RE: Intelligent Design: Did you design yourself?
May 30, 2014 at 5:50 pm
(This post was last modified: May 30, 2014 at 5:51 pm by Cyberman.)
(May 30, 2014 at 5:39 pm)Heywood Wrote: Now you are playing games....Everytime you talk about a theistic claim do you provide such a citation?
Do you not agree that many atheists believe or claim that life originated via a natural process?
How about you tell me were the flaw is in my thinking. Quote it and explain why it is a flaw.
1) The reason I keep asking for citations is because your arguments depend on making claims that cannot be verified without them. If you actually had the evidential support, it ought to be trivial to do. And it's not an unreasonable request - if you think it is, you seriously need to re-evaluate what you're trying to sell and why you find it convincing.
2) No, I don't agree with this. I don't know of any atheists making that claim, but that's not even relevant here. The point is that neither do you, otherwise you wouldn't complain about having to back up your assertions.
3) Ok, you asked for it. The flaw in your thinking is your continual shifting of your burden of proof, coupled with misrepresenting what you call the position of atheists. An atheist is someone who does not accept theistis claims and that's it. Anything else is not a claim of atheism; nor is rejecting your claim a counter-claim itself. All I and others are doing is sitting here waiting for you to bring something to the table that we can examine and test. If your claims cannot withstand such examination, it's hardly our fault. Get better claims, or at least better evidence.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
