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    Thread: Science Vs. The Forces of Creationism
Post: RE: Science Vs. The Forces of Creationism
(August 26, 2016 at 1:42 pm)ScienceAf Wrote: Alrighty god. Me: Give yourself up or get ready to get pwnd... God: Fuck off science, don't touch my Universe again. Me: Well you can't hide it from m...
 joseph_ Religion 15 2913 August 29, 2016 at 11:38 pm
    Thread: What philosophical evidence is there against believing in non-physical entities?
Post: RE: What philosophical evidence is there against b...
(August 29, 2016 at 11:17 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: (August 29, 2016 at 11:12 pm)joseph_ Wrote: Care to cite any? It is literally as simple as doing a google search.  You are online, correct? http://www...
 joseph_ Philosophy 150 12647 August 29, 2016 at 11:24 pm
    Thread: What philosophical evidence is there against believing in non-physical entities?
Post: RE: What philosophical evidence is there against b...
(August 29, 2016 at 11:02 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: You must be new to the internet.  There are countless studies confirming that belief is majorly going downhill. Care to cite any? (August 29, 2016 at ...
 joseph_ Philosophy 150 12647 August 29, 2016 at 11:12 pm
    Thread: Political Test
Post: RE: Political Test
You are Social Patriot. 7 percent of the test participators are in the same category and 72 percent are more extremist than you. (I consider myself to be a moderate Democrat, in the US system. I re...
 joseph_ Off Topic 179 14839 August 29, 2016 at 11:10 pm
    Thread: What philosophical evidence is there against believing in non-physical entities?
Post: RE: What philosophical evidence is there against b...
(August 29, 2016 at 10:56 pm)LostLocke Wrote: (August 29, 2016 at 10:49 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: That is not evidence so much as it is thoughts led astray by fancy.Right. Testimony and "records" are an...
 joseph_ Philosophy 150 12647 August 29, 2016 at 11:01 pm
    Thread: What philosophical evidence is there against believing in non-physical entities?
Post: RE: What philosophical evidence is there against b...
(August 29, 2016 at 10:47 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: (August 29, 2016 at 10:35 pm)joseph_ Wrote: Well maybe not With those three words you supported my claim. (August 29, 2016 at 10:49 pm)Maelstrom Wrot...
 joseph_ Philosophy 150 12647 August 29, 2016 at 10:54 pm
    Thread: Read any good books lately? Rate them here
Post: RE: Read any good books lately? Rate them here
I have been thinking through the ideas of GWF Hegel and Alfred North Whitehead, very interesting.
 joseph_ Media 505 69869 August 29, 2016 at 10:47 pm
    Thread: Good theists... Parts 1 and 2 merged
Post: RE: Good theists... Parts 1 and 2 merged
(August 28, 2016 at 6:30 pm)ScienceAf Wrote: There are none... Except Arkilouge, he or she's pretty smart. What about Newton?
 joseph_ Religion 72 10854 August 29, 2016 at 10:44 pm
    Thread: My view of theism - theism analogous to belief in extra terrestrials
Post: RE: My view of theism - theism analogous to belief...
Why is that so impossible to imagine? Virtually all societies have traditions about people who could communicate with spirits. That mere fact is historical evidence, the evidence of the experience. Wh...
 joseph_ Christianity 4 1245 August 29, 2016 at 10:37 pm
    Thread: What philosophical evidence is there against believing in non-physical entities?
Post: RE: What philosophical evidence is there against b...
(August 29, 2016 at 10:31 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: Philosophy is not an actual science, dear. Well maybe not, but philosophy establishes the definition of what science is based on argument and reason, ra...
 joseph_ Philosophy 150 12647 August 29, 2016 at 10:35 pm
    Thread: If the bible/quran/whatever was better, would you've remained theist?
Post: RE: If the bible/quran/whatever was better, would ...
The Bible is just a record of prophecies that were given in particular historical contexts. It does not exhaust the Triune imagination of God which extends far beyond the historical context of the Old...
 joseph_ Atheism 23 3602 August 29, 2016 at 10:33 pm
    Thread: What philosophical evidence is there against believing in non-physical entities?
Post: What philosophical evidence is there against belie...
Materialism is dead nowadays as a serious philosophical theory. I think the Kantian realization that the world is dependent on our senses causes us to to doubt that we can contain the world in languag...
 joseph_ Philosophy 150 12647 August 29, 2016 at 10:25 pm
    Thread: What if christianity never existed ?
Post: RE: What if christianity never existed ?
The monks would not have created the university system in the middle ages that was the forerunner to modern western science and perhaps there would be no modern liberal atheism.
 joseph_ Atheism 80 7828 August 29, 2016 at 10:21 pm
    Thread: Why are you Against Homosexuality (to theists)
Post: RE: Why are you Against Homosexuality (to theists)
Many ethical systems base their ethic on obtaining the function of the human body (for instance, using science to understand the function of the body and hence the purpose or goal of it). Homosexual...
 joseph_ Religion 107 16581 August 29, 2016 at 10:17 pm
    Thread: My view of theism - theism analogous to belief in extra terrestrials
Post: My view of theism - theism analogous to belief in ...
I conceive of God as a way of talking about the eternal reality that preexisted before anything else. At first there was only pure necessity and chaos and out of this emerged living sentient spirits. ...
 joseph_ Christianity 4 1245 August 29, 2016 at 10:07 pm
    Thread: Falsifiability
Post: RE: Falsifiability
But is it realistic to *only* believe things that are falsifiable (and can the standard of falsifiability be drawn in such a way that itself is falsifiable)?
 joseph_ Philosophy 8 749 July 16, 2016 at 9:58 pm
    Thread: Why emphasise on monogamy?
Post: RE: Why emphasise on monogamy?
Monogamy helps to create more stable social relationships, is connected with less violent crime, is a more obvious source of financial and emotional support for children and helps people break out of ...
 joseph_ Atheism 39 6185 July 16, 2016 at 9:53 pm
    Thread: What would you consider to be evidence for God?
Post: RE: What would you consider to be evidence for God...
The strongest evidence for God's existence for me has been the persistent reality of the Holy Spirit manifesting miraculously through day to day leading, prophecies, supernatural occurrences. For inst...
 joseph_ Atheism 591 117806 July 16, 2016 at 9:50 pm