You’re a really exciting debater. Opinions based on nothing, backed up apathetically by no facts.
Aah the old “good guy with the gun” syndrome. Good on ya, mate! Bang bang!
No, that’s NOT what that study shows. That study shows that people who have more knowledge about religion and people who are atheists are categories that overlap. It doesn’t infer ANYTHING about causes.
But that’s the DEPTH of what you’re missing in this field. You don’t even know what you don’t know, to borrow the old chestnut.
In order to materially prove the nonexistence of something, you have to make it so that the thing affects your world. Santa affects our world, so we can measure his existence or nonexistence. If any god exists, he’s not part of our physical world, and so can’t be empirically measured.
Yes, but the “scientific outlook” you state is fundamentally flawed, because science gives you no cause to assert either the existence or nonexistence of god or any nonmaterial deity. It only allows you to do that if you yourself postulate the nature of the gods you don’t believe in as things which are SPECIFICALLY…
Well, that’s a huge mixed bag of random beliefs you chose seemingly by happenstance. So..... good stuff!
There’s no evidence for the non-existence of a deity either. Setting all things in motion at the beginning of time and ending all things at the end of time leaves a very long middle, in which things like evolution and the expansion of the universe continue unaffected.
Your issue here is that you don’t really know…
The punishment is not an act by the deity, and not of their choosing. The punishment is simply to be without the deity in the afterlife, and the choosing is OURS. That’s the nature of free will. If your dog chooses to run away from you, and then feels hungry later, the hunger is not of your doing. It’s simply because…
Monday:
“Dear ESPN, enclosed is my letter of resignation.”
No, the way it works in the show is that the physical structure of a person is disassembled into component particles, and those particles are transmitted in the transporter beam along with the molecular information to put them back together at the time of disassembly. There are more than a few episodes based on this…
You missed the only reason that matters:
Football players don’t rape! They’re part of a team! Nobody who plays team sports can do bad things. TEAM.
Not to be offensive about it, but science works when SCIENTISTS criticize each others’ work. When you or I criticize a study, we’re probably just guessing.
Transparency doesn’t mean anything if you don’t know what you’re looking at. For example, where in the post above do you find “weak” studies “from the industry itself”?
Government agencies are the most reliable of the bunch. Start there. They are usually pretty good. After that, pick the most-cited journals in any field (Google Scholar) can help you out there. True to science, the most-cited paper will be the most accurate. The more researchers base their work on something, the more…
Pleas’ gov’nor. Wont’chu untie me so I’se can makes six to sev’n more fookin’ movies?
Aah right, you were the “style” guy and not the other guy. Meh. It’s all the same sort of indistinct buzz.