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RE: Please participate in my experiment. Thank you
March 17, 2012 at 4:24 pm
True, it is impossible to say those two statements in succession. If I am wrong, simply type the sentences out and show me.
"If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all."
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RE: Please participate in my experiment. Thank you
March 17, 2012 at 4:24 pm
I take back my welcome. Goodbye.
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.'
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RE: Please participate in my experiment. Thank you
March 17, 2012 at 4:25 pm
There is no point in anybody taking part in this 'experiment'. It is flawed in its hypothesis.
1st of all
(March 17, 2012 at 3:29 pm)Hunter9035 Wrote: My God gave me a key to discern truth from fiction. I believe it to be true. Researcher shows clear bias.
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(March 17, 2012 at 3:29 pm)Hunter9035 Wrote: Hypothesis:
No professing atheist can confess there is no God; followed by the statement “Jesus Christ walked the earth, and is the Son of God”.
Hypothesis uses circular reasoning so no reasonable answer can be given. (Jesus is the son of god because the bible says so and the bible is true because it says it in the bible)
3rd
Hypothesis is provocative.
(March 17, 2012 at 3:29 pm)Hunter9035 Wrote: Participants: Anyone Contradictory. Aimed at 'professing atheists' not anyone.
(March 17, 2012 at 3:29 pm)Hunter9035 Wrote: Observations measured by responses. Affirmative responses will have only two statements, the confession of the lack of a creator God, followed by the ‘test of the spirits’ statement above. [/b][/color] You haven't asked for permission to use our data or explained how the results will be interpreted or used. Therefore this is unethical.
(March 17, 2012 at 3:29 pm)Hunter9035 Wrote: If my God's promises are solid and unbreakable, I will not get one statement like the one I mentioned above. Giving me only a more solid foundation in His existence. Thank you for your participation. Irrelevant. also provocative. You are targeting atheists while asserting your beliefs in god. Unethical again.
(March 17, 2012 at 3:29 pm)Hunter9035 Wrote: I will let this brew for a bit and only reply with tally points. Either badly worded or provocative.
Even if this was real reasonable research your data would be extremely flawed. You are using a public atheist forum which would show strong demand characteristics. The responses of tally points is also clearly to provoke a reaction to bias the research.
Thats my initial view of this 'experiment'
Conclusion - Experiment failed
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RE: Please participate in my experiment. Thank you
March 17, 2012 at 4:26 pm
Can't even read the OP. Hot pink is not an eye friendly color regardless of the font.
Religion is not the answer-it is the problem. Everything considered, we would be better off without it.~Baubles of Blasphemy~Edwin F. Kagin
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RE: Please participate in my experiment. Thank you
March 17, 2012 at 4:26 pm
(March 17, 2012 at 3:29 pm)Hunter9035 Wrote: 1 John 4:1-3 (NKJV) states “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and now already is in the world”
My God gave me a key to discern truth from fiction. I believe it to be true.
Hypothesis:
No professing atheist can confess there is no God; followed by the statement “Jesus Christ walked the earth, and is the Son of God”.
Participants: Anyone
Observations measured by responses. Affirmative responses will have only two statements, the confession of the lack of a creator God, followed by the ‘test of the spirits’ statement above.
If my God's promises are solid and unbreakable, I will not get one statement like the one I mentioned above. Giving me only a more solid foundation in His existence. I suspect I will get much criticism for this, and you will say anything BUT what I ask of you. My God has promised me confessing that statement is beyond impossible. You could easily prove me and my bible wrong if it were not an impossible statement to make. I doubt anyone will.
Thank you for your participation.
I will let this brew for a bit and only reply with tally points or to clarify my original request. *Statements made in vain would count, if you could make them. I am going into this with the presumption most of you are atheist. I was looking for many atheists to participate in this challenge and was referred here.
"If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all."
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RE: Please participate in my experiment. Thank you
March 17, 2012 at 4:26 pm
Quote:Hypothesis:
No professing atheist can confess there is no God; followed by the statement “Jesus Christ walked the earth, and is the Son of God”.
Participants: Anyone
Okay jackass. THERE IS NO GOD. Jesus Christ walked the earth, and is the Son of God.
I just did it what do I win?
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RE: Please participate in my experiment. Thank you
March 17, 2012 at 4:27 pm
Quoting it doesn't make the color any easier on my overly sensitive eyes.
Religion is not the answer-it is the problem. Everything considered, we would be better off without it.~Baubles of Blasphemy~Edwin F. Kagin
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RE: Please participate in my experiment. Thank you
March 17, 2012 at 4:28 pm
(March 17, 2012 at 4:26 pm)Napoleon Wrote: Quote:Hypothesis:
No professing atheist can confess there is no God; followed by the statement “Jesus Christ walked the earth, and is the Son of God”.
Participants: Anyone
Okay jackass. THERE IS NO GOD. Jesus Christ walked the earth, and is the Son of God.
I just did it what do I win?
If by God you mean 'the Cosmos' and by son you mean 'is of' then I'd agree
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RE: Please participate in my experiment. Thank you
March 17, 2012 at 4:30 pm
(March 17, 2012 at 4:28 pm)Darwinian Wrote: If by God you mean 'the Cosmos' and by son you mean 'is of' then I'd agree
I really don't understand what it is that is supposedly impossible to do. I just did it to make the point.
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RE: Please participate in my experiment. Thank you
March 17, 2012 at 4:31 pm
Of course no one can say those two sentences together and mean it, because the second sentence contradicts the first one. Is this proof of God? Only for someone of limited intellectual capacity.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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