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RE: Why is Christianity false and Atheism true?
December 24, 2013 at 10:47 pm
A reminder of how valid Poe's Law is.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
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RE: Why is Christianity false and Atheism true?
December 25, 2013 at 6:39 am
(December 24, 2013 at 10:11 pm)Lion IRC Wrote: Atheism is a position held by people who BELIEVE there is no God.
No we don't believe IN god.
Now look at it this way, I say there is a cat in my garden right now.
There could be a cat in my garden, but I could be lying or I may not have a garden.
So it would be reasonable for you to not believe that there is a cat in my garden because I have not supplied any evidence.
Does that mean you believe there is NO cat in my garden......no it does not.
Do you see how it works do you, do you see now, Do you, do you see.....
God is so unlikely to be a real thing that you would need to supply super good evidence for it and there is none.
So I am an atheist.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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