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You've dodged the question. If you agree with the 'reason' used in our legal system then are you able to state what that reason is? As far as I can tell the reason we have such laws is often that we follow a doctrine of specieism. Also, as a point of interest, I should mention that some people...

What about a human genetic sequence causes it to deserve such special consideration? E.g. does that mean you would not appose the destruction of a multiplying organism with chimpanzee DNA? If you don't appose such destruction, why so? Also, a side note which doesn't really affect your...

Just making sure that people know: students studying anatomy as part of medicine or science will not miss out on classes. According to the dean of medicine at UNSW "the university held two anatomy licences, one for teaching medical and science students, and the other for its surgical skills...

If I were you, I would pass on the anatomy, because you're likely to be getting a pretty large amount of it in your degree anyway. Broaden your knowledge and pick one of the latter three. If you have any interests outside of medicine (or attached to it, as the case may be) then you should...

And I suppose you can prove that there are no other possible explanations for the existence of our universe? The fact that you cannot think of any is not a proof, all that demonstrates is the limitations of the human mind.

What criteria do you use to judge which theory is the best? And what of the problem of picking between different logically consistent theories, given that an infinite number can probably be created? I feel I should point out that consistency does not entail truth... it's merely a necessary...

I have major issues with this argument. Consider the fact that given the way you have phrased the above you can substitute any 'explanatory' argument into 'X'. You could say that Gamera created the universe, or that the unvierse was created as part of the flush of a cosmic urinal, and so forth...

If you're going to throw rationality out the window then are you willing to admit irrational disproofs of god into this debate?

I'm afraid that I can't answer the full scope of this question because a) I think that whether it is worthwhile is a very individual question, depending on individual notions of 'worth', and b) because I haven't actually gone through the program such as would enable me to determine the benefits...

Sam04u, I think that you've made a straw man argument of my post by misrepresenting my position in the form of claims you have read into my post - ones which I did not make. I'll respond to your counter-arguments (straw, stick, brick or otherwise) in the following: I agree, I wasn't actually...

As far I know NTB isn't making as strong a claim as 'god doesn't exist' - if anything he is asserting that proposed 'proofs' are inadequate or, at most, that god is improbable. The thing about faith is that it has everything to do with belief and very little do do with actual existence, that is...

(1) During phase 1 you spend 2 hours at a teaching hospital every fortnight. These sessions tend to be held in the afternoon and they alternate (weekly) with communications/clinical skills (CCS) sessions which are held at a university owned building near UNSW. Mypersonal schedule is ussually as...

I'm afriad I haven't read it, however I did read the review. I think you're right to point out that the critique, rather than criticising Dawkins' arguments, attacks his negative views of religion and grasp of theology - which may well be reasonable objections to make against Dawkins' book...

Can you really use that argument when you're not studying physics yourself? I would be good if you could provide a counter-argument which is directed at my claims, rather than vaguely directed at my person (argumentum ad hominem?). Even if one accepts your assumption that I know nothing about...

What of the fact that what is perhaps the dominant cosmological model is based, in part, on the Hawking-Penrose singularity theorem and Hawking's principle of ignorance. Hawking has claimed that: "A singularity is a place where the classical concepts of space and time break down as do all the...

I'm pretty sure that forensic pathologists are the ones who examine 'the body in the morgue and record the cause of death'. Looking at the pamphlet I gave you a link to above, it says: "A forensic pathologist performs autopsy examinations to both the external and internal body organs to...

It's basically just a couple days of social activities aimed at helping people to get to know one another - some of it is structured, some is unstructured. When you talk about a medical examiner I assume you're talking about the kind of person you see on a show like CSI --> that kind of work, to...

So I take it you can substantiate that claim?

There will be buses to take you there.

Personally I think that one of those principles needs to be rejected (or modified, as I suspect is done in a lot of counter-arguments) if consistency is to be achieved. That those two things (together) could be commonly held aspects of god/reality goes to show why we should continue to question...