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    Thread: Nature's Laws
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(May 22, 2015 at 9:28 pm)whateverist Wrote: If my agnostic leanings mean I have to give up the "atheist" moniker, perhaps I'll coin my own.  Put me down as an "a-give-a-shit'ist". I like it! (May ...
 Freedom4me Atheism 307 41033 May 24, 2015 at 12:35 pm
    Thread: Nature's Laws
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(May 23, 2015 at 10:58 pm)Esquilax Wrote: (May 23, 2015 at 9:59 pm)Freedom4me Wrote: Are you serious?  Just so I understand what you're saying, is it your opinion that living things just know how ...
 Freedom4me Atheism 307 41033 May 24, 2015 at 11:44 am
    Thread: Nature's Laws
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(May 23, 2015 at 12:39 pm)Iroscato Wrote: Freedom4me, do you believe in unicorns? If you're asking me if I believe that unicorns actually do exist, my answer is no. (May 23, 2015 at 3:22 pm)Esquil...
 Freedom4me Atheism 307 41033 May 23, 2015 at 9:59 pm
    Thread: Nature's Laws
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(May 22, 2015 at 7:44 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Dude, "Darwinism" isn't a thing.  It's a word made up by people who don't know anything about evolutionary biology. Also, since I literally lack belief i...
 Freedom4me Atheism 307 41033 May 22, 2015 at 10:48 pm
    Thread: Nature's Laws
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(May 22, 2015 at 4:54 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: (May 22, 2015 at 2:21 pm)Freedom4me Wrote: The unstated assumption of the assertion "atheism is (or ought to be) the default position" certainly sounds ...
 Freedom4me Atheism 307 41033 May 22, 2015 at 7:12 pm
    Thread: Nature's Laws
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(May 22, 2015 at 2:49 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Bullshit. You're going to need to cite something if you're going to tell us what we believe and how we think - especially after having it explained to you nume...
 Freedom4me Atheism 307 41033 May 22, 2015 at 3:06 pm
    Thread: Nature's Laws
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(May 22, 2015 at 1:42 pm)Rhythm Wrote: How do you know that a living cell is so complex?  Does it say so in the bible...or are you borrowing from what you will, at a convenient moment, entirely deny...
 Freedom4me Atheism 307 41033 May 22, 2015 at 3:01 pm
    Thread: Nature's Laws
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(May 22, 2015 at 2:29 pm)Stimbo Wrote: (May 22, 2015 at 2:21 pm)Freedom4me Wrote: True, but skepticism is nothing but a starting point in the quest for knowledge; not the goal.  The unstated assum...
 Freedom4me Atheism 307 41033 May 22, 2015 at 2:44 pm
    Thread: Nature's Laws
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(May 22, 2015 at 1:38 pm)Stimbo Wrote: No, you keep missing it. The default position on anything is scepticism, of which atheism is a specialised subset dealing with one subject. Scepticism is the p...
 Freedom4me Atheism 307 41033 May 22, 2015 at 2:21 pm
    Thread: Nature's Laws
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(May 22, 2015 at 12:43 pm)Bad Wolf Wrote: (May 21, 2015 at 8:57 pm)Freedom4me Wrote: This might seem like a minor point but in your example of the jar of sweets, if the number is quite large (l...
 Freedom4me Atheism 307 41033 May 22, 2015 at 1:12 pm
    Thread: Nature's Laws
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(May 22, 2015 at 11:22 am)Esquilax Wrote: (May 21, 2015 at 5:06 pm)Freedom4me Wrote: I do understand that the pre-biotic earth must have been extremely different than anything that I can imagine. ...
 Freedom4me Atheism 307 41033 May 22, 2015 at 12:32 pm
    Thread: Nature's Laws
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(May 22, 2015 at 11:22 am)Esquilax Wrote: (May 21, 2015 at 5:06 pm)Freedom4me Wrote: I do understand that the pre-biotic earth must have been extremely different than anything that I can imagine. ...
 Freedom4me Atheism 307 41033 May 22, 2015 at 12:17 pm
    Thread: Nature's Laws
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(May 21, 2015 at 9:16 pm)Stimbo Wrote: (May 21, 2015 at 8:57 pm)Freedom4me Wrote: Thanks, Stimbo.  I watched the video, but I probably need to watch it again.  The guy has a cool British accent an...
 Freedom4me Atheism 307 41033 May 21, 2015 at 9:58 pm
    Thread: Nature's Laws
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(May 21, 2015 at 5:20 pm)Stimbo Wrote: F4M, if you are truly willing to learn about subjects you're struggling to understand, will you do us a big favour and watch this short video, as a sort of pri...
 Freedom4me Atheism 307 41033 May 21, 2015 at 8:57 pm
    Thread: Nature's Laws
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(May 21, 2015 at 4:34 pm)Esquilax Wrote: (May 21, 2015 at 3:40 pm)Freedom4me Wrote: So you're saying that over sufficiently long periods of time (a few million years perhaps), my dad would have be...
 Freedom4me Atheism 307 41033 May 21, 2015 at 5:06 pm
    Thread: Nature's Laws
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(May 21, 2015 at 1:32 pm)Esquilax Wrote: (May 21, 2015 at 1:21 pm)Freedom4me Wrote: Did I say that our planet is a closed system?  Can you tell me where I went wrong?  You asserted that the second...
 Freedom4me Atheism 307 41033 May 21, 2015 at 3:40 pm
    Thread: Nature's Laws
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(May 21, 2015 at 12:54 pm)Esquilax Wrote: (May 21, 2015 at 12:31 pm)Freedom4me Wrote: I'll tell you a true story that might explain my (fairly ignorant) views on abiogenesis and the second law.  W...
 Freedom4me Atheism 307 41033 May 21, 2015 at 1:21 pm
    Thread: Nature's Laws
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(May 21, 2015 at 1:02 pm)Iroscato Wrote: I stand corrected, your actual next trick was to claim evolution is false because baseball gloves aren't alive. Good grief. You have exceeded even my most mo...
 Freedom4me Atheism 307 41033 May 21, 2015 at 1:19 pm
    Thread: Nature's Laws
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(May 21, 2015 at 10:59 am)Esquilax Wrote: So, do you know, like, literally anything about the second law of thermodynamics? Or did you just hear some creationist wiffle on about it, and decided it m...
 Freedom4me Atheism 307 41033 May 21, 2015 at 12:31 pm
    Thread: Nature's Laws
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(May 21, 2015 at 7:29 am)Bad Wolf Wrote: (May 21, 2015 at 2:57 am)Freedom4me Wrote: This is the claim that atheists keep making.  But evolution is just another story about creation.  The thing tha...
 Freedom4me Atheism 307 41033 May 21, 2015 at 12:23 pm