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First things first: I am largely a rational person and I believe the evolution of reason, science, and technology, are perfect examples of the the realization of human potential. I do not believe in God.

I'd like to explore with you a little thought-experiment, which hopefully either opens a few minds, or at least gets them off each others' throats for a while. Yes, boys and girls, this is another atheist vs creation argument, but this time I'm going to try and play devil's advocate and let you think for yourself.

I believe that the meek robots will someday inheret the Earth and that only the smartest humans will be able to adapt fast enough to survive in such a rapidly improving technological utopia. Take that dose of reality, religion!

A. Cancer cells ignore signals to stop dividing (contact inhibition)
B. People ignore signs that they should not reproduce so rapidly

A. (Angiogenesis) the formation of new blood vessels to allow the cancer to grow rapidly
B. People channel natural resources to allow for increased population growth

A. Cancer cells metastasize and spread to other parts of the body

Does anyone think that modern humans are following Darwin's "survival of the fittest? (loosely stated)"

From my point of view, it seems like the less intelligent/productive people are reproducing more than the more intelligent/productive people are.

This is a subjective question and I would like to get some other viewpoints.

The more I study atheist's behavior the more I realize how narrow their point of view is. It reminds me of the limited mind of a devout religious follower. I keep seeing atheists cite science and reason for their beliefs, but their statements and arguments are not always based in science and contain very little reason. Especially when they try to "prove" God does not exist.

How about putting God to the test of a known absolute....here's some logic for you based on the following axiomatic premises:

(1) If: The Bible says it, Then: According to the believers, it must be true

(2) The Bible says in Matthew 7 in the King James Version:

Religion, Government, Business, Technology....each successive one wants to eliminate the prior one and each prior one wants to control the succesive one.

Wondering if there are any other hard-determinists (not compatibilists) logging in.

I just found a book called "It's Not The Big That Eat The Small...It's The Fast That Eat The Slow". This is a book about the business aspects of the currently rapidly changing pace of business trends, in such an event as the singuolarity I'm sure that the business competition will indeed be very fast.

Individualism is a ying meme. Altruism is a yang meme. Altruism leads to a collective sense of self, whereas individualism leads to divisional sense of self.

Is an atom an individual, or a molecule, or the collective of the molecules making up the grain, or the collection of grains making up the material an individual?

According to the article "Scientists find more oil fissures in Lake Baikal's bedrock"

...several Russian scientists going back as far as Dmitry Mendeleyev have suggested an 'abiogenic hypothesis,' according to which petroleum was formed from carbon deposits originating deep in the Earth's mantle...

Scientists find more oil fissures in Lake Baikal's bedrock

At a website called Apperceptual I came across a list of 21 open problems facing Artificial Intelligence research.

Good afternoon,

I recently saw (again) a movie I very much like called The 13th Floor, in which the characters are faced with the question: what is real? Turns out that there's a whole lot of virtual reality going on.

I pose a question before the group at MLU: Is there no room at the table of the devout theist or the devout atheist for conviviality around the conversational marketplace of ideas?

I've seen people spout off about how "if you like religion so much, there are tons of other places for people like you. Why don't you go somewhere else?" and nonsense like that.