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Blind faith and evolution
RE: Blind faith and evolution
Usually, you can gauge a person commitement to a discussion when certain care is taken transmitting the message. Simple things like capitalizing, spaces and all that shit. Hell, the speech would remain incoherent in this case, but it would be prettier.
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RE: Blind faith and evolution
Quote:From Wikipedia,

This article is about the personality disorder. For more information on clinical research and types of narcissism, see Narcissism.

Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a personality disorder[1] in which the individual is described as being excessively preoccupied with issues of personal adequacy, power, prestige and vanity. This condition affects one percent of the population.


Classification

Cluster A (odd)

Paranoid
Schizoid
Schizotypal

Cluster B (dramatic)

Antisocial
Borderline
Histrionic
Narcissistic

Cluster C (anxious)

Avoidant
Dependent
Obsessive–compulsive

Not specified

Depressive
Passive-aggressive
Sadistic
Self-defeating

With my only qualification being that "it takes one to know one", I would say christchinchilla is a flaming example. I'm a recovering one myself so I find those who exhibit what I'm avoiding all the more irritating. I guess I'm about as tolerant as an ex-smoker. Thank gawd for the ignore function.
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RE: Blind faith and evolution
lol guess what, you don't know.
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RE: Blind faith and evolution
(July 20, 2013 at 4:25 pm)Kayenneh Wrote: Hey guys, do we have a counter for the fallacies this guy uses?! Big Grin

Here we have at least one! *ding!*

We did. I think he broke it.
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RE: Blind faith and evolution
(July 17, 2013 at 10:24 am)enrico Wrote: Two distant things and yet some people with blind faith say that they believe in evolution.
Is that possible? Does it make any sense?
Usually blind faith is associated with religion but not always.
Here i am talking about some atheist.
Many atheist believe that by a strange and mysterious combination one born as a human out of nothing due to him-her and other born as plants, worms, insects or animals also out of nothing.
In this way there is no evolution of consciousness.
A worm with his primitive consciousness came in existence just for pure bad luck on the other hand a human being came in existence with his-her more developed consciousness just by good luck.
So where is the evolution of conscience that suppose to be build up as the life progress from lower to higher form of lives?
Is perhaps that we born as humans because humanity has developed for long time and we follow this wave of development?
So if this is true then we are not responsible for our development as the wave of collective progress moves us along anyway.
What a wishful thinking to believe that our consciousness is build up in just a lifetime thanks also to the progress that humans have done since human existence.
Sorry but the very science related to evolution that many believe in contradict this blind faith therefore anyone believing in blind chances has really nothing to do with evolution.Angel

'Collective progress'. I'm sure the few (relatively) who's work this notion is pinned to are thrilled at being lost in the fog of species-smugness.

Still... there's a lot of it about.


MM
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" - Leonardo da Vinci

"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
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RE: Blind faith and evolution
Chas Wrote:There is no evidence for any gods. Therefore, a lack of belief is a rational conclusion, not dogma.


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A lack of belief?
It is rather a lack of desire to look for.
You are expecting that someone bring you the evidence in a silver plate.
How can it be when God does not have a physical body and when this essence is deep within your consciousness?
This type of mentality is much worse then a dogma.Confused Fall
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RE: Blind faith and evolution
(July 21, 2013 at 8:33 am)enrico Wrote:
Chas Wrote:There is no evidence for any gods. Therefore, a lack of belief is a rational conclusion, not dogma.


ArrrrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhBangheadBangheadBangheadBangheadBangheadBangheadBanghead
A lack of belief?
It is rather a lack of desire to look for.
You are expecting that someone bring you the evidence in a silver plate.
How can it be when God does not have a physical body and when this essence is deep within your consciousness?
This type of mentality is much worse then a dogma.Confused Fall


I looked; there's no evidence.

"essence is deep within your consciousness" ? What?
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
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RE: Blind faith and evolution
(July 21, 2013 at 8:33 am)enrico Wrote: ArrrrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhBangheadBangheadBangheadBangheadBangheadBangheadBanghead
A lack of belief?
It is rather a lack of desire to look for.
You are expecting that someone bring you the evidence in a silver plate.
How can it be when God does not have a physical body and when this essence is deep within your consciousness?
This type of mentality is much worse then a dogma.Confused Fall

Alright, I think I can solve this: this god of yours, this collection of deepities that you've forged into a concept of god, does it do things? Affect the physical world in any way, at all? If so, then it can be measured, and evidence can be found.

If not, then why should I care?

And incidentally, how did you come to be convinced of this god? Something had to do it, right?
"YOU take the hard look in the mirror. You are everything that is wrong with this world. The only thing important to you, is you." - ronedee

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RE: Blind faith and evolution
(July 19, 2013 at 7:39 pm)wwjs Wrote: Most atheists rely on science and if science doesn't know it then they are not ashamed to admit it.

Hi! Smile

I'm a Christian. I have no idea how life started and I'm not ashamed to admit it.
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RE: Blind faith and evolution
(July 21, 2013 at 10:59 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Hi! Smile

I'm a Christian. I have no idea how life started and I'm not ashamed to admit it.

Hi!

I'm an agnostic atheist. I have no idea if a god exists or not and realize that no one can prove it. And I'm not ashamed to admit it.
Everything I needed to know about life I learned on Dagobah.
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