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@Greyparrot
China accounts for 60% of global EV production, and is emerging as the world's factory for EVs having already secured the same position in digital product manufacturing.
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@Greyparrot
Chinese researchers have stated that Beijing expects to begin commercial fusion power generation around 2050.
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@ebuc
I think that the only one that might understand this is RationalMadman
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INTPs are naturally drawn to scientific fields, where their intellectual gifts are most useful.
- Albert Einstein, German physicist.
- Charles Darwin, English naturalist.
- Marie Curie, Polish physicist and chemist.
- William Harvey, English physician.
- William James, American psychologist.
Read more at: https://www.personalityclub.com/blog/famous-intp/
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@CoolApe
In twenty years, I think the probability of commercial fusion power and completely fossil free cars will exist.
Well, at least in China it will.
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@rosends
So, When did Jesus stop being Jewish? He never did. From His birth and brit milah, to His life on Earth, to His imminent return and reign as King, Jesus has never stopped being Jewish. Both Jews and Gentiles would do well to remember this.
Gentiles should never assume God has divorced His Chosen People. Jewish people should not cast Jesus off as a traitor to His people. He never denied the Jewish people, and His message of salvation by grace through faith is for all people, the Jew first and also the Gentile (Rom. 1:16).
Christianity ws made up by the Romans to steal power from the Jews. One researcher considers that Hitler was Christian at least until the early 1930s, and that he saw Jesus as an Aryan opponent of the Jews.
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Strict theism is logically incoherent. Jacob had personal visits from God on a number of occasions.
There beside him stood the LORD and said: "I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying" (Genesis 28:13).
It's too bad Jacob didn't have a smart phone.
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@3RU7AL
(IFF) the broad term "theism" is valid and useful to describe a large category of people who believe extremely different things, many of them mutually exclusive and even diametrically opposed (THEN) the broad term "atheism" should be able to accommodate BOTH "lack of belief" AND "active DISbelief" without any problem whatsoever, especially since "lack of belief" does not logically EXCLUDE "active DISbelief" and as such it should be considered the more inclusive (broader) definition and therefore PRIMARY
Well stated.
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@coal
it is clear you lack even a basic understanding of the difference between the physical and the metaphysical.
Metaphysics are subjective, i.e. metaphysicians contend with "what is true to metaphysicians" not "what is true." Metaphysics are little more than unjustifiable descriptions, in short: not philosophy. The conclusions of metaphysics are solicitations to agreement, not the advancement of knowledge claims, nor confirmation of hypotheses.
See chapter one from A.J. Ayers "Language, Truth, and Logic" - "The Elimination of Metaphysics"
It is true, however, that although the greater part of metaphysics is merely the embodiment of humdrum errors, there remain a number of metaphysical passages which are the work of genuine mystical feeling; and they may more plausibly be held to have moral or aesthetic value. But. as far as we are concerned, the distinction between the kind of metaphysics that is produced by a philosopher who has been duped by grammar, and the kind that is produced by a mystic who is trying to express the inexpressible, is of no great importance : what is important to us is to realize that even the utterances of the metaphysician who is attempting to expound a vision are literally senseless; so that henceforth we may pursue our philosophical researches with as little regard for them as for the more inglorious kind of metaphysics which comes from a failure to understand the workings of our language.
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It will be interesting to see what people will say when they review these posts 100,000 years from now.
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@coal
Men developed GOD as a naive explanation for what they couldn't understand.
Yes, OK, now why are there so many religions? Here’s where things get interesting. A much better explanation can be derived by taking seriously the existence of the thousands and thousands of religions. It is not a side-effect; it is the key. Taking this fact seriously means looking for an explanation of religion that has as a consequence the fact that there should be thousands and thousands of religions. We need to look only as far as evolutionary theory. There are thousands and thousands of religions because being religious is an evolutionary adaptation. Evolution produces lots of variation within the parameters of a given type of adaptation (there is a huge variety of feathers, for example). If religions were or are doing something positive for human well-being and psychology (even if religions cause many serious problems) then religiosity will be preserved. But if the religious details don’t matter, then evolutionary theory predicts that there will be thousands of religions. Which is in fact what we see.
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@RationalMadman
An adult is made up of around 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 octillion) atoms. Sometimes certain neuron connections don't work properly.
God would have flunked out of MIT. I wondered why I never saw him there.
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Richard Carrier (b. 1969) is a historian, author, and blogger. He received a Ph.D. in ancient history from Columbia University in 2008. As a crusading atheist, Carrier’s specialty is attacking the historicity of the New Testament. He has said that he thinks it “very probable Jesus never actually existed as a historical person” (original emphasis). He has also been an active promoter of atheism on the Internet, formerly serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Internet Infidels/Secular Web site. He now runs the Naturalism as a Worldview web site, as well as a blog. He also participates in numerous public debates with Christians.
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You all know that FLRW is Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric don't you?
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Wait, I'm wrong, Praise the Lord, I'm back on the Most active members list!
See how it works?
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Phillip Roth, author of over 30 highly acclaimed books, Roth is considered by many to be America’s greatest living novelist. A perennial Nobel Prize candidate, he has won every major American literary prize. Roth grew up in a Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, but his unsparing depictions of his largely Jewish characters have been controversial within the American Jewish community. His always pronounced misanthropy has taken on an explicitly atheistic tenor in his late books, with their dominant theme of human frailty, futility, and the finality of death. He has said in a recent interview: “When the whole world doesn’t believe in God, it’ll be a great place.”
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@RationalMadman
Atoms are constructed of two types of elementary particles: electrons and quarks.
Electrons occupy a space that surrounds an atom's nucleus. Each electron has an electrical charge of -1.
Quarks make up protons and neutrons, which, in turn, make up an atom's nucleus. Each proton and each neutron contains three quarks.
A quark is a fast-moving point of energy. There are several varieties of quarks. Protons and neutrons are composed of two types: up quarks and down quarks.
Electrons occupy a space that surrounds an atom's nucleus. Each electron has an electrical charge of -1.
Quarks make up protons and neutrons, which, in turn, make up an atom's nucleus. Each proton and each neutron contains three quarks.
A quark is a fast-moving point of energy. There are several varieties of quarks. Protons and neutrons are composed of two types: up quarks and down quarks.
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Born in Aldershot, Hampshire, Ian McEwan is considered by many to be one of the finest novelists of his generation in the U.K. From the beginning of his career, his work has been characterized by an extremism verging on cynical detachment with respect to his main subjects: sex, death, and moral evil. But it is with Black Dogs in 1992 that his books begin to acquire an explicitly theological dimension. In his recent work, McEwan’s heroes tend to be raionalists who are almost crushed by the irrational forces threatening them. He has written that “Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious convictions.”
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Wait, I'm wrong, Praise the Lord, I'm back on the Most active members list!
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Really, using atoms to create everything? Do you think that if we were all powerfull, either me, RM, zedvictor4, Poly, ebuc, SkepticalOne or Reece101 would have done something like that? Well, Wylted might have.
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In 1900, 30 percent of all deaths in the United States occurred in children less than 5 years of age compared to just 1.4 percent in 1999 (CDC, 1999a; NCHS, 2001a). Infant mortality dropped from approximately 100 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1915 (the first year for which data to calculate an infant mortality rate were available) to 29.2 deaths per 1,000 births in 1950 and 7.1 per 1,000 in 1999 (CDC, 1999b; NCHS, 2001a).2
This decrease in mortality reflects a century's worth of advances in public health, living standards, medical science and technology, and clinical practice. Many infants who once would have died from prematurity, complications of childbirth, and congenital anomalies (birth defects) now survive. Children who previously would have perished from an array of childhood infections today live healthy and long lives thanks to sanitation improvements, vaccines, and antibiotics. In the United States, the average life expectancy at birth rose from less than 50 years in 1900 to more than 76 years in 1999, due in considerable measure to continuing reductions in infant and child mortality (NCHS, 2001c).
This decrease in mortality reflects a century's worth of advances in public health, living standards, medical science and technology, and clinical practice. Many infants who once would have died from prematurity, complications of childbirth, and congenital anomalies (birth defects) now survive. Children who previously would have perished from an array of childhood infections today live healthy and long lives thanks to sanitation improvements, vaccines, and antibiotics. In the United States, the average life expectancy at birth rose from less than 50 years in 1900 to more than 76 years in 1999, due in considerable measure to continuing reductions in infant and child mortality (NCHS, 2001c).
Who is kinder, God or Humans?
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@Stephen
I think he might be right. I would never have the courage to create pedatric cancer. The most common types of cancer diagnosed in children ages 0 to 14 years are leukemias, brain and other central nervous system (CNS) tumors.
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Did you know that Woody Allen is an atheist? Allen, a former stand-up comedian, is a playwright, jazz clarinetist, and world-renowned filmmaker. Born Allen Konigsberg in Brooklyn, he began selling jokes to newspapers while still in his teens. Allen’s trademark black humor reflects strong atheist convictions, emphasizing the futility of human existence—for example: “More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”
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@RationalMadman
RM, if you had the power, you would have made a better God.
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Perhaps the most powerful argument for atheism is the argument from evil. According to this line of reasoning, the fact that the world contains evil is powerful evidence that God does not exist. This is because God is supposed to be the most perfect being possible, and among these perfections is both perfect power and perfect goodness. If God were perfectly powerful, then he would be able to eliminate all instances of evil. If God were perfectly good, then he would want to eliminate all instances of evil. Thus, if God exists, there would be no evil. But there is evil. Therefore, God does not exist.
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“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.”
― Albert Einstein
Does that sound like a coward?
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More proof that Atheists are smart. A bishop has declared that a central Massachusetts school "may no longer identify itself as Catholic" because it refuses to remove Black Lives Matter and Pride flags it began flying on campus last year.
Arguing that the flags "embody specific agendas and ideologies (that) contradict Catholic social and moral teaching," Bishop Robert McManus of the Diocese of Worcester issued a decree on Thursday punishing the Nativity School of Worcester, a tuition-free private middle school that serves about 60 boys from under-resourced communities.
The decree prohibits the school from calling itself Catholic and prevents Mass and sacraments from taking place on school grounds.
Arguing that the flags "embody specific agendas and ideologies (that) contradict Catholic social and moral teaching," Bishop Robert McManus of the Diocese of Worcester issued a decree on Thursday punishing the Nativity School of Worcester, a tuition-free private middle school that serves about 60 boys from under-resourced communities.
The decree prohibits the school from calling itself Catholic and prevents Mass and sacraments from taking place on school grounds.
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Christians worldwide are called to observe penance and develop a closer relationship with Jesus Christ during the Lenten season. Self-reflection and repentance, key pillars of Lent, are tools of atonement for past sins and are innate to the moral teachings of Christ. It's difficult to imagine a true Christian who wouldn't welcome the opportunity for forgiveness. In contrast, former President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he has never asked God for forgiveness—a foremost doctrine of Christianity—and has questioned his need to do so if no sins were committed.
This broaches the question: Was Donald Trump America's first atheist president?
This broaches the question: Was Donald Trump America's first atheist president?
Well, he did have 5 kids with 3 different women.
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Poly, I think you are an intelligent person and I welcome your comments.
Now you say: OK,OK you are smart.
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@RationalMadman
I pray (to the simulation Creators) that you find Humanism.
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@RationalMadman
A simulation would make sense for such a poorly designed world. Humans only evolved so Artificial Intelligence could be created. That is the goal of the Simulation.
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Mark Zuckerberg was raised Jewish. Afterward, he became an atheist.
Steve Wozniak is also Atheist. He himself said a quote "I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself".
Steve Wozniak is also Atheist. He himself said a quote "I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself".
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Elon Musk is often described as an atheist or agnostic. Asked if he prays, Musk once replied: “I didn’t even pray when I almost died of malaria.”
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@RationalMadman
In 1954 one year before he died, Einstein says: “The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.”
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@PREZ-HILTON
Richard Feynman (1918-88)– Atheist
Richard Feynman was an American theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner known for his work in quantum mechanics.
Feynman was an atheist, and said that the Abrahamic anthropomorphic Gods were something he could not believe. He thought Abrahamic scriptures were interesting historically, but nothing more.
Richard Feynman was an American theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner known for his work in quantum mechanics.
Feynman was an atheist, and said that the Abrahamic anthropomorphic Gods were something he could not believe. He thought Abrahamic scriptures were interesting historically, but nothing more.
Jean Paul Sartre was an existentialist, and not a Christian existentialist in the sense that Kierkegaard was. Personally I don’t think the author of La Nausée can be realistically regarded as a theist in any important way. Sartre was also, of course, a Marxist. Below are two relevant quotations from Sartre, in defense of existentialism. Make of these quotations what you will.
Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence, a being which exists before it can be defined by any conception of it. That being is man or, as Heidegger has it, the human reality.
So, first of all, Sartre defines himself as a representative of atheistic existentialism. Then he finishes by clarifying that statement.
“Existentialism is not atheist in the sense that it would exhaust itself in demonstrations of the non-existence of God. It declares, rather, that even if God existed that would make no difference from its point of view. Not that we believe God does exist, but we think that the real problem is not that of His existence; what man needs is to find himself again and to understand that nothing can save him from himself, not even a valid proof of the existence of God.
So to Sartre, the existence of God, even if it were shown to be true, would be irrelevant.
Whatever this is it is not a statement of theism. It’s a statement of indifference to God and an assertion that what matters more than God are the problems of man.
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@PREZ-HILTON
Tell the 5 names you think weren't atheists. Was one Eugene O'Neill?
On a late summer Sunday morning in New London, Connecticut, in 1903, the 14-year-old Eugene O’Neill informed his father James that he would no longer accompany his family to Mass. Eugene had been struggling for some time with his Catholic faith. Two years earlier, while home on vacation from boarding school, he had stumbled on his mother giving herself an injection. Confused by what he had seen, he began praying for her recovery from whatever mysterious ailment afflicted her.
By the fateful summer of 1903, Eugene had come to understand that his mother was severely addicted to morphine. Overcome with anguish about his mother’s condition, furious at his father for allowing her addiction to take root in the first place, despairing at the impotence of his unanswered prayers for divine intervention on his mother’s behalf, Eugene rejected God and remained estranged from the church for the rest of his life.
In his plays, O’Neill developed a distinctive style of atheism, though it can be a challenge for us to recognize it today. Our bestselling atheists insist almost without exception that godlessness is unambiguously good news — a liberation from ignorance and fear, and a gateway to intellectual fulfillment. O’Neill’s reflections on humanity’s struggle for spiritual meaning were, by contrast, haunted by the palpable absence of God and shot through with tragedy, peopled by characters marooned in a twilit world longing for a redemption and forgiveness that never comes. Those eager for an alternative to the superficial, insouciant godlessness so prevalent in our time will find one in the deeper, darker atheism explored in O’Neill’s greatest plays.
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This topic came about due to a post I made to Tradesecret
Tradesecret may be on to something. The words 'Allahu Akbar' translate to mean “God is the greatest”.
You have to be brave to fly a plane into the World Trade Center.
So maybe it's religious people are stupid and brave and atheists are smart and cowards?
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@PREZ-HILTON
So you are saying Allahu Akbar?
People saying that are some of the smartest people around, right?
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@n8nrgim
For more than a millennium, scholars have noticed a curious correlation: Atheists tend to be more intelligent than religious people.
It's unclear why this trend persists, but researchers of a new study have an idea: Religion is an instinct, they say, and people who can rise above instincts are more intelligent than those who rely on them.
"Intelligence — in rationally solving problems — can be understood as involving overcoming instinct and being intellectually curious and thus open to non-instinctive possibilities," study lead author Edward Dutton, a research fellow at the Ulster Institute for Social Research in the United Kingdom, said in a research paper.
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@Mharman
Don't you think that in general, Atheists are smarter than Theists? I know that there are a few exceptions.
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Yes Poly, I agree that he is a very smart person. Please see my topic in Philosophy.
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@Mharman
What did you think of the Atheists are cowards. in the Religion forum?
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Here is a list of Atheist Nobel Prize Winners:
Chemistry
Harry Kroto, joint recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Svante Arrhenius
Paul D. Boyer
John Cornforth
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
Irène Joliot-Curie
Richard R. Ernst
Herbert A. Hauptman
Roald Hoffmann
Harold W. Kroto
Jean-Marie Lehn
Peter D. Mitchell
George Andrew Olah
Wilhelm Ostwald
Linus Pauling
Max Perutz
Frederick Sanger
Michael Smith
Harold Urey
Economics
Milton Friedman
John Harsanyi
Friedrich Hayek
John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Amartya Sen
Literature
Jean-Paul Sartre, recipient of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Samuel Beckett
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Pearl S. Buck (1938)
Albert Camus
Anatole France
John Galsworthy (1932)
Dario Fo
Nadine Gordimer
Gao Xingjian
Pablo Neruda
Eugene O'Neill
Bertrand Russell
George Bernard Shaw
Jean-Paul Sartre
Wole Soyinka.
John Steinbeck
José Saramago
Peace
Norman Angell (1933)
Klas Pontus Arnoldson (1908)
Mikhail Gorbachev
Linus Pauling
Andrei Sakharov
Elie Wiesel
Physics
Pierre and Marie Curie.
Peter Higgs
Zhores Alferov
Hannes Alfvén
Philip Warren Anderson
John Bardeen
Patrick Blackett
Nicolaas Bloembergen
Niels Bohr
Percy Williams Bridgman
Louis de Broglie
James Chadwick
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Marie Curie
Pierre Curie
Paul Dirac
Albert Einstein
{Einstein used many labels to describe his religious views, including "agnostic", "religious nonbeliever", and a believer in "Spinoza's God." However, he rejected other labels like "atheist" and "pantheist"}
Enrico Fermi
Richard Feynman
Val Logsdon Fitch
James Franc
Dennis Gabor
Murray Gell-Mann
Vitaly Ginzburg
Roy J. Glauber
Peter Higgs
Gerard 't Hooft
Herbert Kroemer
Lev Landau
Leon M. Lederman
Albert A. Michelson
Konstantin Novoselov
Jean Baptiste Perrin
Isidor Isaac Rabi
C. V. Raman
William Shockley
Erwin Schrödinger
George Smoot
Jack Steinberger
Igor Tamm
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Eugene Wigner
Physiology or Medicine
Francis Crick.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Julius Axelrod
Robert Bárány (1914)
George Beadle
J. Michael Bishop
Sydney Brenner
Francis Crick, DNA codiscoverer
Max Delbrück
Christian de Duve
Howard Florey
Camillo Golgi
Andrew Huxley
François Jacob
Paul Lauterbur
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Sir Peter Medawar
Jacques Monod
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Herbert J. Muller
Élie Metchnikoff
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Hermann Joseph Muller
Paul Nurse
Ivan Pavlov
Richard J. Roberts
John Sulston
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Nikolaas Tinbergen
James Watson, DNA codiscoverer
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@Bones
What would happen if Jesus and the "virgin Mary" took a Paternity Test.
Maury would open the envelope and say: "God, you are not the Father!"
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