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    Thread: Is There a Rational Method for Evaluating Religious Claims?
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(06-07-2025, 10:19 PM)pattylt Wrote: How do Christian’s that accept evolution deal with Original Sin in light of evolution.  I’ve heard various apologetics on it but, like their Trinity, it doesn’t ...
 Alan V Philosophy and Ethics 105 1,312 06-08-2025, 09:59 AM
    Thread: Is There a Rational Method for Evaluating Religious Claims?
Post: RE: Is There a Rational Method for Evaluating Reli...
(06-07-2025, 10:17 PM)Rhythmcs Wrote: Original sin is syncretic thought in christian tradition.  They did not actually get the idea from the ot, or from judaism, nor did they invent it themselves to...
 Alan V Philosophy and Ethics 105 1,312 06-07-2025, 10:36 PM
    Thread: Is There a Rational Method for Evaluating Religious Claims?
Post: RE: Is There a Rational Method for Evaluating Reli...
(06-07-2025, 05:10 PM)pattylt Wrote: Are there any other religions that consider humans inherently sinful?  I’m not familiar enough with Eastern faiths or even Islam for that matter. Sin is a transg...
 Alan V Philosophy and Ethics 105 1,312 06-07-2025, 10:05 PM
    Thread: Is evolution a valid theory?
Post: RE: Is evolution a valid theory?
(06-05-2025, 02:00 PM)CapriMark1 Wrote: If you want to argue about the beginning of life, that's abiogenesis, not evolution.  And abiogenesis is not an infinite regression.  It's about turning somet...
 Alan V Atheism & Theism 100 4,153 06-05-2025, 07:08 PM
    Thread: Is evolution a valid theory?
Post: RE: Is evolution a valid theory?
(06-05-2025, 10:20 AM)Job-12.7 Wrote: (03-19-2025, 11:30 AM)Alan V Wrote: This is incorrect.  Darwin tried to explain some things, not all things.  The beginnings of life, before evolution could k...
 Alan V Atheism & Theism 100 4,153 06-05-2025, 07:04 PM
    Thread: Why I'm an atheist.
Post: RE: Why I'm an atheist.
I'm an atheist because I read a lot of books. Some I found much more persuasive or accurate than others.
 Alan V Atheism & Theism 20 318 05-21-2025, 11:24 AM
    Thread: The Case for AI
Post: RE: The Case for AI
I can imagine a day when someone instructs an AI to create a new Beatles' album and it does, and people enjoy it as if it really was a Beatles' album. But it isn't really self-expression at that poin...
 Alan V Off-topic 11 107 05-16-2025, 11:33 PM
    Thread: The Poison of Religion: How Control Replaces Truth - Why Religion Seeks Obedience, No
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 Alan V Atheism & Theism 16 447 05-10-2025, 10:02 AM
    Thread: The Poison of Religion: How Control Replaces Truth - Why Religion Seeks Obedience, No
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(05-10-2025, 12:57 AM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (05-10-2025, 12:00 AM)Alan V Wrote: "Enlightenment" is still a religious concept, 0Illuminated1. I don't agree. It may have started out as such -- or ma...
 Alan V Atheism & Theism 16 447 05-10-2025, 01:58 AM
    Thread: The Poison of Religion: How Control Replaces Truth - Why Religion Seeks Obedience, No
Post: RE: The Poison of Religion: How Control Replaces T...
(05-09-2025, 09:04 PM)0Illuminated1 Wrote: Religion claims to offer truth, but its foundation is built on control, fear, and submission. Rather than guiding individuals toward enlightenment, it enfo...
 Alan V Atheism & Theism 16 447 05-10-2025, 12:00 AM
    Thread: Facts, Evidence, and Proof: Untangling the Concepts
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(05-09-2025, 10:19 PM)pattylt Wrote: @SteveII , you forgot to list brainwashing.  Most Christian’s, serious or casual, were indoctrinated as children.  Even if they later decide to examine their bel...
 Alan V Philosophy and Ethics 490 10,996 05-09-2025, 10:53 PM
    Thread: Facts, Evidence, and Proof: Untangling the Concepts
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 Alan V Philosophy and Ethics 490 10,996 05-08-2025, 01:03 PM
    Thread: Facts, Evidence, and Proof: Untangling the Concepts
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(05-07-2025, 06:41 PM)LastPoet Wrote: Its all good. Until those damned psychs that are believers tell that your alcoholism is due to being an atheist. I have been there. I gave a lot of money that i...
 Alan V Philosophy and Ethics 490 10,996 05-07-2025, 08:42 PM
    Thread: Facts, Evidence, and Proof: Untangling the Concepts
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(05-07-2025, 01:36 PM)Starseed Wrote: Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable even for the most mundane cases, let alone metaphysically extraordinary claims. The fact that you seem not to und...
 Alan V Philosophy and Ethics 490 10,996 05-07-2025, 04:21 PM
    Thread: Facts, Evidence, and Proof: Untangling the Concepts
Post: RE: Facts, Evidence, and Proof: Untangling the Con...
Steve seems to be arguing for a separate reality. That also seems like special pleading to me.
 Alan V Philosophy and Ethics 490 10,996 04-30-2025, 06:15 PM
    Thread: Belief
Post: RE: Belief
I typically use qualifiers to express what I know. "Typically," "often," "sometimes," "rarely," or whatever. That seems more accurate. The definition of a truth is a generalization which applies to...
 Alan V Atheism & Theism 35 492 04-30-2025, 12:24 PM
    Thread: Facts, Evidence, and Proof: Untangling the Concepts
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(04-29-2025, 11:25 PM)Phaedrus Wrote: As I've always stated, Atheism is not a guarantee against ignorance for even atheists can believe in absurdities since the only commonality with all atheists is...
 Alan V Philosophy and Ethics 490 10,996 04-30-2025, 01:33 AM
    Thread: Facts, Evidence, and Proof: Untangling the Concepts
Post: RE: Facts, Evidence, and Proof: Untangling the Con...
I have mentioned a certain friend of mine on several occasions in our various discussions. He is an atheist, but also believes in an afterlife and in paranormal abilities. He keeps searching for res...
 Alan V Philosophy and Ethics 490 10,996 04-29-2025, 11:17 PM
    Thread: What was the high point of your day? 2.0
Post: RE: What was the high point of your day? 2.0
I listened to the Wings Over America live album, recorded almost 50 years ago now.
 Alan V Off-topic 1,558 91,714 04-29-2025, 10:59 PM
    Thread: Facts, Evidence, and Proof: Untangling the Concepts
Post: RE: Facts, Evidence, and Proof: Untangling the Con...
(04-29-2025, 08:10 PM)SteveII Wrote: (04-29-2025, 07:09 PM)Alan V Wrote: We will never prove naturalism is true to you, or to a lot of other believers. Other people don't need that information be...
 Alan V Philosophy and Ethics 490 10,996 04-29-2025, 08:18 PM
    Thread: Facts, Evidence, and Proof: Untangling the Concepts
Post: RE: Facts, Evidence, and Proof: Untangling the Con...
(04-29-2025, 06:36 PM)SteveII Wrote: (04-29-2025, 05:40 PM)Paleophyte Wrote: @SteveII Under what conditions are you willing to accept that your god doesn't exist? When you prove Naturalism is true...
 Alan V Philosophy and Ethics 490 10,996 04-29-2025, 07:09 PM
    Thread: Facts, Evidence, and Proof: Untangling the Concepts
Post: RE: Facts, Evidence, and Proof: Untangling the Con...
(04-29-2025, 01:55 PM)SteveII Wrote: You're right to distinguish between ontological and methodological naturalism. That's an important clarification. [Etc.] I believe you misunderstood what I wrot...
 Alan V Philosophy and Ethics 490 10,996 04-29-2025, 07:05 PM
    Thread: GTKY 2.0
Post: RE: GTKY 2.0
Name: Alan Age: 69 Job: Retired, though at my last job I designed electronics for satellites for 20 years (drafting). Hobbies: Reading nonfiction primarily (too many different subjects to mention). I...
 Alan V Getting to Know You 16 364 04-29-2025, 12:40 PM
    Thread: Facts, Evidence, and Proof: Untangling the Concepts
Post: RE: Facts, Evidence, and Proof: Untangling the Con...
(04-28-2025, 10:48 PM)SteveII Wrote: AVOIDING QUESTION BEGGING Naturalism is the philosophical position that everything that exists is part of the natural world and can, in principle, be explained t...
 Alan V Philosophy and Ethics 490 10,996 04-29-2025, 02:13 AM
    Thread: Dumb things religious people say
Post: RE: Dumb things religious people say
(04-24-2025, 01:10 AM)Dānu Wrote: Atheists say they just lack belief, but I think that is merely a dodge. Specifically, atheists are dodging the burden of proof.  We are under no obligation to dispr...
 Alan V Atheism & Theism 49 1,442 04-28-2025, 11:05 AM