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For the record RM, I did not celebrate your banning or participate in the thread created to celebrate that event. I think you should man up and ask the mods to delete this thread. What say you?
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My main point is that scientific findings can be interpreted in favor or against Theism, it just depends on how one examines and interprets the evidences.
That's not true, scientists don't "interpret" evidence, the evidence reveals itself for what it is. If someone is interpreting science against theism, that's another story altogether and has nothing to do with the science itself.
For example, science understands consciousness is a product of the brain, but you have interpreted that to be entirely wrong, which has nothing to do with science and everything to do with your biased denial of the facts.
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Teen Kanye.Fuck with me of course this would be your destiny boy. You're all talk thinkin' I'm all talk pahahahahaKnow your fucking place. End of story. I am the grittiest motherfucker in this game and you?
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@Mopac
As you can see, ET indeed calls himself Christian yet his beliefs are polarized from yours.EtrnlVw to my knowledge does not even feel comfortable identifying as a Christian
And unless you've been locked in a dungeon your entire life, you'd understand most all Christians think other Christians beliefs are ridiculous. That's why none of them care what you say about your Orthodoxy and how you claim to own the Bible. That's irrelevant to them as it is to atheists.
That's what neither of you will ever understand, that your religion divides both non-believers and other Christians. It poisons everything especially your minds, evidently.
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Hmmm... let's see, Mopac repeats over and over the same irrational nonsense that has little if any basis in reality and does not listen to anyone else regardless of how much sense they offer him.You don't like the way I present myself, others don't like the way YOU present yourself oh well..
Sounds just like you, doesn't it?
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@Castin
So, you're importing them now? Not enough of them running amok here?We've imported WisdomofAges
I feel like I'm walking down a corridor in an asylum when I read posts here.
And, the rooms are filling up.
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@keithprosser
Sounds good, I just hope it's not the masters of crazy talk.
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It's side split-tingly hilarious how these folks are completely polarized in their outrageous beliefs yet somehow glean them from the same book and then call sane people deluded.
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@keithprosser
EtrnlVw said this to you...
Tried hard? that depends on how ignorant you may be of the subject.
If you haven't talked with the Overlords of the God Worlds and Realms on other planets in other galaxies, then you are clearly ignorant of the subject matter. How dare you, Keith!!
Get with the program, get over to those God Worlds and start talking with the Overlords immediately, don't waste another moment!
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@keithprosser
Yes, I can see Ethan is very happy, right back into his element of insulting, name calling and having it out with Harikrish.
That's where he belongs.
It was the other website linked above that went down, it was only Ethan and Witchypoo there, together, alone, doing something...
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The latter is just a fantasy in your head, there is no evidence whatsoever to support it no matter how many times you repeat it,Two different natures Keith, the physical and the conscious spiritual.
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it's important to remain open and at least neutral about what science finds or studies.
But, you're a science denier, you deny facts and evidence of what science has discovered or explained.
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Hey Witchypoo, looks like you and Ethan will have to find another place to do your thang...
In accordance with Section 25(a) of the ProBoards Terms of Service, this forum has been taken offline.
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Yes, we have facts, evidence and reality to provide good, solid reasoning that your claims about consciousness are absurd in the extreme.You can reject those propositions as some atheist would, but then you need to have good solid reasoning for doing so.
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@Grugore
Some Christians are also as vile and morally bankrupt as you, but not all of them are. Same with Muslims.
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@WisdomofAges
Better check your keyboard, the Caps Lock key keeps getting stuck now and again.
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@Fallaneze
You started out with a list of very poorly thought out assertions and have yet to actually form an argument to support your claims.If only I had a list of arguments to support it...
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The Creator can be argued with or without religion.
And the arguments fail miserably on both counts.
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@IlDiavolo
No, religions merely mask problems, they don't actually deal with or solve them. It's basically exchanging one vice for another.I don't mean religions are useless, they are necessary though. It's a sort of tool to cope with human problems.
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Witchypoo bleats - About the only admirable thing about you people
We look forward to the day you offer something admirable. We won't hold our breath, though.
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And, you think you are better than us, right?Witchypoo - Why you are no better than the other douches.
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@Castin
No, physicists would use the term like any one else, to make something more accurate. Or, they would use it in the same way I explained, where if the constants were changed in any way, another type of universe would form and most likely other kinds of life forms would exist.
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@Fallaneze
Flat Earthers haven't a clue of how the world around them works, they deny common knowledge and facts, never consider hard evidence and haven't the capacity to think rationally or logically, often showing signs of mental disorders.Flat earthers seem to think there are no solid arguments for a spherical earth.
Why would you want to equate yourself with Flat Earthers?
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@Fallaneze
If you have a problem with any of the arguments I'm all ears.
That's an obvious lie considering I've refuted most of your so-called arguments already, and not a peep from you.
I would say BT is right, you're not here to debate. Why are you here? To preach?
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@Fallaneze
It was my selected definition
So, you made up the definition and then linked it to the poorly thought out assertions you provided?
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@keithprosser
Those values are NOT set, they are the results of processes as natural as any other, just like the process of water freezing or boiling. If they were different, then there would be a different universe with different processes. Stars form because of the process they go through to become stars, that's it. There is no fine tuning of anything, it's a meaningless statement.
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@Fallaneze
More deceit, yet another scientific theory being used as an example by someone completely illiterate of the subject matter, and instead creates false premises and erroneous conclusions.Without God, evolution is just a mindless process that has no aims or goals. You would need (1) intent (to reach the goal) and (2) knowledge (of the goal itself). Any prescribed function for our internal organs is predicated on goals.
Evolution does not have a goal and is simply a process of nature like any other process of nature, therefore it does not require a mind in order to work.
Your gish here is failing to gallop.
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@keithprosser
Personally, when it comes to explanations of how nature works, I never let my personal taste get in the way.It's down to personal taste, i suppose.
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@Fallaneze
The arguments just keep going downhill.If our internal organs have a purpose, God exists.Our internal organs have a purpose.Therefore, God exists.
And still, you managed to use way too many words to get your entire argument across, which is this...
Internal organs, God exists.
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@Fallaneze
The universe began to exist.The physical universe expanded from a zero-dimensional point at which all laws in the universe were broken down. The best explanation for this singularity is something non-physical that also possesses causal power. The only plausible candidate for this is consciousness.
That one is just silly, completely ignoring to think. Something that is "Non-physical" means it is not of nature, that to our universe does not exist in any way shape or form. If in any way a phenomenon is detected, it must be physical, then it becomes part of our universe.
If something is non-physical, it can't contain power of any kind as far as we can understand. It simply makes no sense, so if one is going to use it to define a phenomenon, they are using sheer guesswork as they themselves cannot detect, observe or understand something non-physical having physical characteristics and traits.
It's also dishonest and deceitful to start out with an example using a scientific theory and then completely dismiss every bit of scientific evidence as implausible.
Another argument down, although calling it an argument is an overstatement.
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@Fallaneze
The universe beThe beginning of the universe is explained by (1) chance, (2) physical law, or (3) free will.gan to exist.The beginning of the universe is explained by (1) chance, (2) physical law, or (3) free will.
Why offer only three alternatives when there are many more? For example...
The Jatravartid people of Viltvodle VI believe that the entire Universe was in fact sneezed out of the nose of a being known as the Great Green Arkleseizure. The Jatravartids live in perpetual fear of the time they call "the Coming of the Great White Handkerchief," somewhat similar to the Apocalypse. However, the Great Green Arkleseizure theory is not widely accepted outside Viltvodle VI and so, the Universe being as wide and strange as it is, other explanations are constantly being sought by different races throughout the Galaxy.
If you don't provide all the alternative explanations, then it gives the appearance of cherry picking.
You also have to define generalized terms such as "free will". So, lets see what you have to say about that.
Therefore, the Big Bang was caused by (3) free will, meaning that the event was not inevitable and therefore doesn't succumb to the quantification problem. The only plausible candidate for something possessing free will is consciousness.
So much confusion, so few words.
Free will does not automatically conclude something is inevitable, quite the contrary. Free will is the ability and capacity to make choices. In your example of the creation of the universe, free will would examine the choice of creating the universe or not creating it, hence the choice is not inevitable, the choice could have been made to not create it. Indeed, there may have been many more choices that we are not even aware.
Then, you go on to contradict yourself again by saying that free will is possessed by consciousness, which means the consciousness caused the free will to make a choice, therefore free will has already succumbed to the quantification problem. And we can continue further asking, what caused the consciousness and so on in the same endless quantification problem as any other alternative explanation.
That's two of your arguments down for the count.
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@Fallaneze
Did God offer that definition or was it man made?God is defined as a fundamental consciousness.
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@Castin
Ultimately my view, as of now at least, is:fine tuned =/= deliberately designed
Yet, that is pretty much the entire reasoning behind the term, "Fine Tuned", which is just another way of trying to reverse engineer a process of nature based on the results of the process. I'll offer a simpler example of fine tune reasoning.
Water is fine tuned to freeze at 32 degrees Farenheit and boil at 212. If the temperature was 33 degrees and 211 respectively, water would not freeze or boil.
See how silly that is? That's the fine tuning argument.
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@keithprosser
Sorry Keith, what you're asking for would require pages and pages of text. However, those explanations of processes are already available for you to read and understand, if you so desire.
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The so called fine tuning argument fails on so many levels, the hole and puddle a common one. Another simple one is the universe itself and what it consisted of shortly after the Big Bang; an ocean of electromagnetic radiation. So please, go on to tell me how an ocean of electromagnetic radiation is fine tuned?
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@Castin
It would be a great feature, but the additional costs are also great considering the much larger server space required to host all those vids and pics as well as the extra bandwidth required to upload each time someone views them.
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@keithprosser
Racism, anti-semitism and islamophobia are different faces of 'xenophobia'.
- intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries.
Islam is not a person from another country, it's an ideology that we are free to criticize any way we wish, however to do so is Haram, so Muslims call it Islamophobia. Its complete bs.
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Einstein did no such thing. He was absolutely perplexed that at the quantum level all of Newton's theories did not seem to apply.
Oh yes, Einstein did not deliver to us General Relativity and that this theory certainly was not confirmed to incredible accuracy through experimentation.
Tell us more of your delusions so that sane people never sign up here.
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@Wylted
@Logical-Master
Not sure why he would paint himself in a bad light though.
It's a common theme in writing for the author to make themselves out as the shameful, the dolt or the bad guy. As LM says, read the first two chapters to see how well the author made out Satan to be shameful, a dolt and a bad guy. The whole story points it out.
The story itself does not read as if it were written by a good upstanding person, but instead someone who is dark, clever and almost morbidly comedic in his presentation.
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You've brought up Einstein a couple of times in some vain attempt to compare yourself, yet one of Einsteins greatest achievements, that of helping us understand how gravity works is something you deny even exists as a phenomenon.Physics doesn't contradict god, Einstein was completely a believer in a creator-deity.
And you call yourself a genius.
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Thank you, RM, for confirming the following statement to be false.you would need to be a God or some demigod with inside information on reality to answer
I know more about physics than you.
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@Castin
While I don't see a whole lot of that going on, I do think however you've identified the problem, that there is a crazy person running amok on the forums posting crazy garbage and nothing is being done about it, hence those are the responses they're getting.I don't think responding to someone's arguments is harassment. Following them around just saying things like "more garbage from the crazy fucking moron" would be, though.
Get rid of the crazy person, problem solved.
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Then, what causes the pressure?There is no pressure involved with gravity. Pressure does affect density though.
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@Castin
Exactly, but very much like here, ddo did not get rid of the crazies, who did irreparable damage to several forums, whereupon the sane people left in droves. So, it wasn't really the lack of moderating the attacks and insults, the adults there could handle that, it was allowing the crazies to sign up and run amok.
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@Castin
No, that's not harassment, that's one of main functions of a public forum, to have the ability and capacity to argue another view, which you are now deeming as harassment. If person A makes a post and Person B argues the post, then Person A tells Person B to stop responding to those posts for whatever reason, yet Person A is free to go on posting, you're saying Person B is forced to give up their ability and capacity to argue a view just because some one else says so?they could conceivably still harass you by following you around and addressing you in the threads you're in
Every thread and every word posted here is owned by the forum, not the individual user, so whatever is posted is equally shared by all to respond in kind. No individual has the right to tell others what they can and cannot post to any given thread.
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@keithprosser
It's still not clear what 'religion of peace' means.
That's just another one of those meaningless terms of endearment created by Muslims to defend their faith, like "Islamophobia"
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@janesix
Thank you, Jane for bringing this to our attention, the view of the moon was fabulous, crystal clear night sky with none of the usual aberrations to block details. Of course, looking through a telescope at a full moon requires filters, which take away a lot of the extreme glare but also some of the details.
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Do you have a spell for flying monkeys?I will probably collect some river water too. For later spell work.
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