You're the one who injected hostility into a fairly benign post. You've also framed his comment to align with your disposition.

I'm extremely gratified by our scientific genius, and deeply humbled by the beauty it reveals.

Definitions of atheism vary depending on which dictionary you reference. Merriam-Webster states:

Yes, of course. There is a big difference between not having a belief in any of the currently postulated gods, to being completely closed off to the possibility of 'something' as yet undiscovered. Most atheists, myself included, will concede to the latter. We take issue with people who make shit up about the nature of…

"Einstein sometimes invoked the name of God (and he is not the only atheistic scientist to do so), inviting misunderstanding by supernaturalists eager to misunderstand and claim so illustrious a thinker as their own." Richard Dawkins.

All good points. Darwinism has for countless millennia culled the herd of the unlucky, and unfit. While doubtlessly effective, nature and her eugenics program has been something of a supreme cunt. For those blessed with both agency and intelligence, there is now an opportunity to reap the genetic experience gained…

Ultraesther?

There is incredible disingenuousness in availing yourself of modern medical science whilst simultaneously citing magic as the ultimate determiner of positive outcome. My grandfather's heart stopped twice when he was hospitalized for congestive heart failure. His heart for was shocked back into rhythm both times and he…

You are invoking the Anthropic Principle, which the author mentioned in the same paragraph as the aforementioned quote. You seem to have a slight misunderstanding of it, though you've gotten the gist. It's more parsimonious and less egotistical than it initially appears to be, and it works better with the presumption…

I really enjoyed your nuanced response. Are you really this mellow in person?

You hit the nail on the head. It's simply not a good question. The answer is simply 'because'. It belies the explanatory power of language, itself being a pure construct of causality.

While you may have given your quotation key a workout, your reasoning is nonetheless flawless. Having discussed with my children the absurdity of The Universe, I have worked out two maxims: 'Nonexistence is nonexistent', and 'There can never be stillness'(motion is an intrinsic quality of the universe). I'm also…

We need to start making recording devices more difficult to use. I don't think we would have to raise the bar to entry terribly high.

Down with modern infidels! I miss the infidels of the 20th century, who really knew how to blaspheme with panache. YouTube is so gratuitously populist, and gauche.

Lol. Thank you for the compliment. After working all last night with a migraine from hell, you made me smile.

" I saw the terraforming dream as the effects of all that, in essence he is the seed, the infinite supply of fertaliser that brings life to this dead planet." I agree with the 'infinite seed' aspect, but I don't believe it's a dream. I also believe that not all of the copies are killed by versions of themselves based…

My understanding of this film is that a kind of temporal anomaly caused the initial accident to reoccur ad-infinitum, depositing 'copies' of the same astronaut on the planet with random probabilities of survival upon impact. Presumably, over tremendous time scales, those who survive are eventually able to begin…

When I was in my early teens, I used to dream about this scenario. I would always attempt to board the ship and leave with the aliens. If this happened today, I would try and leave with them. Barring that, I would try and obtain as much information about the (inhabitable) universe as I could. Have they achieved faster…

(2007) It was actually Limbo that had its significance altered, especially focusing on the fate of unbaptized infants. The media reported it as "the Pope closed Limbo". I erroneously conflated limbo with purgatory. Mea culpa. :(

Considering the churches preachment's on condom use in Aids stricken Africa, the systematic cover up of pedophilia, the practice of indulgences, the invention and subsequent retraction of purgatory; I'd say, so what? As an organisation, they have espoused massive, millennium enduring stupidity, bigotry, and…