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P1. Mass-energy cannot be created or destroyed. P2. The universe is composed of mass-energy. C1. The universe's mass-energy must always have existed, in one form or another. Scientific laws preclude creation of any kind. __________________________ My Case Against God

In some recent thread I deconstructed the notion that guns, per se, are designed to kill. I pointed out that there are many things that are functionally "guns" what are pretty harmless and that if one, dishonestly, plays with definitions appropriately certainly the end point will be that the...

This is from Answers In Genesis They're getting odder and odder.

Attention Creationists of Austin, Texas: You are hereby warned that a petition will soon be circulating to create a ballot initiative that when passed will prohibit the teaching of pseudoscientific or quasireligious materials as hard science, and will also forbid warning/disclaimer stickers...

Can Intelligent Design proponents distinguish between rocks that are polished naturally (by rivers, oceans, sand, etc.) and rocks that are polished by a human using a tumbler to directly control the polishing process (duration, grit size, etc.)? Any IDers want to answer this?

Organisms That Look Designed This is my (massively rewritten) takeoff on the design argument for God's existence. It's basically one big reductio ad absurdum. The underlying running gag is that all these organisms are staggeringly complex, hence designed--but they're all creatures that give...