Samantha

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I have just become somewhat more knowledgeable that I was yesterday and then get on about my day. It’s not like I discovered that the Bible is man made!

What’s more, is that reality has the property of being logical and consistent.  The upshot of that is that disparate facts are linked and they support each ot…[Read more]

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]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
MAGA policies

“Wrong is right, and lies are truth”.

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.

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.

I don’t feel a void.  I don’t feel life is meaningless, and I’m not a nihilist.  Christians can’t make sense of that.  Which may be understandable as they are required to see something from another’s point of view.  What Christians worship is a void in our life, yet there’s “nothing there” in the sense of there being no void.

It’s not even the…[Read more]

Lol, that’s true

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
@unapologetic – Re. Sunday Assembly: No thanks. I am pretty antisocial.

Those things sound pretty strange to me.  Everyone’s there to worship nothing?  What’s the point?

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Cooperation and shared thinking helped shape human intelligence.

This author, Cody Cottier, does a good and competent job of summarising Michael Tomasello’s work on the evolution of human cognition.  He also misses out some important stuff like cooperative breeding, which allowed a greater brain size (increased help…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
The Atlantic unfairly disses Dawkins.

This article disses the author of the Atlantic piece, Ross Andersen, thus:

It appears that Mr. Andersen is not just journalistically ham-handed, but also incurious.

Ouch!  Is that true?  Maybe Mr Andersen believes that indigenous creation myths are as valid as science.

I think i…[Read more]