Now my favorite quote from the Healthcare debate has been "Keep your government hands off my medicare".
That one is in the lead over Frank's "Having a discussion with you is like arguing with a dining room table".
I just love substantive, intellectual debates.
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- Mon Aug 31, 2009 11:17 am
- Forum: City of God in Secular City
- Topic: Head-->Wall Quote of the Week
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10866
- Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:21 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: is this really so very stupid?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 24892
Re: is this really so very stupid?
I appreciate your williness to stick to a point and argue. I hae always appreciated that about you. but the more I argue on this the more I feel this whole line of argument is a mistake. Not that youk have convenced me it's not a good argument. I think it's still very defensable. The problem is the...
- Tue Aug 25, 2009 11:44 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: is this really so very stupid?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 24892
Re: is this really so very stupid?
there is no observational vantage point called "nothing" where we can do and see that QM partical are really coming form "nothing." We know that the closer to t=0 we get the more physical laws don't mean anything. QM partials are never observed "beyond time" they are all in time like all things we ...
- Tue Aug 25, 2009 4:27 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: is this really so very stupid?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 24892
Re: is this really so very stupid?
While I wouldn't go so far as to suggest that it's stupid, I would have to agree with cheeky that the premises are not nearly as clear cut as you have made them out to be. 1. Time is not known to have a beginning. True, there are a number of scientists who say that time began with the big bang. But...
- Tue Aug 25, 2009 11:28 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: is this really so very stupid?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 24892
Re: is this really so very stupid?
While I wouldn't go so far as to suggest that it's stupid, I would have to agree with cheeky that the premises are not nearly as clear cut as you have made them out to be. 1. Time is not known to have a beginning. True, there are a number of scientists who say that time began with the big bang. But ...
- Wed Aug 05, 2009 1:07 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: here is one ruthless attack upon me by an atheist
- Replies: 11
- Views: 14168
Re: here is one ruthless attack upon me by an atheist
Just to throw in my two cents. First off, I am more mature than a three year old. I am!!! I am!!! I am!!!!! More to the point, I agree with your critique. I'd also add my criticism of the dyslexic description and the complaint about using a spellchecker. It obviously doesn't occur to the poster that...
- Wed May 27, 2009 2:23 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: blast posting on CARM but...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5353
Re: blast posting on CARM but...
BTW, I commend you for your restraint on CARM. Congrats on getting to that point.
As for suggesting that you made up the energy and essence concept of God, aren't you taking that as a compliment that the poster thought you could create something that deep.
As for suggesting that you made up the energy and essence concept of God, aren't you taking that as a compliment that the poster thought you could create something that deep.
- Sun Dec 07, 2008 4:02 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Argument from epistemic judgement
- Replies: 80
- Views: 86735
Re: Argument from epistemic judgement
here we go again. same crisis in confidence as always. My anwers just shit and never impress anyone but hte top people give them. Plantinga gives me answer on the oa but astheists say it's stupid. he's an idiot, the journals ays he's the top guy but HRG says he's stupid. the top reasearcher in RE t...
- Sun Dec 07, 2008 12:51 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Argument from epistemic judgement
- Replies: 80
- Views: 86735
Re: Argument from epistemic judgement
As well, you have chemicals flow through your body in response to unreal things. Having a nightmare causes adrenaline to be produced, yet there is no reason to believe that the items in the nightmare exist. By the same logic, having a religious experience makes you feel good. But there is no reason...
- Sun Dec 07, 2008 11:37 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: Argument from epistemic judgement
- Replies: 80
- Views: 86735
Re: Argument from epistemic judgement
Why do you think that, simply because of the content, that the underlying cause is any different that the deams that you have every night? Unless I'm mistaken, this is a canonical example of a special pleading. Special pleading is the most ironic of all possible flaws in argumentation because it of...