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@darwintojesus I wasn't aware I needed permission to have an opinion.

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@darwintojesus >Well, no cosmic purpose. Which is good. Why would you want to be a slave to somebody else's purpose for you?
>They do if they make a positive claim, same goes for theists. Just not believing you carries no burden.
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@darwintojesus >Free from what? External influences? No. Thankfully, we do not operate untethered from reality like that.
>There is a way things are, that way is not the way things aren't. Therefore rational reason is very much an activity we can engage in.
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@NotEvolution1 No. Evolution starts with the assumption that there is life. Full stop.

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@darwintojesus No, it just requires the scant observatonal and reasoning skills necessary to realize that the fallacy of composition reduces to absurdity.
"My shirt is blue, therefore it must have been made by Smurfs, because blueness can't come from non-blueness."

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@darwintojesus instead of a bunch of p. zombies, absent a known mechanism for enabling the latter.
> I do reject free will.
> Nobody's reasoning is perfect, but mine seems to serve me pretty well for the most part. I've seen enough shoddy reasoning to comfortably distinguish mine from it. (5/5)

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@darwintojesus > I can't feel someone else's qualia sensation, but I can see them behaving in ways consistent with consciousness. Knowing that others have brains similar to mine, it seems more reasonable to think that they produce the same sort of conscious experience as mine . . . (4/?)

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@creation247 @darwintojesus Because nobody is trying to convince us that Satan is good. "The bad guy does bad things", is not an interesting observation.

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@NotEvolution1 Saying "'just a theory' means it's never been proven" means you're an ignoramus.

Just letting you know.

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@darwintojesus P1. To be convinced of something I need information sufficient to convince me.
P2. If I'm not convinced it's because I don't already possess information that would convince me.
Q. Therefore, if you want to convince me you need to provide the information I don't have.

Elementary.

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@NotEvolution1 Learn how clades work.

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@sheffield_davex @darwintojesus I all seriousness though, Darwin was relatively progressive for his time, being a staunch abolitionist and generally positive about the native peoples he met in his travels, even if filtered through his perspective as a man born and raised in a waxing British Empire.

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@sheffield_davex @darwintojesus Breaking news: 1800's Englishman was racist!

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@darwintojesus Newton was a fucking alchemist, man. Are you going to deny gravity now too?

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@darwintojesus Mistaking school for church.

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@darwintojesus The scientific method is largely a formalization of the same reasoning tools we instinctively use to navigate daily life, plus peer review.

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@darwintojesus trees are solid objects, and I cannot phase through solid objects. Else I'd spend my life repeatedly walking into the same tree like an NPC with broken pathfinding until I eventually starve to death. (cont.)