Ask your difficult questions of an Atheist.

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  1. dagosa

    dagosa Well-Known Member

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    Every time you say an IQ test is like an asvab test, you’re saying it can be improved by practice and increased motivation.
    Moving on. You're boringly simple. Less aware supremacy promoting people think they are smarter then every university in the world along with the AAAS ? Hardly.
    “ more or less”, “ is eccenually ” what a bunch of cop outs.
     
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  2. tecoyah

    tecoyah Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It seems an oxymoron that the individual touting the benefits of an IQ test is also the one showing that he may not fare well with it, as he seems to be ignoring the qualities they are meant to measure.
     
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    FoxHastings Well-Known Member

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    From your post : "" First, people tend to hold inflated impressions of their own intelligence""""
     
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  4. Kokomojojo

    Kokomojojo Well-Known Member

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    Are you kidding?

    Look at this thread, its another fallen apart lefty righty thread that will go in circles forever demonstrating the abject lack of knowledge pertaining to the now world wide kleptocracy we are subjected to.

    Da gubmint is the foremost expert on propaganda, its used in war and against the masses for nothing other than control. Anyone who does not understand that is doomed to forever chasing their tail in leftie righty arguments.

    They tell you what they are in plain english:

    No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.[4]

    So no office of profit or trust under 'title' of nobility, what about the other guys? Title of commerce? The GOD WE TRUST?

    Of course you have to wait to get knighted by the queen after your term is up and decide to leave office, clinton and da bushies can never be prezzy again.

    Its not a case of good guys and bad guys, its a kleptocracy carried forward from long before this country was ever settled.

    So enjoy your kibbles and bits and table scraps.
     
  5. xwsmithx

    xwsmithx Well-Known Member

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    That was from Derideo's post. I don't disagree with it, but I hold a very realistic view of my intelligence. When I decided to go to law school, I figured the best I could hope for was Georgetown, and I got in. I didn't go there, I opted for a school that offered me a full-ride scholarship, but I was accepted. So I know my own intelligence.
     
  6. dagosa

    dagosa Well-Known Member

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    Hee, hee. And Trump is a stable genius
    Head start comments and no reference. The aaas disagrees. You aren’t a scientist, that we know.
     
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    tecoyah Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Scientists can be quite ignorant outside their selected field, as with all of us. My wife is a genius in Medicine and I an idiot...She does not grasp Astrophysics however and shows no interest in changing that.

    Donald Trump is a special level of ignorance though....I'm not sure how to define it.
     
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    xwsmithx Well-Known Member

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    I gave the link to the Cato Institute and the reference was to Obama's Department of Health and Human Services. If you don't like it, argue with them. Whoever posted the later link posited the assistance of other programs to support the efficacy of Head Start, the stupidity of which I hardly need point out.
     
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    Cato ? That’s an embarrassment.
     
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    https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/cato-institute/

     
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    Again you derogate facts based on the source rather than attack the facts themselves. That is a logical fallacy. Your dislike of the source doesn't impugn the facts in any way. If the tobacco industry points out (quite correctly) that two out of three smokers don't die from smoking-related illnesses, it's not enough to point out that this information comes from the tobacco industry, you have to point out why their information is bullshit. Which is quite easy to do. On the other hand, none of the data on IQ is false even though you people don't like the sources.

    And they were quoting the uber-liberal Obama administration, which I presume you like as a source.
     
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    ALL of the bovine excrement fallacies regarding IQ and race have already been totally and utterly DEBUNKED.

    Persisting in posting these ABSURD FALLACIES using DUBIOUS rightwing sources just goes to PROVE the Dunning-Kruger effect.
     
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    Science is the only reliable source. Cato is a conservative think tank. Do you think You’re smarter then every university in the world and every major science organization like the AAAS, the largest one ? Racism has no backing.
     
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    Strange that someone allegedly that "smart" is having a problem with such basic concepts.
     
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    Yeah, I'm tired of your ****ing incessant ad hominem attacks and your utter failure to answer any facts whatsoever, to keep screaming, "RACISM, RACISM, RACISM," over and over like a ****ing parrot. I'm done with this thread. Go **** yourselves.
     
  16. tecoyah

    tecoyah Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Okay....now that the derailment has been voluntarily cleaned up, does anyone have difficult questions for an Atheist?
     
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    FoxHastings said:
    From your post : "" First, people tend to hold inflated impressions of their own intelligence"""" :)




    I know anyone can claim anything on the Internet and it probably isn't true.

    Your posts have shown a different picture.
     
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    Kokomojojo Well-Known Member

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    Sure, why do neoatheists brag about being the beacon of logic and reason when atheism itself is based in a logical fallacy that defies reason?
     
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    Nothing in your post is correct.
     
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    Kokomojojo Well-Known Member

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    interesting fantasy
     
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    Nothing you said was correct. Sorry.
     
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    tecoyah Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I am unsure what a "NeoAtheist" is but, Few Atheists need or bother to brag about their reasoning as we seldom need to. For myself (the only Atheist I can speak for), I prefer to allow my words and contributions here to define who and what I am rather than spout on about my greatness. As far as a logical fallacy, I would suggest you understand the term before accusing others of it.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies
     
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  23. Kokomojojo

    Kokomojojo Well-Known Member

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    Really? Fact is most do! Another thread, you must have missed?

    "When will religion be overteken by logic?"

    a fallacy is reasoning that is evaluated as logically incorrect and that undermines the logical validity of the argument and permits its recognition as unsound.

    neoatheist
    About 67,400 results (0.48 seconds)

    neo atheist
    About 1,700,000 results (0.40 seconds)

    Did it occur to you to use google to help you understand what it is?

    Very simple, elementary, atheists believe/claim no G/god(s) exist, it is completely illogical to disbelieve something that you might find under the next stone you turn over with no facts to support your disbelief.

    Neoatheists have no facts, no evidence, and a monumental failure in investigation.

    As far as your posts go, you claim to be an agno-atheist which has a multitude of fallacies attached, since agnostic and atheist are mutually exclusive.

    Its perfectly clear I am not the one who lacks understanding.
     
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  24. rahl

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    Nothing in your post is correct.
     
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    Derideo_Te Well-Known Member

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    There comes a stage where it is pointless to waste your own time refuting gibberish which is why there is an Ignore feature.
     
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