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Consider the source of those statistics you cited. It's just a collection of static images from conservative think tank, with no references to any paper, author, or details on their statistical analysis. I trust their website about as much as I trust Interpreter Foundation's. Regardless, it is true...

This will drive the majority of demographic change in the future. We can fairly easily provide cheap internet access to these people, and empower them to become informed voters and not spiral into pseudoscience, propaganda, and misinformation traps. Maybe, but Trump may end up winning again, he has...

Basically, if you think we need to outbreed the religious, you’re probably going down a dark path. Not necessarily outbreeding the religious, but secular people need to have more kids so they won't get replaced by religious people in the future. According to an article I read, a few decades ago the...

I searched for a few minutes to see if Dan ever mentioned submitting the name of a relative for baptism. I didn’t find any instances of it.

It seems when he attends the temple he just gets a random name from the machine.

You have to be pretty negative to believe you can’t coexist with religious people as an atheist. Take abortion, for example. I do believe it’s an area where religious opinions are being forced on non-religious citizens. But the solution is not to get rid of religion, it’s to make the religious more ...

Wow. Nearly the entire conference is defensive apologetics, rather than positive apologetics. Multiple variations of "how to bury your head in the sand." There's nothing left to do but nitpick at the mounting evidence against the church and its brethren, I guess.

Excellent point Marcus!! Dan posted around a dozen or so examples of wedding vows with " 'til death do us part" in them. He was trying to make the argument that non-Mormon Christians believe that marriage won't exist in heaven. What about your standard Christian obituary? What do Christians say abou...

It’s a slow day, and I’m in the mood: By the way, the angle of attack on this issue has changed now. (I knew that it would. The conclusion always remains the same -- i.e., that I'm a depraved buffoon -- but the means used to establish that conclusion are infinitely varied. Previously, my failure to ...

DCP has pointed out many times that he believes in an old earth, so it’s possible to fit old earth into Mormonism. But the temple ceremony makes it abundantly clear that the garden of Eden was a real story that happened 6,000 years or so ago. So these 75,000 year old humans were just animals without...

Daniel has an incredibly long new post about this on his blog. After reading, all I can think about is how baffled the Nazarene would have been if someone had explained all of this to him on the shores of Galilee. ... And Jesus spoke to the multitudes, saying: " My beloved brethren, harken to MySQL...