Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-06-2007, 04:22 AM
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Replies: 109
Views: 624
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-02-2007, 12:13 PM
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Replies: 46
Views: 195
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-01-2007, 09:13 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 161
Re: Im starting to feel evil
Mother Teresa was an agnostic, if not an atheist, for many years prior to her death. She still cared about other people up until her last day, however. 'Faith' has nothing to do with this.
What...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-01-2007, 08:41 PM
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Replies: 113
Views: 561
Re: Religion DOES Do More Good Than Harm
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David Sklansky FTW!
Nice post Mempho. I even have a hard time seeing Judas in hell.
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In the Bible, Hell is described in multiple verses as being eternal,...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-01-2007, 03:09 PM
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Replies: 113
Views: 561
Re: Religion DOES Do More Good Than Harm
Vhawk already nailed it pretty much,
We all get comfort from our obsessions. You can't gauge the benevolence of your obsession solely by how good it makes you feel, or we should all be addicted to...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
10-29-2007, 03:45 AM
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Replies: 65
Views: 288
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
10-29-2007, 03:38 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 135
Re: Fact/Theory or Factheory?
I think that both deductive and inductive reasoning are legitimate, but we can only make inductive statements about the real world.
Fact can exist only in an axiomatic sense, as in, "if we assume...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
10-23-2007, 12:03 PM
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Replies: 110
Views: 1,009
Re: Greatest People of All Time
Yeah leave splendour alone if it wasn't for him we wouldn't talk about christianity in 99.9% of threads here and instead we'd be blabbing about the details of science or real philosophy or even math.
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
10-23-2007, 04:10 AM
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Replies: 110
Views: 1,009
Re: Greatest People of All Time
These are some very good lists. My additions that I didn't see already would have to be:
Richard Feynman (just a badass)
Alan Turing (persecuted for being homosexual, years ahead of his time,...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
10-23-2007, 02:24 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 143
Re: Am I wrong? Am I wrong?
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Maybe not, but I don't see any acceptable way to reduce the # of stupid people? Do you?
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spend money on education instead of war?
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
10-17-2007, 08:53 PM
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Replies: 58
Views: 241
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
10-08-2007, 07:06 PM
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Replies: 57
Views: 222
Re: Depression and Religion
It definitely helps people to live happier lives. The question is at what cost. The religious warlord sleeps wonderfully every night knowing that he is serving God by killing people.
Marx said it...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
10-08-2007, 03:42 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 42
God synthesized in lab
Just throw on the helmet (http://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=434D7C62-E7F2-99DF-37CC9814533B90D7) and feel the rapture.
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
10-05-2007, 03:07 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 242
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
10-05-2007, 01:11 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 116
Re: The decider is the ego
I disagree, simply because the subconscious is the controller of what we see. Our egos can only even begin to perceive a situation until after our subconscious has processed it. Think about how our...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
10-05-2007, 04:54 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 242
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
09-28-2007, 02:43 AM
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Replies: 112
Views: 389
Re: My Christianity: Free Will
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If humans did not have free will, they would be incapable of love, since they would be essentially be biological robots.
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This is a non-sequitur. You're characterizing...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
09-28-2007, 02:06 AM
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Replies: 55
Views: 191
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
09-26-2007, 12:10 AM
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Replies: 190
Views: 811
Re: Ken Miller: scientist and believeing Catholic
Evolution certainly isn't 'anti-God', but it definitely is anti-scripture, and in that sense is mostly anti-religious.
Scripture and religion explicitly state that humanity is the prideful product...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
09-25-2007, 11:36 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 76
Re: Common sense is anchor
Common sense is the name we give to products of a massive subset of systems that process data all day without us being 'conscious' of them. If they were not hidden from 'conscious' view, then we...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
09-25-2007, 11:04 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 59
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
09-20-2007, 12:49 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 50
Re: Electrical Circuits
I am an electrical engineer so I can probably answer any questions you have, but like others have said it helps to be more specific.
If this is an introductory electronics class, a very helpful...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
09-19-2007, 12:28 AM
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Replies: 41
Views: 385
Re: Why have Only Humans.....
1. We did it first
2. Macroevolution operates on timescales orders of magnitude larger than societal change. This is also why we have such trouble accepting evolution.
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
09-19-2007, 12:12 AM
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Replies: 171
Views: 624
Re: Evil Atheism.
Religion has a power to sedate and control the masses like nothing else does. Heralding under the preface of religion in less criticized by the believer because it leverages off of already held...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
09-18-2007, 11:56 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 74
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