an atheist because I haven't seen any reliable evidence of God. It's exactly the same reason I don't believe in the...

Wow thanks that list is excellent thanks. I've thought of a new one. The you're a towel argument. (you'll get the reference if you watch Southpark) Similar to projecting. Using the oppositions own argument against them completely unfounded. Examples are: Evolution if a fairy tail. Atheism...

That's pretty interesting but not going to convince him. It seems to me that he accepts evolution, it's the common decent bit he has issue with. He even accepts speciation but doesn't believe something can evolve to a different "kind" (though he offers no indication of what constitutes a change...

My bad, I've edited it now.

I've decided to compile a list of logical fallacies. Feel free to add. The first 18 I copied and pasted from another website with a few modifications because I'm lazy :) Add more to the list if you can think of any or discuss exceptions to the fallacy or add more details. 1. Ad hominem An ad...

I was going to add bad science to the list when I saw this thread but see you took care of that. It really is excellent. It tells you about the placebo effect, how to conduct a clinical trial properly, lies spread by alternative health companies and big phama and shows many examples of how...

Thanks, the Italian wall lizard is a good example but keep answers coming.