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I've said this before, but I'll repeat: as the man on the Clapham omnibus, I'd love to check the sources, but forking out the gross subscription fees for the academic websites where the full text of the papers is available just isn't on the cards. This information should be available for *ordinar...

Pretty much like Second Life without the cool stuff, then

Sexuality aside, it's great to hear some Scott Joplin that isn't "The Entertainer". Does anyone else think he was a reincarnation of Bach?

@Wilfire1961 You're obviously also better than me at realtiming this gubbins! :-)

@RadarKat73080 Don't you mean Edgar Alan?

@zee814 Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. At that time it was thought to be caused by the shock waves of explosions close by.

@BigCalSuth Oh, come on! I believe that when I go out in ten minutes, my key will unlock my car - where's the religion in that? Religion requires belief, but a belief does not imply religion. Religion is a belief *in god/s*. Even more to the point, I (almost certainly like you) believe there is n...

@88gertjan88 That cuts both ways though, no? Happy's "friend" seems to have been willing to end the friendship because of Happy's opinion. I have a friend bigoted against gays. We disagree about it. Every so often we discuss it. That's all there is to it.

There was no mention in this vid of NASA confirming anything of the sort. It contains unsupported speculation about black holes, and gravitation, fails to provide any link between these and the Earth's magnetic field, and the gentleman making guesses in front of the snazzy computer displays was n...

@lenthokchom Earthquack? I knew it, it's not a giant turtle at all, it's a megamallard!

Just my two penn'orth. I usually try to concentrate on the message rather than the medium, but the doggerel is really getting in my way now. Too much time parenting, and not enough grown-up time?

"Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough:

It isn't fit for humans now."

- John Betjeman

@5:20 "I honestly, genuinely do not believe that God exists, and if you can't accept that then there can be no possibility of having a reasonable conversation." You had the whole thing wrapped up right there, Kate.

@RighteousRebel430 Thanks! I had a sort of vision of him walking into a rough miners' place of entertainment and throwing all the naughty people out :-)

@mokaibaNEW NOT a grown-up response!

All the best Kate - you deserve a break! Look forward to the day you're back. Meanwhile, take care.

For audience penetration and broad-based attack covering the whole of science - Hovind and Taylor.

@naughty8princess See, my understanding is Mohammed could not read or write. So the Koran is what a scribe said Mohammed said the angel said that God said. That's an awfully long chain of "saids" for anyone to take on trust for justifying beating any other human being, in any body part however li...

You have been a helpless victim of the marketing droids. The ads for the original 16k Sinclair Spectrum did everything except tell us in legally enforceable words that it would do all that stuff. The rule of thumb seems to be to add forty years to any advert or breathless documentary about "gee w...

Interesting, but I'm not sure I agree. There are plenty of people out there who *want* to get trapped into this stuff. Take Second Life - there are people who spend most of their waking time even in that non-immersive VR, losing their jobs and destroying relationships to do so.

Also the "wow" fa...

@Tippitapitus Or "using", as we say in English.

What a collection! These threeshould really be seeded: it's not fair asking us to decide between them. My vote has to go to BroJustin, because I am truly ashamed that any of my countrymen can be so dismally, outrageously stupid. He plumbs new depths of shallowness!

Girls, I respect your sincerity, but fear you flunked the class.

First, relying on one writer is unsound. Plenty of people have found weaknesses in C.S.Lewis. You need to examine and address those weaknesses.

Second,the Blasphemy Challenge was an invitation to make a statement. You can't rebut ...

"Nihilism is the worst spiritual trap", you say. Have you considered alternatives? I could make a case for spiritual pride being a worse spiritual trap than nihilism. Or what about despair? What makes nihilism the *worst* one?

@M0rdH0rst I can't really see the difference in kind between hanging from a gallows and nailed to a cross.

The thrust is that it may be tactically better to abandon the word itself and just concentrate on talking sense. Here's the link:-

sam no space harris.org/site/full_text/the-problem-with-atheism/

All the best,

Phil

USA since 1776 as a secular democracy can hardly be called short-lived. Certainly more successful than your extremist political examples. May keep going for a while yet, too, if you can keep corrupt, chowder-headed faith monkeys like Governor Goodhair of Texas away from the top jobs.