Should we Ban religious topics?

[Real_PhillBert]

Only ban topics when they become hateful to an extreme.

That's more or less how it is now. If things degrade too far the mods will simply lock it.

[Nineshadow]

No, you just call it Evolution, and you stop using it as a consideration of a belief system, because it's not a belief system and it's not up for debate.

Evolution is a fact whether someone believes it or not.

Same as the Sky is Blue, and the Earth revolves around the sun, and that you're a human being of the natural Earth.

A Scientific theory is not something simply up to question. The wording "theory" in a scientific sense is not a questionable. A scientific theory is a set of observations and laws of the natural universe that have been verified and cited by source and supported by data. It is the practical application of education in a scientific matter to state the natural behaviors before we consider them absolute laws of nature.

The usage of Theory in standard speech is used to demean and undermind the factual status of scientific theory, so please do not refer to it as "Theory" because Gravity is "just a theory" and I sure as hell don't see you jumping out of a building telling me "it's just a theory."

However,some stars we see at night are long gone.

We see them,but they don't exist anymore(at least in that form).

[Nuclear Nerd]

That's more or less how it is now. If things degrade too far the mods will simply lock it.

Yeah, I know and I really like that, people should be able to debate if they want to, and if they don't want to, they can either not post, just leave, respectfully ask someone else to leave,

or block them.

[Nuclear Nerd]

However,some stars we see at night are long gone.

We see them,but they don't exist anymore(at least in that form).

Yes but that is due to distance and the limit of speed on light. Evolution has nearly nothing to do with that. Thus your arguement is invalid.

[Misanthrope]

Other: it needs to be contained to a separate forum or single thread so the rest of us can avoid it all

[Nineshadow]

Yes but that is due to distance and the limit of speed on light. Evolution has nearly nothing to do with that. Thus your arguement is invalid.

Not everything is as it seems.

 

That was my point.

[Nuclear Nerd]

Not everything is as it seems.

Please, do elaborate.

[Legion]

I don't see the need most of the time you can have reasonable discussion. This forum is fine it just has a few idiots on it who derail like crazy.

[Nineshadow]

Please, do elaborate.

What's left to elaborate?

 

Pretty much,we'll never know for certain.

[Deletive]

I've never seen Christianity compared to Islam before. maybe christianity compared to atheistism? 

But I don't see a problem with these topics. If they get derailed mods will just delete it and it will come up a month later again.

[Sauron]

As with most things, they're fine if done responsibly. This is a forum, it should be open to discussion by definition. The coc covers everything that classifies as "getting out of hand" already, so I don't see the need for more moderation on the subjects discussed.

[DamnTarget]

perhaps we should have a section for controversy, with some sort of restriction (like reputation)

 

I really like this idea. Can stop people that have just made accounts from spamming and allows a way for controversial topics to be discussed.

[Nuclear Nerd]

What's left to elaborate?

 

Pretty much,we'll never know for certain.

But our ancestors will (assuming that we don't all die out by then). We have evidence to support that there were other "forms" of humans millions of years ago, like the Neanderthals, while not 100% sure, most agree that they were an early form of human, so why couldn't other animals be our ancestors? Also, are you agnostic based on the we'll never know?

[Sauron]

I've never seen Christianity compared to Islam before.

 

That's mostly because contrarily to common misconceptions they get along pretty well. Sure, there are some differences in views, but a lot of the core values are in common.

 

Christians vs Atheists happens often because there are more Christians that other religious people in western countries and there are plenty of Atheists too, and the basics are wildly different.

[coen113]

People cant seem to have a proper discussion about it, thats for sure

[Nineshadow]

But our ancestors will (assuming that we don't all die out by then). We have evidence to support that there were other "forms" of humans millions of years ago, like the Neanderthals, while not 100% sure, most agree that they were an early form of human, so why couldn't other animals be our ancestors? Also, are you agnostic based on the we'll never know?

But here's another question...what do we call "human"?

Would a "bag of meat" that looks just like us still be a human?

Or does our personality,thinking,etc, make us human.

We're the only species that has the concept of a question.

 

 

Oh,and I just remembered a quite common miss-conception in most people who believe in evolutionism(me included) : we haven't really evolved from monkeys,we and monkeys had a common ancestor.

 

And yes,agnostic.I do claim there exists a God,but I have no idea what/who that would be.It could simply be a concept,it could be something concrete,or could actually be everything,etc. etc.

[Nuclear Nerd]

But here's another question...what do we call "human"?

Would a "bag of meat" that looks just like us still be a human?

Or does our personality,thinking,etc, make us human.

We're the only species that has the concept of a question.

 

 

Oh,and I just remembered a quite common miss-conception in most people who believe in evolutionism(me included) : we haven't really evolved from monkeys,we and monkeys had a common ancestor.

 

And yes,agnostic.I do claim there exists a God,but I have no idea what/who that would be.It could simply be a concept,it could be something concrete,or could actually be everything,etc. etc.

Okay, I am also agnostic. I also believe there is a chance of a higher being perhaps a 4 dimensional being? Also, I did know about that "common" misconception however that means that there were more basic stages of evolution like single celled organisms. Going back to the 1st question, humans beings are of the genetic makeup of homosapiens. When that has changed a lot, we may call ourselves humans but we won't be homo sapiens.

[Guest]

Well I voted yes but I like reading the flame wars that Trik'Stari gets into so maybe not.

[APrettyCoolWalrus]

I vote yes, I can just as easily message someone if they want a religious flame war.

[rambi36]

Yes. Causes way too much damn drama