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Religious apologists often confuse the word objective with words like absolute, transcendent, and universal--especially when talking about morality. To illustrate what objective means, I will now insult these people. They are stupid...at least in the subjective sense, which is a judgement I'm making influenced by personal feelings and opinions. However, in the recent past, I could test these people and state objectively that they are morons, imbeciles and idiots--each of these labels corresponding with an IQ score of 51�70, 21�50, and IQ of 0�20 respectively. A metric, like an IQ score, means that feelings and opinions can't factor in. Your IQ is your IQ regardless of what I personally think of you, and therefore objective.?

�Nothing� is a concept that has meant different things at different points of humanity�s understanding of the universe. When our planet was effectively understood as the universe, empty air space was reasonably defined as �nothing.� Upon discovery that space exists beyond our atmosphere, the meaning shifted to exclude air as now the vacuum of space was a valid option. The march of scientific discovery theorized magnetic, gravitational and other fields were �something� that may even correspond to particles that clearly aren�t applicable to the concept of �nothing.� And finally it was realized that space and time itself were dimensions that could conceivably not exist, which they wouldn�t in the case of a hypothetical �nothing.� One might think this speculative absence of everything would be the purest nothing to which both atheists and theists could agree, but of course it�s not. Modern physics has shown that quantum fluctuations can spawn temporary virtual particles out of even this �...