I learned that posting on the internet cannot, in fact, cure all ills.
Maybe this is why people like Jesus, like back then, when they were chiselling their memes on bits of stone, Jesus could come around and cast out demons, heal people, make wine and such. Maybe there's something to this...
Is this a flat earth thing? I heard somewhere (inside my head maybe) that they have zones of flatulence instead. I'm reliably informed that flatulence is the lingua franca of flerthers.
Ignorance is not really bliss, it's more like some kind of permanent itch that seems like too much trouble to find a solution too, so you just keep on giving it a random scratch with dirty nails every now and then.
It's essential to read around, and to dig deeper into any issue that interests you with further reading, books, interviews etc. The UK has quality media across the political spectrum, The Spectator for example is a good conservative source, The New Statesman a good counterpart on the left. As a...
The idea that science either explains everything or there is a god is kind of a straw man. The point is that science has enough explanatory power to make the god hypothesis irrelevant, given that all we have to support the idea of a god are various different human writings. Why suppose that one...
Ah yes. We have to appease the giants here too, occasionally. Although I think you'll find those are goat cheeses, made with milk from the giant goats we keep in reserve. Strange how no-one seems to know about giant appeasement these days.
What is it you don’t understand? It’s an obvious point.
His argument is that there must be an intelligent designer. In the absence of better scientific knowledge, that made sense at the time. Now, it doesn’t.
Once you remove this, there’s no argument left. It made sense at the time, without an alternative explanation. Now we have that. The alternative explanation offers more convincing proofs than the idea of an invisible god does.