Recent content by dewaddict84

Sauce and sauce, please. Because I really don't know what you're talking about. Rock flowing with water... Like a cobblestone river? A spring in a mountain? Burned mountain.... I remember something about a burning bush. Did it spread? Are wildfires now divine providence?

Jane got the nitty-gritty of why the individual breaths without any personal training, but the system that she describes boils down to "instinct". And that was developed through the long hard road of evolution. The same sort of instincts that tell us to go make babies and to be nice to one...

You're original post was unabashedly assaulting science. It's only trying to make progress and make the world a better place.

I think I have a pretty good idea about why christians believe what they do. It's mostly tradition and sociology. I'd like you to post links to those reports. Of course, we still can't fully explain gravity... so... I guess this could be true in a weaselly sort of way. The ones that I believe...

Meaning and purpose in life is pretty easy to get. In fact, a lot of people in places of power are more then willing to tell you what to do with your life. Some even insist. If you want to trust them, that's no skin off my teeth. (Uh. Unless you vote within my democracy, then it kind of bungs...

Yeah, but those types of preachers are usually pretty new-agey. You know, cosmic love and all that.

Christianity has a lot of traditions. The pork was just an example of tradition. You're being redundant there. So uh.... You're highly process corn syrup? Hmmm, well that's an idea. It would take an anthropologies to really sort this one out. Well we know what flavors it DOESN'T apply to! Eh? Eh?

Tiberius, why would you do something so awful. Think of the poor geology professor!

Ah. Sorry Mark. I remembered you're a libertarian, and presumed your stance. My apologies if I was off base. I still don't see the difference between altruism and selflessness. Or biological-altruism, selfless altruism, virtuous benevolence, other-regard, benevolence. And I'm not sure what...

Perhaps it's for the same reason that Luther nailed a note to the door. A lot of traditions are pointless and turn people off. Take pork for example. People who ate pork died of trichinosis, so pork was declared unclean. And, in a certain light, they were correct. Now we know about trichinosis...

Yeahhh, I'm thinking your libertarianism is going to get in the way of this discussion, Mark. Let's cut to the quick. On a fundamental level, I'd agree with the libertarian stance that there IS no such thing as "true" altruism. Everything we do, we do for a reason. And that reason is, however...

I'd have to second that from an atheist perspective. Atheists get the short end of the stick in a lot of situations and hardly any respect out in public, but that's just peanuts compared to historical religious persecution. And it's not much compared to present day oppression either. So what if...

Yeah, close enough. There's that whole solipsism, which is kinda a worthless, which takes that question to an extreme. It's one of those things that jr. high school kids have to get past. What we can determine about our surroundings is, if not the "true" reality, then at least our current...

I believe that's part comes with the omnipotence and the omniscience, that is if you think your god swings that way. Has anyone mentioned yet that we're a social species? We've lived in societies for long enough that the basics of working together, as can be represented as a set of morals, has...

I don't know. While I'm really REALLY against our (USA's) involvement in foreign affairs, keeping Libya from launching air-strikes on it's own civilians seems like a pretty good use of resources. And while, yeah, some people are going to say our involvement is just for the oil, it's not like we...