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Natural Selection Seems Insufficient
#41
RE: Natural Selection Seems Insufficient
(9 hours ago)The Valkyrie Wrote: The very first post gives copy/paste vibes...

I'm sure their "argument" is the result of regurgitating something they heard/read online, didn't understand, and mistook for profound, but it doesn't seem to be a direct copy/pasta.
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#42
RE: Natural Selection Seems Insufficient
(9 hours ago)The Grand Nudger Wrote: …or you might not know what atheism means?  People can believe in human agency without believing in gods.  Your own example of the dominos doesn’t seem to present any difference between a world with or without them.

Human agency? In a domino determinism? Not really. In a theistic or atheistic panpsychism? Yes.  Hopefully we agree on that point.
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#43
RE: Natural Selection Seems Insufficient
(8 hours ago)Jal Wrote:
(8 hours ago)Ravenshire Wrote: You didn't make any cogent arguments. You flung some poo at the walls in hopes it would stick.

I'm not here to rebut your arguments you might accidentally make, they're self-rebutting. I'm here to point up how silly you look when making them.

None of my arguments were cogent? Then you should have easily refuted them. Fact is, you did no such thing.  Tell tale sign.

Yep. A tell-tale sign that we've seen/heard all the crap that flows from the religious and find it tedious, if sometimes unintentionally comic. There is rarely anything worthy of rebuttal, and that is especially the case with you.
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#44
RE: Natural Selection Seems Insufficient
(8 hours ago)Ravenshire Wrote:
(9 hours ago)The Valkyrie Wrote: The very first post gives copy/paste vibes...

I'm sure their "argument" is the result of regurgitating something they heard/read online, didn't understand, and mistook for profound, but it doesn't seem to be a direct copy/pasta.

You're sure I'm just regurgitating someone else's view?  Actually I formed my views before I ever heard the word panpsychism. 

But even I were just parroting someone else,  not sure why that's such a big deal. If you repeat/ regurgitate atheistic views, does that make you a fraud?

I'm really not sure what point you guys are trying to make here.  Doesn't seem relevant.
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#45
RE: Natural Selection Seems Insufficient
(7 hours ago)Ravenshire Wrote:
(8 hours ago)Jal Wrote: None of my arguments were cogent? Then you should have easily refuted them. Fact is, you did no such thing.  Tell tale sign.

Yep. A tell-tale sign that we've seen/heard all the crap that flows from the religious and find it tedious, if sometimes unintentionally comic. There is rarely anything worthy of rebuttal, and that is especially the case with you.

Telltale again. Seems this is par for the course.
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#46
RE: Natural Selection Seems Insufficient
Have you considered whether or not gods actually explain human agency?
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#47
RE: Natural Selection Seems Insufficient
(7 hours ago)Jal Wrote:
(8 hours ago)Ravenshire Wrote: I'm sure their "argument" is the result of regurgitating something they heard/read online, didn't understand, and mistook for profound, but it doesn't seem to be a direct copy/pasta.

You're sure I'm just regurgitating someone else's view?  Actually I formed my views before I ever heard the word panpsychism. 

But even I were just parroting someone else,  not sure why that's such a big deal. If you repeat/ regurgitate atheistic views, does that make you a fraud?

I'm really not sure what point you guys are trying to make here.  Doesn't seem relevant.

Actually, I spend about as much time in a year discussing my atheism as you've spent today trying to sell your version of christer insanity, whether it's your sweat-soaked fever dream or someone else's. If it's yours, my condolences. It shows a marked lack of imagination.
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#48
RE: Natural Selection Seems Insufficient
(7 hours ago)Jal Wrote:
(7 hours ago)Ravenshire Wrote: Yep. A tell-tale sign that we've seen/heard all the crap that flows from the religious and find it tedious, if sometimes unintentionally comic. There is rarely anything worthy of rebuttal, and that is especially the case with you.

Telltale again. Seems this is par for the course.

And you simply cannot spit out an original sentence. Or, did Mr. Rodgers teach you that new word today and get you all excited to use it?
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#49
RE: Natural Selection Seems Insufficient
(7 hours ago)Ravenshire Wrote:
(7 hours ago)Jal Wrote: You're sure I'm just regurgitating someone else's view?  Actually I formed my views before I ever heard the word panpsychism. 

But even I were just parroting someone else,  not sure why that's such a big deal. If you repeat/ regurgitate atheistic views, does that make you a fraud?

I'm really not sure what point you guys are trying to make here.  Doesn't seem relevant.

Actually, I spend about as much time in a year discussing my atheism as you've spent today trying to sell your version of christer insanity, whether it's your sweat-soaked fever dream or someone else's. If it's yours, my condolences. It shows a marked lack of imagination.

You seem to write as if my posts have tried to convince the atheist reader to accept the Bible. If that's your insinutation it is a strawman intellectually dishonest.

I did no such thing.
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#50
RE: Natural Selection Seems Insufficient
On top of that, you haven't identified anything insane or unreasonable in my positoin.
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