Damien Marie AtHope’s Art

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Evolution/Origins Of Science at least by 5,500 years ago

“The first evidence of science was at least by around 5,500 years ago and was demonstrated by a body of empirical, theoretical, and practical knowledge about the natural world. This was produced by would-be scientists who emphasize the observation, explanation, and prediction of real-world phenomena. These Egyptian peoples began mixing things, practicing early cemetery with the mummification of their early Mummies and Mesopotamian peoples began to attempt to record some observations of the world with numerical data that seemed to be taken for purposes other than for true scientific laws.” ref

1. 5,600-years-old Turin Egypt Mummy with evidence of early intentional mummification. 2. 3,570 years old Ebers Papyrus that was an Egyptian medical and herbal knowledge. 3. Spear clay envelope and content of spheres late 4th millennium B.C. from Susa, Iran, thus a Proto-Elamite area. This is thought to be the influence from Mesopotamia in Susa, which is visible from about 5,220 years ago, and the thinking is that they were created in Mesopotamia about 5,500 years ago. The Proto-Elamite envelope and spheres were comparable to 3,300-year-old clay envelope ball from Mesopotamia with 49 pebbles and a cuneiform contract commanding a shepherd to care for 49 sheep and goats. 4. 5,143-years-old Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of a Massive Asteroid. 5. 3,920-3,620-years-old Babylonian tablet Plimpton 322, which is the world’s oldest trigonometric table, possibly used by Babylonian scholars to calculate how to construct stepped pyramids, palaces, and temples. ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref

“As early as 3,800 years ago, a concrete instance of Pythagoras’ law was recorded on the Plimpton 322, a Mesopotamian cuneiform tablet, which was possibly created millennia before Pythagoras did it. In Babylonian astronomy/astrology and possibly for religious reasons rather than science, records of the movements of the stars, planets, and the moon are left on thousands of clay tablets. Even today, astronomical periods identified by Mesopotamian scientists are still widely used in Western calendars such as the solar year and the lunar month. Babylonian astronomy was “the first and highly successful attempt at giving a refined mathematical description of astronomical phenomena.” Using this data, they developed arithmetical methods to compute the changing length of daylight in the course of the year and to predict the appearances and disappearances of the moon, planets, and eclipses of the sun and moon. Only a few astronomers are known such as that of Kidinnu, an astronomer and mathematician who created Kiddinu’s value for the solar year and it is used in today’s calendars. It is reasonably concluded that all subsequent varieties of scientific astronomy and if not to some extent, all subsequent endeavor in the exact sciences depend upon Babylonian astronomy in decisive and fundamental ways.” ref

“Ancient Egypt made significant advances in astronomy, mathematics, and medicine. Their development of geometry was a necessary outgrowth of surveying to preserve the layout and ownership of farmland which was flooded annually by the Nile River. The 3-4-5 right triangle and other rules of thumb were used to build rectilinear structures and the post and lintel architecture of Egypt. Egypt was also a center of alchemy research for much of the Mediterranean. In addition, the Edwin Smith papyrus is one of the first medical documents still existing and perhaps the earliest document that attempts to describe and analyze the brain: it might be seen as the very beginnings of modern neuroscience. However, while Egyptian medicine had some effective practices, it was not without its ineffective and sometimes harmful practices. Medical historians believe that ancient Egyptian pharmacology, for example, was largely ineffective. Nevertheless, it applies the following components to the treatment of disease: examination, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis which display strong parallels to the basic empirical method of science. Likewise, 3,550 years ago, the Ebers papyrus also contains evidence of traditional empiricism.” ref

Timeline of scientific thought

Fibonacci sequence as scientific evidence of a creator?

Damien, what do you say to people who try to use things like the Fibonacci sequence as scientific evidence of a creator, as I was told its Gods Fingerprint→ The Fibonacci Sequence – Golden Ratio?

So my response, well the “Fibonacci Sequence” – is Math, and like all math they explain factors in or of nature but they are descriptive of occurrence or observation they don’t tell you a thing like magic created them and to say so is both a science and math ignorance, because magic is evident nowhere is nature and every believed magic has been shown to be only nature devoid of anything magic. if the term god is no different than nature devoid of magic then its use is an unwarranted redundancy as we more justifiably can call it nature letting the god theory be a thing of child stories where such nonsense belongs.

Marquis Amon “Evolution would demonstrate that numerical patterns would change if the need changes. Secondarily nature isn’t perfect, so yes as you said you’d have to fudge the numbers to fit it. Why? It can still be fully functional for effective survival. Symmetry and beauty are human concepts mostly(I wager other apes value them, too) which leads to the fallacy that a divine creator did so on purpose. Fuck man, our planet doesn’t even perfectly revolve around the sun for it. It rotates on its axis, what kick of fucked up shit is that? Perfect creator?? lol”

According to Donald E. Simanek in an article: “Fibonacci Flim-Flam” 

Fibonacci Foolishness: a search of the internet, or your local library, will convince you that the Fibonacci series has attracted a lunatic fringe of Fibonacci fanatics who look for mysticism in numbers and in nature. You will find fantastic claims:

• The “golden rectangle” is the “most beautiful” rectangle, and was deliberately used by artists in arranging picture elements within their paintings. (You’d think that they’d always use golden rectangle frames, but they didn’t.)
• The patterns based on the Fibonacci numbers, the golden ratio and the golden rectangle are those most pleasing to human perception.
• Mozart used φ in composing music. (He liked number games, but there’s no good evidence that he ever deliberately used φ in a musical composition.)
• The Fibonacci sequence is seen in nature, in the arrangement of leaves on a stem of plants, in the pattern of sunflower seeds, spirals of snail’s shells, in the number of petals of flowers, in the periods of planets of the solar system, and even in stock market cycles. So pervasive is the sequence in nature (according to these folks) that one begins to suspect that the series has the remarkable ability to be “fit” to most anything!
• Nature’s processes are “governed” by the golden ratio. Some sources even say that nature’s processes are “explained” by this ratio.

Of course, much of this is patently nonsense. Mathematics doesn’t “explain” anything in nature, but mathematical models are very powerful for describing patterns and laws found in nature. I think it’s safe to say that the Fibonacci sequence, golden mean, and golden rectangle have never, not even once, directly led to the discovery of a fundamental law of nature. When we see a neat numeric or geometric pattern in nature, we realize we must dig deeper to find the underlying reason why these patterns arise.

It’s not difficult to find examples of most any pattern or mathematical relation you want. Then some people make the mistake of supposing this reveals some mystical governing principle in nature. This is reinforced by ignoring equally important cases that don’t fit the pattern. If the fit isn’t very good, approximate or fudge the numbers. If some things remain that ought to fit but don’t, just rationalize a reason why they are “special cases”.

• The areas of mathematically similar objects are proportional to the square of their linear dimensions, their volumes are proportional to the cube of their linear dimensions. Gravitational and electric field strengths obey an inverse square relation to distance. Radiation intensity obeys an inverse square relation to distance from a point source. All of these have an underlying reason: the geometry of the universe is very nearly Euclidean, and therefore these results are dictated by that geometric fact. It doesn’t suggest there’s anything mystical about the powers “2” and “3”.
• The ratio of the circumference to diameter of a circle, π, pops up in formulas for many geometric relations about round objects. A favorite obsession of numerologically-inclined folk is to look for π in man-made structures such as the Pyramids of Egypt. Look and ye shall find—if you are willing to select data and fudge a bit.
  • The five regular Pythagorean solids have faces of similar shape, either triangles, squares or pentagons. These are also known as the “Platonic solids”. The tetrahedron, octahedron, cube, icosahedron and dodecahedron have 4, 8, 6, 12 and 20 faces respectively. There are no other such solids. Only one of these, 8, is a Fibonacci number. Johannes Kepler, when still in the mystical mode of thought, tried to fit these numbers to regular polyhedra to “explain” the orbital sizes of the planets. He had to fudge things too much to fit his model to reality so he wisely abandoned the project. Only when he rid himself of mystical correspondences was he able to formulate a mathematically correct set of three laws of planetary motion. These laws implicitly embodied what we now know as the conservation of angular momentum.
  • The reason φ shows up in nature has to do with constraints of geometry upon the way organisms grow in size. Irrational numbers (those that cannot be expressed as a ratio of integers) are often revealed in this process. The well-known irrationals are √2, φ, e, π and any multiples or products of them. To make matters more interesting, these are related. For example, phi is φ = (√5 – 1)/2. And the Euler relation, e^iπ = -1 relates e, i and π where i ≡ √(-1). The natural processes that display irrationals are not governed or caused by φ in order to achieve some desired purpose or result, but rather they are constrained by the geometry of the universe and the limitations imposed by that geometry on growth processes.

  Folks addicted to mystical mathematics are really motivated by a belief that there’s something “magical” about certain combinations of numbers. They are obsessive pattern seekers. Pattern recognition can be a useful trait, if not carried to the point of believing that every perceived pattern represents something profound or mystical. Some patterns in nature are significant, but many are purely accidental (patterns in tea-leaves, for example) and have no deeper meaning or significance.

For the detailed explanation go to: Link

Without God, there would be no science? Think again!!!

Divine fallacy (Argument from incredulity) – arguing that, because something is so incredible or amazing, it must be the result of superior, divine, alien or paranormal agency.  Your logical fallacy is personal incredulity

“In reasoning to argue a claim, a fallacy is reasoning that is evaluated as logically incorrect and that undermines the logical validity of the argument and permits its recognition as unsound. Regardless of their soundness, all registers and manners of speech can demonstrate fallacies. Faulty inferences in deductive reasoning are common formal or logical fallacies. As the nature of inductive reasoning is based on probability, a fallacious inductive argument or one that is potentially misleading, is often classified as “weak”. The conscious or habitual use of fallacies as rhetorical devices are prevalent in the desire to persuade when the focus is more on communication and eliciting common agreement rather than the correctness of the reasoning. The effective use of a fallacy by an orator may be considered clever but by the same token the reasoning of that orator should be recognized as unsound, and thus the orator’s claim, supported by an unsound argument, will be regarded as unfounded and dismissed.”  ref

Divine fallacy (argument from incredulity) – The Skeptic’s Dictionary

Here is a List of fallacies

Truth Navigation: Techniques for Discussions or Debates

“If not for God, there would be no science. Do you understand logic or just number logic? Either way. If not for God you wouldn’t be here period to learn either.” – Challenger 

My response, What is a god? How do you know what god could be accurately? What makes you think that the something you want to claim as god is limited to just your claim of god?

“Damien Marie AtHope I love science, so don’t get me fucked up please. I also believe in God. I have seen miracles that science cannot explain.. I have questioned God hated God and volunteered to burn in hell. You don’t know me.  I like your fb page regardless of your closed mind.” – Challenger 

My response,  Ok, so you don’t have an answer?

Damien What are some of the books you have read?

I was asked what is a good book on how I use rationalism?

Dealing with Presuppositionalism, a school of Christian apologetics (Fascistic Fideism or “faith-ism”)

Fideism/Faith-ism (“faith-drunk-thinkers”)

Quit Trying to Invent Your God From the Scraps of Science.

What religious in most of their arguments try to do, is to act as if they reverse engineer facts of reality, trying to prove a god something or other has to be the only way it could be the way it is. Of course, as an atheist but more importantly a supporter of science and the valid and reliable reason and evidence they work from I know religion is false. I know the work of reverse engineer facts of reality has largely been done and is being done by science which is why we know about the truth of evolution over creationism in the first place as well as the truth of reality that contradicts or completely challenges any argument the supporters of religion can offer. I realize they are trying to re-offer thinking that is already reasonably been disregarded as the wishful thinking fantasies it always was.

The Earth about 4.54 billion years old to Humans at least 200,000 years ago or more.

While the earth is about 4.54 billion years old and the first life dates to at least 3.5 billion years ago, the first primates did not appear until around 50-55 million years ago. But by 50 million years ago, dinosaurs were extinct from the Earth. Continental fragments collided, pushing up mountain ranges still existing today. The collision of Africa into Europe gave rise to the Alps in Europe, and the collision of India into Asia formed the Himalaya. Birds and mammals began to expand in number and diversity. Genetic studies show that primates diverged from other mammals about 85 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous period, and the earliest fossils appear in the Paleocene, around 55 million years ago. Within the Hominoidea (apes) superfamily, the Hominidae family diverged from the Hylobatidae (gibbon) family some 15–20 million years ago; African great apes (subfamily Homininae) diverged from orangutans (Ponginae) about 14 million years ago; the Hominini tribe (humans, Australopithecines and other extinct biped genera, and chimpanzee) parted from the Gorillini tribe (gorillas) between 9 million years ago and 8 million years ago; and, in turn, the subtribes Hominina (humans and biped ancestors) and Panina (chimps) separated about 7.5 million years ago to 5.6 million years ago and humans are around 200,000 years ago. ref, ref, ref

•  What is a gOD Challenge
• gOD Believer, Pease Think Critically
• Can something come from nothing?
• What do you mean by god Evidence?
• Arguments over the term god?
• God is us?
• Who knows what a “god-claim” really is?
• You will always fail to prove a specific god?
• Vague Theism or god Somethingism: just say NO
• Stop Claiming to know god through intuition.
• The Beginning of Atheistic Doubt at least by around 2,500 years ago.
• As a rationalist I strongly stand up for reality
• Rationalist through and through
• I reject that even the term god has any valid coherent meaning outside myths.
• Sorry You Have No Evidence
• You say you believe in a possibility of your favored god-claim?
• Incapable of making a decision on if there is or not a god?
• The Disproof Atheism Society: EMPIRICAL, CONCEPTUAL, and DISPROOFS of gOD
• Does atheism argue there is ‘something’ by accepting the term god, it is rejecting?
• Religious Faith as Evidence, is an Intellectual Reasoning Error
• To Find Truth You Must First Look
• Archaeology Knowledge Challenge?
• Stone Age Art: 500,000 – 233,000 Years Old
• Pre-Animism: Portable Rock Art at least 300,000-year-old
• Did Neanderthals teach us “Primal Religion (Pre-Animism/Animism?)” 120,000 Years Ago?
• Animism: an approximately 100,000-year-old belief system?
• Stone Snake of South Africa: “first human worship” 70,000 years ago
• Similarities and differences in Animism and Totemism
• History of Drug Use with Religion or Sacred Rituals possibly 58,000 years ago?
• Totemism: an approximately 50,000-year-old belief system?
• Australia & Aboriginal Religion at least around 50,000 years old
• Modern Humans start around 50,000 years ago Helped by Feminisation
• Out of Africa: “the evolution of religion seems tied to the movement of people”
• Possible Religion Motivations in the First Cave Art at around 43,000 years ago?
• 40,000 years ago “first seeming use of a Totem” ancestor, animal, and possible pre-goddess worship?
• Prehistoric Egypt 40,000 years ago to The First Dynasty 5,150 years ago
• Shamanism: an approximately 30,000-year-old belief system
• Early Shamanism around 30,000 to 20,000 years ago: Sungar (Russia) and Dolni Vestonice (Czech Republic)
• ‘Sky Burial’ theory and its possible origins at least 12,000 years ago to likely 30,000 years ago or older.
• Genetic studies on Jewish DNA is not 6,000 years old but has origin links to about 20,000 to 30,000 years ago?
• Dog Domestication and Emerging Sacred Mortuary Rituals around 16,500 to 12,000 years ago
• Paganism: an approximately 12,000-year-old belief system
• Sedentism and the Creation of goddesses around 12,000 years ago as well as male gods after 7,000 years ago.
• 12,000 – 7,000 Years Ago – Paleo-Indian Culture (The Americas)
• 12,000 – 2,000 Years Ago – Indigenous-Scandinavians (Nordic)
• J DNA and the Spread of Agricultural Religion (paganism)
• Natufians: an Ancient People at the Origins of Agriculture and Sedentary Life
• Gobekli Tepe: “first human-made temple” around 12,000 years ago.
• 12,000 – 10,000 years old Shamanistic Art in a Remote Cave in Egypt
• First Patriarchy: Split of Women’s Status around 12,000 years ago & First Hierarchy: fall of Women’s Status around 5,000 years ago.
• Pre-Pottery Neolithic Skull Cult around 11,500 to 8,400 Years Ago?
• Catal Huyuk “first religious designed city” around 10,000 years ago
• Horned female shamans and Pre-satanism Devil/horned-god Worship? at least 10,000 years ago
• Kurgan 6,000 years ago/dolmens 7,000 years ago: funeral, ritual, and other?
• Sumerian Creator Being was a Female, not Male possibly around 6,000 years ago or more
• “Jiroft culture” 5,100 – 4,200 years ago and the History of Iran
• Progressed organized religion starts, an approximately 5,000-year-old belief system
• Origin of Logics is Naturalistic Observation at least by around 5,000 years ago.
• Ziggurats (multi-platform temples: 4,900 years old) to Pyramids (multi-platform tombs: 4,700 years old)
• 42 Principles Of God Maat around 4,400 years ago, 2000 Years Before Ten Commandments
• 4,250 to 3,400-Year-old Stonehenge from Russia: Arkaim?
• Kultepe? An archaeological site with a 4,000 years old women’s rights document.
• When was the beginning: TIMELINE OF CURRENT RELIGIONS? Around 4,000 years ago.
• Confucianism’s Tiān (Shangdi god 4,000 years old): Supernaturalism, Pantheism or Theism?
• The Weakening of Ancient Trade and the Strengthening of Religions around 3000 years ago?
• Dating the BIBLE: naming names and telling times (written less than 3,000 years ago, provable to 2,200 years ago)
• Dating the BIBLE: naming names and telling times
• The Beginning of Atheistic Doubt at least by around 2,500 years ago.
• Empiricism-Denier?
• Experiential Atheism
• Bible Defender?
• Analytical atheism
• Belief in god(s) May Involve Suppressing Analytical and Critical thinking
• Scientific Realism & Scientific Anti-Realism?
• Trying to Help Promote Knowledge: Philosophy and Science.
• What is the Difference Between Science or Non-science?
• Racism Hate, is Psychological/Emotional Violence?
• Science and the word “TRUTH”
• Extreme Skepticism: Solipsism?
• Axiological Atheism not Nihilist Atheism
• Thinking About Our Belief Motivation
• So the 10 commandments isn’t anything to go by either right?
• Variations of Human Interaction: ethical, unethical, good, bad, or evil?
• Rationalism, Freethinker, Humanism & Secular humanism?
• Virtue, Kindness, and Human flourishing?
• On the Nature of Value (axiology)
• Truth is a Value (axiological) Judgment.
• “Value Theory/Value Science” atheism: AXIOLOGICAL ATHEISM
• Axiological/axiology (value theory/value science) Atheism?
• Axiology is both a philosophy and a science of value.
• If axiology is a value-based ethics system, how are the ethical values established?
• Axiological Atheism Morality Critique: of the bible god
• Axiological Atheist Interviews
• Here is a Little on how I got into Axiology
• Using a universal declaration of ethical principles to build a better world
• What Do YOU mean you don’t Trust SCIENCE?
• Doubt or Disbelief Requires Justification just like all Other Beliefs.
• Helping others can help develop YOU.
• The power of hope?
• Steps of Positive Change?
• Religion vs. Science, Don’t Confuse Beliefs
• Promoting Religion as Real is Mentally Harmful to a Flourishing Humanity
• Religious OCD Subtype?
• Religion, Violent extremists & Mental Health Therapy
• Antireligionist Atheism
• Anti-religion not Anti-people
• How could a religion be a lie is it because it’s not true?
• Epistemological Atheism
• No there is No gods and No we are not a Brain in a Vat
• Hell is not a source of science, Satan says
• If you believe in science as well as evolution how do you believe in an afterlife?
• Science is not just common sense?
• Social intelligence (SI) = “tact,” “common sense,” or “street smarts”
• [Antireligionist] blogs that address Religion: Archaeology, Anthropology, Philosophy, and History
• Why are lies more appealing than the truth?
• The neuroscience of prejudice and stereotyping
• Aquatic Ape Theory/Hypothesis? As Always, Just Pseudoscience.
• Creationism (pseudoscience)
• Creationism is a Debunked Religious Conspiracy Theory.
• Is Evolution a Theory or a Fact? “It is both.”
• Science and Philosophy
• Explaining science to remove MISCONCEPTION
• Science Facts Should Make Religious Belief Impossible
• Science and Justified True Beliefs
• When would skepticism NOT be reasonable?
• My Methodological Skepticism Style
• I Hate Religion Just as I Hate all Pseudoscience
• Religion and Science are Completely Different Epistemologies
• Theological Noncognitivist & Ignosticism
• Kurgan 6,000 years ago/dolmens 7,000 years ago: funeral, ritual, and other?
• ‘Sky Burial’ theory and its possible origins at least 12,000 years ago to likely 30,000 years ago or older.
• Evolution Of Science at least by 5,500 years ago
• Debunking both Positive (HEAVEN) and Negative (HELL) near death experiences.
• “Dead is Dead” no ghosts, spirits or souls…
• Energy = god, spirits, and/or afterlife? NO, and such thinking is misplaced animism magical thinking nonsense.
• Understanding how children use magical thinking
• Keep your Veganism to yourself
• Out of Africa: “the evolution of religion seems tied to the movement of people”
• Objective and Subjective Logic?
• Anti-theism makes no logical sense?
• Hammer of Truth: Yes, you too, have lots of beliefs…
• Survival of the Friendliest and Kindest
• Archie John Bahm: “Axiologist Humanist”
• Applying Axiological Thinking
• Axiological Dignity: “Value Consciousness vs Value-Blindness”
• Abhijit Naskar: Neuroscientist, Bestselling Author, Acclaimed Speaker on the Human Mind, and Peace Advocate
• Addressing “ATHEISM”, reasons for it and its possible types/styles
• Dr. Bob Weathers: Recovery Coaching — Public Speaking — Staff Training — Business Consulting
• Interview with Dr. Laura Jean McGuire a Sexologist and Victim Advocate/ Prevention Educator
• My Kindness is more Cognitive Empathy, not as much Emotional Empathy
• Pragmatic theory of truth, Coherence theory of truth, and Correspondence theory of truth
• Prosperity theology: donating money increases wealth?
• Pragmatic Ethical/Axiology Driven Assumptions, Overcome the Weight of Solipsism Doubt
• Explaining My thoughts on the Evolution of Religion
• Using Ontology to Attack Theistic Errors
• Ignostic Atheist?
• Challenging the Supremacy of Reason?
• Faith is not Reason
• The word FAITH?
• “36cu0190” a Historic and Prehistoric site in Pennsylvania
• Truth Navigation and the fallacy of Fideism “faith-ism”
• Damien Marie AtHope chats with Jordan Cardinal Polymath Philosopher
• Damien Marie AtHope chats with Gregory B. Sadler, Ph.D. on bringing philosophy into practice.
• Friends of Kindness, Nate Terrell and Damien Marie AtHope
• Interview with Nate Terrell, LCSW, the Author of “Achieving Self-Compassion”
• Karla Cauldwell BSN, HHC: the Author of Live Your Best Life *Inspiring Sustainable Lifestyle Changes*
• Speaking openly About Sexual Abuse & Violence with, Madeleine Black the Author of Unbroken
• How to tell if they are lying – NLP eye movements: “When people think they move their eyes”
• My life; the good, the bad, and the ugly on the road to the Mental Freedom of Atheism
• I Believe Archaeology, not Myths & Why Not, as the Religious Myths Already Violate Reason!
• Archaeological, Scientific, & Philosophic evidence shows the god myth is man-made nonsense.
• Psychological certainty and Epistemic certainty?
• Losing My Religion and MY Faith Addiction
• god Claims are a Non-Reality Commodity
• My Blogs on the Evolution of RELIGION
• Realistic and Unrealistic Hope?
• What’s the beginning of knowledge?
• “god is Nothing but a Factless Myth Held in an Invisible Box”
• Are aliens real? Think so than prove evidence, not a just conjecture hypothesis and inference speculations.
• Ancient Aliens Conspiracy Theorists are Pseudohistorians
• Dating the BIBLE: naming names and telling times
• Natufians: an Ancient People at the Origins of Agriculture and Sedentary Life
• Maurizio Bisogno: Philosophy Counseling – Independent Author and Editor, Lecturer
• Political Philosopher Norlyn Dimmitt’s Interview: Compassionate Citizens Foundation
• Matt Dillahunty: discussing on atheism and philosophy
• Aron Ra: discussing using anthropology/archaeology
• David Silverman: discussing on firebrand atheists uniting
  “Very Disappointed about David Silverman and the Sexual assault Claim“
• Methodological Rationalism (Ontology, Epistemology, & Axiology) and Skepticism
• Axiology, Morality and the Dignity Being:  “Human Entity”
• The Scientific Method and its Philosophy Axioms
• Dude, I want to read your refutations of certain arguments for God’s existence?
• Flat Earth Mania: a debunked religious theory, given new life in the post truth world
• Rationalism and the Enlightenment
• A Rational Mind Values Humanity and Rejects Religion and Gods
• Challenging Agnosticism Assumptions
• Agnosticism: Non-Standard Epistemology
• Is bible god ethical? & Would It Be Bad or Good if God Exists? (axiological “value theory” questions)
• Axiological Ethics not Pseudo Morality
• Explaining Axiological theism, Axiological agnosticism, and Axiological atheism
• Moral Judgment and Value Theorizing?
• Real Morality: Emotional Shame?
• How Do I Gain a Morality Persuasion or Make a Change to it?
• Hey, Damien dude, I have a question for you regarding “the bible” Exodus.
• Atheistic Null Hypothesis: There is no God/Gods
• Folk Logic: YOU CAN’T PROVE A NEGATIVE because you can PROVE A NEGATIVE
• My Methodological Rationalism: investigate (ontology), expose (epistemology) and judge (axiology)
• Why do people think Religion is much more than supernaturalism and superstitionism?
• The Battle of Truth
• Yes, Karma is the Same Old Nonsense
• Exposing Scientology, Eckankar, Wicca and Other Nonsense?
• Atheist Morality = Scientific Morality?
• Moral fear and Moral love (which together motivate my axiological ethics)?
• Why care? Because we are Dignity Beings.
• Rationalist atheism
• Arguments over the term god?
• Creationism is a Debunked Religious Conspiracy Theory.
• Metaphysical naturalism?
• Is Evolution a Theory or a Fact? “It is both.”
• Think there is no objective morality?
• Scientific Thinking not Faith Thinking
• Real Truth Seekers?
• Absolute Knowledge?
• The Way of a Sound Thinker?
• You can’t change people, by reason and evidence. WRONG, I do it all the time.
• Damien, is it possible, there’s a God you haven’t considered?
• I am an Axiological Atheist, with a Rationalist Persuasion, who Supports Anarcho-Humanism
• Damien Marie AtHope’s Conversation with Professor of Philosophy William Ferraiolo
• Pre-Animism: Portable Rock Art
• Faith is Not Evidence of Reality
• J DNA and the Spread of Agricultural Religion (paganism)
• My “Methodological Rationalism” approach
• Ontology, Epistemology, & Axiology argument/challenge protocol
• Guest post: Atheism’s Conclusion by Rational Thinking” by Marquis Amon
• Grasping the status of truth (ontology of truth): pre-logic, logic, and post-logic?
• Origin of Logics is Naturalistic Observation at least by around 5,000 years ago.
• Authoritarian Truth Seekers and Anti-Authoritarian Truth Seekers?
• My Strongest Explicit Atheism “positive” / “strong” / “hard” atheists similar to Antitheist Atheism.
• Interesting Message Deserves an Interesting Response.
• Axiological Atheist Damien Marie AtHope interviews BABA BRINKMAN
• When was the beginning: TIMELINE OF CURRENT RELIGIONS? Around 4,000 years ago.
• Jews, Judaism, and the Origins of Some of its Ideas
• Genetic studies on Jewish DNA is not 6,000 years old but has origin links to about 20,000 to 30,000 years ago?
• Misinformed christian
• No “dinosaurs and humans didn’t exist together just because some think they are in the bible itself”
• Seeing Bigfoot as real, is a foot in the mouth.
• Bigfoots, Unicorns, and Gods?
• The Pseudohistoric and Pseudoscientific claims about “Bakoni Ruins” of South Africa
• The Jericho Conquest lie?
• A General Thinking in all My Epistemology Theorizing is Justificationism
• Critical Thinking, What Does it Mean to Be Open to Learn?
• CRITICAL THINKING: Discernment Detachment Delineation

Who determines what’s reasonable?

“Damien, who determines what’s reasonable? You? I guess that makes you Super special.” – Challenger

My response, “facts determine what’s reasonable you have none thus its unreasonable. Here is a simple definition of unreasonable ray, exceeding the bounds of reason, not conformable to reason, and not governed by or acting according to reason. Reason just to be clear is the capacity for consciously making sense of things, applying logic, establishing and verifying facts, and changing or justifying practices and beliefs based on new or existing proven information. Facts should lead your beliefs not your beliefs leading your facts.”

Science Facts Should Make Religious Belief Impossible

Epistemically Rational with Beliefs?

No longer an Unthoughtful Afterworldsman

“Damien, why is atheism a life freeing revelation as you state?” – Questioner

My responce, “no more sin, and a new connectedness to this world and all people as I was no longer an unthoughtful afterworldsman. Science is the thing people do when they require evidence. Whereas faith is the thing people do when they do not require evidence. To me, religions are conspiracy theories of reality, that we once were not sure about but now know are just make-believe.”

Here is why “Reason is my only master”

The most Base Presupposition begins in reason. Reason is needed for logic (logic is realized by the aid of reason enriching its axioms). Logic is needed for axiology/value theory (axiology is realized by the aid of logic). Axiology is needed for epistemology (epistemology is realized by aid of axiology value judge and enrich its value assumptions as valid or not). Epistemology is needed for a good ontology (ontology is realized by the aid of epistemology justified assumptions/realizations/conclusions). Then when one possesses a good ontology (fortified with valid and reliable reason and evidence) they can then say they know the ontology of that thing. Thinking is good and one claiming otherwise is indeed a person erroring in reason. Which may I remind you is terrible since the most Base Presupposition in our understanding of everything begins in reason.

So, I think, right thinking is reason. Right reason is logic. Right logic, can be used for mathematics and from there we can get to science. And, by this methodological approach, we get one of the best ways of knowing the scientific method. Activating experience/event occurs, eliciting our feelings/scenes. Then naive thoughts occur, eliciting emotions as a response. Then it is our emotional intelligence over emotional hijacking, which entrance us but are unavoidable and that it is the navigating this successfully in a methodological way we call critical thinking or as In just call right thinking. So, to me, could be termed “Right” thinking, that is referring to a kind of methodological thinking. Reason is at the base of everything and it builds up from pragmatic approaches. And, to me, there are three main approaches to truth (ontology of truth) from the very subjective (Pragmatic theory of truth), to subjective (Coherence theory of truth), then onto objective (Correspondence theory of truth) but remember that this process as limited as it can be, is the best we have and we build one truth on top another like blocks to a wall of truth.

In a general way, all reality, in a philosophic sense, is an emergent property of reason, and knowing how reason accrues does not remove its warrant. Feelings are experienced then perceived, leading to thinking, right thinking is reason, right reason is logic, right logic is mathematics, right mathematics is physics and from there all science.

Science is quite the opposite of just common sense. To me, common sense is experience related interpretation, relatively, as it generally relates to the reality of things in the world, which involves “naive realism” as well as possible psychological certainty and low epistemic certainty. Whereas, most of those who are scientific thinkers, hold typically more to scientific realism or other stances far removed from the limited common sense of naive realism. Science is a multidisciplinary methodological quest for truth. Science understands what is, while religion is wishing on what is not. Scientific realism sees external reality as described by science is what is REAL and thus TRUE with the highest epistemic certainty regardless of possible psychological certainty. Facts are labels, just like truth, that we put on claims we think are proven somehow, in that assertions are believed to match the state of affairs (if you are making realistic assumptions from science then likely supported by the beliefs in science realism), that generally promote the Correspondence theory of truth “similar to both Rationalism and Empiricism” or coherence theory of truth “similar to just Rationalism” its all still epistemic property of beliefs, whether one’s claim is of knowledge or certainty.

Getting Real with Logic

Logic is the result of rationalism, as what do you think gets you to logic if not starting at reason? I want to hear your justification for your claims, all the presuppositions you are evading to explain the links in your claims of truth. As it is invalid to just claim this without a justification for your professed claims and the presupposing you do to get there, that is not trying to use rationalism to refuse rationalist thinking. How are you making the statement and not appearing to what is the rationale behind it? If not, you must want to think “Logic is self-generating as valid” and this understood value is to you not reducible to reason? You are devoid of an offer of your burden of proof, first just try to keep up with the thinker’s responsibility to provide more than unjustified claims. Logic is derived by axioms and thus using rationalism to validate them, think otherwise provide your proof. My Rationalism: is two things externalistic “scientific rationalism” a belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response. And internalistic “philosophic rationalism” the theory that reason is the most base presupposition before all others, rather than simply trying to rely on experience is the foundation of certainty in knowledge. Activating experience occurs we then have thinking, right (methodological) thinking (critical thinking) is reason, right reason is logic, right logic can be used for math, right math in response to the natural world is physics, and from there all other Sciences, physics is the foundation for chemistry and chemistry is the foundation of biology. May reason be your only master and may you also master reason.

A basic outline of scientific epistemology: Science: Hypotheses (Rationalism/Deductive, Inductive, or Abductive Reasoning etc.) + Testing (Empiricism/Systematic Observation) – Checking for errors (Skepticism/Fallibilism) + Interpret/Draw a Conclusion (Rationalism/Deductive, Inductive, or Abductive Reasoning etc.) *if valid* = Scientific Laws (describes observed phenomena) or Scientific Theory (substantiated and repeatedly tested explanation of phenomena) = Justified True Belief = Scientific Knowledge = Epistemic Certainty supportive of correctability *being epistemically certain, is believing a truth has the highest epistemic status, often with warranted psychological certainty but it may not, neither is it a requirement*

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“Damien, I have a question: Who/what gives humans value?”

My response, We give value, as value is an awareness and judgment, it is an emergent property of validation; the ability to use critical thinking and logic in a useful way, to conclude worth, benefit, or good.

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Where would we be without religion?

“Damien, where would we be without religion?” – Questioner

My response, “well, we would be free from the biggest supporters of pseudoscience, pseudohistory, and pseudomorality. Thus, humanity could move on as one, because nothing separates humanity as religion, for at its core it is just fear and tribalism.”.

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I can’t stand when people try to say that atheism and religion use faith.

We atheists, have archaeology that proves religion is a lie, so no faith is needed. Moreover, We atheists, have science which shows that every mystery has ever turned out to be nature and not magic. There is nothing that the only explanation is magic or supernatural anything, so for religion it has no evidence at all. All religion has is faith without any proof and do not try to say that atheism is anything like that. I proudly reject gods and religions. It should be understood, that religion as well as its love of gods, must be seem for what they are, which beyond their pomp and circumstance are exposed as little more than indoctrinated cultural products, the conspiracy theories of reality no one should believe today in our world of science. Simply, religion and its gods are the leftovers of an ignorant age trying to explain and control a fearful world which seems now favored by the uninformed, misinformed, emotional/physical/social support seekers and conmen.

Hell yes, I am against the fraud that is the world religions.

Why not be against the promotion of woo-woo pseudo-truth, when I am very against all pseudo-science, pseudo-history, and pseudo-morality and the harm they can produce. Along with the hate, such as sexism and homophobia are too often seen or the forced indoctrination of children. And this coercive indoctrination of the world religions, with their pseudo-science, pseudo-history, and pseudo-morality mainly furthered by forced Hereditary Religion (family or cultural, religious beliefs forced on children because the parent or caregiver believes that way). This is sadly done, even before a child can be expected to successfully navigate reason; it’s almost as if religious parents believe their “woo-woo pseudo-truth” lies will not be so easily accepted if they wait on a mind that can make its own choice. Because we do see how hard it is for the ones forced into Hereditary Religion. It seems difficult for them to successfully navigate reason in relation to their woo-woo pseudo-truth, found in a religion they were indoctrinationally taught to prefer, because after being instructed on how to discern pseudo-truth as truth than just wishing that their blind servitude belief in a brand of religious pseudo-truth devoid of justified, valid or reliable reason and evidence. I care because I am a rationalist, as well as an atheist.

Thus, this religious set of “woo-woo pseudo-truth” pushed on the simple-minded as truth bothers me greatly. So, here it is as simple as I can make it you first need a good thinking standard to address beliefs one may approach as a possible belief warranted to be believed. I wish to smash that lying pig of religion with the Hammer of Truth: Ontology, Epistemology, and Axiology Questions (a methodological use of philosophy). Overall, I wish to promote in my self and for others; to value a worthy belief etiquette, one that desires a sound accuracy and correspondence to the truth: Reasoned belief acquisitions, good belief maintenance, and honest belief relinquishment. May we all be authenticly truthful rationalists that put facts over faith.

I have made many mistakes in my life but the most common one of all is my being resistant to change. However, now I wish to be more, to be better, as I desire my openness to change if needed, not letting uncomfortable change hold me back. May I be a rationalist, holding fast to a valued belief etiquette: demanding reasoned belief acquisitions, good belief maintenance, and honest belief relinquishment.

The Harm of Conspiracies

It saddens me when proponents of atheism also seem to be proponents of anti-intellectualism either in rejecting philosophy or science. I am against all pseudoscience, pseudohistory and pseudomorality and the harm they can produce. We, myself included enjoy some partisan hummer (I am a Leftist) but we must always be careful with not to make it some internal motivation to unjustifiably villainize a person or people. It is ethical to point out harm, it is not ok to become an alternative unjustified harm as we don’t want to welcome “The Harm of Conspiracies” with pseudoscience, pseudohistory, and pseudomorality. And, if you are a religious believer, may I remind you that faith in the acquisition of knowledge is not a valid method worth believing in. Because, what proof is “faith”, of anything religion claims by faith, as many people have different faith even in the same religion?

Here are the five dangerous conspiracy theories of 2016 By JOSEPH USCINSKI though I reworked them. Ref

“Mexicans and refugees are murderers, rapist, and terrorists”

(Danger:  Jingoism Extreme nationalism/Mass paranoia, Violence, Racism/Ethnocentrism/Xenophobia)

“There’s something going on”

Danger:  Jingoism (Extreme nationalism)/Mass paranoia, Violence, Racism/Ethnocentrism/Xenophobia)

 “Government is ridged against Republicans”  or “Everything is Rigged”

Danger: Disenfranchisement and alienation/ Jingoism/Mass paranoia, Violence, Racism/Ethnocentrism/Xenophobia)

“There is a Vast right/left-wing conspiracy” 

Danger: Lack of accountability/Mass paranoia, Violence)

Ok, I am a kind of “Militant” Atheist

I want a war of ideas where the loser is ignorance or hate and the victor is kindness and a rational mind. Not another religious war with people where the loser is always humanity no matter the victor. What I hope for with my discussions or expressed ideas is not so much to strive to change people’s mind. But instead, I wish to inspire your mind to reason and to thrive on the search for valid and reliable evidence as well as a high standard n your ethics of belief. This ethics of belief I hope everyone adopts is something like this: reasoned belief acquisitions, good belief maintenance, and honest belief relinquishment. Sadly the professed thing of hope, “Religion” can be an and too often is an easy excuse to do horrible things, which is clear throughout history.

Why not Find Out if what you believe is True?

Fibonacci Sequence

The Fibonacci Sequence is the series of numbers: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, …

The next number is found by adding up the two numbers before it. Reference

Moreover to even pose such a question like the Fibonacci sequence as scientific evidence of a creator, starts with the preexisting flawed belief in a creator.

Think of how others factors would remove such a ridiculous notion as an intelligent creator.

History of life on the Earth witnessed five mass extinctions of species as a result of natural calamities. As of today, taxonomists have already described nearly 2 million species, although in fact their number varies, according to various estimates, from 5 to 100 million. But 90 to 99 percent of species ever existing on the planet have already become extinct. The overwhelming majority vanished as a result of the so-called normal or background extinction due to the limited period of biological species existence, which fluctuates from 1 million years with mammals through 11 million years with some marine invertebrates. Besides the background extinction, the fauna experienced five mass extinctions, as a result of which 50 to 95 percent of then existing species disappeared within a limited historical period. The first mass extinction occurred 440 million years ago, at the end of Ordovic, as a result of temperature fall and the ocean level lowering. The second wave took place during the late Devonian, again due to temperature fall and sea reliction. During the third wave of extinction, at the end of Permian, approximately 250 million years ago, 95 percent of marine species and nearly 70 percent of terrestrial ones disappeared. The catastrophe was probably caused by active reconstruction of the earth’s crust and change of climate during formation of the supercontinent Pangaea. The forth extinction happened in the late Trias, and the fifth one – the most renowned extinction – hit 65 million years ago. Reference

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Damien Marie AtHope (Said as “At” “Hope”)/(Autodidact Polymath but not good at math):

Axiological Atheist, Anti-theist, Anti-religionist, Secular Humanist, Rationalist, Writer, Artist, Jeweler, Poet, “autodidact” Philosopher, schooled in Psychology, and “autodidact” Armchair Archaeology/Anthropology/Pre-Historian (Knowledgeable in the range of: 1 million to 5,000/4,000 years ago). I am an anarchist socialist politically. Reasons for or Types of Atheism

My Website, My Blog, & Short-writing or Quotes, My YouTube, Twitter: @AthopeMarie, and My Email: damien.marie.athope@gmail.com