Your frustration is valid, but currently evangelical Christianity has a cultural hegemony in the US. The conversation must continue because those in power continue it.

Hey, ideologically-driven mass murder! That's never failed us before!

Your view of goodness is too narrow. Clearly God is the greatest prankster in all of reality.

There are parts in Paul's letters where he says it's a bad idea for Christians to get married to non-Christians. So it might have actually been because of her religion.

It was supposed to be round, but God dropped it on Day 5 of the Creation.

OH GOD I HAVE CELIAC WHAT DO I DO PLEASE SAVE ME

What movie is this?

Critical success! You smite the troll mightily and it retreats into its cave!

Was anyone else more interested in the corrupt detectives story?

I think we need to distinguish between logical validity and logical usefulness. Validity simply refers to whether or not the conclusion follows from the premises—if A implies B and we know A, then we can conclude B. That's a valid construction. Logical invalidity only occurs when we reach a conclusion that does not…

I take issue with your flippant dismissal of the Ontological Argument. If you look at the actual logical construction of the argument, you'll see that it's logically valid. If you're going to reject it, you'll have to do so based on the premises. But if we're approaching this from the level of premises, then what…

It's division into tribes at all that I'm against, and this sort of comment is the thing that reinforces those divisions.

If I'm a zombie when the cure is found, just shoot me. No one deserves having to live with this.

Brevity is the soul of wit, I suppose—but since it's very clear that I actually did not mean disappointed, could you perhaps elaborate on your point? Could we maybe have a civil discussion instead of slinging one-liners back and forth? Because, well, I don't normally like to pull this card, but if it comes to a…

Thank you.

To be fair, there's quite a bit of name-calling on both sides. I think that's just part of being human, rather than a function of one's metaphysical beliefs.

I see what you're saying, but I think you're missing what I was attempting to say. "Good thinking" can refer to any number of schools of epistemological thought, but depending on which premises you take into the argument, you'll bring certain conclusions out with you. It's empirically verifiable that "subjectivity"…

I'm impressed by Io9's willingness to even think about arguments for the existence of God. I often think that the amount of anti-religious sentiment on this site is counter-productive (and to be frank, somewhat obnoxious). Whatever your personal thoughts on the idea of God, occasional nods like this are steps in…

"Did Godzilla set up some sort of para-military force preventing normal incursion into the city that forces them to go in by air?"

Yudkowsky had a great piece on this: