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RE: My biggest issue with theists
August 5, 2018 at 12:43 am
There is no honest way to reverse engineer scientific findings into the bible (or the kerrang etc). At some point - sooner rather than later - you are forced to press the emergency eject button marked "magic".
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RE: My biggest issue with theists
August 5, 2018 at 12:48 am
Indeed. I can retrofit anything to anything else, if I'm allowed to use whatever warped reasoning I want to.
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RE: My biggest issue with theists
August 5, 2018 at 12:50 am
(August 4, 2018 at 2:29 am)Haipule Wrote: I don't know why some accuse me as a "conspiracy theorist". Your not the first.
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RE: My biggest issue with theists
August 5, 2018 at 12:55 am
(This post was last modified: August 5, 2018 at 12:55 am by Cyberman.)
(August 5, 2018 at 12:48 am)robvalue Wrote: Indeed. I can retrofit anything to anything else, if I'm allowed to use whatever warped reasoning I want to.
It's like the time that someone (I forget who) managed to identify Moses as Middlebury, by using the complex and arcane scientific formula of removing the -oses and substituting the -iddlebury.
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.'