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(June 14, 2014 at 6:56 pm)snowtracks Wrote: hey atheist, they're playing you like a drum and you don't even know it. scientists using the naturalism methodology can't make reference to a designer or they lose their funding because there would be nothing for them to study.
Quick, someone tell snowtracks that his batshit crazy uncle logged on to his AF account!
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
(June 14, 2014 at 6:56 pm)snowtracks Wrote: hey atheist, they're playing you like a drum and you don't even know it. scientists using the naturalism methodology can't make reference to a designer or they lose their funding because there would be nothing for them to study.
Yeah, because nobody in the entire scientific community, across every country, multiple generations, and many different religions, is at all interested in the Nobel prize, billions of dollars, and worldwide fame that would result from a scientific proof of god, which you claim is so obvious and easy to get. Not one person, ever, is interested in being hailed as the person who made the most important discovery in the history of man, and potentially ever, the hero who saved countless souls and improved our understanding of the world immeasurably.
Nobody is interested in that, because they'd rather preserve the small amount of funding they have right now.
Do you actually think about the things you say before you post them? This scientific conspiracy crap is one of the most ludicrous excuses I've ever heard.
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(June 13, 2014 at 1:34 am)GalacticBusDriver Wrote:
(June 9, 2014 at 11:43 pm)snowtracks Wrote: suppose a person flipping a coin 100,000 times and every time it comes up 'heads'. it would be a form of the gambler's fallacy to bet the next flip would be 'tails'. such a gambler takes into consideration the possibility that 2^100,000 coin flippers are doing the same and he just happened to be watching the one flipper that got all 'heads' (the law of probability predict with that many samples, one would legitimately flip 100,000 consecutive heads).
You really don't have a single fucking clue, do you?
(June 10, 2014 at 11:47 pm)snowtracks Wrote: here's a question for you mr. there are a lot of planets. who died and put you in charge?
Holy fuck. Is that really the best you've got?
Sad. Just fucking sad.
predictable you couldn't figure out the loaded coin bet.
Atheist Credo: A universe by chance that also just happened to admit the observer by chance.
Quote:Since both the Assyrians and the Babylonians occupied Egypt it's possible that the Exodus story is simply a tale about them moving people out of Egypt.
Quote:Since both the Assyrians and the Babylonians occupied Egypt it's possible that the Exodus story is simply a tale about them moving people out of Egypt.
Babylonia never conquered Egypt.
Someone spilled some extra ink all over the damn map.
(June 13, 2014 at 2:10 am)snowtracks Wrote: he's a poster not a ruler, "Stop talking about it".
Nice dodge.
Is it likely a single person will win the lottery with one ticket? Is it likely someone will win the lottery if two hundred million people each buy a ticket?
Is it likely one planet will be perfectly suitable for life as we know it? Is it likely that one planet will be suitable for life if we take into account the countless planets that exist?
These both demonstrate the effects of iterative probability. Do you understand this?
(June 13, 2014 at 7:28 am)Chas Wrote: You're not making any sense. This is a discussion board.
He's whining that I told him to stop talking about things he doesn't understand. Also, note how he dodged the lottery and iterative probability questions.
poor guy is suffering so from such big, big numbers "but there are a lot of planets in the universe, snowtracks", "if we take into account the countless planets". first of all dufus, there are an estimated 10^82 atoms in the observable universe so you know the planets are less right? http://www.universetoday.com/36302/atoms...-universe/
and did you know the http://www2.astro.psu.edu/users/dfox/A00...lec37.html that the The Fermi Paradox has you flat on the ground and gasping for air? and do you believe in the galactic police force charged with painting over the graffitti left by other civilizations cited by the site?
Atheist Credo: A universe by chance that also just happened to admit the observer by chance.
(June 15, 2014 at 2:30 am)snowtracks Wrote: Is it likely one planet will be perfectly suitable for life as we know it? Is it likely that one planet will be suitable for life if we take into account the countless planets that exist?
First off, Earth isn't "perfectly suitable" for life; the Earth is often a hostile and impersonal place, where life just manages to hold on to the skin of the planet. Second, of all the countless planets, it's more likely that many planets are capable of hosting earthlike life, as science is beginning to see as we observe more of the universe beyond our own planet. Third, now you're putting the cart before the horse again: earth isn't "perfectly suited" to life, life evolved to survive in the environment it was presented with. By saying this, yet again, you're indulging in the fallacious reasoning that tells the puddle that the hole it's in was designed for it.
It's like you're not fucking listening to a word anyone tells you!
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(June 15, 2014 at 2:44 am)Esquilax Wrote: It's like you're not fucking listening to a word anyone tells you!
Shocking!
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