Deliberate spreading of smallpox is well known. It was done in eastern Canada. There is currently a demand for removal of a statue of one of the perpetrators.
What is real is not settled by vote, it is settled by testing. I suppose there was a time when every human thought the earth was flat. They were all mistaken.
So why is there no physical evidence for your flood? How did several sophisticated civilizations live through it without noticing it?
Scriptural dating? Ha, ha, what a joke. Those societies have been dated using science, not pathetic superstition.
Religionists make themselves look hilariously...
Nifty scam. However, it does help some people, so is not that bad.
I watched both my parents die, one from a stroke, the other from heart failure. I found that the religious people around me were busy virtue signalling and showed little compassion for my parents' suffering. I was the one who...
Nope. Apparent design follows from the universe having properties. No mind is involved in forming a snowflake, just chemistry. The same goes for organisms.
You have been conned by scoundrels. The promoters of ID are scum making a living by lieing to the gullible. You might like to check out the...
Why would anyone care what AIG promotes? Their "statement of faith" requires them to lie through their teeth.
The tragedy is that gullible people fall for their balderdash.
I intend to die without being conned by scoundrels into believing in an afterlife.
I have terminal cancer and am quite content to simply cease to exist at the end.
I once read that one should "slide in sideways shouting yahoo". That suits me.
General curiosity would certainly be a useful trait as it would assist in knowing about one's environment.
Various traits are side effects of useful ones. For example, infants learning from parents, while necessary for practical matters, also makes them vulnerable to scams like religion.
Your...
So much wrong here.
Turfing religion frees humanity to devise much better morality, based on reason and goodwill rather than on the scribblings of ignorant savages.
You are oblivious to the many good things science has provided, such as increased crop yields, increased life expectancy...
Thanks for your kind remarks.
However, you did not address my question. What evidence do you have that a personality (a "who") is responsible for reality?
Pork needs thorough cooking, so it is not surprising that peoples who lived in fuel-poor environments, such as deserts, added pork prohibitions to their lists of taboos.
I have not heard of aversion to pork in fuel-rich places like forests. Has anyone here heard of such?
With modern...