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  1. lesliedellow

    How to be paranoid

    After a temporary bout of sanity, Mega Mouth is at it again. Now it is the British who are spying on him: Britain's GCHQ agency denies wiretapping Donald Trump - BBC News
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    The British Donald Trump

    We would appear to have our very own Donald Trump, whose skin is as thin as tissue paper. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37208527 If calling a politician a liar makes somebody a threat to democracy, I guess 99.99% of the British population are a threat to democracy.
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    A Creationist Creed

    1.) We believe the Earth is 6,000 years old. 2.) We believe that biologists have no idea what they are talking about. 3.) We believe that Darwin was the Devil Incarnate. 4.) We believe that astrophysicists have no idea what they are talking about. 5.) Right, that's the really important stuff out...
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    Richard Carrier solves the mystery of the universe

    I just love this. As clear a case of the Dunning-Kruger effect as could be wished for: http://skeptischism.com/atheismneat/2013/07/24/carriers-theory-of-quantum-incoherence/ Having sorted out the historicity of Jesus, it seems the great man has decided to lend his services to cosmology now.
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    Adam was made from the dust of the ground.....

    "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." The "dust of the ground" is mostly made up of silicon dioxide and various silicates. So, if we are invited to believe that the above verse is literally true...
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    Properties of space

    The curious thing about space is that it seems to have certain definite properties of its own. For example, it is three dimentional. If it is just nothing, why can't you erect as many mutually perpendicular axes as you like?
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    Site keeps crashing

    I s it just me or does anybody else have this site keep crashing on them - in two different browsers.
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    My AVG1611VET challenge.

    I would like to hear him recite the 119th psalm backwards, whilst typing out the book of Jonah on his computer, please.
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    Fred Hoyle and a "super intellect"

    I think this forum could do with a new thread, so I will just post this quote from somebody who spent his life professing to be an atheist, but who seems to have ended up a deist.
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    The EU free thread

    This is the one and only EU free thread on this forum. Post whatever you like, but electric universe and plasma cosmology are banned. No names mentioned, of course.
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    For Geocentrists

    At 16:57UTC on Thursday, the Sun will cross the equator, and Spring will arrive in the northern hemisphere. So how do you explain the cycle of the seasons in your scheme of things?
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    The Old Testament Patriachs & salvation

    This is just a thought, but on the face of it, the doctrine that faith in Christ is the only means of salvation is in direct conflict with Jesus' evident expectation that Abraham will be amongst the occupants of heaven. Abraham, of course, could have had no knowledge of Christ.
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    Regulative Principle

    Calvinists have something called the regulative principle. However, it seems to me that the problem with such an idea is that the very detailed regulations regarding public worship in the Old Testament are completely missing in the New Testament. If God wished to regulate Christian worship in...
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    God's role in the fate of the reprobate

    At various points in the biblical narrative God is portrayed as actively intervening to harden peoples hearts (his dealings with Pharaoh in Exodus are a good example of that). How is that to be reconciled with the orthodox Calvinist teaching that God does not actively bring about the fate of the...
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    An atheist meets God

    An atheist dies, and finds himself standing before God, sitting on a saphire throne, and surrounded by choirs of angels. God tells him he can ask one question. The atheist responds, "Is this some kind of joke?"