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Davis wrote:
sophisticated enough cognitive functions and emotional intelligence to internalize pain.

Isn’t pain internal to start with? I can guess at what you mean, but I’d rather break this down further. For example, it’s easier to see and measure outward expressions of pain.

Pain can be relived from memories. Such memories can cause…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
No trick

Not a bad philosophy, either. [… per this PhD-minus-a-few-degrees.]

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_Robert_ wrote:
all about muscle memory.

Oh yeah, and finger callouses make it easier.

I looked for one of my favorite songs on youtube, but there’s only live versions that aren’t mixed well for hearing the banjo. Plus, he’s playing it way more complicated, where you can’t even hear my favorite part which is that simple bend at 19 seconds here…[Read more]

Mathematical relationships exist in reality. For some reason, that sounds so much better to me than “mathematics are built into reality”. I guess it’s the “build” aspect that sounds like some kind of begging a question, like who built it or how was it built. In my phrasing, mathematical relationships just exist. Like pi exists, always within a…[Read more]

@robert, everything happens for a reason.
We just rephrase the “why” question, like “How have banjos evolved?”.
🙂

I could almost swear I just heard some Fronkeys snickering in the background!

The “trend” in science you say is away from Darwinism. I admit, I’m in awe with what people who formed and are running the Discovery Institute came up with, as many of them understand the process of evolution better than most people in USA, and other wide swaths of populated earth. But what totally discredits them is their obvious bias toward…[Read more]

The biblical quotes don’t fly with me, except in their generic philosophical or allegorical context. The huge issue here that begs the question and belongs in its own category of topic (especially in an atheist website) is about how divine all that text is to start with. It was written by mortals. Human beings.

What, other than age of the text…[Read more]

Earle Sanborn wrote:
Davis, Pope Beanie, et all. It’s not helpful and pretty discourteous to compare a “Creationist with a bowling ball” for discussion purpose. I’m pretty certain we each have our own histories, challenges, wishes, wants, needs, and desires, in our never ending quest for the truth. And unlike Pontius Pilate- there is knowabl…

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Unseen wrote:
Okay, can you give us a syllogism?

I’ll try.

• All mammals respond to pain.
• Cats and Unseen are mammals.
• Therefore, cats and Unseen will respond to pain.

Or instead of pain, say pleasure, play, fear, or nearby active rodents.

All off-topic posts have been moved to a new topic “A little something regarding the decline of Darwinism and Neo-Darwinists“, which you can now post to.

No I don’t think I’d be happy to eat anything that I’d endowed with a personality.

Earle, did you come to Atheist Zone to convert us to your religion?  What on earth was the purpose of that huge cut and paste job?

Earle Sanborn wrote:
Very quick answer

Well, my answer was quicker and the question I posed more immediately ignored.

I would like very much to stay focused on the original topic, unless original poster @TomS likes these loooong tangents.

In any case, please feel free to start your own topic, and try to allow for a two-way discussion by…[Read more]