Atheists, you don't like our answers -- do you have answers of your own?

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  1. Stagnant

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    Hard to say; depends largely on how you trust your newspaper. For me, it would boil down to the same thing - my car has, in the past, cranked regularly to the point where it is most likely it will continue to do so; my newspaper has been accurate to the point where it is likely, barring a change of circumstances, that they would continue to be accurate.
     
  2. elijah

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    OK, so what makes it hard to say?
     
  3. Stagnant

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    It depends entirely on how you trust your newspaper.
     
  4. The Wyrd of Gawd

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  5. elijah

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    Ok, so what do you mean "how"? What determines "how"?
     
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    haha simple miscommunication, glad we got it straightened out!
     
  7. donquixote99

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    I don't mean to be difficult, but I'm still barely able to guess at what you're getting at. What does it mean if something 'adheres to the space-time continuum?' What does it mean if it does not?

    Instead of asking me abstract questions put in terms of rather foggy meaning, it might be better if you went ahead and made your point.
     
  8. elijah

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    Could something have existed that is not at the subjection of time?
     
  9. donquixote99

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    Make your point, please.
     
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    Put your seatbelt on. It's a long ride.
     
  11. wyly

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    :roflol: you read the article right? Sagittarius galaxy is also responsible for Climate change and the discontinuation of the mayan calendar :roflol: maybe you change that opening line to "Please try to keep up with the pseudoscience" :roflol:
     
  12. elijah

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    Can something exist that does not operate within our current time frame?
     
  13. elijah

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    (mockingly in my best "doofus" spicoli voice)......put your seatbelt on. It's a long ride........
     
  14. mihapiha

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    maybe one more addition to your 7th question...

    I don't like the title of the video because it's condescending but the content does answer the question more detailed:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK3O6KYPmEw
     
  15. tecoyah

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    Yes......(see quantum theory)
     
  16. elijah

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    So would you say its possible for something outside of the spacetime continuum to generate something into the spacetime continuum?
     
  17. tecoyah

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    Yes...matter is constantly created and annihilated in the vacuum of space with no reason to obey arbitrary rules created or semi-understood by mankind.

    Quantum tunneling seems equally unconcerned with what we call a space/time continuum.

    .....and don't even get me started on "Spooky Action at a Distance".
     
  18. donquixote99

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    I begin to think one definition of 'eternity' is 'the duration of a series of unanswerable questions from elijah.'

    You ask about abstract matters for which ordinary language is only metaphorical and inadequate. To really hope to discuss your latest question meaningfully, we'd have to define 'time frame,' understand what 'operating' 'within' or 'not within' it might mean, and then find a way to know if something could exist in the hypothetical 'not within' state.

    As a casual question on a message board, it's pretty much a meaningless noise.
     
  19. Incorporeal

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    Welcome to the wonderful world of semantics.
     
  20. mihapiha

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    remarkable how my comment drowned. I was looking forward to reading comments or rebuttals
     
  21. donquixote99

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    Did you mean the above comment? It's pretty much just a link. Lots of people find it too much trouble to follow links, especially if the referring message offers little to indicate why they should.

    I say this without having looked at the link. But i will now, since another post of yours gives me more reason to think it will be interesting....
     
  22. donquixote99

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    Definitely an interesting video. Presents data from gene sequencing that seems to strongly support our chromosome structure being a product of evolutionary accident, not intelligent design.

    Question 7, recall, was "What separates us from animals?" The answer would be 'changes in the ancestral animal genome.'
     
  23. mihapiha

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    I actually ment the longer one:

    The other was merely another addition to my response to question 7 I thought.
     
  24. donquixote99

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    Ah. Should have looked further.

    Maybe some of the theists will take up the questions, with this new emphasis.
     
  25. STRANGEVISITOR72

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    Atheists usually believe in the answers that science has provided. That being said we know we don't have all the answers but the things we didn't know are always decreasing. I direct you to this link: http://godisimaginary.com/i1.htm
     

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