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  1. Yazata

    "No evidence of God" = Is a bad argument against God

    True. One defect is that "argument against God" is way too vague. Is it supposed to be an argument against God's existence? (That conclusion wouldn't seem to follow and many atheists today insist that isn't what they are claiming.) An argument that other people shouldn't believe in God? (They...
  2. Yazata

    ‘Dr. Strange’

    Isn't the story in this latest Dr. Strange about the "Multiverse of Madness"? I'm assuming that all kinds of alternate realities get smeared together, universes where things turned out differently than they did in this one. So where in our universe the good guys won, in some other universe they...
  3. Yazata

    How many people on here like chicken and dumplings?

    Yep, count me in.
  4. Yazata

    I got Covid

    Best wishes for a speedy recovery Psalm 23. Luckily most people who get it these days only develop mild illness. So hoping that's true for you too.
  5. Yazata

    Will you condemn “Great Replacement Theory”?

    It seems to me that in order for any large group of people to form a community, they will need to share more in common with each other than differences that divide them. The community's cohesive forces will have to be stronger than its centrifugal forces. In the case of nations and cultures...
  6. Yazata

    Will you condemn “Great Replacement Theory”?

    I voted 'Other' mainly because a 'no' option wasn't offered.
  7. Yazata

    Poll: Which country currently is the biggest laughing stock?

    Why isn't France on your list of choices? Here in the US, France is probably the one we laugh at most often. Canada too.
  8. Yazata

    Trump Supporters and Putin Supporters: Judged by the Same Standards or Not?

    I voted for Donald Trump both times. I may or may not do it again, that depends on who runs against him in the Primaries. All of your reasons listed above apply to me, except the third one. I don't feel that I was misled in any way. That's a pretty abrupt change of subject. I don't think...
  9. Yazata

    Concerned About The Right Aligning with Putin

    I have a couple of points regarding the subject of this thread 1. If we are to have any hope of predicting what Russia is apt to do in the future and how they might respond to changing events, then we will need to have some understanding of how they perceive things and what their motivations...
  10. Yazata

    Is the Religious Right in America gunning for you?

    Marriage is one of the oldest social institutions there is. It dates back to ancient and probably to prehistoric times. It's found all around the world. It means something. That's what the "gay marriage" dispute is all about. A coterie of social activists wants to radically change what the word...
  11. Yazata

    Religious Right, Abortion, and Death Penality

    Maybe, maybe not. I assume that the justification for capital punishment is that the individual put to death deserves it as the result of his/her legal/moral transgressions. But a new person who hasn't even entered the world yet can be guilty of no similar transgressions.
  12. Yazata

    The Religious Right and Possession

    Depends on how one defines "spirit" I guess. It's alive in a biological sense. Its cells are all alive, metabolizing and developing. It isn't only alive, it's a genetically distinct biological individual and not merely one of its mother's own bodily organs like her liver or heart (which are...
  13. Yazata

    Is Russia Still Socialist?

    I Russia still socialist? That depends on how we define "socialist", doesn't it? My own opinion is that these kind of words, so vague in their precise meaning and so loaded with emotional connotations, aren't very helpful. Russia seems to me to best approximate the old late 19th century...
  14. Yazata

    A conversation; Should Catholics be part of Elon Musk’s Twitter?

    I disagree vehemently. That "hellscape" idea is just what the establishment media wants people to believe, as they try to scare people away from Twitter and towards what they curate and what they want people to believe. Twitter is probably one of the best sources of straight news that exists...
  15. Yazata

    Evolution Deniers more Bigoted

    I think that claims like this depend crucially on how words like "bigot", "prejudice" "racism" and "discriminatory behavior" are being defined. Whatever method they are using to detect and quantify other people's "prejudice", "discrimination" and "racism" almost assuredly is custom-tailored to...
  16. Yazata

    A conversation; Should Catholics be part of Elon Musk’s Twitter?

    The problem that I see is that "scary and awful" are very much in the eye of the beholder. If we were really interested in eliminating "hate" and promoting "warmth", we would have to eliminate all speech that anyone else might possibly find offensive. And since people have an infinite capacity...
  17. Yazata

    First cause of the universe.

    I'm an agnostic, but I'll take a shot at it. I don't know. That's assuming that the big bang really happened (it seems to be an extrapolation from cosmological red-shifts and the cosmic microwave background etc.) I tend to accept the big bang, but not with 100% certainty. And more...
  18. Yazata

    Aliens and religious beliefs.

    Or at least the "Abrahamic" conception of 'God'. There's an ancient Middle Eastern concept of 'God' that imagines "him" as a heavenly king. Emperor of the universe, something like that. That's where the "Lord" talk comes from. But that's not how I (or arguably the Deists) conceive of 'God'...
  19. Yazata

    Aliens and religious beliefs.

    I agree. If they are intelligent, I would assume that they are curious. So they have probably asked the big metaphysical questions. So I expect that some of them are something like deists. I certainly believe that it's possible. I have no way of actually knowing if that possibility is...
  20. Yazata

    Burden of proof

    I think that the phrase 'burden of proof' is a little misleading. It should probably be, 'burden of being persuasive'. That's because proofs aren't typically encountered outside mathematics and formal logic. So upon whom does it lie? I say that the 'burden of being persuasive' lies on whoever...
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