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Thread: The Watchmaker: my fav argument
Post: RE: The Watchmaker: my fav argument
(March 10, 2021 at 10:24 am)Apollo Wrote: Design argument is an anthropomorphic argument—if you take that as a valid hypothesis then you’d expect per more matter in the universe to give it semblance... |
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March 10, 2021 at 10:16 pm |
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Thread: If you knew for certain that you were going to Hell
Post: RE: If you knew for certain that you were going to...
I doubt it. After all, I can't choose to believe something, and a god who knows everything will know I'm not being sincere and I'm lying to save my skin. So, I'll get the unholy microwave treatment co... |
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March 9, 2021 at 8:48 pm |
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Thread: The Watchmaker: my fav argument
Post: RE: The Watchmaker: my fav argument
Quote:Nope as it consistently renders design arguments redudant
I'd say evolution renders omnipotent designers with grand, unknowable plans redundant, but if you have a creator god being which is un... |
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March 7, 2021 at 3:53 pm |
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Thread: The Watchmaker: my fav argument
Post: RE: The Watchmaker: my fav argument
(March 7, 2021 at 3:02 am)Seax Wrote: Yes, & no. Design has perfectly naturalistic explanations. All living organisms are products of design; natural selection. Every biological organism alive t... |
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March 7, 2021 at 2:33 pm |
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Thread: Atheism, Gnosticism & the Problem of Evil
Post: RE: Atheism, Gnosticism & the Problem of Evil
Christianity would work so much better if they just excised the old testament stuff, Jesus was a really revolutionary figure with revolutionary ideas. OT God was just one of thousands of angry warrior... |
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March 6, 2021 at 2:08 pm |
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Thread: Those Political Memes
Post: RE: Those Political Memes
[Image: https://i.imgur.com/4LhCjpc.png] |
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March 6, 2021 at 12:52 am |
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Thread: We The People Act
Post: RE: We The People Act
(March 4, 2021 at 7:31 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: If I show up with flowers and candy outta the blue the first thing out of the SO's mouth is "What the fuck did you do now?".
If you don' t see the parra... |
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March 6, 2021 at 12:45 am |
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Thread: Atheism, Gnosticism & the Problem of Evil
Post: RE: Atheism, Gnosticism & the Problem of Evil
Quote:I noticed the user Catholic lady posted an OP asking how you would react if the Christian God showed himself to you & explained, with his divinely perfect logic, that he is moral.
This is n... |
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March 5, 2021 at 1:30 pm |
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Thread: Why Atheism is Incoherent & You Aren't as Smart as You Think You Are
Post: RE: Why Atheism is Incoherent & You Aren't as Smar...
(March 2, 2021 at 8:18 pm)Seax Wrote: The truth is anyone with a room temperature IQ, unless hindered by religious brainwashing, can figure this out in 2021. You aren't nearly as clever as you imagi... |
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March 3, 2021 at 9:33 pm |
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Thread: The Watchmaker: my fav argument
Post: RE: The Watchmaker: my fav argument
(March 1, 2021 at 10:29 am)Five Wrote: (March 1, 2021 at 1:26 am)Ryantology Wrote: That is a failure of a specific argument for a specific watchmaker who is, himself, not a made watch.
If you as... |
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March 1, 2021 at 8:55 pm |
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Thread: The Watchmaker: my fav argument
Post: RE: The Watchmaker: my fav argument
Quote:And another reason why the watchmaker argument completely fails, is that theists claim that their god designed everything.
That is a failure of a specific argument for a specific watchmaker who... |
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March 1, 2021 at 1:26 am |
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Thread: Faith is Feelings
Post: RE: Faith is Feelings
(February 21, 2021 at 7:13 pm)snowtracks Wrote: Scenario: If a physical entity with the appearance of personhood were to materialize on the White House lawn and while saying “I’m God” (loud enough ... |
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February 27, 2021 at 10:11 pm |
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Thread: Yo, who's still here from way back when?
Post: RE: Yo, who's still here from way back when?
(February 23, 2021 at 12:54 pm)Nomad Wrote: Is September '15 old guard enough for you?
Not according to my biases, I think I faded away from here by the time you joined.
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February 24, 2021 at 1:19 am |
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Thread: Yo, who's still here from way back when?
Post: Yo, who's still here from way back when?
Pre-2015, Obama-era people?
I have still popped in from time to time. TBH, I'm not really anti-theist any more, I think being the angry atheist was a phase and I grew out of it, into a comfortable ag... |
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February 22, 2021 at 12:54 am |
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Thread: Open to explore possibility
Post: RE: Open to explore possibility
(February 3, 2021 at 12:44 pm)Five Wrote: One thing that is still a bit scary to me as a fairy new atheist, is accepting "I don't know" and leaving myself open to new arguments, new evidence, etc. I... |
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February 19, 2021 at 11:04 pm |
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Thread: A new Confederacy
Post: RE: A new Confederacy
The only way secession ever happens again is if the country is already in such a dire, existential crisis that the union is probably already doomed, in which the federal government has lost its abilit... |
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January 26, 2021 at 11:21 pm |
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Thread: Kamala Harris
Post: RE: Kamala Harris
If the Democrats win both runoff elections in Georgia, Kamala Harris would, immediately, become the most powerful vice president in American history. |
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November 10, 2020 at 2:25 pm |
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Thread: Maybe there's something like a god out there.
Post: RE: Maybe there's something like a god out there.
(June 4, 2020 at 8:51 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: (June 4, 2020 at 8:40 am)Ryantology Wrote: Take Jesus, as an example. Now, you won't say anything about the religion I haven't, but as a historical fig... |
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June 4, 2020 at 9:17 am |
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Thread: Maybe there's something like a god out there.
Post: RE: Maybe there's something like a god out there.
TY, sir.
(June 3, 2020 at 11:27 pm)Rahn127 Wrote: The big bang didn't create physical laws. Those were in place.
The big bang is the result of change. The change came from instability and the energ... |
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June 4, 2020 at 8:40 am |
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Thread: Maybe there's something like a god out there.
Post: RE: Maybe there's something like a god out there.
Perhaps I am, and the limitations by which I am bound mean that all I can do is speculate and conceive of the possibility. Which puts me ahead of the bacterium, I assume. |
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June 3, 2020 at 11:14 pm |