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Pretty good, SB - except for the "spiritual supercomputer" bit; it's an oxymoron. If we're computers we're certainly not supercomputers; we're not even up to the standards of the earliest hand-held calculators. Your argument is sophisticated. Why do you waste your time responding to...

I think most christians believe that God listens to and sometimes answers their prayers. A millionaire prays that his mercedes will be out of the garage by Wednesday, a starving child prays for bread; neither prayer is more likely than the other to be answered. The logic of this God is...

Ask your christian friends how the basic christian tenet of free will jives with God meddling in the daily happenings in their lives.

KJ, I have no such regimen. You know that such a regimen is impossible and so you are placing an impossible standard on what you will accept as evidence. On the other hand, you are trivializing the most profound issue we can confront by demanding that it be reduced to mere science...

You're assuming that the designer values efficiency. Since a cosmic designer has literally all the time in the world ( and then some ) said designer has no reason to value efficiency. Assuming there is a designer ( read a god ), that designer may have valued the unfolding of the...

Whatever RM's style of presenting his calls, any time he makes a call it's more probable that he's right than that he's wrong.

Do you feel that gold will run in tandem with oil or do you see gold functioning independently ( short term )? OPEC's promising to do what it can to bring the oil price down and tomorrow we get the U.S. inventory numbers. Could be a bad oil day unless those inventory data are really low...

Hm. OK. I'm not big on supporting Intelligent Design as an argument against evolution; I prefer the Cosmological argument for Intelligent Design of Everything, including evolution. It will take a little time for me to formulate an efficient response and it's way past bedtime. Get back...

Where, pray tell, have I been insulting? What it is that constitutes evidence is at the heart of the issue, especially considering the abstruse nature of the matter at hand. KJK: Show me evidence. HH: What might you accept as evidence?

Since you're the party introducing the term 'evidence' the onus is on you, if requested to do so, to provide a clarification of your understanding of the word as used in context. I am not this Z person, but I assume that he was brilliant.

What are your standards for evidence and why should those standards be applied here?

I'm not a full-fledged teleologist but I have teleological tendencies... but I'm puzzled by your treatment of the alternatives here. How can you present goal-directed evolution as a mere possibility as in "it could have originated.." but definitively reject the diametrically opposed accidental...

QM's MWI ( Multi-World-Interpretation ) - the notion that there are infinite parallel universes - is merely a prediction of Quantum Mechanics that may or may not be fact. At this time it's an untestable prediction so it can't yet be considered valid science. It's quite possible that the...

Interestingly, Eratosthenes devised a method 2200 years ago to determine not only that the Earth is round but exactly what its circumference is. This means that the flat earth notion prevalent in medieval times was prevalent in spite of the existence for at least a thousand years of scientific...

Good luck with this one.

If we equate intelligence with IQ then the average white kid is more intelligent than the average black kid. The average anything, however, is a statistical fabrication that may in fact exist nowhere in the real world. Each white kid and each black kid is as intelligent as s/he is...

They can't.. unless the FED and Gov't can work some magic that makes it relatively smaller. This would require some amazing fiscal prestidigitation.

The notion that the world was designed and that there was therefore a designer needn't be scientifically verified to be rational; it need only be logically inferred. Science is defined by its specific method, not by any exclusive association with logic or validity of evidence.

If consumers stop spending it wrecks the economy. If consumers spend too much they run up too much debt then they stop spending and wreck the economy.

Peanuts. These writedowns are dwarfed by Canadian banks' assets and profits; Canadian banks don't have significant exposure to the subprime fiasco. Canadian banks are generally much more conservative than U.S. banks. In the U.S. there may be 100's of bank failures every year; in its...