Quote:Yes you choose to accept the minority view Min. As a non historian I'm happy to use Occam's razor and go with the majority.Don't think it's about choosing the minority or not. Doesn't matter how many people believe, they can still be all wrong. Numbers count for nothing. Argumentum ad populum, it's a fallacious argument. Also Occam's razer states that sticking to the simple until there is evidence of the complex, not sticking to the complex. Not going with the belief just because most believe believe it. That's not Occam's Razer.
Quote:That both of you need to resort to expletives demonstrates the desperation of your position.You mean like stating the obvious? Like there is no evidence for a Jebus, nor that he rose from the dead or would ever return? Stating the obvious is not desperation. You believe in the improbable, not me.
Quote:From what I've seen, and I've been looking hard for 3 years now, as a member here and elsewhere: Atheism is completely illogical.Demonstrate how atheism is illogical.
Quote: It is more than anything life destroying: inspiration for the desperate and suicidal.Lacking belief in an extraordinary claim is somehow....harmful? How? Demonstrate it.
Also 'inspiration for the desperate and suicidal'? How? It's just a lack of belief for fuck sake!
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
