Atheist Zone | notSimple | Activity https://atheistzone.com/members/notsimple/activity/ Activity feed for notSimple. Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:57:03 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 dbe84eb04bff01b7bb9bc9c1ed165231 notSimple replied to the topic You can believe in evolution. You can believe in human rights. Not both. in the forum Politics https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/you-can-believe-in-evolution-you-can-believe-in-human-rights-you-cant-believe/page/2/#post-4190 Thu, 17 Aug 2017 20:45:07 +0000

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@notsimple – “trying to define moral concepts eventually leads to logical inconsistency.”

– it certainly does not.  I don’t know why you say this.  Morality has a very clear and logical structure.  Some of the details, the twigs on the tree, are still to be worked out, but the tree itself is very well defined.

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]]> 5780364456aac1ff741bdb1c7c2f102c notSimple replied to the topic You can believe in evolution. You can believe in human rights. Not both. in the forum Politics https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/you-can-believe-in-evolution-you-can-believe-in-human-rights-you-cant-believe/page/2/#post-4188 Thu, 17 Aug 2017 14:38:28 +0000

The thing is with rights is that over time, they have been extended to more and more groups. This is part of the moral and ethical progress of the world, that Steven Pinker talks about. The right to being treated with respect is becoming more and more universal….

Ultimately human rights means to treat people with respect and dignity – this s…

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]]> 66b25f08a4d482a8010aa8dc7d0b4b80 notSimple replied to the topic You can believe in evolution. You can believe in human rights. Not both. in the forum Politics https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/you-can-believe-in-evolution-you-can-believe-in-human-rights-you-cant-believe/page/2/#post-4187 Thu, 17 Aug 2017 13:03:20 +0000

His point is that if you follow those qualities to their logical conclusion, it becomes absurd. Sure we can comfortably apply those stipulations to ourselves, to people one or two centuries ago, even thousands of years ago, but if you keep going back it starts becoming untenable

That is a potential factor with much, if not all, of our concept of…[Read more]

]]> 8e6319e7157649176b38ea9e76185898 notSimple replied to the topic This is war in the forum Politics https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/this-is-war/page/4/#post-4129 Sat, 12 Aug 2017 11:56:33 +0000

Belle Rose wrote:

In any event, I don’t believe this will lead to a world war – I do think it’s possible that we have a contained war, but China has already stated that that if North Korea initiate aggression against the USA, and the USA retaliates, they will remain neutral.

What no one sees is that Russia is poised to attack as well. That is ho…

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]]> e4b1f452c6369ee4a13869ac487622f1 notSimple replied to the topic This is war in the forum Politics https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/this-is-war/page/3/#post-4109 Fri, 11 Aug 2017 18:20:19 +0000 One may not like Trump’s policies, but one does not make billions in international real estate by being a poor negotiator.

He needed to provide a way for China to save face, and it looks like China (who is not happy about a nuclear NK) is willing to play along and step…[Read more]

]]> 4fcad913dc50a6303fd2f234918f7f42 notSimple replied to the topic This is war in the forum Politics https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/this-is-war/page/3/#post-4105 Fri, 11 Aug 2017 15:52:25 +0000 Negotiations are not about truth, they’re about who will back down.

]]> 7efaf6f7a3959914576000b6b2eda753 notSimple replied to the topic This is war in the forum Politics https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/this-is-war/page/3/#post-4099 Fri, 11 Aug 2017 14:14:14 +0000 Strega

I basically agree.  The groundwork for this crisis was laid by the past 3 presidents who figured that by playing nice, he would come on board.

Obama made big mistake in Syria, by threatening Assad with serious consequences for using poison gas. He used it and nothing happened. Even though the ‘miniature’ nuke is just being confirmed now,…[Read more]

]]> 14547bce62ae2c608d60fd76e45e4f97 notSimple replied to the topic My top question! in the forum Atheism https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/my-top-question/#post-4023 Sun, 06 Aug 2017 16:47:37 +0000 Perhaps only in mathematics can one construct a pure logical argument. Even that involves postulates; and as Godel proved, any sufficiently expressive grammar (logical structure) must by necessity have contradictions.

Most everything else in the world is not nearly so clear cut. You can apply some level of logic, but inevitably you’re starting…[Read more]

]]> 8d54bbba1e537de8d8ecc2c02bf4c47f notSimple replied to the topic Genius Edward Witten, could he help intensify artificial intelligence research? in the forum Small Talk https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/genius-edward-witten-could-he-help-intensify-artificial-intelligence-research/#post-4013 Sun, 06 Aug 2017 12:26:22 +0000 This sort of touches on the periodic discussions over at biologist Jerry Coyne’s blog (whyevolutionistrue) about whether we are fully deterministic or not (Jerry advocates for determinism). I’m comp sci, but not in the AI field. Nonetheless, I am still unconvinced that we are truly approaching artificial intelligence, instead we’re getting pretty…[Read more]

]]> ab4214a16f4b86d162829ca7b7b3f49f notSimple replied to the topic Losing Friends to Religion in the forum Atheism https://atheistzone.com/forums/topic/losing-friends-to-religion/#post-4012 Sun, 06 Aug 2017 12:05:11 +0000 Friendships change for a variety of reasons, changing to religion or atheism sometimes does it, changes in life style, interests, etc also does it.

It’s not a catastrophe, it’s just part of human nature. Humans are dynamic creatures, constantly changing.

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