blewmeanie said:

DimensionX said:

but if it addresses the question, picks a definite side, and has a range of arguments as to why to believes the way that it does. It seems the same as any other philosophy.

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Atheism does not adress any questions, it does not represent a side to any particular argument....etc

There is no Atheism except from the point of view of the theist.

Some people who call themselves atheist's go out of their way to try and disprove various religious beliefs, but that is not atheism. Atheism is simply the lack of a belief in god. Or more specifically a lack of belief in your god.

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tripp23 said:

wtf.. i thought evolution takes millions of years alone.. if so then how the fuck would we see sings of us or anything else changing in only fucking 2000 years..

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junkyardgod said:

Bah...I don't know where my beliefs lie. What I do know is that Mr. Douche's accusatory tone makes him look closed-minded and "pretty darn stupid", quoting him of course haha. And he's spouting a lot of philosophies that have their own contradictions - chiefly teleological arguments that give credibilty to scientific theories, not only theological ones.

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Ferris said:

He screws up right off the bat by ignoring the multiverse theory, and by equating science to belief

Also, I don't think that any scientist has ruled out that the universe was created by an advanced being.  It's the whole concept of omnipotence that kills the God claim.

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Louiscypher said:

Prove there is a god without using the bible. I can prove that antibiotic resistant bacteria mutate (evolve very quickly). Antibiotic resistance spreads fast. Between 1979 and 1987, for example, only 0.02 percent of pneumococcus strains infecting a large number of patients surveyed by the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were penicillin-resistant. CDC's survey included 13 hospitals in 12 states. Today, 6.6 percent of pneumococcus strains are resistant, according to a report in the June 15, 1994, Journal of the American Medical Association by Robert F. Breiman, M.D., and colleagues at CDC. The agency also reports that in 1992, 13,300 hospital patients died of bacterial infections that were resistant to antibiotic treatment.

If that isn't evolution I don't know what is. Also why haven't they found Kiwi and other flightless and swimless bird fossils, Kangaroo, Duck billed Platypus fossils in the area around mount Ararat? I know they could not have swam or flown to Australia and New Zealand. How did all the animals get to the ark if they had to cross large bodies of water? What about all the species of Termites he would have had to bring on the ark and the millions of termites  that all the species of Anteater would have to eat? They would have eaten the ark since time in the bible was longer at that time and people lived hundreds of years. The flood would have lasted years not days. Damn it must have been sky fairy magic.

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Louiscypher said:

Prove there is a god without using the bible.

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Ferris said:

In these sorts of arguments, one typically uses omnipotent (insert more adjectives) being.

Or just being for short.

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blewmeanie said:

Ferris said:

In these sorts of arguments, one typically uses omnipotent (insert more adjectives) being.

Or just being for short.

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That is a pretty limited perspective though, not all religions involve an omnipotent god.

"God" is an absolutely worthless term IMO.

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