Thy Plague Doctor

@davis thanks for bothering to take the time to post such a well structured response.  +1

@earlesanborn welcome to Atheist Zone, where theists like yourself are given space and room to make goddish claims without getting booted.  Out of curiosity, what inspired you to join an atheist site?

@Earle

Let’s go along with this purpose behind something that just wouldn’t happen to emerge:

The planet is hospitable and the ideal conditions are met. It was likely created. Except of course that the Earth is not particularly hospitable. Multiple ice ages, meteor impacts, near wipe out of all life and the threat of it happening again. Natural…[Read more]

Wait but why offers an excelent overview of common possible answers to the Fermi paradox, and it is also entertaining and insightful as all of his posts are on the site (I belive FronkeyFarmer is a fan of WaitbutWhy)

The Fermi Paradox

If you want to get deep into the Paradox, this book is phenomenal (though I…[Read more]

@regthefronkeyfarmer ahaha hahahahaha!

garnet wrote:
We may be the “alone” in the milkyway – maybe – but there is no way we are totally alone in other places – Stephen Hawkings said it is possible that we are not in the only universe and that he believes there are multiple universes-maybe hundreds of universes-maybe millions of universes…..If this is true then it stands to reason that…

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The very fact they gave an estimate of the likelihood of life somewhere else, takes away all their credibility. You cannot possible make such an estimate considering our enormous ignorance, gaps of knowledge, known unknowns, unknown unknowns etc. Worse, they base their estimate on some statistical acrobatics using the various estimates people have…[Read more]

Both those are beautiful, @unseen.  And I read your ghoulish lullaby to my wife last night, she of the horror genre film adherents, and she loved it!

@simonpaynton So the stick is more potent than the carrot.  If you’re a donkey. No big surprise then.  Moral:- don’t be a donkey.

I think the fear of death can only be properly approached by those not deluded in a joyous afterlife reuniting with loved ones. It is false comfort. It keeps you from facing the loss of your loved ones with a fake crutch that you’ll see them again. It shifts the need to remember, celebrate and pass on your lost one’s values and memories in this…[Read more]

@unseen That ‘fear of death’ is probably the most duplicitous in terms of the religious solution. When something scares you, you can either come to terms with it, or believe a pretty fairy tale.  The problem with the pretty fairy tale, is that it doesn’t enable the believer to actually come to terms with their fear, and move forward ac…[Read more]