This is why I prefer "dumb" and "smart" atheism. "Weak" and "strong" implies that there is some weakness in admitting that you don't know something.
I'd go one step further and say that declaring something "supernatural" should be a red rag to the scientific bull. Nature is the label we give...
Hence the use of the qualifier "arguably". And of course, if the Bible is not infallable, but merely a guide, then so is every other work of...
In honour of Britain's favourite dead Catholic? Or are you being a bit wAcKeEe and implying that even John McCain is a victim of affirmative...
If you want a really depressing variation on this, check out Diaspora by Greg Egan.
So would any other species. Oh fo sho. But we don't farm them either (I know with whales that would be kind of hard), so I don't think it's...
It's kind of like buying a Fedora to prove that you can act, isn't it.
Just an aside, but you know you can do both, right?
Like we do with dolphins, whales, endangered species? ;) I can imagine that a god would want to keep the world(s) that it had created ticking...
What I mean is, people are dangerous. Religion is nothing without people, but people can be every bit as nasty with religion or without it.
His work is more about culture than religion. The two just tend to be heavily linked. A hell of a lot that he describes could probably be...
Who to? I'm pretty sure I've petitioned the empty sky a few times in my life, but I don't remember ever actually believing in God. Sometimes...
Much as I agree, I think the world benefits from having a few immature assholes with no apparent allegiances. If it weren't for cynics and...
relaxxx has shown itself willing to just make up whatever he wants about his "opponents" on this forum. It's pretty much the textbook example of...
Claude Lévi-Strauss. Should be more widely recognised really, he's one of the important figures in 20th century thinking, along with Sassure,...
I wouldn't go that far. Most who've really thought about their position don't, but the anti-religious types (mentioned in the "two types of...
Wah wah. Ever wonder if maybe you're not meant to be the centre of attention all the time?
My family's history with religion is a bit complicated, but I think the upshot of this is that I've ended up unable to believe or to outright...
That's a nicer word for it than "trying to piss off daddy" atheism, certainly :) Are they intuitive, or just "mass-learned", so entrenched in...
You don't think there's any validity in establishing a hierarchy of animals? Most societies do so. Show me a culture that is truly omnivorous,...
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