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Anyone familiar with The Atheist Experience? It's an hour-long cable access television show in Austin, Texas geared towards a non-atheist audience. People call in with questions and challenges for its atheist presenters (their quarterback being Matt Dillahunty) regarding religion and unbelief...

By that I mean I don't much care to debate at which point exactly a group of cells officially becomes a person because I am not an absolutist. What I do think is important to give ascent to is the amount of pain that can occur to both the mother and the zygote (if it has reached the stage of...

I'm unfamiliar with "zygote" - Is that not an ovum that's been fertilised by a sperm (thus the eventual foetus)? How did you come to that conclusion? Does the amalgamation of a sperm cell and an ovum also include the immediate inception of a soul? I happen to think that this is the wrong...

What are your opinions on subjects such as same-sex marriage, abortion, the death penalty, and so on? Why? I’m divided only slightly on the subject of same-sex marriage since I don’t believe marriage in general is such a good idea. But it’s obviously a matter of equality and everyone should be...

I don't believe our lives have some purpose that is exterior to ourselves; that it's been decided by some other factor. That seems a bit obtuse. It may well be that there is no definable point to us, but I'd like to think it's up to each individual to give their life meaning and point.

Sign me up please. Atheist and Humanist +1. :) I'd be happy to answer those set questions that most members have posted. Not sure if they're required, but I'll get to them in detail.

Lost In Translation probably has the most positively melancholic group of songs that I've come across in any film. Not something to listen to repeatedly, but it's the soundtrack that I've found myself coming back to the most over the years. Anything by Morricone is worth mentioning as well.

Then I don't think you can be sure of it. Forgetting for a moment that this is creationism, this kind of reasoning in general can be dangerously slippery since it then allows us to invent pathways to justification. As far as I can tell, the only reason why creationism persists and why it has...

Feraligatr. Add a pinch of Scorapeh.

Metang. Took some thought, surprisingly. Thowmistic.

Whiscash Ariados Togepi Electrode Rhydon OPRAH.

Skarmory. Easy enough. Licelyrot.

I am not, and I despise story-toppers. You can identify them immediately. They even listen to you aggressively before firing away with their story in order to formulate the best possible way to dominate. They play Monopoly with a conversation. Pathetic.

I disagree. I know a few people who are militantly heterosexual, assuming the statement refers to "gay" as sexuality specifically. It seems more like a wishful argument point for someone who's in a debate over the ethics of homosexuality. Or something. Apart from that, it's a very sweeping...

Gothorita. Good one. Gnomenat.