(May 7, 2010 at 1:02 am)Minimalist Wrote:
if you replace true with fanatic or closed-minded I'll be happy to agree. As far as egotists and smarty pants.. there are plenty on both sides.. myself included at times. Sorry if I was a little abrupt.. still don't know whether you intended that for me or him.
(May 6, 2010 at 9:38 am)tavarish Wrote:
1- true I was a little abrupt, but credibility and integrity are important to me, especially as achristian on an atheist forum.
2- It seemed like the thread was going nowhere already.. I was just tired of seeing everone talking in circles.
3-weak reference to an article I read link I'm no molecular engineer, but DNA could stre a lot of stuff. Oh and the scientific use of the word junk probably correlates to the God of the Gaps for Christianity. It's only junk because we haven't figured out what it's for yet.
4-So you don't believe in abiogenesis?
5-Are you intentionally being obtuse? There is finite matter in the known universe where the current adaptations of humanity can reach and survive in. In a future where we manipulate our own DNA to live thousands of years and an increase of control of our enviornment and increasing birth rates, is it not obvious that something will have to bend, and I doubt it will be the universe.
6-Sure. Assuming form is limiting; If you had a choice between form and formless existence which would you choose?
7-Then don't play, I don't feel there is any objectifiable proof that God exists.
8-Even a perfect circle isn't perfect atomically. It depends on your perspective. What seems absolute or perfect to humanity at this stage could end up being near perfectwith a different perspective.
9- I wholeheartedly agree with the last 2 sentences.
@Loki_999 - What aspects of religion require dismissal of reality? I connsider myself a very strong believer, yet I'd lie to think I have a healthy perspective on the whole enchilada. Questioning my beliefs are tatamount to growing individually.What makes you think Chrsitians can't experience and then draw conclusions just like you?
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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