Alan Appleby

I see the US supreme court has confirmed the Republican 3rd. world backwardness!
If propaganda manipulated know-nothings elect the likes of Trump, then it should be no surprise that Trump nominated evangelical  […]

Michael 100 says: 
 I read through the article and thought “I must be stupid.” 

That is the illusion  posturing post-modernist pseudo-philosophers want to create, as a ploy to make people think THEY ar […]

Michael 100 says: 
Then, he wrote:  “The most extreme versions of postmodernism claim that the natural sciences are just a social construction—a random “tale” no more valid than any other random tale that anyo […]

Strato says:
You know, by the proclamation, “God said it, that settles it, I believe it!”
And so the imperative is to take the Genesis account literally.

 
Young Earth creationism and biblical lite […]

phil rimmer says:
Winter’s Bone that made me realise that in the USA, the rural poor really might depend on hunting to supplement a meagre diet. You might indeed have to learn to shoot when young… as well as […]

phil rimmer says:
They could legitimately train youngsters at least for competitive or sport shooting. Maybe these become the public face of the gun makers?

 
In England we have no need for significant […]

I see another religious organisation has been caught covering up abuse by clergy so they could continue wearing their self-awarded badges of “goodness”! 
 

Leaders of the world’s largest Baptist denomination c […]

@OP There is no evidence that Earth has ever been visited by extraterrestrials,. . . . . 
 

While i would also take that view in regard to spacefaring sentient life, there is evidence that simpler life f […]

Michael 100 says:
Abortion is not murder during any trimester.

 
The claim of  “murder”  (illegal killing), comes from those selling religious laws which they claim over-ride states’ secular la […]

@ Phil:
But you’ll have to prove God’s existence and specific intention in a court of law before you can foist your Pro-Suffering agenda on others.

The scientific question is: “Why should women and fami […]

phil rimmer says: 
I’m sorry but this chronic inability to define your term “alive” is the essential reason you are making no progress with your argument. It seems to have no definitional founda […]

Perhaps the details of abortion advice and some religious abuses, I posted earlier on this this link, were missed by some
 

LaurieB says:
To force her into parenting against her will is to force misery onto her and any children she would bear against her will. The cruelty is unimaginable.

The cruelty did not stop with forced […]

Mike T says:
“Perhaps … explain.. why you think Medical experts don’t understand”, text book strawman arguement. It’s you who doesn’t understand, not them.

What they say is a matter of record for all those […]

When we are looking for expert guidance on medical issues, there ARE expert medical sources available, and who do not rely on semantics and fallacies to support their views! 

. . . Paul Chrisp, of NICE,  [ […]

Mike T says:
– Appeal to Authority is a fallacy, period. 

You have again demonstrated the fallacy of pretending all opinions are equal, and that you don’t know the difference between an expert authority […]

Mike T says: 

Claiming science has more answers than it does is a sign of ignorance.

 
It would be if science did not have the answers!
 

“Some scientist somewhere must have studied this” is an act of […]

Mike T says: 
Science doesn’t have answers here. It’s all hazy lines. Sentience as the cut off point is a value judgement. 

Actually science has some very clear answers about cut-off points for indep […]

Mike T says:
There are a lot of things in life where science has yet to be applied. Much of life is unpredictable and unknown. Science can not answer them, in the mean time we do the best we can via other […]

Mike T says: 
Science does not answer moral questions. “You can not get an ought from an is.”

Science does not answer moral problems independently of considering and evaluating the conflicting inte […]