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A Question of Dropped Pennies: How Might an Atheist Respond?
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RE: A Question of Dropped Pennies: How Might an Atheist Respond?
July 2, 2017 at 4:00 pm
The biggest question is... who is going to grab the soap?
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RE: A Question of Dropped Pennies: How Might an Atheist Respond?
July 2, 2017 at 4:02 pm
(July 2, 2017 at 3:17 pm)Whateverist Wrote: Anyone know what I'm doing wrong to get a video to post?

You had newline (return) characters inside the video tags. Fixed it for ya.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great

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RE: A Question of Dropped Pennies: How Might an Atheist Respond?
July 2, 2017 at 4:03 pm
(July 2, 2017 at 3:56 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: A penny is a VERY large object for Heisenbergian hijinks, however, if you try it enough times . . . . .


If Alex wants to take a stab at the math that would be fine, my best calculator only goes up to 9.999999999 X 10^499

A penny is far too insignificant for my frame of reference. I want Newton back, was worth more then. Wouldn't even get you a semi-hairy man now V.
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RE: A Question of Dropped Pennies: How Might an Atheist Respond?
July 2, 2017 at 6:17 pm (This post was last modified: July 2, 2017 at 6:44 pm by Rhondazvous.)
(July 2, 2017 at 1:59 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: [Image: aaaaaaa.jpg]
A diagram can make things so clear. I guess when I get ready to write a novel about gravity, I can ask SC.
Psyche. I haven't the foggiest idea what that diagram means.
(July 2, 2017 at 3:12 pm)Luckie Wrote: I'm confused about your use of Agnostic. What do you mean when you think of this particular category?
I use it in general terms. a = nit, gnostic = know. So I'm refering to someone who rejects that we can know anything.

I'm aware that everyone who applies the word agnostic to himself may not apply this definition to himself. However, this is what I have in mind in the op.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.

I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.

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RE: A Question of Dropped Pennies: How Might an Atheist Respond?
July 2, 2017 at 7:25 pm
"Rhonda! Close your purse, dammit."
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RE: A Question of Dropped Pennies: How Might an Atheist Respond?
July 3, 2017 at 1:24 pm
(July 2, 2017 at 3:57 pm)Succubus Wrote: I'm too old for the experiment, all that unpleasant bending. Why not use a fifty pence piece?

Then I'd only have to drop it once.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.

I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.

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A Question of Dropped Pennies: How Might an Atheist Respond?
July 3, 2017 at 1:26 pm
(July 2, 2017 at 11:54 am)Rhondazvous Wrote: Let’s say I drop a penny on the floor fifty times to demonstrate the law of gravity.
Agnostic: How do you know it won’t fly into the air if you drop it one more time?
Theist: My god can make the penny fly into the air the next time you drop it. But don’t actually try it. Thou shalt not tempt the lord thy god.
Deist: Yes, there’s something making that penny drop.

Now, what might an atheist say?


In a vacuum on earth that penny will drop towards the center of the earth at 9.8 m/s^2 due to gravitational acceleration

(Nothing about a penny dropping would warrant me saying anything about me not believing in a god)


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RE: A Question of Dropped Pennies: How Might an Atheist Respond?
July 3, 2017 at 1:52 pm (This post was last modified: July 3, 2017 at 2:30 pm by Cyberman.)
James Randi once gave a talk on this sort of thing. It's been a while since I watched it so I'm not going to do it proper justice.

Actually, scrub that - I just found the video of it:



At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: A Question of Dropped Pennies: How Might an Atheist Respond?
July 3, 2017 at 4:27 pm (This post was last modified: July 3, 2017 at 4:29 pm by brewer.)
This atheist says: Start dropping a Gaudens Double Eagle and I'll feign interest until your back is turned.

Hey look, it's Halley's comet!

What coin, god did it. No you can't look in my pocket. RAPE!!!!!
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RE: A Question of Dropped Pennies: How Might an Atheist Respond?
July 4, 2017 at 12:21 pm (This post was last modified: July 4, 2017 at 12:21 pm by bennyboy.)
(July 2, 2017 at 11:54 am)Rhondazvous Wrote: Let’s say I drop a penny on the floor fifty times to demonstrate the law of gravity.
Agnostic: How do you know it won’t fly into the air if you drop it one more time?
Theist: My god can make the penny fly into the air the next time you drop it. But don’t actually try it. Thou shalt not tempt the lord thy god.
Deist: Yes, there’s something making that penny drop.

Now, what might an atheist say?

"When you said 'a penny for your thoughts', I didn't think you'd pay me for 'la la la I can't hear you!'"
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