(June 21, 2013 at 1:50 am)fr0d0 Wrote:(June 20, 2013 at 9:23 pm)FallentoReason Wrote: This is the weakest link. All sorts of erronious reasoning could lead to thinking that Christianity is true/false.
Given the above, this now works against the concept of Faith. Do you trust that you trust your reasoning is valid?
Yes we are dependent on clear thinking, and continued sanity.
The best any human can do is to try hard to work out what is true.
(June 21, 2013 at 1:49 am)orogenicman Wrote: The "I can't make a real response" argument.
The response to "oh no it isn't" is "oh yes it is". But then you would be making an equally vapid statement.
Wow, yet another "I can't make a real response" argument. You should quit now before you embarrass yourself. Oh wait...
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
