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Bad logic. Very bad logic. You may fool yourself but it won't fool anyone else (except maybe Coreece). You have NO evidence to support your myths.
BS you have no evidence to refute it.
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Because it's an easy cop out for lazy people. When posing the questions about what we are doing here, instead of saying something like this:
"I don't know yet but if I study it using the scientific method maybe someday I will"
The lazy say:
"It's too complicated to understand so it must be some mythical being that is up there making it happen".
"I don't know yet but if I study it using the scientific method maybe someday I will"
The lazy say:
"It's too complicated to understand so it must be some mythical being that is up there making it happen".
Whaat? Our history speaks for its self. We are a species with an intense thirst for God.
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billvon 3,111
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>We are a species with an intense thirst for God.
And violence, and alcohol, and gambling. As with everything, moderation is key.
And violence, and alcohol, and gambling. As with everything, moderation is key.
normiss 892
Plus all the magical mystery unexplainable stuff.
Babies.
Dinosaurs.
Famine.
Solar eclipses.
DNA.
Free thought.
Intelligent life.
Only god can 'splain that stuff. We mere mortals ain't smart enuff.
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Bad logic. Very bad logic. You may fool yourself but it won't fool anyone else (except maybe Coreece). You have NO evidence to support your myths.
BS you have no evidence to refute it.
Utter nonsense. The burden is on the believers of the spiritual to prove their belief, not on others to disprove it. That's truly as basic as it gets.
You get an F in Logic 101.
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Bad logic. Very bad logic. You may fool yourself but it won't fool anyone else (except maybe Coreece). You have NO evidence to support your myths.
BS you have no evidence to refute it.
Both a logical fallacy, and wrong. Humans are very adept at assigning patterns where none exist. We evolved to do this. It is better to think you see a tiger in the grass whn there isn't one, than to fail to see a tiger when there is one.
Your god is just a manifestation of this.
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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.
billvon 3,111
>If God doesn't exist why, as a species ,have we sought Him for so many millennia?
Because:
1) We are social animals, and for centuries looked for people to rule us. (We still have this with us today, which is why so many americans are obsessed with our president, who is supposed to be a mere administrator.) We often extend this to look for a ruler outside of our normal social structures.
2) We have a desire to understand the world around us, and when we can't, God is a good substitute.
3) As neurotheologists are starting to understand, many mental peculiarities (not defects) render people susceptible to hearing voices, seeing visions etc. If even .1% of the people in a population have such unique brain morphologies, that's a lot of people who "experience God" in a very direct way. (Or the devil, or evil spirits, or whatever.)
>If there wasn't an evolutionary advantage to finding God, He would never have arisen
>in the first place.
As mentioned above, there are indeed evolutionary advantages to desiring to be ruled by someone.
>What evolutionary advantage could atheism possibly offer?
Well, atheists reproduce a lot more effectively than eunuchs, Catholic priests or nuns do.
Because:
1) We are social animals, and for centuries looked for people to rule us. (We still have this with us today, which is why so many americans are obsessed with our president, who is supposed to be a mere administrator.) We often extend this to look for a ruler outside of our normal social structures.
2) We have a desire to understand the world around us, and when we can't, God is a good substitute.
3) As neurotheologists are starting to understand, many mental peculiarities (not defects) render people susceptible to hearing voices, seeing visions etc. If even .1% of the people in a population have such unique brain morphologies, that's a lot of people who "experience God" in a very direct way. (Or the devil, or evil spirits, or whatever.)
>If there wasn't an evolutionary advantage to finding God, He would never have arisen
>in the first place.
As mentioned above, there are indeed evolutionary advantages to desiring to be ruled by someone.
>What evolutionary advantage could atheism possibly offer?
Well, atheists reproduce a lot more effectively than eunuchs, Catholic priests or nuns do.
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Bad logic. Very bad logic. You may fool yourself but it won't fool anyone else (except maybe Coreece). You have NO evidence to support your myths.
BS you have no evidence to refute it.
Utter nonsense. The burden is on the believers of the spiritual to prove their belief, not on others to disprove it. That's truly as basic as it gets.
You get an F in Logic 101.
Maybe, but I get an A+ in knowing the Truth and having the Truth set me free. And, I ain't got no burdens .
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Quote>If God doesn't exist why, as a species ,have we sought Him for so many millennia?
Because:
1) We are social animals, and for centuries looked for people to rule us. (We still have this with us today, which is why so many americans are obsessed with our president, who is supposed to be a mere administrator.) We often extend this to look for a ruler outside of our normal social structures.
2) We have a desire to understand the world around us, and when we can't, God is a good substitute.
3) As neurotheologists are starting to understand, many mental peculiarities (not defects) render people susceptible to hearing voices, seeing visions etc. If even .1% of the people in a population have such unique brain morphologies, that's a lot of people who "experience God" in a very direct way. (Or the devil, or evil spirits, or whatever.)
>If there wasn't an evolutionary advantage to finding God, He would never have arisen
>in the first place.
As mentioned above, there are indeed evolutionary advantages to desiring to be ruled by someone.
Well if all of that is true, then atheists must be an evolutionary dead end.
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billvon 3,111
>Well if all of that is true, then atheists must be an evolutionary dead end.
If they were there wouldn't be any, now, would there?
If they were there wouldn't be any, now, would there?
Because it's an easy cop out for lazy people. When posing the questions about what we are doing here, instead of saying something like this:
"I don't know yet but if I study it using the scientific method maybe someday I will"
The lazy say:
"It's too complicated to understand so it must be some mythical being that is up there making it happen".
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