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No, the slippery slope is not appropriate here. But then, Scanadavian countries are not relevant to the Socialist debate. They're not an example of what Socialism really does. But then the problem is you are using the term "socialism" to mean something different than most of us do. Makes ...

Yes, that's true. You can criticize free markets without ending up in a gulag. Would that Socialism were the same. But what's more common is that the Socialists insist that their way doesn't HAVE to lead to economic collapse, murder, gulags and the end of freedoms, whereas in reality, that's exactl...

I don't raise parrots, so try to keep your bird shit out of my house. Every method I use to do exponents in Geometry I have already proven to be exact, not close, exact. In fact, in regard to the Delian Solution, there is a very primitive figure, which for some reason does not appear to have been e...

So, unless you've got something else in mind, we will have to conclude that there are, to our knowledge, no examples at all of order arising spontaneously from chaos by way of randomness. And yet that is the very explanation Atheism's sponsoring worldviews ask us to accept -- that contrary to any e...

Don't discount the power of randomness. Let us start with Blake's question in The Tyger and consider the possibility no one, that randomness resulted in the tiger. You could believe God created LIFE, things that would reproduce themselves with slight random impreciseness. Now that is sufficient, all...

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2026 3:10 pm Did the flood happen as stated in the Bible or did it not. Can you at least answer that question?

The rapid emptying of Lake Agassiz?

not from merely the ID argument, which is, as you point out, merely to defeat the basic claim of Atheism itself -- but doesn't solve, or even attempt to address -- subsequent questions about what kind of God is in view. You've asked the argument to do things it was never presented to do, then blame...

The argument that if the universe is designed there must be a designer is far less useful than its proponents imagine. The problem is that JUST the universe having a creator does not extend to the properties of this creator. unitary/singular god --- does not follow. PLEASE, in this and with other pr...

I'll accept any gesture that demonstrates a basic knowledge of Rawls. And let me help us get started: Rawls has a theory premised on what he calls "the veil of ignorance." He clearly didn't mean "ignorant of Rawls". So you're expected to know what Ralws said, when you invoke him...

I guess it is pretty hopeless trying to communicate with you. For example, WHY do you conclude I have not read Rawls? For some odd reason you keep jumping to conclusions about me. Remember, this is supposedly about your claim the atheist is Irrational`when defining morality, and what I am challengin...

That's what's called a bluff. So again, what gives you confidence that Rawls succeeded? Make the argument. It is now totally unclear to me what argument you expect (or would accept). It seems OBVIOUS that Rawls is presenting a plausible basis from which he then derives a system of morality. That's ...

C'mon, dude...this is a philosophy site. The old appeal-to-authority fallacy won't work here. We're not that easily fooled. Some of us have actually read Rawls. Oy vey. You are hopeless. That was NOT an "appeal to authority". YOU asked for an example. YOU are claiming that any secular der...

Let's go back to your appeal to Rawls: what do you think justifies his belief that morality can be had on a secular basis? Unnecessary. I can prove X exists if I can produce an example of X. Rawls is proposing a basis, and it is not based on some god. That justifies his belief that it can be done. ...

Maybe it would help if you tackled an example of a non-theistic basis for morality. Take for example Rawls Theory of Justice . I have it, right here in my office, along with his follow-up volume, Justice As Fairness, in which he tries to fix its faults. What is it from Rawls that you find compellin...

Which is what? I look around, and I don't see one thing the Atheist can appeal to. If you have something, let's hear what it is. If I'm wrong, I want to know what I've missed. How many philosophers who presented some non-theistic basis for morality have you read? Start say with Epicurus (and so the...