"And although the West sees declining support for organized religion, belief in the supernatural remains predominant even in highly secular places like the Nordic countries." - you'll need to provide a citation for that proposition
"The claims that the universe has a purpose to it or comes out of random chance both appear to be supernatural explanations."
No, there is absolutely NO evidence of design or purpose but there is a growing body of evidence it was chance and luck. If you can't find the scientific evidence for the chance probability, then you are not looking.
"silly arguments like the evolution vs creation debate"
its not a silly debate while creationists proclaim something as science when its not. Creationism needs to be shot down and thrown away with the trash and forgotten about. The creationists are a subset of a large vocal fundamental bigoted group who have this delusion of a god and proclaim the stupid interpretations of the "holy books". Its won't belong until they act like the muslim extremists in Afghanistan that just beheaded 17 people for having a party
"As a person who believes in God because I have had spiritual experiences that lead me to that conclusion", thats just an anecdote not proof so thats why they laugh at you.
" there is some evidence of consciousness being distributed. And, it depends how you define consciousness." Br>
can you provide a link to where i can find the evidence of "distributed consciousness"
The sense of touch is surely controlled via the brain.
Actually, what I can almost guarantee happened is that IT kiss-ass knows his executes say "I love my iPhone, it's so shiny!", and the bit about security and malware was made up to justify that...
Being shiny is the only reason to choose Apple over RIM in the corporate world
I'm with you there. As a home user the only use i could have for activities is for each activity be a session in the sense i could have an instance of kmail/opera/whatever in each instance. It would save me having separate logins to separate the uses.
Slashdot Mirror
has been known about for years...
http://richarddawkins.net/news_articles/2012/9/11/pat-robertson-blames-atheists-and-those-who-hate-god-for-wisconsin-temple-shooting
Yes, you can. Insert an opensuse install disk and reboot.
Windows users are known to be the biggest software pirates who don't want to pay for anything
But do web sites that need real power use Windows? eg. Google, Amazon?
better there than the Republican "magic pants" religious party or a televangelist's pocket
Here's the best... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0
repeating verbal diarrhea. Not a chance of him answering the question without running off on a political diatribe
"And although the West sees declining support for organized religion, belief in the supernatural remains predominant even in highly secular places like the Nordic countries." - you'll need to provide a citation for that proposition
"The claims that the universe has a purpose to it or comes out of random chance both appear to be supernatural explanations."
No, there is absolutely NO evidence of design or purpose but there is a growing body of evidence it was chance and luck. If you can't find the scientific evidence for the chance probability, then you are not looking.
" I don't need to resort to edit configuration files, editing the registry, etc. When I install Linux, that's a given." - BOLLOX
"silly arguments like the evolution vs creation debate"
its not a silly debate while creationists proclaim something as science when its not. Creationism needs to be shot down and thrown away with the trash and forgotten about. The creationists are a subset of a large vocal fundamental bigoted group who have this delusion of a god and proclaim the stupid interpretations of the "holy books". Its won't belong until they act like the muslim extremists in Afghanistan that just beheaded 17 people for having a party
"As a person who believes in God because I have had spiritual experiences that lead me to that conclusion", thats just an anecdote not proof so thats why they laugh at you.
engineering is design, sometimes intelligent but engineering design does evolve as more knowledge is accumulated
intelligent design is NOT science, it is only consistent with the delusion of a god.
You won't get any believer answering that question. Richard Dawkins tried to get the bishop in Australia to answer it but he couldn't.
"Belief in God and belief in evolution need not be separate things. "
They need to be separate otherwise you are in a hypocritical position and it leaves your head in the sand.
When are the churches going to start shouting its the fault of the homosexuals in Dallas????
Yep, prawns are the cockroaches of the sea...
aahh a common sense post.. thanks
" there is some evidence of consciousness being distributed. And, it depends how you define consciousness."
Br> can you provide a link to where i can find the evidence of "distributed consciousness"
The sense of touch is surely controlled via the brain.
Want to provide a citation proving anything else?
When you're dead, you cease to exist in any form other than rotting flesh and bone.
but if you wish to remain deluded that you have an after life of some sort, then thats your choice. Don't be scared of death, just enjoy life.
Actually, what I can almost guarantee happened is that IT kiss-ass knows his executes say "I love my iPhone, it's so shiny!", and the bit about security and malware was made up to justify that...
Being shiny is the only reason to choose Apple over RIM in the corporate world
I'm with you there. As a home user the only use i could have for activities is for each activity be a session in the sense i could have an instance of kmail/opera/whatever in each instance. It would save me having separate logins to separate the uses.
Sounds like a troll alert to me
We are the primary cause of global warming, we are the primary cause of accelerating it