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  1. Thermos aquaticus

    The Evolution Chamber: Piltdown Man

    It is a difference of degree, not kind. The closest would probably be foxes and wolves. "The cat-like feliforms and dog-like caniforms emerged within the Carnivoramorpha 43 million years before present.[5] The caniforms included the fox-like genus Leptocyon whose various species existed from...
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    Atheist Activism

    What in the world is an "atheistic behavior"? But you haven't shown that they are a result of not believing in gods, which is the topic at hand.
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    The Creationist's Argument and its Greatest Weakness

    We don't need to know what the singularity expanded into in order to know that the singularity did expand.
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    The Creationist's Argument and its Greatest Weakness

    If we can't judge for ourselves if God's actions are moral, then how can we say that God is moral? This is known as Euthyphro's Dilemma: are God's commandments moral because God command them, or does God command them because they are moral.
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    The Creationist's Argument and its Greatest Weakness

    It has always made more sense to ask forgiveness from the people you have harmed and to define wickedness by the wrong you have done to other humans rather than violation of rules written in a book claimed to have been written by a deity. I am sure that you don't feel that you have sinned...
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    The Evolution Chamber: Piltdown Man

    Many are now classifying domestic dogs as Canis familiaris and wolves as Canis lupus. Also, cladistics has replaced Linnaean taxonomy in most of biology, but the old Linnaean terms do still hang around. Genus, Family, Order, etc. are very arbitrary which is why they are largely ignored now...
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    Atheism and Leperchauns-ism

    So if an atheist does not believe that gods are necessarily a construct of the human mind, then they really aren't an atheist?
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    Atheist Activism

    Atheists have hobbies, but no one thinks collecting stamps is a form of atheism. Atheists have children, but no one thinks having children is atheism. Atheists have jobs, but no one thinks earning a salary is atheism. Just because an atheist does something does not make that something atheistic.
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    Atheist Activism

    If atheists golf, is golf a form of atheism?
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    Atheist Activism

    What would you classify your non-belief in Leprechauns as? Is it a belief system?
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    Atheist Activism

    What atheists do outside of the lack of belief in deities is not a part of atheism.
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    Atheism and Leperchauns-ism

    Not all atheists take the position that gods do not exist, so defining atheism as "belief that no gods exist" is not the best definition. In an earlier post you said these two statements were equally correct for atheists: From an atheist standpoint, which statement is more correct? "I do not...
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    The Evolution Chamber: Piltdown Man

    Perhaps a comparison of coyotes, wolves, and Chihuahuas would be more apt.
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    Can explicit atheists ever really understand atheism?

    As a general statement, the burden of proof does lie with those who say that precognition and telepathy are real, wouldn't you agree?
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    Atheism and Leperchauns-ism

    Therefore, "belief that there are no gods" is not a valid definition for atheists. It's a bit like defining theism as believing in the Christian God.
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    Atheism and Leperchauns-ism

    The dictionary definition is sufficient for what we are discussing. I don't see how a long diatribe about the nuances of theism benefits any of these discussions. So you are arguing semantics? Pretty sure there is: Burden of proof (law) - Wikipedia Burden of proof (philosophy) - Wikipedia...
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    Atheism and Leperchauns-ism

    The issue at hand is the difference between theism and atheism. The dictionary definition does a fine job of concisely describing those differences.
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    Is it "an assertion that Atheism is correct"?

    Proselytize all you want. I don't know the numbers, but I would hazard a guess that a fair number of American atheists grew up in the church. It isn't anything we haven't heard before, and I personally don't take offense.
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    Is it "an assertion that Atheism is correct"?

    People have been claiming that the Second Coming is just around the corner for 1500 years. It's kind of hard to take them seriously. Predictions and claims for the Second Coming of Christ - Wikipedia
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    Atheism and Leperchauns-ism

    And there is the false equivalency that you have been striving for by torturing the definitions of words. Atheism is just a lack of belief. The only thing that all atheists share is a lack of belief in gods. Yes, there are some atheists who go further and say that gods don't exist, but that...
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