You’ve found a very small ‘hipster’ niche :)

You replied to me, I didn’t seek you out.

[edit] The conversation might also not been just for you. Sorry if it seems like I’m using you as a strawman or something, I’ve just been listening to way too many apologists make way too many bad arguments and way too many people not calling them out on it, that even ‘shrugging…

You ‘could’ win the lottery, but does that mean you should base your behavior on the belief that you have or will? Of course not, it’s a terrible idea to start spending money because you believe you’ll win the lottery before you actually have evidence that you have. Cross the street without looking, because you…

“A “higher power” (by definition God is all-powerful) could exist”

“You are wrong. Kant demonstrated that God existence or non existance cannotbe proven. It is also accepted that for science to describe the working of the universe there should be no God factor. I only can say that an atheist display just as much faith in the nonexistence of God as a beleiver in the existance. Even…

“The evolution I would not call science. It is a commonsense observation how natural selection works.”

I personally wouldn’t apply the term ‘common sense’ to it though since that implies self-evidence. It’s more of a closed-ended statement than an open-ended question. But even self-evident things can be studied…

“If we are going to be scientific about this you can’t really prove or disprove that there is a higher power and what it is capable of.”

What you’re describing is not science. In physics and in biology, “possibility” is not assumed, it must be demonstrated. So unless one can demonstrate that a god *can* exist, then…

Hope you don’t like batteries.  TECs are terribly power-inefficient.

“Yes, well, believing you’re doing the same thing, and expecting different results is rather contrary to science.”

That depends very much on the field of study. For example, particle collisions are conducted thousands or millions of times and you’ll rarely get the same exact result from one run to the next. So any…

Counterintuitive? Sure. Irrational? No. Hypotheses need to incorporate reason as well as evidence.  

“Doing the same thing” to see if you get different results is a core step in the scientific method of experimentation, so... :)

“We’ll have to agree to disagree.”

It’s not even that authors should fact-check. Some of these quotes are outright absurd to attribute to Einstein! Anyone who knows anything about Einstein’s work should be able to spot these as stupidly un-Einstein. “Logic will take you from A to B?” The man famous for employing…

In every job I’ve ever held, if I didn’t bother to show up for 3 days in a row without previous approval, I’d have been fired.

We need to get these real welfare rats off our tax money and get someone who is willing to actually show up and do the job they are being paid to do.  Chickenshits.

Only if you can do so in an appropriately ironic and snide manner, preferably reflecting their own words against them.  We Internet Petition writers have standards.

Don’t be silly. You’re supposed to write Disney, that’s clearly something they are managing.

Dear Walmart,

Midichlorians are horseshit. I demand you redo the Star Wars series to rectify this wrecking of my childhood. If you refuse, I will never again buy socks at your establishment.  As a paying customer, I assume you see the benefit in appeasing my tiniest of contributions to your business and will be…

I should start a petition that demands Christian douchecanoes immediately ‘pull the Bible from shelves at once’ and ‘stop promoting evil.’

“You know he didn’t design it otherwise it would look like something like this, inside and out.” 

Because nothing bad EVER came from asking The Internet if they feel like they’ve had their rights stepped on. Hope the White House is braced for a barrage of dick pics and isla-homo-race-o-phobe posts.

....Oh. Now I get it. Drumpf is looking for new material to re-tweet. Nevermind. Makes sense now.

And has made the conscious decision to use his own personal Twitter handle AS the official Presidential Twitter handle instead of switching over to the POTUS handle.  He’s the one that turned his own formerly-private Twitter account into a governmental one, which then makes it subject to the First Amendment.