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Old 11-21-2006, 07:49 PM   #11
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Since you noticed, why don't you all be darlings and find many of my responses to your responses on other boards? I think I have reigstered at the top 8 or so listed at google search "atheist forum".
No. I'm not interested in how you responded to atheists on other forums. If you want to have a discussion with people here, I suggest you do so.
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Old 11-21-2006, 08:06 PM   #12
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Can I eat your babies? We atheists love to eat a couple of babies for breakfast. They go great with a side of eggs, you know.

Just kidding.

Welcome to our little nut house community. Enjoy your stay!
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I can only reply at a certain time of each day. If you want can't wait for even 24 hours, I don't know who's being unpolite here.

'Whether you care to admit it or not, belief in god(s) is superstition, and irrational."

- I don't disagree with that. But to be sure that there is no God, one would require trust in that our findings and evidence are complete and human intelligence is complete enough to interpret the evidence/findings absolutely. If no one can provide logical or scientific support on either of those statements, then that would mean to believe there can't be a God would require faith.

"I'm not interested in how you responded to atheists on other forums. If you want to have a discussion with people here, I suggest you do so."

- ok being moderator doesn't mean you tell people what they already know.
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Old 11-22-2006, 01:21 AM   #14
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I can only reply at a certain time of each day. If you want can't wait for even 24 hours, I don't know who's being unpolite here.
Well, if you are carrying on the same conversation at the same time on 7 other boards then I don't think that you are properly applying yourself to the limited time you have in the day.

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- I don't disagree with that. But to be sure that there is no God, one would require trust in that our findings and evidence are complete and human intelligence is complete enough to interpret the evidence/findings absolutely. If no one can provide logical or scientific support on either of those statements, then that would mean to believe there can't be a God would require faith.
Are you talking about "a" god (as in a concept that is unknowable since you cannot disprove a negative or that which doesn't appear to exist in the first place) or "the" Christian god?

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- ok being moderator doesn't mean you tell people what they already know.
How would we know that you know already if you have demonstrated with what you posted that you apparently don't know that already?
Or is it just now that you know, you know that you know because someone has pointed it out?
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Old 11-22-2006, 03:10 AM   #15
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Well this is a pointless thread. The guy brings out a load of half-baked claims with the strange belief that he is being somewhat original, and then he doesn't respond to the replies. THEN he makes an entirely different thread explaining that he is not a Jehovah's witness. Who said he was?
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Old 11-22-2006, 03:55 AM   #16
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- I don't disagree with that. But to be sure that there is no God, one would require trust in that our findings and evidence are complete and human intelligence is complete enough to interpret the evidence/findings absolutely.
Except for those Gods that are defined as selfcontradictory, like omnimax Gods. To say that square triangles do not exist you do not need to check every triangle in the universe to make sure whether some might be squares.
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If no one can provide logical or scientific support on either of those statements, then that would mean to believe there can't be a God would require faith.
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The same kind of faith is required to believe that Zeus or the IPU is not real, or that the universe was not created fully formed by a hamster last thursday.

Not being sure something is impossible is not a good reason to believe it.
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Old 11-22-2006, 05:42 AM   #17
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Tuvar addresses your points in much the same way I would. We make no claims to infallibility or omniscience, saukhasi; in fact we would say that such absolute abilities are impossible in this universe described by the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Absolute anything appears to be impossible.

Since God is defined as having several absolute properties, we don't see how such a being can exist in this universe. So, we lack belief in your god, or any other about which we've been told; while we won't say that it's impossible that there are universes other than this one wherein something that might be called a god might exist, we know nothing about any other universe. Therefore honesty compels us to disbelieve in god(s).
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Well this is a pointless thread. The guy brings out a load of half-baked claims with the strange belief that he is being somewhat original, and then he doesn't respond to the replies. THEN he makes an entirely different thread
The other one got locked very quickly.

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explaining that he is not a Jehovah's witness. Who said he was?
Can't remember who, but someone did.
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Tuvar addresses your points in much the same way I would. We make no claims to infallibility or omniscience, saukhasi; in fact we would say that such absolute abilities are impossible in this universe described by the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Absolute anything appears to be impossible.

Since God is defined as having several absolute properties, we don't see how such a being can exist in this universe. So, we lack belief in your god, or any other about which we've been told; while we won't say that it's impossible that there are universes other than this one wherein something that might be called a god might exist, we know nothing about any other universe. Therefore honesty compels us to disbelieve in god(s).
It would sound as if complete honesty would compel you to say it's an open question.
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Not being sure something is impossible is not a good reason to believe it.
No, but it's a damned good reason to not say unequivocally that the Christian God does not exist. And it's an even better reason to not disparage that God.
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