(February 2, 2012 at 7:23 pm)brotherlylove Wrote: Do you have any evidence that God does not exist?
Well, it's not exactly evidence that would stand up in a court of law, but it's certainly food for thought; the fact that apologists seem to need to lie to bolster their position. Viz:
(February 13, 2012 at 10:02 am)brotherlylove Wrote: I do not want to believe in God, therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible: spontaneous generation arising to evolution
George Wald - Harvard Professor
Nobel Laureate
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/quotes/m...rt1-4.html
(February 13, 2012 at 10:02 am)brotherlylove Wrote: evolution became a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to bend their observations to fit in with it.
H S Lipso
Physics professor
??? This one's a bit of a puzzler. About the only instances of this quote I can find are from creationist sites, aside from one sceptic site which appears to have foundered. Does that make it genuine? Perhaps... the lack of independent confirmation seems odd however.
(February 13, 2012 at 10:02 am)brotherlylove Wrote: we take the side of evolutionary science because we have a prior commitment to materialism. it is not that the methods..of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation..on the contrary..we cannot allow a divine foot in the door.
richard lewontin
harvard professor of zoology and biology
http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/Lewontin_on_materialism
(see also my previous response here.)
(February 13, 2012 at 10:02 am)brotherlylove Wrote: If I were you, these quotations would disturb me.
If I were you, I'd be more disturbed by all the lies and contortions being passed off as truth I'd have been forced to swallow. It's not even so much that these quotes have been twisted into contexts their authors never dreamed of; what's really insulting to the intelligence is that they are so easily exposed.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'