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Thread: Absolute undeniable evidence for existence of God?
Post: RE: Absolute undeniable evidence for existence of ...
| No, Q is a well known character in Startrek
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_%28Star_Trek%29 |
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July 25, 2013 at 9:17 am |
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Thread: Absolute undeniable evidence for existence of God?
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| Quote:I already told you - his capacity for whimsically changing all the natural laws.
Can't we have someone like Q do that? It doesn't necessary mean he's the God of Christianity, or creator of the... |
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July 25, 2013 at 6:38 am |
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Thread: Absolute undeniable evidence for existence of God?
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| Quote:Sort of missing the point here. I'm not saying that no amount of evidence for a supernatural being would ever suffice. I'm saying that depending upon the nature of supernatural and the degree to... |
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July 24, 2013 at 10:08 pm |
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Thread: Absolute undeniable evidence for existence of God?
Post: RE: Absolute undeniable evidence for existence of ...
| Quote:Now, getting to the evidence for a supernatural being. That is a tall order indeed, because all we can tell from a word like supernatural is that it transcends atleast some of the natural laws. ... |
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July 24, 2013 at 5:47 am |
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Thread: Absolute undeniable evidence for existence of God?
Post: RE: Absolute undeniable evidence for existence of ...
| I'm actually pretty surprised at the responses thus far, considering this is a philosophy forum!
Let me rephrase that again, for the sake of argument, what evidence would make you believe in the exis... |
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July 23, 2013 at 7:29 pm |
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Thread: Absolute undeniable evidence for existence of God?
Post: RE: Absolute undeniable evidence for existence of ...
| Quote:Any evidence that can be peer-reviewed and reproduced is good enough.
Can you give an example of such an evidence?
What I'm trying to figure out is, in principle, is it even possible to have a... |
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July 23, 2013 at 1:04 pm |
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Thread: Absolute undeniable evidence for existence of God?
Post: RE: Absolute undeniable evidence for existence of ...
| Well, OK, let's say God = supernatural being that created the universe, but doesn't care about anything else. What kind of sufficient evidence is required to prove the existence of this supernatural b... |
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July 23, 2013 at 12:30 pm |
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Thread: Islamist suicide bombers.
Post: RE: Islamist suicide bombers.
| Quote:That sounds almost like a summary of what OP said.
Well, some people can be very rich, and very liberal, then they turn to fundamentalist Islam and become suicide bombers. They have access to ... |
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July 23, 2013 at 12:26 pm |
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Thread: Absolute undeniable evidence for existence of God?
Post: Absolute undeniable evidence for existence of God?
| I often wondered what kind of evidence is actually required to prove without any doubt the existence of God?
Please note Clarke's "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic... |
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July 23, 2013 at 11:49 am |
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Thread: Islamist suicide bombers.
Post: RE: Islamist suicide bombers.
| Your analysis is actually BS :-)
While I don't claim to be an expert on this topic, I think the primary reasons behind suicide bombing are:
1. Poverty & hopelessness.
2. Religious indoctrination... |
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Kim |
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July 23, 2013 at 11:40 am |
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Thread: Question about female worth in islam.
Post: RE: Question about female worth in islam.
| I'm a former Muslim and was raised in a very conservative Salafi household, so let's must boil it down to two things:
1. Women gen 1/2 of what a man gets in inheritance.
2. The testimony of 2 women e... |
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July 23, 2013 at 11:13 am |
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Thread: The Fine-Tuning Argument
Post: RE: The Fine-Tuning Argument
| I think the gist of the fine-tuning claim is that the universe would be a very boring place, devoid of any sort of complexity, if any of the many fundamental constants are only slightly changed. I hav... |
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July 23, 2013 at 7:09 am |
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Thread: Questions on the Kalam Cosmological argument
Post: RE: Questions on the Kalam Cosmological argument
| Usually Craig starts by illustrating why actual infinites are logically "absurd", and from there he draws the conclusion that the universe is finite and must have a beginning. He then asserts that thi... |
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July 23, 2013 at 6:55 am |
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Thread: Evolution of the the Bacterial Flagellum
Post: RE: Evolution of the the Bacterial Flagellum
| Quote:Even if we never, ever found a single other possibility for flagellar evolution, that doesn't make intelligent design true.
I agree. I didn't start this thread to discuss evolution vs. intellig... |
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June 30, 2013 at 4:31 am |
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Thread: Shia or Suni?
Post: RE: Shia or Suni?
| Quote: I was roaming around in Qatar, and I do not dare get anywhere near the Shia areas
You probably mean Bahrain?
Shia and Sunni hate each other so much that they are ready to annihilate each othe... |
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June 29, 2013 at 3:46 am |
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Thread: Evolution of the the Bacterial Flagellum
Post: RE: Evolution of the the Bacterial Flagellum
| Quote:And why haven't they found homologous proteins. It's not easy to isolate all proteins in a bacteria, and then get their crystallized structure. it just isn't. the paper clearly stated "none yet ... |
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June 29, 2013 at 2:40 am |
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Thread: Evolution of the the Bacterial Flagellum
Post: RE: Evolution of the the Bacterial Flagellum
| Cat123, thanks for posting the paper! It explained a lot of things in details. It seems studying the evolution of these systems is just starting and the paper even suggested lab-based experiments to t... |
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June 28, 2013 at 12:25 pm |
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Thread: Evolution of the the Bacterial Flagellum
Post: RE: Evolution of the the Bacterial Flagellum
| Quote:The point of the precursor system being mentioned is that it shows that a system -like this one- is functional, if not for motility.
I understand that. Structures that were used for different p... |
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June 28, 2013 at 11:46 am |
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Thread: Seen Today at Local Pool
Post: RE: Seen Today at Local Pool
| Quote:Why does it have to be black?
My guess it's the least "colorful" color? ie. less attention or whatever :-) |
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June 28, 2013 at 10:53 am |
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Thread: Seen Today at Local Pool
Post: RE: Seen Today at Local Pool
| Quote:Was your sister raised Muslim? I'm guessing yes, as you say you are from Kuwait. How is that anything other than conforming to a cultural norm? Where is the choice in wearing a full body coverup... |
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June 28, 2013 at 10:05 am |
