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This book is awsome. I've already learned some things that will help with the Cosmological argument and the nature of the soul. It seems I'm going to be debating ProtestantWitness at essaydebate. I'll be posting firs…
JB might let me debate somebody on essaydebate (He hasn't answered me back on this, but since I helped make the site, I'm sure he'll let me. If not, I might just steal it.) First of all, if you'd like to debate me, th…
isthereanythingnewunderthesun tagged me, so I'm going to say "What the Hell?" and do it. Six things that are strange about me. 1. My favorite animal is the coelacanth. 2. I want to go to Cornell for no other reas…
This last week, in case you didn't know, I was at band camp. That's why I didn't post much. So tomorrow I will hopefully catch up with everything. I will also be saying how it went tomorrow. But this past week my read…
OK, so I didn't answer comments, but that was because nobody else commented and I'm worn out from band camp. I'll probably respond saturday or sunday. I finally got what I have of my book in pdf format. I can uploa…
So much to say, but nothing really relevant. I got burned really bad today at band camp. Hey, only four more days of getting cooked in the sun. What really pisses me off is, not that I got sunburned, but that my ri…
"If, when you are finished crunching the numbers, you come up with x=God, then this does not mean God exists, but that your calculations were wrong. If you have a proof that shows God exists, it doesn't mean God exist…
I'm back. I went to a Catholic wedding, which means it was a mass. There were three verses they talked about, two of which I was already familiar. Genesis 2:18-24, where God gives adam a lot of animals to see if he wa…
I just found out that I'm going to be gone the rest of today and part of tomorrow. Oh well, at least I'll have plenty of time to get through Quantum and start on The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene.
Jesus Christ. I will never, ever, leave comments unanswered for that long again. Almost 2 hours. I'll probably be wishing I could reply to comments for 6 hours instead of going to band camp, which is outside, when the…
I finished the Case for Christ and Challenging the Verdict today. Check out atheistthoughtsbooks to see a short summary and more. Sorry for not commenting back for a day or so, I've been a bit lazy. I'll try and rep…
Many Christians say that people like Pat Robertson and the Westboro Church aren't true Christians. "True Christian" requires a definition so that we can say who is and is not a true Christian. Simply saying "A person …
The idea of a soul has to be just about the #1 reason why I reject Christianity. The soul absolutely breaks down when you try and see what it's like. The first problem is with memory. This ties into when our souls …
I didn't post yesterday because I couldn't think of anything to post about. Just an FYI for those who were wondering. This is a post for those of you who like to interpret the bible metaphorically. According to the …
Strobel should be a stand up comic. And I quote: "Consider the way the gospels are written-- in a sober and responsible fashion, with accurate incidental details, with obvious care and exactitude. You don't find the…
Oops! I forgot to post yesterday. Anyway, I finished Contact and will be starting The Case for Christ. But wait, there's more. I will be reading Challenging the Verdict by Earl Doherty alongside it. In case you don't kn…
I've been thinking about this post at one of my favorite blogs, and it makes me want to just punch a Green in the face. I mean, third parties are the most retarded things ever in our political system. They suck up man…
I don't have any time for a comment beyond this. I've been wondering what creationists would say about the Ken Miller video I linked to a couple days ago. I think our chromosome #2 is the strongest evidence of evoluti…
It's compare and contrast time. Well, more of compare. I don't think just laymen will be able to get what I'm saying, but this is mainly directed towards certain people (cough, JB, cough). 9/11/01 I'm in fifth gr…
This is a good video. Please take 2 hours out of your day and watch it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVRsWAjvQSg -edit- Yes, I finished Guns, Germs, and Steel. Now I can get to books that are actually good. …
Only one and a half chapters until I'm done with this. Then I get to read another Carl Sagan book, Contact. No pun intended, but thank God. I can't think of anything to post, but I don't feel like beating up on Strob…
I can't believe I found a use for this dumb book. Diamond is quoting a letter from hundreds of years ago. "Governor Pizarro (Spanish leader) now sent Friar Vicente de Valaverde to go speak to Atahuallpa (Indian …
I'm running out of things to post on, so I picked up A Case for Faith and will answer Strobel's first answer. Since evil and suffering exist, a loving god cannot. At first he just gives a sumary of the problem. The…
I'm going to celebrate 7/4 by posting some quotes from some of my favorite people from this country. "Christianity niether is, nor ever was, part of the common law". Jefferson "The clergy, by getting themselves est…
I was looking at some population statistics and I came upon some great news. The number of non-believers is growing quickly. I'm not going to show growth rates, since larger populations have a harder time having large…
Irreducible complexity (IC) is on of ID's biggest arguments. Unfortunately, it is just about the easiest thing in the world to show fallacious. To prove my point, I will show many real life systems that are "irreduci…
I now have a car. It's a 1993 Chevy Cavalier. I'll have a real post later... -edit- After I drove my car around for a little bit I found quite a list of things that could be improved, but I don't really care that …

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