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What distinguishes a fantasy book from the bible?
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RE: What distinguishes a fantasy book from the bible?
No, what I'm trying to explain to you, is that subjective explanations of truth are not explanations, they are opinions.

I have to repeat myself here. The cells in your body are in fact "purpose built" to perpetuate versions of themselves. This is life, this is a purpose. That things like life, that exist, can have a cause, does not imply a higher purpose. The statement accident/intent is only an argument for god, it explains nothing about life. If you want to talk god, talk god, if you want to talk life, avoid arguments by proxy.

Science addresses theism in general when it states that personal, miracle working gods do not appear to exist, or if they do, do not work miracles or directly interact with human beings. (IE, don't exist)

As far as our ability to see things objectively. There are obviously barriers to this. If knowledge where thought of as a scale between objective and subjective, science would be the method by which we gradually move the balance point closer to objectivity. The ever increasing array of instrumentation that we can leverage helps in this greatly, in that human beings aren't observing the data anymore, machines are, we are merely recording and assessing it. We may always describe the objective in terms which could be said to be subjective, since we cannot escape who and what we are, but the data itself is increasingly not a reflection of what humans wish it would be, or even what they would imagine it to be. We have had a great deal of improvement in our ability to describe things objectively the past few hundred years, I'm very proud of this achievement, and you should be as well.
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RE: What distinguishes a fantasy book from the bible? - by The Grand Nudger - July 30, 2011 at 5:42 pm

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