(June 21, 2013 at 6:05 am)Strongbad Wrote:(June 21, 2013 at 6:00 am)orogenicman Wrote: Well, he's right. It is bullshit. I don't expect you to believe it, but surely there is a better argument to be made than the one you presented. Or not.
Yes, seriously, Orogenicman, what is there to respond to? The indolent clown has trotted out Ryft’s flowery prose about faith, which is supposed to be swallowed as some sort of authoritative definition. Did you seriously expect him to give a meaningful response to “except for one little thing…the notitia is bullshit”? What else can he say except “oh no it isn’t!”? It’s not like he’s actually going to provide evidence that “sin” is anything but a man-made concept designed to intimidate and control, e.g. “You’re a sinner and you’re going to hell unless you do what I tell you should do”. And of course, you didn’t expect him to prove that Jesus really existed, and that stories of his supposed “sacrifice” are anything more than fairy tales, did you?
Whether or not one subscribes to any of his rants, his response was lazy, at best. Maybe he's just stupid and too stupid to know it.
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero