His stances respectively:
Barack Obama | Change We Can Believe In | Immigration
Barack Obama | Change We Can Believe In | Homeland
Barack Obama | Change We Can Believe In | Iraq
OR if you want (and I actually prefer doings this) go to the Political Positions of Barack Obama Wikipedia page and...
Well, I was not doing the anthropomorphizing. Penguino is the one who said that everything has a generator. He didn't say everything except God...
By definition everything means everything. Yes, even those concepts (or um, approximations??) that conveniently "transcend conceptualization."...
Evolution has nothing to do with atheism. It is not some bastion of hope for atheists clinging to their world view. Atheism is more of a philosophical stance than a biological one, any claim that says otherwise is ludicrous.
I was an evil "evolutionist" long before I renounced theism. When...
It used statistical alpha correction for multiple comparisons. The famous (rather infamous) study by Byrd (one of the OP's links references the Byrd study) did not do this.
It controlled for confounding variables. Unlike nearly all prayer/healing or even the more general faith/medicine...
The most extensive ($2.4 million extensive) and least methodologically flawed study into the efficacy of intercessory prayer (IP) can be found in the American Heart Journal. (click the link for the abstract)
It is especially significant for three reasons:
1. The main author, Dr. Herbert Benson...
To name a few...
SourceVOMERONASAL ORGAN
A tiny pit on each side of the septum is lined with nonfunctioning chemoreceptors. They may be all that remains of a once extensive pheromone-detecting ability.
EXTRINSIC EAR MUSCLES
This trio of muscles most likely made it possible for prehominids to...
I would be interested in this list of traits. If you don't want to continue with this argument I won't dispute your list, but I am interested for merely educational purposes.
Or to state it more generally (thus eliminating your Santa problem): what traits does the concept of God have that...
Insofar as I can tell, the only unique attribute you are giving to God is that we have not fully traced back the origin of the concept?
Is that correct?
Argumentum ad populum doesn't make "God" any less faulty.
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Before derailing this thread into a debate on abiogenesis and the origin of life (which I'm sure many would be happy to do), I request on behalf of all the participants that you cede the points on evolution that you were wrong about. Be as specific as possible.
The two topics are wholly...
roli,
What Willamena is saying here is that the reason why we just "seem so perfect" for our environment is due directly to the process of natural selection. It is in fact, additional evidence for evolution.