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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 12-31-2005, 04:43 AM
Replies: 34
Views: 12,340
Posted By NotReady
Re: Is Darwin dead...

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The world is flat.


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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
Posted By NotReady
Re: Logic in an atheistic worldview

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Why does rejecting God imply that man is the highest rational being?


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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
Posted By NotReady
Re: Logic in an atheistic worldview

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This, I believe, is what Sartre was getting at with his talk about absurdity


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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
Posted By NotReady
Re: Logic in an atheistic worldview

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who know they know nothing.


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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
Posted By NotReady
Re: Logic in an atheistic worldview

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In what sense is the universe "irrational" and what "atheist philosophers" say that it is?


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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
Posted By NotReady
Re: March of the Penguins

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I have not seen this film


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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
Posted By NotReady
Re: Logic in an atheistic worldview

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How does the atheist account for the acceptance and validity of the laws of logic? Is it blind faith?


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Good questions. No atheist worldview can rationally account...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 12-26-2005, 01:44 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 2,533
Posted By NotReady
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
Posted By NotReady
Re: Evidence and all that

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I know of no religions with God concepts that involve a God who created the universe and then left it alone entirely.


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Deism. Of late, sometimes known as...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 12-13-2005, 05:24 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 1,418
Posted By NotReady
Re: A Refutation of Determinism

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C) Human life is significant


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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
Posted By NotReady
Re: A Refutation of Determinism

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In conclusion, it is the nut best belief to trust in free will, whether or not it actually exists. Make sense?


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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
Posted By NotReady
Re: A question for Christians AND atheists

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The fact is, Calvinist doctrine states that nobody can choose to believe except that God chooses to supply his irresestible Grace to them.


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I'm not completely...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 12-10-2005, 05:08 AM
Replies: 111
Views: 2,035
Posted By NotReady
Re: A question for Christians AND atheists

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I think Bin Laden feels the same way. Scary, isn't it?


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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
Posted By NotReady
Re: A question for Christians AND atheists

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God is THE Ultimate Cause. All causes are under God's cause. As a Calvinist, you should know this.


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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
Posted By NotReady
Re: A question for Christians AND atheists

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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?


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He didn't....
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 12-09-2005, 03:29 PM
Replies: 111
Views: 2,035
Posted By NotReady
Re: A question for Christians AND atheists

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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
Posted By NotReady
Re: A question for Christians AND atheists

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This is why so many of us hate Christianity.


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Of course it is.
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 12-09-2005, 02:53 PM
Replies: 111
Views: 2,035
Posted By NotReady
Re: A question for Christians AND atheists

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It's just a side effect of religious thought that it turns one against the world in which we live and breathe.


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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
Posted By NotReady
Re: A question for Christians AND atheists

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I felt the same about it as I had about the tooth fairy and santa.


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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
Posted By NotReady
Re: A question for Christians AND atheists

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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
Posted By NotReady
Re: Is panspermia a scienctific theory?

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Didn't that link say exactly the opposite of what you're saying?


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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
Posted By NotReady
Re: Is panspermia a scienctific theory?

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I'd like to find out where you're getting your knowledge on this subject. Blurbs on a website?


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Link provided by maurile.
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 12-08-2005, 05:03 AM
Replies: 36
Views: 1,165
Posted By NotReady
Re: Is panspermia a scienctific theory?

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What other types of truths are there?


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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
Posted By NotReady
Re: Is panspermia a scienctific theory?

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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
Posted By NotReady
Re: Is panspermia a scienctific theory?

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Who's calling FSM real science?


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I sometimes cave to the sarcasm temptation.
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