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The theist should know what they believe, right? As for the atheists, it's a bit harder because there's too many definitions and none were explicitly stated.

How do we know Sione is intelligent or conscious? How can we test it?

Sorry about not wanting "complicated" math, but a tensor is a mathematical object. I don't think there's a way around it.

It depends what you mean by soul. I'm afraid my answer would tear down your skyhook and put up a crane.

That is called "Ignostic" and is a modifier of the atheist position.

Can we get this moved to Homework Help? paul, what do you think the answers are?

I couldn't agree more.

Indeed. Theists often caricature atheists as all being strong atheists(similar to an argument that all theists are Mormons) with no moral compass, and thus have given the word a sort of social stigma. It has, in fact been quite successful. One only has to see the abundance of various words atheists will use to describe themselves while dancing around the word "atheist." The core of atheism is just a response to theism. Theists say "One or more deities exist". And atheism is just people saying "I don't believe you." This can take on varying degrees of forcefulness(ranging from Weak Atheism: "I don't believe deities exist" to Strong Atheism:"I believe that no deities exist.") Weak Atheism(the core of atheism) obviously requires no faith and as such is often blatantly ignored by theists. Strong Atheism, on the other hand, requires just as much faith as theism. All that defines an atheist is that they do not answer "yes" when asked "Do you believe in the existence of one or more deities?". "Agnostic" is a term that is misused as nausium. I suspect that it is mostly due to the social stigma(which is thankfully somewhat receding) that I wrote of above. Agnostic is a modifier of the terms Theist and Atheist, and as such cannot stand on it's own. You either believe in the existence of one or more deities, or you don't; there is no middle ground. Atheism and Theism are the only options. Agnosticism is merely one flavour of the choices. "Agnostic" merely means that one believe that one cannot know whether or not deities exist. Thus, one can be an Agnostic Theist(believe one or more deities exist, but it is impossible to know for a fact that this is the truth) or one can be an Agnostic Atheist(lack a belief in deities, but also believe it is impossible to know whether or not deities exist), but one cannot JUST be an Agnostic. There is no middle ground between belief and disbelief; you either believe or you lack belief.

<javagamer> Then again, I haven't seen any anywhere <ydoaPs> unitednuclear <ydoaPs> ? <Raxo> looking for what? <Raxo> uranium? <javagamer> A chemical resistant blast shield <javagamer> Already have some uranium <javagamer> Though that's not why I need the blast shield <Raxo> javagamer, but a sheet of lexan <Raxo> bam <Raxo> blast shield <javagamer> lexan? <Raxo> yes <javagamer> A sheet of something sturdy and chemical resistant is probably all I need <Raxo> wanna see though it? <javagamer> Oh, yeah. <Raxo> and what chems ar gonna be on it? <javagamer> Well, it's mostly to avoid splattering of things like concentrated sulphuric acid <Raxo> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexan <javagamer> Thanks <Raxo> find a place locally that sells a sheet <javagamer> Wow, this is the same stuff MythBusters uses? Nice. <javagamer> I was looking for something along those lines. How resistant would it be to concentrated acids though? Like sulphuric and nitric <Raxo> idk <Raxo> transparent aluminum would work also <javagamer> transparent aluminum? <Raxo> yes <Raxo> an aluminum sheet that is cleat <Raxo> clear <javagamer> Wow, thanks for all the help * ydoaPs points to Star Trek 4 <Raxo> DAMMIT ydoaPs

The maths IS the description!

The machine will be made of gold

It's odd that you have agnostic as a third choice. I picked "no" as I'm an Ignostic Agnostic Weak Atheist

You shouldn't play with genetics: You could turn Obama into Bush! Oh Noes!

[hide]First trip: place the box under the ledge with the button. get on the box and jump onto the button. the button will lower the time machine so you can get back in. after you hit the button, drop back down and place the button below the missing piece. wait a second or two and then pick it up over your head. you may or may not need to jump at this point. thus ends the first trip. Second trip: get on the box once it's placed below the missing piece. jump up to reach it after it is lifted.[/hide]

Skynet V1.0 RUN!!!!

Curse you and your time stealing flash games!

If you want to hallucinate, why not do it the legal way? Salvia Divinorum in known for it's hallucinogenic effects.

Expand into? That makes no sense. It would mean that "outside of space" wouldn't be meaningless.

c=speed of light. E2=m2c4+p2c2 Do you have any idea how much energy you're talking about?

I agree. Well, you should. Science, as you've even said above, looks at evidence and tries to verify itself. It is always questioning and refining itself. Faith doesn't. Faith is useless. There is no way of using faith to verify whether or not you're correct. If there was, there'd be nowhere near as many religions/denominations as there are. You and someone else can have equal amounts of faith in opposite viewpoints on the same topic-how do you know who's right? Trying to put science and faith on equal ground is plainly ridiculous. That's why we have radio telescopes, electron microscopes, etc. It's not faith;it's science-we have evidence on the matter. [acr=Quoted For Truth]QFT[/acr]

That's a pretty good question. It does seem unlikely that a single mutation could form a new functional limb out of nothing. And that's one of the reasons why no one says it does. It's all about cumulative change. Let's ask Dawkins about the use of half a wing: What about ? The BBC actually tricked a lot of people with that April Fool's joke. See the above Dawkins quote. Try these: Introduction to Evolutionary Biology What is Evolution? 29+ Evidences for Macroevolution An Index to Creationist Claims

Iirc, all the B vitamins are a large contributor as well.

The terms "Evolutionist" and "Darwinist" are typically frowned upon as they usually refer to the non-existent followers of Cdesign Proponentsist strawmen.

<nitric> or my favorite <ydoaPs> nitric, we don't care if you anal <nitric> IANAL

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