Recent content by Philosoft

Pardon? I think I've addressed every example you mentioned. I hope you're not talking about the "various other little conflicts" part. I wasn't aware the insurgents "came from different countries mostly." Source? I dunno, did it? Did our intelligence suggest he had active chemical...

Or harmful dominant alleles for that matter.

Daughters, at least one of which they sent to Nod, presumably for the sole purpose of providing Cain with a wife? And we know all this from where in the Bible?

Really. At this point, that explanation has as much credibility as any other.

Somalia didn't have much of a government at the time, so it's not like we were overthrowing or deposing. Grenada was yet again about Communism. You can try, but I just don't think you'll be able to show that altruism is often a core motivation for US invasions. Well, you say the...

True in the extreme abstract, but naive in reality.

Don't feel like registering. But I gotta ask... people get murdered rather more often than any of us would like. Is this woman's death newsworthy because she was a GOP worker and... dare I say, because we're supposed to infer that possibly one of those hyper-violent liberals might have been...

Perhaps Dick Cheney has an even greater influence over Bush than even we cynics believed.

So, on the one hand we have radiological and mechanical processes that, virtually without fail, individually give us a planetary age in the 4.5 billion year range. On the other, we have... lush green planet. :doh: This is not to intentionally insult, but you really might want to save...

There are a number of differing opinions about the total possible output of the brain. The average action potential amounts to perhaps 40 mV at its peak, but there's no consensus on how much of that is in the 2-40 Hz range that shows up on an EEG. High estimates put the total electrical output...

These acts were largely caused by individuals. And, as we all should know, individuals are not obliged to adhere to an evolutionary mean.

It is. But rape is wrong because we've already defined 'rape' as 'sexual penetration against a person's will.' However, since no person ever wants to do something contrary to his will by definition, 'rape is wrong' is a tautology.

Unless He's specifically tasked you with ridding the world of these evils, I'd say you need to let God deal with them. The Constitution says that, too. You're not going to win an anti-homosexuality argument on any front, save perhaps Scriptural. You undoubtedly lack the requisite...

I call that, at best, two examples in 60 years. Vietnam, perhaps, but our motives were hardly sparkling in that case - 'Communists are bad atheists! Attack!' Was this before or after Bush declared victory aboard a carrier? And these chemical weapons would come from where?

Well... isn't it? Do we just get to arbitrarily decide which peoples are oppressed enough to warrant invasion? Physically broken and jobless until just recently. But things are looking up, as they always manage to do. Doesn't usually require overthrowing governments. See above. See...