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  1. Karl - Liberal Backslider

    Well, it's been fun, but... (with reflection)

    ...what was the point of coming back? Same old misrepresentations, disingenous claptrap, swivel-eyed lunacy and utter ignorance that convinced me six years ago that I was wasting my time here. The last couple of weeks have reminded me of why I came to that conclusion. There's no point...
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    Should Schools be Required to Teach Evolution?

    Suggest people you disagree with should kill themselves and then play the victim card? Dear, dear me.
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    6-Million-Year-Old Human Ancestor 1st to Walk Upright?

    You know, jamin, that the scientific presentation would actually consist of more than the bones and the artists' impression - indeed, the latter wouldn't be part of the evidence at all. Why do you not link to the actual paper describing the find, which would include things like: 1...
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    Theistic Evolution

    In practice, as things stand, it largely is. It is not however in principle untestable or unobservable. Hence it is still a valid scientific tentative framework. String theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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    Theistic Evolution

    Nuclear decay? Last I heard there was no apparent cause for individual decay events, even though en masse they are statistically predictable. eta - I oversimplify - the nuclear decay is caused by quantum fluctuation; but the quantum fluctuation itself appears to be uncaused. Hence nuclear...
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    Should Schools be Required to Teach Evolution?

    What a pleasant individual and advertisement for the gospel you are.
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    What was that common ancestor?

    To be fair, it's a bit more complicated than that, and depends on how you define "monkey". Apes and Old World monkeys have a more recent ancestor than the Old World Monkeys and New World monkeys, and if we're going to make the monkeys a monophyletic group (i.e. a clade) then it's going to have...
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    Should Schools be Required to Teach Evolution?

    We know what libertarianism is. We just don't agree with it. It's like communism in a way - lovely idea in theory; wouldn't actually work.
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    Why do men have nipples?

    I think we're more interested in your assertion that "if your [sic] not breathing then your [sic] not alive" - fish do not breathe, but are alive. Plants do not breathe, but are alive. People in respiratory rest do not breathe, but are alive. They all respire, but that's not the same thing.
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    Theistic Evolution

    Indeed. This universe may have a beginning, but what if its cause is a previous universe or other level of the natural world? (where are they with colliding branes these days?)
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    Should Schools be Required to Teach Evolution?

    I'm always exasperated by the way libertarians seem to assume that their ideas of the limits of government are self evidently correct. Opinions differ. I didn't come here to argue politics, so just let's leave it that you and I do not agree on this topic, nor are likely to.
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    Should Schools be Required to Teach Evolution?

    You can always homeschool. What you can't do is fail to provide any education at all.
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    Should Schools be Required to Teach Evolution?

    That's as maybe, but there are some things we do not let parents do to their children. Beat them to death, sell them as slaves, leave their illnesses untreated, fail to feed them. There is no absolute reason why "deny them an education" shouldn't be in that list, as indeed it is. Or do you...
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    Should Schools be Required to Teach Evolution?

    Indeed. It's hard to know how someone's freedom to live their life as they choose in a modern Western economy could be limited more than by the simple expedient of allowing their parents to deny them an education.
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    Why atheists need to stop using Occam's Razor

    And from there I quote: ● Members shall not make posts which violate the copyrights of others or promote another work as your own. Quoted portions of any work, with in reason, must not exceed 20% of the total work. Materials owned by the Associated Press shall not be quoted using more...