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    Thread: Why do you not believe in God?
Post: RE: Why do you not believe in God?

Quote:I am not throwing God into evolution. We can both affirm that evolution happened in the exact same manner. You seem to think from the data of evolution I infer God, and then conclude that this i...
jerNYC Atheism 351 163308 July 7, 2012 at 4:55 pm
    Thread: Why do you not believe in God?
Post: RE: Why do you not believe in God?

Quote:How do you define creationism? I think you are conflating creationism with believing God created the world. Likewise everyone who is feminine is not a feminist. Creationism means that something...
jerNYC Atheism 351 163308 July 7, 2012 at 9:18 am
    Thread: Who positivity asserts. "there is no god!"
Post: RE: Who positivity asserts. "there is no god!"

(July 6, 2012 at 8:21 pm)padraic Wrote: Quote:I think you are confusing "claim" with "evidence." No,I am not. I am using evidence in the legal sense. That is why in my basic assertion of position...
jerNYC Atheism 41 13529 July 6, 2012 at 8:45 pm
    Thread: Why do you not believe in God?
Post: RE: Why do you not believe in God?

(July 6, 2012 at 8:05 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I have "Brief history of time" in my room...I think I will go re-read it, because this infinite gravity and zero space, I'm not sure I quite remember tha...
jerNYC Atheism 351 163308 July 6, 2012 at 8:12 pm
    Thread: Who positivity asserts. "there is no god!"
Post: RE: Who positivity asserts. "there is no god!"

Quote:Really. Positive claim which attracts the burden of proof,let's see it . You're right. I can't prove that &@# doesn't exist, but I don't have to disprove every &@# to not have to take i...
jerNYC Atheism 41 13529 July 6, 2012 at 7:42 pm
    Thread: Why do you not believe in God?
Post: RE: Why do you not believe in God?

Quote:If nothing can move or change, then how did it change and get set it to motion later? Btw - what is this singularity, like no space at all...zero space? does that make sense? Singularity is a l...
jerNYC Atheism 351 163308 July 6, 2012 at 7:21 pm
    Thread: Why do you not believe in God?
Post: RE: Why do you not believe in God?

(July 6, 2012 at 6:53 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Something to be mentioned, is that the things in the universe is always in movement. Things attract to each other, gravity is at work, light moves, etc. ...
jerNYC Atheism 351 163308 July 6, 2012 at 7:05 pm
    Thread: Why do you not believe in God?
Post: RE: Why do you not believe in God?

Quote:So what KCA is attempting to do, is tie the first two premises with beginning to exist. The issue is, when you introduce the "begin to exist" condition, you automatically imply that some things...
jerNYC Atheism 351 163308 July 6, 2012 at 6:45 pm
    Thread: Why do you not believe in God?
Post: RE: Why do you not believe in God?

Anyone want to discuss why god doesn't exist?
jerNYC Atheism 351 163308 July 6, 2012 at 5:07 pm
    Thread: Why do you not believe in God?
Post: RE: Why do you not believe in God?

Quote:Infinite time for the an assumed material cause, would not allow it to change and be the cause, therefore it's better to assume it's timeless, although can have relationship to time once time is...
jerNYC Atheism 351 163308 July 6, 2012 at 4:35 pm
    Thread: Who positivity asserts. "there is no god!"
Post: RE: Who positivity asserts. "there is no god!"

I know that god doesn't exist for the same reason that I know that $&@# doesn’t exist. I don’t believe that we’ll ever be able to find evidence for $&@# because no one actually knows w...
jerNYC Atheism 41 13529 July 6, 2012 at 4:11 pm
    Thread: Why do you not believe in God?
Post: RE: Why do you not believe in God?

(July 6, 2012 at 3:31 pm)CliveStaples Wrote: (July 6, 2012 at 3:14 pm)ktulu Wrote: Perhaps if I quote a few definitions... question begging: wiki : "Begging the question (Latin petitio principii, ...
jerNYC Atheism 351 163308 July 6, 2012 at 3:50 pm
    Thread: Why do you not believe in God?
Post: RE: Why do you not believe in God?

(July 6, 2012 at 1:35 pm)ktulu Wrote: (July 6, 2012 at 1:17 pm)jerNYC Wrote: I don't really need a reason to justify my disbelief either, but I've heard agnostics say that gods could potentially e...
jerNYC Atheism 351 163308 July 6, 2012 at 3:17 pm
    Thread: Why do you not believe in God?
Post: RE: Why do you not believe in God?

Quote:I really don't want to defend ID because I know very little about it. ID is actually no different from any other form of Creationism, so if you can defend Creation, you can defend ID. Quote:Ho...
jerNYC Atheism 351 163308 July 6, 2012 at 3:06 pm
    Thread: Why do you not believe in God?
Post: RE: Why do you not believe in God?

Quote:We don't need a reason not to believe in God unless we think we've seen some pretty tempting indication of god activity. I tend to save my effort for finding reasons not to believe stuff for wh...
jerNYC Atheism 351 163308 July 6, 2012 at 1:17 pm
    Thread: Why do you not believe in God?
Post: RE: Why do you not believe in God?

Quote:If you were an atheist and are currently a Christian, what made you change your mind? Seriously, I need to know. When I hear this from people I typically slam my face into my palm hard enough to...
jerNYC Atheism 351 163308 July 6, 2012 at 12:53 pm
    Thread: Why do you not believe in God?
Post: RE: Why do you not believe in God?

(July 6, 2012 at 11:36 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: I started off gullible, gradually became more skeptical, and some time afer I stopped believing in Bigfoot, ESP, and UFO abductions; I realized I had s...
jerNYC Atheism 351 163308 July 6, 2012 at 12:44 pm
    Thread: Why do you not believe in God?
Post: RE: Why do you not believe in God?

Quote:Very true, maybe one day it will be shown that god exists. How?
jerNYC Atheism 351 163308 July 6, 2012 at 12:39 pm
    Thread: Why do you not believe in God?
Post: RE: Why do you not believe in God?

Quote:Our understanding of the laws of nature have changed over time. We went from the Greek notion of the four elements to the periodic table, from aether to atoms, and so on and so forth. You refe...
jerNYC Atheism 351 163308 July 6, 2012 at 12:35 pm
    Thread: Why do you not believe in God?
Post: RE: Why do you not believe in God?

Quote:I don't think that the evidence is on faith alone simply because the precise way that something is done by God is not explained. For ID arguments, the idea anyway is that the inference to an int...
jerNYC Atheism 351 163308 July 6, 2012 at 3:48 am