(September 11, 2014 at 8:43 pm)sswhateverlove Wrote: Care to elaborate? If I'm making false assertions, I'm interested in knowing what they are. I specifically asked for feedback which includes clarifications if my assertions are flawed. Care to give it?
sswhateverlove Wrote:The two commonly held opinions are “from nothing, God created everything” and “from nothing, the Big Bang created everything”. One is called “religion” and the other is called “scientific fact”, but both make the same claim.
It is pretty clear that this initial premise is patently false. The idea "from nothing, the Big Bang created everything" is not only a strawman fabrication oft used by the religious (hence why many here assumed that was your argument, and why the intro thread is so important), but is strays so far away from scientific consensus that to call it "scientific fact" and move on as if that is a given was a blunder. This initial statement undermines everything you said afterwards.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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