Religion or Atheism?

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  1. Felicity

    Felicity Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    "Natural" meaning of the physical realm--the observable universe.

    Since indeterminacy is by nature precisely unmeasurable (since it is necessarily an incompleteness), it is "super" natural--as in the Greek prefix meaning "above" or "beyond" natural.
     
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    Meaningless. The person stating the affirmative has the burden of proof. It is far from reasonable to expect your opponent to search all of time and space to argue a point.

    The use of fallacious arguments is amusing.
     
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    The fact that you are wanting to argue against the writings of another non-theist website is even more amusing.... hilarious in fact... ROFL.
     
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    Then give me the keys to the ship Scotty.
     
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    What ship would that be Lucy?
     
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    because man is not God.

    atheism is not the same as nihilism, nor does it propose that we replace the idea of God with the deification of human beings.

    some atheists might propose these things, but they are some among many alternatives to belief in God.

    many atheists probably get more of their understanding about the universe from principles similar to buddhism.

    The path to enlightenment/nirvana/innerpeace/personal growth means learning, developing understanding about ourselves (and others), taking responsibility for our actions and also learning to let go of the things we cannot change.

    plus ... following the golden rule that all belief systems value.

    don't do to others what you would not have them to do you.

    follow this, and you will never be a nihilist.
     
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    coooooooooooool .................................. :date::date::date:


    or in my simplicity

    "Stupid easy"
     
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    yeah, it is ... but people love to make things unnecessarily complicated!
     
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    i know and i believe it is because many just dont trust themselves to being capable.

    sad but true
     
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    I need a ship capable of faster than light travel so that I can search all of time and space to prove your negative.
     
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    Then get to work and build it. Unless you are going to allow yourself to be limited by those boxed in restrictions imposed on you by the scientific community.
     
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    Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.

    It's official: Time machines won't work

    As as side note: to all the creationist NUT-JOBS out there - notice the words 'peer-reviewed scientific journal'.
     
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    isn't that code for mad scientists bible?

    :mrgreen:
     
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    If by "mad scientists bible" you mean get senior people in the field in question to review your work and attempt to falsify it before publication, making it less likely for errors in reasoning or process to get through, then yes.
     
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    lols - of course I do ... senior mad scientists are the high priests of all atheists ...

    or they ought to be ...

    because after all we know atheism is a religion so surely we've got priests (or preachers) and a bible ....

    lols ... and I suspect that the real threat from the atheist church comes from the mad enviro science lobby priests ....

    mind you those evolutionary mad science priests are a bit of a worry too - blaspheming lot they are claiming that we are all related to bananas.:mrgreen:

    and any atheists who doesn't worship at the altar of science or - even worse - acknowledge that atheism is a religion - well ... shows they know nothing about their religion!
     

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