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I've been in a discussion on another thread where we are attempting to define what an atheist is. Some of the points we have covered include those that do not know or have had no experience with religion. An example of this could be an alien on another planet that does not know of any...

I'm interested in what (if any) consensus there is.

...what is the paranormal, what are the types of paranormal phenomena and who are the personalities who have investigated paranormal phenomena? I'm sure that if you mined this forum you'd find lots of interesting facts that should be saved from obscurity (the back of the database) and made...

The term "Free Will" is often used. Quite often over the last few days on these boards. But what exactly is it? Got a definition? And more importantly, how is free will an out fo the "Problem of Evil"?? Or, in other words how does free will shift the resposibility from God to humans?

I will argue that it doesn't exist. It is a rubric under which many other things are attributed.

In my short time here I have seen a number of post including statements about miracles. In reading them, have come to wonder how exactly we are defining the term. What is our working definition of a miracle? My dictionary says "An extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human...

In one sense, it's perfectly reasonable to say that if we can't adequately explain a phenomenon according to our ideas of how the world works, it's supernatural. But this reasoning would suggest that every time someone discovers something truly new - like a subatomic particle previously...

To devise the test for consiousness we must first devise the criteria.