A cat raised with humans as a kitten may readily "converse" with a human, "listening" while the human talks, and then responding with a meow when the human pauses. It can be...
Debunking Christianity: "If There Is No God, Then We Don’t Know Anything." Arguing the Negative: John Loftus. From Loftus vs Randal Rauser, in their co-written book, "God or Godless?" · 7 hours ago
We evidently have a Prez now who either cannot tell, or who believes we cannot tell, the real tattooes from the obviously Photoshopped captions. Put there by the Trump hooligans who seek to justify...
Debunking Christianity: "If There Is No God, Then We Don’t Know Anything." Arguing the Negative: John Loftus. From Loftus vs Randal Rauser, in their co-written book, "God or Godless?" · 8 hours ago
How would you respond to a creature 20 times your height?
Good point. And how might voters respond to a candidate 20 times their IQ? By voting for Trump instead. Did you...
Debunking Christianity: "If There Is No God, Then We Don’t Know Anything." Arguing the Negative: John Loftus. From Loftus vs Randal Rauser, in their co-written book, "God or Godless?" · 8 hours ago
So I guess when an octopus has a bad day at the maze range, it says "I guess my minds are just not in it today." And I was about to retort with "But Gen Zers can read!" but then...
Debunking Christianity: "If There Is No God, Then We Don’t Know Anything." Arguing the Negative: John Loftus. From Loftus vs Randal Rauser, in their co-written book, "God or Godless?" · 8 hours ago
He can always tell when they're using fake dinosaurs in movies.
I wonder if we can create an edge case for Rauser by animating a
Debunking Christianity: "If There Is No God, Then We Don’t Know Anything." Arguing the Negative: John Loftus. From Loftus vs Randal Rauser, in their co-written book, "God or Godless?" · 8 hours ago
But logic, math, and scientific method aren’t products of evolution. They’re products of intelligent human design.
And returning to that comment, this attempt to sharply...
Debunking Christianity: "If There Is No God, Then We Don’t Know Anything." Arguing the Negative: John Loftus. From Loftus vs Randal Rauser, in their co-written book, "God or Godless?" · 8 hours ago
Theists might soon have to cancel AI as well. See:
Debunking Christianity: "If There Is No God, Then We Don’t Know Anything." Arguing the Negative: John Loftus. From Loftus vs Randal Rauser, in their co-written book, "God or Godless?" · 11 hours ago
I suppose it's a matter of how one defines meowing. But they certainly look like it is one to one comms.
Debunking Christianity: "If There Is No God, Then We Don’t Know Anything." Arguing the Negative: John Loftus. From Loftus vs Randal Rauser, in their co-written book, "God or Godless?" · 11 hours ago
I don't consider hissing and screeching to be the same as meowing. Agreed that it's quite disturbing, eerie, etc.
Debunking Christianity: "If There Is No God, Then We Don’t Know Anything." Arguing the Negative: John Loftus. From Loftus vs Randal Rauser, in their co-written book, "God or Godless?" · 11 hours ago
As long as cat gets what cat wants.
Debunking Christianity: "If There Is No God, Then We Don’t Know Anything." Arguing the Negative: John Loftus. From Loftus vs Randal Rauser, in their co-written book, "God or Godless?" · 11 hours ago
An interesting case is the octopus whose brain is decentralized in that a mini-brain or ganglion controls each arm more or less independently. Octopuses (octopi?) solve mazes and other multi-step...
Debunking Christianity: "If There Is No God, Then We Don’t Know Anything." Arguing the Negative: John Loftus. From Loftus vs Randal Rauser, in their co-written book, "God or Godless?" · 11 hours ago
It has also been my experience that the majority of Catholics take their religion with a grain of salt. Catholic true believers, on the other hand, are as bad as any other fundamentalist.
Debunking Christianity: It’s Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy · 12 hours ago
Someday everything will be AI-enabled, and typos (as well as thinkos) may become considerably rarer.
Debunking Christianity: It’s Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy · 13 hours ago
I suspect Jasper is often literally drunk as well. That would be in keeping with the trend I've informally observed among the Catholics I've known. Even the fictional Catholics on TV are...
Debunking Christianity: It’s Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy · 13 hours ago
Real traditionalists demand stone tablets, not these newfangled goat skins.
Debunking Christianity: It’s Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy · 13 hours ago
The supreme irony, of course, is that a high percentage of the Vatican population is gay. This reality is abundantly documented in Frédéric Martel’s 2019 book, In the Closet of the...
Debunking Christianity: It’s Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy · 13 hours ago
yep that is always the problem for these theists. They each use the same argument for their particular imaginary friends, and then turn around and claim the argument doesn't work for anyone...
Debunking Christianity: "If There Is No God, Then We Don’t Know Anything." Arguing the Negative: John Loftus. From Loftus vs Randal Rauser, in their co-written book, "God or Godless?" · 14 hours ago
well, ymmv, but I have a cat that begs to be picked up and that same cat is always meowing at the other cats. So I seem to have a weird cat. :)
Debunking Christianity: "If There Is No God, Then We Don’t Know Anything." Arguing the Negative: John Loftus. From Loftus vs Randal Rauser, in their co-written book, "God or Godless?" · 14 hours ago
Testing... I have had a comment marked as spam four times, no matter how I rephrased it, and it contains absolutely nothing problematic or controversial. Not one word that I can see.
Debunking Christianity: "If There Is No God, Then We Don’t Know Anything." Arguing the Negative: John Loftus. From Loftus vs Randal Rauser, in their co-written book, "God or Godless?" · 14 hours ago
Yep. According to the National Catholic Reporter:- Over two decades, Catholic dioceses, eparchies and men’s religious communities spent more than $5 billion on allegations of sexual abuse...
Debunking Christianity: It’s Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy · 15 hours ago
If There Is No God, Then We Don’t Know Anything.
Hhahahahaa, what? Which god?
Debunking Christianity: "If There Is No God, Then We Don’t Know Anything." Arguing the Negative: John Loftus. From Loftus vs Randal Rauser, in their co-written book, "God or Godless?" · 17 hours ago
small correction - while it’s true that lawyers typically get around 30% of the settlements they obtain, I wouldn’t classify those settlements as “legal fees”. They are settlements, or payment made...
Debunking Christianity: It’s Hard for a Pope to Have a Great Legacy · 17 hours ago
First clue, cats don't meow at other cats. Cats know humans are vocal and cats respond by becoming vocal.
Ya haven't heard the noisy feckers arguing with one...
Debunking Christianity: "If There Is No God, Then We Don’t Know Anything." Arguing the Negative: John Loftus. From Loftus vs Randal Rauser, in their co-written book, "God or Godless?" · 18 hours ago
Even the ones in color?
Debunking Christianity: "If There Is No God, Then We Don’t Know Anything." Arguing the Negative: John Loftus. From Loftus vs Randal Rauser, in their co-written book, "God or Godless?" · 19 hours ago
Animals have their own language (languages?). It is a real language, not just a few signs and facial expressions/body postures. I have it from the highest authority, the Quran. Did you know Solomon...
Debunking Christianity: "If There Is No God, Then We Don’t Know Anything." Arguing the Negative: John Loftus. From Loftus vs Randal Rauser, in their co-written book, "God or Godless?" · 20 hours ago