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09 Christianity in the Light of Science
10 The Case Against Miracles
11 Varieties of Jesus Mythicism
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Recent Comments

  • Ignorant Amos
    Hah, this reminds me of last night's random Web browsing that led me (somehow) to the "Special interests" (Wikipedia link) of autistics...

    Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 hour ago

  • Ignorant Amos
    But he could still be persecuted by his historicist peers or ridiculed as a crank. Maybe for whatever reason Ehrman cares more about how superstitionists perceive him than he cares...

    Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 2 hours ago

  • ORAXX

    Musk is also on record of having said he thinks democracy is obsolete and all the country's decision making needs to be turned over to people like him. He has also stated that empathy is...

    Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 3 hours ago

  • josephpalazzo

    Sorry to rain on your parade, but a child has a will of its own, AI doesn't. It seems that you are buying into the hype that's on all social media. In fact there is NO INTELLIGENCE in AI...

    Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 6 hours ago

  • Tom
    A sticky problem for AI, so far, is the embodiment problem.

    I'm visualizing a script for a billion dollar movie just now...AI created a lobotomy machine, but convinced...

    Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 10 hours ago

  • Tom

    Um...does this OP make anybody want to watch "I, Robot" again?

    Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 10 hours ago

  • Tom

    Your logic doesn't follow in the case of parents who raise a child who then becomes an adult criminal. Aren't you open to the law of unintended consequences, i.e., that if physicalism is...

    Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 10 hours ago

  • Tom
    Right-wingers are complaining about how AI is too "woke" for their tastes.

    If AI is engaging in the dishonest manipulations outlined in the OP, the door is fully...

    Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 10 hours ago

  • Tom

    What are your thoughts on the disturbing fact that most serial killers have high IQs? Is there a reason why above-average smarts seems to correlate with lacking normative empathy? That had been my...

    Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 10 hours ago

  • Daniel Mocsny
    The Bible has held my attention for a long time and I think it will for the foreseeable future.

    Hah, this reminds me of last night's random Web browsing that led me...

    Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 16 hours ago

  • Daniel Mocsny
    Ehrman is a millionaire.

    Ah, good point, I hadn't thought of that. According to DuckAI:

    Bart Ehrman's net worth is estimated to be between two and...

    Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 17 hours ago

  • Rick O'Sheikh
    You feel less safe in a neighborhood that produces a higher rate of chalk outlines.

    Nitpick: I am sure you know that the police does not use chalk outlines in real life....

    Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 17 hours ago

  • ORAXX

    I came to the conclusion some time ago that the human species is just too deeply flawed for long term survival. I expect we will drive ourselves to extinction just like the 99% or so of all the...

    Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 17 hours ago

  • Daniel Mocsny
    High school dropouts pay up.

    Unless their crime was insurrection, then Trump pardons them for attacking police officers.

    Billionaires in the Epstein Files skate...

    Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 17 hours ago

  • Daniel Mocsny
    Intelligence and education are hardly predictors of probity.

    Actually they are, in a statistical sense. What you probably mean instead of "hardly predictors" is...

    Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 17 hours ago

  • Daniel Mocsny

    Another question is: where will people be who are stupid enough to fall for the frauds of religion and science denial? Until now, the bar has been set pretty low by the average human IQ. In the job...

    Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 18 hours ago

  • Ignorant Amos

    Citing Linus Pauling mistaken beliefs, is the fallacy of whataboutery. Pauling was even more mistaken than Ehrman. History is not an exact science. Intelligent folk mistakenly holding silly beliefs...

    Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 20 hours ago

  • Ignorant Amos
    No objection from me to this, but I don't see the distinction you are trying to make.

    The distinction I'm trying to make, is that Ehrman reasoned his way out of...

    Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 21 hours ago

  • Ignorant Amos
    It's possible to find some people at all ages who change their minds on things.

    I never said it wasn't. The implication is, that Ehrman has had the evidence and...

    Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 23 hours ago

  • ORAXX

    This is just getting started. Where will this be in fifty years? A hundred?

    Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 23 hours ago

  • Robert Conner

    True, dat.

    Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 1 day ago

  • Bob Jase

    " I've often wondered who would be in control of the world if cats had hands."

    Wouldn't matter, the cats would still be in control.

    Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 1 day ago

  • josephpalazzo

    The advent of the Internet created a slew of billionaires - Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and a handful of others. If history repeats itself, AI will produce another slew of billionaires...

    Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 1 day ago

  • Robert Conner

    Musk came in with a lot of money, bought companies he didn't start with tech he didn't invent, has an army of engineers and technicians who do the lift, and suddenly he's a genius....

    Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 1 day ago

  • Daniel Mocsny
    AI appears to be the creation of our Silicon Valley cyberdudes, and if "social" media like Facebook Farcebook is dropping any clues, there's pretty clearly ample room for...

    Debunking Christianity: An AI model did something last month that no machine was ever supposed to do: It rewrote its own code to avoid being shut down! · 1 day ago

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