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baseless rants, their? unsupported assertions, and/or their hollow rhetoric? Or do you just accept them the way one accepts a puppy that has yet to be house trained? @Dr. Bob... I consider you as one of the more interesting and articulate posters... Good one.

In a nutshell: There was a primordial singularity. No one knows where it came from or why it existed. The primordial singularity started expanding very rapidly. The result of that expansion is the universe, which is still expanding Initially, there were no stars. Just energy that cooled...

He cursed a fig tree because it wasn't bearing fruit OUT OF SEASON? “In the morning, as Jesus was returning to Jerusalem, he was hungry, and he noticed a fig tree beside the road. He went over to see if there were any figs on it, but there were only leaves. Then he said to it, ‘May you never...

the James Randi Foundation? Why is it that every time someone tries to prove the existence of the supernatural to the Randi Foundation they fail so miserably, and then make excuses to their fans about how unfair the Randi Foundation was in setting up a double-blind test?

the James Randi Foundation? Why is it that every time someone tries to prove the existence of the supernatural to the Randi Foundation they fail so miserably, and then make excuses to their fans about how unfair the Randi Foundation was in setting up a double-blind test?

the James Randi Foundation? Why is it that every time someone tries to prove the existence of the supernatural to the Randi Foundation they fail so miserably, and then make excuses to their fans about how unfair the Randi Foundation was in setting up a double-blind test?

Bronze-age book of myths, telling you? how wonderful and happy they are, and then you see the rage and venom they can produce when you question their beliefs or their 'god', do you just laugh, or do you wish for the kind of restraining order courts issue against the deranged?

scientific scrutiny? Why do they always happen in out of the way places? Why are medical 'miracles' never written up in medical journals and fully documented? Why have we never seen a 'miracle' recorded on video? Why do religionistas think they can convince us that 'miracles' happen when there...

actual scientific scrutiny, but? instead always seem to be the province of ancedotes about things that happened privately? Notice all the 'christian' double-talk, evasion, and just plain 'lying for jesus' in these answers. The James Randi Foundation has a million bucks for anyone who can prove...

I just got the following answer to one of my questions: So you would rather believe that some huge random explosion created the universe, and somehow the earth was the only planet capable of supporting complex life. Let's take it apart. First: "So you would rather believe that some huge random...

argumentation ever even? come close to convincing you of the existence of a 'god', a 'heaven', or a 'hell'? And when they try, how do you keep from laughing uncontrollably at the utter intellectual paucity of their arguments?

major sympathetic characters was a? total murderous, idiotic, genocidal jacka*s, no one would get offended, and as a matter of fact, most of us here would get into the back-and-forthing, discussing the weakness of this major character and wondering why the author wrote him/her that way. But if...

Maryanne's island"? Do you suppose Gilligan and the Skipper are safe?

...who you think ISN'T a troll? I mean, is it possible that ANY of them believe what that post? Can you REALLY believe that kind of stuff? The answers I'm getting are frightening me, all the way to the bottom of my little black atheist heart.

are all made of stardust? The concept is that early stars were larger and hotter, and fusion within them created oxygen and calcium and iron and lithium and aluminum and sodium and nitrogen.... Anyway, those early stars burned brightly for a while and then exploded into supernovae, spreading new...

for 'jesus'? between the ages of 12 and 30? Lazy or just not good at their fiction craft?

...to a vote? And before you answer, remember poor ol' Galileo and what 'christians' did to him.

application of common sense? Noah, Jonah, the Battle of Jericho, Samson... anything?

Promises, promises, promises...

Supposedly, 'god' gave Moses the stone tablets with the laws chiseled into them. If the story were true, how could anything be more holy than the 10 commandments. Yet, the stone tablets have been conveniently lost. You see, you're supposed to BELIEVE those tablets existed.... Sure.... Pete needs...