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You are making a categorical error by positing that both the scientific and supernatural philosophical view about something are both scientific theories, the contrariety and conflict of these two views arises by categorizing them both in a scientific sense, it is perfectly reasonable therefore...

Well then that is where our intellectual position differs, I think you are using vaguely defined terms such as "truth" or "evidence" by injecting your own materialist mindset into it, there is a difference between evidential truths and rationally-defensible truths, like I said, to say that all...

That is more of a personal belief rather than a scientific statement, perhaps the methodology of science cannot prove or disprove the existence of the spiritual or the divine, but does it mean that simply because something is not scientifically fallible it is therefore bogus? that sounds more of...

While we are discussing God and cosmology, let us not forget that the Big Bang cosmological model was given to us by a Roman Catholic priest, Fr. Georges Lemaître,SJ Ditto! we need a saner figure for evolutionary biology than Richard Dawkins x_x

They could very well do so, who are we to say? is matter all that matters? I think that's why people have faith, don't you have faith?

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Hamlet

Hmmm... interesting, I think atheist author Sam Harris has mentioned this idea before, Harris is generally antitheistic but supports some Buddhist ideas like reincarnation, which somehow puts tension between him and his peers Dawkins, Dennett,etc.

quite so, go to MSNBC and we hear glorification of the left, go to Fox news and we hear all-praises for the right.

. Assuming that was true, then are we to forgo altruistic acts for the sake of only self-interest? Objectivism teaches that all acts of selflessness are to be avoided, as I have said, the main problem of Rand's philosophy is its' superimposition of the importance of the "self" rejecting...

my thoughts exactly

Sorry that wasn't a clear depiction of what happened, I didn't left him on the spot then, after he said that, I did say he should stick to Biology (in a friendly humorous way) but afterward we talked about something else, though in the back of my mind I was truly disturbed by what he said, my...

egoism is exactly the problem of Rand's philosophy, much like Heidegger's ontology on the superimposition of the power of man, not only that, Objectivism begs the question "Is one's life the ultimate value of ethics? what of altruism then? Is selfless concern for the welfare of others truly...

Ummm... Isaac Newton was indeed a theist (an unorthodox Christian though) while Charles Darwin was a theist who became agnostic after the passing of his favorite daughter, none the less Darwin did not hold people with religious beliefs in contempt (like Dawkins does)

Quite so! quite so! almost all engineers in the present still have a "Newtonian mindset" in applications concerning their work.

Fox news balanced? hmmmm... yes indeed, and O'Reilly truly loves democrats