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Argument #2: Evolution Of Species

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Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
May 7, 2014 at 5:45 pm
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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
May 7, 2014 at 5:49 pm
(May 7, 2014 at 5:45 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: My name is Stephen and I am not part of this group. You'll been saying that numbers of people who believe something doesn't count for anything.

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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
May 7, 2014 at 5:50 pm
(May 6, 2014 at 11:48 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: Who are you to question God?

Who are you to claim there is a god? Or to assert his characteristics?
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
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Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
May 7, 2014 at 5:55 pm
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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
May 7, 2014 at 5:57 pm
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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
May 7, 2014 at 5:59 pm (This post was last modified: May 7, 2014 at 6:01 pm by Cato.)
(May 7, 2014 at 5:45 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: You'll been saying that numbers of people who believe something doesn't count for anything.

Because it doesn't!!! Science isn't settled by ballot and your emotions on the matter count for shit also. Millions of people believing in creationism doesn't give any credence to the position. Millions of people believing in creationism just proves there are millions of gullible idiots.

I don't care how rational or otherwise reasonable someone is; if people conclude that creationsim is a compelling explanation for our existence in the face of easily accesible fact to the contrary then those people are fucking idiots.
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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
May 7, 2014 at 6:21 pm
(May 7, 2014 at 5:55 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote:
(May 7, 2014 at 5:45 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: My name is Stephen and I am not part of this group. You'll been saying that numbers of people who believe something doesn't count for anything.

And on to argument #3...

You mean bullshit #3.

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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
May 7, 2014 at 6:37 pm (This post was last modified: May 7, 2014 at 6:41 pm by Mister Agenda.)
(May 5, 2014 at 7:23 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Where? Given that others are still asking you to do so, I highly doubt you've accounted for it. I doubt you've addressed it. I doubt you even *understand* what is being asked.

He posted a link in a reply to me. Basically, God is omnipotent, so God could have done it, and it doesn't have to make sense or be scientifically useful because God works in mysterious ways. Which isn't even a rebuttal to the contention that inherited retroviral insertions across species only make sense in the context of the theory of evolution.
(May 5, 2014 at 7:33 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: Many many many reject abiogenesis.

You think argument ad populum is valid? Great: About twice as many people think Christianity is false as think it's true. Case closed.
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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
May 7, 2014 at 6:43 pm
(May 7, 2014 at 6:37 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:
(May 5, 2014 at 7:23 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Where? Given that others are still asking you to do so, I highly doubt you've accounted for it. I doubt you've addressed it. I doubt you even *understand* what is being asked.

He posted a link in a reply to me. Basically, God is omnipotent, so God could have done it, and it doesn't have to make sense or be scientifically useful because God works in mysterious ways. Which isn't even a rebuttal to the contention that inherited retroviral insertions across species only make sense in the context of the theory of evolution.

I suppose if you're willing to invoke magic, you can "justify" belief in anything.
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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
May 7, 2014 at 6:44 pm (This post was last modified: May 7, 2014 at 8:37 pm by Mister Agenda.)
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