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This is from a cartoon I saw online.

A man is floating on a cloud:  Where am I?

He sees God and says: Oh no, I think there has been a mistake.

God: Why?

Man: Uh, I'm an Atheist.

God: Yeah, thing is we only let Atheists in Heaven.

Man:  You're kidding me?

God: For Serious. I didn't give you Mortals the capacity to reason

           just  so I could reward people who believe nonsense without evidence.

The  30-minute set of 12 cognitive tasks that measured planning, reasoning, attention and working memory is not an IQ test. What IQ test did you take?

Why did Man create an opiate? What is striking about the historical estimates is how similar the mortality rates for children were across this very wide range of 43 historical cultures. Whether in Ancient Rome; Ancient Greece; the pre-Columbian Americas; Medieval Japan or Medieval England; the European Renaissance; or Imperial China: Every fourth newborn died in the first year of life. One out of two died in childhood.

Pastor Jim Bakker:  "When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?"

Albert Einstein:  'The word God is for me nothing but the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of venerable but still rather                                                       primitive  legends. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change anything about this. '

Who do you think is the most evolved?

Remember that the PTL empire preacher Jim Bakker built with wife Tammy Bakker crumbled 30 years ago, after financial and sex scandals.

Covid can cause damage to the heart on a cellular level that can lead to lasting problems, including irregular heartbeats and heart failure, preliminary research suggests.
Covid’s effects on the heart have been well documented, but a new study zooms in on the microscopic changes thought to be caused by the virus.
Researchers from Columbia University in New York City examined autopsied heart tissue from people who had Covid, and found that the infection damaged the way cells in the heart regulate levels of calcium, a mineral that plays an important role in how the organ contracts and pumps blood throughout the body. In another part of the study, the same damage was seen in mice with Covid.

A new study, published today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, suggests that vaccination may protect against major cardiovascular events — like heart attacks and strokes — associated with Covid.
The study analyzed data from nearly 2 million people in the National Covid Cohort Collaborative database. About 218,000 had received at least one dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna mRNA vaccine, or Johnson & Johnson’s single dose vaccine. Even partial vaccination was associated with lower risk of cardiovascular events for at least six months, the researchers found.

OMG, Gre-pa has turned progressive. I always thought that he was very smart.

OMG, Don Jr. should be scared to death.

     I think BdotK is just making the case for Atheism.

Richard Dawkins himself has joked about atheists possibly being "despairing neurotics driven to suicide by relentless cosmic angst" because they lack the emotional and psychological consolations of religion. However, emerging evidence suggests that convinced atheists may derive consolation from a certainty of belief in their own solidly-held worldview, leading to similar mental health to the highly-religious.

Well, if their name is Lucifer Morninstar, I will send them a friend request.

No, AI bots do not wear Klan robes.

       "Give me a break, man"

Thank God all AI bots are white!

See: The Whiteness of AI    by Stephen Cave &  Kanta Dihal

So 67 percent of night viewers are watching someone other than Gutfield.  And 33 percent are watching Gutfield.

OMG, 33 percent  is the percent of the population that support Trump!

However, twice as many people are watching  Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, and Stephen Colbert in total as  compared to those watching Gutfield.

Dead people, shredded ballots and a USB drive that was in fact a ginger mint were all part of the delusional narrative of election fraud peddled by Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani. They would have been as comical as flat-earthers but for the way they posed a danger to both individual citizens and American democracy.

The following is from: CHRISTIANITY AND THE WEST
                                                  by Wolfhart Pannenberg

he importance of Christianity in the formation of Western civilization can hardly be denied. That importance is not simply a matter of the past. In the process of secularization Western culture did emancipate itself from its religious roots, but that emancipation was by no means complete. A complete break from Christianity was not intended in the seventeenth century by those who wanted to put the public culture on an anthropological rather than religious foundation. The issue at that time was not a revolt against the Christian religion, nor even against its influence on the culture. Rather, there was an urgently felt need to get beyond the confessional antagonisms and religious warfare that had disrupted the peace of Europe for more than a century. The turn away from Christianity as the basis of public culture was not, at least in the first instance, caused by alienation from the Christian religion, although that turn may have produced alienation in the long run. Beginning with the eighteenth century, however, the humanistic values associated with modernity were viewed as being completely independent from the Christian religion, and even antithetical to it. In our century the circumstance is again different. Today, familiarity with Christian teaching has faded; biblical narratives and the vocabulary of Christian faith are no longer common cultural currency.

This is the key, "the humanistic values associated with modernity were viewed as being completely independent from the Christian religion".

Yes, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason is a 2004 book by Sam Harris, concerning organized religion, the clash between religious faith and rational thought, and the problem of intolerance that correlates with religious fundamentalism.

Well, A third solution that would be to kill and kick out the people of the other side shows low compassion.

Low compassion is an attribute of low intelligence.

Researchers from the University of Adelaide in Australia argue in an upcoming book, The Dynamic Human, that humans really aren't much smarter than other creatures -- and that some animals may actually be brighter than we are.

Humans are only slightly smarter than bugs.

You can see why no Aliens have contacted us. Humans are only slightly smarter than bugs.

Well, I'm the same age as Trump so I wear a N95 mask.

Actually, in the USA 103 million have contracted Covid and 1.12 million have died from Covid.

The Stanford doctor, Mace is referring to, is a conman.

      John P. A. Ioannidis, the Stanford professor said that most published research findings are false.

This is why he was banned from Twitter which was the correct thing to do.

See this article https://replicationindex.com/2020/12/24/ioannidis-is-wrong/

in it it says :

Ioannidis wrote an influential article that used hypothetical scenarios to make the prediction that most published results are false positives. Although this article is often cited as if it contained evidence to support this claim, the article contained no empirical evidence. Surprisingly, there also have been few attempts to test Ioannidis’s claim empirically. Probably the main reason is that nobody knew how to test it. Here I showed a way to test Ioannidis’s claim and I presented clear empirical evidence that contradicts this claim in Ioannidis’s own field of science, namely medicine.
The main feature that distinguishes science and fiction is not that science is always right. Rather, science is superior because proper use of the scientific method allows for science to correct itself, when better data become available. In 2005, Ioannidis had no data and no statistical method to prove his claim. Fifteen years later, we have good data and a scientific method to test his claim. It is time for science to correct itself and to stop making unfounded claims that science is more often wrong than right.
The danger of not trusting science has been on display this year, where millions of Americans ignored good scientific evidence, leading to the unnecessary death of many US Americans. So far, 330, 000 US Americans are estimated to have died of Covid-19. In a similar country like Canada, 14,000 Canadians have died so far. To adjust for population, we can compare the number of deaths per million, which is 1000 in the USA and 400 in Canada. The unscientific approach to the pandemic in the US may explain some of this discrepancy. Along with the development of vaccines, it is clear that science is not always wrong and can save lives. Iannaidis (2005) made unfounded claims that success stories are the exception rather than the norm. At least in medicine, intervention studies show real successes more often than false ones.

       Rihanna  collapsed Trump at 6:25 PM yesterday.

OMG, Does DebateArt give a Tesla to the person that predicted the winner of the Super Bowl?

OMG, do you think Melania ordered some toys from Amazon- Slovenia!

And no, my wife is not from Slovenia.

You know that I am as old as Trump, don't you?

In the birthing process, a medical professional will declare your baby a boy or a girl based on their sexual organs — but does this determine their gender?
“We’re trying to change the understanding of gender,” says psychiatrist Murat Altinay, MD. “That’s one of my big goals. The main question I’m asking is, ‘Where is the gender?’”
We know that as an embryo forms, the genitalia specializes into either male or female. But what about development in the brain?
“The brain and the body can go in different directions,” Dr. Altinay says. “Gender is not only in our genitalia; there’s something in the brain that determines gender.”

It is my opinion tha people who call transgenders, trannies are the same people that called black people niggers and the same people that scrape the serial numbers off their guns.

Well, Trump did make an illegal alien First Lady.  Remember that she came here on an Einstein visa.

DeSantis 2024!      Make America #2 Again!

We are talking about integers here (base 10). It is not a belief, it is a fact.

Underdog , you bring a good point.

Sidewalker, you bring a good point.

Bernie Sanders wants to tax the rich to pay for healthcare for everyone. Remember that the last intelligent republican President (Eisenhower) had a tax rate of 92 percent on the rich.

Believe: verb (used without object), be·lieved, be·liev·ing. to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so: Only if one believes in something can one act purposefully.

No, you don't believe that 1 + 1 = 2,  you are certain that 1 + 1 = 2.

OMG, do you think Poly was on testosterone?

Northern America
USA, Canada, and Greenland
52.36% of the world sex trafficking victims are happening in Northern America, and 84% of the sexual exploitation is females, 15% males, and 1% transgender. 

Eastern Europe
Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Belarus, Hungary, Czech Republic, and Slovakia.
Eastern Europe stands for 14.07% of the victims, and the gender distribution is a bit more aligned like we saw in Northern Europe. 53% of the victims are females, 47% in males, and 0% as transgender.

Various studies have found that, on average, belief in God is associated with lower scores on IQ tests. “It is well established that religiosity correlates inversely with intelligence,” note Richard Daws and Adam Hampshire at Imperial College London, in a new paper published in Frontiers in Psychology, which seeks to explore why. One suggestion is that perhaps religious people tend to rely more on intuition. So, rather than having impaired general intelligence, they might be comparatively poor only on tasks in which intuition and logic come into conflict – and this might explain the lower overall IQ test results.
To investigate, Daws and Hampshire surveyed more than 63,000 people online, and had them complete a 30-minute set of 12 cognitive tasks that measured planning, reasoning, attention and working memory. The participants also indicated whether they were religious, agnostic or atheist.
As predicted, the atheists performed better overall than the religious participants, even after controlling for demographic factors like age and education. Agnostics tended to place between atheists and believers on all tasks. In fact, strength of religious conviction correlated with poorer cognitive performance.

 Not many atheists hijack airliners and fly them into towers while yelling Allahu Akbar!

OMG, RM is Dirty Harry !!!

I'm guessing for Trump, it is TASS.

The Republican Party has become the Bug Party. Remember that they fufilled the prediction of H L Mencken.

I bet the Native American's wished they had closed borders. Following Christopher Columbus' arrival in North America in 1492, violence and disease killed 90% of the indigenous population — nearly 55 million people.

I think badger looks like Jimmy McGill.

Didn't you see this post in The Wage Gap is Non-existent?

      Well stated.

Yes, life after death theories collapse under scientific scrutiny because the field of particle physics has "ruled out" the possibility of humans having a soul, renowned physicist Brian Cox has claimed.