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Driving While Smoking

Why is it legal to smoke a cigarette while driving a car? Cigarettes contain many toxic chemicals and the effects are quite dramatic. It isn't called "spin" for nothing. Smoking requires one hand,...
06:47 Sun 06th Jan 201344 answers, last by TWR 20:48 Sun 06th Jan 2013
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The Point Of Everlasting Life

The Believers frequently propose that mortal life has no point without the everlasting life that follows for the faithful. Yet that promise is to a place where there seems nothing to do but worship...
10:10 Fri 04th Jan 201377 answers, last by locusts 18:13 Sun 03rd Feb 2013
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Faithful destroying the church

Who among the faithful have done the most to undermine the credibility of the church? Ratzinger must surely be up there with the best but my vote goes to Cardinal George Pell. His dismissive attitude...
13:51 Fri 23rd Nov 201211 answers, last by Duncer 21:01 Sat 24th Nov 2012
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Why did God create the Guinea Worm?

Perhaps goodlife could enlighten us on why God created such a dreadful parasite that has no possibility of life beyond the invasion of mammalian bodies.
08:13 Tue 20th Nov 201227 answers, last by wildwood 00:00 Fri 23rd Nov 2012
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Does the Moon have seasons?

I am sure we would call it "winter" all year round by our standards but are there seasonal cycles on the Moon?
10:16 Sat 27th Oct 201215 answers, last by mibn2cweus 07:22 Mon 05th Nov 2012
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Northern Hemisperism in USians

Why are people from the USA so often prone to referring to time periods in seasonal terminology? Surely they realise that referring to " the summer of 2011" is ridiculously ambiguous in a...
09:45 Sat 27th Oct 201245 answers, last by mhemmel03 14:18 Tue 30th Oct 2012
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Atheism and Non-Religosity on the Rise

http://redcresearch.i...d-Atheism-25-7-12.pdf Interesting statistics. Religion is definitely declining but areas where it persists seem related to poverty. Poor people are generally less educated....
09:32 Sat 27th Oct 201220 answers, last by beso 07:30 Mon 29th Oct 2012
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Make blasphemy universally illegal

The President of Indonesia is at the United Nations General Assembly and has proposed an international law to make blasphemy illegal. No particular question but I am sure some of you would like to...
12:27 Sat 29th Sep 201251 answers, last by mibn2cweus 00:21 Wed 10th Oct 2012
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\\Quoting//

Let's face it we will never see the quoting facilities on other sites available here. Many of our members have used //quoted content//. It is a good start since the puny " mark is too hard to...
12:36 Mon 10th Sep 201213 answers, last by mibn2cweus 20:00 Tue 11th Sep 2012
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Tobacco Laws

I understand the UK government is very interested in the leglislation just passed in Australia that will see all tobacco sold in plain brown packs with pictures of smoking related illnesses as the...
09:08 Wed 05th Sep 201235 answers, last by LazyGun 12:08 Fri 07th Sep 2012
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Police force naked couple to walk to police station.

http://www.belfasttel...gh-town-16194181.html...
02:01 Sun 12th Aug 201211 answers, last by Duncer 09:08 Mon 13th Aug 2012
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Adeist

A deist believes in deities (aka gods). A theist believes in The God hence a The-ist. So an atheist does not believe in The God and so could encompass a Hindu, or indeed anyone who believes there is...
01:23 Sat 11th Aug 201211 answers, last by jomifl 15:27 Sun 12th Aug 2012
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Kitchen Appliances

We are refurbishing a kitchen and need to buy a gas cooktop, a wall oven and a range hood that comes from the ceiling. What kinds of things should I consider in the decision? Thanks for any input....
11:51 Thu 02nd Aug 20122 answers, last by LolaRoge 16:18 Mon 11th Jan 2016
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Creation of Hell

Who created Hell? My understanding is that it is not in the Bible. However it features strongly in the Qu'ran where it appears to be explicitly created by Allah (the Merciful?) to forever punish those...
22:49 Sun 22nd Jul 201272 answers, last by naomi24 22:32 Thu 26th Jul 2012
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Commemorative Coins

In Australia we mint coins to celebrate all kinds of special events, mostly anniversaries. My wife and I collect one of each of whatever we come across. Today we got one that is surely the most...
13:41 Thu 12th Jul 201211 answers, last by jno 07:53 Fri 13th Jul 2012
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Sea Level Rise

Last year we discussed Climate Change at some considerable length and some posters pointed to the substantial fall in the sea level during 2010 as evidence that scientists had got it wrong. Here is an...
13:34 Thu 12th Jul 201222 answers, last by wildwood 22:22 Sat 14th Jul 2012
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The Qur'an on The Status of Women and Children

Which verses of the Qur'an refer to the relative status of men, women and children?
10:26 Thu 12th Jul 201216 answers, last by naomi24 18:40 Mon 16th Jul 2012
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Omni-what

They tell us He is omnipresent (is everywhere), omnipotent (all powerful) and omniscient (knows all) Well His minions are certainly know-alls but what would be some more accurate adjectives for God?...
11:49 Tue 10th Jul 201226 answers, last by naomi24 06:45 Thu 12th Jul 2012
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Higg's Boson

Higg's Boson walks into a church. The priest says, "we don't want your type around here". The boson says "But you can't have mass without me"....
07:54 Sun 08th Jul 20121 answer, last by joggerjayne 18:38 Mon 09th Jul 2012
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Religion as Cognitive Malfunction

Scientific research using functional MRI has shown that religious experiences mainly involve the temporal lobes of the brain. Epileptic seizures in the temporal lobes have also been shown to be...
12:49 Wed 04th Jul 201260 answers, last by mibn2cweus 20:56 Tue 10th Jul 2012

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