Kingsley Victor

Atheist: We should let kids decide for themselves. I'm sure they'll avoid religion like a plague. Kid as an adult: *picks religion* Atheist: I hate this.

. The relationship between a claim and an evidence is an epistemic or inferential one, and showing that relationship takes the form of arguments. 2/2

"Try to think rationally" *proceeds to drop an irrational response* Russell's teapot succeeds in showing that the intellectual cost of proving a negative might be higher than can be paid, but it does nothing to show that arguments do not articulate evidence 1/

considered his offspring and subordinate. 2/2

Addendum: I should add the ancient Egyptians believed the sky was female, and the Dahomey equally had that idea present in their religion, but for the Dahomey, the sky deity was the chief deity but for the Egyptians, the chief deity was still male. The sky was 1/

be the only ancient African kingdom I know of with a religion in which the chief sky deity is female (called Nana Buluku).

The ancient Indo-European sentiment is present in a lot of African religions including monotheistic ones (God is always a sky father). The Omenala for example, revere the sky as male (Igwe, or Amadioha) while the earth as female (Ala). The Dahomey, on the other hand, seems to

of ancient Egypt. The association of the sky with a male figure (Deus) and the earth with a female figure (Degom) is Indo-European while the reverse is the case with the Egyptian religion (Nut, a female figure is the sky, while Geb, a male figure is the earth).

I'm currently watching a YouTube video on parallels between the pantheons of Hellenic paganism and Hinduism, and it just struck me that certain African religions might be distant descendants of Indo-European ones instead of the more geographically accessible religion

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of scientific experiments could be arguments in the sense that a scientist might use them in such manner of proposition.

a knife could be marked with blood, and appear at a scene? Well, you need to establish the more probable cause through arguments, which are just contents of how your mind interprets the relationship or interactions between objects and the world. Even the results

requires arguments to evince the strength of its methods. It is a matter of argument why sensory data must be believed against alternative propositions if the senses could lose their integrity. Is a bloodied knife evidence of a murder, or are there alternative reasons

To the "arguments aren't evidence" crowd: How do you establish that something counts as proof of the truth of a claim without postulating any link between the claim and the proof by arguments? Articulated evidence is basically just a suite of arguments. Even empiricism

Arguments aren't evidence, he argued.

sentence without the words "sex" or "asshole". He never talks without involving his trans identity. The annoying part? He spams the group with porn. Both theists and atheists are fed up with him. Why is this always the case with that demographic?

I've never seen a trans person (especially trans women) who's not obsessed with sexual deviancy. I'm in a Telegram group where theists and atheists debate, and there happens to be a transwoman among us. I've never seen him coherently defend atheism. He rarely makes a full

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