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    Thread: What do you think of GMO's?
Post: RE: What do you think of GMO's?
(October 17, 2014 at 10:06 am)alpha male Wrote: If it doesn't affect the price, the poor will still starve. You're only considering technology, while ignoring economics and human greed.You also have...
 HopOnPop Life Sciences 72 8059 October 18, 2014 at 12:56 am
    Thread: What do you think of GMO's?
Post: RE: What do you think of GMO's?
(October 17, 2014 at 8:08 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Yeesh, I hadn't heard of that one, is the debating still going on today or is it kind of a dead issue? No its very much an on-going struggle. The...
 HopOnPop Life Sciences 72 8059 October 17, 2014 at 10:44 pm
    Thread: What do you think of GMO's?
Post: RE: What do you think of GMO's?
(October 16, 2014 at 6:17 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: People have a tendency to conflate Monsanto's shitty business ethics with their product, which isn't fair to the people that GMOs could help and s...
 HopOnPop Life Sciences 72 8059 October 17, 2014 at 1:14 am
    Thread: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God
Post: RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence...
(October 16, 2014 at 8:21 pm)bennyboy Wrote: This all sounds on point to me. Whew...glad to see the issue with empiricism is over (or, rather, never actually existed...just a product of online cross...
 HopOnPop Philosophy 60 15045 October 16, 2014 at 10:52 pm
    Thread: What do you think of GMO's?
Post: RE: What do you think of GMO's?
I am quite relieved to read that the vast majority of people here are pretty well informed about GMOs. Like so much else in our society -- nutrition, healthcare, food supplements, energy production,...
 HopOnPop Life Sciences 72 8059 October 16, 2014 at 6:15 pm
    Thread: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God
Post: RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence...
(October 16, 2014 at 9:29 am)bennyboy Wrote: HopOnPop Wrote:Let's focus on this point alone, because to address everything point by point will make this exchange way too frustrating to read (and to ...
 HopOnPop Philosophy 60 15045 October 16, 2014 at 2:22 pm
    Thread: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God
Post: RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence...
(October 15, 2014 at 8:00 pm)bennyboy Wrote: My argument with you is...about whether all ideas need to be supported by empirical evidence. In my opinion, many do not, in particular philosophical qu...
 HopOnPop Philosophy 60 15045 October 16, 2014 at 3:28 am
    Thread: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God
Post: RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence...
(October 15, 2014 at 6:05 am)bennyboy Wrote: (October 14, 2014 at 11:01 pm)HopOnPop Wrote: ...start from the biggest special plea that there is -- namely, that we both accept, from the start, that...
 HopOnPop Philosophy 60 15045 October 15, 2014 at 6:33 pm
    Thread: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God
Post: RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence...
(October 14, 2014 at 11:10 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Wow! Talk about not getting it.Rather than feigning enlightment -- would you like to perhaps demonstrate your incredibly arrogant attitude a bit?
 HopOnPop Philosophy 60 15045 October 15, 2014 at 12:59 am
    Thread: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God
Post: RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence...
(October 14, 2014 at 7:11 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Let's say I make this logical inference: "The things I experience represent an objective reality." According to you, I must use empiricism in order to v...
 HopOnPop Philosophy 60 15045 October 14, 2014 at 11:01 pm
    Thread: Does the New Testament contain sexism?
Post: RE: Does the New Testament contain sexism?
....ah, the fine art of baiting atheists by feigning an obtuse ability for comprehension. Thanks Drich, but I think Ray Comfort does it MUCH better than you.
 HopOnPop Christianity 78 14573 October 14, 2014 at 6:39 pm
    Thread: Serves The Bastards Right
Post: RE: Serves The Bastards Right
[quote='Minimalist' pid='774267' dateline='1413324336'] Quote:The California government and a nonprofit will pay a Shasta County atheist nearly $2 million .... Despite my own tax money going to th...
 HopOnPop News & Activism 16 3306 October 14, 2014 at 6:21 pm
    Thread: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God
Post: RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence...
(October 13, 2014 at 5:40 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: ...the validity of the cosmological argument does not depend on any particular empirical, i.e. evidence -based, physical theory (Newtonian or otherwis...
 HopOnPop Philosophy 60 15045 October 14, 2014 at 3:18 pm
    Thread: Does the New Testament contain sexism?
Post: RE: Does the New Testament contain sexism?
(October 12, 2014 at 12:14 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: A few more thoughts I wrote on the topic today, and on that particular comment about "love" and "respect" (largely reiterating what's already been...
 HopOnPop Christianity 78 14573 October 14, 2014 at 12:28 am
    Thread: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God
Post: RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence...
(October 13, 2014 at 5:40 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: First, the validity of the cosmological argument does not depend on any particular empirical, i.e. evidence -based, physical theory (Newtonian or othe...
 HopOnPop Philosophy 60 15045 October 13, 2014 at 8:34 pm
    Thread: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God
Post: RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence...
(October 12, 2014 at 11:31 am)Dolorian Wrote: I guess if we take your suggestion to remove the earth from the picture and go a step further and remove everything from space and leave only the cup; w...
 HopOnPop Philosophy 60 15045 October 12, 2014 at 6:10 pm
    Thread: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God
Post: RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence...
Okay, I actually muddled through this guy's STAGE 1 (of 3) in detail and digested it a bit, which is I believe all you were asking for? Skipping a lengthy reiteration of the set up given, I will ju...
 HopOnPop Philosophy 60 15045 October 12, 2014 at 3:14 am
    Thread: Blood...
Post: RE: Blood...
The heart is actually only the main pump. In fact there are countless muscles all over the body that assist in circulation. Every artery wall, for instance, has involuntary smooth muscles that cons...
 HopOnPop Life Sciences 33 4180 October 11, 2014 at 10:23 pm
    Thread: Does the New Testament contain sexism?
Post: RE: Does the New Testament contain sexism?
(October 11, 2014 at 8:29 pm)Zidneya Wrote: Why can't the bible teach to love and respect everyone by equal, why one group of people gets more of one and less of the other? That ideology by itself i...
 HopOnPop Christianity 78 14573 October 11, 2014 at 10:09 pm
    Thread: Does the New Testament contain sexism?
Post: RE: Does the New Testament contain sexism?
(October 10, 2014 at 10:41 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Granted it's a mixed bag, the overall sentiment in the Christian scriptures (such as Gal. 3:28 or the Golden Rule and what not) set the bar very h...
 HopOnPop Christianity 78 14573 October 11, 2014 at 12:55 am