RE: My Fellow Atheist
March 10, 2010 at 1:36 am
(This post was last modified: March 10, 2010 at 6:28 pm by Autumnlicious.)
(March 10, 2010 at 1:30 am)chatpilot Wrote: It seems I suffer from this horrible affliction called simplicity. As I always say I don't like to get caught up in stupid arguments that degrade into philosophical garbage. Philosophy has its uses but it is not suitable for many fields of study which in my opinion holds true for theology. Why speculate on a bunch of assertions made in a book written by many authors, most of which are anonymous to this day? The attributes of god the spiritual plane whether he exist outside of time or whether time started when he so called created the universe etc. All a bunch of trash with no basis whatsoever.
Astronomy has shown that the earth is a sphere, it's not flat it's not a square or anything in between what more evidence do you need to accept this as absolute fact. Not only has it been discovered through mathematics and other scientific disciplines but we have put astronauts on the moon and in space that can observe the Earth from their point of view. Any argument against this is a matter of semantics and people who have nothing better to do with their time except speculate on things that make no damn sense at all.
To lend more credence to your statement, I will make the annoying observation that the Earth is best approximated as an oblate spheroid. Yet for most general applications and uses, your statement of the Earth being a sphere is correct.
There are degrees of approximations - science is a process to determine those approximations.
Personally, I think the last couple of posts arguing over semantics while agreeing on the same things is ridiculous. Chill.