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For various reasons, yes. I mean, it's not as if they're all hallucinating, but that there's a logical, non-mystical explanation for what they claim to have experienced. Sorry, my last post got eaten. I remember reading something on how a geneticist found the "God Gene", which was linked ...

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"...except to suggest a lack of reason for beliefs, values, or practices predicated on theism." Newdow's argument wasn't predicated on a "lack of reason". He offered a direct value judgement based on his religious beliefs. Clearly, atheism is suggesting a set of values, based on...

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I'm also aware that it's impossible to design an experiment that will me to prove there are no sentient extraterrestrials in the trunk of a particular car, the location of which (and the existence of it, really) is totally unknown to me. Easily done. Simply check, by visual and tactile inspection, ...

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3 doesn't apply at all. Atheism is inherently not applicable to spiritualism. Madeline Murray O'Hare isn't spiritual, and she certainly isn't "atheism." As I pointed out to Marius, 3 doesn't apply to all Christians, either. There are many subsects, all of which acknowledge different perso...

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No, it's not objectively testable. First of all, I don't even know where your car is parked. Second, even if I did, exactly like in the case of god my failure to observe a sentient extraterrestrial life form fails to prove the nonexistence of one. "Objectively testable" means that an expe...

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Atheism is, by definition, not a religion. [How many times have we been through this?] And if it is "an unprovable belief system claming to clarify the meaning of life," then so are taoism, humanism, and believing ET's not in your trunk, none of which are religious beliefs, except under a...

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Because he's continually redefining words - like fundamentalism - and making absurd and axiomatically untrue statements like, "Atheism is a religion just as much as say Christianity, as it is an unprovable belief system claming to clarify the meaning of life." Actually, his definition of ...

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3278 wrote:That guy's a total idiot, and not just because I think his views are ridiculous.

That's not a useful statement. *Why* do you think his views are so wrong?

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I'm not certain what exactly the notion of "fundamentalist scientist" would refer to. Stephen Jay Gould comes immediately to mind. I mean, the guy knew his stuff, but he was also an arrogant loudmouth who never knew when to leave well enough alone. Even other evolutionary biologists held ...

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Religion and science aren't at loggerheads. It's religous people and scientists who can't agree with each other.

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No, it would be illogical. As CE and I have been - rationally - talking about, it's source that matters. To be simpler, "magic" comes from the devil, while "miracles" come from God. It's pretty much that simple. [Stupid, yeah, from our point of view, but tolerance and understand...

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Here's the link: http://komo4.com/stories/38077.htm Star Trek's 'Scotty' Dies At 85 July 20, 2005 By KOMO Staff & News Services LOS ANGELES - James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original "Star Trek" TV series and motion pictures who responded to the...

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Hey, Cain? Do you see the words "always and universally" in there? Hey, 32? Do you see any qualifiers in your statement? No? Then shut up and take your helping of crow. If you hadn't put things that way in the first place, we wouldn't be having this argument. You're trying to weasel and b...

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I believe it is. And from someone who specializes in ridicule, I, of all people, should know. Ah, an appeal to personal experience? You should realize exactly how weak of an argument that is. I believe you're right; attacking Harry Potter is a waste of energy, because magic isn't real, Harry Potter...

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That's exactly it. Well, perhaps not phrased that way, but to draw attention to the fact that intolerance is being met with intolerance, that people are taking the easy out of ridiculing Christians without attempting to understand them. I'd hardly say that "intolerance is being met with intole...

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But...so? I don't think that has any bearing whatsoever on what I was talking about. As I said before, "Remember, I'm talking about you all, and not about the Christians." Maybe they are being hypocrites. Maybe they're all going to hell. But that's not what I'm talking about; I acknowledg...

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Although I might point out that treating "Christians" as a unit is highly inaccurate. I suspect many of the people against Potter are not against Narnia, but without evidence, I will not judge them. I'll acknowledge that saying "all Christians" is a poor choice of words, but I t...

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Sorry, 32, but it doesn't wash. Christians are bang alongside murder, killing, torture, and evil sorcery in fiction, when it suits their purpose. Look at the Chronicles of Narnia-- C.S. Lewis wrote them as analogies for various aspects of Christianity. I have yet to see an outcry about those books. ...

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[url=http://www.comcast.net/entertainment/index.jsp?cat=ENTERTAINMENT&fn=/2005/07/14/178326.html]Oh, dear gods, it's the old anti-D&D argument again....[/quote] Pope Concerned Over Harry Potter Books By Associated Press Thu Jul 14, 8:11 AM BERLIN - In a letter sent two years before becoming ...

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