Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-31-2005, 04:43 AM
|
Replies: 34
Views: 12,340
Re: Is Darwin dead...
[ QUOTE ]
The world is flat.
[/ QUOTE ]
It IS flat. It's also round. It's also a sphere. It doesn't move. It rotates around its axis and revolves around the sun.
None of the...
|
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-28-2005, 05:44 PM
|
Replies: 48
Views: 5,522
Re: Logic in an atheistic worldview
[ QUOTE ]
Why does rejecting God imply that man is the highest rational being?
[/ QUOTE ]
By definition God is the Absolute rational being. Even if there's a being higher than man but...
|
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-28-2005, 01:13 PM
|
Replies: 48
Views: 5,522
Re: Logic in an atheistic worldview
[ QUOTE ]
This, I believe, is what Sartre was getting at with his talk about absurdity
[/ QUOTE ]
This is partly true. But the bigger picture is that existentialism is itself the...
|
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-28-2005, 03:29 AM
|
Replies: 48
Views: 5,522
Re: Logic in an atheistic worldview
[ QUOTE ]
who know they know nothing.
[/ QUOTE ]
You do see the contradiction in this, right?
I believe true knowledge is possible because God exists and has made us capable of...
|
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-28-2005, 03:05 AM
|
Replies: 48
Views: 5,522
Re: Logic in an atheistic worldview
[ QUOTE ]
In what sense is the universe "irrational" and what "atheist philosophers" say that it is?
[/ QUOTE ]
Most, if not all, existentialist philosophers. It is irrational if there...
|
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-28-2005, 03:00 AM
|
Replies: 15
Views: 857
Re: March of the Penguins
[ QUOTE ]
I have not seen this film
[/ QUOTE ]
This film was written about in a George Will column which prompted a thread you can find here...
|
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-28-2005, 02:48 AM
|
Replies: 48
Views: 5,522
Re: Logic in an atheistic worldview
[ QUOTE ]
How does the atheist account for the acceptance and validity of the laws of logic? Is it blind faith?
[/ QUOTE ]
Good questions. No atheist worldview can rationally account...
|
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-26-2005, 01:44 AM
|
Replies: 22
Views: 2,533
Re: The Bible
I would recommend
Bible Gateway (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/)
for many translations as well as linked cross-references and very good search functions. My preference is the New...
|
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-16-2005, 04:20 AM
|
Replies: 54
Views: 1,577
Re: Evidence and all that
[ QUOTE ]
I know of no religions with God concepts that involve a God who created the universe and then left it alone entirely.
[/ QUOTE ]
Deism. Of late, sometimes known as...
|
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-13-2005, 05:24 PM
|
Replies: 32
Views: 1,418
Re: A Refutation of Determinism
[ QUOTE ]
C) Human life is significant
[/ QUOTE ]
What's significant about a cosmic accident that no one remembers when it's disappeared?
|
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-13-2005, 01:57 PM
|
Replies: 32
Views: 1,418
Re: A Refutation of Determinism
[ QUOTE ]
In conclusion, it is the nut best belief to trust in free will, whether or not it actually exists. Make sense?
[/ QUOTE ]
The real issue seems to be how can we escape...
|
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-10-2005, 06:51 PM
|
Replies: 111
Views: 2,035
Re: A question for Christians AND atheists
[ QUOTE ]
The fact is, Calvinist doctrine states that nobody can choose to believe except that God chooses to supply his irresestible Grace to them.
[/ QUOTE ]
I'm not completely...
|
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-10-2005, 05:08 AM
|
Replies: 111
Views: 2,035
Re: A question for Christians AND atheists
[ QUOTE ]
I think Bin Laden feels the same way. Scary, isn't it?
[/ QUOTE ]
This is a non-answer because you are against the world I live in. Does that make you Bin Laden?
|
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-10-2005, 05:04 AM
|
Replies: 111
Views: 2,035
Re: A question for Christians AND atheists
[ QUOTE ]
God is THE Ultimate Cause. All causes are under God's cause. As a Calvinist, you should know this.
[/ QUOTE ]
As a former Calvinist you should know the answer to this. That...
|
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-09-2005, 03:32 PM
|
Replies: 111
Views: 2,035
Re: A question for Christians AND atheists
[ QUOTE ]
If God is so opposed to unbelief, why did He create man with intelligence and then leave him without any physical evidence or logical proof for belief?
[/ QUOTE ]
He didn't....
|
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-09-2005, 03:29 PM
|
Replies: 111
Views: 2,035
Re: A question for Christians AND atheists
[ QUOTE ]
Unless they're in need of science in order to survive. Very few Christians would be against the naturalistic/atheistic world view that allows medical science to cure diseseases and...
|
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-09-2005, 03:28 PM
|
Replies: 111
Views: 2,035
|
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-09-2005, 02:53 PM
|
Replies: 111
Views: 2,035
Re: A question for Christians AND atheists
[ QUOTE ]
It's just a side effect of religious thought that it turns one against the world in which we live and breathe.
[/ QUOTE ]
It isn't just a side effect. Atheism is hostility...
|
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-09-2005, 01:14 PM
|
Replies: 111
Views: 2,035
Re: A question for Christians AND atheists
[ QUOTE ]
I felt the same about it as I had about the tooth fairy and santa.
[/ QUOTE ]
I went through the same process at the same age. When I grew old enough to think I realized how...
|
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-09-2005, 04:52 AM
|
Replies: 111
Views: 2,035
Re: A question for Christians AND atheists
[ QUOTE ]
Faith and religion were invented by people who felt the same weaknesses I did and we all do from time to time. It's comforting to think there is an all-knowing being out there. It's not...
|
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-08-2005, 09:07 PM
|
Replies: 36
Views: 1,165
Re: Is panspermia a scienctific theory?
[ QUOTE ]
Didn't that link say exactly the opposite of what you're saying?
[/ QUOTE ]
Yeah. It also had the first entry as a "fossil" (some pieces of a skull) that some evolutionists...
|
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-08-2005, 03:26 PM
|
Replies: 36
Views: 1,165
|
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-08-2005, 05:03 AM
|
Replies: 36
Views: 1,165
Re: Is panspermia a scienctific theory?
[ QUOTE ]
What other types of truths are there?
[/ QUOTE ]
To be more accurate, there is only one type of truth, but more than one way of knowing or expressing truth. Other methods...
|
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-07-2005, 06:30 PM
|
Replies: 36
Views: 1,165
Re: Is panspermia a scienctific theory?
[ QUOTE ]
Here's what panspermia would look like if expressed in ID terms.-
(A) If life in other parts of the galaxy seeded life forms on earth, we'd see life forms on earth. There are life...
|
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-06-2005, 10:52 PM
|
Replies: 36
Views: 1,165
|