John Dub

I wouldn’t mind your ramblings so much Mike if you wouldn’t claim to have scholarship behind them. The video you put up says he is not writing for scholars. If you want to speculate, fine, but don’t tell us we’re wrong.

When Americans wake up tomorrow morning, no one in our borders will remember Charles Darwin, his theory of evolution, or any of the sciences informed by it or depending on it.

I think where you want to go with this requires the entire world having this amnesia, and the “rediscovering” theory is the most likely. Especially since we have data laying…[Read more]

Once I spend more than an hour or so on a story like this, I start wondering what percentile I fall into. I wonder how many people are just wondering if Biden really tried basically the same kinds of blackmail but has not yet been investigated for it. When the link says, “that’s been debunked”, do people click on that, or do they just throw their…[Read more]

The subconscious is a very good no-nonsense fact evaluating machine and, whether we like the fact or not, the subconscious is always going to judge it based on the information available to us.

I tried reading on past this, but you’ve drawn conclusions based on nothing that I’m familiar with and in contradiction to what I am familiar with. The…[Read more]

There were plenty of opportunities in the 80s and that coincided with those vulnerable college years for me. As Bill Hicks said at that time when joking about the Iraqi’s having the 3rd largest army, “There’s a big drop off after the first two armies. The Moonies are the 4th largest army, and they have all our airports.”

So, I went to a few intro…[Read more]

We have this modern case

This is a theory of how Christ the myth became a story of a person.

But, we don’t know why people started painting caves and making stone figures, so we can’t get back to some beginning point.

This guy has some ideas on why we have religion

In fact, top historians have agreed upon many of these facts for the last couple hundred years. But they don’t talk or write about them publicly because of people like you.

Way to go Tee. Way to make people not write things before you were born.

Not getting a sense of humanism. I understand it’s something about creating anew but not sure what. It’s a good picture of you, but you’re not involved with the face of Adam. I’m left wondering why he’s there.

CFI is a major organization, but this forum is kinda small potatoes, but we’re lively and pretty accepting of facts! I’ll think you’ll fit in, we have a little bit of everything.

There would still be home-schooling, private schools, trips to the Galapagos,  libraries and the Internet. Completely suppressing the name “Darwin” would be impossible. Even explaining ID, you have to talk about what design you are referring to. Work with genetics could theoretically continue without any comment on evolution, but breeding animals…[Read more]

I guess it’s sort of a hobby for me. By working through the questions with someone else, I find perspectives that are useful for me. I bumped in to another one over at Skeptics forum.  Right down to claiming that our world view “is a lie”. A little different though because he claims to have the answer but it’s not worth explaining it to the rest…[Read more]

Cool. Welcome

I don’t ask Buddhist people about this because they would just say that it is right, you don’t ask Buddhists about the truth of their claims just like you don’t ask Christians about theirs, you get an outside perspective.

Which is exactly what Tee described and many have done, including myself. Buddhism was an outside perspective to mains…[Read more]

And it is now believed that Jesus was wanting to move Israel in this direction by changing the system back to the time of King David.

You were doing pretty good, up to that sentence.

Tee;

There kinda was a Scopes Part Deux — Kitzmiller v Dover, in Pennsylvania, 2005. But it didn’t satisfy some folks.

Science vs ID is just rehashing the old arguments in there most recent version. What I see coming, or the guy in the lecture did anyway, is the psychology of religion. We can stimulate your brain and give you the experie…[Read more]

There’s also PBS Passport. I found out the hard way that they don’t keep things on there forever, but it makes it much easier to watch hours of documentary when you can dial it up as you please.

In one of the YouTubes I posted recently, the guy concludes with a thought that another Scopes Monkey Trail moment is on the horizon. With advances in neuroscience as applied to religious thinking, it won’t be long before mainstream science is teaching that we are wired for hyper agency detection and a desire to exist beyond our physical…[Read more]

I’d like to dig into this more, but, off the top of my head, the argument that teachers couldn’t do the curriculum justice, since they aren’t familiar with the details of the subject is kind of a slap in the face to teachers, isn’t it? They aren’t political science PhDs and might not have military experience, but they teach about wars from the…[Read more]

A few threads within this thread. Here’s more on the “what people want religion to be” theme. From Dietrich Bonhoeffer the German theologian who died in prison at the hand of Hitler:

The attack of the Christian apologetic upon the adulthood of the world I consider to be in the first place pointless, in the second ignoble, and in the third…

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I’d really like to know how the UK pulls it off. Seems like it’s taken decades to get to where they are.