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...Someone has been lying to you about what Entropy is. There's two different descriptions of the second law of thermodynamics that I've seen used. 1. "The level of disorder in a system will either remain the same, or increase." 2. "The level of usable energy in a system will either remain the...

Because a simulation is by definition not an unintelligent design. Further, the data has no value known as 'useful' until some being comes along to impute it with that value. To put it another way, you can build a computer, but if you do not put software on it, it will never do anything. If you...

The process was created by an intelligent designer to try to turn out useful data. It wasn't created to turn out nothing. It is then an intelligent being that interprets the usefulness of those results. I did some numbers once, on what it would take to get a single chromosome. I took the entire...

You mean machines designed by intelligent people, and programmed by intelligent people, to come to specific ends, can give out useful intelligible results? Intelligible results that only the intelligent designers can discern as 'this is what I wanted,' whereas the process if left to continue...

The problem here, is that atheism is not a neutral point. Agnosticism is a neutral belief point, 'I don't know whether or not the divine exists.' Atheism is a proactive belief that there is no god, and that has theological, philosophical, and moral consequences. If it were a lack of belief...

They based their various forms of socialism on atheist ideology. Explicitly so. If you can just say 'those Atheists don't count because they flavored it with X,' then I can just say 'those christians don't count because they flavored it with Y.' Except the difference is Christianity does...

If Religion has such a dark and bloody history that it repulses people, then Atheism even more so. Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Pol Pot, all avowed atheists. All explicitly pushing an ideology based upon atheism. It is curious how people will criticize the sins of religious people, but act as though...