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One of the cultural issues of the day appear to be the acceptance of transgender individuals and what to accept when it comes to this issue, with a multitude of opinion from the pleas of acceptance, to their rejection, to the boogeyman of "state-enforced pronouns" to people exposing it for the...

Is it immoral to eat meat? Do you believe that "it is logically inconsistent to be ok with eating some animals for food, such as cows and chickens, while being opposed to eating humans for food"? To put my query into context, I've recently watched a Matt Dillahunty video where the comments...

From the "The silence of God" (a.k.a the poorly worded and deformed argument from non-belief) thread: Why should it? Have you ever asked this question to a christian: "If convinced that god exists, why ought I follow"? And have you ever obtained an answer that made any sense to you? Take the...

Could atheism survive the discovery of extraterrestrial life? That is a question from Kirk Durston over at the antievolutionnews. The reasoning? So it would be unbelievably lucky for life to have developped in two different places in the universe therefore god... But Mr. Durston has some...

A blunder that theists make all the time... Or how they act as if "god" is not real. An hyperbole title but considering the observation I wish to point out and the explanation I seek, its both quite apropos and highlighting. We all know that theism is not guarantee of moral actions (judging by...

Good evening gents, I am having this argument with a christian (a result of discussing the argument from divine hiddeness), in which I am arguing that a someone having a desire (wanting to eat ice cream) plus the ability to satisfy that desire (obtaining ice cream) will invariably lead to...

Drinking alcohol vs. Owning a firearm: what makes a fundamental right. Inspired by this statement from tuxbox, I have to ask: what makes a right fundamental? For exemple, if I had to determine which right between drinking alcohol and owning a firearm was more "fundamental", a quick and not...

The Magical/Miraculous origin of sex! Cdesign proponentsists have argued that since evolutionary biology has not yet provided a full answer to the origin of sexual reproduction, their personnal incredulity for the possibility of natural process origin makes cdesignism the only possible...

I will start with this disclosure: I am Canadian and more particularly, from the province of Quebec. The reason I have started with this disclosure is because I completely stupefied by current shouting matches that can be found on the internet concerning feminism. In the region where I live...

Good day everyone, It has been a while since I have posted but I a recent online discussion about the cosmological argument that made me wish for your opinions and advice. Some of you may be familiar with Aron Ra's response video, "Theism is not rational", to a video from an apologist from...

So has to not clutter up another discussion, I hope Dandan will consider moving the discussion concerning his points here. I have issues to some of his claims and I would like an explanation: 1. Degradation leads to adaptation and to speciation. I would like to understand how a few...