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Atheism worships a dead god.
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 (August 29, 2010 at 6:37 am)The Omnissiunt One Wrote: In practise, an infintesimal probability is indistinguishable from an impossibility. But you're talking about an infinitesimal probability of the existence of God which is an infinite concept. Which concept wins in that calculation? In such an environment, certainty is essential.  (August 30, 2010 at 12:42 pm)Existentialist Wrote: But you're talking about an infinitesimal probability of the existence of God which is an infinite concept. Which concept wins in that calculation? In such an environment, certainty is essential. It's situations like this when mathmatics gives physicists infinities as a result of an equation that's suppost to be a part of physical reality, it's always regarded as a major problem with the mathmatics that must be ruled out because, in reality, there are no infinities. (Physicists have the same regard for tacheons, but it's not as widespread and some theories can produce them and some cannot.) Which I suppose proves, if anything, that nothing that exists can be infinate anything and even when physicists speak of infinite anythings, they usually just mean there's more of (something) than anything else (such as when they describe certain properties of black holes). So... yeah. No infinities.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925 Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan  (August 30, 2010 at 12:42 pm)Existentialist Wrote:(August 29, 2010 at 6:37 am)The Omnissiunt One Wrote: In practise, an infintesimal probability is indistinguishable from an impossibility. The concept of god is not an infinite one. It is a meme like any other and be dismissed just as easily as I dismiss the thetan, zeus, odin, toothfairy memes. You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid. Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925 Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan RE: Atheism worships a dead god.
August 30, 2010 at 3:52 pm
(This post was last modified: August 30, 2010 at 3:53 pm by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
(August 30, 2010 at 3:21 pm)Existentialist Wrote: What does that mean? It means there are no infintes in the universe. There are no infinately large, infinately small, infinately dense*, infinately anythings in the universe. *=You'll often hear the term tossed around regarding black holes in certain respects, particularly about the quantum singularity's density, but 'infinate' these things truely aren't in any respect. I've noticed that physicists erroneously throw these terms around as shorthand in place of "really fucking" [something] despite being quite finite.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925 Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan (August 30, 2010 at 3:52 pm)TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote: It means there are no infintes in the universe. There are no infinately large, infinately small, infinately dense*, infinately anythings in the universe. Yup, I agree with that. So there's no such thing as ever and never, no infinite beings and no infinitessimal probabilities. 
'Infinitesimal' simply means 'very very small', not infinitely so.
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'False religion' is the ultimate tautology. 'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain 'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln  |
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