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On what empirical basis do you basis that opinion? A 'gut' (lol) feeling?

Really? I doubt you actually read the Manifesto if that's your opinion. First off, it's a political tract so of course there isn't going to be serious economic models presented or serious...

Judging purely from the first post, this theory reeks of Lamarkist misunderstanding of evolution.

I'm going to be completely honest: I have no clue what you are talking about.

There is no religion that actually places a face upon God? Aside from the obvious statues constructed by Hindus, all religious give characteristics to God (which is akin to giving god a metaphysical...

I can't wait. Birth control is such a pain.

I don't see how you could draw to such a conclusion...


Indeed, traveling through the many schools of the Pink invisable Unicornism can be quite the intellectual exercise as well, especially if...

It is impossible to disprove God by the very definition of God (or any other metaphysical being). That does not mean that the God hypothesis is as valid as any other hypothesis. Would you also...

A belief system that advocates belief without evidence is inheriently harmful (faith). It removes the individual from logic and reason by the very definition of faith, and that has few positive...

In terms of evidence: Laws of physics>>interviews.

The debate between TG and DD really seems to boil down to DD believing that: Jesus Christ, the character who terrorized Rome and healed the sick,...

Thanks for that.

I'll scan through it and get back to you.

QUOTE=EmperorJulian;1923002] Just as surely as someone can come out and say carbon dioxide drives temperature increases, someone else can say temperature increases drive carbon dioxide levels. ...

Get your global cooling myths straight Rush:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling

Gloom and doom that wasn't coming from the scientific community:


It is a myth that the scientific community was fear mongering about global cooling.

Peer review is simply the process of making sure pseudoscience doesn't creep up where it doesn't belong. Reviewers will often disagree with what they are review, but as long it is doesn't utter...

Could you give me his first name? MacDonald is rather common and "group evolutionary explanation model" is not getting me any results on google or on my University database.

Is he an advocate of...

Which discoveries were these?

130 thousand years ago. Give or take. Going back as far as you want in the records, large and rapid increases in temperature generally are met with exctintions.
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Indeed, there are always exceptions, but none of the causes to these exceptions are really applicable at the current moment. There have been a few volcano eruptions in recent years, kicking up a fair...

I think only the most naive of the 'fear-mongerers' actually think that the temperature remaings constant. However, most do believe that temperature fluctuates rather mildly, rather than booming and...

A notion that was expressed when?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_global_warming


This thread is quite absurd.

I enjoyed the last bit concerning European syndicalism essentially, but some of the assertions at the top were a bit too broad and 'meta-narrativeist' (yes, I made that word up) to really get...

I really do not know how you are defining race here, but the classical scientific taxonomic basis for 'race' is almost completely rejected in modern biology. If your definition of race is simply...

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-1175300547407479800
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-Edit: Thanks to Cuchulainn for showing me how to embed.

General Premise: Derren Brown travels around America...

If you involk a single notion of God ('God' is such a vague term that it essentially loses any cognitive meaning), I might be inclined to agree with you, and I would likely have a negative belief in...

ThiudareiksGunthigg messed up the saying.

Atheism is a belief like bald is a haircolour.

Atheism is not a negative belief in gods, it is simply the absence of belief in gods. It is not...

Mutations.

EDIT: Out of the way Valentine.

And where did this creator come from? Did he come from another creator? A creator-creator? Or perhaps he is eternal? Oh wait,perhaps matter is eternal. Perhaps our Universe was just one bubble in the...

Exactly who are these people and exactly what did they say? If they did say that the sun does not effect the Earth's Temperature in any significant way, they are dead wrong and should really be...

You have 50 animals in enviroment A. Enviroment A only has enough food for 30 animals. The 30 animals with the best phenotypes to get the food in Enviroment A will get the food, the other 20 die of...

I don't think I use Occam's Razor all the time or use it as the end all, but I'm actually interested in hearing about cases where it doesn't apply.

We are still working on it. Which is a much more reasonable thing to do than to make up an answer that is logical invalid via Occam's Razor.

And before you answer, let it be known that if I can...

That's not a real book ^-^

The Satanic Verses is by Rushdie, while Le Vay wrote The Satanic Bible.

I did say 'growth', but then again I'm making a pretty big assumption even there. I was lead to believe that such was the case due to the expansion of faith-based schools.

Fair enough, just let it stand that that is why I view Islam as negative.


I don't believe this was an argument on the logical reasoning of Islam. If you wish to have that debate with me, I'd be...

You think labelling a belief system that is built off logical fallacy after logical fallacy (as all religions are) as negative is silly?

I'm Canadian and know very little about Korean culture outside of a few Korean words. Park and Kim are both famous Korean politicans (Park being the main leader behind Korea's growth, and Kim often...

Negative. I view it slightly worse than christianity and perhaps around the same level of 'badness' as hinduism.