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This man is a part of science! We better take him seriously now.

...Everyone? I thought so anyways. Isn't it basically accepted fact that children are predisposed to absorb everything their parents teach them unquestioningly at youth, and then learn are supposed to learn the mechanism of logical evaluation and doubt later in life? I mean it seems so entirely...

Generally, children find religion due to indoctrination, not wisdom. This is totally irrelevant either way, though. Edit: no, philosophy is entirely recreational by nature.

Expanding my previous post. Hawkings has a history of taking the amazingly vast and complicated concepts he deals with and wording them so pedestrians like us can understand. This thread is dedicated to pointing out a semantics issue with one of his simplifications. It's like a child saying...

A thread in which the uninformed masses doubt one of the most intelligent and educated men alive. Well, I know who I'm siding with.

You... don't even understand what I mean, do you? That is kind of amazing.

I wish I could perform mental acrobatics like you.

A fetus is not a baby. Please do not use emotional terminology to confuse this biological issue. Confirmation bias.

Nothing would happen besides our respective emotional reactions: I would be totally indifferent, he or she would probably be the same, considering the crowd I hand out with. I would dismiss his or her words as merely words, which are not sticks or stones.

I am shocked at the ignorance that would allow someone to equate "crazy Mexican women fail to get away with infanticide by calling it abortion" to "evil aborting women punished, all abortion is wrong, death to personal freedoms I do not agree with."

Seriously? This is noteworthy? A coincidental cloud formation?

Oh, she's from Mississippi! I thought the news article was calling her "miss lesbian"! Anyways, props to the girl. Gender-specific rules should be based in absolute necessity or nonexistent.

Overweight? Yeah, maybe. Obese? No, not at all. If you're obese then you have a medical condition and you should be working to fix it for your own health. Anyone who is obese and happy about it is either ignorant or suicidal.

I agree with this. Teachers should give statistics showing the rate of teen pregnancies in abstinence-only environments, and the comparable rates for environments that give an actual education on sexuality. Then they should still receive a full education on condoms, birth control, the morning...

Wh- what? You don't think people still use the f and d words as insults? Are you deaf and blind? I ask seriously, because ef ay gee is still a VERY popular insult. Meanwhile, "Jesus Christ" has NEVER been an insult. It's been an exclamation, which is entirely different. And for millions of...

I'm reminded of a question my father asked on the subject of praying for help. Many survivors of the Titanic claim that they were saved because they prayed to God for help. But the implication is that everyone who died aboard the Titanic either did not pray, or prayed and was not helped. Why...

Another one! Pitiable. I agree that the wording of historical documents is influenced by the culture of the time, but that's hardly evidence that Christianity is responsible for America. America was founded on profit, you know? Boston Tea Party? Taxation without representation? And, yes...

You have no understanding of America, politics, the court system, or history, if this post was made honestly. Really, in a thread about education, too. Disappointing.

Going to have to ask you to support this stance with facts. Parents are free to educate themselves, but their children should receive the best possible education from actual schools. Even if some parents are capable of doing their kids right with a solid education, homeschooling can't provide...

The sex industry isn't doing anything "obviously wrong" to me, besides maybe exploiting women who are down on their luck. If you want to convince people that stripping is morally wrong then you're going to have to be much more explicit about your logic then just pointing out how obvious your...