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(video) My Opening Statement in the Student Debate at Skepticon 2

Intro: For those of you who don't wish to scour my lengthy review of Charlie Self's closing remarks on the pro debate, here's the video of my opening statement from the student debate. I got great reviews from every…
(argument map) pychen & "Natural Morality" (version 2)

Intro: The original conversation can be found over on pychen's site (link) and I also have an archive of it on my site (link). Click on the large version below to see the full resolution argument map. "Argunet," the…
GabrielPeter & "Potential Infinity vs Actual Infinity"

Intro: I recall way back when I was startled that Christian apologist William Lane Craig (WLC) advocated that an actual infinity was impossible even though he believed in a god with infinite attributes (link). Little…
Runaheadofme & "All Together Separate in Love"

runaheadofme, In my post, I focused more on specific attachments rather than what I would call general valuation. That made more sense for that post given I was evaluating the relationship between Cameron and John. Y…
Tonysidaway, Frustration & "If we evolved from fish, why are there still fish?"

This is a repost of my comment from tonysidaway's blog. I've quoted only part of his post here: Tony: "I've sometimes been stumped by a creationist question about evolution. Not unable to give a satisfactory answer,…
Transhumanistic Musings

Intro: In this post I will discuss some of the implications of technology that is likely on the horizon. If humanity right now is Humanity 1.0, then transhumanism would be Humanity 1.01 and beyond. Hence the symbol…
GNOMA (Gnomistic Nonoverlapping Magisteria)

Intro: Some of you may be scratching your heads wondering how I can live this double life. How can he be a gnomist on the one hand and then a rational person on the other? I’m glad you asked. Revisiting gnomencl…
Mr. Jargon, DarkWolfofVoid & "Not Feeding Trolls"

@mr_jargon - mkay. That's fine by me. I can do the talking. There's no reason to talk to Bryan as he hasn't really brought up anything new as much as he's just got his ducks in a row (as he sees it) for his own p…
Mr. Jargon's Informal Survey

Hello [everyone], I'm doing a kind of informal survey tosatiate my curiosity. My question is whether or not you are an ethical/moralrealist? I am not asking whether or not you believe that morality can…
(links) Ben's Theory of Everything

Ben’s working model of all basic contingencies biophilically relevant: (theory of everything) Intro: This will be a work in progress as I add external and internal links to fill out the picture. The following is a lis…