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Been a long time since I last came here.. how are you all doing? I wonder, what did I miss?
Oh and, my wife is now an atheist. Trust me, I did nothing to make her one. Suddenly one day about a month ago she...
Re: How does Richard Dawkins have amazing patience for stupi
But some people are like "Oh I will not watch any YouTube video because YouTube is not a credible source of information." I find this an another stupid reasoning, that they deny verifying the credibility of the video itself (like the...
Re: How does Richard Dawkins have amazing patience for stupi
Please don't derail the train of discussion.
Anyway while number theory and game theory might be way off the top of most lay people, I thought the "germ theory" would be worth a short, given that it's the cornerstone of medical...
Re: How does Richard Dawkins have such amazing patience?
Could you explain a little bit further on how these two theories help break the train of "just a theory" thought? Or give a brief description for these theories each that's simple enough for a beginner to understand. I'm not so awesome at...
Re: How does Richard Dawkins have such amazing patience?
When I click on the Show More tag's title, nothing happens in Firefox 5. I will test later in other browsers.
A while ago I had watched Richard Dawkins having sort of a casual conversation with a hard-bent creationist theist lady. He displays such amazing patience, that I can't even imagine myself having. If I was in Dawkin's place, I would have strangled her to death for being so stupid!
Anyway...
Actually I've gone without sleep for almost 3 days once, I don't drink that much water. It's only the drugs part I haven't done, although I drank a bit of alcohol (I don't like it).
And what's better is that she has not done any of these. She drinks quite a bit recently, but she's been seeing...
"Hume notes that miracles seem to occur mostly in "ignorant" and "barbarous" nations and times, and the reason they don't occur in the "civilized" societies is such societies aren't awed by what they know to be natural events."
Always, always true.
I don't get you. According to the stats above, republicans are the ones who increased the debt after 1973 while all democrats* since 1945 have decreased the debt. (Negative percentage increase in debt means the debt has decreased.)
*Here, 'all' means those who served their terms already. Hence...
I think you're right. After all, isn't our mind (and aren't we) the collective manifestation of electrical signals traveling through the billions of neurons that compose our brain? Then our mind is (and we are) nothing more than a part of our body.
If we take a computer analogy, an operating...
U.S. president Party Term years Start debt End debt Increase debt Increase debt/GDP
/GDP /GDP ($T) (in percentage points)
Roosevelt/Truman R 1945-1949 117.5% 93.1% 0.05 -24.4%
Harry...
If there's a Like button for your post, I would have clicked it a thousand times by now! (Btw sidenote to mod: I noticed some forums have a "Thanks" feature, which could possibly be converted to a "Like" feature.)