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Comment #63846 by Lodestone on August 16, 2007 at 12:15 pm

Seriously, I'm quite suprised that quite a few continued to entertain a response with Darwin2 in the first place. He refuses to be anything but subjective in his belief and it only took a couple of his responses to determine that. I entertained these types of discussions on a different forum not so long ago but I eventually grew weary of all the grasping and speculation and of course circular reasoning. What is really sad is almost all the science fiction that I have read has more of its roots in truth than the beliefs of Dawkins2. He doesn't deserve an audience here.

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Comment #46472 by Lodestone on May 31, 2007 at 11:49 am

I emailed the viewing problem to Josh(as I am sure thousands of others have) and it appears to be working now... Thanks from the United States. I have not been able to see it all but what I have seen so far has been refreshing civil. Good form Richard.

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Comment #27016 by Lodestone on March 22, 2007 at 9:22 pm

I take offence. I am a professional engineer and how I arrived at my atheistic position had absolutely nothing to do with my profession or education. I was heavily programmed christan/baptist in my formative years and once I was out from under the influence from my parents and family, logic slowly took over. I suspect that there are many aspects of life and personality that keep people from looking for the truth but I do not think being an engineering type could provide a correlation that could truly be proved (but as in the scientific method, I could be wrong) It has been my experience that most people are just afraid to really consider something different once they have gotten comfortable with their current beliefs regardless of profession.

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