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Yes and no. I'm not confusing them as such, but rather I am explaining away 'free will1' (the unmoved mover kind) whilst putting in place 'free will2' which is constrained by all the aforementioned factors. Free will2 might be seen as free in so far as it is able to represent you as a person...

The concept of free will seems, to me, to be a fairly questionable one anyway. More specifically, I object the the notion of free will which would posit, as in the case of god, an 'unmoved mover', i.e. a will which has causal efficacy (in that it can cause a body to act in certain ways) but...

I'm not sure what you're talking about. As far as I can see noone has made an argument for pro-religious education. In this thread --> Gh3y and Tully are debating anti-religious education and I have suggested Dennett's idea of a religion-neutral program of comparative religion.

From Wiki: "In 1986, the Council for Secular Humanism's Free Inquiry magazine summarized studies on religiosity and intelligence.[12] In it Burnham Beckwith summarized 43 studies on religiosity and its relation with attributes that he considered were positively linked with intelligence: IQ...

A problem to look out for in an education which focuses on the 'god issue' is that it is too easy to forget that religions consist largely of a way of life. It is one thing to say that 'on an empirical, or similar, account of knowledge we lack reason to believe in the existence of god' but...

An alternative suggestion (by Daniel Dennett) is that we instead put in place a mandatory course in comparative religion (with thorough coverage): http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/94 (starting from about 4:15) The idea is that some religions are aided in their survival by an...

I was reminded of another case of uncanny biblical resemblance today - Pandora's Box: ...In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman on earth. Zeus ordered Hephaestus, the god of craftsmanship, to create her and he did, using water and earth. The gods endowed her with many talents...

As I explained in previous posts, I lack a belief in the proposition 'god exists' without concurring with the proposition 'god does not exist'. If you have a knock down argument against god then go for it. Otherwise, don't shut down the debate unnecessarily.

If you have two consenting adults, condoms and some lube what's the issue?

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Heh, you should have spotted the Bertrand Russell quote in the signature. It suggests a need for something tighter than your average forum argument. Also, out of interest I suppose, what do you take to be the 'right' reasons for doing medicine?

It's hard to moralise here and say what is a 'genuine' or 'good' reason for wanting to study medicine. Some are pushed by their parents, some have a romantic image built up in their heads by society + ER (read: "I'm not sure why I want to do it, I've just always had a passion to study...

Books I liked: Drake - Grays Anatomy for Students Mims - Medical Microbiology Rang n' Dale - Pharmacology Guyton n' Hall - Textbook of Medical Physiology Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease Langman - Medical Embryology Also, for your hit of public health and social justice...

UNSW I'm in my 3rd year of the Arts/Medicine program.

Is it the Cardio III or the Master Cardio? If so I'd be quite interested in purchasing it. I'll send you off an email, Kieran

It's been integrated (poorly, I should add) with the rest of the library. I don't understand what they're trying to achieve with the new organisation system - they seem to have made things worse.

There are two quite different approaches we could take to that question: What is the best explanation for the events of the bible if we accept them as, for the most part, true? (I geuss this could involve 'filling in the narrative' or something similar) What is the best explanation for the...

It is definately worth doing from a social perspective. It's a great opportunity to make friends and to 'break the ice', so to speak, with all the people you'll be studying with.

Nothing beats the justificatory powers of a holy text...

I don't think any clear cut principle is going to emerge here. It normally seems that huge books are required to deal with this issue (of sufficient evidence) adequately. Roughly, however, I would use a smattering of the following: logic and abstract reasoning, sense data, consistency amongst...