RE: The meaninglessness of the Christian god concept
November 17, 2011 at 10:43 am
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2011 at 11:07 am by Norfolk And Chance.)
(November 17, 2011 at 7:55 am)fr0d0 Wrote: You sir are being a fucking idiot, as your fellow atheist here has just explained.
No need to resort to personal abuse just because your life is built on nothingness and I'm opening your eyes to it.
No atheists are explaining to me how I'm an idiot - in fact privately people are supporting what I say and asking me to finish you off - that's how much you are wobbled, and that is how people are perceiving it.
Awful isn't it, when people just don't accept your rhetoric? I've examined it and it is all word salad built up on assumed, unprovable/or woo woo personal opinion. There is NOTHING authorative or reasonably concluded in there. It sounds good, but there is no substance.
If god is real, he CAN and WILL BE empirically tested. I have as much authority to say that, as you have to say he can't...
So, it all brings us back to...no proof = he's made up. Nice one.
(November 16, 2011 at 8:12 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: God of the gaps is a scientific position where God and science occupy the same space. One cake with slices increasingly taken by science. In reality (sic) it's a layer cake. Science is the bottom layer, not all pieces belong to science yet. The top layer is God. Purpose and meaning originate in this layer. Science rightly cannot explore this area, without straying into metaphysics and non empiricism.
More rubbish.
"God of the gaps is a type of theological fallacy in which gaps in scientific knowledge are taken to be evidence or proof of God's existence. The term was invented by Christian theologians not to discredit theism but rather to discourage reliance on teleological arguments for God's existence" - Wikipedia.
It is nothing to do with god and science occupting the same space like you say - it is, literally what it says it is - the insertion by of god by theists into the gaps of scientific knowledge.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
