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RE: In UK atheists considred more moral than theists.
August 28, 2018 at 11:31 am (This post was last modified: August 28, 2018 at 11:32 am by The Grand Nudger.)
............................... -therefore jesus.
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RE: In UK atheists considred more moral than theists.
August 28, 2018 at 11:35 am (This post was last modified: August 28, 2018 at 11:36 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
(August 28, 2018 at 11:27 am)Huggy74 Wrote:
(August 28, 2018 at 11:26 am)Khemikal Wrote: Well, you don't have to sit back and shout hosanna, thanking the person harvesting you for organs. There's always that. That would just be weird.
So are mullets...to each his own...
I keep telling myself that everytime I go to Germany.
RE: In UK atheists considred more moral than theists.
August 28, 2018 at 11:56 am (This post was last modified: August 28, 2018 at 12:09 pm by I_am_not_mafia.)
(August 28, 2018 at 11:48 am)Huggy74 Wrote:
(August 28, 2018 at 11:43 am)Mathilda Wrote: Use a device, such as a camera that can also measure red. Same as with any other colour.
This is reproducible and the steps can be unambiguously described in detail.
There is no such device that can detect a god, or a soul, or a spirit or any type of supernatural force.
How would YOU determine it's the color red without having the ability to see it for your self?
You were creating a hypothetical example where no one could see the colour red, so it's whatever people collectively decide to call that band of frequencies.
In the same way that no one can see infra-red or ultra-violate can still measure that these radio waves exist using equipment.
RE: In UK atheists considred more moral than theists.
August 28, 2018 at 11:59 am (This post was last modified: August 28, 2018 at 12:08 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(August 28, 2018 at 11:48 am)Huggy74 Wrote:
(August 28, 2018 at 11:43 am)Mathilda Wrote: Use a device, such as a camera that can also measure red. Same as with any other colour.
This is reproducible and the steps can be unambiguously described in detail.
There is no such device that can detect a god, or a soul, or a spirit or any type of supernatural force.
How would YOU determine it's the color red without having the ability to see it for your self?
Measure its wave length directly by sending it through an transparent substance of known index of refraction?
Use a red pass or red cut filter and measure the change in the intensity of light after it passes through?
If you even paid a millionth as much attention to your high school physics as you’ve wasted on your bible, you wouldn’t have asked questions that so ambarassingly betrayed such a disgraceful lack of interest in the probing of reality.
You see, the difference between Christian morons who think the wish-thinking primitivism that led to Christianity back in the Iron Age is end all and be all of human wisdom on the one hand, and intelligent people who benefited from the accummulated wisdom of 2000 years of science since the start of your disgraceful cult on the other, is a realization that reality exist outside of the immediate, uneducated desire and perception, and is accessible though careful consideration and experimentation based on repeatable measurement?
RE: In UK atheists considred more moral than theists.
August 28, 2018 at 12:24 pm (This post was last modified: August 28, 2018 at 12:29 pm by Huggy Bear.)
(August 28, 2018 at 11:59 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:
(August 28, 2018 at 11:48 am)Huggy74 Wrote: How would YOU determine it's the color red without having the ability to see it for your self?
Measure its wave length directly by sending it through an transparent substance of known index of refraction?
Use a red pass or red cut filter and measure the change in the intensity of light after it passes through?
If you even paid a millionth as much attention to your high school physics as you’ve wasted on your bible, you wouldn’t have asked questions that so ambarassingly betrayed such a disgraceful lack of interest in the probing of reality.
You see, the difference between Christian morons who think the wish-thinking primitivism that led to Christianity back in the Iron Age is end all and be all of human wisdom on the one hand, and intelligent people who benefited from the accummulated wisdom of 2000 years of science since the start of your disgraceful cult on the other, is a realization that reality exist outside of the immediate, uneducated desire and perception, and is accessible though careful consideration and experimentation based on repeatable measurement?
Quote:Tetrachromacy is the condition of possessing four independent channels for conveying color information, or possessing four types of cone cells in the eye. Organisms with tetrachromacy are called tetrachromats.
In tetrachromatic organisms, the sensory color space is four-dimensional, meaning that to match the sensory effect of arbitrarily chosen spectra of light within their visible spectrum requires mixtures of at least four primary colors.
Would you be so kind as to explain any fourth primary color?
(August 28, 2018 at 11:56 am)Mathilda Wrote:
(August 28, 2018 at 11:48 am)Huggy74 Wrote: How would YOU determine it's the color red without having the ability to see it for your self?
You were creating a hypothetical example where no one could see the colour red, so it's whatever people collectively decide to call that band of frequencies.
In the same way that no one can see infra-red or ultra-violate can still measure that these radio waves exist using equipment.