We are not part of some grand plan . . . we are what happened. The universe will still be here billions of years after all traces of the human race and their silly religions have vanished....
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 12 minutes ago
Faith-based solutions have also been shown to lose, again and again.
Right, that was the unstated assumption behind JP's notion of science racking up the wins. In any...
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 15 minutes ago
Well, SS isn't Marxism, and neither socialism.
Hence my scare-quotes. However, Social Security is the government providing a public good, namely the enforced...
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 28 minutes ago
That depends on how you define "winning" in the context of Russian Roulette. MAGAts might think it's a flex when they find the chamber with the bullet in it, because they might...
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 39 minutes ago
It looks like someone's been reading Alan Sokal (Wikipedia link). Sokal is famous for the Sokal Affair (or Sokal Hoax), in which he...
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 42 minutes ago
And I would hope that no atheist is happy with Trump in the White House.
Well, you already know there might be at least one, Robert M. Price. I wonder what Bob Price's...
Debunking Christianity: Discussing Reason & Evidence With An Apologist · 2 hours ago
I would say that it was inevitable that life would evolve once it got started, but not so sure I would go along with the inevitability of human life. All it would have taken is for the asteroid to...
Debunking Christianity: It was inevitable that we exist! · 4 hours ago
Evolution by natural selection doesn't have foresight or a predetermined outcome. It operates through random mutations and pressures in specific environments. While complex organisms can...
Debunking Christianity: It was inevitable that we exist! · 4 hours ago
I’m not any kind of scientist, but this sounds like some kind of naturalistic determinism. Wouldn’t you need to say that every random mutation, weather event, geologic event, mating , etc. that led...
Debunking Christianity: It was inevitable that we exist! · 5 hours ago
is MAGA winning now?
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 5 hours ago
you are arguing against a guy who throws s word salad at the wall.
Mmkay, baby. You asked for some delicious word salad: In the liminal interstice of perichoretic ontology...
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 5 hours ago
Sy ten Bruggencate is one who promotes this shtick, right?
Not sure who I’ve just seen this claim in other discussion forums, but the rest of your comment is great and...
Debunking Christianity: Discussing Reason & Evidence With An Apologist · 5 hours ago
Objective evidence wins—again and again. From curing diseases to landing on the Moon, it’s what works.
Faith-based solutions have also been shown to lose, again and again.
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 5 hours ago
Good point there, Tom. I got a Christian telling me that coz they got “ the mind of Christ ” so Christians have superior reasoning....
Debunking Christianity: Discussing Reason & Evidence With An Apologist · 5 hours ago
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 · 8 hours 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 · 16 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 · 18 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 · 18 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 · 18 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 · 19 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 · 19 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 · 19 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 · 19 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 · 19 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 · 19 hours ago