On: Winning the visa lottery

[fhe]

evolution -- ppl who refuse to acknowledge reality tend not to leave many offsprings. and if they do, maybe they are adhering to a more powerful reality afterall.

[weatherlite → fhe]

That's realy inaccurate. If anything the more religious you are the more offsprings you have. Atheist societies are below replacement levels. What makes you think fact based thinking leads to more children making?

[mkrecny → weatherlite]

given the unknowability of reality - 'facts' in science are only hypotheses that have not yet been disproven by data - nobody knows why anything exists at all -

a lot of weight has to be given to 'what works' - what things grind up against the machinery of reality and survive over the long term? there is a 'truth' to such things

[drekipus → weatherlite]

Could it be that atheists are the ones who are ignoring reality?

[mitxela → drekipus]

Can you show me where to point my camera to take a picture of the giant sky daddy?

[card_zero → mitxela]

They don't think anything so silly as that. He's invisible, and if you have any further questions, he's ineffable.

[drekipus → mitxela]

I'm pretty sure you have to have graduated elementary school to be able to post here.

I'll happily admit I'm wrong though, in light of evidence before me

[miroljub → fhe]

You cannot change people, you need to change people.