Dope, your first sentence doesn't say much. The human brain is a computational system and the human mind is the information processing activity of...
Nooballot, your last two posts say different things. First you said that scientifically minded people would believe that the geocentric theory was...
It is not illogical to say that life on other planets has to be similar to life on Earth. It might turn out to be true that the range of...
Intelligence is the result of cognitive processes. Any organism that lacks these processes is not intelligent, no matter how well suited it is to...
Scientists are not the sort of people who would believe that the geocentric theory is true, they are the sort of people who point out that it is...
Medical doctors are not qualified to diagnose mental conditions. Only clinical psychologists can do that.
Razor, that thing about no atheists in fox holes is not a truism because it is not true. I know a few atheists who survived close combat, and one...
Absolutely correct NotDeadYet. Where did people get the silly idea that they must look forward to something else?
What would be incredible is if it turns out that liquid water is not necessary for life. If liquid water is necessary then that definitely limits...
It is a very interesting and debate filled topic as to what range of conditions can support life, and to what extent life can differ from life on...
Occam, while I concede the point that arguments in favor of evolution do not rule out the possibility that the universe had a deistic first cause...
Who is this god fellow anyway?
Pick one, they are all equally hilarious.
I do not think that it is only a problem when they want to change and feel trapped. A child raised to believe a particular faith is much less...
The meaning of life without god is obvious. The meaning of life is to be alive. What a wondrous thing that out of all of the atoms in the universe...
Yes and this is why we must stop labeling children with the religion of their parents. There is no such thing as a Muslim child, or a Christian...
Monkey boy, I don't know what you are getting at but to me the idea of god is totally useless and essentially unintelligible. It does not explain...
Zorba I dig what you are saying, I would just like to comment on what you said about macro evolution. In my opinion macro evolution is not just a...
If you are going to postulate a god that always existed or a god that came to be out of nothing, then why not just postulate a world that always...
I do not see natural selection as a thing. It really is just a mathematical description. When a gene allows an organism to reproduce more than its...
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