Recent content by Leo King

Just wanted to make sure you had it in you.

You live in an apartment next to a black person. Suddenly, a violent racist with a chainsaw knocks down your door and asks if there are any black people nearby. Do you A) Observe the commandment "Do not lie" and dutifully point out your neighbour. B) Lie and say that there aren't any black...

I understand what a paraprosdokian is, but don't understand the difference between that and a garden path sentence?

It's embarrassing that people are still trying to debate a scientific theory (NOT speculation) which is as well supported as evolution. Fossil records detailing the stages of evolution, bacteria like MRSA which has evolved to resist a lot of medicine, and Richard Lenski's e.coli evolution...

I started having piano lessons a few weeks ago. We've done a bit on scales, and I'm trying to transcribe a tune from a video game onto the piano. I've worked out that all the notes occur in the scale of C sharp or D flat. At least, I think that's the note. Anyway, what I was wondering is...

It gets a little embarrassing that after all this time, there are still people who constantly reuse the same arguments that keep being refuted. Fine-tuning argument, Pascal's wager, cosmological argument, teleological argument ... and then we get onto the whole host of degrading fallacies when...

I've heard the term "antiquity" many times in the context of Ancient Greece and I don't understand what it means. Can someone help me?

I'm only fourteen, and am fairly out of touch with news. I hate television news programmes and don't care about newspapers either; is there an easier way to keep up on current events? Should I set a news site as my homepage on internet explorer? If so, what?

it on Y!A? NOTE: I am not saying that all Christians deny evolution, I'm specifically talking about those that do. But seriously, I see so many "questions" full of logically vacuous misunderstandings of evolution ... when they're actually learning about it and genuinely seeking information...

it on Y!A? NOTE: I am not saying that all Christians deny evolution, I'm specifically talking about those that do. But seriously, I see so many "questions" full of logically vacuous misunderstandings of evolution ... when they're actually learning about it and genuinely seeking information...