Recent content by BrianOnEarth

Besides, this is rich coming from Darth Vader! :P I actually think there is a causal relationship between logic and emotion. Emotion influences our ability to be logical and objective. Obviously. I agree that, theoretically, being strictly logical does not prevent someone being emotional, and...

I learned this from Mr. Spock. ;) More recently, Mr. Dawkins is not someone I would want to invite to Christmas lunch. So the atheist/rational stereotype ranges from the unemotional to the arrogant. What I am saying is that the message to celebrate reason instead of myth needs to be justified...

What? You mean the Bible story? Sure. ;)

There will be bullet holes in that sign before the new year. :P Ok. Well, my opinion is that another atheist organisation is missing the point. The point about Christmas is that it is emotionally uplifting and reinforcing of basic emotional good things like life (child birth) and love and...

Hello. What you are choosing to do is to ignore the real world all about you that shows a detailed audit trail of the physical evolution of humans. Are you aware that you are ignoring reality? That is your choice. I just hope you realise you are making it.

Message Theory predicts that if enough scientific sounding language is used that more people will stay faithful.

:thumbsup: It's the perceived loss of hope and the actual acceptance of responsibility that is implied.

Yes it is an absurd conclusion but not unexpected. Explanation is the enemy of superstition. Knowledge of nature and human psychology is the enemy of superstition. The Scientologists actually have some decree against the practice of psychiatry. Science is the enemy of ignorance. Believe but...

She is a 15 year old school girl! How do you know what she, and her school chums, were thinking? Besides, it isn't like she has burned every book and erased every hard disk on the planet. She has just destroyed one of millions of copies of the same information. Big deal. Also, sometimes...

Objectively, burning a book is not much different from burning any other wood product, except for ink and glue and maybe some plastic. Objectively, a girl has video'd burning some wood. To me, the "bad" thing is when we project on to an object a sort of superstitious significance. Of...

...that achieve the same reliability? I don't mean achieve in the sense that you are personally satisfied, but achieve in the sense of being demonstrated to be reliable.

Can be. My advice, don't ever go for a job behind a fresh food counter. The customers will not be sympathetic to your views of physical age.

Some people know what they believe. Other people believe what they know.

One of the things I find bizarre is that you sometimes talk like a scientist but then you make ambiguous, unscientific statements such as "there are different types of truth". It seems when you argue with AV you get all materialistic but when you argue with atheists you go all smoke and mirrors...

Yes, and AV should stop using the term "physical" erroneously too. [the bleeding obvious] The time from when the object complied with the definition of a canoe until it no longer complies with that definition is the physical age of the canoe. [/the bleeding obvious] Is there a point to this...