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RE: God is real.
June 1, 2012 at 10:38 pm
Given his IQ he'll probably go with "totally_not_that_dingaling_guy"
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
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RE: God is real.
June 1, 2012 at 10:46 pm
Ok dangleberry, stop fucking around and get back here... we miss you. :'(
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RE: God is real.
June 1, 2012 at 10:47 pm
I think we hurt his wee little feelings!
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RE: God is real.
June 1, 2012 at 10:57 pm
(This post was last modified: June 1, 2012 at 10:58 pm by Cyberman.)
Now the dust has settled somewhat, I looked at his 'evidence' - and I'm being generous to the point of outright lying - in a little more depth. I ignored all the WLC crap as that's been torn to shreds since he excreted it (horrible image; sorry). I was particularly struck by his claim that "Scientists say that if they universe were one grain of sand bigger or smaller humans would not be here today"; I've never seen this particular line before, so I checked the pdf he so helpfully gave as a source. the distinctive word "sand" occurs in three places in that document:
* once when discussing the fact that "At best our puny brains are capable of comprehending maybe 8 orders-of-magnitude directly (1 mm grain of sand to 100 km scale visible from mountain-tops). Outside this direct experience, we rely on the numbers to convey the relative scales."
* again when talking about the expansion of the Universe, using the "seemingly preposterous extrapolation" that galaxies were much closer at "a time when the whole universe was smaller than a grain of sand."
* and finally in discussing the size of the Universe - "On the whole, if you smeared out all the atoms in the universe uniformly, you would end up with less than one hydrogen atom per cubic meter. That’s sparse! Even in our locally dense galaxy (most of the universe is space between the galaxies), stars are like grains of sand several miles apart!"
Even if dingboy's "God is real", his 'facts' are not.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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June 1, 2012 at 11:01 pm
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Holding our dingaling?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: God is real.
June 5, 2012 at 4:53 am
All I saw in your argument is fallacies. Like - the argument from ignorance, special pleading and god of the gaps argument.
Simply terrible.
Quote:1.Whatever begins to exist has a cause
Not everything that exists requires a cause.
Quote:2.The universe began to exist.
3.Therefore, the universe has a cause.
Argument from ignorance.
Let me guess? Goddidit? A does not prove B without first proving A. In other words, you must first demonstrate that a god exists before you can apply 'god' as the cause. Goddidit is a non-answer.
Might as well state that pixies did it. Same useless answer.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
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RE: God is real.
June 5, 2012 at 5:01 am
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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