Strega

I’m so sorry about your dad. It’s a horrible loss.  Glad to see you back, though 🙂

Tom, it’s a murder of crows 😉

@davis Son of God sounds just like Bride of Godzilla to me.

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?

@jakelafort saying the universe doesn’t care, is another way of saying it is unaffected, unmoved, and oblivious to the thing being referred to.

It’s like claiming inches would exist even if there were no human.  Yes, distances of what we call an inch would exist, but not in any unique way.  We invented mechanisms (maths, physics, etc) to quantify and understand stuff.  Because ‘stuff’ is determinable, that doesn’t give our mechanisms of determination any objective status, outside of hum…[Read more]

The laws of physics and the functions of mathematics are like grids that we overlay on the universe so we can use grid references to talk about specific parts.  The universe itself doesn’t care.