(November 15, 2013 at 7:14 pm)The Reality Salesman Wrote: There's no evidence to support relativity? Einstein practiced string theory? 3 dimensions? Would I call Einstein's tested theory of relativity wrong since it's not a definitive fact? I just don't know how to answer you. There are so many inaccuracies in your post that it's impossible to address them all. There is no scientific theory that is not revised in the light of new evidence. Your hypothesis on God has no supporting evidence, it's not even a theory. I am dumbfounded that you just attempted to compare relativity to God as competing hypotheses. You use words you clearly don't understand like "epistemology", and "evidence". You question relativity while using the internet that is supporting evidence of it's truth. Do you understand how satellites work? Do you understand what the letters in E=mc2 equate to? You don't seem to have a single clue what you're talking about, but that doesn't stop you from pretending to. Nothing I say to you could possibly be more constructive than the information you could gain by occasionally watching The Science Channel. But, I don't think you care to learn anything new. You think you have truth, and so you stop looking. You throw out words that you think make sense, and you speak of correlation as though it ceases to have meaning even when you think you know exactly what causes that which it correlates with. You were born into Christianity? That's predictably inane. The way you avoided answering the question about whether it was more valuable to be Good or believe was nothing short of expected. You literally ignored the question, and provided an answer that was nothing more than a superficial equivocation that was artificially profound. You conduct yourself with a standard of intellectual dishonesty that plagues every facet of society, and you seem to be content in passing it on to your kids and others. This is exactly the type of behavior that makes "faith" synonymous with a virus. Since you ignore my questions, and honestly, you don't seem to even understand them. I must bow out. There is no reasoning with insanity, and while you may not be insane, you certainly appear to be practicing for the role...And you have turned out as many of the others. But, its your logical nature! Could you have insulted me with some less expensive vocab, my dumbfounded friend? Or, do you feel the need to "look" disinterested and ...uh... less friendly to an xtian perhaps? The Great Dane was certainly draped over your shoulders in that brilliantly, pretentious display of intellect!
I may not be a physicist, or even good at science but I do know the difference between theories based on either hypothesis, or empirical discovery.
However, Einstein isn't the real issue here. What is at issue is your passiveness to my experiences with God. And why?
You have nothing to compare them to, so you avoid them. And focus on your claims about "faith" as "insanity", and "delusion". And of course, my not answering your coercive, and leading questions to your exact specifications.
And you "bow out" rather than challenge yourself, or try to understand. Because I don't have your superior intelligence? No, I think I was making too much sense to you, in those simple terms that God hides Himself in very well. We were getting to close to home. I see it time and time again with atheists. Remember, I have several around me including my own father.
But, "self" preservation takes over once again, and logic wins the minds of men. Daz's sure plunty of [evidence] fur dat here professor!
Quis ut Deus?