1. Prediction: self-promoting hype meets interdisciplinary ignorance

Comment #282960 by royceghost on November 13, 2008 at 12:26 am

Wouldn't it be reasonable to wait for more research on this, isn't that the way science works?

This article and the Princeton research grant should be flushed.

I wonder how many of you would eliminate scientific research that doesn't appeal to you if you could... rather inquisition like in kind if not in content

the arrogance.
What balls to undermine decades of research and thought with such a poorly constructed interpretation.

Isn't that what good scientists do, challenge long held asssumptions? Didn't Darwin himself have the balls to do that? Didn't Einstein and many others?
Would it be better if science simply sat forever in stasis on its old findings?

2. Humanists Launch Godless Holiday Campaign

Comment #282638 by royceghost on November 12, 2008 at 1:29 pm

You ask a question, I ask about your question, and now you ask another question. Please "define" your own question. It helps :)

Practical: useful in living your life.

The bus ads question believing in God, but asserts that we are to be good. But what does it mean to 'be good'? Is it supposed to be self-evident? But then believing in God also seems to be self evident to a great many people. What is a definition of Good, or can there be one, or can there be one that is somehow more definite than the various definitions of God?

If it was granted that it was practical to pursue Good, that still wouldn't tell us what Good was
Or is Good just 'what we pursue'?

3. Humanists Launch Godless Holiday Campaign

Comment #282424 by royceghost on November 12, 2008 at 7:46 am

There are a thousand pratical reasons

What do you mean by practical ?

4. Humanists Launch Godless Holiday Campaign

Comment #282367 by royceghost on November 12, 2008 at 5:07 am

why believe in being good?

5. Christianity 'could die out within a century'

Comment #197433 by royceghost on June 22, 2008 at 3:28 am

The religious in the west may be dying out, but in general the more secular people in western countries are dying out as well, except for immigration (thus rise of muslims). The non-religious don't replace themselves birthrate wise; that battle of numbers can never be won by them.