"It surprises me how few people recognize the huge fallacy in all of this, true or not.
One would have thought the question, is this the best of all possible worlds, was thrashed to death by medieval theologians.
Yet here it is again in all of its…"
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Religion is Obsolete
Started this discussion. Last reply by Bill Feb 24, 2011. 3 Replies 0 Likes
There have been plenty of discussions trying to show how religion is right or wrong, true or false, good or bad etc. I think most of these have missed an important point. Religion has actually played…Continue
Alabama Governor: Only Christians are my Brothers
Started this discussion. Last reply by Jason Jan 20, 2011. 36 Replies 0 Likes
Alabama Republican Governor Robert Bentley said in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day message Monday that he does not consider Americans who do not accept Jesus Christ as their savior to be his brothers…Continue
Atheism is For Adults!
Started this discussion. Last reply by Bill Dec 24, 2010. 47 Replies 0 Likes
Atheism is a more adult world view than theism. Adults, we would hope, would talk to each other with reason and respect; of course in the real world it rarely works like that. However, in the real…Continue
John 2: 15-16
Started this discussion. Last reply by AndyMeanie Nov 19, 2010. 35 Replies 0 Likes
My niece's idiot fundy husband just posted this on FB "Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world -…Continue
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Matt Giwer replied to Bill's discussion 'Climate scientists plan campaign against global-warming skeptics'Matt Giwer replied to Bill's discussion 'Climate scientists plan campaign against global-warming skeptics'"Real scientists do not do things like that."
Becca replied to Bill's discussion 'Climate scientists plan campaign against global-warming skeptics'"Regardless of the validity of human causes of Global Climate Change it's abundantly clear to me that the human species needs to stop the scorched earth way in which we use resources and focus on developing renewable technology and resources. I…"
Pope Beanie replied to Bill's discussion 'Climate scientists plan campaign against global-warming skeptics'"I a bigger picture, I see this as just one of the more complicated debates the world has to face. When it gets complicated, too many people desperately resort to oversimplification, ad hom and name calling, denial (including "just let God sort…"
Logicallunatic replied to Bill's discussion 'Climate scientists plan campaign against global-warming skeptics'"All you have then is name-calling and 'arguments' but no real evidence. The temperature increase corresponds perfectly with the increase in CO2 being pumped out by humans. Do you think all that CO2 has magically disappeared?…"
Arcus replied to Bill's discussion 'Climate scientists plan campaign against global-warming skeptics'"Your profile says France, which is hardly a socialist country. Indeed, the president and government is currently Conservative. There is a substantial difference between socialist and social democratic.
My 'agenda', as far as I have one, is…"
Scott Howard replied to Bill's discussion 'Climate scientists plan campaign against global-warming skeptics'"Since I'm not a scientist, I don't know one way or the other. There SEEMS to be a consensus that Global Warming is real, so I'll have yo go with it as I don't know enough to know otherwise. So, I have CFLs, I recycle, I walk when…"
Arcus replied to Bill's discussion 'Climate scientists plan campaign against global-warming skeptics'"You utterly fail to provide any evidence of an environmentalism-socialism link, except your contempt for both. You have no clue of what socialism is, which makes any debate futile.
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Arcus replied to Bill's discussion 'Climate scientists plan campaign against global-warming skeptics'""It's really socialism posing as environmentalism"
Are you saying that environmentalism is class struggle pitting the working class against the bourgeoisie and that ownership of the means of production should be transferred to…"
Pope Beanie replied to Bill's discussion 'Climate scientists plan campaign against global-warming skeptics'"crucial problems such as curing various pestilent diseases, eliminating poverty, helping the various underclasses overthrow their oppressors
You understand of course that rapid climate change would make all of those problems worse, and more? Not to…"
Unseen replied to Bill's discussion 'Climate scientists plan campaign against global-warming skeptics'"Anyway, what exactly would be so bad if we went greener, even if (in an absurd world) the global warming wasn't anthropological?
Fighting global warming will divert, eventually, trillions of dollars from other crucial problems such as curing…"
Stephen Walski replied to Bill's discussion 'Climate scientists plan campaign against global-warming skeptics'"Makes it hard to reach people when the exact same scientific observations they are using to argue that global warming is happening was used int he 70s to argue we were coming to a new ice age.
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Logicallunatic replied to Bill's discussion 'Climate scientists plan campaign against global-warming skeptics'"The climate doesn't exist, there is no evidence to support it, it's a hoax perpetrating by godless scientists, because Jesus makes rain go up and down and the tide in and out, never a miscommunication. See there! proof climate change is…"
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Bill replied to Bill's discussion 'Religion is Obsolete'"Would it have been better to say God is obsolete?"
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- At 1:47pm on December 30, 2010,
Jason said… - What river is that your on? What class are on it?
- At 1:19am on December 30, 2010,
An Atheist A Foxhole said… - Thank you, Bill. Have a great New Year.
- At 12:14am on September 17, 2010,
Shine said… - Agreed! I absolutely love this astronomy class. Next time that I live somewhere with less light pollution, I am definitely getting a telescope!
- At 12:10pm on September 10, 2010,
Adam Lawson said… - Hey man, thank you, great to finally find others like me.
- At 9:25pm on September 3, 2010,
Diana Agorio said… - I don't think you will find it at your local library. It is only available on Amazon and as a download on Smashwords for now.
- At 6:56pm on September 3, 2010, Diana Agorio said…
- Thanks, Bill! I am getting great feedback from the first readers of my book; so, this is a very happy week for me. Nice to meet you.
- At 12:08pm on August 19, 2010,
Kurt Raihn said… - Thanks. Just a few tunes to get my music library going.
- At 6:06am on August 12, 2010, Jason said…
- Uh-Rah
- At 5:24pm on August 10, 2010,
Just Spence said… - It's good to hear from you again Bill. Yup, I'm the same person you remember from Sam Harris's board. I haven't been there in forever -- kinda got tired of debating people who would neither use nor listen to logic. It's just tiresome to engage in a debate using logic vs. a person whose arguments attempt to sound logical, but which in reality are based on something else entirely. That and I did another tour in Iraq. (Or maybe two more tours-- I can't remember specifically when I was on Harris's board -- '07? ' 08?)
In any event, thanks for your note. As should be apparent, I'm new to this forum. But hopefully it will prove to be a more enriching experience than some of my past fruitless debates.
Keep in touch and write whenever you care to.
Best,
Spence
- At 6:46pm on July 28, 2010,
Reggie said… - Indeed! Due on the 31st, so, any day now, really. Waiting impatiently....
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