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    Is creationism being forgotten?

    I'm glad to hear that creationism is on the decline in other parts of the world, unfortunately here in the Southern Region of the USA it is way alive and well. Thankfully the school board in Louisiana stopped the stupid from infiltrating their textbooks, but Texas still hasn't given up making...
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    What do you think of Bill Maher?

    when talking about religion and maybe politics, I tend to agree with him. When talking about health matters (he denies germ theory and is anti-vax), Animal Rights (He is a PeTA member), or diet (he is somewhere in the vegitarian/vegan/raw foodie spectrum) I disagree strongly. while he has...
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    Penetrating Conservapedia...

    well, by conservapedia's standards, anything to the left of Fox News is godless socialist communist nazi propaganda
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    My stepmother doesnt believe in the moon landing.

    unless, of course, half the point of the mission is PR and to prove that the US is better then Russia... you want to be able to show EVERYONE what's going on.
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    Anyone else get irritated with quantum physics?

    I think being able to sit in a bathtub full of $100 bills may help
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    Proposition 8 shot down in California

    I meant to edit my first post, because people who get legal gay marriages in Mass, Cali, or Iowa and move to other states will have grounds to sue the state to get them to recognize the marriage, striking down the blatantly unconstitutional Defense of Marriage Act, because the courts cannot...
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    Proposition 8 shot down in California

    What I like about this decision is it will essentially makes gay marriage legal in all states, even if they have to drive to California to get married, the "full faith and credit" clause of the constitution any legally binding contract made in any state of the union must be given "Full Faith and...
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    An alternative explanation to account for redshift...

    the problem with that is if ""the truth" is nothing accessible to our consciousness" then all knowledge is by definition false and all pursuits of knowledge are fools errands. Thankfully it is pretty easy to show that even if reality is different for everyone if we agree on some definitions we...
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    An alternative explanation to account for redshift...

    I feel that your ideas have been "pre-considered failures" because you have not shown your work, you attempt to overthrow mathematical models that do an excellent job of explaining the orbits of the planets, the formation of the universe, and the positions and movements of the stars and galaxies...
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    An alternative explanation to account for redshift...

    Re: relativity demands agreement over yardsticks Well, I don't think anyone here is going to argue with you that we will ever know "the whole truth" or have "complete knowledge" or that anything we know is 100% certain. This is why Scientists usually qualify statements with "Our current...
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    An alternative explanation to account for redshift...

    I don't know, perhaps by the super important YET he is trying to imply that we already know everything there is to know, that time itself is an illusion and a meaningless definition, or (more likely based on his video) we know nothing and can never know anything because reality is fundamentally...
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    Unbiased scientific progress made by Religion.

    this guy was pretty religious and not too shabby with the Science http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton
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    Praying for Hitchens Offensive?

    I thought this would be appropriate for this thread. and while Hitchens himself would probably gripe about people offering to pray for him, he is kind of a professional provocateur. I still like his stuff though.
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    Atheist Baby Names - Contribute and create a list

    you can always give the kids a famous scientist's last name as a first name, I have met a kid named Darwin. also I think Sagan would be a pretty cool first name
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    Why I believe in a God and an Afterlife

    the problem with this line of thinking is that you think "Religion vs. Atheism" is a binary choice, but the question that logically follows is which religion is correct? Hindu? Buddhism? Islam? Of course not, most Americans(sorry I made you American because I'm from the US) would say It's...
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    Organic Food: Nature's Way of Stealing Your Money

    one of the problems with the whole Organic Foods movement is that it falls prey to the "Appeal to nature" fallacy, but doesn't really think about important technology for food growing i.e. the Haber Processhttp://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-haber-bosch-process.htm a method to process fertilizer...
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    A day in the life of a closet-atheist.

    Growing up in that kind of situation can be really tough on a reasoned individual, and I think I can only echo what others have already said, but you mentioned being a teenager, so maybe the smart plan is to try and stay under the radar, do well in school, get into a college that is at least in...
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    Any pen-and-paper RPG players around here?

    Long term tabletop fan here, too. I played the crap out of 3.5 and have enjoyed 4e so far, but haven't gotten to play as much as I'd like to have. Lately my group has been getting more into the "Indie" or Story games like Prime Time Adventures and FATE games (I was a playtester for the Dresden...
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    America, what will we do with you...

    here is the US Department of State's official list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/other/des/123085.htm for reference. While I don't necessarily agree with this decision, or with lumping all these groups in the same boat, some of them are at war with the US...
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    Debate analysis: Evolution is a scientific theory

    I like that he holds people to a higher standard of evidence then he holds himself to in his videos. i.e. at the 5:20 second mark it shows that TfC claims that he got his figures for human population growth from "a friend of mine at the fitness club in my local area" also: pinecones.
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