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RE: Evidence: The Gathering
July 19, 2015 at 3:11 pm
No, you've presented the opinions of people who read a book of fairy tales and agree that it says what it says. That isn't evidence.
Do you also believe that Apollo came down from Olympus shooting arrows at the Greeks because it says so in the Iliad? If not, why not? That is what the old book says and anyone who reads it will have to agree with what it said.
You are a blind fool, Randy.
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RE: Evidence: The Gathering
July 19, 2015 at 3:19 pm
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(July 19, 2015 at 11:27 am)Randy Carson Wrote:
Every one of those has been thoroughly debunked. Basically they all have assorted invalid premises.
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RE: Evidence: The Gathering
July 19, 2015 at 3:36 pm
Soooo....when to we get to see the evidence?
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RE: Evidence: The Gathering
July 19, 2015 at 3:43 pm
Yeah! Make with the evidence, Carson!
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RE: Evidence: The Gathering
July 19, 2015 at 3:46 pm
I will say that religious apologetics does have one useful purpose: it will train the attentive reader to spot logical fallacies obscured by the most clever purveyors of bullshit propaganda.
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RE: Evidence: The Gathering
July 19, 2015 at 3:48 pm
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The better we get at spotting them, the better they get at hiding them, but in the end, it is all still useless delusions of grandeur that they will never prove. Cannot prove what does not exist.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
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RE: Evidence: The Gathering
July 19, 2015 at 4:01 pm
(July 19, 2015 at 2:54 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: (July 19, 2015 at 2:50 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I've just figured out your problem. You don't know what the word "evidence" means.
ev·i·dence
ˈevədəns/Submit
noun
1. the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.
I've presented lots of evidence...you just don't like any of it because it reminds you that you are lapsed Catholic who needs to go to confession.
Actually you haven't provided facts sufficient to indicate either that there is a god or the Jesus rose from the dead.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
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RE: Evidence: The Gathering
July 19, 2015 at 4:08 pm
(July 19, 2015 at 3:36 pm)Mr.wizard Wrote: Soooo....when to we get to see the evidence?
Any thread now.
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