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    Thread: Jeffrey Jay Lowder VICTIMs of Christian Apologetics video
Post: RE: Jeffrey Jay Lowder VICTIMs of Christian Apolog...
(October 23, 2016 at 7:28 pm)Irrational Wrote: (October 23, 2016 at 7:18 pm)abaris Wrote: Everyone having two brain cells to rub together can outdo Craig. In the eyes of Craig's followers noone ca...
 _Velvet_ Atheism 7 2415 October 26, 2016 at 12:54 am
    Thread: I am a theist, what do you think of my proof for God existing?
Post: RE: I am a theist, what do you think of my proof f...
(October 24, 2016 at 12:08 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Air tight, my friend!  Air.  Tight.   :rolleyes: I think it goes more like this: 1: The Bible its the truth. 2: ????? 3: We need a first cause. ...
 _Velvet_ Atheism 1101 117619 October 24, 2016 at 12:21 pm
    Thread: I am a theist, what do you think of my proof for God existing?
Post: RE: I am a theist, what do you think of my proof f...
I have a related question, why do some Theists use arguments for Deism to ''justify'' Theism if it just doesn't justify Theism on any sense? "We need a first cause therefore talking snake''
 _Velvet_ Atheism 1101 117619 October 24, 2016 at 10:47 am
    Thread: I am a theist, what do you think of my proof for God existing?
Post: RE: I am a theist, what do you think of my proof f...
I'm very tempted to grant you the Deistic god or the unmoved mover just to watch how you will try leap from there to Theism. Spoiler: You can't.
 _Velvet_ Atheism 1101 117619 October 24, 2016 at 10:38 am
    Thread: Solved Theodicy?
Post: Solved Theodicy?
Hey guys, as usual I was thinking about the best ways to approach theist arguments without putting them on defensive, trying to make them think critically circumventing (at first) any direct attack to...
 _Velvet_ Philosophy 29 3675 October 24, 2016 at 9:46 am
    Thread: Where else?
Post: RE: Where else?
(October 13, 2016 at 10:30 am)Little Rik Wrote: For Christ's sake chimp do you ever think before you say something?  :shakefist:  :shakefist:  :shakefist:   If animals would be evolved as us they w...
 _Velvet_ Atheism 264 32625 October 13, 2016 at 1:53 pm
    Thread: John Lennox and Richard Dawkins
Post: RE: John Lennox and Richard Dawkins
I really enjoyed this debate, very calm and respectful unlike most debates I watch on the matter. I would like to point tho that I find very dishonest the way SO MANY Christians debaters use Deist a...
 _Velvet_ Atheism 8 2243 October 13, 2016 at 10:16 am
    Thread: When it becomes a fact?
Post: RE: When it becomes a fact?
My point bringing evolution was as an example about a fact, but on particular a fact that its somehow denied constantly, and thus it needs to be stated as a fact, we rarely see people stating facts li...
 _Velvet_ Atheism 14 2710 October 10, 2016 at 2:54 pm
    Thread: When it becomes a fact?
Post: RE: When it becomes a fact?
But how you guys deal with your skepticism aside from science. I mean do you actively avoid making assertions? do you consider previous events as evidence, allow extrapolations on your reasoning? An...
 _Velvet_ Atheism 14 2710 October 10, 2016 at 2:04 pm
    Thread: When it becomes a fact?
Post: When it becomes a fact?
Hello everyone, its me again, this is a post about Skepticism, not Atheism directly, so I apologize in advance if I should have posted this in philosophy sub-forums, but it just didn't fitted well the...
 _Velvet_ Atheism 14 2710 October 10, 2016 at 1:43 pm
    Thread: Reductio ad Absurdum: How to most efficently communicate with theists
Post: RE: Reductio ad Absurdum: How to most efficently c...
(October 3, 2016 at 1:10 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Just a simple difference of opinion.  I guess I should be mor e precise, they are - to me- lost souls.  I have no ability to dissuade them, and no confidenc...
 _Velvet_ Atheism 32 5491 October 3, 2016 at 2:27 pm
    Thread: Reductio ad Absurdum: How to most efficently communicate with theists
Post: RE: Reductio ad Absurdum: How to most efficently c...
(October 3, 2016 at 10:13 am)Tazzycorn Wrote: You know it takes some amount of nerve to demand that somebody else be calm after you've offensively belittled every single person who has a similar poi...
 _Velvet_ Atheism 32 5491 October 3, 2016 at 12:43 pm
    Thread: Reductio ad Absurdum: How to most efficently communicate with theists
Post: RE: Reductio ad Absurdum: How to most efficently c...
(September 30, 2016 at 4:55 am)Tazzycorn Wrote: As a new forum user, let me remind you that you're not on christian forums any more and we don't evince the same reverence for unevidenced bullshit th...
 _Velvet_ Atheism 32 5491 October 3, 2016 at 8:36 am
    Thread: Reductio ad Absurdum: How to most efficently communicate with theists
Post: RE: Reductio ad Absurdum: How to most efficently c...
In my opinion your arguments and your dialectical strategy are as good as tools for a especific purpose. So if you are (like Hitchens) trying to make a point against religious harmful practices on a ...
 _Velvet_ Atheism 32 5491 September 27, 2016 at 12:34 pm
    Thread: Am I a Deist? Cosmological Argument seems reasonable to me.
Post: RE: Am I a Deist? Cosmological Argument seems reas...
Well thanks for everyone for the first 7 pages as they had some interesting insights, I also got my question answered and I see was a mistake to continue the thread further. As I could have predicted...
 _Velvet_ Atheism 97 15191 September 26, 2016 at 1:50 pm
    Thread: Am I a Deist? Cosmological Argument seems reasonable to me.
Post: RE: Am I a Deist? Cosmological Argument seems reas...
(September 26, 2016 at 10:22 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: Quote:Naive reasoners might be said to have a "makes-sense epistemology." Of course this does not mean that they have an explicit philosophy about ...
 _Velvet_ Atheism 97 15191 September 26, 2016 at 10:36 am
    Thread: Am I a Deist? Cosmological Argument seems reasonable to me.
Post: RE: Am I a Deist? Cosmological Argument seems reas...
(September 26, 2016 at 10:22 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: Quote:Naive reasoners might be said to have a "makes-sense epistemology." Of course this does not mean that they have an explicit philosophy about ...
 _Velvet_ Atheism 97 15191 September 26, 2016 at 10:27 am
    Thread: Am I a Deist? Cosmological Argument seems reasonable to me.
Post: RE: Am I a Deist? Cosmological Argument seems reas...
(September 26, 2016 at 10:05 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: It makes no more sense to think things would be different than to think that they would be the same.  Matter of fact, it makes more sense to think ...
 _Velvet_ Atheism 97 15191 September 26, 2016 at 10:16 am
    Thread: Am I a Deist? Cosmological Argument seems reasonable to me.
Post: RE: Am I a Deist? Cosmological Argument seems reas...
(September 26, 2016 at 8:49 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: So...  all you need to break the laws of nature is stuff from a different universe.  That's a hefty assumption. Well the stuff we know its already b...
 _Velvet_ Atheism 97 15191 September 26, 2016 at 9:16 am
    Thread: Am I a Deist? Cosmological Argument seems reasonable to me.
Post: RE: Am I a Deist? Cosmological Argument seems reas...
(September 26, 2016 at 9:01 am)robvalue Wrote: Okay. So something in another reality caused our reality, because things need a cause. Where did that reality come from? It must have been caused by s...
 _Velvet_ Atheism 97 15191 September 26, 2016 at 9:06 am