The main reason I'm an atheist

[Little Rik]

That is a total disaster Pinky.  

Let us take your sentence ........... the actual definition of the word is what establishes its current meaning.............
Unfortunately is true.
Let us take what Christ said and what Christians today say.
Christ never said that you go to hell if you sin but the followers that came later invented the hell.
By following your idea that unfortunately is true the original ideas were vandalized in such a manner that today they mean just the opposite.
This is wrong that is why i don't give a stuff about the established meaning of the words.
People like you are no different from religious people.
Both of you agree in vandalize ideas turning therefore good things into junk.

Did you get lost somewhere in there?


We're talking about how your digging into the Greek roots of the word "theory" has practically nothing to do with the use of the word "theory" in the scientific sense. Theories aren't something you "solve," they are solutions. They do not need to be demonstrated as factual because they consist of large bodies of demonstrated facts. Your language and use of the word "theory" demonstrates that you don't really know what the word means when we talk about the Theory of Evolution, and now you've blown past that and fixated on definitions because...I don't know, because that word was in my post?

Are you a bot, Rik?


I think somebody turned a convincing spam bot loose on our forum, guys.

You didn't read my previous posts with the due care.
I did say that when you put into practice a theory and that practice is successful (according to the theory) then the theory make sense and is correct.
In the theory you look at, you view and you plan something.
After that you put that idea into practice and if the practice produce results than the theory is correct.
This is my understanding of theory as the old Greeks that first came out with the word theory.    

And again, that has practically nothing to do with the scientific use of the word, which is as follows:

A scientific theory is a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world that is acquired through the scientific method and repeatedly tested and confirmed through observation and experimentation.

The Theory of Evolution is a scientific theory. A scientific theory is only called such when it has been repeatedly tested and confirmed to be true, and that is why evolution is a fact. It is demonstrable through evidence that we can observe in geology, biology, and a few other fields of science. What isn't demonstrable is the idea that the process of evolution requires magic to start or to be maintained, and that's why there's no good reason to believe your assertions about universal consciousness.


Besides, even if you could prove that consciousness is required to start or maintain life, that doesn't mean that a consciousness would also be required to create the Universe, for instance. That would be a separate claim that you would need to demonstrate with separate evidence.

That is your guessing Pinky.

Heat Death of the Universe


No, it isn't. If you don't like Wikipedia, google the term and keep scrolling. At minimum, it's me and a whooole lot of veeery smart people guessing using everything they know about the cosmos, which to me is miles better than you guessing using stuff you made up while high.


Btw, happy holiday, everyone  

More guessing Pinky.
It is easy to see humans, animals and plant that need feeding to survive.
To see inanimate things like matter, water, light, air and space that need feeding is a lot harder
but that will become more clear as you expand your consciousness.

Will it eventually become clear why you're answering a charge of argument from ignorance with another argument from ignorance? Actually...the same argument from ignorance?


Shit, I've been staring at this stuff too long.

Consciousness is much much more powerful than intellect that is why using the intellect to think
is not as good as using the consciousness to see the truth.

Have a good day.

I wish i had the time to answer all other post but my boss can't wait.  

Yeah, I'm sure he gets cranky if there's not somebody there to push the buttons on the rides.


Theories can or can not provide evidence and truth.
People all the time have a myriad of theories that doesn't mean that they are true.
Atheists think that there is no God or that there is no evidence for God.
These are unfounded theories.
Science can only see the reality of this physical world so how can science see in the real reality which
is not in this physical world?
Impossible.
That is why you should be careful to see the real truth in scientific theories based of course in this
illusory reality.