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Message 3 of 124 (671049)
08-20-2012 8:31 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by marc9000
08-19-2012 7:27 PM


Hi Marc,
If your main theme is that atheists control science, your concluding couple paragraphs shouldn't be about political partisanship. This topic will be promoted to one of the science forums, and we'd like to keep political discussions confined to the Coffee House forum.

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08-21-2012 8:58 PM


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Thread copied here from the Atheists control science thread in the Proposed New Topics forum.

  
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Message 28 of 124 (671183)
08-22-2012 8:12 PM
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08-22-2012 8:03 PM


Re: Atheists? control science
Hi Marc,
I'm going to disallow your definition of atheist. Use the standard dictionary definition or I'll close your thread.

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Message 64 of 124 (671546)
08-27-2012 8:38 AM
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08-26-2012 7:52 PM


Re: Atheists do the darndest things
Hi Marc,
Dwise1 has just noted that you edited your definition of atheist in Message 26 to be wickedness. I'm going to have to disallow this definition, too, because there are no statistics on how many wicked people are scientists, so you would have no data to argue from. Also, because wickedness is subjective there is no objective way to determine if someone is wicked or not. Stephen Weinberg is definitely an atheist by the definition everyone else here is using, but whether he is also wicked is likely not something we could ever agree on, and the same is true of all the rest of the scientists in the NAS and the world.
Please use a mainstream definition of atheist appropriate for this context. This definition from Answers.com should work fine:
  • atheist (ā'thē-ĭst) n. One who disbelieves or denies the existence of God or gods.

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