Good Old Neon

I consider myself a fairly decent writer, and I write fiction for my own enjoyment (though I

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And, for the love of christ, no hats on the fucking bed please.

Yeah, pretty much.

No, not really - in the reality based science community, it is theology that presents the contrarian argument. Nowhere within the world of science is it accepted that a higher power exists - theology and religion claims otherwise, so, in fact, the onus is on your team to present empirical evidence of the existance of god.

An illustrative photograph would set my mind at ease and help me to believe.

Yes - we can. If you're really interested in understanding the evolution of music, I suggest you stop by the library and pick up Daniel Levitin's This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession http://www.amazon.com/This-Your-Brain-Musi...n/dp/0525949690

Because if you

That was a sort of universal you

See, PANTHER, what did I say, atheism brings in the hawt chicks.

Until you can prove otherwise (and the onus is on you to prove otherwise), that is what it is

That was a joke. But seriously, I hate Sauron too, and he

Easy, I take a proposition such as

Yeah, I feel the same way about god as well.

True, but that does not mean one cannot draw inspiration from the underlying principles. My vegetarianism stems from the Buddhist belief that all life is

And a catholic no less! I have tremendous respect for the principles of Buddhism.

Interesting, as it is very likely that religion

A broad definition of what I refer to when I refer to the human soul: The consensus among neuroscientists and biologists is that the mind, or consciousness, is the operation of the brain. They often fuse the terms mind and brain together as "mind/brain".[19] or bodymind. Science and medicine seek naturalistic accounts of the observable natural world. This stance is known as methodological naturalism[3] Much of the scientific study relating to the soul has been involved in investigating the soul as a human belief or as concept that shapes cognition and understanding of the world (see Memetics

100% wrong

For folks with an appreciation of art, but some people have no appreciation for it, nor can they create it. Though I do agree that the creation and appreciation of art is pretty much the pinnacle of human achievement

Well, sort of, one time, Stephen Hawking let me toot the horn on his chair

Exactly, I wonder who has a greater appreciation (call it spiritual if you will) for and of the beauty and inner workings of the universe, the atheist Stephen Hawking or the believer Pat Robertson?

The alternative to belief need not be nihilism. It

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