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Diamond In the Rough One more author.Of Ender's Game, actually. Orson Scott Card is an iconic writer in science-fiction and fantasy. The Ender series alone brou… Started by greyfoot	1	Jan 25, 2010 Reply by greyfoot
Imagination, dreams, illusions, delusions, cognitive-dissonance - are all causes and effects - so free will - even if it is an illusion, delusion, and/or etc. - has a cause and is effective. Even in a deterministic view - calling free will an illusion does not negate it as a causal force. Therefore, it exists and interacts with… Started by Howard S. Dunn	74	Jan 22, 2010 Reply by Howard S. Dunn
My view of "Free Will" The mere though of it with change your perceptions of time, how you think, about time and you still never get to that certain point of nirv… Started by Mike Liddy	29	Jan 8, 2010 Reply by LesYpersound
And with extremism comes confusion. If fundies do dirt here, they do it abroad as well. Maybe that rain (in the form of online intelligence) has finally come to clean up the mess which is why they're getting so viral these days… Started by AgeOfAtheists14	0	Jan 4, 2010
Why does there need to be racist atheism? i see there is "Black Freethought" as one of the groups listed on the main page. is there something different about black freethought as op… Started by desirefirst	160	Jan 4, 2010 Reply by Jorge Quinones
The iron in my hemoglobin was fused in a supernova ... I am going to use the term 'material world' in this discussion. I am NOT suggesting there is some other world mostly because, if one did ex… Started by Howard S. Dunn	6	Jan 1, 2010 Reply by Jaume
What's wrong with scientism? In another thread, reference was made to some people's criticism of a position known as "scientism," and the statement was made that scient… Started by Keith Brian Johnson	51	Dec 25, 2009 Reply by Peter Brooks
Fine-Tuning Argument The Fine-Tuning Argument for the Existence of God argues from the a priori colossal unlikelihood of a universe's physical constants' and na… Started by Keith Brian Johnson	24	Dec 23, 2009 Reply by Peter Brooks
Nostradamus? Ok so I understand the viewpoint of the majority of the Christian community is that nostradamus has correctly "guessed" the year in which "… Started by Justin Xavius	15	Dec 18, 2009 Reply by Stephen Sherbett
0 is the middle number. What is the middle number? Answer: 0 Started by Chris	42	Dec 12, 2009 Reply by Jared Lardo