RE: Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76.
April 23, 2018 at 4:34 pm
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2018 at 4:36 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(April 23, 2018 at 2:50 pm)alpha male Wrote: God: not confined to earth. Cannot reasonably conclude from lack of observation that God's existence is therefore improbable.What?! So god is not everywhere after all.
(April 23, 2018 at 2:50 pm)alpha male Wrote: Fire-breathing dragons: large animals confined to earth. Would eventually be discovered as man explores the earth. Since man has explored most of the earth, reasonable to conclude that their existence is improbable.
Except there are people that believe they saw dragons and that some of the pictures of dragons are real. Like there are people who think this video (among others) is genuine
Just like some people believe other people witnessed Virgin Mary or angels or Xenu etc.
And of course there are other ways around it: some people believe dragons can be invisible or simply mimic their surroundings perfectly to hide, idea that was exploited in movies and cartoons.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
