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He can't anymore than he can be a square circle. Believing in God requires forming an opinion. If he hasn't formed an opinion, then he doesn't believe. Believing is a VERB, an action that you undertake. If you don't do it.... then you aren't a believer. Why is that confusing to anyone...

Well, still, you're wrong. You're either a theist agnostic, or an atheist agnostic. You can't be a plain old agnostic because that dodges the question. Either you believe in God, or you don't. If you aren't sure, then you probably don't. Are you sure you want to want to jump into the...

People that quote the time it took them to finish just have a chip on their shoulder and they probably started off having one before they even played the game. I honestly can't tell you how long it took to finish: that wasn't the point. What it FELT like was a really good chunk of game, a...

Poo, you're just silly. Instead of spending time adding l33t new ultra mega gun take #12345, they put what they had to really excellent use. The strength of Valve is that they take some basic elements and then combine them in new and creative ways that deliver constantly inventive and...

Ug. Stop downloading the new Catalyst drivers, entire world!!!!!!! I need to download them!

That's true for anything. But once the evidence becomes overwhleming, the burden shifts: someone can't just come along and claim that we must be interpreting it incorrectly maybe: they have to explain why they have grounds to think so.

"Hasn't" isn't the same as "can't." Unfortunately, this logic is wrong. It's often far easier to figure out macro-level questions than it is very specific very narrow questions. That's because a major event like, er, the universe, leaves a heck of a lot of evidence to go on. The exact...

Its worth noting that this was a bit of a misleading title. The claim is not that modern humans were interbreeding with modern chimps, but rather that ancient hominids (our decidely chimp-like ancestors) did so with ancient chimps to whom they were still pretty closely related.

Glirk Dient, it's worth pointing out that several of your sources are not in the least credible sceintific work: they are press releases from anti-gay advocacy organizations, not work published in credible scientific journals.

I've got some bad news for you. Gay people have traditionally often married and had kids to try and fit in and avoid hardship. Did you not watch Brokeback Mountain? So yeah, he has a wife and two kids. And yet... you know what he probably spends all his time thinking about? :)

We'll make a deal: we'll put a disclaimer about how Da Vinci Code is fiction if you put the same disclaimer on Genesis, Noah, and and so on.

I don't have any problem with people owning guns, but I also think that there are plenty of reasonable restrictions on the ownership, and organizations like the NRA try to lie to people and get them all riled up in order to strike down these reasonable restrictions. Also, the argument that...

This view is known as a variant on "last-Thursdayism." It sounds plausible at first, until you realize that the logic works just as well to justify believing that the entire universe started last Thursday, complete with all evidence to the contrary, including memories. In short, it's bullplop...

That's a cop out too: avoiding the argument. It doesn't matter or not whether it subjectively matters to you. Its certainty is just the same regardless of whether or not you care, and the claim "it's all just speculation" as if it were a bunch of handwaving guesswork is just as flimsy. But...

Saltation is not part of evolutionary theory.

I can argue with it: it's just a cop out that even you don't really believe. It's just a smokescreen you throw up to avoid having to deal with the issue. Fact is, you don't in real life live as if everything is just speculation and the world could have come into being three seconds ago. All of...

Laws are generally statements of simple relationships that hold unversally. They don't explain anything, they are just statements of what we always see, everywhere we look. Theories, on the other hand, are large bodies of explanation describing complex phenomena. Theories never become laws...

Depends on what sort of graphics card it has. I doubt it'll be 3d accelerated to the extent that you can play modern fps on it.

Often, it's performed on babies that are born without the back of their skull or most of their higher brain functions. These always die within a week or so after birth of terrible infections, and even if they didn't, they're missing most of their brain.

To be honest, the bacteria found in both these places is generally harmless. You and almost everything you touch and put into your mouth is crawling with bacteria. I'd be far more worried about what sort of bacteria is in the FOOD, because that's where the sort of bacteria that actually makes...