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Recent content by Mediate

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    Flat Earth question for atheists and christians, just try and answer this

    If a helicopter stays above the WhiteHouse, and the WhiteHouse sits on ground of the Earth that's spinning 1037 mph, then technically, the ground, the WhiteHouse, and the helicopter above it are all moving at 1037 mph. Inertia.
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    What would be evidence for the Existence of God?

    The fact still remains that news traveled much slower than it would today, and there remains no proof of a resurrection. In fact, a resuscitation, after presumption of death, would have looked like a resurrection to people as superstitious as in Jesus' day, and frankincense and myrrh (the things...
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    Best Argument For or Against God's Existence

    Exactly, á la "the anthropic principle". If creationists want to talk about God creating the Earth they'd be best to do so with a stark realization that what they're saying is insupportable on any tangible scale of knowledge -- logic, scientific inquiry, common sense. This universe, is of...
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    Why Did "Global Warming" Become "Climate Change"?

    Translation: A several millenia old story of a man who led a mass Exodus of the largest slave force in history of which there is absolutely no evidence, and the seed writings thereof, spawned a middle Eastern bloodthirsty religion that worshipped the fictional Yahweh, son of El (God of the...
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    Best Argument For or Against God's Existence

    I'm paraphrasing, but the Buddha described it perhaps, for me at least, most succinctly: "When the conditions required for consciousness are present then consciousness arises, and when the conditions required for consciousness are not present then consciousness ceases to arise". Read "The...
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    All Life Came From One Initial Life - Evidence?

    The issue with the creaitonist view of "kinds" and species that don't overlap being evidence against evolution's validity is that it takes a concept applied after the fact by humans (taxonomic classification), which is an arbitrary ascribation (in the most basic sense of the word arbitrary, in...
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    Best Argument For or Against God's Existence

    People "make" things only in the sense that they refashion what alread exists. Humans, on themost fundamental of scales, can't "create" energy or "destroy" energy, only change it in form. And in fact, we are not even the cause of that energy's change in form. We understand the conditions...
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    Why Did "Global Warming" Become "Climate Change"?

    You need to understand that global warming doesn't mean consistently more warm weather patterns everywhere on Earth, and that climate and weather are different. Global warming is the term used to describe the rise in average temperatures GLOBALLY, across ocean, land, air and atmosphere. And...
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    Best Argument For or Against God's Existence

    Time and space exist. Time and space do not have to exist for "stuff" to exist. A cosmos can exist without a universe existing. A universe, by its definition, has space and time. A cosmos does not have to. The big bang was the beginning of time and space as we know it. "Before the big bang" is...
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    All Life Came From One Initial Life - Evidence?

    Organisms exist and evolve regardless of our classification systems. The sky exists regardless of what colour we call it. Do you think that because we call an organism "canine" it can't, in the future, evolve traits that aren't canine? WE call it a canine, but those labels don't have any...
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    What would be evidence for the Existence of God?

    These were days when there were no pictures, no instantaneous communication. IF someone came who had apparently died, those who heard it would think "well, they mustn't have died in the first place". For them there is no PROOF that the man died, thus no proof that he rose again, other than...
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    All Life Came From One Initial Life - Evidence?

    Then you haven't understood the research. We're made of chemicals. Calcium, phosphorus, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen. That's what we are. The evidence that those chemicals produce life, is that life is made of chemicals. Evidence doesn't suggest men came from whales. It suggests all life...
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    The Creationism Falsification Challenge

    Jesus wasn't a Christian. The Magi weren't Jews, Yahweh wasn't the original God-concept, the "light" wasn't something Jesus learned in Judaism, the promised land isn't physical, the Jerusalem to come isn't a stone city, and the creator of the universe isn't concerned with torturing humans after...
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    The Creationism Falsification Challenge

    Physical light, by definition, is photons. Photons are photons. That's it. Photons don't originate two thousand years ago with a holy man visited by Zoroastrian and Mystic priests at his birth who used the word ''light'' as a mechanism by which one can be ''enlightened'', and who professed to...
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    More Litter On The Road Of Science (2)

    Quite an apt analysis really: fairytales are for suckling children.