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What's the lamest defence of Theism you've ever heard?
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RE: What's the lamest defence of Theism you've ever heard?
(February 14, 2016 at 9:47 am)Alex K Wrote: This deserves at least an honorable mention

https://youtu.be/BXLqDGL1FSg

Serious question: are televangelists like porn stars in that they pick their own names?  Ray Comfort? Creflo Dollar?
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#22
RE: What's the lamest defence of Theism you've ever heard?
(February 14, 2016 at 10:14 am)Mr.wizard Wrote: For me I hate it when they start talking about personal experiences and after they are done telling you this longwinded over exaggerated account of alleged events, they stare at you with this dumb look on their face and say, "how do you explain that?".

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RE: What's the lamest defence of Theism you've ever heard?
(February 14, 2016 at 10:32 am)Yeauxleaux Wrote: . . . .

We live 80 years at best, and probably die from some horrible disease.

"God's plan, though"

EXCEPT when a US Supreme Court justice gets called home by GOD during a liberal democrat's presidential term, THEN, you get to jump in and over rule God's clear intent and substitute YOUR OWN take on HOW THINGS OTTA BE.

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#24
What's the lamest defence of Theism you've ever heard?
(February 14, 2016 at 10:32 am)Yeauxleaux Wrote:
(February 14, 2016 at 10:26 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: The most annoying for me, personally, is this one:  

Theist: "I have evidence that the world and everything in it had to be designed."

Atheist: "Okay, what is your evidence?"

Theist: "well...everything LOOKS designed!   Duhhhh.  I mean, it's obvious.  We were designed." 
That one kills me as well. Nothing about this planet or life on it looks designed.

Yeah, I agree. I realized how irrational it is to even consider intelligent design once I learned just the basics of natural selection. It reminds me of an example a member here used once (paraphrasing): "It's like looking at a puddle in the road and saying, 'how amazing that water was perfectly designed to fit into that hole!"
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”

Wiser words were never spoken. 
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RE: What's the lamest defence of Theism you've ever heard?
(February 14, 2016 at 10:40 am)LadyForCamus Wrote:
(February 14, 2016 at 10:32 am)Yeauxleaux Wrote: That one kills me as well. Nothing about this planet or life on it looks designed.

Yeah, I agree.  I realized how irrational it is to even consider intelligent design once I learned just the basics of natural selection.  It reminds me of an example a member here used once (paraphrasing):  "It's like looking at a puddle in the road and saying, 'how amazing that water was perfectly designed to fit into that hole!"  

See also: the platypus
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RE: What's the lamest defence of Theism you've ever heard?
Is it too fucking much to expect the goddam christers and those who fucking pander to them all the fucking time to actual look in God's fucking play book once in a fucking while and actually attempt to fucking play by THEIR FUCKING RULES ???

REALLY, is it THAT FUCKING HARD ??

Jesus fucking Christ, what kind of lame ass fucking rationalization are we going to hear from the christers why Obama shouldn't get to pick Scalia's replacement ??

I'm sure it will a total cluster fuck of logic, and heretically blasphemous too.
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RE: What's the lamest defence of Theism you've ever heard?
It's the self-centredness humans have. I thnk it's ironic when people look at the world like that, like it was designed for us. It's the opposite, we wouldn't exist if we didn't evolve to survive here.
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#28
RE: What's the lamest defence of Theism you've ever heard?
Damn, I might have to watch the fucking 700 Club this week to get the winning quote for this thread direct from the lips of Pat FUCKING Robertson himself.
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#29
RE: What's the lamest defence of Theism you've ever heard?
(February 14, 2016 at 10:44 am)Yeauxleaux Wrote: It's the self-centredness humans have. I thnk it's ironic when people look at the world like that, like it was designed for us. It's the opposite, we wouldn't exist if we didn't evolve to survive here.

I'm a Star Trek nerd, and every time I see the argument from design I think back to Star Trek IV when Spock essentially said that human arrogance makes them/us think that everything "must be meant for man."

It's an idiotic assumption to make.
"I was thirsty for everything, but blood wasn't my style" - Live, "Voodoo Lady"
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RE: What's the lamest defence of Theism you've ever heard?
(February 14, 2016 at 10:44 am)Yeauxleaux Wrote: It's the self-centredness humans have. I thnk it's ironic when people look at the world like that, like it was designed for us. It's the opposite, we wouldn't exist if we didn't evolve to survive here.

I agree but don't put it like that, because while we did adapt to get where we are now, we are not the best species at surviving everything. Cockroaches survived what killed the dinosaurs, humans wouldn't survive something like that. There are far more species of life better at reproduction and survival than humans. Our biggest problem as a species is our own ignorance of our place on the planet and and in the universe.
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