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  1. Thermos aquaticus

    Learning: Introduction

    No analogy is perfect. Another major drawback for the language analogy is horizontal transfer from other languages. English is notorious for using a lot of French words, as one example.
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    Epigenetic Inheritance in Humans

    So when you claim that something is improbable you are just making it up? I don't know how anyone could write those algorithms because we would need the genomes of those common ancestors and early ancestors, which we don't have. We would also need to know every epistatic interaction for every...
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    Atheism: A non belief isn't oppositional to a belief

    I was only highlighting that atheism is not necessarily "no evidence, therefore rejected". That would be more along the lines of skepticism, and I suspect that we probably agree on this point. I use imprecise language all of the time, so it's not too big of a deal.
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    An Unscientific Theory On Religion Forums

    A person who distrusts scientists and therefore rejects the theory of evolution will accept the craziest conspiracy theories based on the say so of scientists. You can't make this stuff up.
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    Atheism: A non belief isn't oppositional to a belief

    It was implied by this statement: "atheism tends to mean 'non evidence therefore i do not consider it true', whereas in traditional theism, belief does not need evidence."
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    Is Aleprechaunism a Belief System?

    And extraordinary evidence has been given.
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    Seeing things in their past? You are full of beans!

    There is no contradiction. As Polymath has stated, the photon's view or environment is not a real frame of reference. It is a "divide by zero" error, to use a somewhat applicable analogy. For anything in a real frame of reference the speed of light is constant. It is always 3E8 m/s. What...
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    Seeing things in their past? You are full of beans!

    It is a distance IN YOUR FRAME OF REFERENCE. As you have stated over and over, we are not talking about your frame of reference. We are talking about the photon's environment. In that environment, THERE IS NO DISTANCE. For the photon, 30 light years doesn't exist because there is no distance.
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    Is Aleprechaunism a Belief System?

    As previous posts have demonstrated, you even refuse to accept natural mechanism when sufficient evidence is given.
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    An Unscientific Theory On Religion Forums

    It is the same for militant islam, militant Christianity, and militant anything. It is the militant and authoritarian aspect that is at fault, not atheism. The corruption of power is what leads to these atrocities. You said that people didn't start dying in China until Mao. That is...
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    Seeing things in their past? You are full of beans!

    A light year can be determined by mass. You can measure the length of a meter by using 1 gram of water and determining the length of the sides of a perfect cube containing 1 gram of water. The sides of that cube will be 0.01 meters across. You then use that reference to measure out 9.45E15...
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    Donald Trump in a nutshell

    So let me get this straight. Scientists in the 1800's invented the Greenhouse Effect from whole cloth so that people in the 21st century could get money from people? Let's see what this hoax would entail. First, you would have to have rigged every spectrophotometer so that it can detect when...
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    Isn’t Atheism a world view without reasons and arguments?

    On that point, we can both agree.
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    A tale of three Californian states

    It sounds like the most expensive divorce in history. Just the fights over water resources is reason enough not to split up California. We are talking about the world's 5th largest economy and you want to restructure the whole thing based on . . . what? I don't think the Californians who are...
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    An Unscientific Theory On Religion Forums

    I have always found it fascinating that people will refuse to accept scientific theories backed by centuries of scientific discoveries and mountains of evidence because "science can change at any moment", and yet those same people will latch onto the craziest conspiracy theories backed by...
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    Atheism: A non belief isn't oppositional to a belief

    Correct. Someone could be an atheist because dog poo smells bad, or for no reason at all. That is atheism. Skepticism, on the other hand, is an epistemology, a way of determining truth. It is not atheism. Skepticism may lead to conclusions like, "There isn't any convincing evidence that...
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    Isn’t Atheism a world view without reasons and arguments?

    He is saying that gods could exist, but doesn't see it as a question worth serious consideration. So do you consider Russell to be an atheist?
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    Atheism: A non belief isn't oppositional to a belief

    Note that they aren't the same. Atheism is just a lack of belief in deities with no justification or reasoning behind it.
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    Atheism: A non belief isn't oppositional to a belief

    But that's not how most debates happen between theists and atheists. The debate centers around the quality of the evidence that the theist claims to have for the existence of God. That is where there are opposing views, and it mostly centers around logic, reason, and the definition of...
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    Atheism: A non belief isn't oppositional to a belief

    I think you have a few things mixed up. First, it is skeptics who say that "the lack of evidence prevents me from accepting your claims as true". It is atheists who say "I don't believe in deities". It is true that most atheists are skeptics, but they are still separate things.
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