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I will make my usual contribution to these threads: I feel that this is the least important discussion that anyone can have, re environmental issues. We should tackle pollution (Remember that?) problems and encourage technological advances, and quit this intractable debate. Sometimes I wonder if MMG...

Here's a debate between some of the usual suspects.

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Inul Daratista (born Ainur Rokhimah, 21 January 1979) is a dangdut singer and performance artist from Pasuruan, East Java, Indonesia. In early February, the Indonesian Ulemas Council (MUI), concerned that Inul's performances encouraged lustful acts, declared that her dancing and costume were circums...

Life actually speeds up entropy, decreasing it locally at the cost of increasing it globally. But with consciousness with have the capacity to re-order how the matter and energy is used. Perhaps one day we'll be able to cause a star. Then what? Then we'll have hugely increased entropy. One has to w...

Well then, Milo, would you taking a gander at my three cardinal questions below? For those that deny Muhammad's existence at all, I have these questions to ask: How about the family and extended clan members (Khadija, Fatima, Abu Sufyan, etc.) of Big Mo? Were they fake or real? If they were real, w...

There are two branches to the didn't exist thing I'd say: 1) He didn't exist at all, except as a perhaps a composite person. This one gets most support I think from the fact that the Koran does not refer to him the same way throughout, and he is referred to by impersonal titles "praised one&quo...

. Often is said Moh a pedophile and and and but that was when Gladiators were killing each other for fun, 1500 years ago and now Muslims are under microscope .. slightest thing is magnified and sent around the world to make a case these animal Muslims do not deserve that Oil & Gas and let's bea...

Typhoon wrote:If you took the Hubble Space Telescope and pointed it at the earth, you could still not detect any concern on my part.

You seem concerned to me, if you weren't, why say anything?

Sec the question did Mohammed exist I find a bit... boring. Either way. There are no doubt people to whome the question and correct answer yes/no/maybe/probably/unlikely is of vital importance. Similar to the did Jesus really walk on water? , or the did Jesus really resurrect physically? , or the m...

Self-driving cars. I call it railroads by stealth!

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Some days past I have found a curious confirmation of the fact that what is truly native can and often does dispense with local color; I found this confirmation in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Gibbon observes that in the Arabian book par excellence, in the Koran, there are no came...

Tiresomely predictable.

I think physical reality pretty much fits the definition of Singularity. Yes, but a technological singularity is a particular configuration of it. The notion is that it consumes everything that it can possibly come in contact with, kind of like a black hole. In the Singularity is Near he postulates...

. . look noddy , how many in Australia and America are like you ? ? not many . Almost everyone actually. . how can that be when until just a few years ago Australia and Canada has a strict white only (European) immigrant policy ? ? How many blacks are in Canada or Australia, pretty much non , just ...

5 Special Interest Groups That Help Keep Marijuana Illegal 1.) Police Unions: Police departments across the country have become dependent on federal drug war grants to finance their budget. In March, we published a story revealing that a police union lobbyist in California coordinated the effort to...

I would say that Moore's law is useful in the same way that whole numbers are: for example, when the number of transistors in the world exceeds the number of neurons, we have an actual measure of when things have begun to turn. Not that we know that is singularity but that singularity is pretty wel...

Drones for all!

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Just for the record ALI.

Your near-constant racialization of things sickens me.

I would say that Moore's law is useful in the same way that whole numbers are: for example, when the number of transistors in the world exceeds the number of neurons, we have an actual measure of when things have begun to turn. Not that we know that is singularity but that singularity is pretty well...

. I'd be grateful for Muslims to identify one of these people of sufficient intellectual caliber whose wisdom they accept. They keep bringing up that the scholarship that I show them is of low quality but I have yet to get me one name of one scholar anywhere ever that they endorse. . Milo , Am not ...

I'd be grateful for Muslims to identify one of these people of sufficient intellectual caliber whose wisdom they accept. They keep bringing up that the scholarship that I show them is of low quality but I have yet to get me one name of one scholar anywhere ever that they endorse.

Here's a debate between some leading scholars on the issue.

Que1xs81Wts

Ibrahim wrote:Anybody have any more evidence/arguments to present in defense for the Spencer theory? Anybody want to summarize the big bombshell from the YouTube vids?

By far the best argument against Mohammed's existence is that he went around boning six-year-old girls!

How long will the first go?

Will it go far enough that we get the second?

I thought the issue is not whether or not Mohammed existed (maybe, maybe not; no conclusive evidence either way anyways), as the issue is not whether or not God exists (can't be proven/disproven either way either), but the fact the we can doubt and especially are allowed to doubt. In the past and a...