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RE: Where do you rate on Dawkins scale?
July 25, 2012 at 12:29 am
(July 25, 2012 at 12:03 am)Shell B Wrote: GC, you're making an absolute statement about the existence of a deity that no one has ever actually seen or taken a photo of. Doesn't that make you a little uncomfortable? Saying something like "I feel his existence" would be more honest, I think.
Before the Hubble Telescope people could have not imagined what the universe was really like, that in no way limited the universe in being what it really was. I can not photograph the wind only it's action, I can not photograph God, however I can see His actions and not just in my life but in others as well. Also I can photograph a lake with the water perfectly still, not even a ripple and know the wind is not blowing, but because I have a picture of the wind in action I can also use a picture of no wind to show that the wind is real, same with God, I see His actions in some people and know He is real, and when I do not see His action in some people I still see God is real.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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RE: Where do you rate on Dawkins scale?
July 25, 2012 at 12:32 am
Yes, but we know the wind is the wind because it is described because of its actions. Things you attribute to god can be attributed to other things. Also, mathematics can give us an idea of what a lot of the universe is like fundamentally. What do you use to measure god?
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RE: Where do you rate on Dawkins scale?
July 25, 2012 at 12:35 am
He uses that most incredible tool of theists: Desperation!
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RE: Where do you rate on Dawkins scale?
July 25, 2012 at 12:36 am
that was almost a good analogy, except for the fact that wind is tangible, can be measured and enough of it can take your trailer right off the blocks. welll, not *yours* per se, but i'm jussayin.
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RE: Where do you rate on Dawkins scale?
July 25, 2012 at 1:01 am
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(July 25, 2012 at 12:36 am)jackman Wrote: that was almost a good analogy, except for the fact that wind is tangible, can be measured and enough of it can take your trailer right off the blocks. welll, not *yours* per se, but i'm jussayin.
Wind can do a lot of damage but you still can't see it only it's actions.
(July 25, 2012 at 12:35 am)Epimethean Wrote: He uses that most incredible tool of theists: Desperation!
Knowing God is real takes the desperation out of my life!
(July 25, 2012 at 12:32 am)Shell B Wrote: Yes, but we know the wind is the wind because it is described because of its actions. Things you attribute to god can be attributed to other things. Also, mathematics can give us an idea of what a lot of the universe is like fundamentally. What do you use to measure god?
Math could have never given us the beauty of the universe like Hubble's pics have. God's action in others is described, it can be known through the scriptures and God's non-action can also be described in others by their actions, things that are also described in the scriptures, see Paul's epistles.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
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RE: Where do you rate on Dawkins scale?
July 25, 2012 at 2:06 am
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RE: Where do you rate on Dawkins scale?
July 25, 2012 at 2:07 am
"Knowing God is real takes the desperation out of my life!"
Mental illness will do that.
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RE: Where do you rate on Dawkins scale?
July 25, 2012 at 2:12 am
(July 25, 2012 at 2:07 am)Epimethean Wrote: "Knowing God is real takes the desperation out of my life!"
Mental illness will do that.
Huh, maybe I'll ask my doctor if I'm healthy enough for some mental illness.
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RE: Where do you rate on Dawkins scale?
July 25, 2012 at 2:59 am
(July 24, 2012 at 11:53 pm)Godschild Wrote: I'm not wrong, and your opinion does not change anything, what you have is an opinion about what I believe and nothing more.
And what you have is just a mere belief, nothing more.
Fact is you could be, if not, probably very wrong.
No matter how much you want something to be true, no matter how much you believe it. You can still be wrong.
However you are of course free to believe in whatever you wish. Whether it's true or false. It's just, I don't think you'll be seeing anything after death. You just won't exist anymore.
Whatever floats your boat and makes you happy eh?
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
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RE: Where do you rate on Dawkins scale?
July 25, 2012 at 3:00 am
Hmmm, I wonder where I said math gave us the universe.
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