🇸🇪 I call myself an atheist simply because I believe no God exists, but I am at large, regarding many questions, very undecided. 🏳️🌈 Ally
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Me reading philosopher A: ”yeah this makes total sense”
Me reading philosopher B absolutely ripping A to shreds: ”wow I can’t believe A is such an idiot”
Me reading A again: ”yeah this makes total sense”.
A friendly reminder that if you ever come across a paper you really want to read but it's behind a paywall. Try to contact one of the authors, optimally the primary one. Scientists are desperate to get people to know things, they will very likely send you a free copy!
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It's commendable that you corrected your earlier claim about transitional fossils, but your revised argument still has a fundamental problem. Just because evidence can be interpreted differently doesn't mean those interpretations are equally well supported.
Magic: The Gathering quite literally saved my life when I was actually mentally ill. Without it I likely would have ended my life in my early 20s.
This game isn’t yours. This game is for everyone. Trans people including.
Being trans is not a mental illness.
”Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the chances become vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay” - Stephen J Gould, A Wonderful Life (1989)
Unless determinism is true, which would make our repeat emergence trivially true, then I think Gould is right. Evolution is shaped by chance event, it is historically contingent. What if the meteor that killed all non-avian dinosaurs never hit? Would we be around? Hard questions
How do Christians explain the existence of Surströmming and salted licorice?
This amount of evil contradicts a tri-omni God.
@SimonSimplicio How do Thomists deal with this? Both are directly in opposition to the faculty of... well... everything. Looks like shit, smells like shit, tastes like shit.
This meme only works if you have no idea at all what illusionism actually is.
It is *not* the idea that consciousness itself is an illusion. That would indeed be silly. Dennett is rolling over in his grave.
This is ahistorical.
The first individuals who initially proposed a very ancient earth were almost exclusively men of religion and faith.
The statement also confuses methodological naturalism with ontological naturalism. Science is based on the former, not the latter.
But I won’t lose.
Let me explain.
I can’t force myself to believe something is true if I already believe it’s false. If God exists, I don’t think such a person would appreciate dishonesty.
If God finds it fitting to punish a person who cannot find it in their mind or heart to believe in them then.. yeah, I guess I will lose. But what kind of God is that in the first place? Not the God I am constantly told is perfectly loving and moral.