(January 18, 2017 at 3:29 pm)Autolite Wrote:When a person says they believe in god, they haven't really said anything. I mean, which god? Apologists who assume these scientists are talking about their god are really reaching for straws.Quote: In fact, apologists will often point to scientists who are credible in their field, who also believe in gods, as a means of showing that belief in gods is somehow rational.
Indeed. Perhaps it would help if otherwise supposedly rational Theists had some sort of caution light that started flashing or a loud buzzer going off to warn other people that they're about to go into religious nut-bar mode...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...Qaeda.html
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
