Kara Connor

Jake, I don’t even think that anyone’s still pondering who to support. The ‘Undecided’ is now those who haven’t decided whether to vote or not.  If some Republicans can’t bring themselves to vote for the Democratic nominee on principle, they may simply not bother to vote at all. This is really the only dial that’s left. This has to be who she’s l…[Read more]

No, I wrote it myself and posted it on the old TA site about 12 years ago when theists used to join. But I have spliced other posts into it and got AI to rework it was as one post. Christians are generally to afraid to have open debates on sites likes this and prefer to ‘post and run’ on FB instead. Facebook allow them to reach their intellectual maturity.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Science is the systematic endeavor to observe empirical facts about reality and use them to formulate coherent theories that explain natural phenomena. As new measurements and observations are made, an increasing number of facts become available.

Did you write all that with AI?  It’s really good if you didn’t.

My…[Read more]

Science is the systematic endeavor to observe empirical facts about reality and use them to formulate coherent theories that explain natural phenomena. As new measurements and observations are made, an increasing number of facts become available. Consequently, scientific theories must be continuously revised, expanded, or even replaced. This…[Read more]

“A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right, and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority.”

― Booker T. Washington

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
MAGA policies

“Wrong is right, and lies are truth”.

@Jakelafort – If you have written negatively about Trump you may want to write something in public sphere that praises him.

I have a friend who is going to finish his Masters in Philosophy at a university in the USA next spring. Yesterday I suggested to him that he should write a treatise on the merits of MAGA policies with praise for it going to…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Let’s imagine that 10% (or any %) of atheists turn to terrorism. Would that form a valid basis for attempts to stifle or stamp out atheism?

It would give people a reason to dislike atheism, as is the case with Islam.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
remind me again why Evolution is ‘only a theory’.

That’s pretty neat.  It is a theory, but it’s consistent with every biological phenomenon.

I had a debate recently with a theist (No, I don’t have a life) who spent time trying to convince me that Evolution was ‘only a theory’. I won’t repeat it here as you are all familiar with the usual tropes about Irreducible Complexity, Fine Tuning Arguments, The Watchmaker analogy etc. I pointed out the assumptions and fallacies in his argumen…[Read more]

Yes, reading a good book will increase your happiness.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.

Thanks Jake. There is a similar quote from Richard Feynman;

“I’d much rather have questions I can’t answer than answers I can’t question”.

@Jakelafort….as she was indoctrinated by Jehovah Witnesses for all of her life, I have edited it to read “always told to do”.

Possibly irrelevant comment: the philosopher Willard V.O. Quine held that everything exists once properly categorized. For example, faeries exist when you categorize them as mythological beings.

Aristotle had an elaborate system of categories and that influenced our way of thinking about the world until Occam came along and sorted that out. What…[Read more]

New Atheist in Ireland: Reg, thank you for your patience. You have been very good at listening and your arguments have finally persuaded me that my belief in the Christian god is no longer possible to maintain. What really triggered it for me was when you said to me to embrace and challenge my doubts and not to fear them as I was always told to…[Read more]

Thanks, Reg!

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

–Bertrand Russell (The Triumph of Stupidity)