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RE: Best description of Christianity
February 13, 2015 at 2:25 pm
You think there's these weird boundaries as to how far something can evolve, then it hits a brick wall or goes round in circles. That's a position you need to support because it's untrue.
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RE: Best description of Christianity
February 13, 2015 at 2:31 pm
(February 13, 2015 at 2:21 pm)Homeless Nutter Wrote: (February 13, 2015 at 1:58 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Possibly because they have the same creator?
Or because they evolved from the same species? Let's see - we have species and natural selection. We don't have a creator. Occam's Razor - we have a winner. Come back with a credible proof for a creator and we'll reconsider evolution.
I thought it was Hitchens razor?
(February 12, 2015 at 1:51 am)Stimbo Wrote: Based on the basic principle of Hitchens' Razor, but more on the fact that you don't get to tell me I can't.
seriously, you guys need to get on the same page. 
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RE: Best description of Christianity
February 13, 2015 at 3:01 pm
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Occam's Razor: "Plurality should not be posited without necessity.” Often expressed as "Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity."
Hitchens' Razor: "That which is asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence."
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RE: Best description of Christianity
February 13, 2015 at 3:19 pm
(February 13, 2015 at 2:31 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: (February 13, 2015 at 2:21 pm)Homeless Nutter Wrote: Or because they evolved from the same species? Let's see - we have species and natural selection. We don't have a creator. Occam's Razor - we have a winner. Come back with a credible proof for a creator and we'll reconsider evolution.
I thought it was Hitchens razor?
(February 12, 2015 at 1:51 am)Stimbo Wrote: Based on the basic principle of Hitchens' Razor, but more on the fact that you don't get to tell me I can't.
seriously, you guys need to get on the same page.
That's funny, I didn't realize that Stimbo and Homeless Nutter were the same person. Why would you expect identical positions from people just because they're both atheists, when atheism is merely a single position, and not a worldview that could inform multiple stances on reality?
Besides, if you actually think two people not marching in lockstep is a weakness, then maybe look to the thousands of denominations of religion, and try to get them on the same page, while you continue to avoid defining what you're talking about in order to equivocate wildly.
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RE: Best description of Christianity
February 13, 2015 at 3:31 pm
(February 13, 2015 at 1:47 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: so what ever two "canines" he took aboard the Ark are the ancestors of all the canines we have today, the animals that he didn't take went extinct.
The Bible commits this mistake in both the Creation Myth and the Ark Myth. Two of every species is not sufficient genetic diversity to sustain the species for more than a generation.
It shouldn't take a biologist to tell you why. Who are their children going to breed with? Each other?
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RE: Best description of Christianity
February 13, 2015 at 3:36 pm
(February 13, 2015 at 3:19 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Why would you expect identical positions from people just because they're both atheists, when atheism is merely a single position, and not a worldview that could inform multiple stances on reality?
Because holding similar posistion is what you guys do. You didn't accumulate over 14,000 kudos by people disagreeing with you. How how many kudos did you get when you stated that Denmark was secular, despite being wrong?
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RE: Best description of Christianity
February 13, 2015 at 3:40 pm
(February 13, 2015 at 3:36 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Because holding similar posistion is what you guys do.
So now you're equivocating between similar and identical, presumably to cover for the total lack of content in your other positions in this thread? 
Quote: You didn't accumulate over 14,000 kudos by people disagreeing with you. How how many kudos did you get when you stated that Denmark was secular, despite being wrong?
Many more than you did, when you equivocated between secular and militantly atheist/communist. The large amount of kudos is a byproduct of having a correct, honest position; it's no wonder you're so perturbed by other people attaining that.
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RE: Best description of Christianity
February 13, 2015 at 3:48 pm
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(February 13, 2015 at 3:31 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: It shouldn't take a biologist to tell you why. Who are their children going to breed with? Each other? At one point that had to be the case right? The marrying of relatives was common early in the Bible, And to this day, Jewish people suffer from having a small genetic pool.
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(February 13, 2015 at 3:40 pm)Esquilax Wrote: (February 13, 2015 at 3:36 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: You didn't accumulate over 14,000 kudos by people disagreeing with you. How how many kudos did you get when you stated that Denmark was secular, despite being wrong?
Many more than you did, when you equivocated between secular and militantly atheist/communist. The large amount of kudos is a byproduct of having a correct, honest position; it's no wonder you're so perturbed by other people attaining that.
Nah, It doesn't bother me that every time you roll your face across the keyboard you get a kudos, that just makes it meaningless.
I had to earn every one that I do have 
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RE: Best description of Christianity
February 13, 2015 at 3:59 pm
Early in the bible...
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RE: Best description of Christianity
February 13, 2015 at 4:05 pm
(February 13, 2015 at 3:48 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Nah, It doesn't bother me that every time you roll your face across the keyboard you get a kudos, that just makes it meaningless.
So, are you going to start justifying any of the claims you've made regarding evolution in this thread?
Quote:I had to earn every one that I do have
Yes, I suspect it does take you quite a bit more mental strain to come to a correct conclusion than it does for me. This isn't shocking news.
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