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At least 50% of the mentally ill abuse drugs or alcohol (alcoholism). The reasons are varied. Many drugs can be used to selfmedicate (insomia is a very common problem in many mental health disorders that can be treated with drugs) Others try out drugs because their sense for risk is temporarily...

I recently had the doubtfull experience of encountering an atheist forum the "thinking atheist" that states in the rules that ad hominem attacks and foul language is allowed. 1. Such a forum is inacessible to the mentally handicaped as they can not stand such attacks. 2. A meaningfull...

One of the arguments I saw here is that we can not calculate the propability of the universe because we only have one sample to compare too. I answered that the values of all the laws in the universe could in theory be different so that is what we can compare propability to. Somehow people had...

Hi, I have read a lot about the higgs boson now and everyone says that the higgs boson is highly unlikely to have it's propabilities by chance. However I can not find a good source or reference what that means in numbers.

Some people feel that physics is heading in the wrong direction because it increasingly relies on untestable concepts to fill the holes in it's knowledge: "The issue of testability has been lurking for a decade. String theory and multiverse theory have been criticized in popular books1, 2, 3...

The question is so special that I thought it would merit an individual treat. The idea that multiverses exist is often used to state that every kind of universe can exist, however if there are universes that do vary so much from our universe that they can be called a new "type" of universe (I...

When my depression became strongest I become fullblown atheist and for a time even mysotheist (godhater). Before you get to angry on me: I have been diagnosed with delusional depressions. I think two things contributed to this: 1. Firstly during my depression my concentration did go down so I...

Some of the physics of this universe seems to be preprogrammed to create life. What is your favourite argument against such a line of thought? You can mention several arguments of course but I would like to know which one you prefere.

Attention title misnomer: the treat is about the existence of life (and indirectly fine tuning). There is an argument here that I am trying to understand which claims we we should not wonder that life exists because that is not anything less improbable that that a tornado exists. Judging from...