Atheist Zone | caseydorman | Mentions https://atheistzone.com/members/caseydorman/activity/mentions/ Activity feed mentioning caseydorman. Mon, 22 Jun 2026 06:27:20 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 2f1ce11963acfa345af996c1ddb604b4 Simon Paynton replied to the topic What is God? in the forum Theism https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/what-is-god/page/9/#post-3815 Sun, 23 Jul 2017 10:00:18 +0000 @caseydorman – “The two subsets can be seen to correspond.”

– we could say that this is the “overlapping magisteria”.

]]> 155df170ee94a37d7cc4fc4c981d3641 Simon Paynton replied to the topic What is God? in the forum Theism https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/what-is-god/page/9/#post-3814 Sun, 23 Jul 2017 09:15:45 +0000 @caseydorman – “to modify the concept of god beyond what is captured by known religions, so that it becomes some natural force that is, in principle, describable by mathematical or scientific terms, is to remove the concept of god from the equation of explanation”

– what is describable by mathematical or scientific terms is a subset of the…[Read more]

]]> e37f40b1496f25beb31c5c07335121a9 Simon Paynton replied to the topic The Strong See Brutalizing the Weak As Their Prerogative. Only the... in the forum Politics https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/the-strong-see-brutalizing-the-weak-as-their-prerogative-only-the/page/4/#post-3678 Wed, 19 Jul 2017 20:45:23 +0000 @caseydorman – I’m not talking about the process of evolutionary change over aeons.  I’m talking about the process of individual beings living their lives.  Each one experiences a pressure to thrive, survive and reproduce.  This arises from 1) the fact that DNA reproduces; 2) evolution and natural selection.  If we put these two together, then ove…[Read more]

]]> a1522eaafd5d6b516b2e981319982345 Simon Paynton replied to the topic The Strong See Brutalizing the Weak As Their Prerogative. Only the... in the forum Politics https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/the-strong-see-brutalizing-the-weak-as-their-prerogative-only-the/page/4/#post-3663 Wed, 19 Jul 2017 17:12:03 +0000 @Reg – the religious people that caseydorman was talking to, defined spirituality as

“transcendental force”

“some belief in a force higher than oneself, which provided an insight into the the true nature of humans and the world they lived in“.

It’s easy to see why people think this refers to something that doesn’t exist, because until now, no…[Read more]

]]> e5616fef7eee64c5288afaf5e502b0d6 Simon Paynton replied to the topic The Strong See Brutalizing the Weak As Their Prerogative. Only the... in the forum Politics https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/the-strong-see-brutalizing-the-weak-as-their-prerogative-only-the/page/3/#post-3653 Wed, 19 Jul 2017 14:08:53 +0000 @caseydorman – does your definition of spirituality motivate people to be nonviolent?

When people have complained to you that as an atheist, your lack of spirituality prevents you from having a nonviolent philosophy, what is their type of spirituality that they claim does make them nonviolent?

]]> d3d8c4e201634e943ae9d2624d92ef0b Simon Paynton replied to the topic The Strong See Brutalizing the Weak As Their Prerogative. Only the... in the forum Politics https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/the-strong-see-brutalizing-the-weak-as-their-prerogative-only-the/page/3/#post-3638 Tue, 18 Jul 2017 15:38:12 +0000 @caseydorman – you could technically say that if you like, but it seems perverse to deny the elephant in the room, it’s like trying to deny the colour blue, it’s an integral part of the picture, which is not complete without it.

I think you’re trying to squeeze reality into an atheist-shaped box: to start with a premise (“classical atheism is…[Read more]

]]> e764d3d29ada36a1cbf5dd45e255b612 Simon Paynton replied to the topic The Strong See Brutalizing the Weak As Their Prerogative. Only the... in the forum Politics https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/the-strong-see-brutalizing-the-weak-as-their-prerogative-only-the/page/3/#post-3633 Tue, 18 Jul 2017 11:33:11 +0000 @caseydorman – “archaeological studies from 1999-2007”

– see also “How Compassion Made Us Human – the evolutionary origins of tenderness, trust and morality” by Penny Spikins.  She goes over all the archaeological evidence in depth, and concludes that the Killer Ape thesis is just fashionable nonsense.

This ties straight into what Michael Tomase…[Read more]

]]> 9f6cb900884fc0428b6e65e4e338a64a Simon Paynton replied to the topic The Strong See Brutalizing the Weak As Their Prerogative. Only the... in the forum Politics https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/the-strong-see-brutalizing-the-weak-as-their-prerogative-only-the/page/2/#post-3626 Mon, 17 Jul 2017 21:12:39 +0000 @caseydorman – the book seems interesting, I had a quick look through it.

You state that “modern scholarship suggests that mutual aggression was the natural state of our hunter-gatherer predecessors”, but it seems that even more modern scholarship has shown this to be a myth.  It’s based on a cherry-picked selection of evidence.  If the t…[Read more]

]]> 683961526cf35be1d951a97824d9370d Simon Paynton replied to the topic The Strong See Brutalizing the Weak As Their Prerogative. Only the... in the forum Politics https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/the-strong-see-brutalizing-the-weak-as-their-prerogative-only-the/page/2/#post-3622 Mon, 17 Jul 2017 07:44:21 +0000 @caseydorman – I can’t get the ebook because I’m in the UK.  Do you have a pdf?

How do you go about designing a culture?

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