This is false by definition. A theory is something that rests upon mountains of evidence, provides explanatory power, provides predictive power,...
I went to a Catholic school (not all boys thank goodness) and they taught us about other religious beliefs including Taoism.
Psychology moves forward on the assumption that the mind is the brain. I've never met a psychologist who denies this, and I've never read a...
Sorry, my mistake. The last part of your post made it seem like you were claiming that believing in god and evolution is a rational position. It...
Psychology doesn't care about solipsism or dualism as neither are scientifically valid concepts. The idea that the mind is separate from the body...
Well that won't get you anywhere. Unless you can explain god's existence and god's complexity then your position is irrational.
"If ,in fact,a deity created all that we are able to comprehend--all that is manifested to us--wouldn't it make sense to create humanity fully...
I don't understand why people voice opinions so strongly without first studying the subject which they are making claims in. Schizophrenia is a...
If you look into the statements made by design advocates in court cases compared with the statements they make in books, or in posts on design...
Consciousness is the ability to perceive in the most basic sense. It is the ability to have a localized experience. Only living things have...
Agreed. That always gets me going.
Crick wrote a book about the idea that life may have been seeded here by extra-terrestrials merely as an intriguing idea and not a serious theory....
Darkstarlight, relativism is a joke. Truth means "in accordance with reality." Either the bible is the word of god or it isn't. It cannot truly be...
Mohawky7 I disagree entirely. I am willing to bet that the people who wrote the bible took it to be literal truth. There is no indication in the...
Not since Chuck Norris punched it and made it curl up into a ball. Incidentally that same punch also killed all of the dinosaurs. I'm pretty sure...
This is true by definition, but I see no point in saying it. Regardless of whether you call it crime people will always go on killing, raping,...
Supernatural explanations have, historically, almost always been about natural phenomena. Almost all belief systems include stories about how the...
There certainly is no inherent conflict between religious or supernatural concepts and science. This is because of methodological materialism. The...
Zepp, you are probably right about satisfaction and acceptance. It probably is not related in any direct or systematic way to the activity of the...
Very low estimates place the number species on the earth at just over a million, with many scientists claiming that it is actually closer to four...
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