Quote (WhatIsTrue @ Sep. 08 2011,01:45)Stu wrote:Quote Might it be that we do not speak of different periods of dolphin culture because we don't know much about it?  Dolphins do have culture,  they teach their young how to make tools,  and they behave altruistically towards other species.It certainly might be.  (How's that for conviction!)  I am j…[Read more]

Hi ftkQuote Hey Stu: About unambiguous evidence. Is it that you do not believe that “ambiguous” forces exist or are they just hard to prove scientifically? Please define the term “ambiguous force”, as you are using it.Quote Is life unambiguous or ambiguous? The very things we “live” on or by are ambiguous. Air! Is there air? How is air created? T…[Read more]

Quote (WhatIsTrue @ Sep. 07 2011,01:48)Human beings are the only species on the planet to making lasting advances from one generation to the next.  The way that we interact with each other and the environment around us is different today than it was even a decade ago.  It was different a decade ago than it was a century ago, and it was different a…[Read more]

Quote (bodhitharta @ Sep. 06 2011,06:38)Quote (Stu @ April 08 2011,15:38)Quote (bodhitharta @ April 07 2011,06:58)Quote (Stu @ April 06 2011,17:38)Quote (bodhitharta @ April 06 2011,14:38)Quote (Stu @ April 04 2011,17:57)Quote (bodhitharta @ April 04 2011,06:02)If a person can not see due to their lack of optical blindness would that make all the…[Read more]

PrincessThank you for your thoughts. Many issues…We are not ONLY apes! We are human apes, existing in the full glory of that state, as much as it has glories and limitations. It is true that we are having a major effect on the earth, although that has been going on for several thousands of years now, but it is not true that live exists and…[Read more]

Quote (t8 @ Aug. 31 2011,21:21)Let me know after you have bought the book Stu.Actually I usually mark these kinds of posts as spam, but thought that the montclair.edu address should have some credibility, although on closer examination, the kowalskil name is Polish and Poland is home to many prolific spammers.What's the story kowalskil? Are you…[Read more]

Quote (kowalskil @ Aug. 31 2011,08:34)Bacteria destroy radioactivityA totally unexpected discovery: radioactivity can be reduced by bacteria. See this link:http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/cf/402vysotskii.htmlRadioactive Cs-137 is mostly responsible for meltdowns of spent reactor fuel.Ludwik Kowalski (see Wikipedia).Why didn't they…[Read more]

Quote (princess @ Aug. 25 2011,23:22)Quote I can't remember how many pairs of separated twins the researcher in the video has worked with, but it is well over 100.  His conclusions regarding the degree of religious commitment are not made just on the basis of one or two cases.  This is a well established pattern.StuartFinding commons in i…[Read more]

Quote (princess @ Aug. 25 2011,23:05)Quote Is natural selection already beginning to reduce the frequency of god genes?  Apparently believers are faster breeders so perhaps the effect will be slow.Prince, Epi genetics will disagree with your conclusion. Can you direct me to stats that state such as ones that carry the concept of god are faster…[Read more]

Quote (princess @ Aug. 25 2011,22:56)Quote (Stu @ Aug. 25 2011,19:13)If natural selection kept aesthetics as a high priority then the biological world would be a very different place.  It is functionality that wins every time.I think this might be as good an argument as any against the Judeo-christian Imaginary Friend.  So many creationists wax l…[Read more]

If natural selection kept aesthetics as a high priority then the biological world would be a very different place. It is functionality that wins every time.I think this might be as good an argument as any against the Judeo-christian Imaginary Friend. So many creationists wax lyrically about the elegance of the (apparent) design of the universe…[Read more]

The Judeo-christian god does not evoke four-letter words from me. It would be insane to swear at something that does not exist!The point of sex is sexual recombination of genetic material, which bacteria have been doing all along in their own way. The interchange of sperm cells and egg cells is a fancier and more organised way of achieving that…[Read more]

Quote (bodhitharta @ Aug. 24 2011,12:16)Quote (TimothyVI @ Aug. 23 2011,22:50)It is easy for me to understand that during the evolution of mankind, that genes that encouraged religious beliefs could help to socialize groups of people, thus making them more able to survive.It also explains why such a large percentage of the world is religious, even…[Read more]

Quote (princess @ Aug. 24 2011,08:40)Prince, Is an interesting study of sort, however, i am not totally convinced. I have met many people in my life, and can pair many up that do not know each other and have the same mannerisms, beliefs. Also, it seems a comparison was not done with a random of say 100 people to see if the same, I tend to think…[Read more]

Quote (TimothyVI @ Aug. 23 2011,22:50)It is easy for me to understand that during the evolution of mankind, that genes that encouraged religious beliefs could help to socialize groups of people, thus making them more able to survive.It also explains why such a large percentage of the world is religious, even though believing in different…[Read more]

OK, so maybe my list of essentials was for men. Would you put the contents of a woman's handbag ahead of companionship? Oxygen? I would be quite happy to believe either!The appearance of sex in evolutionary history is an enormous question, but it is far easier to tease out than the origins of life to begin with. But the problem of sex is not…[Read more]

Canonised was not the adjective I had in mind!You unite the concepts well now. If you ignore science then you are being ignorant, or willfully so of important information regarding god beliefs. For example, if you were to learn that people who have the same genes very often end up with the same degree of religious devotion no matter what…[Read more]

Quote (t8 @ Aug. 23 2011,16:40)Hey David.Why don't you re-post your opening post into Believers Category. I think it is still relevant there too.Possibly even more relevant…Stuart

princessI would love it if “what god?” were really to become a cliché. No matter whether there was a change in the number of believers or not, a better world lies that way. If the concept of a god is well articulated then there might be fruitful discussion, but I think it is only they who define their gods to the nth degree which lend anyt…[Read more]

princessQuote To speak that you are only christianity or islam is being bias, you my friend are just against any god concept, tis a difference.I don’t know what it is that I am supposedly against in regards to that three-letter word. You say god concept, and that is an improvement on just begging the question of existence, but nevertheless no o…[Read more]