From cradle to grave the "universe" enforces FAFO, a truth even squirrels generally understand.
"Generally" seems not to include being in the vicinity of...
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 1 hour ago
Well, the "universe" -- however defined -- more or less randomly hands out correctives, or perhaps punitives, aka FOs. Skip the vaccine, run the red light, leave a loaded...
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 8 hours ago
It wouldn't matter if the Christian apologists were correct that atheist reasoning is hopeless. It isn't like that problem will be solved if we do that which the Christian thinks...
Debunking Christianity: Discussing Reason & Evidence With An Apologist · 10 hours ago
I believe the industrial revolution rocketed us WAY past the psychological mindset evolution had prepared us for. Everything is haywire because we no longer live in isolated villages. Technology...
Debunking Christianity: Discussing Reason & Evidence With An Apologist · 10 hours ago
You haven't given me a reason to trust that your reasoning is trustworthy.
And in light of the Trinitarians who constantly fight against each other in the...
Debunking Christianity: Discussing Reason & Evidence With An Apologist · 11 hours ago
I recall the old Augustinian "when you go to sit down on a chair, you have faith that it will support you." Doofus, "faith" is a theological concept, not an...
Debunking Christianity: Discussing Reason & Evidence With An Apologist · 11 hours ago
Studies show that religious people are happier than atheists and their ilk.
Studies show that people believe whatever comes after the words "studies show." I bet...
Debunking Christianity: Discussing Reason & Evidence With An Apologist · 11 hours ago
Crazy, I thought the Paulicans are an NBA team out of New Orleans. Oh wait...
Debunking Christianity: Discussing Reason & Evidence With An Apologist · 11 hours ago
...like our frequent troll who decries "Marxism" while collecting his Social Security checks.
Well, SS isn't Marxism, and neither socialism. People contribute...
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 11 hours ago
the universe doesn’t hand out 'oughts'
A universe with Christians in it surely does! As I detailed in my other TL;DR comments. Christianity's foundational...
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 12 hours ago
Loftus: [...]
You argue that chance events, like the origins of the universe and life, provide objective evidence.
The
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 12 hours ago
You haven't given me a reason to trust that your reasoning is trustworthy. "Sufficient" is like "extraordinary." It's an adjective. What may or may not be...
Debunking Christianity: Discussing Reason & Evidence With An Apologist · 12 hours ago
What bit of physical evidence tells us what sort of a priori epistemology we “ought” to prefer? This is an is/ought fallacy John. Nothing in the physical world tells us what we ought to...
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 13 hours ago
Sy ten Bruggencate is one who promotes this shtick, right? It trades on the vagueness of what's entailed by "trust." We need not have certitude in order to trust. The more something...
Debunking Christianity: Discussing Reason & Evidence With An Apologist · 13 hours ago
Origin myths figure in other Is/Ought fallacies. For example, Zionists and their Christian backers accept the origin myth of the Hebrew nation (the Exodus story in the bible, now completely...
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 13 hours ago
Agreed, thank you!
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 14 hours ago
https://uploads.disquscdn.c... Now that everyone's been updated on advances in biblical studies, I'd observe...
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 15 hours ago
Apologists do not often try to prove their point, they just attack yours.
Apologists don't often even state their point(s). Nobody is just a "theist", a...
Debunking Christianity: Discussing Reason & Evidence With An Apologist · 16 hours ago
Reasoning can be fallible, to be sure. We've all made mistakes and will make more, unless we die first. But we can be pretty sure about some things. Such as I'm pretty sure this computer...
Debunking Christianity: Discussing Reason & Evidence With An Apologist · 16 hours ago
Yeah, that's how children come to believe Santa Claus is not real. They grow up. Weird how a lot of them cling to their Baby Jesus belief. Some of us figured out there's nothing more to...
Debunking Christianity: Discussing Reason & Evidence With An Apologist · 16 hours ago
Take your assertion that we ought to prefer objective evidence to abstract reasoning. Ok John, to be consistent, you need to provide objective physical evidence of this claim. But you...
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 16 hours ago
Absolutely! Possible, I suppose. But then his head has to be filled with all other sorts of mince, making him redundant as a thinker. I was attempting to cut to the chase with a flippant one...
Debunking Christianity: Discussing Reason & Evidence With An Apologist · 16 hours ago
True, but there's something here to work with, unlike with our frequently banned troll who writes with the cryptic brevity of a Deepak Chopra turned sideways.
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 17 hours ago
And it's not just the benefits of applied science, which I assume Daniel Ray indulges in continuously. We also know what happens when people adopt Daniel Ray's flexible (i.e. non-rigorous...
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 17 hours ago
Maybe he still does.
Debunking Christianity: Discussing Reason & Evidence With An Apologist · 18 hours ago