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    Thread: Can the laws of physics bring something into existence?
Post: RE: Can the laws of physics bring something into e...

(June 20, 2014 at 12:22 pm)Surgenator Wrote: (June 20, 2014 at 8:50 am)archangle Wrote: nobody knows the answer to this. NobodyAgreed (June 20, 2014 at 5:08 am)ignoramus Wrote: The "known" uni...
Freedom of thought Philosophy 23 5706 June 22, 2014 at 3:42 am
    Thread: Common self contradiction of the religious
Post: RE: Common self contradiction of the religious

Also the part about faith, here is the definition: "1. complete trust or confidence in someone or something. "this restores one's faith in politicians" synonyms: trust, belief, confidence, conviction,...
Freedom of thought Religion 55 11740 June 20, 2014 at 9:27 am
    Thread: Common self contradiction of the religious
Post: RE: Common self contradiction of the religious

Quote:Read the section under the heading "Do the Bible and Science Disagree?" Here is a list of predictions the Bible made that has been confirmed by science: Do the Bible and Science disagree "He ...
Freedom of thought Religion 55 11740 June 20, 2014 at 4:37 am
    Thread: Abiogenesis is impossible
Post: RE: Abiogenesis is impossible

(June 17, 2014 at 3:37 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: (June 16, 2014 at 7:27 am)ThomM Wrote: There are books that tell us all about the life of James Bond - and Harry Pott...
Freedom of thought Christianity 1615 364709 June 17, 2014 at 4:23 am
    Thread: Common self contradiction of the religious
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(June 16, 2014 at 1:11 am)orangebox21 Wrote: It's my understanding that expansion is viewed in two ways. The first is as a doppler shift. This states that the stars and planets are moving away fro...
Freedom of thought Religion 55 11740 June 17, 2014 at 4:15 am
    Thread: Common self contradiction of the religious
Post: RE: Common self contradiction of the religious

(June 8, 2014 at 11:33 pm)orangebox21 Wrote: You certainly could assert that. Given that the universe now exists in a state of time, how did time come into existence? Because time could be an emerg...
Freedom of thought Religion 55 11740 June 15, 2014 at 12:02 pm
    Thread: Can the laws of physics bring something into existence?
Post: RE: Can the laws of physics bring something into e...

(June 13, 2014 at 10:44 am)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: (June 13, 2014 at 8:58 am)archangle Wrote: you have to understand that these laws were not the reason the universe is here. The laws are here becaus...
Freedom of thought Philosophy 23 5706 June 15, 2014 at 11:38 am
    Thread: Common self contradiction of the religious
Post: RE: Common self contradiction of the religious

(June 7, 2014 at 11:03 pm)orangebox21 Wrote: (June 7, 2014 at 6:28 am)Tonus Wrote: I think a more fascinating question is: how does timelessness work? What is it like to be outside of time? Not ...
Freedom of thought Religion 55 11740 June 8, 2014 at 1:26 am
    Thread: Can the laws of physics bring something into existence?
Post: Can the laws of physics bring something into exist...

If you've read the grand design, Hawking claims that because there is a law of gravity, the universe can create itself out of nothing. Well, I understand he's not saying the universe is actually 'crea...
Freedom of thought Philosophy 23 5706 June 8, 2014 at 1:07 am
    Thread: Common self contradiction of the religious
Post: Common self contradiction of the religious

I seen a thread in one section called "abiogenesis is impossible", yet they believe somehow proposing a magic man to do abiogenesis with magic makes it OK. "Something can't come from nothing!" Unless...
Freedom of thought Religion 55 11740 May 30, 2014 at 12:19 pm
    Thread: Can mathematics act causally?
Post: Can mathematics act causally?

In a conversation with Peter Atkins and John Lennox Here Its pretty stupid that the video is called 'Lennox DESTROYS atheist', there isn't much destroying going on, Atkins's response was completely c...
Freedom of thought Mathematics 6 2362 May 26, 2014 at 12:28 am
    Thread: Bible Verse Id like to share
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Religious people's logic: "This atheist doesn't believe in the bible, quoting the bible will sure show them!"
Freedom of thought Religion 13 2695 May 19, 2014 at 11:39 am
    Thread: Religious people on the reasonable faith forum are so fucking stupid...
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(May 17, 2014 at 1:32 am)Brakeman Wrote: I reframe the question to these nuts without the word "believe" which sounds like an action to them. Instead use the word "convinced." Christians are convinc...
Freedom of thought Religion 16 8328 May 17, 2014 at 2:55 am
    Thread: Religious people on the reasonable faith forum are so fucking stupid...
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(May 17, 2014 at 12:23 am)Minimalist Wrote: Quote:Religious people on the reasonable faith forum are so fucking stupid... Fixed that for you. Funny... But in reality that is a bit of a huge general...
Freedom of thought Religion 16 8328 May 17, 2014 at 12:34 am
    Thread: Religious people on the reasonable faith forum are so fucking stupid...
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I was looking through the forum when I seen this pile of bumbling stupidity: Quote:I am pretty sure that "don't believe" and "lack of belief" is the same thing. However, as a theist, I usually want t...
Freedom of thought Religion 16 8328 May 17, 2014 at 12:20 am
    Thread: "That's not nothing"
Post: RE: "That's not nothing"

I like this thread, its been 4 pages, and we've talked about nothing very successfully. Joking aside, can we just conclude that something can come into existence without a cause? Sure, it probably is...
Freedom of thought Philosophy 38 7118 May 16, 2014 at 11:43 pm
    Thread: "That's not nothing"
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(May 15, 2014 at 7:29 am)StuW Wrote: (May 15, 2014 at 7:20 am)Freedom of thought Wrote: Actually quite a few physicists have claimed that, especially Hawking. Can you provide sources as I'd be int...
Freedom of thought Philosophy 38 7118 May 15, 2014 at 9:24 am
    Thread: "That's not nothing"
Post: RE: "That's not nothing"

(May 15, 2014 at 7:07 am)StuW Wrote: As far as I'm aware, physicists don't and never have said the universe comes from "nothing", they simply state it came from a singularity and beyond that they do...
Freedom of thought Philosophy 38 7118 May 15, 2014 at 7:20 am
    Thread: "That's not nothing"
Post: RE: "That's not nothing"

(May 15, 2014 at 1:11 am)max-greece Wrote: Quote:You're missing some crucial points. If physics is going to redefine nothing to actually be something, then it's an obvious equivocation fallacy to sa...
Freedom of thought Philosophy 38 7118 May 15, 2014 at 3:21 am
    Thread: "That's not nothing"
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(May 14, 2014 at 11:09 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: (May 14, 2014 at 10:36 pm)Freedom of thought Wrote: You'll often hear apologists and religious people claim "that's not nothing", like it even ma...
Freedom of thought Philosophy 38 7118 May 15, 2014 at 1:31 am