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That's an observation, it doesn't explain 'how' it comes from nothing.

Maybe there always was 'something' ?

I disagree. A supernatural god could quite easily exist outside of our universe in some magic world whereby we don't see the instances where a naturalistic explanation doesn't suffice. Even if we find a theory for everything, that's only a theory for everything as far as our universe is...

I think the best practical way to prove evolution (or at least our common dissent from apes... which gets pretty close) is in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs1zeWWIm5M (4 minutes)

This is no evidence for God - There's your problem. There is no 'seemingly supernatural beginning of the universe', that seems to be a huge instance of begging the question. A beginning of time also doesn't point to there being a god. Sure a god COULD exist within these parameters... just as a...

I do not believe in God as much as I don't believe in anything. I don't believe in red zebras in china because there's no evidence for them, they might exist, but it isn't there yet. I'm willing to make that little jump and say something doesn't exist because there's no evidence for it - it...

Fear of death. People tend to cling more strongly to such social institutions (i.e. will become more nationalist for example) when in the presence of something which reminds them of their own death. Discussing god, particularly the non-existence of God makes people scared imo. a) I would love...

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Oh thank god they unmerged these POS platitudes from Dan's thread...

The question is how much force a nation has vs their desire to use that force. Australia is a prosperous nation in its own right and we don't really pose a huge risk to our neighbours anyway so our military which does not have the power to invade any of these countries is of little worry to...

Increase the budget.... to the level of NATO countries such as France etc etc etc.... Malaysia... Indonesia perhaps? If Malaysia ramped up its military to the level of spending of France and would not listen to our diplomatic calls for them to stop increasing such a military I would probably...

Remember what your original claim was. Orginally you said you think our military budget should be on par with NATO countries then gave Frace, Germany, Italy and the UK as comparative examples (I don't imagine you meant for instance Luxemburg). I think that such a policy is either irrational or...

Yeah I really don't get it... The only argument I see as convincing for Australia's airforce is what I believe the government usually argues: A) It's enough to deter any possible rogue neighbour from considering attacking us. B) It's not so much that is gets us into an arms race. C) Our planes...

But we don't have the people to maintain/service our current levels of equipment tbh if you read the last couple of defense white papers. They desperately need more people to sign up. For the most part, what are some nicer planes going to do? They'll make our regional neighbours (the only people...

I imagine if we started pumping our military budget to be on par with france / the uk (making us basically a military state) our neighbours would be far more likely to build up their own militaries.

Hows bout we fund the arts at the same level as sports? LOLOLOLOL

Why?

Yes, according to my definition of proof. Would you like to take up your own so we can see how someone can define proof as to show the existence of a god and not fairies?

If it's uniform it's fine... increasing the GST and perhaps widening the list of goods that aren't affected by it is another fine way to increase revenue imo.

Not necessarily, cheap small cars can often have inefficient motors compared with a more expensive medium sized car making them greater emitters - especially when you consider the longevity of some of the cars. The point would be though that it would no longer be a tax that is about punishing...