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I like the look and the style. I much prefer "paint and canvas" renderings to electronic works. The actual touch of the artist - from brain to hand to medium to canvas - produces something that I have never seen captured by pixels and the moving of a mouse. I am something of an artist myself and have done the occasional piece that has been very tall and vertical like the first one you ...

I like the look and the style. I much prefer "paint and canvas" renderings to electronic works. The actual touch of the artist - from brain to hand to medium to canvas - produces something that I have never seen captured by pixels and the moving of a mouse. I am something of an artist myself and have done the occasional piece that has been very tall and vertical like the first one you...

QUOTE(Majora @ Oct 2 2008, 01:48) I didn't word my "teleology"question correctly. What I meant is why can't we, rather than saying outright that "God did it", look at science and then apply God afterwards? Alien keeps on saying that religion and science are two completely different things, and by definition they occupy different fields, except that if God created the universe then ...

"Creationism should be discussed in school science lessons, rather than excluded, says the director of education at the Royal Society." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/76121 52.stm

Hello, hi, wassap, etc. Incidentally, how do I change my display name?

Hello nosayingbagpipe Ok, first point: QUOTE(nosayingbagpipe) QUOTE(Majora) I've only been to America once. Lots of overweight people Ill have you know that Australia is the most obese nation, officially. "With almost 60 per cent of the adult population overweight. " From the times article. Population of America: 305 376 000 Population of Australia: 21 450 000 A...

QUOTE(mushin @ Oct 10 2008, 14:07) QUOTE(nosayingbagpipe @ Oct 9 2008, 19:42) I couldn't agree more, and I think its a fair challenge for anyone to try and becomes friends with someone of completely different morals. Ya know, it is possible. I don't know... completely different morals? Different cultures, yes absolutely. yea why not? My own step mother claims...

I am unsure what a 'naturalistic' worldview comes to. Often, I find self-proclaimed 'naturalists' to really be closet reductionists, i.e., the kind of person who wants to reduce all "putative features of the world" (i.e. any and all states of consciousness and the kind of vocabulary which deals with these phenomena) to a "more basic account" (i.e. one which quantifies over elementary ...

Well, I'm not in the closet either about reductionism, but that's ok. You can discuss at length such a topic around here. Pull up a chair, there's plenty to go around. And welcome to the group, BTW! -------------------- "It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which [I] lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains ...

I was just wondering, should the brights have a "rules of engagement" for supers? Suppose you find yourself in a community project to which you would love to contribute, but it means working with a church group? They will ask you why you don't attend church, and upon learning that you don't believe in Jesus, will almost certainly begin a gradual, irksome campaign of "you're such a good ...

Story on Sky News (not the most reliable source, I grant you!) http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/E...Say_R esearchers Interesting, but not convincing.

Story on Sky News (not the most reliable source, I grant you!) http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/E...Say_R esearchers Interesting, but not convincing. -------------------- There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something ...

QUOTE(mushin @ Oct 3 2008, 01:56) I'm afraid that I disagree. While scholars on the subject can undoubtedly parse the term into a thousand distinct pieces, atheism simply means a denial of theism. Thus, if I am not a theist, I am an atheist. To deny that theism is true is to affirm that it is false, and so to believe that God doesn't exist. Atheism as the denial of God's ...

QUOTE(OriginalCynic @ Oct 4 2008, 02:00) But about your original statements. If positive atheism is 2. The positive atheist does not believe that theism is true doesn't it automatically follow that they believe that theism is false. The most important point is missing: A positive atheist is characterized as somebody who does not believe that theism is true and also ...