(February 9, 2014 at 11:54 am)Sword of Christ Wrote:(February 9, 2014 at 11:47 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: Assertion made with no facts to back it.
The same number of facts atheism/materialism has just better arguments and reason.
Once all evidence has been gathered and evaluated the answer to no problem has ever been magic man done it.
Quote:But there is no evidence that the causal agent of the universe is anything other than a natural physical process.
Quote:There's no evidence that the universe was an accident of a non-intelligent process without a deliberate purpose either.
However it is the most likely one as history has taught us.
All the things that were previously attributed to god have proven to not be.
Quote: So you have one kind of belief and a different kind of belief both of which fit into our knowledge of the universe/science just fine. I'd say God is the better fit but you don't have to agree, you just have to know the score.
My thought on how the universe came to be is that I don't know at the moment.
To live your life on the basis of it being some impossible super creature that watches you masturbate and hates the gays is
just too preposterous.
If find the idea of your god to be silly.
Quote:Your argument is just the god of the gaps.
Quote:I don't see how science is meant to discover the meaning/purpose of life and reason for existence. It just explains how things work that's all so it's a different subject. If it's a different subject then it isn't filling any scientific gaps.
So you are trying to put arbitrary limits on science to allow you to keep believing in your fantasy.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.