It's just an elaborate hoax.
Are you going to tell me there is a giant rock floating way up in the sky? Yeah right!
Here is my proof that the moon cannot exist:
If I hold a rock up in the air and let go, it falls to the ground. The bigger the rock, the harder it is to separate it from the...
I'm talking about the tissue found in the femur bone of a T-rex that still has some of it's elasticity and pigmentation.
I haven't given it much thought, really. I think it's pretty cool. But apparently it has caused quite a stir among some creationists hoping to disprove evolution.
So what...
I'm having a discussion with someone about ancient Chinese words. I don't know much about the subject and I'm having trouble finding any information on it.
I was told that Chinese is the oldest written language and that many of their words are based on Bible stories, specifically from Genesis...
Does science have to prove how the universe could have been created without a god before atheism can be accepted as a reasonable belief?
Why or why not?
These are some thoughts that have been running through my head that I would like to share with you folks to hear your responding thoughts.
I think all religious texts deserve the same level of skepticism. To do otherwise would give one an unfair advantage.
If all other stories throughout...
We all use some kind of logic to figure out what is true and what to believe, right?
How can we tell if one person's conclusions are more logical (and therefore, supposidly, correct) than another person's conclusions?
Reworded: Is one logic more logical than another logic?
What is logic, anyway...
I read about this question somewhere recently and I thought it was very interesting.
If intelligence and consciousness can exist outside of a physcal body and brain, why do we even need a brain?
Is it just for the physical functioning of the body? Could the soul not do that on its own?
Thoughts?
I watched some of a Christian movie the other day. In it a character said something like this: "Even if a person lives a moral life, if he doesn't have Jesus in his life, you and I both know he will go to Hell when he dies."
Why is this and how is that fair?
In another forum, someone said that animals do not have free will, and this is one of the key differences between people and animals.How do you determine that animals do not have free will? Is it because they are not as smart as us? Perhaps if our time was completely taken up with searching for...
It has been asked a few times why an atheist would join a religious forum. I even gave a reason in a thread about it: http://www.religiousforums.com/forum/showthread.php?p=773766#post773766
This prompted me to ask a similar question.
Why would a theist join a forum with people of different...
I was reading Richard Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker. In chapter 3 he creates a computer simulation to show how evolution works through cumulative processes. I thought it was really neat so I looked it up and found some versions to play around with:
This is the best one I could find so far...
I've been reading the book I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist and writing a review and rebutal to it. I'm trying to keep a level head during the whole thing, but chapter 7, "Mother Teresa vs. Hitler" is just infuriating.
For example, here are some passages from the chapter and my...
I found this page of Christian Answers.Net that says If you are an atheist, a materialist, a pantheist, or a naturalist, try to answer the following 11 questions. So I decided to give it a go. Anyone else can give your own answers, if you want.
1. "If all of life is meaningless, and...
I posted this in another thread and then decided to start a new thread with it. Hope that's ok.
I realized something the other day that explains the basic problem I have with Intelligent Design. At first I wasnt sure if my thought actually made since. Perhaps you all could help.
From what I...
I started reading I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist. In the first chapter they go on about how 'There is no truth' is a contradicting statement. I didn't realize that some people were saying that there is no truth.
Of course some things are true. Facts exist.
I found myself playing a...
I was curious about Christian chat rooms, so I signed up to one to see if I could have an interesting conversation.
I was in a Christian chat conversation for a pretty long time before I got banned. I guess it was for quoting something anti-christian.
It was right before I was about to say...