1. I can see where you come from. When someone thinks, talks and behaves in an attractive manner our perception of that person's outward appearance alters subtly to become more like our subconscious ideal. Or perhaps our inner ideal changes to correspond to that person's appearance. There must be a million women in America who are prettier than she is. Yet Tracie to me now looks like the woman I dreamed of. (I presume it was a complement, not meant to be a typical bigot's rude remark.)
2. Russell has no idea what Tracie's talking about, because he's not listening to her.
3. tracie got nice tits
4. What's more arrogant? "I don't believe there is a god," or "I know there is a god and I am made in his image."
5. that's why i play the lottery. there are only to things that could happen either i win or i lose that means i have a 50/50 chance. lol
6. Its a 50/50 chance that gremlins killed your car.  isnt it clear? stop assuming the anti-gremlin position!
7. i do agree that religion has nothing to do with science but not all were religious half at least and mabe more were atheist or agnostic not to mention depending on time period were talking about they might be closet atheists in that case we would never know for sure............but ya your right about the rest all it takes is the curiosity
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10. So you agree with my statement. Which was merely a footnote on another topic to prevent a false argument from being brought up to obscure the original point. Which ended up being posed at the beginning of the next reply ANYWAY. So I will say that I agree with CrimsonHearld "Science divorced from religious colored glasses (not atheism, just an open un-biased mind) is probably the most effective way to at least seek answers" the rest of his/her statement was unfounded.
11. "historically religion has not been opposed to scientific discoveries, they have been opposed to the conclusions of those discoveries." Uh...and the difference is? Historically EVERYTHING is by means of the church since historically the church had a monopoly on everything. The church forbade the examination of cadavers for centuries impeding the advancement of medical knowledge. This is often said to be a myth, but I assure you it is not, a quick look at the history of art will reveal.
12. No, historically religion has not been opposed to scientific discoveries, they have been opposed to the conclusions of those discoveries. Most of the scientists were working by means of the church, whether it be through a university founded and supported by the church, or in a monastery. This isn't a debate on whether religion has caused impediments to the scientific process, this is pointing out that religion has primarily been the source of scientific progress.
13. Historically everyone is religious. Can you name an Atheist from the 12th century? Historically the 'church' has been opposed to 'scientific' discoveries. And throughout the middle ages scientific discoveries could only be made in defiance of the 'church'. The Renaissance and the enlightenment were good examples of this historically.
14. This isn't an argument from authority, because I'm not claiming any truth in their religious beliefs. I'm pointing out that historically, scientists were religious so atheists who suppose that belief hinders scientific discovery have no foundation for that claim. Its equal to the claim by religious people that atheist societies lead to moral degredation, its not supported by historical evidence and is just conjecture.
15. Quick history lesson: until recently, in the western world there were basically 3 options. Claim to be a Christian, be prosecuted as a heretic (unbeliever), or be an outcast in sense as a member of another religion. Also argument from authority holds no sway here.
16. Considering the great scientists of history have all been religious, that argument has always baffled me. Scientific curiosity is not dependant on religious belief. From my experience most scientists either divorce their beliefs from their work, or look at science as a way of understanding the universe god made (ie big bang). While some scientific dishonesty may cause some to try and prove religious doctrine with scientific research, it is quickly contested and actually brings more research.
17. But a belief in a god, especially a Judeo-Christian-Islamic god tends to produce people that are told they have the answers in some book written before humans before we knew the earth orbits the sun and if you are a good little Xian soldier you won't question what your god did before the universe. Science divorced from religious colored glasses (not atheism, just an open un-biased mind) is probably the most effective way to at least seek answers and not be happy with "goddit".
18. I believe you just proved my point, there is no scientific evidence or even indication that science will ever tell us what came before the big bang. I know you intended to put a 'not' in your sentence "there is no reason to believe that someday we will have..." but that is the truth. There is no reason to believe science will provide an answer. Don't extrapolate and say belief in a god will discourage people seeking the answers because that would be a false statement I get tired of hearing.
19. Again, not so right. Physics can say nothing of what happened at the big bang, all the equations they have break down at Planck time. So far they have managed to describe the universe after Planck time, there is no reason to believe that someday (we may be long dead when it happens) we will have a set of equations along with a theory to figure out what may or may not of happened.
20. I think you misunderstood me, yes the big bang happened. Physics is pretty good about that. But what comes before the big bang is out of the realm of space and time and thus out of the possibility for our science to tell us anything. Thus any conjecture over what happened has 0 evidence and thus is equally believable.
21. You are wrong, just because all you can think of is two possibilities doesn't mean the truth is somewhere in the middle. The big bang may be closer to the truth than some magical entity that poofed everything into existence, but it is not 50/50.
22. Republicans don't just stand in the way of progress, they throw their own feces at it while loudly expressing their pride in ignorance. Not surprising, this dwindling minority of backwoods hypocrites, who has had their ideas profoundly proven as wrong and rejected by the sane majority of the country, believe they will be the future.
23. Terrible episode, I think its pretty obvious just from what she was explaining about her email that the person in the email was trying to say was, how could a big bang happen. If its impossible for science to tell us how the big bang happened, then the belief that a god created the big bang has the same chance of being correct. Every hypothesis, being equally unprovable has an equal chance of being correct. We just tend to boil the choices down to either god or no god.
24. "Its a little annoying." try EXTREMELY annoying :)
25. conservatives,theists, idiots. All they do is project their flaws onto everyone else. Its a little annoying.

Projections And Assumptions

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Science & Reason on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/ScienceReason "Gremlins And Dead Batteries: Projections And Assumptions". This is a clip from The Atheist Experience #612, "A Ghost Story. Tracie talks about a ghost story described in a viewer's e-mail", with Russell Glasser and Tracie Harris: http://blip.tv/file/2331897 --- Subscribe to Science & Reason: • http://www.youtube.com/FFreeThinker • http://www.youtube.com/FFreeThinker2 • http://www.youtube.com/BestOfAtheism • http://www.youtube.com/AtheistExperience • http://www.youtube.com/TheAtheistExperience • http://www.youtube.com/Best0fScience • http://www.youtube.com/SagansCosmos --- What is The Atheist Experience? The Atheist Experience is a weekly cable access television show in Austin, Texas geared at an atheist and non-atheist audience. The Atheist Experience is produced by the Atheist Community of Austin (ACA), a nonprofit educational corporation to develop and support the atheist community, to provide opportunities for socializing and friendship, to promote secular viewpoints, to encourage positive atheist culture, to defend the first amendment principle of state-church separation, to oppose discrimination against atheists and to work with other organizations in pursuit of common goals. • http://www.Atheist-Experience.com • http://www.Atheist-Community.org • http://www.NonProphetsRadio.com Watch The Atheist Experience live (Sundays): • http://tinyurl.com/AtheistExperienceLive Support the ACA (donations/membership): • http://www.Atheist-Community.org/join/ • http://www.Atheist-Community.org/donate/ • Blog: http://AtheistExperience.blogspot.com • Wiki: http://www.IronChariots.org • DVDs: http://atheist-community.org/products • Blip.tv: http://atheistexperience.blip.tv • Cartoons: http://Atheist-Community.org/atheisteve/ • E-mail: tv@atheist-community.org
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