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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C29k4rHMdp8 Please discuss!

Well, at least that is one of the claims in the book "I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist" by Norman Geisler and Frank Turek. Many of you should know of this book as it is the focus of my Evidence thread in the History Forum. The book says this on page 129. "...if materialism is true...

OK, let's dispense entirely with the whole "existence of God" debate. Unless something has changed and I missed it, the same arguments have been playing out for the last, oh, two or three millennia and we're not getting any closer to settling it. It's almost like, if there were a God, then His...

to all the filth in the old testament?

I don't believe there is, but I believe you fine people will know if there is or isn't.

Seeing all this furor over cartoons on both sides of the issues. Isn’t time everyone calm down and start thinking rationally. It’s not just Muslims who are overreacting to this whole cartoon farce. I remember 9/11 back then I was young and my immediate thought was “lets” nuke mecca and medina...

Logic The branch of philosophy that deals with the formal properties of arguments and the philosophical problems associated with them. The use of critical thinking, particularly binary yes/no thinking and inductive/deductive reasoning, as a means of testing ideas and debate. Reason In...

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20051127T210000-0500_93495_OBS_GANG_FOUNDER_S_DEATH_ROW_DRAMA_GAINS_STAR_SUPPORT.asp There is no doubt that this "Tookie" object is a low life of immense proportions. The fact that a PR machine could alter the course of justice in so grave a matter...

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Hubble sees stars as they're born. Sweeeeeet. Thoughts?

Techocract.net had a interesting article. http://technocrat.net/article.pl?sid=05/08/05/1746252&mode=thread I'm a bit skeptical of the conclusions, but it's an interesting article.

Story here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4675103.stm and this: As a sound engineer, I would love to know how the mechanisms of female vocal chords produce different intonations so utterly complex our brain has a hard time reproducing a false version of it... Thoughts?

interview with the lawyer who argued for the plaintiffs. http://www.reason.com/interviews/bullock.shtml

The Sun newspaper has been carrying out a survey of beliefs. It has found that the majority of people still believe in a God in the UK. Fair enough. What is slightly more offensive is the tone in today's paper which firstly implies that it is basically one in the eye for "Intellectuals and...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/frontpage/4414653.stm

Since the claimants are to accept the testing protocol and they are to verify that testing conditions are fair before testing, why not throw in a bonus? Claimants who fail has to stop practicing their (now proven) b-s. I can think of a few reasons, e.g. scaring away the few participants...

A while ago--maybe a couple of years ago--I posted something to the effect that other artists reveal all their secrets but we love their art all the same, so why should magic be special. I just caught Banacek's segment at TAM 2 where he gave a really good reason to keep the secrets secret. What...

Reason The capacity for logical, rational, and analytic thought; intelligence. Good judgment; sound sense. To talk or argue logically and persuasively. Perfect Lacking nothing essential to the whole; complete of its nature or kind. Being without defect or blemish. Completely suited for a...

I don't believe in a god, but I've been pondering this question. We aren't our arms, legs, eyes, etc, because we can lose those and still be considered "ourselves" and "alive." I hesitate to say that we're our brain, because a brain can exist and not be alive. Likewise, measurable brain...

And we often wonder why scientific illiteracy exists. I just returned from the NSTA (National Science Teacher) convention in Seattle where these people had a booth. http://www.reasons.org/index.shtml There tactic was pretty subtle. They had a bunch of current scientific books like Eligant...

Satan has a very complex plan. I will call this plan the plan of Damnation which is the opposite of God's plan of Salvation. The plan of Damnation: First, Satan makes your mind think a certain way. In today's world we see a revolution in rationalism. We see people are getting more and more...

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/09/22/iraq.beheading/index.html

Bush mentioned this stuff from the previous administration in his RNC speech, and bitched about 'nothing being done': http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/ http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/yemen010108.html The first WTC bombing, the USS Cole, the embassies, etc...

I have a friend who has been having escalating delusions, and it is pretty apparent he is schizophrenic; he refuses to accept that label or attempt to treat it. He believes most people are telepathic and probing at his thoughts (or that his thoughts are being broadcast on radio or tv for...

http://www.prayforreason.org/

I clipped and fused two of my posts from Physics Forums. It's an argument that explains my position of the necessity of observation in determining the truth of premises that refer to existents. First, the prescriptive laws of reasoning (aka logic) cannot be proven "right" within the system of...

The real reason Islamo Fascists are mad is not because we were abusing prisoners. It's because a WOMAN was abusing them. When you think about it, that is pretty sad. The enemy got their asses kicked by a girl! HA! Shows what American women are made of. And I don't care if they got...

Yes, Saddam Hussein did a good job of concealing his Zionism. However he didn't come out of the closet at the agreed time. Force of habit and fear made him stick to his usual public persona. Saddam Hussein was a Zionist, so it would have been inappropriate for him to continue to be the leader...

Is it for the betterment of mankind or is it for the rewards of the individual? Its seems that there are laws from these religions that are supposed to guide mankind and to keep it true and good. I was taught at a young age that if I was good, kind, and said my prayers that I would be able to go...

Imagine this analogy. You are walking towards the edge of a cliff. Once at the edge, you see fog obscuring the bottom, so you are unable to view what lies below. Taking a deep breath, you leap off, putting your fate into the nature of the surface below. Is it solid ground or a river...