Matt

Hi Keith, glad you decided to come across. FYI Deism != Theism, therefore Deism is aTheism. Therefore you are quite welcome to discuss such things in the correct forums (and personally I look forward to hearing more about it).

@Unseen By your logic, we may as well just call everything a “Solar System Object” and be done with it. On the other hand, if you line up all of the original 9 planets and had to pick one that doesn’t fit, I’m fairly sure most people would pick pluto because of it’s weird orbit and inability to clear its orbit of debris. Earth would also be a good…[Read more]

Wow this is up to 6 pages already. I’m curious, have you actually graphed the two stats together? In your post you are pointing to some interesting data points but in no way is that indicative of the overall trend.

I.e. those few interesting points might just be outliers on a graph which may or may not support gun control. I’d like to see the…[Read more]

Without reading most of the replies, I would say yes. Of course you can be a spiritual atheist. As long as that spirituality is not defined by or around a god.

Sometimes, we look at the cosmos, or the ocean, or some nice scenery, or whatever, and we just feel that sense of belonging or of being a part of it along with everyone else.

In the 10-year period from 2005 to 2014, pit bulls killed 203 Americans and accounted for 62% of the total recorded deaths.

That sounds highly suspicious. In a ten year period, putpulls accounted for 62% of the total recorded deaths of Americans? That’s like saying only around 10 to 15 Americans die each year and 6 to 10 of them were killed by…[Read more]

@Davis That video appears to be woo to begin with. See here. So I’m not surprised other woo-masters are re-woo-ing it for their own woo.

Hi Belle,
That’s a long reply but I read it all.

Regarding the black eye from a push: If you are falling and happen to hit your eye on a door handle or coffee table or something like that, I can see how it could cause a black eye.

I’m glad you are at a place where you can have good communication with your son’s father. I always thought my…[Read more]

All men who are abusive deny it

Men who aren’t abusive deny it too. I’d prefer to wait for the case to go through the courts before I make assumptions about the guy.

You are dead right about supporting men and boys out of the cycle of violence too. It won’t end unless and until we support everyone out of it and break all of the links in the…[Read more]

@SteveInCO You know kelvins have the same scale as celcius, right? Like the difference between any two degrees is the same for both kelvins and celcius. 0K = -273C and equivalently 273K = 0C.

Good thinking with the rate of heat loss @DrBob

Yes and no. Certainly most people on here will agree that secular morality is superior to morality from the bible. It’s another step further to start pointing out individual tenets as being problematic.

Is the women’s World Cup as popular as the men’s? I’m guessing the men’s world cup has such a vastly larger prize pool because it has a vastly larger advertisement revenue. This is the first year I’ve even heard of the FIFA women’s world cup, is it the first year it has been around? That would certainly explain the popularity…[Read more]

Hi Mr Tag,
Sorry about your friend, hope you can come to a happy arrangement.

I just wanted to say the following: Pizza can’t consent to marriage. THAT is why we haven’t been advocating it (I don’t want to judge your friends unnatural pizza fetish so we’ll leave that safely out of the conversation). Grown men and women CAN consent to…[Read more]

Twice as cold is a meaningless question as theres no such thing as cold. Only an absence of heat. Your question would be better asked what would tomorrow’s temperature be if it is half as warm as 0 degrees.

Although this question has its own issues, as others have pointed out: to answer this question, one needs to know the scale. Since no scale…[Read more]