(April 15, 2016 at 9:51 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(April 15, 2016 at 5:55 pm)FebruaryOfReason Wrote: Where is your method for answering these questions definitively, Chad? I'm not talking about a theory that sounds good. How can you show you're right? Where is your method for finding out new things?I use the intellectual tool appropriate to the question. I pity you if all you have is a hammer and think every problem is a nail.
Nope. You're just getting pissed that many here are not fooled by your trying to drag people down your needlessly complicated Yellow Brick Road. Yes, religion is complex, just like Shakespeare and Star Wars and any daytime soap opera.
Pick any religion in the world currently believed, any one, if any one were right and true it should be quite easy to have that lab tested and falsified and independently peer reviewed. Funny how no religion in the world is willing to take that challenge.
So what they do instead is either try to debunk science or try to co opt science to get it to point to their label. But nobody wants that neutral lab.
Even in scientific method the principle is to go with the most likely answer that has the least baggage. Just like it would be stupid for a mechanic to default to taking the entire car apart as a starting point if the car does not start. The mechanic if ethical, will check the battery first, then the battery cable FIRST. Religion has taught you to assume first and not only assume first, but assume tones of naked assertions based on a very old book.
So yea, why should I run away from that hammer? I think that simple hammer hits the nail on the head saying humans make up gods. You need those naked assertions and elaborate ambiguity to hide behind. Don't feel bad, all religions do that.