Moontanman

I don't know, I've found that arrogant tools tend to stand out in a crowd...

Great video, pretty girl but then intelligence is always prettier than the alternative. She makes a very good point although I'd have to see what other religions actually say about non believers and the afterlife. I've never read of a religion that allows for non believers to participate in an afterlife. On the other hand Christianity has the most unjust afterlife of all i have read about...

You really went there... sigh... Neanderthals were not as different from us as you think, in fact we carry some of their DNA. If you dressed a neanderthal in a three piece suit and he walked down the street he would look like a short powerfully built man, most people wouldn't give him a second glance. As for the part about a person with a high IQ, exactly how do you look at a person and determine he has a high IQ?

Life force ie vitalism was disproved a couple centuries ago.. The energy is chemical, nothing more...

Scientific advances in agriculture....

Common sense... common sense is that supernatural things are real but you cannot show them to us? I got a UFO i want to sell you... I'm quite terrified you might, at some point, actually back up your claims of evidence... The default position is that in face of total lack of any physical evidence nothing supernatural, including gods, exists... Can you falsify that statement with testable empirical evidence? I didn't think so Come on Immortal, you know i respect your right to believe, why do you have to ruin it by claiming things you cannot back up?

More like a bubble of static water around the sub that moves the water outside the bubble around the sub... analogies don't seem to really hold up here...

BTW, this paragraph here shows just why your religion is flawed, can you guess why that is? If you disagree then you can say the interpretation is incorrect, no matter what a theist claims his holy book says if you disagree he can always say you are misinterpreting it... talk about a free ticket to anything...

Ewmon, I will say this again, what you see as your religion is not what your religion really is, your religion is constrained by the laws of man, take away those restraints and you get a theocracy that has no limits in it's brutalization of man by men who think they are following the words of a magic sky genie. With out laws to protect us from your religion we would still be burning people for believing a different way, wars have been fought in far more places than the middle east over who is worshiping your god the right way and it is not in the distant past either. In fact right now in Africa your religion is pushing laws that allow homosexuals to be imprisoned and in some cases killed. People, often children are being killed because they are thought to be witches as proscribed by your religion. you do not know your own religion ewmon, all you know is what you want to know, what you feel comfortable knowing... kind of sad really... Atheists get their morality from evolved human behaviors that promote social cohesion, many animals from apes to wolves show moral behaviors we can recognize, the suggestion that atheists lack morals or hijack the morals of religion fails at the most basic level... BTW ewmon, you failed to answer my last question in post #17, I think it's one that should be answered since god demands this type of action....

Boron chemistry is at least as complex as carbon chemistry, boron actually forms "bucky" type balls shaped molecules as does carbon. Boron how ever suffers from the problem of being rather rare in the universe...

Not even a theory, until the experience of god can be shown to be more than a hallucination it will remain just something someone claimed to be true, not the definition of a theory...

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Then we cannot agree because I did not in anyway suggest this to be what I meant... You immediately dive into meaningless speculation, please define exactly what you mean by. Before we go any further please define what you mean when you say god...

The most honest thing i can say about god's (you have yet to define what a god is) is that gods apparently have no discernible effect on reality...

Ok, exactly what are you positing? Ok, I know what that word means but how does it contribute to the discussion? The most serious problem here is a lack of a definition for god, before we posit anything about god we have to at least agree to disagree about what a definition of the word god would be. If it matters what i am positing here is the concept of god contributes nothing meaningful to reality...

Yes but you have yet to establish these things, you want us to posit them as factual before we start... btw what does ethicity mean? Being open minded does not mean i have to seriously consider anything and everything, that would be silly...

Could it be more accurate to say we are looking back at a world beginning to gain it's sanity? The further you go back the more the actions you talk about were acceptable... Even worse things were not just accepted but actually thought to be admirable...

Immortal, insults do not improve your position...

Why is there no need to investigate the existence of invisible unicorns? you want us to consider investigating something there is no evidence for, it's meaningless... Even speculation needs evidence for the speculation to be meaningful... I did not say god could not possibly exist, that would be a positive assertion requiring evidence but you are correct such speculation is pointless... btw how does god have anything to do with morality? i think your curiosity is admirable but in this case meaningless with out some evidence... If I were to ask you to posit the existence of aliens from zeta reticuli so I could ask what could/should their influence be on our social economic system if they did exist would that be a meaningful question since we know nothing of them what so ever? You could posit anything you wanted, no limits what so ever, it would be meaningless... Even in speculations evidence of your speculation is required...

I knew there was a reason all that hard thinking i was doing wasn't making my .. .. any larger... I confess, I am really Brad Pit...

Arete, obviously the next phase...

Hmmm... sounds a bit like reveled truth...

I don't think IQ can be used to suggest a new species... Why would IQ cause reproductive isolation? I would have to see some evidence that speciation in humans is running faster than ever, in fact I would think it is actually slower since we are mixing our genes up far faster now than we did thousands of years ago so in fact we have less reproductive isolation not more. Do you really think IQ is a prerequisite for mating? Only smart people mate with other smart people? What on earth do you mean by this?

I'm not sure what you mean here, I do know they have gravity detectors or meters that can sense the gravitational pull of a human walking by (I saw it on myth busters) If you talking about gravity then yes if you are climbing up or down a rock fact the gravity of that rock face is detectable by very sensitive equipment but beyond that I am not sure what you are asking... When I read this thread for some reason none of the other replies showed up, sorry if my reply was obtuse...

Not at all, I wasn't taking you as seriously as i should have. I apologize for that. Cannabis sativa is a relaxant, good for pain, and nausea. I honestly do not see smoking it as a reasonable way to test it for sure...