Quote:a fleet of cranes, Boom lifts and construction workers.

(April 2, 2017 at 2:04 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:

(April 2, 2017 at 1:31 pm)Firewalker Wrote: It's a bit more detailed than that. Mathematics was originally a part of religion and spiritual philosophy. (ie. Pythagoreans, for example).
http://journal.eahn.org/articles/10.5334/ah.bu/

Here's another interesting discussion.
http://www.sca.org.au/scribe/articles/bu...belief.htm

It is interesting that the measurements do scale to the human form mathematically.

My eyes just rolled so hard my eyebrows are in my ears.

(April 3, 2017 at 4:05 am)Firewalker Wrote:

(April 2, 2017 at 2:04 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: My eyes just rolled so hard my eyebrows are in my ears.

That's compelling, can you do that at will or is it a response  like blushing?

(April 2, 2017 at 6:53 pm)Alex K Wrote: sigh

(April 3, 2017 at 9:36 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: It seems ludicrous that people waste brain cycles on such absurdities, and why anyone attempt to find naturalistic solutions to the various issues, only in the end to appeal a magic man.   Why bother, if you're going to do that.   Is your god so impotent that he can't violate the laws of physics.   It's all magic.

(January 15, 2015 at 8:35 am)Drich Wrote: The atheist response so far:

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(January 15, 2015 at 10:53 pm)Drich Wrote:

(January 15, 2015 at 3:45 pm)Chad32 Wrote: The seashells on mountaintop "proof" boggles my mind. You're supposed to learn how mountains form in middle school, at the latest, aren't you? Mountains rise. sometimes they rise from beneath the ocean. Hence fossils of sea creatures in very high places.

You don't see a problem here?!?!

(January 16, 2015 at 9:37 am)Drich Wrote:

(January 16, 2015 at 2:28 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: I don't need the earth to be any age. That's the difference between you and me. I form my opinions based on testable, repeatable evidence. You form yours based on what your worldview requires.
It sure makes a difference if you count the begats.

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Are you really that flippant? Really?

For the millionth time, there is a difference between religious faith and faith in testable, repeatable processes. I have faith that when I sit my dining room chair, it won't collapse. I have this faith because of the 1,000 other times I have sat in this chair and not had it collapse. I acknowledge that it could collapse (so not blind faith.) I have faith that the scientific method works, because over and over it produces results. Do you ever feel even the slightest bit dishonest when you distrust science only when it contradicts your worldview? Don't worry, I know the answer already.

Full definition according to who?!  Idiot.
For the million and oneth time no there is not.

Full Definition of FAITH

1
a :  allegiance to duty or a person :  loyalty
b (1) :  fidelity to one's promises (2) :  sincerity of intentions
2
a (1) :  belief and trust in and loyalty to God (2) :  belief in the traditional doctrines of a religion
b (1) :  firm belief in something for which there is no proof (2) :  complete trust
3
:  something that is believed especially with strong conviction; especially :  a system of religious beliefs <the Protestant faith>

all definitions of faith require little to not proof. It is will sustained belief. So like it or not faith in 'science' (especially when science has no answers on a particular subject) is the same brand of faith (mustard seed) we use to find God.

(January 16, 2015 at 10:10 pm)professor Wrote: I had to come back to this one to see where it ended up since this afternoon.

Esq, your definition of faith (believing in spite of evidence) is apparently unique to you guys.
Drich gave you the correct definitions, yet you come up with one that doesn't exist.
Faith is having belief or confidence in something. PERIOD
That includes Atheists.
You have faith in your car.
 If that faith was in spite of evidence- you would would be looking for a reliable one to replace it.
I got rid of the lying clunker that the System foisted on me a long time ago.
The purveyors of evolution make the proverbial used car salesmen look like Mother Teresa.
But then again, the only alternative to creation is this stupid theory of evolution.
So people have to live with it and it gets shoved down everybody's throat until some of us look around at reality and vomit it out like the puke that it is.

(April 3, 2017 at 10:16 am)Rhondazvous Wrote: Just think, a thousand years from now, scholars will point out that that there really is a train station and a Privet Drive  in London Atheists won’t be able to deny that fact, so they’ll have a hard time holding on to their unbelief in Harry Potter. They’ll have no excuse.