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A suggestion that there are things you haven't heard of doesn't equate to infinite things. Let's say there are 10 arguments for God's existence, but the only one you are familiar w…

I already replied to your comment below, but this one is interesting too. > The main issue with most of these philosophical arguments is that they don't prove anything even worth r…

Well it depends on the nature of God's interaction, doesn't it? There are no big hands coming out of the sky and moving things around, I'll give you that. The theologist Paul Tilli…

Isn't it right there in the name? a - theism?

You don't believe that we can access meaningful knowledge about the world through logic? If not, then what the heck are you doing on a forum about computers?

>Atheism is a recognition that there is zero evidence for the existence of any gods. You're bemoaning a lack of empirical evidence when the problem is actually a philosophical one.…

Why ignore the main point of my comment? I directly addressed one reason why a random turtle god and an actual religion are very different. I was talking about traditions, yes, but…

Why not?

I think you betray your lack of understanding by categorizing any religious belief aside from fundamentalism as "cherry picking whatever pieces of the bible...". There is a 2,000 y…

People tend to participate in online communities that affirm their sense of identity. Maybe people who get really involved are those who see atheism as a more important aspect of t…

You don't have any reason that you have considered . Which is totally fine. The problem comes when atheists believe a priori that any argument for God's existence would be automati…

There are many different ways to read the bible. Mainly, the bible is not a literal instructional manual unless you are a fundamentalist. And fundamentalists suck. For others, it's…

I became an atheist/agnostic as a teenager and now in my late 20's I have slowly come back to religion. So I am really interested in this topic. My comment is specifically about on…

In some senses, it's just a rehashing of the old "bread and circuses" line. Except this time it's iphones and a starbucks latte.

I don't think I agree. Things only become symbols when read as symbols

> art should not be ephemeral Why not?

Baudrillard's insistence on reading everything as a symbol gets him in trouble. There are a lot of intellectual fireworks in his writing, but I think he lacks depth and appreciatio…

Interesting. Maybe the new rule should be "Eat red meat if you want, just don't let it make you fat".

You can make some pretty attractive layouts with Adobe InDesign. Although I could never imagine managing an 800 page report like this in InDesign

This article comes across as very "inside baseball" i.e. the crowd who are intimately familiar with the ongoing melodrama in journalism, the history of the NY Times, etc. See his r…

Unfortunately that's just about par for the course by Forbes standards

Is there something wrong with Lithuania and Portugal that it is so bad to be next to them in some world ranking? I get tired of the thinking that if the USA is not "#1 best in the …

Based on my experience, full-time positions just specializing in GIS are probably extremely rare for this type of organization - hence the desperate need for someone who is good at…