Primitive societies are much more violent than modern industrial societies. The murder rates of down town Detroit pale in comparison to the murder...
The fact that a trait is universal is not enough evidence to claim that it has been directly selected for by natural selection. The tendency for...
Sir-.-'nOOBalloT, my statements are addressed to people who reason in the following way: "The universe itself and especially biological entities...
I do not understand this argument about atoms not being conscious. Atoms cannot compute, but if you arrange atoms into what we call a computer...
I have to say I agree with Jackflash on several points. The 'no atheists in a foxhole' thing is definitely bogus. I've met several people who were...
Complexity only arises from simplicity, which is why it is a bad move to invoke god. God is complex, so the existence of god does nothing to...
Personally it was education that purged the illusion of free will from my mind. As I studied things like sensation and perception, conditioning...
The probability of god's existence is very low because god is proposed to be complex and the odds of a complex being coming into existence without...
Here is another debated topic in evolutionary sciences: Is music an adaptation? Personally I think it is not an adaptation, rather it is an...
Jackflash I agree completely with your statement that people are not free to choose to believe or not to believe. One must be compelled to...
I don't see how a sense of wonder about being alive and curiosity about how we got here should lead one to consider the existence of god. The idea...
Just to clarify: I would take as evidence in favor of a non-blind natural selection something like the development of a complex trait for which...
We don't need god for anything. God is useless as a being and as an idea. Except for Thor. Thor is the man. He could drink Yahweh under the table...
God is an unintelligible idea.
I think it is extremely likely that people today interpret the bible very differently from how the authors intended it.
Many people treat atheism as if it were itself a belief system. It is as if so called atheists were always in a state of actively denying the...
I haven't read his religious writings yet but his scientific works both early and recent demonstrate that Dawkins is a brilliant thinker and an...
In response to Razor: I do not assume that natural selection is blind. I study natural selection and conclude that it is blind based on the weight...
No biological entities, or aspects of biological entities, have ever been observed that could not have possibly arisen through evolutionary...
What sort of designer would put hind limb buds in dolphin embryos, or yolk sacks in human embryos? Also, if there is a designer then who designed...
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