(August 10, 2015 at 10:28 pm)pool Wrote:(August 10, 2015 at 12:05 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: No clue.
I'm fine not postulating an opinion until the evidence comes in. And if it never does, "I don't know" is a wonderful position to take.
I'm happy to leave the "knowing" to theists. You guys are comically terrible at it.
I don't mean to undermine you,i just wanted to tell you that it's okay to come up with stupid stuff.
As Albert Einstein once said,
"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science."
Without creative imagination we'd all probably still be in the stone age.
No where did I say people shouldn't hypothesize. Dream big, by all means. Test those wild theories, so long as they are grounded in a deep understanding of the subject about which you are theorizing.
It's when people hypothesize about something they have no understanding of, no training in, then take their untested, unproven hypothesis as Truth where I begin to have an issues.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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