'French Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia|||I only feel like I have an advantage typing people over people who are missing a hand. I mean, it's only 6 letters, but that pesky e key is on the other side of the keyboard.|||That would be true if the planet were stationary in an inertial frame. Because the planets are orbiting the sun, you can gain momentum with respect to the sun by traveling behind the planet in its...|||I could, but what good would it do? I'm not trying to convince you that you are unreasonable, but merely telling you that I don't believe you are a reasonable individual and therefore am not taking...|||Your propensity for jumping to conclusions has been clearly demonstrated in this thread. Pardon me for not taking you seriously.|||The difference between a cult and a religion is merely how popular it is. Picking and choosing which parts of the old testament they choose to keep or toss is no more unreasonable than the rest of...|||I find it ironic that the interviewer's point was that we can't reasonably expect people to remember such irrelevant trivia, yet here you are using it to support your claim that Dawkins isn't...|||It's a weak argument that their fields have literally nothing in common? Dawkins isn't an expert on theology. He's not even an expert on philosophy. He's an expert on evolutionary biology, and not...|||What specifically do you think he lacks an answer to? What evidence do you have that he lacks said answer? Have you considered the competing possibility, that he simply lacks sufficient reason to...|||I'm not remotely interested in anything he could possibly say about evolution, or literally any other topic. Even attending the event legitimizes him too much for my taste. If he has anything...|||Those are just different aspects of the same theory, not contradictory definitions. The modern evolutionary synthesis combines ideas like common descent, descent with modification, natural selection,...|||The term theory versus law has nothing to do with our confidence. The difference between a theory and a law is their scope. Laws describe a causal relationship in nature under specific conditions. A...|||If there were no fossils whatsoever, we could still sufficiently support the theory. The fact that so many fossils do exist and that none of them contradict the theory is a big bonus. A lot has...|||I feel like idealism is the constraints we place on our ideas that are based on our ideals, while realism is just the constraints placed on our ideas by reality. They're both essential to...|||That's not going to convince anyone. The definition of free will is open to debate, and even if they accept your argument, retreating to limited free will hardly conflicts with their faith. If they...|||If we genuinely think ourselves superior, it's not a superiority complex but rather hubris. (random INTP comment)  I loved your post though.|||No, what you're asking for is literally what you are asking for: knowledge of the truth regarding _____. The truth doesn't have to be verifiable or known for it to be true; it is true by virtue of...|||That would be fine, except it's not remotely how the rest of us use the word truth. If the truth doesn't exist until it is perceived, then statements along the line of I want to know the truth...|||Micro evolution is mechanically no different from macro evolution, so if one is proven, then for all intents and purposes the other is too. We understand mechanically how evolution works (the...|||Honestly, I'm not even remotely sure what the OP means with these terms. For example, he says that realists and idealists have something to do with non-changing beliefs, which doesn't fit with any...|||I reject the notion that these are conflicting labels. I can be any of those when the situation calls for it, and I don't think I could peg myself as naturally aligning towards any of them.  Edit:...|||I try my best to avoid that city, on account of being a gator. I left the state though, so no coffee any time soon.|||Exactly. If someone were to argue that you really don't think chocolate is the best food on earth, when you do, they'd simply be wrong as a matter of fact.    I'll admit, I was taking a bit of...|||You're right in calling it an objective fact that you like chocolate. If you said chocolate is the best food on earth, that would be subjective. Objective deals with matters of fact. If someone were...|||No, you simply wouldn't like chocolate with salt in it. You don't believe it's objective that the earth is larger than the moon?     You already told us exactly why we're here talking about it,...|||If the truth is subjective, that means it is possible for two people to disagree about a fact about the world (definition of truth) and both be right, which would be a contradiction. Truth is never...|||I can't really think of any alternate definitions...|||Ultimate is superfluous. There are no levels of truth. A statement is either true or it is not. If it is true, then it is a fact about reality, not an opinion.   When you talk about possible...|||Sure. Moscow is really far away. A person in Russia might disagree.  I think what you're looking for though is whether it can be subjective, and that would be no, by definition.|||Sure.  The earth is big relative to the moon <--- relative truth|||It'd depend on what sort of context you're meeting him in. Is it an event where he's there to talk about something specific? I'm pretty sure virtually anything he could answer in a public setting...|||In games like DOTA, I typically play support. I heal in WoW.|||I thought that was one of the perks.|||This, plus throw in an accusation of if you like vegetables, you must also kick puppies, because vegetables are gross, because personal attacks are the abrasive person's best friend.|||No one announces that they're blunt before every statement they make. I've also never encountered a person who prefaced even a majority of their statements with I'm blunt. I've met people who...|||I would typically describe myself as blunt. I fail to see the connection though between social grace and having original thoughts. I communicate in a straightforward and logical fashion with a...|||You were pointing out irrelevant differences between the source and target of her analogy and then giving her a patronizing lecture about what a species is. She's not calling races different species....|||It's called an analogy. She doesn't need a lecture on taxonomy.|||We did. It's called the dictionary. We just can't get anyone to use it.|||I submit that it is actually the other way around. Movie critics are the terrible movie critics, not us.|||It's not a straw man. I am therefore I think is semantically equivalent to Thinking follows from being. If I think therefore I am were true, it would mean thinking is a necessary consequence of...|||1.) He needed to prove his own existence in order to build an argument against extreme skepticism. The thinking part of the argument was only useful in so much as it got him to being. 2.)...|||That wouldn't make sense in context.|||Not like they're going to get good data from this little poll. Even if we assumed everyone voting in this thread was INTP, the margin of error is still far larger than the difference between any...|||Or maybe pretty much everyone has at least one trait associated with Libra (and every other sign for that matter).  Edit: I find it amusing that so far, aries is winning.   Yep. Sounds exactly...|||Oh, alcohol does make them tolerable... usually.|||Of the games coming out next in the next month or so SimCity: Cities of Tomorrow XCOM: Enemy Within Assassin's Creed IV|||They keep saying try it, you'll like it, but I never do. I just can't always find an excuse to get out of it.|||Anywhere with a strong religious majority. Europe is significantly more secular these days.|||Here's an example from just this week. People have the weirdest misconceptions about atheists. Polls have also found that atheists are among the least trusted groups in america, down there with...'