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@Dr.Franklin
Mm... its almost like immigrants are discriminated against violently...
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@Lit
Agreed, I think that there aren't any ghosts or such, but Atheism is speaking of someone's individual beliefs about god and god alone. All of those other sorts of things can be believed and still be atheists. As I have attested to before atheists is a really loose group of people, and they can encompass all sorts of positions; politically, religiously (there is a distinct difference between religion and theism), psychologically, etc, etc.. 


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@3RU7AL
Well I guess its a fault on my part, I thought that Tradesecret knew the difference between an axiom and a fact, seeing as I gave plenty of examples and such. Maybe they are really confused? I would think not, but that could be be me.
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@ethang5
Quite obviously, I was speaking (which should be contextually clear) of the people doing the racism. Doing? I don't know if that's the proper verb, uh..., it works as well as it can I suppose.
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@fauxlaw
There is no center of the universe!  According to the standard theories of cosmology, the universe started with a "Big Bang" about 14 thousand million years ago and has been expanding ever since.  Yet there is no center to the expansion; it is the same everywhere.  The Big Bang should not be visualised as an ordinary explosion.  The universe is not expanding out from a center into space; rather, the whole universe is expanding and it is doing so equally at all places, as far as we can tell.


According to all current observations, there is no center to the universe. For a center point to exist, that point would have to somehow be special with respect to the universe as a whole. Let us think about all the different types of effects that could create a center.



Nowhere basically. 
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@Death23
implicit racism. 

People like to think because overt or explicit racism is mostly winding down, that people simply aren't racist anymore, that is untrue. Things as simple a television program can code implicit racism or any other mode of thought (hence why people say good representation in media matters), it's a lot of presumptions that people don't even notice they make, but still do, and it can definitely be mitigated. The problem is that not very many people are aware of that racism in the first place.
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@Utanity
"Myself" because I am saying I was the target of attack

"on" because that's where the attack was aimed, at me

You do not understand grammar if you think that the specific preposition must be fixed to the pronoun. Now, there are specific prepositional phrases that require a pairing, but they are far and few between.
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@Utanity
I frankly don't care, if you make an assertion you must provide evidence, else that assertion be dismissed. That's how claims work. Its not being arrogant to point out that a claim needs evidence to support it. That's called being honest.
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@zedvictor4
Well, I was looking at it as an ought problem, as in, what ought you care about? More specifically, what ought we should focus our efforts in, there is nothing stylized about it, its just a moral quandary. If you only levy your care on knowability, the quality that let you make the statement of black lives not mattering to you, then that is the logical conclusion.
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@Utanity
wrong, the adverb is blatant, because it modifies attack. You have literally no idea what you're talking about, on, can mean at, or something similar, so the sentence works. The object of the preposition is the "myself" and is clearly being interacted as a target by "on". You are very clueless in this regard.
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@Utanity
Prove that there is more than one reality, then we can talk, until then, its baseless assertions with you, as per usual.
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@Greyparrot
A) Trump even winning legitimately is debatable at best
Thank you for conceding the arguement. That was very gracious of you.
Not how concession works, "at best" implies that at worst he frankly cheated. Also, which argument? I'm legitimately curious which one you're talking about.


How is this relavent? Hilary was never even involved
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@Greyparrot
Yes... and unlike Trump, they had a more valid reason than, "I'm losing!"
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@Utanity
Some atheists believe in other dimensions, some don't, I fall in the camp of not. You clearly don't understand what an atheist is. (If you say: I used to be one, so obviously I do, no, no you don't you can be an atheist for bad reasoning) 
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@Utanity
Blatant attacks on myself now
That is the full context, "on" is a proposition, propositions are words that are supposed to show the relationship between a noun/pronoun and another word in the sentence. That pronoun is "Myself" and the other word is the verb and adverb "blatant attacks". To show that someone is targeting attacks at me blatantly. I suspect you do not understand language. 

Your inflammatory french means nothing to me, speak to me with an honest goal in mind or not at all.
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@Utanity
Again, wrong, atheists are simply people who lack a belief in god, they can believe any spectrum of things outside of that.
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@Utanity
Tu es  l'imbecile n'est ce pas.
Pas tout à fait, mais je suppose que vous l’êtes peut-être.

Blatant attacks on myself now? Why aren't I suprised?
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@Greyparrot
-_-

Are we ignoring
A) Trump even winning legitimately is debatable at best
B) Justly impeaching a president is literally carrying out democracy
C) Going to the courts with no evidence is not equivalent to having a hearing with the literal transcript of guilt.
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@Utanity
the atheist reality is not one cogent thing, atheists can believe in spirits and ghosts and metaphysical realms, I as do not believe others to exists, but atheism is not a group thing with regards to assumptions. You can believe others to exist all you like, until you prove it true, I will sit here in reality.
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The fact is you cannot prove logic.  This is indisputable.
No, but you can prove that it should be an axiom. You can prove that it is applicable to literally all discourse. 

  And the reason is because it is its own self-witness.
Wrong, the reason its not provable is because we can't even comprehend the concepts without using logic, because logic is the frame through which we regard or disregard logic. 


Logic is often harmful as well when it is used incorrectly. The bible is not harmful to anyone per se.  How people use the bible is subject to errors just like logic is used erroneously often.  This is why having a proper hermeneutic is essential just like having proper learning in respect of logic is essential.
Funny, the bible is harmful however way you look at it. Also, this is according to your interpretation, are you so arrogant as to claim your interpretation as the one and true interpretation, that no other can match? The difference between logic and the bible is that the bible is much vaguer, I wouldn't say Logic is always or at all precise, but compared to the whole of the bible it is practically precise. 



You use logic out of faith - not because it is necessarily true. 
Wrong. I have a different definition of faith than you, logic is necessarily true, therefore I find it applicable to the conversation. I do not use logic out of "trust" nebulously defined as that is. I would appreciate you stop trying to guess my motivations, you have no psychic powers. 



Logic is good when logic is correctly constructed.  Yet you are not infallible. You make mistakes and will get things wrong even though you believe it is necessarily true.
No, I'm not, and have never claimed to be; just like you say with your book, logic is good whenever used correctly, and unlike the bible, you are either correct about a logical standard or you are not, there are no interpretations. Logic is necessarily true, the application is not always so, because the context, human flaws, and environment can render a specific conclusion of logic untrue, that does not make logic untrue. 



As I have said above I am not anti-logic.  Logic is a necessary part of life which bases reality in the objective. Logic has no meaning in the world of relativity.  Hence another reason to believe in God. 
Wrong again. Logic is true even without a mind to perceive it, there needs not to be any arbitrarily assumed creator, do we know the objective origins of logic? No, no we do not, does that mean it is accurate to claim that it would not be objective without a god? Also no. You do not know what created logic, you posit that god has, yet you have not proven god to exist (within this conversation and as far as I am aware, if I am incorrect, prove it.) This is nonsense.



Yet without God there is only the relative and the subjective. Even logic becomes fluid - consider how the modern teachers of logic refer to water logic as opposed to rock logic as they move away from certainty and objectivity. 
This is incorrect. I do not know what your definition of objective is, but I'm curious, what is it? Because the definition of "True independent of a mind" is true for all things that were objective before without a god (of course I don't think even with a god there would be objective morality), and also a god is not contingent for things to not be opinions of people. This time you are factually incorrect. 


I no more need to prove the bible to be true than you need to prove logic to be true.  The bible is an axiom whether you agree with it or not.  There are very few things that could be an axiom. logic/ reason, experience, revelation.
Also also wrong, I would have the burden of proving logic to be an axiom, you have the burden of proving the bible to be an axiom. Otherwise, it is just an assertion and can be dismissed. "Whether I agree or not" is awfully arrogant of you, you must demonstrate your claims, demonstrate that the bible is an axiom and then we can talk on that. Also, revelation is only semantically an axiom according to you, not necessarily. 


Just because you have never considered this does not mean I am using a dishonest tactic.  In fact, it is your throwaway line that is disingenuous. No axiom can be proved except by self witness. All axioms are circular in reasoning. Not everything has the same basic ability to self-witness. These three things are unique in that regard. 
That is an non-sequitur. 

IF axioms are circular in nature, THEN they can only be proved by self-witness.

That is a ridiculous claim that is only relying on one tenant of proving something to be true. If x is required to exist to debunk x, then in order to even pose the question, x must be true, the question does exist, therefore x exists. That is not "self-witness" as logic is not an agent capable of even experiencing itself, if you could prove the same of the bible, then it would be an axiom. Let's try another, shall we? If experience is required to exist to debunk experience, then in order to even pose the question, x must be true, the question does exist, therefore experience exists. 

This is what I mean by necessary or contingent. And what must be proved by you to apply to the bible in order to consider it an axiom. Your ad-hoc claiming that revelation is an axiom without more than "its self-witnessed" is ludicrous, as I am pointing out your attempted shift of the goal post, as well as your trying to sneak in presumptions into the language, as revelation does not fit this fold, there needs not be revelation to debunk the existence of revelation. 



Yes, I considered how you would respond to my comments about millions of people using this as an axiom.  I expected you might attempt to refute it by suggesting it was an appeal to populum. But that is not what I was doing. And so I included it not as evidence that it was true because of its wide use, but rather as an appeal to you to open your mind, to understand that others do use it as such. That you went ahead and attempted to use it as a refutation, simply reveals you do not read well.  
Wrong, Using it to suggest that: Millions of people believe x, you do not believe x to be true, therefore you are close-minded, is still using an ad populum and this reveals to me that you do not understand logical consistency. The number of people that believe a proposition to be true holds no bearing on the state of the mind of someone who rejects that view. Ad populum. 


People looking for truth - don't go looking on debating sites. They do research in the real world.  Yes, you might find some arguments you have not heard before here - but it is naïve to think you would find the truth here
Yes, yes they do, I am looking to sharpen my understanding of debate, philosophy, ethics, and all other manners of such, whenever I debate, I look to find the truth, that is my goal. Hence why even though in my debate with Mall I could have simply appealed to the resolution and used one contention, I instead did this on what Mall meant as well (in regards to accepting homosexuality debate), do I think that the conclusions of people are necessarily the truth? No. I never said that, I merely said that I want to work with others to find the truth, hence the point of debating. 


I never said you were close minded because you did not believe me, I suggested you broaden your mind so you might engage with those who have different positions.  
This is me, engaging with people of different opinions, I live in a place that is filled with nothing but conservatives and theists, I literally do on a daily basis. I will not presume something true on a permanent basis because that is illogical with few exceptions. Have I presumed something to be true for the sake of conversation before? Yes! Twice actually in entire threads! Actually three conversations now, my "Could a god grant moral objectivity" or something named similar, and "would you listen if your god told you to kill me" well not named that exactly, but you get my point. In both instances, I had the presumption that god existed for the sake of argument, so I do not understand your point. 


Please don't think I am being negative with you. I am not. I am enjoying our discussion. 
Well then I apologize for gruffness, I can never be sure who the good and bad actors are, I look for truth in my arguments, and I deconstruct arguments down to their moving parts, that's how I argue. 


As for presenting evidence, at the moment, we are conducting what might be called preliminary discussions. There is a time for evidence - but not before the discussions have been finalised. 
I disagree, as soon as a claim is made, one should provide evidence of that claim. If you wanted to establish a framework for a conversation, then say: "Hey lets do some framework for a conversation" then I wouldn't attack it per se, and explore its implications. 


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@Reece101
You said, "only enough to get a single pixel" unicellular life would not be detectable with that, at least not comparable, not in any way you could verify, you actually need to be able to sample the substance, images will do nothing. If there is other life it is most likely unicellular is my point, not civilizations or anything like that, and that small life is what the statistics are speaking of, actually, not even that, but the potential of life.
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@Reece101
Interpretation of how we look for and life and what type of life the statistics are talking of
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@Reece101
What? No it's not even necessary to answer those because your interpretation of how this is done is flawed fundamentally, that has to be rectified before anything else, I answered the last question and this one, "What do you mean? Does it matter if all we’re looking at are results?" I'm not quite sure what you were addressing given the small snippet of my response, but Im guessing that you mean in reference to atmospheric conditions. My point there was that we cannot always accurately measure our atmosphere, and this would be doubly so for planets that we can't test more directly, so more mistakes are likely to be made, more errors, and flaws. Therefore we can't even get an accurate representation of life from the atmosphere. 

Also, are you acting in bad faith? You haven't even answered half of my criticisms yet.


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@Tradesecret
Your perception of what is true means little to me if you cannot prove either its actuality or its practical consequence as unique. The fact that the bible is harmful to multiple minorities and advocates for equal amounts of hate and love makes me even further against it. My mind is not closed, if you were to demonstrate the bible true or elements true I would believe it or those elements. That's called not being gullible. 

I use logic because it is necessarily true, in other words, if we were to try to use the implications of there being no logic we couldn't even call logic unlogical, therefore yes it is proven to the most it can be. The bible is not like that at all. No, the specific axiom need not be proven, but you have to prove that x or y should be considered a valid axiom, else people could make up whatever they wanted and regard it as an axiom, a most dishonest tactic. 

A meaningless appeal to populum, I don't care, if I was looking to persuade you then maybe I would care a bit more. I'm not. At least not in this thread, I want to find the truth, and I can't tell if you honestly want to reach it as well or not. Just because people don't blindly accept your beliefs that doesn't make them close-minded, now, if you were to continuously present evidence, or if I said that it was impossible to prove your position abundantly, then yes, I would be closed minded.

I have not and actually said the opposite, if you thought those things were demonstrated, then demonstrate them.


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@zedvictor4
By that logic, no one not in your circle of friends and family should care about you at all. If one of those people saw you, would they be justified in shooting you? Morally speaking, not legally. 
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@Reece101
No, I'm saying this is no paradox, chemicals, molecules, cellular life, such as ATP, Amino Acids, NADP, Polysacharides, Monosachirades, and even atomic structure are essential in testing for life, you must have no idea what you're talking about in this regard, else you would know that "we see no life" doesn't mean there is no life, and no, it is not likely that life that we can see has formed at all, provide your evidence for that, Unicellular life is not something you can get, a single pixel, does not prove life, you A) Do not understand how life works on an evolutionary scale, B) How the statics actually work, and C) How we would detect that life.
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@3RU7AL
Perhaps - but whenever someone makes a claim or a statement saying that there are no claims in the bible that haven't been demonstrated, then I expect demonstration. If we want to talk on the implications, fine, but changing the subject whenever you can't answer evidence is dishonest, to me anyway.
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@fauxlaw
Yes I mispelled the informal fallacy: Tu quoque, how interesting a point on your part.

Second of all, again, even if you can guess Utanity's can you also guess exactly which language Zed can and cannot understand? Also, again, pointing out something else is doing something has no baring on your actual argument with this, and again science does not presume things. Those definitions of theories literally prove nothing, yes a scientific theory is a collection of relevant facts.
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@Dr.Franklin
Can you demonstrate that claim? Both claims actually.
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@3RU7AL
No. I am saying that the original claim requires proof. Which that there were no un-demonstrated claims in the bible. I provided examples of undemonstrated claims- it is then the original claimers burden to either demonstrate or not demonstrate those claims. 
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@Reece101
We don’t have to be on a  planet to measure said chemistry. We’re able to do so from the light it produces through its atmosphere. I forgot what it’s called. Anyway there’s nuances as well such as methane. On gas giants methane is common while on Earth-sized planets, not so much. The thing is on Earth, methane is overwhelmingly produced by biology.

Is it alright if we can do one at a time?
First off, you wanted solutions, there they are, second of all, still no. You can measure certain aspects of the planet sure, but you can't accurately map out an environment and all chemicals and properties of the organic matter, non-organic matter, unicellular life that may exist. So no, you cannot get the entire biochemistry of a planet, and again, these aren't indicative of all of the planets, we can't even accurately measure how the light travels in a lot of instances. 

Getting the supposed climate of a planet and the atmospheric composition is only one small part of the puzzle, there is a lot more before you can get to: obviously there is no life here. Even our own measurements of climate can be flawed here, hence the need for more advanced tools to measure. Again, you don't know what could be causing that methane on other planets, neither do scientists in some cases, none of this is a problem, its not a paradox at all.
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@fauxlaw
No.... you have zero evidence for your claims... as far as we could know, you wouldn't know Utanity's native language. You don't know Zedvictor4's understanding of language, and you certainly presume that asking for clarification is a bad thing, yet you don't actually defend the content itself, how interesting. Also, tu quequo, but anyways, no, science does not presume much. They presume that our reality is real, and that logic exists, but so do you in order to even have this conversation. You are just wrong.
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@fauxlaw
So you presume
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@3RU7AL
No.... if a claim is supposed, the burden of proof is on the claimer, this is me pointing out that - as far as I am aware, this has not been demonstrated. This is me responding to a claim, I do not have to prove that the claim has not been proven, as in order to give that I would just have to point you to the arguments, that don't exist on this thread. If someone believes there to be valid evidence of these claims, I don't know about it, so provide it. 
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@3RU7AL
Not to. I genuinely think the application of most of the rules in the bible are harmful. Anything that is useful can be derived from other means that don't carry as much baggage. My boyfriend believed that the bible was true, whenever he asked me about it, I told him that I would throw it out completely if I were him. My point is, I grew up religious, I know a lot of religious people. I've been in this scenario before and that's what I would do, tell them not to believe it, or to investigate into the claims closely and not just take them on "faith". 

Now, if they just, weren't at all convinced, and they believed everything in this, I find it very hard to imagine myself friends with someone like this. Let's just suppose that I had to and they converted in adulthood or something, whatever, fine. If I had to advise anything, it would be: All of the old laws are taken up by jesus, so they don't need to be fulfilled all the time, the book is only informing your religious life, not any other so don't let it influence those, the bible says, "all authority is put there by me so listen" or whatever, so listen to laws and stuff, I don't know, my best piece of advice would be to seriously not believe everything the bible says. 
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@Utanity
No... if you had brought up an argument and then I said, "This has not been proven" that would be a claim, there is literally nothing for me to conclude: This has been proven. As a law of physics, supernatural things cannot exist, so that's evidence in favor of there being none. Anyways, no, it isn't. Its pointing out a fact, there has been no demonstration for the brought up points. If you have demonstration, then provide it.
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@3RU7AL
The problem with this hypothetical is that if took everything the bible said, as absolutely true, I wouldn't be me anymore, as some of my fundamental processes and my way of thinking would be completely altered for everything in the bible to be true, therefore I couldn't answer that question. I guess if I thought everything was true in the bible then I would think it was an axiom. The problem here is that in your scenario the bible is 100% accurate, whenever that isn't the case. At all. None of the supernatural claims have been demonstrated, a ton of the historic and geographic claims have been debunked. The difference is, this hypothetical supposes the bible, whenever I am saying: Until you prove the bible is an axiom, it isn't an axiom, simple as that. Or at least demonstrate why, without the bible, some fundamental nature of how we interact or analyze anything wouldn't work.
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@Tradesecret
Wrong, at the very least we have very definitions of faith. But I don't even have what I think you mean by faith. Axioms are things that have to be true in order for things (in general) to work, reality being reality, logic, that kind of stuff, so no. I still don't think the bible is an axiom.
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@Utanity
No.... I pointed out that these things have not been proven, that's not a claim, that's me noticing something. If you think that these things have been proven, show me it, if you want to prove it, prove it.
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@Reece101
What? I am answering the question: Here are some reasons that we have no discovered life yet:

A) We have no capacity to even be near half of the things we are studying, and while bigger things (like the big bang) are still easily provable and such, other things such as the literal biochemistry of a planet is out of our capability to accurately measure. In other words: There may be life and we have missed it because our tools are relatively shitty.

B) Evolution is a process driven by the environment, to assume that every habitable planet has the same natural selection factors as earth is to not understand evolution, the specific environments could very well be hindering evolution to the point where life has not evolved past unicellular life, again, mutations are what make evolution go round. 

C) Relating to A, in the regards that our tools are relatively shit, there may be other factors that limit how, when, and where life forms in other star systems that we do not understand yet, so, to assume that just because we are still studying and haven't found the statistical life just yet is fallacious, because it discounts further research as well as our lack of knowledge. 

D) Statistical life isn't the same as found or experimented life. In philosophy, you learn a great deal about how statistics are used to provide the impacts of an argument. There is an analogy I like particularly well: If you have two cars, a red and a blue one, and the blue one is 75% likely to be the one that was speeding, and the red one had a 25% to be speeding if we were to just use statistics to evaluate this, we would conclude that it was the blue one that was speeding. But that excludes the 25% chance you might ask, and that would be correct, but finding what is likely is all statistics do, it is the job of the thinker to support it with further warrant. 

This is a rebuttal and a contention
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@Utanity
Well... then prove it. If you find these things to be true, prove it. If you proved these things I would change my mind.
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@Tradesecret
Oh, just more unproved stuff from the bible:

The creation order
The creation time
The "creator"
The development of life
That one time a donkey talked
That other time a snake talked
The time where water was turned to wine
That time where like, 5 bread and some fish fed 5000 people

Do you want more? I can give you more.
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@Tradesecret
God
Jesus
Adam and Eve
A global flood
Jews being slaves in Egypt
Jews leaving Egypt through a path, taking them 40 years, where they could literally make a line and stand from edge to edge on
Jesus's resurrection
Any bible author besides maybe Paul

These have not been demonstrated. 

Also, saying, "Until you prove logic, I won't use logic" how fun, you are using logic to disprove logic, therefore you are using logic whether you like it or not, hence it being an axiom. 
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@Reece101
ESTIMATED. We do not have concrete numbers, we do not concrete measuring tools, we do not have concrete anything in this regard, humans? The earth existed for 4 billion years before we even came close to existing, and only through mutation does evolution work, so it is very possible that evolution if it is in effect, is still in a very minor regard. Not to mention you have no at all answered the other solution (not being able to accurately test it)
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@Reece101
We haven't properly examined most of the universe, we don't have means of proper hypothesizing, there could be other factors limiting our understanding of why life isn't forming, the alien life could still be in it's solely-unicellular era, life could still be developing, this isn't a paradox.
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@Tradesecret
No... they start with, "Until these assertions have been demonstrated, they aren't true. If they are demonstrated, then they are true." Whereas a Christian assumes its true. No, the bible is not the only way people put things as objective, but it doesn't do that in the first place. 
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@Dr.Franklin
Do you have proof that the quote "third world culture" is harmful to america? Or that every person from a country has the same culture? Does everyone in America have the same culture? Does everyone from India have the same culture? Does everyone from Uganda have the same culture? 
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@PGA2.0
Again, no time for in depth rebuttals, especially given you repeating yourself, not to mention there is a good overall rebuttal: GOD OF THE GAPS FALLACY

Just because you do not know a naturalistic cause of x, that does not mean that y caused x, you still have to prove that A) y exists, and B) that y caused x. 
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a day in the life of sue, a republican
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This is the dishonest liberal play of the race card. Do you think the only thing 100,000 primitive Afghans bring is a slightly off-white color? Immigrants bring their culture. Immigrants from backward countries bring their backward culture. The race is not what matters,  the culture is what matters.
This is not an accurate representation of immigration

Origin Country:
Mexico is the top origin country of the U.S. immigrant population. In 2018, roughly 11.2 million immigrants living in the U.S. were from there, accounting for 25% of all U.S. immigrants. The next largest origin groups were those from China (6%), India (6%), the Philippines (4%) and El Salvador (3%).
Top Countries of Birth: Mexico, Estimate: 5,572,000, Total: 51%
As of 2016, the population of undocumented immigrants in the United States is estimated to be 10.7 million, roughly 3.3% of the entire US population. 50.9% of undocumented immigrants were from Mexico, and 20.6% of all undocumented immigrants resided in California. As of 2012, 53% of undocumented immigrants were male. In 2016, approximately 31% of workers in the roofing industry and 24% of maids/housekeepers were undocumented immigrants


Reasoning for non-naturalization:
Generally, most immigrants eligible for naturalization apply to become citizens. However, Mexican lawful immigrants have the lowest naturalization rate overall. Language and personal barriers, lack of interest and financial barriers are among the top reasons for choosing not to naturalize cited by Mexican-born green card holders, according to a 2015 Pew Research Center survey.
"One misconception about undocumented immigration is that obtaining legal papers is as simple as, say, changing your address at the post office, and that immigrants remain undocumented due to a lack of trying. But nothing could be further from the truth.

In fact, there are millions of immigrants who have lived in the US for decades, who have worked hard and paid taxes and bought homes, who have US-citizen children, who make valuable community contributions — who have been deported, and forcibly separated from their whole lives in America, because they weren’t able to “get legal”. Many of them have spent years and tens of thousands or more in legal fees trying to find pathways to legalization and citizenship for themselves. If there were a way to “get right with the law”, they would have done it. There isn’t.

As immigration attorney David Leopold wrote at Medium recently:
Immigration law generally requires that for an immigrant to adjust or change status to temporary worker or green card holder, he or she must have lawfully entered the United States…immigrants who entered the country without inspection — even as young children — generally cannot apply for a green card [while] inside the United States under any circumstances, including if they marry a U.S. citizen.
The question of why immigrants come to the US without papers, from a logistical standpoint, boils down to two things: the fact that there’s no “line” for the vast majority of people around the world to get into, and the fact that there’s no way to correct undocumented status."

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Could a god grant moral objectivity?
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PART 2


God is not following goodness, His is the standard by which goodness is measured! A loose analogy is that of a ruler measuring stick. The ruler is not determined by the distance, it is the distance that is determined by the ruler. God is the measuring stick that we use to determine/measure goodness.
So a specific god claims, all I've done is assumed god exists for the sake of conversation, not any of their qualities, the god of the bible claims to be the measuring stick, wh? You can be like, all just or all-merciful, as it's just stating qualities that you are when you make decisions, but this is you literally claiming an agent to be the measuring stick for objectivity, ad hoc asserting that isn't rationale, its presumptuous. 


All correct except that God didn't murder His own Son. Read John 10:18
Yes, technically the Romans murdered him, cool, Jesus asks to be saved before that or at least asking that he not have to do it, also... god could clearly stop it, god says over and over again, "I sacrificed my only son".... oh... what's that.... intent for his son to die on unjustified causes? ~Murder~


That is not what omnipotence means. Not in the bible anyway. Omnipotence does not allow God to be illogical.
Then god isn't omnipotent..... also.... doesn't stop that god from doing other illogical things, why should we accept the bible's ad hoc definition of omnipotence? I never accepted the bible as true, just that a god exists, it's pretty arrogant to assume I was talking about the Christian one. I started talking about the Christian one because that's clearly the one you are talking about, but my limit for presumptions go to god, and that we know god gave the order, that's it.


There are so many things logically wrong with this, I don't know where to start! "...without demanding life..." Is your just subjective idea of what is better. Of what you think God should have done. God did not need to do what you consider good/better in order for Him to be moral. And what if Justice itself requires a life for a life? What if that IS what Justice is? What if anything else is NOT justice? God cannot be illogical.
Ah ah ah, god has made it clear in the bible that his goal is for humans to love him, or at least accept him and go to heaven, therefore him needing life to do something shows an imperfection, if we weren't talking about the literally supposed perfect being, maybe you would be correct, but we are and you are incorrect. You are just assuming god can't be illogical, from what? Your own self-defining, begging the question, the definition of god. 

Justice - "The quality of being fair and reasonable."
So no, that isn't what justice is. So sad too bad. 


Jesus and "God" (by which I assume you mean God the Father) are not the same entity. The bible agrees
Cool beans, then what I said applies entirely, it was just for people who don't interpret your book, that's highly open to interpretation, differently than you do.



Not explicitly. But Jesus did not kill Himself. Your understanding of the Christian story and doctrine is a little lacking.
Well no, that was me giving a condition of if god and Jesus are one entity, hence my earlier phrasing, you picking and choosing quotes it getting bothersome. "Cherry-picking, cherry-picking, cherry-picking!" If god sacrificed his one and only son, and god and jesus are the same, the god sacrificed themself, which is the same as letting yourself die, and not technically killing yourself, but taken at an unsemantic approach, basically is.  (Also, "not explicitly" implies that it did still say it, so....)


Only if your understanding was correct. It isn't.
Why? Prove that please.


I'm legitimately confused, what argument?
The logical argument that if there was a God with these qualities, that those laws would be objective and authoritative. That argument is sound.

What qualities specifically?
1. It will not have come from the mind of men - Be objective
2. It will be immutable - Be unchanging
3. It will be authoritative - Be legitimate
I've already pointed out that the first and third conditions are arbitrary, and the second is meh, you literally just added, "and authoritative" to the end, as long as you have a warrant to your moral system, you don't necessarily need an authority, but I still fail to see this god actually even have the authority to be objectively a measuring stick, in fact, I don't think that's possible, as for something to be objective it has to be not of the mind. But, if, we presume a god to have those qualities? No, because what stops that god from lying? You would have to add that as another condition, also that these rules would even apply to people, let's just be frank, you just said, "if god is objective and legitimate (by which you mean authoritative) than god's morality is objective and authoritative. No, because then you would have to prove that that god is ALL objective and authoritative in ALL means, otherwise you would have to either assume that god is in that regard as well, or that its possible and likely for that god to not be all of these.

My point? You may ask, that this argument is saying, "If x, then x" practically... obviously, in that case, we should be interested in the warrants, the truth of the claims. Is x? in other words. 


The argument is a theoretical argument. That is why we said, IF. Right now, we are checking the only the soundness of the argument remember, not its truth.
Nope, the validity, not the soundness. The argument is so lacks luster, we're already done, sure if you assume a lot of things, yes, the argument is valid, cool. 


The definition of an objective standard. (Moral standard in this case)
A moral standard (moral measuring stick) must be...
1. Objective - It will not have come from the mind of men
2. Unchanging - It will be immutable
3.  Legitimate - It will be authoritative
You've said that a lot, where do you get this from? Just curious. I've already stated my concerns with it above.


making an analogy of a measuring tool again, we could analogize an atomic clock. It is objective in that no man dreamed it up. It is not from the mind of men. It is unchanging, and as a natural law, it is authoritative.

Can you imagine a measuring tool that was decided by each man himself? Or could be changed by man on a whim?
Or a measuring tool that changed on its own? Giving you different and unpredictable readings as it changed?
Or a measuring tool that had no legitimacy as a measuring tool? Say someone's foot as a ruler?
Actually.... a foot, as a rule, is used all the time, in fact, that's how rulers actually came to be... That's literally how we got foot.. It was changed on a whim (hello metric system my old friend) Your analogy is unfortunate.... Also, I can imagine a measuring tool that a consensus of people agreed on (hey, thats what our rulers are!), second what are you even talking about, "Changing on its own" what are you referencing here, finally, again... unfortunate. 


Only God has these 3 qualities of a proper moral standard. Only God is objective TO MEN. Only God is immutable. Only God is authoritative. Though we don't yet know if these premises are true, our conclusion logically follows. The argument is sound.
I hate to be that guy, but, vaaalid not sound. Also god... does change.... their mind...... if god didn't change their mind, then Jesus wouldn't be a thing. If god were all of these things, there is a conclusion that isn't that, that can also follow. They lie and the law isn't objective.... then it isn't valid either. 


Well, what is meant by "superior"? I would rather use the word "legitimate". Because legitimacy is not subjective. Legitimacy is not based on how someone feels. Superiority can be. A moral system/standard must be judged on the 3 qualities that define a proper moral measuring system. And only one moral system satisfies all 3.

Okay, obviously out of context, logically superior, legitimacy can indeed be based on subjectivity (btw, subjectivity can be based on feelings, but it doesn't necessarily have to be). You are being pretty arbitrary with all of your definitions the number of qualities, etcetera, etcetera. 


Ok
Mmhm.


The Christian is not so much saying that others should prefer or use it, but that it is legitimate, whether one prefers it, or uses it, or not.
If something is legitimate, it should also be true, so this doesn't apply to you I assume?


I agree. But only AFTER we have determined the logical soundness of the argument.
No... if your premises aren't even true, then we don't even need to evaluate the validity of the argument, that's not necessary, because the premises aren't true. 


My argument is sound. And I can show that it is also true. I want my argument to be based on truth.
Noooooo it's not, it's valid. Show it's true then. That's what I'm interested in. And I'm glad you do, doesn't necessarily mean that they are. 


I have no issues with that. Each argument should be different depending on the topic and the claims.
Very good, we agree on that point then.

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