I think Socrates is a good comparison. Plato's dialogues stand on their own. They are supported by an argument from authority. No one ever says...
Neutral, your argument so far seems to be that there is a god, and it's plainly obvious, and denial of this claim is akin to denial of the...
Neutral, I'm curious about why you think science leads to agnosticism and not atheism. Skepticism, perhaps, but that is not the same thing....
I have no idea what you think you're responding to in this post. The whole thing seems like a nonsequitor to me. But there is nothing agnostic...
Philxx; I am a utilitarian on the basis of reason, and a capitalist on the basis of the evidence, as well as an atheist. Religion and faith have...
Nuetral, there is no rational reason to believe in god. Probability is not the realm of faith. You have badly misconstrued Russel's teapot. The...
This post is exactly the same as mine. I was responding to the Buddhist on the top of the page. The world that god wouldn't create is the one...
What makes you think that your Muslims are right and AQ Muslims are wrong? Arguments from the basis of authority are fallacious. Write off what...
Indeed. I actually mentioned that. My point is that if we don't know, it makes more sense to say "we don't know," than to accept an untestable...
I'm pretty sure that there is no religion that teaches that this is the world that god would create. Religious people have justifications for bad...
I actually agree with Neutral on this last point. The question of whether Christianity is correct doesn't hinge on a few details from the bible...
What makes you think that OBL and Al Qaeda are misinterpreting Islam? If you're acknowledging that the bible has defects because of it's age, what...
What is the purpose of faith if it only exists until science finds the real answers? Why not just believe in things on the basis of the evidence...
It's true that things don't create themselves out of nothing, as far as we know. In what way is that evidence that the universe was created by an...
What? Who said that rapists and murderers are "perfectly normal," or innocent? What has this got to do with faith, reason, or religion?
BFSmith, that's true, reason hasn't given us all the answers, but that doesn't mean it makes sense to fill in the gaps with an arbitrary...
I don't understand what you're saying faith is. My understanding of faith is that it's a belief in something absent of, or in contradiction to...
Are you suggesting that no white governments have been primitive? The Nazis, the Soviets, the East Germans. Even today, the Greeks aren't doing...
Muhammed Asad's translation was written in 1980 long after the scientific facts were well known, likely with the intention of making this claim...
OJLeb, your article which refutes 4:11's bad math just replaces the Quranic system with an alternate, non-textual one...
My knowledge of Arabic isn't great, but I'd bet my knowledge of the Quran is on par with anyone's. I've read it more than once, and am familiar...
I don't read Arabic, but there are several translations of the Quran available online, and not one uses anything remotely resembling "pelvic arch"...
Exactly. In particular, there are a number of other factors which the successful states also have in common. When you correct for other variables,...
Doesn't seem so. But people can read things from their own perspectives. The tank guy has seemed pretty volatile himself.
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