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RE: When people claim religion is harmless.
January 16, 2018 at 5:40 pm
(January 16, 2018 at 4:57 pm)Brian37 Wrote: (January 16, 2018 at 4:19 pm)alpha male Wrote: Depends on whether you subscribe to natural selection at the group level. If you do, then my conclusion follows.
NO, sorry, evolution HAS NOT been debunked and scientific method is not group think, it is a TOOL, a process. Group think is what religions do, scientific method is a tool A neutral tool and does not prop up any religion, not yours, not any.
EVOLUTION is fact, if you don't like that, TOUGH SHIT.
You're so fucking stupid you don't even realize that I made an argument from evolution.
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RE: When people claim religion is harmless.
January 16, 2018 at 5:46 pm
(January 16, 2018 at 5:27 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: (January 16, 2018 at 5:24 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: I think as more information is gathered we will see "mental disease or defect" put forward.
Which, in this instance, can be cured with a high velocity lobotomy.
Studies show that a small amount of lead in the ear proves curative. I suggest .22 calibre.
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: When people claim religion is harmless.
January 16, 2018 at 5:48 pm
(January 16, 2018 at 5:46 pm)Cyberman Wrote: (January 16, 2018 at 5:27 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Which, in this instance, can be cured with a high velocity lobotomy.
Studies show that a small amount of lead in the ear proves curative. I suggest .22 calibre.
100% of offenders treated thusly never reoffend.
Now I'm starting to sound like Judge Death, "All crime is committed by the living, so life must be outlawed".
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RE: When people claim religion is harmless.
January 16, 2018 at 5:52 pm
Can't argue with that.
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: When people claim religion is harmless.
January 16, 2018 at 5:58 pm
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RE: When people claim religion is harmless.
January 16, 2018 at 6:13 pm
(January 16, 2018 at 5:40 pm)alpha male Wrote: (January 16, 2018 at 4:57 pm)Brian37 Wrote: NO, sorry, evolution HAS NOT been debunked and scientific method is not group think, it is a TOOL, a process. Group think is what religions do, scientific method is a tool A neutral tool and does not prop up any religion, not yours, not any.
EVOLUTION is fact, if you don't like that, TOUGH SHIT.
You're so fucking stupid you don't even realize that I made an argument from evolution.
So you are saying you accept evolution then? GREAT, but that STILL not require your God or any to occur.
WE do get lots of evolution deniers, and not just on this website, I was just arguing with an idiot on FB about this very same subject.
It still remains that scientific method is a tool, not a religion, and still remains, even if you cherry pick the parts of science you like, that would still NOT point to your God or any.
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RE: When people claim religion is harmless.
January 16, 2018 at 6:55 pm
(January 16, 2018 at 5:14 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: (January 16, 2018 at 4:32 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Christianity gave us the scientific method. I'd call that a net positive.
Now that's some damn fine sarcasm.
You only say that because it is irrefutable.
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RE: When people claim religion is harmless.
January 16, 2018 at 7:17 pm
Has anyone else ever noticed that the religious have a fetish for the word "refute"?
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RE: When people claim religion is harmless.
January 16, 2018 at 7:22 pm
(January 16, 2018 at 6:55 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: (January 16, 2018 at 5:14 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Now that's some damn fine sarcasm.
You only say that because it is irrefutable.
That it's sarcasm, yes that is irrefutable.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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RE: When people claim religion is harmless.
January 16, 2018 at 7:35 pm
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(January 16, 2018 at 4:32 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Christianity gave us the scientific method. I'd call that a net positive.
If you mean Francis Bacon, he was at best a nominal Christian. Even if he weren't, it is wrong to say that 'Christianity gave us the scientific method'. There is nothing whatsoever in Christianity that would lead to hypotheses testable by observation and experiment.
Take the wedding at Cana, for example. How many of the Jesusites present said, 'Hang on - let's have a look at those wine jars' or 'Neat trick. Let's see you do it again, with wine jars that we provide. And roll up your sleeves while you're at it.' ?
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