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If you insist... 1) This offers no evidence whatsoever as to whether or not your god exists. 2) It's complete nonsense. For thousands of years non-believers have been oppressed, and banned (even on punishment of death in the past) from speaking their mind. Yet it is the non-believers who force...

I think your post reveals you have a very narrow definition of "child abuse". Nobody is suggesting that the parents have any intention of abusing their child, just that the child's right to freely choose their religion is far more important than the parents' "right" to choose it for them. You...

Agreed. I'm not going to argue with the point that those companies are out to make a profit. Of course they are - sorry, I should have worded it better. My point is that not all such companies are anti-herbal 'medicine'; that there are other companies out there - maybe not quite the same...

Clever. You don't actually link to where those came from (so I've had to find them myself), and then you cherry pick from the source (probably because you didn't think I'd find it?) If anyone else cares, here's the link: http://www.newnation.co/forums/archive/index.php/t-110210.html ...and...

No, they're not. I read your post to mean that all money is used to study "mainstream" medicine - so I refuted it with evidence that it isn't. So to be clear, your argument is what? That some money goes on mainstream medicine and some goes on herbal? Fine - I agree. Not sure how that proves...

This is not a sign that violence has increased - it is a sign that how violence is reported has changed, paired with your personal thoughts on seeing an old person. I'm willing to bet money that instances of random violence on innocents hasn't increased per capita at all in the last 30 years...

Islam being an example of a....? (It begins with an 'R')

Yes, granted they aren't of the scale of GSK. Apologies. The point I was intending to make still stands - the suggestion that all the money is directed to 'put down' alternative treatments (or however you want to word it) is utter nonsense. Boiron's marketing to R&D spend being 20:1 is utter...

I had a headache/cold, so I took an "alternative remedy". Within days it had gone! It must work! - a simple argument that will create the belief that a "remedy" must work. Of course it's a complete fallacy, because the headache would have cleared whether they took the "remedy" or not. Similar...

No, it didn't stop the Nazis. But given that that did happen, I'm not sure what your point is then about things having been worse if it had happened earlier? Having 'seen' it happen (not with my own eyes, but you know what I mean from the perspective of the world) surely had an impact on...

From what age? I'm pretty sure young children will believe what their parents tell them, and if they aren't even presented with the alternative viewpoint it's pretty unlikely it would even occur to them that their parents are wrong about how they, the world & the universe were created. Er...

Go on, humour me. Explain this sentence. I'm not sure that the theory of gravity has resulted in any deaths (unless somebody then decided to jump off a building, previously unaware that they'd fall to Earth).

Wow. "Earlier attitudes to conquering other lands" - you don't think those attitudes might have changed because of science & technology? Because of the new ways to improve your lot - for example the sudden ease and speed with which you can trade with countries all over the world? Serious...

Well that's your opinion - based on what (other than received opinion from others) I have no idea. But it is just your belief with no evidence to support it. I do believe it all began with a 'big bang' - because that is what the observable evidence as we have it suggests. There are many...

Funny, they 'stopped happening' as soon as a method to test them was devised. Almost like they're not real either...

Bloody hell. That entire post was utter nonsense, but to close it by talking about pay? Do you have any idea how poorly the average scientist is paid?! I assure you it isn't the money!!

Er...? Either: A) Something can exist without a cause, in which case there is no need for a god. Or B) Something cannot exist without a cause, in which case - where did the divine creator come from? Does there have to have been an even diviner creator-or? And then another... and another...

No, no, no. I'm sorry, but I hate the phrase 'unchristian' in such a sense, implying that 'christian' is, by nature, a virtue. IMHO, it isn't. That's not to say it's a bad thing; it isn't. It's just... well it's a religion and nothing more. The same 'values' exist in civilisations/communities...

The thing is, it is picking and choosing. You are choosing to believe that the story of Jesus's life in the Bible is true. On what basis do you believe the stories in the New Testament are true? Again, "the bible must be true because the bible says it's true" is circular logic. I'm not...

Christian values? That isn't even a consistent concept. Christian values, depending on where you are, can include executing homosexuals, or 'just' banning condoms and, as a result, accelerating the spread of HIV. Anyway, even if it is where values came from, that neither provides any evidence...