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Recent content by DialecticMaterialist

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    A Disturbing Situation

    As we watch the news each night and see our progress on the war against fundementalism, when we see exactly what kind of violent, evil nutcakes are actually out there, we face a problem. Here we live in a nation that kills for unborn embryos, mistreats the elderly, is filled with corruption...
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    Can you believe this???

    LOL. Atheist World banned here too? The guy was booted from both the secular web and the randi forums.
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    A Disturbing Situation

    Implement the Final Solution? ;)
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    Athesist's articles

    You miss the point Icy, if God wants us to believe he could have easily demonstrated his vast knowledge on such issues. Such never happened: that makes your case less probable.
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    Athesist's articles

    Well if He was serious about us believing, it would be pretty compelling evidence.
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    Materialist morality

    Basically I personally adhere to a moral foundationalism. This basically takes similiar form to the foundationalism most are aware of, epistemic foundationalism which involves truths or reasoning beggining with certain self-evident axioms- like sight sensation, sound sensation, the law of...
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    Always atheist?

    Well Heather I'm not sure if your question was directed to me, another person in paticular or a general audience but I will try to answer it. Basically I'm not one hundred percent sure of much. I cannot 100 percent prove that elves, unicorns and faries do not exist. I cannot one hundred...
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    Should Schools Teach Evolution as Fact?

    Who has accredited ICR, I'd like proof of that. And for what have they been accredited? You speak of Astrophysics guys, but what does that have to do with evolution? That's like a linguist speaking on surgery.
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    Kazaa and Christians

    Yes but what about my nano-replicator, if I used it, would I be in trouble for copy-right? I know the question is hypothetical and seems unlikely, but that doesn't me it should be ignored. Likewise the whole idea is not as impossible as one may think. Maybe, but it's hardly like you went...
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    Always atheist?

    When I was very young, 6-8th grade I was a very devout believer. In fact I would get in trouble with teachers and peers for being "overly devout". The evidence eventually turned me away from it though. The reason I turned away is sort of ironic though. I never could believe in a God that...
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    Kazaa and Christians

    I'm wondering then that if I for example copy a song from the radio, is that now theft? Or lets say I share a copy of a song with my friend, is that copyright infingement? Or if I lend them the copy, or the cd...is that now infringement? Though there is a simple way to get around that...
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    Galileo

    I was well aware of Tycho's model. In fact information about it can be found on one of my links: http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Things/copernican_system.html
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    Should Schools Teach Evolution as Fact?

    Both the NAS and Scientific American magazine have said that the evidence for evolution is overwhelming. If that's not good enough I can bring in the Royal Society: http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/news/news_culture.htm And if that;s not good enough I have an Amicus Curiae Brief of 72 Nobel...
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    Galileo

    Bruno, yes I will mention him why not? Do you think he dserved being tortured and burned at the stake for expressing his views? There is Bruno:http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/People/bruno.html Also the actual reasons for Bruno's execution i.e. the charges are largely unknown because...
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    Why should anybody go to hell?

    And I can't believe you brush it off so irresponsibly. Tell me how does one sin while in the afterlife? Does one somehow have temptations of the flesh? Does one somehow murder,rape, or harm other souls? That seems improbable with free will around. But aren't they just self-rightous and...