Literary Discussions

Hey, I thought you bailed out for obvious reasons. Can't you make up your mind. You anticipated that I would see you as moronic and you were 100% correct, so you cannot complain that I agreed with you on one point.  I notice you ramble a lot about family and job and bedtime, whereas I stayed right on topic. I simply point out that you question how rigorously one may define "higher power" but you take for obvious that the term "Atheism" is self evident. OK the survey evades the issue by having a column that simply says "Neither" but we know that is the Atheist position. 

But here is glaring proof that you are not certain what you want to do. One minute you say you are signing off for obvious reasons, and the next minute you are back. Do you want to WIN? Is this a contest. Then fine, post a summary of your actual position on these issues (and not a critique of the thread.) Do you in fact believe that someone who believes in a personal God, say a Roman Catholic or an Orthodox Jew or a Hindu or a Muslim  is capable of doing credible work in science and math, or do you side with Lair who said that one must certainly doubt the work of anyone who was so deluded as to "believe in an invisible friend" which is how Lair put it? You must have some position on this question.

Gregory, do you want me to just agree with you and say that you are right? Fine, but to do that I need to know what it is you really think in order to concede defeat to you and for me to do that you must post your positions succinctly. Remember this all started in another thread in which Lair asserted that religious believers cannot be scientific because science requires logic and logic presumes atheism. And I remind you that if someone were to be terminated from a teaching or research job on the grounds that they practice some religion then that would be discrimination which is against the law.